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SF City Laborers Protest Corruption & Layoffs (video/quicktime 27.6MB) 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
PeoplePC-Earthlink Out Sourcing 200 Tech Jobs A short article about the impending out sourcing
at PeoplePC-Earthlink....
Posted: Tue, Feb 22, 2005 9:08pm PST
Flying Picket at Oaks Theater, Friday evening, 2/25 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
UC workers are paid so little that they depend on welfare to get by 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
Schwarzenegger Threatens California State Teachers Retirement System 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
Projectionists Picket Oaks Theater 
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
Anti War Labor Rally-- SF, 3/19 Saturday 10:00am 
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
If We Don’t Change The Union, The Union Will Change Us 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
2/22, Former SF Street Cleaners Hold Press Conference/Protest 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
Friday Regular Picket At Oakland Walmart 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
Injured Workers Protest Corruption (video/quicktime 49.7MB) 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
NEDLC Study: UC Service Workers Do Not Receive Living Wages 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
Hotel Workers in San Francisco are continuing their fight for a decent contract 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
We Braceros bilked of $1 billion¡! 
We Braceros bilked of $1 billion¡! We petition Mexico for our $$$$. 30 second video...
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 6:17am PST
Students ask UC Berkeley to reconsider lucrative agreement with Coca-Cola 
Memorial to commemorate murders of Coke union leaders....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 8:13pm PST
Fight for Social Security (video/quicktime 34.2MB) Workers and seniors protest against privatization of social security. Eleven-minute QT movie from Jan. 18, 2005. 34MB....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 12:03pm PST
Hundreds of Workers Protest Governor’s Proposal to Weaken their Rights On Tuesday, hundreds of San Francisco’s workers came before the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) to protest Governor Schwarzeneggers’s proposal to ease laws protecting a worker’s right to lunch breaks. While groups like the California Labor Federation (CLF) gathered at a press conference to condemn the governor’s continual erosion of worker’s rights, the DLSE heard from a diverse group of workers pleading for protection from abusive employers....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 9:33am PST
Lunch Break struggle pix 
Six stills from February 8th demonstration at the Earl Warren State Building in San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 11:44pm PST
Articles about California Lunch Break Struggle Nurses Next to Kick Butt Vs. Arnold? The Daily News of Los Angeles...
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 10:27pm PST
Lunch-break hearings in SF (video/quicktime 30.2MB) Only "girlie-workers" need lunch breaks, sez Arnold. Seven-minute QT movie. 30MB....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 3:25pm PST
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