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How Low Can You Go? Hospital Workers Locked Out (video/mpeg 8.2MB) Caregivers from SEIU 250 and CNA are mobilizing to get the word out about the out-of-control, rogue "non-profit" "community-based" healthcare corporation, Sutter. Yesterday a community forum was held in downtown Oakland....
Posted: Sat, Dec 4, 2004 7:17am PST
Sen. Boxer Pays Millions for Churches, not Bus Service, Healthcare California Democrats Senator Boxer and Rep Farr are sponsored a bill to pay $10 million for repairing Catholic missions, in clear violation of their oath of office to separate Church and State, while San Francisco bus riders are threatened with a fare increase to pay for buses and the people of San Francisco are threatened with a TB epidemic due to no money to pay for TB screening of the poor....
Posted: Sat, Dec 4, 2004 12:25am PST
Day 3 SEIU 250 Sutter Strike Newsletter 
On Wed. Dec. 1, registered nurses and hospital workers conducted a one day unfair labor strike at 13 Sutter hospitals throughout Northern
California. Returning to work on Dec. 2nd, the workers were told they were locked out of their jobs until Monday....
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 5:01pm PST
Building Bridges Radio - US Representatives Demand Election Irregularities Investigation Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Reports presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON LA INDYMEDIA WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 1:35pm PST
The New Unity Partnership: A Manifest Destiny for Labor Since unions are supposed to be organizations of workers, we at CounterPunch thought the members might like the opportunity to review a document cobbled up by five union presidents outlining big plans to spend the workers' money, consolidate their unions and revamp institutional labor -- whether by breaking with the AFL-CIO or destroying it and remaking it in the image of this particular gang of five is not entirely clear. Members aren't likely to get this opportunity through any formal union...
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 12:15pm PST
Muni Fare Increase Threatened Again Despite the fact that we suffered a large fare increase in fares for San Francisco buses and trains (SF Muni Railway or Muni) just over 1 year ago, we are again threatened with a fare increase from $1.25 to $1.50 with admittedly no increase in service....
Posted: Thu, Dec 2, 2004 10:03am PST
Labor Leaders Speak Out on KPFA Elections We would like to list a few principles we think are important to keep in mind as we vote for KPFA local board candidates, and as we try to ensure an environment at the station which will produce programming serving our community....
Posted: Wed, Dec 1, 2004 12:23am PST
SF Muni Fare Increase Threatened Again Despite the fact that we suffered a large fare increase in fares for San Francisco buses and trains (SF Muni Railway or Muni) just over 1 year ago, we are again threatened with a fare increase from $1.25 to $1.50 with admittedly no increase in service. We need your protests now to demand that the large Financial District Corporations pay a profits tax to Muni....
Posted: Tue, Nov 30, 2004 7:26pm PST
Belmont, OH - Strikers facing multiple charges for blocking vans ...
Posted: Tue, Nov 30, 2004 12:16am PST
The Battle Rages On: United States Supreme Court Declines Today, the United States Supreme Court denied review of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's ("SJC") 2003 decision legalizing same-sex marriage. Since the decision, approximately 3,000 same-sex Massachusetts couples have married....
Posted: Mon, Nov 29, 2004 11:42pm PST
S. KOREA. 11.29/Last Week's Struggle Report Now since exactly 381 days in sit-in strike on Myeong-dong cathedral’s compound, downtown Seoul, migrant workers are always in the first front line of the class struggle....
Posted: Mon, Nov 29, 2004 10:13pm PST
Fired San Francisco IWW Realfood Workers Get Boost By David Lazarus - San Francisco Chronicle November 24, 2004.
Fired IWW workers at Real Foods may be rehired....
Posted: Mon, Nov 29, 2004 4:02pm PST
Affordable Health Care for All The class divide in health care is not much less visible in America today than it was in pre-war Britain. The public sector in general and all forms of social welfare policy are under the privatizing gun....
Posted: Mon, Nov 29, 2004 11:38am PST
We Madera home care workers march to raise lowest wages 
We Madera home care workers march to raise lowest wages. 1.5 minute video...
Posted: Mon, Nov 29, 2004 10:34am PST
Inner Dialog of a Backstabber What goes around, comes around....
Posted: Sun, Nov 28, 2004 2:30pm PST
A list of worker-owned shops Here you'll find a list of cooperative and collectively run businesses in the Bay Area. This list comes from Rainbow Grocery's website....
Posted: Thu, Nov 25, 2004 2:38pm PST
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