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Riot police seal off Paris streets as protests escalate Cars were torched and shops burnt in central Paris last night after the seventh big protest in eight days against the government's controversial employment law ended in clashes between hooded youths and riot police....
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 7:43pm PST
Members & Retirees of UFCW Local 588 Picket Union Hall 
On March 21st members and retirees of Local 588 held a picket on the Local 588 hall at 2200 Professional Drive Roseville Ca....
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 9:28am PST
France takes to the streets Protests that saw up to a million people on the streets of French cities last weekend could spell the end of prime minister Dominique de Villepin's presidential ambitions, writes David Tresilian in Paris...
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 9:26am PST
Oakland Teachers Vote to Authorize a Strike Oakland teachers are one step closer to striking against the privatization agenda of state administrator Randy Ward. This could be a turning point in Bay Area class struggle if the teachers are able to shut down the schools, encourage students to stay out, garner widespread community solidarity, and turn back Ward's attempt to whittle down their healthcare and hold down their wages. A victory against Ward's austerity regime could inspire workers' struggles everywhere and help start taking the...
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 7:08am PST
GM, Delphi, US autoworkers’ union agree to massive job-cutting program The United Auto Workers (UAW) union has concluded a deal with General Motors and its former parts company Delphi Corporation that paves the way for a major contraction in the US auto industry and the permanent elimination of tens of thousands of jobs....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 10:25pm PST
San Francisco Bay Area Hosts Fundraiser for Labor Party So. Carolina Ballot-Access Drive 
Bay Area supporters of the Labor Party heard the party’s National Organizer, Mark Dudzic, speak about the drive to gain ballot access and run candidates in South Carolina at a San Francisco fundraiser March 7, raising over $3,000 for the cause....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 10:45am PST
France: Police assault leaves protesting worker in coma A 39-year-old French telecommunications worker is in a coma as a result of a brutal beating by riot police last Saturday evening. Cyril Ferez was attacked during the mass demonstration against the Gaullist government’s “First Job Contract” (CPE), which permits companies to sack young workers without cause during the first two years of employment. More than a million workers and students marched against the measure last Saturday, including 350,000 in Paris....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 6:38am PST
Does The UFCW (and labor) Still Have a SouL? As UFCW leaders gather in Las Vegas for the Change to Win conference this week, the question has to be asked: Does the UFCW still have a soul?...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 2:47am PST
France: Dispute escalates over “First Job Contract” Following mass demonstrations throughout France last Saturday, the conflict over a new law regulating employment rights for young workers, the “First Job Contract” (CPE), has intensified....
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 5:24pm PST
2006 McDonald's Truth Tour only 5 days away! 
In the face of McDonald’s steadfast refusal to treat farmworkers with respect, demand truly humane labor standards of its suppliers, and pay a fairer price for tomatoes in order to address farmworker poverty – poverty which has helped pad McDonald’s profits for more than 50 years – the CIW is traveling to McDonald’s backyard with a clear message: Nothing less than real rights will do!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 21, 2006 9:00am PST
3/22: Rally for Affordable Health Care for Oakland School Employees 
WHEN: THIS WEDNESDAY, 3/22 FROM 4:00 to 5:30pm
WHERE: OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING, 1025 2ND AVENUE, OAKLAND (off Rt 880 by the Lake)...
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 10:57pm PST
Shameless In Sacramento Bill Pearson, retired president of UFCW local 789, demonstrates that the pending merger between UFCW Locals 588 & 1288 has little to do with solidarity and everything to do with union executive troughing.
Written by Bill Pearson Sunday, 19 March 2006...
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 9:21pm PST
Villepin Given Ultimatum to Withdraw Job Law PARIS, March19 , 2006 (IslamOline.net & News Agencies) – French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, whose career is seen at stake, was on Sunday, March19 , given a two-day ultimatum to withdraw his controversial job law with a threat of a general strike, a grim reminder of France's greatest student strike wave in 1968 under president Charles de Gaulle....
Posted: Sun, Mar 19, 2006 2:31pm PST
Job protests grip French cities Hundreds of thousands of people have marched through French towns and cities in protest at a new law making it easier to hire and fire young workers....
Posted: Sat, Mar 18, 2006 7:52pm PST
Santa Cruz County Workers Strike Cripples Services for a Day (audio/mpeg 4.1MB) Eighteen-hundred Santa Cruz county employees represented by SEIU Local 415, staged a one day strike March 14, crippling road maintenance, payroll processing, social work, and many other services. Vinny Lombardo reports....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 9:22pm PST
Germany: 22,000 hospital physicians to strike On Thursday morning, March 16, thousands of physicians—members of the Marburger Bund trade union—stopped work for a day at 10 different locations throughout Germany. University clinics in Freiburg, Heidelberg, Munich, Würzburg, Bonn, Essen, Halle and Mainz were hit by the strike and a central demonstration was held in Mainz....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 8:15pm PST
France: Political issues in the fight against the government’s “First Job Contract” 
The following statement will be distributed at mass demonstrations being held Saturday, March 18, in Paris and other cities across France. It is also posted as a PDF file. We urge readers and supporters of the WSWS to download the leaflet and distribute it at the demonstrations as well as at schools, universities and work locations....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 8:11pm PST
UCSC Sweat Free Coalition present Chancellor with ‘sweat free’ cake On Thursday, March 16, about a dozen members of the UCSC Sweat Free
Coalition presented Chancellor Denton with a ‘sweat free, sugar free’
cake after putting on “The Naked Truth Fashion Show” in front of the
Bay Tree Bookstore....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 7:30pm PST
Janitors Strike at the University of Miami to Gain Living Wage and Health Benefits Nearly 200 janitors working for the UNICCO Service Company are on strike at the University of Miami. The non-unionized janitors - who are mostly Haitian and Cuban immigrants -- earn as little as $6.40 an hour and are not provided with health insurance. We speak with one of the janitors and host a debate between a UNICCO spokesperson and a director at the Service Employees International Union....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 7:36am PST
Virtual Sit-In in Solidarity with the Striking Students of France! 
We invite people from all over the world who support the french students
in resistance and oppose the precaritization of life
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precarity] to join the Electronic
Disturbance Theatre and borderlands Hacklab on March 16th and 17th, 2006
to engage in a virtual sit-in on french government websites to demand
that all of the students be released from prison and that the 'contrat
première embauche' (CPE) be revoked.
Join the action here: http://sdhacklab.org/fran...
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 1:48pm PST
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