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S. KOREA. 11.22/Last Week's Struggle Report... ...by migrant workers, now since one year and one week in sit-in strike against S. Korean government's policy of manhunt, mass arrestings and deportations....
Posted: Mon, Nov 22, 2004 6:31pm PST
Photos from Community Solidarity Picket 
This was a rowdy march that included pickets and rallying at about half of the hotels that were locked out until today....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 11:38pm PST
Photos from MWM Rally+Picket for Hotel Workers 
Photos from the march - we went to several hotels, saw scabs, cheered up the workers who were still at their picket stations......
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 11:25pm PST
Statement from 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 10:54pm PST
Photos from Hotel Workers Cmty Solidarity Action 
Photos from the 2nd labor march today. It started out as over 50 people, but as the group marched further uphill, it dwindled to more like 30....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 9:17pm PST
Scabs and People Who Crossed The Picket Line 
Pictures of scabs, managers and people who crossed the hotel picket lines...
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 5:31pm PST
Pictures Of Speakers At November 20th Hotel Rally 
Pictures of various labor leaders and organizers...
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 4:55pm PST
Pictures From Saturday Hotel Worker Rally 
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
14 DEAD, 133 ARRESTED, HUNDREDS MISSING IN THE VIOLENT DISPERSAL OF HACIENDA LUISITA STRIK 
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
Hotel Lockout Ends 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
Hotel Lockout Over For Now; Community Solidarity Action on 11/20 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
Kaiser Permanente, Chinese Hospital and PacifiCare Extend Health Coverage for Locked-Out W 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
Hotel workers pick up the pace in Los Angeles and San Francisco 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
Union isolates locked-out San Francisco hotel workers 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
Canada and free trade 
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
How Hotel Workers Can Win 
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
How to Win the Hotel Strike 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
Hotel Workers Rally & March 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
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