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East Bay Union Bureaucrats Support Billionaire Privatizer & GAP/A's Owner John Fisher 
The leadership of the Alameda Labor Council and the Alameda Building Trades are supporting Billionaire GAP & A's owner John Fisher who wants to privatize the Howard Terminal at the Port Of Oakland. This would destroy the working port and threaten 80,000 unionized jobs as well as escalate the gentrification of West Oakland with 3,000 million dollar condos. Despite massive community opposition they are siding with Fisher and his family who also run the union busting KIPP and Rocketship charter ...
Posted: Fri, Jul 9, 2021 9:30am PDT
Criminal banks and criminal capitalism Since the 1970s, the real economy and the financial economy have been increasingly diverging. Gigantic assets vagabond around the globe, desperately looking for profitable investment opportunities and, in the absence of such opportunities, forming ever larger financial bubbles that burst every few years with a mighty bang, leaving behind legions of crying and feeling cheated investors....
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2021 4:49am PDT
What the growing class struggle in the US reveals about the pseudo-left 
The development of the class struggle is putting to the test political programs, tendencies and parties....
Posted: Thu, Jul 8, 2021 4:09am PDT
LaborFest Poetry Speaking To Our Lives, History & Struggle 
The power of poetry in this world is growing and LaborFest hosts this reading in honor of all the people who are struggling for justice and human rights here and around the world....
Event Date: Tue, Jul 6, 2021 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 5, 2021 12:17pm PDT
Protect Monterey County Worker Healthcare Rally 
1441 Schilling Place, Salinas, CA 93901...
Event Date: Fri, Jul 9, 2021 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 5, 2021 10:37am PDT
Corporate Media Independent Media & Investigative Journalism 
ONLINE EVENT: The monopolization of the media and the effect of corporate control of social media is a growing threat to freedom. ...
Event Date: Wed, Jul 7, 2021 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Jul 4, 2021 2:53pm PDT
On 100th Anniversary Of CCP, Namibian Rossing Miners Call On Xi-Jinping To Rehire Miners 
On the anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, the nine fired union leaders of the Mineworkers Union Of Namibia Rossing Branch mine called on CCP Chair Xi-Jinping to order their rehiring at Chinese state owned Chinese National Nuclear Corporation owned mine at Rossing...
Posted: Thu, Jul 1, 2021 10:55am PDT
ILWU & Fight Against Zionist Shipping Line ZIM In Oakland & West Coast 
ILWU Local 10 retired member Jack Heyman is interviewed about the struggle against the Israeli shipping line ZIM and the action by ILWU longshore workers in Oakland and the West Coast to abide by picket lines....
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2021 6:45pm PDT
Lessons from the First New Deal for the Next One During the four years of the Trump Administration, the attack on state capacity accelerated in new ways. On the one hand, any existing element of the Federal Government that could be deemed concerned with responding to climate change was proposed for liquidation, as was the Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency....
Posted: Tue, Jun 29, 2021 12:59pm PDT
Chicago School Economists Got it Wrong. Strong Antitrust Policy Boosts the Economy When mergers increase market concentration, we know that competition has been harmed even if to a small extent. Since this is the case, it makes sense to ask the merging parties to establish that the merger will provide benefits to the economy. The merging parties should be forced to document how the merger will increase product quality and lower price....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2021 12:57pm PDT
Call to Action: #GreenNewDeal Climate & Jobs Actionar w/ Sunrise Movement 
Call to action for climate and jobs via Zoom...
Event Date: Tue, Jun 29, 2021 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2021 4:52pm PDT
28th Annual LaborFest San Francisco JULY 2021 
LaborFest 2021 launches a month long commemoration of the San Francisco 1934 general strike. It will have live and virtual events about labor issues and struggles in San Francisco, the US and the world....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2021 12:26pm PDT
Long Live Allan Baird! Retired Pres of IBT921, Coors, Equal Rights & Fight For Justice 
A rally and march to former IBT 921 president Allan Baird's home to honor his struggle for justice and equality for the LBGT community....
Posted: Sat, Jun 26, 2021 9:06am PDT
Article Top Economist: As Pandemic Recedes, a Chance to Rethink Unemployment The Chamber of Commerce, for example, has pushed the U.S. to stop expanded unemployment insurance benefits so that people will be forced to return to low-wage jobs. Some Republican-dominated states have jumped on board with this idea....
Posted: Fri, Jun 25, 2021 1:51pm PDT
Labor Rally for Equity at San Jose City Hall 
San José City Hall - 200 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95113...
Event Date: Tue, Jun 29, 2021 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jun 24, 2021 1:34pm PDT
Angela Davis Becomes ILWU Local 10 Honorary Member On Juneteenth 2021 
ILWU Local 10 on June 19, 2021 Juneteenth made Angela Davis an honorary member of the longshore union local. The other honorary members are Paul Robeson and Martin Luther King....
Posted: Thu, Jun 24, 2021 10:31am PDT
Hotel chains plan to lay off housekeepers in post-pandemic restructuring 
Major US hotel chains are making use of the collapse of business during the COVID-19 pandemic to permanently eliminate hundreds of thousands of housekeeping jobs....
Posted: Wed, Jun 23, 2021 3:35am PDT
Teamsters Organizing Amazon A new, bigger union is taking on Amazon, the Teamsters. Get your vaccine, take your vitamins, and eat your fruits & vegetables because this labor organizing effort will bring us the future some of us have waited decades for. Young and old, we stand in solidarity with Amazon workers....
Posted: Tue, Jun 22, 2021 8:21pm PDT
Victory To UAW Striking Volvo Workers in Virginia-Protest At BlackRock Hedge fund In SF 
BlackRock Union Busters
400 Howard St. San Francisco...
Event Date: Thu, Jun 24, 2021 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2021 11:52pm PDT
US Criminal Homicidal Covid Policy, Profiteering, Variants, Capitalism & Public Health 
People's Dr. Nayvin Gordon discusses the homicidal policies of Biden, Newsom and the capitalist politicians in the US and their attack on science...
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2021 1:01pm PDT
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