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Bay Area Labor rallies for Local 2 in Union Square oct. 12th (video/quicktime 30.3MB) The Bay Area labor community turned out to support Local Two on Oct. 12th. In Part 1 of the video report, we see and hear Francisco Herrera, Father Louis Vitale, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Mike Casey, Tom Walsh, Ernie of the Teamsters, Tom Ammiano, and Tim Paulson....Lybon Mabasa, a founder of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa, is in a separate video down below....Part 2, also down below, has Matt Gonzalez, Mike Casey, and Francisco Herrera -- and an uninvited observer in the St. Fran...
Posted: Mon, Oct 18, 2004 12:13pm PDT
PG&E solar conference insensitive to union workers and the public SF unions are picketing the Hyatt, where the Conference is being held. Hotel workers have been locked out of their jobs for weeks because they had the nerve to ask for economic security and health benefits. San Francisco is a union town. Why hasn't the conference been moved to another location? Is the confrence to help "We the people" or PR for Corporations?...
Posted: Mon, Oct 18, 2004 1:48am PDT
Unemployed Mail Revolt Artist Calls 4 Unemployed 2 Participate in Public Art...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 7:48pm PDT
Lybon Mabasa supports Hotel Workers at Local 2 Rally (video/quicktime 9.6MB) Lybon Mabasa is one of the founders of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa, currently president of the Black National Convention and chair of the International Tribunal on Africa.
"Africa has a strong interest in Local 2's victory," Mabasa said at the Oct. 12th rally. QuickTime movie: 1.5min 9MB....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 5:31am PDT
Map of Locked-Out Hotels 
Map of Multi Employer Group scab hotels in San Francisco. Note: A "flying picket" to support locked-out hotel workers has been announced for this evening at 7 p.m., meeting at Powell & Geary....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 5:21am PDT
Safeway Grocery Workers' Rally (audio/mpeg 3.2MB) excerpts from Saturday's grocery worker rally and march at the Market/Duboce Safeway Friday, Oct 15th; the rally was held to kick off the start of new contract negotiations for the NoCal grocery workers; (7 minutes)...
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 8:21pm PDT
Hotel Strike 
Here are a few photos of some of the strikers. If you spot a friend of yours, let them know their picture is online....
Posted: Sat, Oct 16, 2004 4:39pm PDT
10/17 Historic Million Worker March on Washington A milestone in American history will take place on October 17, 2004 with the desperately needed Million Worker March on Washington, signaling to all that the 21st Century is commencing with labor in the lead....
Posted: Fri, Oct 15, 2004 11:02pm PDT
Hotel Striker Attacked!!!! Hotel Striker gets attacked by hotel security!!!!!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 15, 2004 7:50pm PDT
Building Bridges Radio: Molly Ivins on Bush & So. Africa Union Federation Sec'y Vavi
Buiding Bridges presents this 29 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 5:45am PDT
UFCW Unveils Public Iraq Body Count Display Today, the 1.4 million member United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) unveils a massive display in the heart of the nation's capital marking the daily body count of Americans killed and wounded in Iraq. These are the sons and daughters of working America who are making the sacrifice at the call of their government. The UFCW -- a voice for working America -- will never forget the sacrifice of our service men and women, their courage and commitment, and the grief of their ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 1:13am PDT
Stop Deliveries to Scab Hotels Tell the Teamsters and all other delivery people to the scab hotels that Picketlines Mean DON"T CROSS! Tell the bosses that SF Police Code 9.5 prohibits professional strikebreakers (including lockouts)....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 7:23pm PDT
Strikin to Survive in San Francisco 
San Francisco workers try to negotiate with Multi-National Corporate Hotels for fair wages and health care and get Locked Out!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 6:07pm PDT
Picket lines on Wednesday Cops step up harrasment of picketers at Palace Hotel. Now passing drivers can't honk inn support....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 1:56pm PDT
John Edwards Joins the Hotel Workers John Edwards joined the locked out hotel workers on strike in San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 1:32am PDT
Another Flying Picket? Last Sunday's (10/10) Working Class Solidarity Flying Picket was a blast. Better yet, we got lots of thanks from picketing workers for our solidarity....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 12:48am PDT
Solidarity Pickets -Come one, Come all March to Hotel Pickets after the Grocery Worker rally this Friday AND Another Flying Picket this Sunday 7:00pm....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 12:44am PDT
Hotel Picket Audio from after the Union Square Rally (audio/x-wav 9.4MB) Sounds and Interviews from the Westin St. Francis picket line after the UNITE/HERE Local 2 rally in Union Square...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 12:00am PDT
Solidarity with Hotel Workers - Pictures from Flying Picket Line on 10/10/04 
The following are pictures from the Flying Picket Line on Sunday October 10th organized by community members in solidarity with the hotel workers and their struggle for health care....
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 7:50pm PDT
Report From Hotel Picket line Is UNITE/HERE really different from any other AFL-CIO Union when it comes to the issue of fighting the employers?...
Posted: Tue, Oct 12, 2004 2:33pm PDT
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