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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
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
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Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 5:04pm PDT
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
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Posted: Mon, May 17, 2004 6:57pm PDT
The Brass Liberation Orchestra and City College contingents.
QT movie: 1.5 min. 13 MB....
Posted: Thu, Apr 1, 2004 6:46am PST
50 supporters of a wrongfully terminated city employee rallied in front of and inside Oakland City Hall today. He is an Iranian immigrant, trade unionist, local activist, and KPFA Radio producer. Windows Movie, 2:50 min....
Posted: Wed, Mar 31, 2004 9:56am PST
Hundreds of labor and human rights activists took to the streets for the 2004 Cesar E. Chavez Holiday Parade & Festival, marching from 2nd and Market to Civic Center Plaza. This year's march was also in remembrance of Father Bill O'Donnell and was joined by many who expressed opposition to the ongoing U.S. led occupation of Iraq. 2:20 min. Windows Movie....
Posted: Mon, Mar 29, 2004 12:30am PST
Sacramento Rally...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 10:47am PST
Oakland Rally...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 10:47am PST
Sacramento Rally...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 10:47am PST
Oakland Rally...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 10:47am PST
Electricians are defending the right to join a union of their choice and for health and safety in their industry....
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 10:28am PST
20, 000 low paid civil servants are on strike in UK. This was an interview with the Public and Commercial Service union (PCS) representative on the picket line outside Manchester Crown Court...
Posted: Tue, Feb 17, 2004 9:44am PST
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
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
SAFEWAY's Unlucky Day:
Friday, Feb. 13th, California labor meets to consider an official boycott of Safeway until it meets the workers demands. One minute QT movie. 7MB....
Posted: Thu, Feb 12, 2004 9:56am PST
Speakers at the rally tell what happened on the Oakland docks April 7, 2003. Six minute QuickTime movie. 25MB....
Posted: Tue, Feb 10, 2004 11:45am PST
A seven minute video of Gay Shame SF's march to and disruption of the Church and Market Safeway. Highlights include: March from the Mission; Shots of All Safeway Protestors; Gay Shame Inside the Store; Police Corraling of Gay Shamers. It's a compressed file so the image quality may be low but allows for a faster download....
Posted: Sat, Feb 7, 2004 10:03pm PST
video from j31 safeway action. 2 of 4....
Posted: Sun, Feb 1, 2004 12:54pm PST