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At Port of Oakland, ILWU Tells SAA We Want Health/Safety Protection from COVID-19 
ILWU Local 10 and 34 leaders and rank and file had a press conference in front of SSA in Oakland demanding that they have proper health and safety in their port jobs. Tra-Pack was forced to clean the equipment and they are demanding the same action from SSA. They also discussed the issue of the conditions of the Grand Princess Crew docked in Hunters Point...
Posted: Fri, Mar 20, 2020 5:01pm PDT
WorkWeek On SF Housing With Dean Preston, ILWU Port Safety & UCSF AFSCME Cancer Cluster 
WorkWeek interviews SF Supervisor Dean Preston about the housing crisis and the fight against evictions. Next WorkWeek hears about UAW auto worker wildcats over the failure to protect the health and safety of auto workers. We interview UAW 551 Chicago Ford worker Scott Houldierson.
Next WorkWeek hears about the conditions of Bay Area Longshore workers who are members of ILWU Local 10 with Trent Willis, president of the Local.
Last, WorkWeek interviews Stella Miranda, the wife of a UCSF AFSCM...
Posted: Thu, Mar 19, 2020 9:00pm PDT
We Need The Community & Longshore Workers ILWU10: Trent Willis 
Trent Willis, ILWU Local 10 president reported from the docks next to the Grand Princess about the attempted dangerous removal of contaminated waste from the Grand Princess on the docks and through Oakland and the East Bay Community...
Posted: Tue, Mar 17, 2020 9:56am PDT
ILWU10 & 34 Victory Halting Grand Princess Waste Removal Contaminating Workers/Community 
ILWU Local 10 & 34 joined with community & labor groups. to. demand a halt to the unloading contaminated COVID-19 waste from the Grand Princess onto the port. Their action stopped the company....
Posted: Sun, Mar 15, 2020 9:02pm PDT
ILWU & Migrant Organizations Defend Grand Princess Crew & US Workers 
The Bay Area ILWU and migrant rights organizations joined together to support the Grand Princess crew health and safety as. well as the health and safety conditions of longshore workers and all port workers. They also discussed the fight of all working people to defend and protect their health and safety rights....
Posted: Sat, Mar 14, 2020 4:51pm PDT
Coronavirus eviction protection moratoriums expected to be passed 
A recent photo of Mariah Parker's "Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble", after a rehearsal, that was posted with an email that mentioned the unfortunate cancellations of two of their local performances due to the disastrous effects of the coronavirus!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 13, 2020 5:55pm PDT
"Prisoners on the Grand Princess Petri Dish” — Will the Crew Be Quarantined to Die on Ship? 
Over 1,000 Grand Princess crew members have been held hostage on the ship at the Port of Oakland. Pence and Newsom have said they will not be getting off the ship. Instead they will be quarantined at sea in this contaminated death ship....
Posted: Thu, Mar 12, 2020 12:03am PDT
COLA & Corona 
UCSC, like other campuses, has gone online-only to mitigate coronavirus. Rather than maintaining a physical picket, we focus our efforts on the digital picket. Our organizing will only get stronger and more creative!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 11, 2020 11:11pm PDT
UCSF NNU-CNA Nurses & Corvid-19 "When Nurses Aren't Safe, Patients Aren't Safe" 
National Nurses Union CNA nurses at UCSF held a press conference to talk about the serious health and safety protection that is critical to healthcare providers and patients. They reported that they have to re-use masks, are understaffed and there is a lack of communication from management....
Posted: Wed, Mar 11, 2020 7:04pm PDT
UAW Michigan Workers On Elections, Coronavirus, GM Strike, Democracy & Internationalism 
Pacifica and WorkWeek reporter Steve Zeltzer interviews UAW 909 Detroit retiree Frank Hammer and UAW 598 Flint Truck Assembly worker Sean Crawford about primary elections in Michigan as well as the struggles for auto workers. They also discuss the lack of protection from the coronavirus epidemic expanding into US auto plants. They also discuss the corruption crisis in the UAW, green technology and international solidarity efforts by auto workers....
Posted: Mon, Mar 9, 2020 10:08pm PDT
Postponed: From Santa Cruz to San Francisco, UC Workers Strike to End Poverty Wages New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk St (near Ellis), San Francisco
(near Civic Center BART, Muni Lines 19, 31, 38, 47 49)
Wheelchair accessible...
Event Date: Sun, Mar 15, 2020 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 8, 2020 4:47pm PDT
Cal-OSHA, Coronavirus, Worker Dangers & Crisis In CA with Dr. Larry Rose, Former Director 
Dr. Larry Rose, former Cal-OSHA Medical Director talks about the serious staffing crisis at the agency with only 1 doctor and 1 nurse for California's 19 million workers.
He also talks about how this effects the health and safety of not only workers but the public and the growing corruption scandal in the state government with former DIR Director Christine Baker who had her daughter in a no-show job paying over $120,000 a year....
Posted: Sun, Mar 8, 2020 3:43pm PDT
Conversations for Change: The Future of Work 
Santa Cruz Public Libraries
224 Chruch St., Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2020 5:15pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 8, 2020 3:24pm PDT
CANCELED: Drop the Charges! Pack the court for our fellow comrades! 
Superior Court of California, County of Santa Cruz
701 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 19, 2020 8:30am PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 8, 2020 11:15am PDT
Petition: Accountability for the Incident Regarding a Black UCI Alumna at UC Irvine 
UCI Black Student Union and United Students Against Sweatshops Demand for Accountability Regarding the Incident on February 20, 2020...
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2020 1:11pm PST
Whose University? Day 18 Strike Updates at UC Santa Cruz 
For the 18th day of the strike, hundreds of graduate students, undergraduates, faculty, staff, lecturers, and others successfully closed down UCSC’s main campus for the entire working day....
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2020 12:35pm PST
STEM Undergraduate Town Hall 
Earth and Marine Sciences B206
UC Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2020 5:15pm PST
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2020 11:59am PST
Huge Turnout for UC Berkeley Day of Action and Solidarity 
UC Berkeley graduate student workers, undergraduates and faculty stop work to demand COLA and reinstatement of fired UCSC workers....
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2020 11:44am PST
China uses forced labor in factories making American products Forced labor in factories that make products for American companies, including some of the companies listed further below such as GAP Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, Apple which is headquartered in nearby Cupertino, Cisco Systems which is headquartered in San Jose, or Google which is headquartered in Mountain View!...
Posted: Thu, Mar 5, 2020 9:43pm PST
Movie on Standardized Testing 
Red Bay Coffee Public Roastery at 3098 E 10th Street, Oakland,...
Event Date: Fri, Mar 6, 2020 6:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Mar 5, 2020 8:57pm PST
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