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textMay Day Special Programming on KPFA by KPFA's Labor Collective
On Sunday May 1st, KPFA's Labor Collective will commemorate this International Workers Day with 4 hours of labor programming from 7:00 to 11:00 pm....
Posted: Sun, May 1, 2005 4:25pm PDT
imageAngelica Workers Prepare for Strike
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by Mike Rhodes
Angelica Workers in Fresno Prepare for Strike. Rally and press conference held....
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 6:03pm PDT
textSAN FRANCISCO ANARCHIST MAY DAY MARCH by Anarchist Action
SAN FRANCISCO ANARCHIST MAY DAY MARCH DEFEND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS! RECLAIM WORKERS’ POWER!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 2:51pm PDT
textMillion Worker March by reprint from website
Rally on May Day...
Posted: Tue, Apr 26, 2005 1:26pm PDT
text5/2-6:SUPPORT DPW WORKERS!! by La Raza Centro Legal
WHAT: Daily visits to Mayor Newsom's office. WHEN: May 2 - 6, 11 am. WHERE: Mayor's Office, SF City Hall, 2nd Floor....
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2005 11:05pm PDT
documentTown Hall Meeting of MUNI Drivers and Riders
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by Refuse to Pay
Join us on May Day at Cell Space at 7pm for a free dinner, community meeting, and film screening. We will be discussing how drivers and riders can together fight MUNI management against the employee lay-offs and the fare hike....
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2005 12:40pm PDT
textFree Buses To Sacramento On Workers Memorial Day by California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day
Buses will be availble for workers to participate in the protest at the Sacramento state capitol on Thursday April 28, 2005. Thousands of workers are facing devestation as a result of the deregulation of the insurance companies operating with workers' Compensation....
Posted: Sat, Apr 23, 2005 10:32am PDT
textSAN FRANCISCO MAY DAY 2005 MARCH by Anarchist Action
SAN FRANCISCO MAY DAY 2005 MARCH DEFEND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS! RECLAIM WORKERS’ POWER!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 22, 2005 1:55pm PDT
textSF May Day Forum Of TWSC by Transport Workers Solidarity Committee
N. California Transport workers will discuss the attacks they face and how tranportation workers can go on the offensive....
Posted: Fri, Apr 22, 2005 12:15am PDT
text4/18: Sweatfree SF Action Day by Global Exchange via list
SWEATFREE SF ACTION DAY Monday, April 18th, 10am ­ 1pm City Hall, San Francisco (Meet on front steps, Polk Street)...
Posted: Sun, Apr 17, 2005 2:32pm PDT
imageBlue Diamond Almonds Unionizing Under ILWU in Sacramento
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by sactoanarcho
The ILWU and Blue Diamond workers held a rally at 17th and C in Sacramento to present their demand to management for their right to unionize. Here is a story and some pictures...
Posted: Sat, Apr 16, 2005 3:27pm PDT
textAnti-Labor Democrats Sue Cable Car Drivers' Union by Socialist
The anti-labor Democratic Party machine of San Francisco, in particular city attorney Dennis Herrera and mayor Gavin Newsom, are suing the cable car drivers union, Transport Workers of America, Local 250A, for going on a a few hour strike on March 2, 2005, protesting the firing of 2 cable car conductors, alleging that this long overdue labor action violated the city's "no strike" clause in the union contract. Labor must respond with solidarity with the union, and if necessary, a g...
Posted: Sat, Apr 16, 2005 12:25pm PDT
image14Apr - Photos from UC Berkeley strike
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by jankyHellface
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Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 1:59pm PDT
imageReport and Pictures from UC Berkeley Service Workers' Strike
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by j
Thousands of UC service workers go on a one-day strike statewide. Hundreds participate in pickets, rallies, flying pickets, and other actions in Berkeley....
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 10:11am PDT
textTerminator’s pension scam takes hit by PWW (reposted)
SAN FRANCISCO — In a surprise announcement April 7, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he is delaying until June 2006 a controversial ballot initiative to change state workers’ pensions from public, guaranteed-benefit programs to privatized 401(k)-like pensions. “The governor’s retreat on the pensions initiative is a huge defeat for the corporate special interest agenda,” Jim Farrell, spokesperson for the 2-million-member Alliance for a Better California, said in a telephone interv...
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 6:46am PDT
videoUC Santa Cruz. We Shut it Down! (video/quicktime 16.5MB) by ~Bradley
Statewide Strikes at University of California...
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 5:34am PDT
textUCSC Shut Down: audio callins afternoon by Skidmark Bob/FRSC
Audio callin reports from FRSC reporters afternoon Bolth Main/West entrance Shut Down!!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 8:45pm PDT
imagePictures From the 4/14 Strike At UCB
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by Z
Thousands of UCB staff and students as well as many labor activists took part in an all day strike and picket in Berkeley. The rally reached its largest point around 4PM when Robert J. Birgeneau was sworn in as chancellor. Birgeneau eventually came outside and addressed the crowd. (more reports and details will be posted shortly)...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 6:19pm PDT
textNews from the UC Berkeley strike by student
As of 3 PM the picket at Bancroft and Telegraph was still going strong with about two hundred participants....
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 3:05pm PDT
textUC Santa Cruz Strike updates by Skidmark Bob
UC Santa Cruz Strike 500 and growing at Main Entrance many people turning away or joining strike. pics & Audio SCIMC...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 12:32pm PDT
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