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Taco Bell Truth Tour - National Call-In Day to YUM! Brands – Monday, March 1st! ...
Posted: Mon, Feb 23, 2004 11:24pm PST
Building Solidarity with So. Cal Grocery Workers Unionists and activists in the SF bay area hold a successful meeting to build solidarity with So. Cal. grocery strikers. These workers are on the front lines of the class struggle with workers making huge sacrafices to stay out on the lines. Over $2000 was raised...
Posted: Sun, Feb 22, 2004 1:20pm PST
Historic Victory for Pictsweet Mushroom Farm Workers in Oxnard, CA 
After years of nation-wide boycotts, protests, and activist campaigns, Farm workers at Pictsweet Mushroom Farm in Ventura, Calif. have won their 17-year battle for a United Farm Workers union contract....
Posted: Fri, Feb 20, 2004 6:39pm PST
Comparison of phone companies' profit$ in 2002 
This chart shows that SBC is the most profitable of the biggest phone companies...
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2004 10:15pm PST
Jobless Workers March Through Downtown San Jose 
Over 100 demonstrators protested budget cuts and economic policy in the heart of Silcon Valley on Wednesday in the "March for Jobless Workers." All photos by Charlotte Casey....
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2004 4:55pm PST
2 Upcoming Claremont Hotel Actions and some updates Update 2 New Articles about Claremont Hotel developments and 2 Upcoming actions being organized by the workers and HERE 2850.
There will also be a new article this weekend in the Berkeley Daily Planet about the 3 recently suspended workers(mentioned below)getting reinstated with a warning and back pay for the days that they were suspended: http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com...
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2004 1:41pm PST
SF Muni Bus Cutbacks Threatened In Sept 2003, San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) raised the bus fares from $1 to $1.25, and now 6 months later, they propose cutbacks, crying poor once again! We need you now to complain about the cutbacks in service and jobs, most of the lost service being in workingclass areas....
Posted: Wed, Feb 18, 2004 7:08pm PST
Feb18 - Picket at N Berkeley Safeway Support the Safeway Boycott
Solidarity with Grocery Industry Workers...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 9:46pm PST
SBC and CWA begin contract negotiations 
Thursday, February 12, 2004 - SBC and CWA officially begin contract negotiations...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 9:25pm PST
Communication Workers Rally in Sacramento - 2/12 
Thursday, February 12 - Communication Workers held a rally on the steps of the State Capital....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 9:08pm PST
Communication Workers Rally in Oakland at SBC Headquarters - 2/12 
Thursday, February 12 - CWA Rallies at SBC Headquarters in Oakland...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 8:58pm PST
Join California Safe Schools - Cesar Chavez Day March JOIN CALIFORNIA SAFE SCHOOLS WWW.CALISAFE.ORG AT
CESAR CHAVEZ DAY MARCH
CONTACT UFW...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 1:41pm PST
SAFEWAY WORKERS support rally:Feb. 11, 2004, San Francisco.Excerpts from some of the speec (video/quicktime 17.2MB) Art Pulaski, Jim Haymond, (one activist), Walter Johnson, (two clergywomen), Tom Ammiano, Steve Westly, and Chris Daly spoke. Two minute QuickTime movie. 17 MB....
Posted: Sun, Feb 15, 2004 8:35pm PST
Pledge to Support Grocery Workers Dear friend,
I won't cross a grocery store picket line. And I'm asking my friends to pledge to do the same....
Posted: Sun, Feb 15, 2004 12:54pm PST
Pictures from the 2/14 DASW Safeway March and Rally 
About half of the crowd left the street party to protest at a local safeway....
Posted: Sat, Feb 14, 2004 10:26pm PST
Pictures From The Reclaim The Streets Safeway March 
At noon around 500 people gathered at the end of Haight St. in SF to celebrate Valentine's day with a radical street party. The march moved up the street to Haight and Ashbury and after several hours of music and fun, a labor march left to protest at a nearby Safeway. When the march arrived at the Safeway there were dozens of police surrounding the building and after shutting down the store for around an hour the march returned to Haight St....
Posted: Sat, Feb 14, 2004 9:32pm PST
SAFEWAY WORKERS support rally: "Mr. Burd: Pack Your Bags." Feb. 11, 2004, San Fr (video/quicktime 16.7MB) The Clerical Players present a one-act morality play at the rally at the Pacific Stock Exchange. Three minute QuickTime movie. 17MB....
Posted: Sat, Feb 14, 2004 4:44pm PST
The Oakland 25 & the Courthouse Rally of Feb 6th The atmosphere was charged with that old time union militancy from a century ago, the kind I’d read about. Well, here it was, back among us, alive and well...
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 1:39pm PST
Demonstrators HOLD THE LINE at Santa Cruz Safeway 
About 150 people were at the Mission St. Safeway in Santa Cruz on Wednesday, February 11, to send George Bush the message that, "Healthcare IS Homeland Security... and Steve Burd is a Domestic Terrorist."...
Posted: Thu, Feb 12, 2004 1:10pm PST
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