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HUGE Jobs Rally with AFL-CIO Pres. Richard Trumka!

Submitted by billl on Tue, 01/26/2010 - 9:03am
Date: 
Thu, 02/11/2010 - 12:00pm - 12:30pm
HUGE Jobs Rally with AFL-CIO Pres. Richard Trumka!
Hear Labor's agenda to create new jobs in CA!

Thursday, February 11, 2010
12:00pm - 12:25pm
State Capitol - North Steps
Sacramento, CA

California’s jobs crisis is severe. The unemployment rate in California is among the highest in the nation. Come hear Labor’s agenda to create new jobs in California and throughout the nation!

Lives in the Balance: Haiti Disaster Coup d'état Version

Submitted by Tjadendevries on Thu, 01/28/2010 - 4:33pm


The Destabilization of Haiti

"Washington seeks to reinstate Haiti as a full-fledged US colony, with all the appearances of a functioning democracy. The objective is to impose a puppet regime in Port-au-Prince and establish a permanent US military presence in Haiti. 

SUPPORT HILTON WORKERS IN SACRAMENTO!

Submitted by billl on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 3:19pm
Date: 
Tue, 12/08/2009 - 4:30pm - 5:30pm
SUPPORT HILTON WORKERS IN SACRAMENTO!

Picket/Rally - Tuesday, Dec. 8th @ 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
(Hilton Arden West - 2200 Harvard St, Sac.)

After four months of negotiations, the Hilton has refused to move on key issues and is implementing its last proposal, effective January 1st.

Their last proposal includes:

* Wage freeze for the year
* Huge increases in workload
* Layoffs without regard to seniority
* Leaving the union pension plan and switching workers to a 401K Plan
* Switch the workers to the Company’s health insurance plan, increase eligibility requirements, and workers will have to pay $110 a month for single coverage (single coverage is free under the union plan)

To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=207389542248&mid=1821904G28f6d6...

Major League Baseball Players Endorse Employee Free Choice

Submitted by billl on Fri, 10/30/2009 - 4:37pm

Baseball Stars Knock It Out of the Park for Employee Free Choice

Posted By Seth Michaels On October 29, 2009 @ 10:43 am
Baseball Players : afl-cio

Just in time for the World Series, 12 members of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) have added their names to the broad coalition in support of the Employee Free Choice Act.

The players have signed a statement and appeared in print ads in Washington, D.C., papers yesterday. World Series participants Jimmy Rollins, Shane Victorino and Mark Teixeira took part. They were joined by Heath Bell, Dave Bush, LaTroy Hawkins, Torii Hunter, John Lannan, Andrew Miller, J.J. Putz, Justin Verlander and Adam Wainwright.

In a joint statement, these players say:

All Americans should have the same opportunity we’ve had—to be able to join a union without being fired and to negotiate with their employers without being penalized. Today, our country is facing some tough times. Health care costs are skyrocketing. Families are losing homes. Savings and retirement income are disappearing overnight. 

Radisson Action!

Submitted by billl on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 11:45am

Radisson Action!

We have had several negotiating sessions with the Radisson and made some progress, but there is still a lot to fight for:

The Radisson is only offering 78 cents in raises over four years, an average raise of only 19 cents per year.

They are proposing to take away a 30 cent bonus the housekeepers get for every room they clean. That would essentially be a wage cut for some the hardest-working employees.

Join us on our fist Radisson public action
Wednesday, October 7th at 4:30 PM
500 Leisure Lane, Sacramento

COMPLIMENTARY Breakfast with Yessica Hoyos - AFL-CIO Human Rights Award

Submitted by billl on Thu, 09/24/2009 - 10:59am

The Sacramento Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO
Invites you to a

COMPLIMENTARY BREAKFAST WITH

YESSIKA HOYOS
Recipient of the 2008 AFL-CIO Human Rights Award

Friday, September 25th, 2009 @ 8 AM
The Grand – 1215 J Street, Sacramento

Seven years ago, Colombian union leader Jorge Dario Hoyos was assassinated. But his death did not silence his family’s search for justice. His daughter, Yessika, followed in her father’s steps, risking her life in pursuit of workers’ rights and challenging the power of corporations and a government that does little to protect the rights and lives of workers.

On Thursday, September 17, 2009, the AFL-CIO presented Yessika Hoyos with the 2008 George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award for “her extraordinary courage, her dedication to the cause of workers’ rights in Colombia and her commitment to ending impunity for those responsible.”

UPTE-CWA UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE STRIKE: UC Davis

Submitted by billl on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 9:46am

UPTE-CWA UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE STRIKE: UC Davis

Local 6: UCD

7 A.M. - 11 A.M.
1st and A St.
Russell Blvd. and Howard Way
La Rue Rd. and Hutchinson Dr.
South Campus information Booth, Old Davis Rd.
Primate Center

6:30 A.M. - 3 P.M.
UCD Main Hospital, Stockton Blvd and X St., Sacramento

12 P.M. Unity Rally with Faculty, Staff & Students
Quad by the memorial union

1:30 P.M. - 5 P.M.
Russell Blvd and Howard Way

Harvey Schwartz & ILWU at Time Tested Books

Submitted by billl on Mon, 09/21/2009 - 10:00am

Harvey Schwartz & ILWU at Time Tested Books 10/14/09

What: Harvey Schwartz, author of “Solidarity Stories“, at Time Tested Books
Where: Time Tested Books, 1114 21st Street, Sacramento
When: Wednesday, October 14, 2008. 7 pm

Time Tested Books is thrilled to host author Harvey Schwartz for a talk
on his new book, “Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU”.
Schwartz, an oral historian at the Labor Archives and Research Center,
San Francisco State University, and curator of the Oral History
Collection, ILWU Library, has written extensively on the International
Longshore and Warehouse Union and the San Francisco Bay Area labor
movement (“The March Inland”, “Union Carpenters, Navy Town”, “Harry
Bridges”, etc.). “Solidarity Stories” is his most recent contribution to
this history.

