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Million Worker March in Japan (video/quicktime 28.2MB) Million Worker March in Japan in support of hotel workers...
Posted: Sun, Dec 12, 2004 10:18am PST
How Low Can You Go? Hospital Workers Locked Out (video/mpeg 8.2MB) Caregivers from SEIU 250 and CNA are mobilizing to get the word out about the out-of-control, rogue "non-profit" "community-based" healthcare corporation, Sutter. Yesterday a community forum was held in downtown Oakland....
Posted: Sat, Dec 4, 2004 7:17am PST
Revolution @ THe Palace Hotel & Come to the Flying picketl (video/quicktime 24.0MB) On Saturday, November 13 the Garden Court at the Shereton Palace was transformed into the HAPSBURG IMPERIAL COURT as the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra holds its gala auction benefit, VIENNA GLORIOSA. Socialite guests arrived for the caviar bar. They were in formal attaire and period costume. Altough the Orchestra honored the picket line, the bousuisis still attened.
Locked out Local 2 Banquet waiters who have worked this event in past years gave the guests the welcome they deserved. th...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 4:11pm PST
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
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
Domestic Workers Rights Coalition supports Local 2 Hotel Workers (video/quicktime 20.2MB) The California Domestic Workers Rights Coalition held a press conference at the Women's Building in San Francisco's Mission District October 7th. Various speakers told what they had done to aid the strikers, and several Local 2 members spoke. Renee Saucedo told how hotel management's attempt to round-up scabs in The Mission had been thwarted. Six-minute QuickTime movie. 20MB.
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Parts 2 and 3 of the press conference will be down below in several days.
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A higher-res version of this movie i...
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2004 10:23am 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
UNITE HERE! Local 2: The March to the Hilton: August 20th (video/quicktime 29.0MB) Local 2's fight for a new contract continues. Four-minute QuickTime movie. 29MB.
Movies from August 13th:
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Posted: Tue, Aug 24, 2004 2:40am PDT
UNITE HERE! Local 2: Aurolyn Rush speaks (video/quicktime 5.2MB) Aurolyn Rush, member of the Negotiating Committee, tells how disastrous is the bosses' offer and explains that the only way to beat them is to get a two-year contract which will enable Local 2 to unify with hotel workers all over North America. Two-minute QT movie. 5MB....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 3:49pm PDT
UNITE HERE! Local 2: Ramon Guevarra speaks (video/quicktime 3.1MB) Ramon Guevarra recalled the victory over the SF Marriott Hotel and stressed the importance of national unity for United HERE!
One-minute QT movie. 3MB....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 3:15pm PDT
UNITE HERE! Local 2: Walter Johnson speaks (video/quicktime 9.2MB) Walter Johnson, recently retired head of the San Francisco Labor Council thinks it would be a good idea to call for a general strike in the city if Local 2 encounters resistence from the hospitality industry. Three-minute QT movie. 9MB....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 2:37pm PDT
UNITE HERE! Local 2: The March from Yerba Buena Gardens to Local 2 Square (video/quicktime 20.4MB) One wing started out from Union Square and greeted the Yerba Buena Gardens wing as it entered Local 2 Square. This video features Local 2 organizer Kevin O'Connor. Three-minute QuickTime movie. 20MB....
Posted: Tue, Aug 17, 2004 2:29am PDT
UNITE HERE! Local 2: John Wilhelm speaks (video/quicktime 11.6MB) One of Local 2's main goals for their new contract is to have it last for two years. Then it would expire in 2006. The goal, Wilhelm, president of UNITE HERE! says, is to have all contracts expire at the same time. There would then be a unified fight against the half-dozen or so corporations controlling the industry in the US and Canada. Four-minute QT movie. 12MB....
Posted: Sun, Aug 15, 2004 8:55pm PDT
UNITE HERE! Local 2: Janice Loux speaks (video/quicktime 19.2MB) Coast-to-coast unity was the theme at the August 13th rally in San Francisco of hotel and restaurant workers. Six-minute QT movie. 19MB....
Posted: Sat, Aug 14, 2004 11:04pm PDT
Pictures From SBC Strike March And Rally (video/quicktime 3.5MB) ...
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 5:04pm PDT
San Francisco garment workers and supporters victorious in struggle with REI. Part 1 (video/quicktime 20.1MB) Ngar Chun Kuang Yee tells what it is like not to be paid for months of work, and, when finally paid, to get not even the minimum wage. May 12, 2004. Four minute QT movie. 20MB....
Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 6:49pm PDT
San Francisco garment workers and supporters victorious in struggle with REI. Part 2 (video/quicktime 22.1MB) ...
Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 6:57pm PDT
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