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Stockton Trucker's Strike Over! Stockton Trucker's Strike is over. Almost three days in the company caved to 70% of the demands of the drivers. The drivers are back on the job and are overall happy with the outcome of the event....
Posted: Wed, Sep 15, 2004 3:03pm PDT
UNITE HERE Local 2 hotel workers vote to strike By a vote of 3139 to 88 (97.3%), workers at 14 San Francisco hotels have voted to authorize a strike if their negotiating committee is unable to move management to sign a fair contract. 77% of eligible members turned out to vote....
Posted: Wed, Sep 15, 2004 8:46am PDT
Hotel workers' union votes to authorize strike A spokeswoman for a union of San Francisco hotel workers said the membership voted overwhelmingly today to authorize a strike if negotiations for a new contract fail....
Posted: Tue, Sep 14, 2004 10:34pm PDT
S. KOREA. MSSC's Weekly Struggle Report Now since more than 300 days migrant workers (MSSC/Myeong-dong Sit-in Struggle Collective) in S. Korea are in sit-in strike to get legalization, human and labor rights....
Posted: Mon, Sep 13, 2004 9:54pm PDT
Dairy Farmer Charged With Manslaughter Jury selection begins in case against dairy farmer for death of employees...
Posted: Sun, Sep 12, 2004 10:30pm PDT
Farmworkers March for Justice 
Farmworkers march to end racial profiling by the CHP...
Posted: Fri, Sep 10, 2004 11:45pm PDT
Bush Administration Endangers the Middle Class "Nation-wide the social descent of many families seems a real threat.. The number of newly created jobs still lags behind the population growth. More Americans are comp[letely dismissed from the labor market. Good-paying jobs are hard to find.."...
Posted: Fri, Sep 10, 2004 10:38am PDT
Civil Disobedience in SF: HERE Local 2 (video/quicktime 12.7MB) Local 2 Takes to the Streets on Labor Day. Over 130 Arrested. Part 1.
Hundreds of hotel workers and their allies took to the streets this Labor Day to demonstrate their growing impatience with the San Francisco Hotels Multi-Employer Group, which is taking a hard line in negotations with Local 2. Over a hundred were arrested as they blocked cable car traffic around Union Square, in the heart of San Francisco's tourist district.
Three weeks after the expiration of Local 2's citywide contra...
Posted: Thu, Sep 9, 2004 3:10pm PDT
Strike Looms as S.F. Hotel Workers Hold Determined Labor Day Rally 
Strike Looms as S.F. Hotel Workers Hold Determined Labor Day Rally...
Posted: Tue, Sep 7, 2004 3:18pm PDT
Alameda County Labor Day Alameda County Labor Day Focuses on Affordable Healthcare: Over 2,500 unionists join together at the Oakland Coliseum to support YES on Prop 72. Diane Powe, Safeway worker and UFCW Local 870 member throws out first pitch of ballgame...
Posted: Tue, Sep 7, 2004 10:52am PDT
Labor Day Marks Improvements For Gay Workers As gay and lesbian workers mark Labor Day, newly released statistics show that a record number of companies support issues important to gay families....
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 11:40pm PDT
Images from the SF Hotel Workers' Demonstration 
The hotel workers of San Francisco gathered today for a march which culminated in an act of civil disobedience and several arrests....
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 10:50pm PDT
Building Bridges Radio- N.Y. Labor Protests Bush and the RNC BUILDING BRIDGES RADIO BRINGS YOU THIS 29 MINUTES RADIO PROGRAM. TO LISTEN CLICK ON URL LINK BELOW...
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 4:24pm PDT
October: California Protests Operation Guardian Preparation continues for the march/rally planned for San Ysidro, Ca.
on Sat. Oct. 2nd against 10 years of Operation Guardian and the neoliberal
policies and theft against the people of LatinoAmerica.
ALSO on Oct.16th, there will be a statewide march against
Immigration Raids, for legalization for all and against the government's
anti-immigrant policies....
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 3:59pm PDT
SF: 150 arrested during Hotel Workers protest 150 workers and their supporters arrested today for protesting Hotel management's stalling tactics during contract negotiations....
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 3:56pm PDT
Remember Retail Workers on Labor Day Today is Labor Day in the United States (of course the authentic workers’ holiday is May 1). What does “Labor” mean though to most Americans?...
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 3:52pm PDT
SF Labor Day 2004: Thousands Picket Hotels; Many Arrested for a Union Contract Thousands of hotel workers, Local 2, turned out in San Francisco in the searing heat to demand the big hotels sign a union contract. About a hundred were arrested for sitting on the cable car tracks in front of the St. Francis Hotel....
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 2:56pm PDT
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