Annual Ruth Holbrook Womanââ‚Ãâ€

Submitted by billl on Wed, 09/16/2009 - 10:34pm

Coalition of Labor Union Women
Presents the

Annual Ruth Holbrook Woman’s Day Award Celebration

“We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby”… Celebrating Our Past While Working Toward the Future

Saturday, September 19, 2009
11:00 a.m. (brunch will be served)

Painters Union District Council 16
7111 Governors Circle
Sacramento, California

Proxy Access: SEC Request for Comment, the Right of Shareholders to Nominate Directors, Big Deal for Unions

Submitted by adral on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 8:07pm

Proxy Access: the Rights of Shareholders to Nominate Directors, Big Deal for Unions, Pension Funds, and Institutional Investors, Could Transform the Corporate Board Room
by Andrew H. Dral

The following letter was sent by me to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in response to their request for comment on the "proxy access" rule. If you want to make a difference send them your opinion, just upload your letter at "www.sec.gov." The Chamber of Commerce is doing a full court press to water down this rule, any comments you make will help our cause to wrench control away from the corportocracy. This rule will give shareholders more power to replace entrenched corporate board members. My letter, included below, is on the SEC Web site.

http://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-10-09/s71009-513.htm

SEC Headquarters
100 F Street N.E.
Washington, DC 20549

Dear SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro,

In theory, our business texts tell us that shareholders own the corporation. The corporate board of directors works for the interests of the shareholders. Decisions by the board benefit shareholders. Like, so many other fallacies in our society, this is a blatant lie. As corporate boards across our land prove every day, the board of directors works for the interests of management. They promote unwarranted -- out of sight -- management salaries. Its members maintain their status by being docile puppy dogs, and they remain on the board at the pleasure of management. In other words, the current boards are lackeys and lapdogs for management. The crisis in corporate America orchestrated by overly aggressive, unethical, greedy, and corrupt management teams at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, AIG, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual, and Adelphia could have been avoided with boards that were engaged in the operation and long-term value of the business.

Sacramento Central Labor Council's Annual Labor Day Picnic

Submitted by billl on Mon, 08/17/2009 - 12:39pm

Sacramento Central Labor Council's Annual Labor Day Picnic

The Annual Labor Day Picnic will be held Monday, September 7th at William Land Park (Village Green Area).

The picnic will take place from 11 am to 3 pm. There will be a BBQ, a beer garden, children's activities, karaoke, a Texas hold-em tournament, bingo, raffle and more.

*The Central Labor Council is looking for volunteers for various duties (set up, cooks, servers, clean up, etc.) between 7 am and 5 pm. To volunteer, please contact Zak at 916-927-9772 ext. 229 or zak@sacramentolabor.org.

Rally to save vital services

Submitted by billl on Mon, 06/29/2009 - 9:53pm

Rally to Save Vital Services

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
West Steps, State Capitol

Take your furlough day, take a vacation day, or just come out on your lunch hour on Wednesday.

We are turning up the heat and telling the governor:
Enough is enough
Save vital services
Protect our pay and our pensions

CANCELED: UNITE HERE Rally at the Sheraton

Submitted by billl on Mon, 06/29/2009 - 8:47pm

CANCELED (07/13): UNITE HERE reached an agreement with the Sheraton on Saturday, so this rally has been canceled. Congrats to all the workers!!

As many of you know, we have been in negotiations with the Sheraton Grand since March, and we are now at a critical point in our negotiations with the hotel. The support we have received from the community and our labor allies has paid off at the negotiating table. Please join on July 16th for our biggest rally yet and let the Sheraton know you will keep coming back until they offer the workers a fair contract!

RALLY WITH SACRAMENTO SHERATON WORKERS

Submitted by billl on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 8:36am

Three years ago, our community came out in force to push that Sacramento hotel jobs should be living wage jobs. With your support, hotel workers won their best contracts ever - first at the Sheraton Grand, then at four other hotels.

Now, the same workers are fighting for affordable family healthcare. They need our help, and they deserve our support:

RALLY WITH SACRAMENTO SHERATON WORKERS
Tuesday, April 21, 4:30 PM
Sheraton Grand, 13th and J St., Downtown Sacramento

Questions/ RSVPS: Tino Barajas, (916) 564-4949 x 19, uniteherelocal49@yahoo.com

9th Annual Cesar Chavez March

Submitted by billl on Thu, 03/19/2009 - 1:56pm


9th Annual Cesar Chavez March
A WORKER’S RIGHT TO ORGANIZE!

When: Saturday March 28, 2009
Where: Southside Park 6th and "T" Street @ 10:00 am
Arriving: César Chávez Park @ 11:30 am approximately
Free Rapid Transit. All day bus & Light rail tickets

Come and Celebrate César Chávez’s life and legacy by carrying on the tradition in marching for struggling families, fair wages, working conditions and workers rights, enactment of both the Employee Free Choice Act, and the Dream Act, Jobs Now!, Immigration Reform for all, End the War!, and No to State furloughs & LAYOFFS! Now is the time when we must unite under the umbrella of solidarity. Join us on March 28th, bring your family, friends, your signs, banners & posters.

“SÍ SE PUEDE! ” – “YES WE CAN! ”
“UNITY IN OUR COMMUNITY! ”