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Randy[3 million dollars] out of control Shaw Newsom has found 3 million dollars to open up museum in the Cadillac Hotel to encourage tourism in the Tenderloin. The city has also put up plaques throughout the Tenderloin. Of course Randy Shaw will be in charge of this museum since he is so inept at being Executive Director of TH....
Posted: Mon, Apr 12, 2010 10:41pm PDT
we need a new clerical union at UC, NACE-CWA Employee email lists were ablaze last week with talk of a new labor organization for UC’s 15,000 clericals, the New Alliance of Clerical Employees-CWA. ( http://www.nace-cwa.org ).
A statewide group of rank-and-file clericals invited UPTE’s national union, CWA, to help them organize in response to AFSCME’s campaign to replace the current clerical bargaining representative CUE, and CUE’s subsequent move to affiliate with the Teamsters. AFSCME is expected to submit a showing of employee suppor...
Posted: Mon, Apr 12, 2010 4:27pm PDT
Labor for Palestine: Urgent Appeal Please fight for justice by making a tax-deductible contribution, of whatever you can, by clicking on: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=10537730...
Posted: Sun, Apr 11, 2010 1:49pm PDT
New UGSOA President First Order of Business Bring UGSOA Local 20 President Up on Charges FCGOA President Guy James Stated "he is ready to Help United Government Security Officers of America UGSOA Local 20 President Bill Taylor and UGSOA Local 20 Members including any other UGSOA Local who desires help from FCGOA Now or in the Future!"....
Posted: Sat, Apr 10, 2010 3:40pm PDT
DESCIFRANDO LA CAMPAÑA MEDIÁTICA EN CONTRA DE NICARAGUA SUGAR ESTATES – GRUPO PELLAS Una piedra en el zapato
En un reciente artículo, el más conspicuo de los organizadores de la campaña de desinformación que en contra de Nicaragua Sugar, del Grupo Pellas y de Boicot a Flor de Caña impulsa ANAIRC, se decidió finalmente a incursionar en un terreno novedoso para él: sin abandonar totalmente los repetitivos epítetos descalificadores, trata de innovar, pretendiendo darle un cariz de seriedad a sus planteamientos.
Adentrémonos con interés para ver de qué se trata todo esto....
Posted: Sat, Apr 10, 2010 2:00pm PDT
Fight for the Dream: Whoever has a vision can be a physician Brave New Films presents "War on Greed" starring Larry the Loophole www.warongreed.org...
Posted: Sat, Apr 10, 2010 10:53am PDT
THE TRUTH COMES OUT: NUHW, Rosselli, others ordered to pay more than $1.5 mil A federal jury announced its verdict in the federal lawsuit by SEIU-UHW against Sal Rosselli and other defendants at NUHW – finding them liable for their scheme to sabotage the union and use the resources of SEIU-UHW members to start their own rival organization. The evidence in the trial showed that NUHW officials deliberately lied to members, violated members’ democratic rights, and intentionally put members’ futures at risk when they were in power at SEIU-UHW....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2010 4:44pm PDT
An Open Letter From A UCSF AFSCME Member-"Who Authorized This"? AFSCME raiding CUE at UC AFSCME 3299 member Janice Rothstein in an open letter asks some hard hitting question about her union dues being used to raid the UC clerical union CUE. Apparently no rank and file members had any information or vote about whether to raid another union at UC and whose workers they work with on a daily basis....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2010 1:55pm PDT
Labor and elected leaders vow to appeal limited judgment in SEIU lawsuit Twelve defendants cleared, but jury orders other former SEIU staff to repay salary and costs because they resisted orders from SEIU's Washington, D.C. office....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2010 1:24pm PDT
SF: DO NOT SIGN ANTI-LABOR petition to cut Muni drivers' wages Democratic Supervisor Sean Elsbernd is circulating a viciously anti-labor petition to cut bus drivers' pay as his way of solving public transportation problems. WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR PAY CUT BECAUSE YOUR EMPLOYER IS AN INCOMPETENT MANAGER? PLEASE DO NOT SIGN THIS ANTI-LABOR PETITION FOR A NOVEMBER BALLOT INITIATIVE....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2010 7:59am PDT
