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SOCIAL SECURITY Income Calculator There is NO CRISIS in SOCIAL SECURITY ... it is a myth from the rove/cheney/bush Propaganda Machine ... Check out the Social Security Calculator...
Posted: Wed, Feb 23, 2005 2:41pm PST
Detecting Dental Deception The dental industry rakes in big bucks from expensive procedures. Daily dosage radiation from X-rays is just one of the hazards dental hygenists are exposed to at work. Promoting fluoride and remaining silent about bioaccumulation of fluoride causing fluorosis keeps the dental chair spinnin' round.....
Posted: Wed, Feb 23, 2005 12:28pm PST
PeoplePC-Earthlink Out Sourcing 200 Tech Jobs A short article about the impending out sourcing
at PeoplePC-Earthlink....
Posted: Tue, Feb 22, 2005 9:08pm PST
Flying Picket at Oaks Theater, Friday evening, 2/25 There will be a community solidarity picket in front of Oaks Theater in Berkeley on Friday evening, February 25 to oppose the brutal practices of the Metropolitan Theater Corp., which recently took-over the Oaks Theater in Berkeley....
Posted: Tue, Feb 22, 2005 12:37am PST
"The Take" by Avi lewis & Naomi Klein The National Movement of Factories Recovered by the Workers wants to leave in clear its total opposition al documentary The Takes of Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein....
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 11:35am PST
UC workers are paid so little that they depend on welfare to get by First the governor proposed a rule change that could eliminate lunch breaks for California workers. Now, if a new report about the University of California is correct, it seems lunchroom workers themselves are paid so little at UC campuses that many of them qualify for nine public subsidies for the poor, including food stamps and public housing....
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 8:35am PST
Schwarzenegger Threatens California State Teachers Retirement System Four big squares marked “vacant” sat alongside photos of remaining board members on the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) web site this week. It seems the squares’ former occupants (two Republicans and two Democrats) had the nerve to vote against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposal to privatize pensions of all new state workers, including teachers, into a 401(k)-type system starting in 2007, and his proposal to shift onto local school districts the state’s contribution t...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 8:29am PST
Dubya as Economist "We got into deficit because the economy went into the recession-is how we got into deficit..The more money they have in their more pockets-in their pockets, the more likely it is that somebody will find work..An ownership society is a compassionate society" - Economic wisdom from good ol' Dubya...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 6:34am PST
Marx and Makhno vs. McDonald's in Paris This is a good article about non-union working class action against service sector exploiters. It also highlights how the nationalist scumbag Tamil Tigers of Ceylon intervened on the side of Mickey-D's against the wage slaves....
Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2005 12:39pm PST
Wal-Mart's Sweetheart Deal Wal-Mart may be the most visible offender of good workplace practices—it's the retail giant progressives love to hate, with good reason. Exhibit A: In a recent deal with the government, Wal-Mart agreed to pay a small fine for breaking child labor laws, with the understanding that next time the feds want to investigate, the retailer will be warned ahead of time. Jonathan Tasini says we can't reform the corruption of the corporate landscape overnight, but a Safe Workplace Act would at lea...
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 11:04pm PST
Repressing the Class Struggle As the employers' president said, capital and labor have long been reconciled among us. He said this while employers forced down wages with the help of politicians, cut pension claims, reduced social benefits and extorted dependent persons by threats of dismissal....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 7:07am PST
New Anti-Capitalist Website: Prole.info Announcing a new anti-capitalist website:
http://www.prole.info
It has lots of pamphlets in PDF form, as well as a number of online texts.
Check it out....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 12:34am PST
Projectionists Picket Oaks Theater 
Pickets will continue at the Oaks from Friday through Sunday until an agreement has been reached with the new owners of the Oaks. Updates will be posted to Indybay, and thanks to the Daily Planet for covering stuff like this in the community.
Picture below taken by upton sinclair on Tuesday 2/22, unfortunately the picket was about the half the size that it usually is....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 11:32pm PST
Anti War Labor Rally-- SF, 3/19 Saturday 10:00am 
Bring your banners, wear your union shirts, pins, gear... and meet at the corner of Valencia and 16th St. (off 16th St. BART, SF) at 10am, where we'll convene, get our Alameda Labor Council badges, march over to Mission HS, and then to Civic Center at noon....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 6:55pm PST
Hotel Labor Dispute Causes Conference Relocation Nice to see that the conventioneers are supportive and that their organization is even willing to take a pretty significant financial hit on principle. Hopefully, this trend continues and helps to force the hotels to negotiate....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 1:40pm PST
If We Don’t Change The Union, The Union Will Change Us The Bay Area grocery workers' contract continues to erode workers' living standards and strengthens the employers' resolve. Only a movement from below will reverse this trend....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 9:12am PST
2/22, Former SF Street Cleaners Hold Press Conference/Protest WHAT: Support DPW workers who were fired due to corruption and nepotism in
the Department!
WHEN: Tuesday, February 22, 11 am.
WHERE: 2323 Cesar Chavez St., San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 1:01am PST
Friday Regular Picket At Oakland Walmart Every Friday between 6:00 AM and 12:00 noon there will be a picket at the Oakland Walmart that is being constructed by scab labor. The Wal-mart is located at 880 & Hegenberger Rd in Oakland....
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 5:45pm PST
Gijón, Spain: Shipyard workers battle riot police 
The shipyard workers of Naval Gijón clashed with riot police for an hour on February 17, 2005, firing homemade rockets and building barricades as part of their ongoing struggle for jobs. The workers were marching towards the city to set up barricades when they were stopped by riot police....
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 4:40pm PST
Injured Workers Protest Corruption (video/quicktime 49.7MB) On February 4, 05, injured workers from protested the growing corruption in the California workers' comp system. They picketed the State Fund which controls over 50% of workers' comp insurance in CA and two hours later the president resigned. 16 min. 49.7MB...
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 1:37pm PST
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