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Public outcry held outside Kaiser Permanente in Sacramento CA - at 12:00 ...
Posted: Sat, Sep 17, 2005 9:21am PDT
10/2N. CA Forum-The Fightback Against Union Busting&Concessions In The Airline Industry On Sunday October 2, 2005 at 3:00 PM there will be an educational forum on the conditions and struggles
in the airline industry. The educational forum will be held at ILWU Local 6 on 99 Hegenberger Rd.
in Oakland near the Oakland airport....
Posted: Sat, Sep 17, 2005 9:04am PDT
The Next Injured Worker/Patient Rally will be held on September 30, 2005 For years Kaiser Permanente has delayed treament by not disclosing an illness to employees and patients. People are dying and this needs to be stop. Your civil rights are being denied. The right to be informed, the right to receive care in a timely manner, the right to be involved in your health care. Join our rally and let your voice be heard at Kaiser Permanente, 2025 Morse Avenue, Sacramento, CA at 12:00 on Friday, September 30, 2005....
Posted: Fri, Sep 16, 2005 9:07am PDT
UNITE HERE Announces Disaffiliation from the AFL-CIO UNITE HERE Announces Disaffiliation from the AFL-CIO
Statement of Anna Burger, Chair, Change to Win Coalition...
Posted: Fri, Sep 16, 2005 12:06am PDT
10/16: Poor People's March What are you doing on Sunday, October 16 – "National Boss Day"? We hope
that you will be joining us for the *Poor People's March* and the *Low-wage
Workers Community Congress*....
Posted: Thu, Sep 15, 2005 10:33pm PDT
Delta and Northwest airlines declare bankruptcy Delta and Northwest, two of the largest airlines in the United States, filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday. Both companies indicated they would seek approval from Chapter 11 bankruptcy courts to drastically cut airlines workers’ jobs, wages and pensions, and dramatically reduce the size of their fleets....
Posted: Thu, Sep 15, 2005 3:10pm PDT
British Trade Union Congress unanimously supports Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution Bolivarian Revolution...
Posted: Thu, Sep 15, 2005 11:16am PDT
Gallo Boycott over! Buy the union label! Once again, our solidarity with farm workers has made a difference! Today the UFW announced that they had signed a 30-month contract with Gallo Vineyards, ending the 3 month Gallo boycott....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 11:05pm PDT
Katrina: What Went Wrong (An Alternative View) More could have been done......
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 5:02pm PDT
9/13: California Pacific Medical Center Strike Our UHW Sutter Bargaining Team met on Sunday Sept. 11th and decided to only strike the three hospitals in the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco beginning tomorrow, Tuesday Sept. 13th....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 12:00am PDT
Muni Revenue Lags Despite Fare Hike, More Service Cuts Planned: Bulletin #8 Posted below is Muni Fare Strike Bulletin # 8...Muni's having a hard time explaining why revenue is flat (or even falling) despite having just jacked up cash fares by 20%. More and more riders are finding that most Muni operators don't care whether they pay or not....More service cuts are planned for later this month. We've got to keep hitting them--the fare strike's working!...
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 7:30pm PDT
Minimum Wage Bill on Schwarzenegger's Desk A bill to increase the wages of California's lowest-paid workers
is sitting on Governor Schwarzenegger's desk...
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 5:51pm PDT
Wage-cutting and profit-gouging in the midst of the Katrina disaster In a shameless display of a brutal class policy, President Bush on Thursday suspended the provisions of a law that requires employers to pay the locally prevailing wage to workers on federally financed projects. The suspension applies to areas of the country devastated by Hurricane Katrina—parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida....
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 6:49am PDT
Muni Revenue Down--Fare Strike Taking A Toll Some may think that because the fare strike hasn't produced an impossible-to-ignore bang that it has failed. This is the wrong way to think about it. We seek to make Muni management pay a price for its decision to increase fares, layoff operators and decrease service. Apparently, despite the corporate media's desire to minimize and belittle the fare strike, we are having the desired impact. Read on....
Posted: Sun, Sep 11, 2005 1:51am PDT
Bush Uses Disaster to Ram Through Low-Wage Work Sept. 9—With the federal government poised to spend more than $50 billion to rebuild areas destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, the AFL-CIO is calling on Congress to reverse President George W. Bush’s Sept. 8 executive order that would allow contractors to pay substandard wages to construction workers in the affected areas....
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 11:18am PDT
By Suspending Davis-Bacon Act, Bush Allows Feds To Underpay Relief Workers Yesterday, George Bush added insult to injury. The president's suspension of Davis Bacon Act protections in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina means that workers on federally funded projects will be paid less than they were before the storm....
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2005 11:17am PDT
St Francis Victory, Labor Day Success! Local 2's Labor Day action on Monday was a phenomenal success......
Posted: Thu, Sep 8, 2005 11:41pm PDT
A Second Economy: Overcoming the Hurricane of Unemployment "One of the problems since the so-called turn of 1989 is that the market is regarded as an ultimate natural law. The whole world was required to transform their economies into market economies.."...
Posted: Thu, Sep 8, 2005 10:40am PDT
Urge Governor to Sign the "Wal-Mart Accountability" Bill Assembly Bill 89 (Horton) would begin to hold those corporations
who don't provide healthcare for their workers accountable. The
bill would require the state to collect the names of companies
like Wal-Mart that abuse public programs by forcing taxpayers to
pay for health care for their workers....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 9:27pm PDT
More Time for Life, Laughter and Love "Fewer and fewer persons produce more and more goods in an ever shorter time through increasingly efficient technology, better training and growing labor intensity..Whoever relies only on growth to overcome mass unemployment comes to an ideological cul-de-sac.."...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 8:39am PDT
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