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AN OPEN LETTER TO AMFA WORKERS 
The bankruptcy judge has unjustly sided with United Airlines against the Airline Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) membership and imposed a temporary 10 percent cut in pay and benefits on the mechanics that will extend into May....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 5:05pm PST
New RN TV Ad Hits Gov. Schwarzenegger’s Attack on Nurses as ‘Special Interest’ Prominent Hollywood Director, Producers Volunteered to Create Ad - Ad to run on broadcast of dramatization of Schwarzenegger’s life
Press Release from California Nurses Association followed by article in today's SF Chronicle....
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2005 6:39am PST
Californians vow fight vs. pension privatization Labor, retiree and community organizations in California are kicking off a campaign to uphold Social Security against the drive of President Bush and Wall Street to privatize the 70-year-old program serving retirees, the disabled, and families of deceased workers. At the same time, they are gearing up to defeat Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s campaign to privatize the pensions of California state employees....
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2005 12:19am PST
UC Workers Ask for State Mediator Update on Bargaining for Service sector of AFSCME local 3299 members in the University of California system.
Note: The union already settled the Patient Care part of the contract, dividing the union in 2 as far as bargaining with UC goes....
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 6:32pm PST
SF Labor Forum On Crisis In AFL-CIO, Future Of Labor & How To Win Victories A Labor Action Bay Area Forum will be held on Feb 12, 2005 at 2:00 PM on The Crisis in The AFL-CIO, The Future Of Labor &
How To Win Some Victories. It will be held at the Women's Building at 3543 18th St. in San Francisco...
Posted: Sun, Jan 30, 2005 8:48pm PST
2/4Free Premier Screening Of "Almost Broken" & March There will be a free premier showing of the film "Almost Broken" about a worker who is nearly destroyed by the corruption in the Workers' Comp system. There will also be a rally for injured and disabled workers....
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 2:44pm PST
SF CWA To Protest SBC Outsourcing CWA 9410 will be picketing SBC on Feb 1,2&3rd to protest the outsourcing of jobs in San Francisco....
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 2:32pm PST
2/4 Picket Of Oakland Wal-Mart On Feb 4, 2005 BAC Local #3 and Hod Carriers Local 166 along with the Alameda Building Trades will picket the construction of the Oakland Walmart from 6:00 AM to 12:00 noon....
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 2:28pm PST
Alan Benjamin To Speak on Directions for Labor & Working Class If you are interesting in hearing about and discussing “Directions for Labor and the Working Class in the 21st Century on," come to this outstanding event on Feb. 10!...
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 11:26am PST
AMFA Members Reject Contract Finally! Some workers willing to say no to cutbacks the partnership policies of the trade union officials!...
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 12:03pm PST
Call for worshops - BASTARD conference This is a call for workshops for the BASTARD conference on anarchist theory....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 1:10pm PST
Northern California Grocery Contract/Another Setback For Labor The tentative agreement between the grocery chains and the UFCW leadership will increase the sense of helplessness that many workers feel and strengthen their distrust of their unions...
Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2005 12:38pm PST
UFCW wants to sell bad contract News is in of a tentative agreement between the UFCW and the grocers....
Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2005 12:11am PST
Update on the Fresh Organics / Real Foods Labor Dispute Following a formal complaint issued by the National Labor Relations Board, Fresh Organics will respond to unfair labor practices charges before an NLRB Administrative Law Judge....
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 12:50am PST
Picket To Stop OneSource From Abusing Janitors 
The janitors have reported discrimination, harassment, and unsafe working conditions. OneSource has failed to address janitor's concerns and continues to pile impossible - and unsafe - amounts of work on janitors around the city, including the Transamerica Pyramid....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 10:08pm PST
The 1937 San Francisco Hotel Strike A good history of the 1937 Hotel Strikes and the rememberence of a fighting working class....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2005 2:15am PST
Emergency Albertson's Action on Thursday 12/20 
We need your support by joining us for an Emergency Day of Action this Thursday between 4:00-5:00 PM at the Albertson’s store at 3250 Lakeshore Avenue in Oakland. UFCW grocery workers will deliver their message to Safeway and Albertson’s: “Don’t Take Away Our Health Care!"...
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2005 5:38pm PST
1/18 SF March for Social Security Please add the January 18, 2005 march for Social Security at 11:30 a.m. in San Francisco's Financial District to your Martin Luther King week of demonstrations. We are going to give Bush the political lesson he needs: When you attack Social Security, you build a united front of opposition, and we shall win....
Posted: Sun, Jan 16, 2005 4:33pm PST
Wobblies are BACK IWW is back. Read this please, I really hope people will tell us what they think. It talks about all the stuff going on in the union....
Posted: Fri, Jan 14, 2005 2:26am PST
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