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Half a Million Workers march through Madrid
Half a Million Workers...
Posted: Wed, Oct 9, 2002 10:52am PDT
Coca-cola Union in Guatemala Threatened
In this Alert:
1. Coca-cola Union in Guatemala Threatened
2. Fighting to Keep Their Rights
3. PANAMCO, Coke in Colombia
4. Take Action Now!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 8, 2002 3:45pm PDT
ILWU/PMA court hearing NOW
Come to a court hearing this afternoon in which a Taft-Hartley injunction will be considered. 4pm at 450 Golden Gate....
Posted: Tue, Oct 8, 2002 3:12pm PDT
Voices of Anarchist Union Organizers
I asked a few folks to tell me a little about themselves and their views
on organizing for unions. These six people identify as either an anarchist (with or without adjectives) or as an anti-authoritarian (an anarchist that doesn't know it yet!). They all work as union organizers or have worked as union organizers....
Posted: Mon, Oct 7, 2002 1:43pm PDT
10/6 4PM LaborLine Radio On Oakland ILWU Rally
LaborLine Radio will program some of the statements made at the ILWU Support Rally in Oakland on Saturday October 5, 2002...
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2002 11:54am PDT
Enviromentalists to Join ILWU on Picket Line 10/7
Environmentalists to join portworkers at picket line in Oakland on 10/7; Statement of Support for the ILWU from Organizations and Leaders in the Environmental Movement...
Posted: Sat, Oct 5, 2002 5:49pm PDT
Emergency Picketline for Longshore workers
Emergency Picketline for Longshore workers at Port of Oakland on Saturday, October 5, 2002, 10 am. Activists/supporters are coming from all over the Bay Area and Northern California to support the locked out ILWU vs. the PMA....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 10:08pm PDT
Emergency Picketline Rally
The Portworkers Solidarity Committee -- a broad-based coalition of
unionists and activists that was formed to build support for the ILWU
in its contract dispute with the PMA -- calls on you to join with a
caravan of Teamster truck drivers from Stockton, the San Francisco
Labor Council and the Alameda Central Labor Council at an Emergency
Picketline Rally on Saturday, October 5 at 10 a.m. at Port View Park
in the Port of Oakland...
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 8:33pm PDT
10/10: General Strike in Israel
A general strike is scheduled to take place in Israel commencing on a small scale on Oct 10 and broadening thereafter. The Zionist government cannot deliver both guns and butter....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 7:23pm PDT
18-year-old filmmaker's feature film to be shown at film festival in San Francisco
18-year-old Canadian director to have feature film screened at Hollywood Underground Film Festival in San Francisco. He beet the odds by not having any experience or any money, and to make matters worse he has a terminal lung disease. The film is set to close out the festival at 10 pm on October 28....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 10:56am PDT
Audio: The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America Oppose Iraq War
Peter Knowles is President of UE District 2, which represents workers in New England and upper New York. He was one of the sponsors of the international union's resolutions against an invasion of Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Oct 3, 2002 1:10pm PDT
Support SF Day Laborers at 10/17 Planning Commission Meeting
Please attend this critical meeting which will determine the future site location of the SF Day Labor Program....
Posted: Thu, Oct 3, 2002 11:02am PDT
support the dock workers
US shippers lock out dockworkers on West Coast...
Posted: Mon, Sep 30, 2002 6:44am PDT
5 deaths of longshore workers prove hazardous conditions
There have been 5 deaths of longshore workers this year on the docks, demonstrating the hazardous working conditions. The World Socialist Website provides one perspective on what is to be done....
Posted: Mon, Sep 30, 2002 6:06am PDT
Longshore lock out resumes
The lockout of the dockworkers resumes. My spouse and my son (members of Local 10, ILWU) report for picket duty tomorrow....
Posted: Sun, Sep 29, 2002 8:24pm PDT
9/27/02 ILWU Press Release on Lockout
Below is the 9/27/02 Press Release on the employer lockout at the docks....
Posted: Fri, Sep 27, 2002 8:05pm PDT
ILWU LOCKOUT--Come to the ports!!
The westcoast dockworkers have been LOCKED OUT! The ILWU requests that supporters get down to the Oakland docks immediately. Please go to the Maersk/Sealand terminal OR to the Seafarer's Hall near the Matson terminal (from SF, go over the Bay Bridge, take the Maritime exit, take a right at 7th St, and go to the end of 7th (4001 7th)). We will convene an emergency meeting of the Portworkers' Solidarity Committe in the next day or so after we have figured out more details.
-sue sandlin
co-...
Posted: Fri, Sep 27, 2002 7:08pm PDT
Shippers Lock Out West Coast Longshoremen
The association representing shipping lines decided Friday to lock out longshoremen at all West Coast ports until Sunday morning as contract negotiations deteriorated....
Posted: Fri, Sep 27, 2002 5:07pm PDT
Capitalism's Injustices
A discussion of the injustices caused by the capitalist economic system....
Posted: Thu, Sep 26, 2002 9:42am PDT