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Town Hall Meeting of MUNI Drivers and Riders 
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
Free Buses To Sacramento On 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
SAN FRANCISCO MAY DAY 2005 MARCH SAN FRANCISCO MAY DAY 2005 MARCH
DEFEND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS!
RECLAIM WORKERS’ POWER!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 22, 2005 1:55pm PDT
SF May Day Forum Of TWSC 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
4/18: Sweatfree SF Action Day 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
Blue Diamond Almonds Unionizing Under ILWU in Sacramento 
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
Anti-Labor Democrats Sue Cable Car Drivers' Union 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
Report and Pictures from UC Berkeley Service Workers' Strike 
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
Terminator’s pension scam takes hit 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
UC Santa Cruz. We Shut it Down! (video/quicktime 16.5MB) Statewide Strikes at University of California...
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 5:34am PDT
UCSC Shut Down: audio callins afternoon Audio callin reports from FRSC reporters afternoon
Bolth Main/West entrance Shut Down!!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 8:45pm PDT
Pictures From the 4/14 Strike At UCB 
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
News from the UC Berkeley strike 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
UC Santa Cruz Strike updates 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
Silicon Valley "Pigs" - Where's the Outrage? In the last five years in Northern California's "Silicon Valley" we've lost 200,000 jobs, $2 trillion in wealth, temp workers getting short pay with unsafe working conditions, regular workers putting in 100 hours a week, schools and libraries closing while one single capitalist bureaucrat, Yahoo Chief, Terry Semel, pockets $231 million in one year. Where's the outrage?...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 2:48pm PDT
STUDENT AND COMMUNITY SOLIDARITY ACTION WITH STRIKING UNIVERSITY WORKERS Flying Solidarity Pickets
12 NOON -Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley
3:30 PM- Re-Converge Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley
4 PM- International House, Bancroft/Piedmont, UC Berkeley...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 1:30pm PDT
UC Workers Striking Tomorrow List of all the pickets and contacts...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 1:16pm PDT
Rockin' the Boat: CA Workers Comp Threatened (audio/mpeg 4.4MB) Injured workers rallied in San Francisco, April 4, as the state Division of Workers' Compensation, held
the last public hearing on proposed cuts in permanent disability payments for workplace injuries....
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2005 10:10am PDT
MAY DAY 2005 Organizing Come Help Local Organizing Efforts for MAY DAY 2005...
Posted: Sun, Apr 10, 2005 5:15pm PDT
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