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We home care workers chopped by phony budget axe 
Fresno County Supervisors chop us home care workers with phony budget axe....
Posted: Thu, Jun 26, 2003 10:32am PDT
The Old and Poor Watch Out! The White House Won't Release Medicare Memo. The Bush administration's top Medicare accountant has calculated how millions of senior citizens would be affected by bringing private managed care into the program, but the administration won't release the information. An earlier analysis suggested that a Republican plan to inject market forces into Medicare could increase premiums for those who stay in traditional programs by as much as 25 percent....
Posted: Wed, Jun 25, 2003 6:45pm PDT
Fellow Engineers and Others: Unjustified Termination KPFA Voices from the Middle East Producer SA fired from professional engineering position in City of Oakland over mixup with professional license renewal; discrimination suspected....
Posted: Wed, Jun 25, 2003 12:51pm PDT
CBS 60 Minutes on IIT : Whiz Kids or Migrant Workers? CBS 60 Minutes claims that IIT is MIT + Princeton + Harvard in India. True. But what about in the USA? An IITian (Bombay) explores gender, caste inequality, brain drain, outdated grading system etc in a personal, yet critical set of essays....
Posted: Mon, Jun 23, 2003 6:54am PDT
Death by DMV Incredible true story of my death and eventual resurrection at hands of CA DMV - a humerous record of unbelievable incompetence....
Posted: Sun, Jun 22, 2003 6:30pm PDT
We ex-braceros seek our $1 billion 
We ex-braceros search for our $1 billion in pay we were cheated out of...
Posted: Sun, Jun 22, 2003 5:13pm PDT
Let's Fight to Win Against the War on Workers and the Poor By abandoning their members and working class communities to the ravages of global capitalism as they are doing in San Francisco and here in Oakland, Union leaders leave a vacuum that begs to be filled....
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2003 6:23pm PDT
PayDemocracy - a new way to mobilize online A new way to mobilize is up at PayDemocracy.com. The idea is to create "smart mobs" that raise large sums of money for causes by aggregating many small donations....
Posted: Sat, Jun 21, 2003 3:33am PDT
Berkeley Bowl Hires Big Union Busting Law Firm Berkeley Bowl hired Jackson and Lewis to bust current union organizing efforts....
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2003 9:41pm PDT
Berkeley Bowl is Hiring a "Human Resources" person for "union avoidance&quo A customer brought this to our attention....
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2003 9:30pm PDT
Berkeley Bowl Fires Union Organizing Employee Dailycal article about Berkeley Bowl firing me....Lawsuits are being filed and NLRB charges are in process....
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2003 9:24pm PDT
Ministerial Protesters: Support the Janitors in Sacramento Janitors of SEIU Local 1877 are on strike in the downtown Sacramento area...
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2003 2:48pm PDT
HOMECARE WORKERS IN FRESNO RALLY FOR A LIVING WAGE 
Homecare workers rally with Dolores Huerta in Fresno....
Posted: Wed, Jun 18, 2003 10:36pm PDT
[gangbox] "THEY SAY CUTBACK, WE SAY FIGHTBACK" "THEY SAY CUTBACK, WE SAY FIGHTBACK" race, taxes and billionare NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg's city worker layoffs...
Posted: Mon, Jun 16, 2003 11:27pm PDT
Vigil outside Irish Embassy in your Country June 24th. We go to trial on June 24th. in Kilrush, Co. Clare charged with $2 U.S. million disarmament to a U.S. Navy War Plane at Shannon Airport Feb. 3rd.
We are under a cloud of 10 year max. sentences, with a likelihood of 3-5 years....
Posted: Mon, Jun 16, 2003 2:26pm PDT
6/25 Oakland Protest Over Discriminatory Firing There will be a protest in Oakland against the unfair labor practices and discriminatory firing of Oakland City Engineer who is an Iranian immigrant. He was fired after 11 years on the job....
Posted: Sun, Jun 15, 2003 12:23pm PDT
A memorial desecrated, a massacre remembered Remember Ludlow! The cry of American workers ninety years ago again rings throughout the land....
Posted: Sat, Jun 14, 2003 12:57pm PDT
Dolores Huerta in Fresno Tuesday, June 17 rally 
Homecare workers in Fresno demand a living wage...
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2003 9:02pm PDT
Who's the Greatest American? Both Homer Simpson and Bill Clinton made the list. Yesss! I bet I know who're among the Evil-ish American list....
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2003 12:27pm PDT
PARADISE? Which way to paradise? Can it be real on Earth ever?...
Posted: Thu, Jun 12, 2003 12:21pm PDT
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