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textNov 3: Peace Movement & Labor Unite to Shut Down Scab Hotels by Mother Jones
On Nov 3 at 5 p.m., the peace rally at Powell and Market must march to Union Square to join the labor picketlines to build the peace and labor movements as one which it must be for both to win....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 7:13pm PDT
textDashing Mayor to the Rescue by Richard Mellor
San Francisco's millionaire mayor has not said the hotel workers deserve a victory, let's not forget that....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 6:18pm PDT
textSF Hotels Refuse to End Labor Lockout by repost
SF Hotel Owners refused to end the lockout today and Mayor Newsom is set to join the picketlines at the St Francis this afternoon. More info will be posted later....
Posted: Tue, Oct 26, 2004 3:45pm PDT
textHotel Strikers Need $6 SEIU 790 Tax; Not Capitalist Democrats by Mother Jones
SEIU 790, the City & County employees' union, wants to tax its members $6 to promote the reactionary Democrat Kerry instead of a general strike to win the hotel workers' union contract, which is what is desperately needed....
Posted: Sun, Oct 24, 2004 10:42am PDT
textStrike Force by David Bacon
Southern California's grocery strike couldn't change the anti-union culture. San Francisco's hotel strike can....
Posted: Sat, Oct 23, 2004 9:50pm PDT
textSan Francisco Union Leaders Plead With Corporate Politicians to Help Them Win Hotel Strike by richard Mellor
Let's be honest. The hotel workers strike will not be successful unless the Union leaders change course....
Posted: Sat, Oct 23, 2004 9:40pm PDT
text10/29SF Hotel Workers Benefit With Films by Laborfest
See labor films of hotel and restaurant workers in struggle....
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 5:25pm PDT
textLabor Strife in Northern California on KDVS Davis 90.3 FM, Friday, 10/22, 5pm to 6pm by RWF
Labor strife involving locked out hotel workers in San Francisco and UC service workers in Berkeley, Davis and throughout the UC system will be featured on the KDVS Davis 90.3 FM public affairs program "Speaking in Tongues" tomorrow, Friday, 10/22, from 5pm to 6pm...
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 4:50pm PDT
imageFlying Picket 10/24
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by gifford
The previous 2 went so well and were received with so much enthusiasm by the striking/locked out workers, we're going to do it once more....
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 10:42am PDT
textA Night to Remember on The SF Hotel Picket Line by John Reimann
On Sunday night a flying squad of activists visited several picket lines of the striking SF hotel workers. They created a little havoc with the hotels and helped raise the spirits of the strikers....
Posted: Mon, Oct 18, 2004 8:14pm PDT
videoBay Area Labor rallies for Local 2 in Union Square oct. 12th (video/quicktime 30.3MB) by Bill Carpenter
The Bay Area labor community turned out to support Local Two on Oct. 12th. In Part 1 of the video report, we see and hear Francisco Herrera, Father Louis Vitale, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Mike Casey, Tom Walsh, Ernie of the Teamsters, Tom Ammiano, and Tim Paulson....Lybon Mabasa, a founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa, is in a separate video down below....Part 2, also down below, has Matt Gonzalez, Mike Casey, and Francisco Herrera -- and an uninvited observer in the St. Fran...
Posted: Mon, Oct 18, 2004 12:13pm PDT
textPG&E solar conference insensitive to union workers and the public by Barbara George and Maurice Campbell
SF unions are picketing the Hyatt, where the Conference is being held. Hotel workers have been locked out of their jobs for weeks because they had the nerve to ask for economic security and health benefits. San Francisco is a union town. Why hasn't the conference been moved to another location? Is the confrence to help "We the people" or PR for Corporations?...
Posted: Mon, Oct 18, 2004 1:48am PDT
videoLybon Mabasa supports Hotel Workers at Local 2 Rally (video/quicktime 9.6MB) by Bill Carpenter
Lybon Mabasa is one of the founders of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa, currently president of the Black National Convention and chair of the International Tribunal on Africa. "Africa has a strong interest in Local 2's victory," Mabasa said at the Oct. 12th rally. QuickTime movie: 1.5min 9MB....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 5:31am PDT
imageMap of Locked-Out Hotels
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by ±
Map of Multi Employer Group scab hotels in San Francisco. Note: A "flying picket" to support locked-out hotel workers has been announced for this evening at 7 p.m., meeting at Powell & Geary....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 5:21am PDT
audioSafeway Grocery Workers' Rally (audio/mpeg 3.2MB) by Rubble
excerpts from Saturday's grocery worker rally and march at the Market/Duboce Safeway Friday, Oct 15th; the rally was held to kick off the start of new contract negotiations for the NoCal grocery workers; (7 minutes)...
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 8:21pm PDT
imageHotel Strike
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by Mo Fogarty
Here are a few photos of some of the strikers. If you spot a friend of yours, let them know their picture is online....
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 4:39pm PDT
textHotel Striker Attacked!!!! by @-------,----'-----
Hotel Striker gets attacked by hotel security!!!!!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 15, 2004 7:50pm PDT
textStop Deliveries to Scab Hotels by Mother Jones
Tell the Teamsters and all other delivery people to the scab hotels that Picketlines Mean DON"T CROSS! Tell the bosses that SF Police Code 9.5 prohibits professional strikebreakers (including lockouts)....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 7:23pm PDT
imageStrikin to Survive in San Francisco
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by tiny/PoorNewsNEtwork
San Francisco workers try to negotiate with Multi-National Corporate Hotels for fair wages and health care and get Locked Out!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 6:07pm PDT
textPicket lines on Wednesday by Richard Mellor
Cops step up harrasment of picketers at Palace Hotel. Now passing drivers can't honk inn support....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 1:56pm PDT
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