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Los Angeles Critical Mass Rides Through Vons While the corporations refuse to back down, autonomous actions by small groups are becoming more and more necessary....
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 11:41pm PST
Pictures Of Speakers At Safeway Labor Rally 
Pictures of speakers at Mosswood Park rally before the Saturday Jan 31st march to Safeway....
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 10:20pm PST
Pictures Of Arrests At Oakland Safeway Protest 
Labor leaders and members of the clergy were arrested at the Sat Jan 31st Safeway protest in Oakland. As around one thousand workers and labor activists picketed in front of the store, at least 14 people sat down in the street in an act of civil disobedience....
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 9:42pm PST
Safeway Protest a Study in Contrasts The Oakland protest at Safeway was a study in contrasts - the fighting spirit of workers held back by the union official leadership...
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 9:40pm PST
Pictures From Protest At Oakland Safeway 
Around one thousand people marched on a Safeway in Oakland today to protest Safeway's attacks on workers in Southern California. Several local labor organizers and several clergy say down in the road in front of the store and were taken away by the police.
The strike by 70,000 Vons, Ralph’s and Albertson workers for affordable healthcare is now past its 100th day. If the giant food chains gets it way health costs for these workers will rise 50% and put it out of reach for many who make an av...
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 7:08pm PST
31Jan - Photos from Safeway Picket & Direct Actions 
approx. 800 folks turned out to support the striking So. Cal workers. The atmosphere was charged and spirited....
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 6:49pm PST
State to sue grocery chains : Antitrust Law Broken In Strike, Lockyer Charges The California Attorney General's Office is expected to file a lawsuit Monday against three major supermarket chains locked in a labor dispute with 70,000 workers in Southern California, alleging the companies broke antitrust laws and hurt consumers by forming a financial pact to protect grocery profits during the strike....
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 12:41pm PST
Solidarity with Striking and Locked-Out Grocery Workers- For a Class Union Solidarity with Striking and Locked-Out Grocery Workers- For a Class Union - February 2004...
Posted: Sat, Jan 31, 2004 2:40am PST
The Relevance of Marxism Some of the predictions made by Karl Marx during his analysis of capitalism which have proved to be accurate and one that has yet to come to pass....
Posted: Fri, Jan 30, 2004 5:05pm PST
Hardship, Dissent, and Questions about Union Strategy Supermarket War ...
Posted: Fri, Jan 30, 2004 12:40pm PST
Grocery Store Workers Take the Struggle to CEO's Home 
Southern California striking grocery store workers caravan to home of Safeway's CEO Steve Burd in Alamo....
Posted: Thu, Jan 29, 2004 2:14pm PST
Mother Country of Protectionism "The free trade lie says trade is a motor of development.. This is hypocritical because a radical market opening is demanded from developing countries while industrial countries only open their markets very restrictedly for agirucltural products and textiles from the South.."...
Posted: Thu, Jan 29, 2004 5:57am PST
Thousands of Janitors Abused by Albertson's, Safeway and other Supermarkets 
Thousands of janitors who were abused by Vons and other supermarket chains are being sought for a massive class action suit. Trabajadores de limpieza en California: Los que eran abusados por ciertas cadenas de supermercados tienen hasta el 19 de abril para juntarse con la demanda: llame al 1-888-LIMPIEZA....
Posted: Thu, Jan 29, 2004 3:10am PST
Grocery Workers March On Safeway CEO Steve Burd's Bay Area Home ALAMO, Calif. - Hundreds of religous and labor leaders and supermarket workers brought the rising despair and tension of Southern California's 3 1/2-month-old grocery strike to the exclusive neighborhood of Safeway Inc. Chairman Steve Burd Wednesday, hoping to broker a truce with the CEO....
Posted: Wed, Jan 28, 2004 5:54pm PST
On The Campaign Trail, Bush Talks About Job Training President Bush Talks About Job Training...
Posted: Wed, Jan 28, 2004 5:46pm PST
Feb 5 - Rally to support organizing hotel workers Support workers fighting the Hilton bully for their first contract....
Posted: Wed, Jan 28, 2004 4:05pm PST
March On Oakland Safeway Jan 31 
Join Us On Jan 31 On The March On Safeway In Oakland Details www.alamedalabor.org...
Posted: Tue, Jan 27, 2004 6:50pm PST
Pictures from Safeway Parking Lot Blockade 1/24 
First there were protesters standing near the car entrance. Then there were a few shopping carts, then more, and then the cops took notice and made store employees bring the carts back to the store....
Posted: Tue, Jan 27, 2004 4:47pm PST
The Real State of the Union: Few Jobs and Tough Times for America’s Workers Jan. 21—In his State of the Union address Jan. 20, President George W. Bush said “jobs are on the rise” and pledged to address the nation’s job crisis by expanding his tax, trade and economic policies....
Posted: Tue, Jan 27, 2004 1:44pm PST
Nationwide Rallies Demand Freedom to Form Unions 
Tens of thousands of union activists and their allies took part in more than 90 events in 64 cities on Dec. 10 to mark International Human Rights Day and boost the union movement’s campaign to restore every worker’s right to a voice on the job....
Posted: Tue, Jan 27, 2004 12:45pm PST
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