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text“High Ideals, Low Pay”—how the University of California exploits its employees by wsws (reposted)
While salaries for University of California (UC) President Robert C. Dynes and campus administrators consistently rise, many UC service employees are struggling to survive. According to a report released last Tuesday by the National Economic Development and Law Center (NEDLC), UC devalues the contribution of those that clean and maintain its nine campuses and five medical facilities throughout California. In the report entitled “High Ideals, Low Pay: A Wage Analysis of UC Service Workers,” NE...
Posted: Sat, Feb 26, 2005 10:24am PST
textSweatfree Bay Area Campaign Kick Off by Global Exchange, SweatFree Bay Area Coalition
Are the Workers who Make your Clothes “Slaves to Fashion”? Thursday, March 3, 7:00 PM New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street San Francisco $5 donation at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds....
Posted: Sat, Feb 26, 2005 12:22am PST
textExpanding the Fight; Boycotts at Non-Union Hotel Properties by UNITE HERE Local 2
As the hotel industry continues to attack our union in San Francisco and Los Angeles, UNITE HERE has begun a boycott campaign across the United States to show the industry it can no longer expect to attack local unions and avoid a fight throughout the industry. UNITE HERE members work for North American and global hotel companies. For that reason, UNITE HERE members, who work for the same companies involved in the labor disputes, have supported Local 2 & Local 11’s contract struggles by organ...
Posted: Thu, Feb 24, 2005 8:18pm PST
imageSan Francisco city workers protest firings
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by Bill Carpenter
Also speaking on Feb. 22nd were Genevie Gallegos,La Raza Centro Legal attorney specializing in employment law, who is representing the workers, and Sylvia Alvarez-Lynch, SEIU Local 790, and a member of the SF Labor Council....
Posted: Wed, Feb 23, 2005 6:32pm PST
text2/24SF Labor TV On The Right To Union Job&SF Laborers Protest Corruption by Labor Video Project
Labor On The Job on 2/24/05 will be looking at the attack on IAM Local 1173 and IBT 315 workers who were fired by the Future Ford Auto Agency for being union members. It will also interview SF city laborers who were members of LIUNA 261 about the growing corruption and their illegal layoffs....
Posted: Wed, Feb 23, 2005 4:09pm PST
videoSF City Laborers Protest Corruption & Layoffs (video/quicktime 27.6MB) by Labor Video Project
Dozens of San Francisco city laborers who are members of LIUNA Local 261 protested at the Department of Public Works at their illegal layoffs, nepotism and corruption by the management of the DPW. They also were angry at the silence of SF Mayor Gavin Newsom. 9 min. 27 MB...
Posted: Wed, Feb 23, 2005 2:59pm PST
textPeoplePC-Earthlink Out Sourcing 200 Tech Jobs by John Conner
A short article about the impending out sourcing at PeoplePC-Earthlink....
Posted: Tue, Feb 22, 2005 9:08pm PST
textFlying Picket at Oaks Theater, Friday evening, 2/25 by aaron
There will be a community solidarity picket in front of Oaks Theater in Berkeley on Friday evening, February 25 to oppose the brutal practices of the Metropolitan Theater Corp., which recently took-over the Oaks Theater in Berkeley....
Posted: Tue, Feb 22, 2005 12:37am PST
textUC workers are paid so little that they depend on welfare to get by by sfbg (reposted)
First the governor proposed a rule change that could eliminate lunch breaks for California workers. Now, if a new report about the University of California is correct, it seems lunchroom workers themselves are paid so little at UC campuses that many of them qualify for nine public subsidies for the poor, including food stamps and public housing....
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 8:35am PST
textSchwarzenegger Threatens California State Teachers Retirement System by PWW (reposted)
Four big squares marked “vacant” sat alongside photos of remaining board members on the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) web site this week. It seems the squares’ former occupants (two Republicans and two Democrats) had the nerve to vote against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposal to privatize pensions of all new state workers, including teachers, into a 401(k)-type system starting in 2007, and his proposal to shift onto local school districts the state’s contribution t...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 8:29am PST
imageProjectionists Picket Oaks Theater
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by repost from Berkeley Daily Planet
Pickets will continue at the Oaks from Friday through Sunday until an agreement has been reached with the new owners of the Oaks. Updates will be posted to Indybay, and thanks to the Daily Planet for covering stuff like this in the community. Picture below taken by upton sinclair on Tuesday 2/22, unfortunately the picket was about the half the size that it usually is....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 11:32pm PST
documentAnti War Labor Rally-- SF, 3/19 Saturday 10:00am
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by Central Labor Council, Alameda County, AFL-CI
Bring your banners, wear your union shirts, pins, gear... and meet at the corner of Valencia and 16th St. (off 16th St. BART, SF) at 10am, where we'll convene, get our Alameda Labor Council badges, march over to Mission HS, and then to Civic Center at noon....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 6:55pm PST
textIf We Don’t Change The Union, The Union Will Change Us by Richard Mellor
The Bay Area grocery workers' contract continues to erode workers' living standards and strengthens the employers' resolve. Only a movement from below will reverse this trend....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 9:12am PST
text2/22, Former SF Street Cleaners Hold Press Conference/Protest by La Raza Centro Legal
WHAT: Support DPW workers who were fired due to corruption and nepotism in the Department! WHEN: Tuesday, February 22, 11 am. WHERE: 2323 Cesar Chavez St., San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 1:01am PST
textFriday Regular Picket At Oakland Walmart by Labor Action Coaliton
Every Friday between 6:00 AM and 12:00 noon there will be a picket at the Oakland Walmart that is being constructed by scab labor. The Wal-mart is located at 880 & Hegenberger Rd in Oakland....
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 5:45pm PST
videoInjured Workers Protest Corruption (video/quicktime 49.7MB) by Labor Video Project
On February 4, 05, injured workers from protested the growing corruption in the California workers' comp system. They picketed the State Fund which controls over 50% of workers' comp insurance in CA and two hours later the president resigned. 16 min. 49.7MB...
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 1:37pm PST
textNEDLC Study: UC Service Workers Do Not Receive Living Wages by Tim Lohrentz
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
textHotel Workers in San Francisco are continuing their fight for a decent contract by "Hotel Workers United"
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
imageWe Braceros bilked of $1 billion¡!
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by Maia & Elfie Ballis/SunMt
We Braceros bilked of $1 billion¡! We petition Mexico for our $$$$. 30 second video...
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 6:17am PST
imageStudents ask UC Berkeley to reconsider lucrative agreement with Coca-Cola
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by sojista
Memorial to commemorate murders of Coke union leaders....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 8:13pm PST
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