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2 week strike called at 4 SF hotels Hotel workers have called a two-week strike at 4 San Francisco Hotels....
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 5:00am PDT
11/25Latin American Working Class/Film & Video Festival The First Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival will be held in Buenos Aries between November 25-27, 2004....
Posted: Wed, Sep 29, 2004 12:01am PDT
Building Bridges Radio - The Other Iraq and Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor?
Building Bridges presents this 29 minute radio show. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 9:09pm PDT
Strawberry fields forever — poisoning & picking 
Strawberry fields forever — poisoning & picking near Watsonville. 50 second video....
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 7:11pm PDT
Outsourcing Of Jobs At Valero Refinery Valero has contracted with Altair Strickland to provide refractory services at the Valero Refinery in Benicia. Altair Strickland chose to use Diamond Refractory based out of Texas. Diamond Refractory will be employing a workforce from Texas to perform the service instead of utilizing members of the local community. Further, approximately 800 Texas workers have received training from Bay Area Training Corp. This training is required to work in the refineries in the San Francisco Bay Area. It i...
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 12:52pm PDT
What About the Children? Bush takes back promised health care funds. At midnight on September 30, 2004, according to a new report issued today by the consumer health group Families USA, approximately $1.1 billion in federal funds previously allocated for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) will be taken back from the states and returned to the U.S. Treasury. Those funds approximate the annual cost of providing health coverage for 750,000 of the 8.5 million children who are currently uninsured....
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 11:17am PDT
SoCal Grocery Worker Strike History & Analysis 
This article looks at the SoCal grocery workers' strike and specifically the failure of the union (UFCW) to prepare and execute an effective strategy. It looks at the same issues as does the accompanying audio documentary, but goes further to look at the current and future role of unions in general. It was written for the forthcoming issue of Processed World magazine....
Posted: Tue, Sep 28, 2004 8:25am PDT
S. KOREA. 9.27/Last week's struggle report... ...by MSSC (Myeong-dong Sit-in Struggle Collective, now since 317 days in sit-in strike downtown Seoul)...
Posted: Mon, Sep 27, 2004 8:21pm PDT
AFL-CIO Leadership is Responsible for Defeats With no serious alternative to Schwarzenegger, and with their support of the Team Concept, California's labor leaders have nothing to say to their members as usual....
Posted: Sun, Sep 26, 2004 1:43pm PDT
Wild Oats fires union organizer-- the next step Discover what we learned from unhappy Wild Oats employees....
Posted: Sun, Sep 26, 2004 3:02am PDT
Building Bridges Radio - "Unconstitutional" with Producer Robert Greenwald
Building Bridges Radio presents this 29 minutes radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Thu, Sep 23, 2004 7:43pm PDT
See how we bring Mt. Olive to bargaining table 
See how we bring Mt. Olive to bargaining table to end 4-year boycott. 1 minute video....
Posted: Thu, Sep 23, 2004 5:17pm PDT
On the grocery workers' struggle About the California & Washington St. grocery workers' struggles: AFL-CIO leaders' sabotage the workers' economic struggles, just as they sabotage the workers' desire to fight the Iraqi occupation...
Posted: Wed, Sep 22, 2004 5:24pm PDT
Bridging The Gap For Health Care! This is a repost of a newswire we put on the Rogue Valley IMC. Check it out and be sure and look at the video stream, a kool little musical video that is 2:43 long......
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 7:01pm PDT
The Take Director/producer Avi Lewis (Counterspin) and writer/producer and renowned author Naomi Klein (No Logo) take viewers inside the lives of ordinary visionaries, as they reclaim their work, their dignity and their democracy....
Posted: Mon, Sep 20, 2004 4:44pm PDT
SEIU State Council regarding 1877 decertification This document has been distributed within the SEIU In California to help SEIU staffers explain why San Francisco janitors voted to decertify SEIU Local 1877....
Posted: Fri, Sep 17, 2004 6:44pm PDT
Hotel Workers in L.A., SF, and Washington Cast Strong “YES” Votes to Hotel workers in three cities voted to authorize strikes to demand equality and not allow the hotel industry to keep North American hotel workers in different cities separate from one another. On Monday, September 13, hotel workers in both Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. held strike authorization votes and workers in San Francisco followed with their vote the next day. UNITE HERE members in all three cities are demanding employer paid health benefits, fair workloads, decent wages, improved p...
Posted: Fri, Sep 17, 2004 6:40pm PDT
Farmworker Rights Demo In Sacramento on Saturday I urge everybody to come to to the Farm Worker Rights Demonstration at the Second Annual Great Escape in Sacramento....
Posted: Thu, Sep 16, 2004 11:26pm PDT
Call for Anarchist Contingent at Million Worker March Washington DC, October 17th, 11:00 AM...
Posted: Thu, Sep 16, 2004 6:06pm PDT
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