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Angelica Workers Prepare for Strike
Angelica Workers in Fresno Prepare for Strike. Rally and press conference held....
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 6:03pm PDT
DÉJÀ VU: THE RETURN OF THE ROBBER BARRONS
Once the CEOs are through there's not much left for me and you....
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 4:06pm PDT
SAN FRANCISCO ANARCHIST MAY DAY MARCH
SAN FRANCISCO ANARCHIST MAY DAY MARCH
DEFEND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS!
RECLAIM WORKERS’ POWER!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 2:51pm PDT
Venezuelan unionists demand workplace safety
Hundreds of Venezuelan workers marched to the National Assembly on Wednesday to demand a new law protecting health and safety in the workplace....
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 1:06pm PDT
Work Less Party (Vancouver BC) Tickets for Rushing through Life
On April 28 the Work Less Party (Vancouver BC) will ticket persons for rushing through life, running to heart attacks. This annual event awakens people to enlightenment and liberation from work ideology and work fanaticism. Alarm Clocks Kill Dreams is their motto....
Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 11:16am PDT
5/2-6:SUPPORT DPW WORKERS!!
WHAT: Daily visits to Mayor Newsom's office.
WHEN: May 2 - 6, 11 am.
WHERE: Mayor's Office, SF City Hall, 2nd Floor....
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2005 11:05pm PDT
Town Hall Meeting of MUNI Drivers and Riders
Join us on May Day at Cell Space at 7pm for a free dinner, community meeting, and film screening. We will be discussing how drivers and riders can together fight MUNI management against the employee lay-offs and the fare hike....
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2005 12:40pm PDT
Free Buses To Sacramento On Workers Memorial Day
Buses will be availble for workers to participate in the protest at the Sacramento state capitol on Thursday April 28, 2005. Thousands of workers are facing devestation as a result of the deregulation of the insurance companies operating with workers' Compensation....
Posted: Sat, Apr 23, 2005 10:32am PDT
Spring rebellions show student-workers, unions and community a potent force
Although carefully concealed or downplayed by the big business media, burgeoning campus rebellions and related struggles are rising to a fever pitch across the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and elsewhere....
Posted: Fri, Apr 22, 2005 5:54pm PDT
SAN FRANCISCO MAY DAY 2005 MARCH
SAN FRANCISCO MAY DAY 2005 MARCH
DEFEND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS!
RECLAIM WORKERS’ POWER!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 22, 2005 1:55pm PDT
SF May Day Forum Of TWSC
N. California Transport workers will discuss the attacks they face and how tranportation workers can go on the offensive....
Posted: Fri, Apr 22, 2005 12:15am PDT
Industry without Happiness: On the Guaranteed Minimum Income
A basic income could heal our fragmented society caught in work fanaticism and work fetishism while work disappears..A basic income could change social attitudes and goals and give real meaning to the human rights to life and participation....
Posted: Wed, Apr 20, 2005 7:16am PDT
Yale, Columbia, UMass Amherst grad students fight back
Graduate student-workers and their allies at three of the biggest universities in the Northeast are engaging in massive, spirited work actions this week, April 18-22....
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 7:17pm PDT
Anniversary of 1914 Ludlow Massacre, historical photos
April 20th marks the anniversary of the Ludlow massacre, which occurred after 14 months of striking by coal workers in eastern Colorado. The state government and militias set up by the coal company conspired to spray the striker's camp with machine gun fire and killed 66 people including many children....
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 4:15pm PDT
AgJOBS Stopped for Now
AgJOBS will not be voted on as an amendment to the supplemental appropriations bill. Many Senators preferred not to include AgJOBS and other immigration amendments on the appropriations bill....
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2005 2:25pm PDT
May Day, 60th V-E Day, 60th Hiroshima-Nagasaki Day, 30th Victory in Vietnam Day
As May Day, International Workers Day, May 1, approaches, this year being on a Sunday with larger than usual celebrations and renewals of commitment to the struggle, this year we also commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps and Victory in Europe on May 8, the 30th Anniversary of the Victory of the Workingclass of the World in Vietnam on April 30, 1975 and the 60th Anniversary of the first act of the Cold War, the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima on August 6 and ...
Posted: Mon, Apr 18, 2005 1:10am PDT
4/18: Sweatfree SF Action Day
SWEATFREE SF ACTION DAY
Monday, April 18th, 10am 1pm
City Hall, San Francisco (Meet on front steps, Polk Street)...
Posted: Sun, Apr 17, 2005 2:32pm PDT
Privatization Bombed in Britain
In 2004 alone, 500,000 people abandoned private pensions and moved back into the traditional government plan. Another 250,000 are expected to move back this year. Norma Cohen writes for the Financial Times in London....
Posted: Sun, Apr 17, 2005 6:29am PDT
Blue Diamond Almonds Unionizing Under ILWU in Sacramento
The ILWU and Blue Diamond workers held a rally at 17th and C in Sacramento to present their demand to management for their right to unionize. Here is a story and some pictures...
Posted: Sat, Apr 16, 2005 3:27pm PDT