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Interview with John Wilhelm, president of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sat, Sep 27, 2003 4:46am PDT
Bad economy = good excuse for more tax cuts (for the rich), keeps workers afraid and easy to control, makes it necessary for government to dissolve social safety nets like health care, Medicaid and Social Security. Bad economy = Trifecta for Bush and his corporate supporters....
Posted: Thu, Sep 25, 2003 5:26pm PDT
Make a difference in the lives of 54,000 minimum wage workers - VOTE YES ON L this Nov. 4th. Make a difference before the election: volunteer or donate....
Posted: Wed, Sep 24, 2003 11:23pm PDT
A new federal report due out Sept. 26 will show U.S. poverty increasing even more. And still Republicans like Bush and Kelsey "Frazier" Grammer continue to ignore the problem....
Posted: Tue, Sep 23, 2003 3:59pm PDT
At the August meeting of my Local, AFSCME 444 in Oakland CA, we voted not to donate money to the AFL-CIO's Freedom Ride after a presentation by an AFL-CIO staffer. At September's membership meeting the following letter was introduced and passed and will be sent to John Sweeney, AFL-CIO president.
Richard Mellor, Member AFSCME Local 444 Oakland CA
aactivist@igc.org...
Posted: Tue, Sep 23, 2003 9:28am PDT
Proposition D, the Small Business Commission proposition on the November 4, 2003 San Francisco election, is clearly a union-busting, anti-labor proposition and should be defeated soundly....
Posted: Sun, Sep 21, 2003 1:20pm PDT
1938 Fair Labor Standards Act still intact but not not safe from White House plan for destruction....
Posted: Sat, Sep 20, 2003 5:29am PDT
Anyone out there playing some NFL style games? Dan Marino is the greatest quarterback ever....
Posted: Thu, Sep 18, 2003 9:27pm PDT
Former Real Food employees are charging that the actual reason they were sent packing was because the store's 30 workers were planning to unionize....
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2003 1:51pm PDT
THE EAST BAY DEPOT FOR CREATIVE REUSE IS BEING TRASHED BY ITS BOARD OF
DIRECTORS...
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2003 1:34pm PDT
east bay workers face crisis under management pressure...
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2003 1:26pm PDT
I started thinking about writing this piece of work when I was, as I often do, pondering the failings of the British anarchist movement...
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2003 12:59pm PDT
The rights of the 'mentally ill' are again being circumvented. And so are our courts....
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2003 9:55am PDT
See some of you propagandist bullshit about The NYC 9-11 Investigatory Film and Roundtable Program .The panel included former U.S. Congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney; co-founder of the 911 Citizenswatch, John Judge; Publisher and Editor of "From the Wilderness", Mike Ruppert; former CIA analyst, Raymond L. McGovern; member of steering committee of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, David Mac Michael; author, Peter Lance, and filmmaker, writer, and media critique Danny Schec...
Posted: Mon, Sep 15, 2003 5:28pm PDT
Death penalty Democrat Gov Gray Davis made sure we should support his recall by signing a reactionary Workers' Compensation bill on 9/12/03, slashing Workers' Comp. benefits....
Posted: Mon, Sep 15, 2003 3:33am PDT
National group of students rally against unethical business practices of summer work company....
Posted: Mon, Sep 15, 2003 12:06am PDT
A disturbing essay by a pre-eminent thinker on economics -- who also foresees a scary rising tide of fascism in Amerika. This is long and a bit of work to read, but should be a Heads-Up for people who have been focusing on non-economic matters....
Posted: Sat, Sep 13, 2003 10:12pm PDT