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Protest & Rally - No Militarization of the Port of Oakland!
This summer - workers across Alameda County - are unifying their struggles
to fight for new contracts and a Voice@Work - against employers attempting
to eliminate good jobs that we need in our communities, take away
healthcare & benefits from our families, attack workers' rights, and
threaten public services & the health of our neighborhoods....
Posted: Wed, Aug 7, 2002 11:52pm PDT
SF Janitors To Picket Union Hall
SF janitors on will picket their union hall on August 19 to prostest the SEIU international trusteeship and the refusal to fight the bosses...
Posted: Wed, Aug 7, 2002 11:01pm PDT
8/25SF Forum On Relevance Of Argentina To US Workers
This forum and video screening will discuss and debate what the meaning of the Argentinian crisis for US workers. Do we face the same conditions in the US?...
Posted: Wed, Aug 7, 2002 10:56pm PDT
Delta Dental Strike Update; Photos Needed
The clerical workers at Delta Dental insurance continue their boisterous picket at First and Mission Streets, San Francisco. We need photos on this website of this milestone labor struggle....
Posted: Tue, Aug 6, 2002 8:13am PDT
PROOF THAT CAPITALISM HAS FAILED
Poisoned Back Into Poverty As China Embraces Capitalism, Hazards to Workers Rise
By Philip P. Pan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, August 4, 2002; Page A01...
Posted: Sun, Aug 4, 2002 4:20pm PDT
Greek Communists Arrested
Marxist-Leninist will not be tolerated in Greece.
Who would want these vermin in their country anyway.
Bush says get'm out!...
Posted: Sat, Aug 3, 2002 3:09pm PDT
UN issues 'seriously flawed' report on Jenin killings
Long awaited investigation repudiates massacre claim and fails to blame Israel...
Posted: Fri, Aug 2, 2002 5:10am PDT
WTO Resistance Group Launches Nationwide Public Information Campaign
The WTO Resistance Group announced today that they have launched a large Public Information Campaign by sending Anti-WTO / IMF postcards to households and businesses across the US and Canada...
Posted: Tue, Jul 30, 2002 6:16pm PDT
Workers First March & Rally
Workers 1st March & Rally on August 1st...
Posted: Tue, Jul 30, 2002 9:29am PDT
March For Immigrant Rights!
A march and rally to support immigrants rights. Legalization for all! Driver's license for all!...
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 2:13pm PDT
Bill in Congress allows music industry to sabotage everyone's computers - including yours
Rep. Howard L. Berman, D-Calif., formally proposed legislation that would give the industry unprecedented new authority to secretly hack into consumers' computers or knock them off-line entirely. Berman is the leading entertainment industry whore, receiving more contributions from them than any other member of Congress. The head of the Recording Industry Association of America, Hilary Rosen, called the Berman bill an "innovative approach to combating the serious problem of Internet pirac...
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2002 4:40am PDT
URGENT!!FAST TRACK VOTE TOMORROW!!CALL YOUR REP
CONGRESS MUST HEAR FROM THEIR CONSTITUENTS THAT THIS PROCESS IS OUTRAGEOUS!
CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE IN DC:
1-877-611-0063 (AFL-CIO SPONSORED TOLL FREE NUMBER)
1-202-224-3121 (CAPITOL HILL SWITCHBOARD)...
Posted: Thu, Jul 25, 2002 1:28pm PDT
ILWU West Coast Contract Negotiations:
Negotiations between the ILWU representing West Coast dockers and the maritime employers are stalling. Another opportunity looms for the leadership of a potentially powerful trade union to push the employers on to the defensive but will the ILWU and AFL-CIO leadership seize the time?...
Posted: Tue, Jul 23, 2002 11:23pm PDT
Delta Dental Workers Strike in SF
Delta Dental clerical workers are on strike in San Francisco, with a picketline at First and Mission Streets, across from the East Bay Transit Terminal....
Posted: Tue, Jul 23, 2002 7:48pm PDT
Where are John Sweeney and the heads of Organized Labor
If we are to be succesful in driving back the offensive of the employers, the role of the leaders of the trade union movement in obstructing this process cannot be ignored. Individuals or a small group of activists cannot substitute themselves for the leaders of organized labor. This does not mean that we do not try to lead struggles where we can....
Posted: Sun, Jul 21, 2002 8:34am PDT
7/22SF Protest Against CTC Lottery
Speakout Against a Lottery that has thrown local community tv producers and programmers in San Francisco. Testify at the San Francisco Telecommunications Commission at SF City Hall....
Posted: Sat, Jul 20, 2002 8:09pm PDT
Fight back! Rally to defend portworkers' rights - 7/24
FIGHTBACK!
Rally to Defend Portworkers' Rights...
Posted: Sat, Jul 20, 2002 4:33pm PDT
Portworkers Solidarity Rally--Wed. 7/24
There will be a rally at 12:00 noon on Wed., July 24, 2002 at 550 California Street, San Francisco. The Bush administration and the world’s largest corporations are now attempting to break theILWU, one of this nation’s strongest, most democratic and most egalitarian unions. If the government/corporate alliance succeeds in eliminating the ILWU hiring hall, this union will essentially be broken, and a cascade of others can not be far behind....
Posted: Sat, Jul 20, 2002 4:27pm PDT
July 19-26 LaborFest Schedule
TIPS is being tossed because enough people have learned the lessons of the last fascist era in the 1950s, with its primary goal of destroying labor organizations, to protest as soon as we smell a whiff of that same old fascist stench. To learn that history, other labor history, and participate in today's labor cultural activities, come to the best thing happening in July in the SF Bay Area, LaborFest....
Posted: Thu, Jul 18, 2002 8:15pm PDT