AMERICAN LABOUR- SAN FRANCISCO:

IWW AT THE BAY AREA ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR:

This one is for our readers in California. Just in from the IWW, the Bay Area branch of the IWW will be tabling at the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair this coming weekend. Here's their notice.

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Visit / Join the Bay Area IWW at the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair
Start: Mar 13 2010 - 10:00am
End: Mar 14 2010 - 5:00pm

Disclaimer: The IWW is not an anarchist organization and makes no requirement that members be anarchists (or not), nor has the Bay Area IWW endorsed this event. The Bay Area IWW's participation in this event is for informational, educational, and fundraiisng purposes.

The Bay Area IWW will have its usual table at the annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair. This is an excellent place to catch up with your fellow IWW members, pay dues, join the union, plug in to various Bay Area IWW organizing efforts, or help the Bay Area IWW by purchasing awesome (usually union made) IWW merchandise.
For more information on the book fair, visit this page.
For more information on the Bay Area IWW, visit bayarea.iww.org.
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The Bookfair is open from 10 AM - 6 PM Saturday and 11 AM - 5 PM Sunday
Location(s)
SF County Fair Bldg / Golden Gate Park
9th and Lincoln San Francisco, CA
United States

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AMERICAN LABOUR:

SIT DOWN IN SAN FRAN:

The following came Molly's way yesterday from the AFL-CIO blog. It says something about the times when even such a stodgy outfit as the AFL-CIO are willing to engage in the creative tactics of a sit in. All that Molly can say is that it is too bad that they didn't hold in the sit-in inside the hotel.

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Hotel Workers, Trumka Arrested at Sit-In for Fair Contract:
by Mike Hall, Jan 6, 2010
More than 100 union members, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and UNITEHERE! President John Wilhelm were arrested at a sit-in demanding justice and a fair contract for San Francisco hotel workers last night. The workers have been without a contract since August.

The sit-in in front of the Hilton San Francisco followed a march by nearly 1,000 members of UNITEHERE! Local 2, other union members and community and political supporters. Says Ingrid Carp, a cook for 29 years at the Hilton:

“We’re determined as ever to win a good contract. It’s wrong for corporations to position themselves to make billions with the coming economic recovery, and expect us to go backward.”

The action is part of a campaign to win fair contracts at several national hotel chains, including Hilton, Hyatt and Starwood. The profitable chains are using the recession as an excuse to demand health care benefit cuts in contract talks with more than 16,000 workers at dozens of hotels in San Francisco, Chicago and other cities.

At the rally before the march, Trumka told crowd:

“A job is a good job because working people fight to make it one. It doesn’t matter if the job is in a coal mine or a hotel, a classroom or a car wash.

“That’s why the struggle of hotel workers here in San Francisco and across our country is so important. If we don’t protect the wages and benefits and health care of hotel workers no job is safe, no worker is safe no family is safe.”

Tomorrow, Trumka will join workers for a rally and picket in front of the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. Along with the demand for justice for hotel workers, Trumka is in California this week to spotlight the need for job creation. We’ll have more on that later today.