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Upcoming Flying Pickets: Solidarity with Hotel Workers 7pm HALLOWEEN SUNDAY Flying Picket AND 7pm SUNDAY, November 7th, An Even Bigger Flying Picket
Meet at the corner of Powell & Geary in Union Square...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 12:28pm PDT
Halloween Critical Mass Halloween Critical Mass Bicycle Ride
6pm, this FRIDAY, October 29th
Meet at Justin Herman Plaza (the foot of Market Street @ Embarcadero)...
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 11:44am PDT
Stockton IWW Truckers Report Report and updates on IWW truckers union in Stockton CA....
Posted: Thu, Oct 28, 2004 9:32am PDT
10/28SF Labor TV On Healthcare Crisis & MWM Intern Delegates On Thursday October 28 from 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM on San Francisco Comcast Channel 29, Labor On The Job will focus on the crisis in healthcare and the international delegates attending the Million Worker March in Washington D.C. on October 17, 2004....
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 5:10pm PDT
Craiglist controversy: Scab ads violate craig's own posting policies craig made motions as if he was waiting for the SF political community to get behind the locked out workers. now the employers are showing their true colors and even the mayor is with the workers. what is craig gonna do? help the employers shit all over SF? or stand up for community standards?...
Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2004 9:57am PDT
Nov 3: Peace Movement & Labor Unite to Shut Down Scab Hotels 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
Dashing Mayor to the Rescue 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
SF Hotels Refuse to End Labor Lockout 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
Hotel Strikers Need $6 SEIU 790 Tax; Not Capitalist Democrats 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
Strike Force 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
San Francisco Union Leaders Plead With Corporate Politicians to Help Them Win Hotel Strike 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
10/29SF Hotel Workers Benefit With Films See labor films of hotel and restaurant workers in struggle....
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 5:25pm PDT
Labor Strife in Northern California on KDVS Davis 90.3 FM, Friday, 10/22, 5pm to 6pm 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
Flying Picket 10/24 
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
A Night to Remember on The SF Hotel Picket Line 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
Bay Area Labor rallies for Local 2 in Union Square oct. 12th (video/quicktime 30.3MB) 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
PG&E solar conference insensitive to union workers and the public 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
Lybon Mabasa supports Hotel Workers at Local 2 Rally (video/quicktime 9.6MB) 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
Map of Locked-Out Hotels 
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
Safeway Grocery Workers' Rally (audio/mpeg 3.2MB) 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
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