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US auto union in deal with GM to slash health benefits General Motors announced Monday that it had reached a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers union (UAW) to drastically reduce the company’s health care costs for hundreds of thousands of hourly workers, retirees and their dependents....
Posted: Tue, Oct 18, 2005 7:45am PDT
General Strike Begins in British Columbia In a matter of days, all of the contradictions that have been building over the last four years in British Columbia have come to the fore. Gordon Campbell's mis-named Liberals have spent their time in power attacking the working class - slashing social programs, closing schools and hospitals, ripping up collective agreements and sending tuition sky-rocketing. This has been met with several waves of unrest. The workers of this province have fought back with demonstrations, strikes and occupati...
Posted: Tue, Oct 18, 2005 6:25am PDT
CFW Initiates Campaign to Raise the Minimum Wage Californians for Fair Wages, a labor group founded by the Green Party, has begun its campaign to raise the minimum wage....
Posted: Mon, Oct 17, 2005 8:44pm PDT
School Labor Dispute: SFUSD and SEIU Local 790 The results of Governor Schwarzenegger’s financial scheming combined with the long-term reverberations of Proposition 13 continue to manifest themselves. The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), like school districts throughout California, has been operating with less than an optimal amount of funding. Support from the community through bond measures and other efforts has made a difference in terms of being able to repair certain buildings and supplement areas such as libraries, art...
Posted: Mon, Oct 17, 2005 6:42am PDT
The Employers Can Be Stopped Starting With Delphi The Capitalist's offensive against Delphi workers can be thrown back but not without returning to the methods of the thirties...
Posted: Sun, Oct 16, 2005 5:53pm PDT
12/1 Audio-Video Report On CTW Convention By KPFA Labor Collective The KPFA Labor Collective covered the Change To Win convention in September 27 in St. Louis.
There will be a video/audio presentation and discussion about the convention and labor media on
Thursday December 1, 2005 7:00 PM at the New College Cultural Center at 766 Valencia St/19th St....
Posted: Sun, Oct 16, 2005 7:40am PDT
Striking Caregivers Protest Harassment by Guards at California Pacific Medical Center Nursing Assistants, Licensed Vocational Nurses and Other Striking Caregivers
Subjected to Violent Harassment From Military Trained Security Guards...
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2005 6:28am PDT
Berkeley Honda on Strike - Important Picket Action (Sat) and other ways you can help Forward please!
** Join a PICKET against UNION BUSTING BERKELEY HONDA,
this SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15th, at the North End Zone / Memorial Atadium
** Meet at Berkeley Honda picket line (Shattuck at Parker)
between 10:00-11:00 AM, and carpool to the stadium, or
just show up at the North End Zone at 11:30 to join the picket.
The picket will last one hour....
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 7:02pm PDT
Workers Independent News - October 13th edition Welcome to labor's free online newspaper, produced by the Workers Independent News....
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 3:43pm PDT
Put a dent in Berkeley Honda's Sales pickets:
Monday through Friday: 6-8pm
Saturdays 3-6pm
Sundays 12-6pm...
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 3:41pm PDT
Delphi outlines plant closings, wage-cutting in US bankruptcy filing In its filing before the Federal Bankruptcy Court Saturday, the US automotive parts giant Delphi Corporation outlined its plans to shut down or sell off dozens of plants in the US and Canada, destroy thousands of jobs and impose sweeping wage, health-care and pension cuts on its 33,000 union employees and 12,000 retirees....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 11:31pm PDT
MEXICO: SOLIDARIDAD URGENTE CON LA LUCHA DE LOS TRABAJADORES DEL COLEGIO DE BACHILLERES Desde hace 40 días los trabajadores del Colegio de Bachilleres (CB) de México estallamos la huelga en una firme y decidida lucha contra la violación al Contrato Colectivo de Trabajo (CCT) y por mejoras concretas laborales, como una jubilación digna....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 11:25pm PDT
They Beat Him Lifeless Benjamin Joffe-Walt in Taishi witnessed brutal killing of Rights Activist Lü Banglie in China...
Posted: Sun, Oct 9, 2005 10:08pm PDT
Young Workers United Wins $4.5 Million Rafa Gutierrez and over 180 other Cheesecake Factory restaurant workers know what it’s like to savor the sweet taste of justice. Through organizing their coworkers, taking legal action, and teaming up with community organization Young Workers United (YWU), former and current Cheesecake Factory workers across the state have won a $4.5 million settlement and seen concrete improvements at
their work....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 3:19pm PDT
Tucson unites behind miners TUCSON, Ariz. — Workers in Mexico are “standing strong” with the 1,500 copper miners on strike against multinational giant ASARCO corporation, AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Linda Chavez-Thompson told a Sept. 29 rally here. Two hundred supporters at the rally included representatives of most local and state unions, elected officials, Jobs with Justice and campus groups from the University of Arizona....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 7:03am PDT
Tell Sutter Health to "Just Say Yes" and end the CPMC hospital strike! More than 800 CPMC caregivers are walking the picket lines. The strike is entering its 4th week, and still there's no end in sight. Won't Sutter Health "Just Say Yes?"...
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2005 7:56pm PDT
New Orleans lays off half its workforce In another cruel blow to the city most devastated by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin delivered pink slips on Tuesday to about 3,000 of the city’s 6,000 workers. Nagin said they were being laid off because there was insufficient money to meet the payroll and that additional job cuts were likely in the future....
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2005 6:49am PDT
Beyond Chron: Two Days, Four Events Worth Your Time Despite City Hall being quiet this week, there’s a variety of political events occurring across town over the next two days worth making time for. Tomorrow, the Reverend Jesse Jackson will be joining the United Health Care Workers here in San Francisco to battle Sutter Health Care, and will give a speech to supporters. Later that night, the Noe Valley Democratic Club will hold what promises to be an interesting panel discussion about leftist politics here in the city, with Matt Gonzalez, Debr...
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2005 6:26pm PDT
San Francisco Day Labor Program: Making a tough job a little easier Renee Zalles 05.OCT.05...
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2005 6:24pm PDT
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