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Commentary on PMA using safety as an issue in their lockout of ILWU...
Posted: Sat, Oct 12, 2002 2:07pm PDT
Bush wages war on unions
As the Bush Jr. administration and the Pacific Maritime Association work hand-in-hand to wage a brutal war against the dockworkers, international labor unity is needed for a defiant fightback....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2002 12:21pm PDT
Bio- QWeapons & the Ports
Our government has stated that the Sea Ports of our country are a vulnerable target for terrorist. It has also repeatedly issued "Terrorist Alerts". But it has not in any meaningful way deployed personnel to detect, isolate and or educate any of the Longshoreman in regards to biological and chemical weapons attacks.
Please 'EXCUSE US" IF THIS CAUSES A DELAY in the performance of our work. It is a matter of "Safety" and various regulation, procedures and "Meth...
Posted: Thu, Oct 10, 2002 9:49pm PDT
Day Labor Program Update; Planning Commission Meeting 10/17
Despite an apparently positive development, as the Immigrant Rights Commission takes over the funding decision, the Mayor has posed further obstacles for the SF Day Labor Program. Support needed at next Thursday, 10/17, meeting....
Posted: Thu, Oct 10, 2002 12:43pm PDT
10/10 SF International Solidarity Rally For The ILWU
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union has long given support to labor and social justice struggles around the world. Now the ILWU is shackled with Taft-Hartley and finds itself in a life and death struggle....
Posted: Wed, Oct 9, 2002 11:02pm PDT
GREENS URGE NATIONAL SUPPORT FOR DOCKWORKERS IN STANDOFF
"Blame union-busting Wal-Mart, Gap, Chiquita, etc., not the ILWU, for holding the economy hostage," say Greens...
Posted: Wed, Oct 9, 2002 11:22am PDT
Half a Million Workers march through Madrid
Half a Million Workers...
Posted: Wed, Oct 9, 2002 10:52am PDT
Coca-cola Union in Guatemala Threatened
In this Alert:
1. Coca-cola Union in Guatemala Threatened
2. Fighting to Keep Their Rights
3. PANAMCO, Coke in Colombia
4. Take Action Now!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 8, 2002 3:45pm PDT
ILWU/PMA court hearing NOW
Come to a court hearing this afternoon in which a Taft-Hartley injunction will be considered. 4pm at 450 Golden Gate....
Posted: Tue, Oct 8, 2002 3:12pm PDT
Voices of Anarchist Union Organizers
I asked a few folks to tell me a little about themselves and their views
on organizing for unions. These six people identify as either an anarchist (with or without adjectives) or as an anti-authoritarian (an anarchist that doesn't know it yet!). They all work as union organizers or have worked as union organizers....
Posted: Mon, Oct 7, 2002 1:43pm PDT
10/6 4PM LaborLine Radio On Oakland ILWU Rally
LaborLine Radio will program some of the statements made at the ILWU Support Rally in Oakland on Saturday October 5, 2002...
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2002 11:54am PDT
Enviromentalists to Join ILWU on Picket Line 10/7
Environmentalists to join portworkers at picket line in Oakland on 10/7; Statement of Support for the ILWU from Organizations and Leaders in the Environmental Movement...
Posted: Sat, Oct 5, 2002 5:49pm PDT
Emergency Picketline for Longshore workers
Emergency Picketline for Longshore workers at Port of Oakland on Saturday, October 5, 2002, 10 am. Activists/supporters are coming from all over the Bay Area and Northern California to support the locked out ILWU vs. the PMA....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 10:08pm PDT
Emergency Picketline Rally
The Portworkers Solidarity Committee -- a broad-based coalition of
unionists and activists that was formed to build support for the ILWU
in its contract dispute with the PMA -- calls on you to join with a
caravan of Teamster truck drivers from Stockton, the San Francisco
Labor Council and the Alameda Central Labor Council at an Emergency
Picketline Rally on Saturday, October 5 at 10 a.m. at Port View Park
in the Port of Oakland...
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 8:33pm PDT
10/10: General Strike in Israel
A general strike is scheduled to take place in Israel commencing on a small scale on Oct 10 and broadening thereafter. The Zionist government cannot deliver both guns and butter....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 7:23pm PDT
18-year-old filmmaker's feature film to be shown at film festival in San Francisco
18-year-old Canadian director to have feature film screened at Hollywood Underground Film Festival in San Francisco. He beet the odds by not having any experience or any money, and to make matters worse he has a terminal lung disease. The film is set to close out the festival at 10 pm on October 28....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 10:56am PDT
Audio: The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America Oppose Iraq War
Peter Knowles is President of UE District 2, which represents workers in New England and upper New York. He was one of the sponsors of the international union's resolutions against an invasion of Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Oct 3, 2002 1:10pm PDT
Support SF Day Laborers at 10/17 Planning Commission Meeting
Please attend this critical meeting which will determine the future site location of the SF Day Labor Program....
Posted: Thu, Oct 3, 2002 11:02am PDT
support the dock workers
US shippers lock out dockworkers on West Coast...
Posted: Mon, Sep 30, 2002 6:44am PDT