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NEDLC Study: UC Service Workers Do Not Receive Living Wages OAKLAND – A report released today finds that the wages of many service workers at the nine University of California (UC) campuses and five medical centers are too low to cover the bare-bones cost of living for a worker and his or her family. Researched by the National Economic Development and Law Center (NEDLC), the report finds that despite UC’s high profile as a premier public institution of learning and opportunity, 46% of UC service employees earn wages that would not meet basic needs fo...
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2005 2:42pm PST
Hotel Workers in San Francisco are continuing their fight for a decent contract The employees of the fourteen hotels involved in the fight have called for a boycott of their hotels....
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 11:01am PST
We Braceros bilked of $1 billion¡! 
We Braceros bilked of $1 billion¡! We petition Mexico for our $$$$. 30 second video...
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 6:17am PST
Students ask UC Berkeley to reconsider lucrative agreement with Coca-Cola 
Memorial to commemorate murders of Coke union leaders....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 8:13pm PST
Fight for Social Security (video/quicktime 34.2MB) Workers and seniors protest against privatization of social security. Eleven-minute QT movie from Jan. 18, 2005. 34MB....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 12:03pm PST
Hundreds of Workers Protest Governor’s Proposal to Weaken their Rights On Tuesday, hundreds of San Francisco’s workers came before the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) to protest Governor Schwarzeneggers’s proposal to ease laws protecting a worker’s right to lunch breaks. While groups like the California Labor Federation (CLF) gathered at a press conference to condemn the governor’s continual erosion of worker’s rights, the DLSE heard from a diverse group of workers pleading for protection from abusive employers....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 9:33am PST
Lunch Break struggle pix 
Six stills from February 8th demonstration at the Earl Warren State Building in San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 11:44pm PST
Articles about California Lunch Break Struggle Nurses Next to Kick Butt Vs. Arnold? The Daily News of Los Angeles...
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 10:27pm PST
Lunch-break hearings in SF (video/quicktime 30.2MB) Only "girlie-workers" need lunch breaks, sez Arnold. Seven-minute QT movie. 30MB....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 3:25pm PST
February 2005 Jobs with Justice Update - DC Hotel Workers Win New Contract!
- National Student Labor Week of Action March 31- April 4, 2005
- JwJ Joins Delegation to the 2005 World Social Forum
- Janitors win Justice at Providence College!
- Jobs with Justice Tour with Indian Allies a Success!
- NE JwJ Coalitions Take on Verizon Wireless
- Victory at Intelicoat!!!
- Central OR JwJ Organizes Panel and Discussion on Immigrant
Rights
- Atlanta JwJ WRB Holds Hearing on Public Transit
- JwJ Celebrates International H...
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 12:05pm PST
2/11Mass Picket Against Oakland Wal-mart Wal-mart with the support of Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown and Oakland Council President Ignacio De La Fuente is opening a massive scab store in Oakand at Hegenberger Rd. & 880. There will be a mass picket this coming Friday from 6:00 AM to 12:00 noon....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 8:26am PST
2/19SF Screening "The Gas Is Not For Sale" A premier screening of "The Gas Is Not For Sale" by the Bolivian labor videography group Tecer Mundo will be screened in a benefit for the Latin American Working Class Film and Video Festival in El Alto, Bolivia this coming October. There will also be presentations on labor media....
Posted: Sun, Feb 6, 2005 8:07am PST
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
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