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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
Hotel Workers in L.A., SF, and Washington Cast Strong “YES” Votes to Hotel workers in three cities voted to authorize strikes to demand equality and not allow the hotel industry to keep North American hotel workers in different cities separate from one another. On Monday, September 13, hotel workers in both Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. held strike authorization votes and workers in San Francisco followed with their vote the next day. UNITE HERE members in all three cities are demanding employer paid health benefits, fair workloads, decent wages, improved p...
Posted: Fri, Sep 17, 2004 6:40pm PDT
Farmworker Rights Demo In Sacramento on Saturday I urge everybody to come to to the Farm Worker Rights Demonstration at the Second Annual Great Escape in Sacramento....
Posted: Thu, Sep 16, 2004 11:26pm PDT
IWW Truckers Win Demands after Strike in Stockton Truck Drivers in the Central Valley, who are members of Motor Transport Workers Industrial Union 530 of the IWW are now back to work....
Posted: Wed, Sep 15, 2004 3:57pm PDT
Stockton Trucker's Strike Over! Stockton Trucker's Strike is over. Almost three days in the company caved to 70% of the demands of the drivers. The drivers are back on the job and are overall happy with the outcome of the event....
Posted: Wed, Sep 15, 2004 3:03pm PDT
UNITE HERE Local 2 hotel workers vote to strike By a vote of 3139 to 88 (97.3%), workers at 14 San Francisco hotels have voted to authorize a strike if their negotiating committee is unable to move management to sign a fair contract. 77% of eligible members turned out to vote....
Posted: Wed, Sep 15, 2004 8:46am PDT
Hotel workers' union votes to authorize strike A spokeswoman for a union of San Francisco hotel workers said the membership voted overwhelmingly today to authorize a strike if negotiations for a new contract fail....
Posted: Tue, Sep 14, 2004 10:34pm PDT
Farmworkers March for Justice 
Farmworkers march to end racial profiling by the CHP...
Posted: Fri, Sep 10, 2004 11:45pm PDT
Civil Disobedience in SF: HERE Local 2 (video/quicktime 12.7MB) Local 2 Takes to the Streets on Labor Day. Over 130 Arrested. Part 1.
Hundreds of hotel workers and their allies took to the streets this Labor Day to demonstrate their growing impatience with the San Francisco Hotels Multi-Employer Group, which is taking a hard line in negotations with Local 2. Over a hundred were arrested as they blocked cable car traffic around Union Square, in the heart of San Francisco's tourist district.
Three weeks after the expiration of Local 2's citywide contra...
Posted: Thu, Sep 9, 2004 3:10pm PDT
Strike Looms as S.F. Hotel Workers Hold Determined Labor Day Rally 
Strike Looms as S.F. Hotel Workers Hold Determined Labor Day Rally...
Posted: Tue, Sep 7, 2004 3:18pm PDT
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