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Flying Picket 10/24
The previous 2 went so well and were received with so much enthusiasm by the striking/locked out workers, we're going to do it once more....
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 10:42am PDT
Venezuela: Venepal Workers Solidarity Appeal
Bolivarian Revolution...
Posted: Thu, Oct 21, 2004 7:14am PDT
10/17 Labor March Banner: Bush Regime Engineered 9-11
What the milestone Labor March on Washington of 10/17/04 lacked in numbers, it more than made up in spirit and knowledge. One banner said what needed to be said in big bold letters in the belly of the beast: "The Bush Regime Engineered 9-11."...
Posted: Wed, Oct 20, 2004 10:17pm PDT
Jack Heyman, Local 10, ILWU
One of the moving forces behind the Oct. 17th "Million Worker March," on Washington, D.C., was Local 10, ILWU, and its Business Agent, Jack Heyman. (Url is a link to a film on the rally.)...
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 9:11pm PDT
[gangbox] MARCH TO IRRELEVANCE
MARCH TO IRRELEVANCE...the Million Worker March and the decline of the left in the American labor movement...
Posted: Mon, Oct 18, 2004 9:48pm PDT
A Night to Remember on The SF Hotel Picket Line
On Sunday night a flying squad of activists visited several picket lines of the striking SF hotel workers. They created a little havoc with the hotels and helped raise the spirits of the strikers....
Posted: Mon, Oct 18, 2004 8:14pm PDT
Bay Area Labor rallies for Local 2 in Union Square oct. 12th (video/quicktime 30.3MB)
The Bay Area labor community turned out to support Local Two on Oct. 12th. In Part 1 of the video report, we see and hear Francisco Herrera, Father Louis Vitale, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Mike Casey, Tom Walsh, Ernie of the Teamsters, Tom Ammiano, and Tim Paulson....Lybon Mabasa, a founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa, is in a separate video down below....Part 2, also down below, has Matt Gonzalez, Mike Casey, and Francisco Herrera -- and an uninvited observer in the St. Fran...
Posted: Mon, Oct 18, 2004 12:13pm PDT
PG&E solar conference insensitive to union workers and the public
SF unions are picketing the Hyatt, where the Conference is being held. Hotel workers have been locked out of their jobs for weeks because they had the nerve to ask for economic security and health benefits. San Francisco is a union town. Why hasn't the conference been moved to another location? Is the confrence to help "We the people" or PR for Corporations?...
Posted: Mon, Oct 18, 2004 1:48am PDT
Unemployed Mail Revolt
Artist Calls 4 Unemployed 2 Participate in Public Art...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 7:48pm PDT
Lybon Mabasa supports Hotel Workers at Local 2 Rally (video/quicktime 9.6MB)
Lybon Mabasa is one of the founders of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa, currently president of the Black National Convention and chair of the International Tribunal on Africa.
"Africa has a strong interest in Local 2's victory," Mabasa said at the Oct. 12th rally. QuickTime movie: 1.5min 9MB....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 5:31am PDT
Map of Locked-Out Hotels
Map of Multi Employer Group scab hotels in San Francisco. Note: A "flying picket" to support locked-out hotel workers has been announced for this evening at 7 p.m., meeting at Powell & Geary....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 5:21am PDT
Safeway Grocery Workers' Rally (audio/mpeg 3.2MB)
excerpts from Saturday's grocery worker rally and march at the Market/Duboce Safeway Friday, Oct 15th; the rally was held to kick off the start of new contract negotiations for the NoCal grocery workers; (7 minutes)...
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 8:21pm PDT
Hotel Strike
Here are a few photos of some of the strikers. If you spot a friend of yours, let them know their picture is online....
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 4:39pm PDT
10/17 Historic Million Worker March on Washington
A milestone in American history will take place on October 17, 2004 with the desperately needed Million Worker March on Washington, signaling to all that the 21st Century is commencing with labor in the lead....
Posted: Fri, Oct 15, 2004 11:02pm PDT
Hotel Striker Attacked!!!!
Hotel Striker gets attacked by hotel security!!!!!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 15, 2004 7:50pm PDT
Building Bridges Radio: Molly Ivins on Bush & So. Africa Union Federation Sec'y Vavi
Buiding Bridges presents this 29 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 5:45am PDT
UFCW Unveils Public Iraq Body Count Display
Today, the 1.4 million member United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) unveils a massive display in the heart of the nation's capital marking the daily body count of Americans killed and wounded in Iraq. These are the sons and daughters of working America who are making the sacrifice at the call of their government. The UFCW -- a voice for working America -- will never forget the sacrifice of our service men and women, their courage and commitment, and the grief of their ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 1:13am PDT
Stop Deliveries to Scab Hotels
Tell the Teamsters and all other delivery people to the scab hotels that Picketlines Mean DON"T CROSS! Tell the bosses that SF Police Code 9.5 prohibits professional strikebreakers (including lockouts)....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 7:23pm PDT
Strikin to Survive in San Francisco
San Francisco workers try to negotiate with Multi-National Corporate Hotels for fair wages and health care and get Locked Out!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 6:07pm PDT