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SF workers say National Park Service must follow the law  "Alcatraz is a landmark—not a Wal-Mart"  From: robert irminger bobirm@sbcglobal.net  Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:40:56 -0800 (PST)  

San Francisco union members will gather to protest the National Parks Service’s illegal and anti-worker bidding process the day NPS’ controversial new contract for the Alcatraz Ferry service is set to hit Capitol Hill. Ferry workers from the Masters, Mates and Pilots (MMP) and the Inlandboatmen's Union of the Pacific (IBU), ....more

United Healthcare Workers-West Caregivers Announce February 13th Deadline for Two-Day Unfair Labor Practice Strike at Mt. Diablo Medical Center

Hospital's Proposal Requires Caregivers to Visit Mt. Diablo / John Muir Hospitals for Medical Care; Caregivers Insist on Industry Standard Contract

CONCORD, Calif., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Yesterday, over 400 caregivers represented by SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West announced a February 13th, 2006 deadline for a two-day strike at Mt. Diablo Medical Center. ILWU . . . more

Central Labor Council of Alameda County Support Berkeley Honda’s Striking Workers!
Berkeley Honda Machinists, 1546 and Teamsters, 78 are now in their 8th month on the picket lines, defending pensions, health care and a voice at work. Support these events, organize one of your own, or sign up for a shift. February Calendar of Labor-Community Rallies

ALL EVENTS ARE AT THE CORNER OF PARKER AND SHATTUCK between Ashby and Dwight in downtown Berkeley. more

SAVE THE DATE! To mark International Womenıs Day and Week Global Women's Strike 2006/LA   Saturday, March 11

plan to mark the 7th Annual Global Womenıs Strike with a "Second Line" March, A Survivors and supporters Speak-Out, followed by ³Taste of New Orleans² Cuisine

Contact us for venue and time.  We will mourn those we have lost and we will recognize the work of the grassroots survivors who are self-mobilizing around the globeŠ. in the Gulf Coast, Iraq, Haiti, Venezuela, Benton Harbor, India, Africa, Chiapas, Palestine, Bolivia, the Philippines, Guyana, South Central Los Angeles ­ in schools, prisons, refugee centers, community gardens, womenıs centers and EVERYWHEREŠ Što reclaim our homes, our lands, our rights,...more

Layoffs hit Black auto workers hardest
By: Chris Nisan Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Originally posted 2/1/2006

³I donıt see Ford going under, but they are sure going to be small,² said auto worker Azariah of Ford Motor Companyıs future in the aftermath of the companyıs recent announcement of massive layoffs and plant closures in an interview with the Spokesman-Recorder. Azariah, who goes by the single name, is a 20-year member of the United Auto Workers union at Ford Motor Companyıs Twin Cities Assembly Plant in St. Paul more

January 26, 2006
 AUTO WORKERS PREPARED TO FIGHT FOR THEIR FUTURE  

General Motors announced Thursday that it lost $8.6 billion last year -- the most since 1992. A report from Flint, Mich. examines the struggles of the union at Delphi, a parts supplier formerly owned by General Motors where workers are preparing for the worst. more

 

Immigration Alert Forum Teamsters Local 952 Orange, California January 21, 2006
On January 21, 2006, Teamsters Local 952 held an Immigration Alert Forum at its hall in Orange, CA. The process of organizing it started when principal officer Patrick D. Kelly felt we had to make better sense of the different legislation coming from the Washington DC belt way.  In conversations with advocates, labor leaders and elected public officials, everyone recognized the need to hold this kind of forum. We felt it was necessary to understand the legislation currently in Congress, and the way each legislative proposal would affect workers, unions and community organizations.....more

January 23, 2006

The sharp decline in the auto manufacturing sector in the last 20 years has hit African Americans particularly hard, according to a new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Ford Motor Company's ... more

January 13 Rally to Stop Racial Harrassment at PUC   My name is Phyllis Porter, I am an African American woman, who was employed at the PUC from July 1999 until August 19, 2005.   During my employment I was subjected to constant harassment, disparate treatment.....more

 

 

NATIONAL DAY LABORER COMMUNITY RESPONDS TO VIGILANTE ATTACKS!  Day workers across the country will peacefully respond to coordinated vigilante actions organized. . . .more

December 19, 2005
 "Overcoming Apartheid," by JONATHAN KOZOL [from The Nation, December 19, 2005 issue]. Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted  even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly  increasing now in the United States. Hypersegregated inner-city  schools--in which. . . more

Nov/Dec 2005, California Teacher
University of California librarian calls for union labels to increase worker visibility  The American labor movement has been plagued by an image problem for a long time, and itıs gotten worse in recent years. Working people, as a class, are largely invisible. Public consciousness of the gains made by working people gains that benefit the broad social order are....more

 

October 17, 2005, Washington Post Staff Writer Monday,
"School Segregation Is  Back With 'Vengeance," by Nick Anderson Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, October 17, 2005; B06. In a Connecticut Avenue bookstore, a bespectacled white man sounded an  alarm yesterday evening about the public schools that serve black  children in Washington ... more

Last Thursday in San Francisco at 7 in the morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents with guns busted into the apartment of two Young....more