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10/15: Rally to Support Grocery Workers What: Major Customer Support Rally
When: Friday, October 15th
4:00 p.m.
Where: Safeway @ Market & Church Streets
San Francisco
Who: Supporters of Bay Area Grocery Workers Labor,
Religious, and Civic leaders...
Posted: Tue, Oct 5, 2004 12:07pm PDT
Truckers Join IWW, Win 2-Day Strike More than 200 Stockton owner-operator truckers working out of the rail yards in California's Central Valley have joined the IWW since July and won several victories....
Posted: Tue, Oct 5, 2004 10:55am PDT
Black and White Images Of The First Day Of The Hotel Workers Strike 
The strike and lockout of the 4,000 is now ending its first week. The picket lines at the 14 plush hotels affected remain strong and determined....
Posted: Tue, Oct 5, 2004 10:44am PDT
Hotel Strike:Stop Scab Labor Ads; Build A Labor Movement The good news is that the scab hotels are practically empty! The mass picketlines with their fabulous drum corps and our material support have been a success this first week. However, there is still no union contract and thus there is still a lot of work to do, including stopping scab ads and providing material support....
Posted: Mon, Oct 4, 2004 7:20pm PDT
Scenes From The San Francisco Hotel Lockout: Sheraton Palace 
Pictures from a picket in front of San Francisco's Sheraton Palace following a lockout of the hotel's workers...
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 11:40pm PDT
Scenes From The San Francisco Hotel Lockout: Argent 
Pictures from the picket in front of the Argent...
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 11:22pm PDT
Scenes From The San Francisco Hotel Lockout: Hyatt Regency 
I was walking past the Hyatt Regency Satuday and got these pictures...
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 11:11pm PDT
Support Needed for Hotel Strikers: We All Can Help While we wait for the necessary general strike call from the San Francisco Central Labor Council that will guarantee a union contract for the hotel strikers within 24 hours, every single one of us can do something to help the hotel strikers....
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2004 2:39pm PDT
Ten SF Hotels Lock out Workers Ten of San Francisco 's largest hotels have responded to the limited strike against four hotels organized by UNITE HERE Local 2 with a lock out that has affected approximately 2,600 laborers....
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 12:07pm PDT
UNITE HERE Local 2 Launches Boycott of Comfort Suites in South City Boycott launched of Comfort Suites SSF managed by Paramount Hospitality Management LLC. Terminated housekeepers want their jobs back....
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 7:32am PDT
General Strike is Needed Response to Hotel Lockout A citywide general strike is the best and needed response to the hotel lockout that is now being implemented by the union-busting hotel owners. The people of San Francisco support the strikers; does the San Francisco Labor Council have the will to call a general strike?...
Posted: Fri, Oct 1, 2004 7:21am PDT
Socialist Candidates on National Tour Urge Support for Million Worker March John Parker for president, Teresa Gutierrez for vp and LeiLani Dowell for Congress in San Francisco: Wed. Oct. 13, 7 p.m., African American Art & Culture Complex. Call (415) 561-9752 for information....
Posted: Thu, Sep 30, 2004 12:11pm PDT
Photos: SF Hotel Strike 
Photos from the Local 2 hotel workers strike....
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 7:53pm PDT
Local 2 Strike 
Approximately 1,400 hotel workers in San Francisco went on a 2-week strike this morning, September 29, 2004, against four major hotels in the fight for a fair contract....
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 6:49pm PDT
2 week strike called at 4 SF hotels Hotel workers have called a two-week strike at 4 San Francisco Hotels....
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 5:00am PDT
Strawberry fields forever — poisoning & picking 
Strawberry fields forever — poisoning & picking near Watsonville. 50 second video....
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 7:11pm PDT
Outsourcing Of Jobs At Valero Refinery Valero has contracted with Altair Strickland to provide refractory services at the Valero Refinery in Benicia. Altair Strickland chose to use Diamond Refractory based out of Texas. Diamond Refractory will be employing a workforce from Texas to perform the service instead of utilizing members of the local community. Further, approximately 800 Texas workers have received training from Bay Area Training Corp. This training is required to work in the refineries in the San Francisco Bay Area. It i...
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 12:52pm PDT
See how we bring Mt. Olive to bargaining table 
See how we bring Mt. Olive to bargaining table to end 4-year boycott. 1 minute video....
Posted: Thu, Sep 23, 2004 5:17pm PDT
SEIU State Council regarding 1877 decertification This document has been distributed within the SEIU In California to help SEIU staffers explain why San Francisco janitors voted to decertify SEIU Local 1877....
Posted: Fri, Sep 17, 2004 6:44pm PDT
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