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imagePictures Of Speakers At November 20th Hotel Rally
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by Z
Pictures of various labor leaders and organizers...
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 4:55pm PST
imagePictures From Saturday Hotel Worker Rally
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by Z
As news came in that the lock-out may be over, hundreds of people marched past the hotels showing solidarity with the workers....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 4:27pm PST
image14 DEAD, 133 ARRESTED, HUNDREDS MISSING IN THE VIOLENT DISPERSAL OF HACIENDA LUISITA STRIK
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by LaborStart (repost)
In a violent strike dispersal in Hacienda Luisita last November 16, 2004, 14 people were killed, including two children aged 2 and 5 years old who died from suffocation from teargas lobbed by the police and army dispersal teams....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 3:09pm PST
textHotel Lockout Ends by UNITE HERE Local 2
Saturday morning, in negotiations at Mayor Gavin Newsom's office, the San Francisco Multi-Employer Group agreed to end the lockout....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 1:16pm PST
textHotel Lockout Over For Now; Community Solidarity Action on 11/20 by Community Solidarity
Lock-out over... Workers and hotel management enter cooling off period... 11/20 Action to Support Hotel Workers......
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 11:18am PST
textKaiser Permanente, Chinese Hospital and PacifiCare Extend Health Coverage for Locked-Out W by Unite Here Local 2
With 4,000 workers facing an end to their medical benefits due to the hotel companies' lockout, Chinese Community Health Plan and PacifiCare have joined Kaiser Permanente in announcing that they will continue medical coverage through January 31st, 2005....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 9:41am PST
textHotel workers pick up the pace in Los Angeles and San Francisco by PWW (reposted)
Leaders from UNITE HERE Local 11 and officials from the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor announced Nov. 12 a boycott of nine upscale hotels, members of the Los Angeles Hotel Employers’ Council. The hotels include the Biltmore, Hyatt Regency, Beverly Wilshire, Westin Bonaventure, Wilshire Grand, St. Regis, Sheraton Universal, Hyatt West Hollywood and Century Plaza. A Nov. 11 community meeting at the UNITE union hall brought together community and union leaders to help plan strategy fo...
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 10:02pm PST
textUnion isolates locked-out San Francisco hotel workers by wsws (reposted)
Hotel workers at 14 San Francisco luxury hotels are in the sixth week of a lockout that began on October 1. The action by the hotels was in response to a strike launched September 29 by1,400 members of Local 2 of the Union of Needle Trades Industrial and Textile Employees-Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (UNITE HERE) against the Hilton, Argent, Mark Hopkins and Crowne Plaza hotels....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 10:00pm PST
imageCanada and free trade
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by not moving to canada
Canada sticks a chop-stick in the eye of the worker- Steamed over rice: Riot cops hose down a bamboo-wielding farmer as he and his comrades march on the president's house in Seoul. Farmers and students hurled rocks and apples at police while protesting South Korea's free trade in rice....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 9:43pm PST
imageHow Hotel Workers Can Win
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by Workers Action
How to Win! This struggle cannot be won if scabs are allowed to cross the picket line every day of the week. Hotel owners will have little interest in making concessions as long as their profits keep pouring in....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 5:26pm PST
textHow to Win the Hotel Strike by Workers Action
This struggle cannot be won if scabs are allowed to cross the picket line every day of the week. Hotel owners will have little interest in making concessions as long as their profits keep pouring in....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 3:14pm PST
textHotel Workers Rally & March by worker
The Million Worker March Committee has initiated a call for a RALLY & MARCH to support the SF locked out hotel workers for this Saturday, November 20. Gather at 11:00 AM in Union Square....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 1:22pm PST
textBuilding Bridges Radio- Bangladeshi Worker's Dream & SEIU: Labor Must Organize or Die by Ken Nash & Mimi Rosenberg
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report brings you this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON INTERNET WEB ADDRESS LINK...
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 6:34pm PST
textFreedom Now for the Workers in Caleta Olivia, Argentina by Lo Scaltro von Genua
Kirchner verfolgt, nimmt fest und verurteilt diejenige, die für Arbeit, Lohn und Essen kämpfen. In Anbetracht dieser Tatsachen wollen wir eine internationale Kampagne starten. Alle Gewerkschaftsorganisationen, sozialistischen und sozialdemokratischen Parteien müssen diese Tatsache zurückweisen und die sofortige Freilassung der inhaftierten Arbeiter von Caleta Olivia bei der argentinischen Regierung Kirchner fordern....
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 11:00am PST
textJobs With Justice Organizing Meeting - 11/17 by Jobs With Justice
JOBS WITH JUSTICE!...
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 10:47am PST
textKOREA. General Strike, Cops are Hunting Activists by KCTU/ETU-MB
Since yesterday's declaration of the general strike, the government is reacting with repression. Today migrant workers in Seoul are exactly ONE year in sit-in strike!...
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 9:29am PST
textLessons From the Million Man March by Jeff Mackler
a look back at the recent Million Worker March in D.C....
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 5:43pm PST
videoRevolution @ THe Palace Hotel & Come to the Flying picketl (video/quicktime 24.0MB) by Gino
On Saturday, November 13 the Garden Court at the Shereton Palace was transformed into the HAPSBURG IMPERIAL COURT as the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra holds its gala auction benefit, VIENNA GLORIOSA. Socialite guests arrived for the caviar bar. They were in formal attaire and period costume. Altough the Orchestra honored the picket line, the bousuisis still attened. Locked out Local 2 Banquet waiters who have worked this event in past years gave the guests the welcome they deserved. th...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 4:11pm PST
imageShinning Path Sham Trial Goes Down in Flames Again
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by Majdur
By Majdur Travail TUCSON, Nov. 13 — (Al-Masakin) The show trial of Chairman Gonzalo and 16 cadre of Sendero Luminoso (PCP-SL) went down in flames again Nov. 12 after two of the three presiding judges reportedly quit....
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 3:45pm PST
audioUC Bargaining Committee Hears from Workers, Students, Politicians and Community Members (audio/mpeg 1.5MB) by Miguel Rafon
thirty minutes of audio...
Posted: Thu, Nov 11, 2004 6:29pm PST
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