Citizen Money as a Bold Social Utopia "Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems." (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Citizen money would guarantee a reasonable life for all. Citizen money challenges our social and cultural assumption and uncouples work and income. A basic income for all would replace the idiotic guaranteed income for the super-rich....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2010 6:51am PDT
Blasted in a West Virginia Mine: First by Explosion, Then by Lies When hundreds of miners are trapped in pitch black waters 5 kilometers below the surface in China — the U.S. media has a tsk-tsk tone that suggests how little human life is valued “in the Orient,” and that (subliminally) reminds the viewers that this supposed cheapness of life in China has sucked the manufacturing heart out of the United States....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2010 2:30am PDT
Army to hire 3,000 Security Guards Eliminating Private Security Contractors Guy James, President of the Federal Contract Guards of America FCGOA, stated the decision to go from private contract security to DOD because of congressional mandates will affect many of these security police officers. Many of these officers presently work for Wackenhut Services Inc. WSI and the majority of them are unionized covered under a collective bargaining agreement. Furthermore there in no guarantee these officers will even be hired because they now have to reapply for their security...
Posted: Thu, Apr 8, 2010 7:18pm PDT
AFSCME and Now CWA Raiding UC CUE AFSCME and now CWA are raiding the membership of CUE....
Posted: Thu, Apr 8, 2010 3:27pm PDT
'Borrowed Time' For Federal Building Contract Security Guards? Guy James, president of the Federal Contract Guards of America FCGOA said private contract security is not the problem, the problem is the lack of funding which results in substandard training standards and understaffing. FCGOA members and those protecting these federal facilities are the first line of defense in the event of a terrorist or criminal attack stated James. We must find ways to find the funding, increase mandatory training requirements and increase staffing before we have another...
Posted: Wed, Apr 7, 2010 7:27pm PDT
Montcoal, WV; Massey Energy Cited 1,300 Times For Safety Violations Following the recent cave in of a coal mine in Montcoal, WV evidence shows that despite over 1,300 safey violations Massey CEO Don Blankenship failed to act as needed to provide workers with a safe work environment. Once again profit placed over human lives by short-sighted CEO of Massey. The current body count of 25 miners with four still missing shows neglecting safety can have tragic consequences....
Posted: Wed, Apr 7, 2010 2:56pm PDT
There is only one economy The stock exchange produces nothing. Speculations and bets do not create any assets, even if the daily stock market reports on television try to get us to believe the opposite. That the financial markets make themselves independent and the gambling casino reaches incredible dimensions is the result of political decisions....
Posted: Wed, Apr 7, 2010 4:56am PDT
Sacramento Peace Calendar: Water for Children in Gaza Event April 8, 7 pm The Water for Children in Gaza event on April 8 highlights the events featured in the Sacramento Peace Calendar, courtesy of Sacramento Area Peace Action, www.sacpeace.org....
Posted: Tue, Apr 6, 2010 6:04pm PDT
New Acting UGSOA President Tammy Bowie ? Answers Why A Member Should Change Unions! On March 26th 2010 UGSOA President James Carney Jumped off his Sinking Ship
James Carneys Legacy Will Know Doubt go Down in UGSOA History as A FAILURE, A QUITTER , A Management RAT and Traitor Who Turned his Back on His Union Brothers & Sisters while His Ship Was Sinking!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 6, 2010 4:58pm PDT
Salmon Water Now! Video Covers The Salmon Summit The Salmon Summit was a huge success and now you can see it in this new Salmon Water Now! video. This is the first of a few videos that will feature what happened at Fort Mason in San Francisco on April 1st. Future videos will show the panel discussions and media coverage. The video is only available on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/10663392...
Posted: Mon, Apr 5, 2010 2:26pm PDT
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