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Mother Of Injured Agraquest Biotech Worker Blasts Sacramento DA For Failure To Prosecute On April 27, 2010...
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2010 6:53pm PDT
WNU #1030: Puerto Rican Students Strike Against Cuts Support for the strikers has come from a number of groups, including the Teachers' Federation of Puerto Rico (FMPR) and the All Puerto Rico for Puerto Rico Coalition, which had led the struggle against layoffs of government employees last fall....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2010 8:19am PDT
Steadfast Support for SEIU-UHW Forces NUHW to Call Off 3 More Elections; Total Losses @ 14 Caregivers’ Steadfast Support for SEIU-UHW Forces NUHW to Call Off Three More Elections; Total Losses Grow to 14
Workers are staying united in SEIU-UHW as NUHW, the financially-strapped group started by Sal Rosselli and former SEIU-UHW officials, faces more setbacks...
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2010 5:25pm PDT
Privatization of Courthouse Security Awarded to G4S Wackenhut Draws Criticism Guy James, President of the Federal Contract Guards of America FCGOA said " the privatization of courthouse security awarded to G4S Wackenhut shows how the county can save money, however the need for tougher background checks of all private contract guards needs to be addressed at both the federal, state and county levels to ensure the safety of all who may enter these buildings are protected"....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2010 4:45pm PDT
Afraid of Workers’ Choice of SEIU-UHW, NUHW Walks Away from 2 More Elections-Now 11 Losses With workers clear about staying in SEIU-UHW, NUHW walks away from 2 more election campaigns, bringing their losses to 11. 2,000 workers are staying united in SEIU-UHW as group started by Sal Rosselli and former SEIU-UHW officials faces string of setbacks...
Posted: Sat, Apr 24, 2010 2:44pm PDT
Caregivers join NUHW at Convalescent Care Mission Street Workers pull off another upset despite SEIU's last-minute bid to stop election; Foresight workers demand elections at six other nursing homes...
Posted: Fri, Apr 23, 2010 4:51pm PDT
Homes for the Homeless So why can’t some leaders of the community establish some non-profits that buy old homes and fix them up so that they have smaller rooms to rent—say double the number of rooms and cut the rental costs? Surely a smaller more affordable room is preferable to no home?...
Posted: Fri, Apr 23, 2010 3:36pm PDT
Workers at Prison Health Services vote NUHW in stunning upset Prison Health Services workers at the Glenn Dyer Detention Facility and Santa Rita Jail became the newest members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) today in a 66-to-59 vote that was a stunning upset against the SEIU....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2010 11:01pm PDT
SEIU-UHW Wins Election Campaigns in 9 Facilities in Two Weeks as More Workers Reject NUHW SEIU-UHW Wins Election Campaigns in 9 Facilities in Two Weeks as More Workers Reject Union’s Former Leaders
1,500 workers stay united in SEIU-UHW as group started by Sal Rosselli and former SEIU-UHW officials faces string of setbacks...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2010 3:40pm PDT
No Support By CFT & CA AFL-CIO For On Time Budget Act-Support California Democracy Act The California Peace and Freedom Party has called on the California Federation of Teachers and the California AFL-CIO to withdraw support for the On Time Budget Act supported by CA Democratic chair John Burton and to support the California Democracy Act. The On Time Budget Act keeps in place the 2/3 requirement to raise taxes in California while the California Democracy Act initiative eliminates the 2/3 requirement in California to raise taxes and replaces it with 50% plus1....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2010 1:31pm PDT
Strong showing for NUHW at four nursing homes bodes well for future elections Oakland, Calif.—Workers at four Bay Area nursing homes owned by Pratap Poddatoori made a strong showing today in an election to change their union from SEIU to the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW), a member-led union established by healthcare workers after SEIU's takeover of their local union. Even though neither side won a clear victory, workers say they are proud they had a chance to vote and demonstrate their support for NUHW at facilities that SEIU officials claimed were firmly...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2010 12:35pm PDT
Ingenio San Antonio de Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited, fortalece producción limpia Al combate biológico de plagas, le suma la fertilización orgánica...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2010 4:42pm PDT
Deciphering the media campaign against Nicaragua Sugar Estates and the Pellas Group A stone in the shoe
In a recent article, the most conspicuous organizer of ANAIRC´s disinformation campaign against Nicaragua Sugar and the Pellas Group (Grupo Pellas) and the boycott against Flor de Caña finally decided to make an incursion into a new territory, without completely abandoning his repetitive disparaging epithets, in an attempt to give a new appearance to ANAIRC’s claims and make them seem serious.
Let’s carefully examine what this is all about....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2010 11:04am PDT
WNU #1029: Honduras Government Settles With Campesinos The OAS “confirmed during its visit to Honduras that…there have been grave human rights violations, including deaths, arbitrary declaration of a state of siege, repression of public demonstrations using disproportionate force, criminalization of social protest, arbitrary arrests of thousands of people, ...arbitrary restrictions on the right to freedom of expression, and grave violations of political rights.”...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2010 8:31am PDT
Seventh Union Loss in a Row for Group Started by Sal Rosselli and Former SEIU-UHW Official 7th union loss for Rosselli’s NUHW. 950 caregivers at St. Francis Medical Center win election campaign over NUHW, bringing to more than 1,800 workers in past two weeks who are staying united in SEIU-UHW....
Posted: Fri, Apr 16, 2010 1:52pm PDT
Caregivers at St. Francis in Lynwood Set to Vote Next Week for SEIU-UHW Healthcare workers at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood are ready to vote to keep union, SEIU-UHW, in union elections scheduled for next week (April 21 & 22) - one of more than a dozen and a half scheduled elections....
Posted: Thu, Apr 15, 2010 10:57am PDT
SEIU1021 Members MUST STAND UP FOR RICARDO LOPEZ( BARGAINING TEAM MEMBER) SEIU1021 members must show some solidarity for Brother Ricardo Lopez for his contributions to our labor movement here in San Francisco. We can not stand by and let these so called leaders cast him to the side....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2010 4:10pm PDT
Problems with Security at Federal Buildings Continue, GAO Report Finds Guy James, President of the Federal Contract Guards of America FCGOA said he agrees with FPS Director Gary Schenkel who said, "While we believe we can effectively secure federal buildings with the current mix of highly trained federal staff and contract guards, the GEO report confirms what he has been saying all along. "Until we address the lack of funding, understaffing problems, certification requirements, and the failure to set a uniformed higher level of training requirements for both fed...
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2010 2:58pm PDT
Guns, Knives, Fake Bombs Allowed into Federal Buildings, Tests Show Guy James, President of the Federal Contract Guards of America FCGOA, said until we address the lack of funding, understaffing problems certification requirements, and the failure to set a uniformed higher level of training requirements for both federal protective service contract companies and guards, which we refer to as security police professionals you will continue to see guns, knives, fake bombs and other prohibited items brought into federal buildings undetected....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2010 8:40pm PDT
Newsom and Public Employee Union Tops Reach Tentative Agreement On Major Concessions Without one major protest uniting all city workers, the SF City Employee Union Leadership has agreed with SF mayor Newsom to make major
concessions and give-backs....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2010 11:02am PDT
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