Pombo hates the blogs
In a recent comment printed in the Manteca Bulletin, Congressman Richard Pombo (CA 11) gives blogs high praise by singling out their effectiveness. Speaking of the Defenders of Wildlife, he said:The...
View ArticleCalifornia Faculty Consider Marching
Faculty for Cal State schools throughout California will begin voting today to determine whether to walk off the job over grievances regarding pay, class size, and health care. If approved by a simple...
View ArticleLet's argue some more about Leon Thompson's "All-District Strategy."
First category of responses that really pisses me off is typified by an aquaintance of mine, currently interning in Sacramento, let's call him CHET, who writes, "Let's just say it's dead on arrival....
View ArticleCatholic Democrats Organizing in California
CATHOLIC DEMOCRATS ORGANIZING IN CALIFORNIA Support includes prominent members of Congress SAN JOSE, Calif. - August 28, 2007 - The Catholic Democrats, a national organization of Democratic Roman...
View ArticleVoters: Thumbs Down on Nunez-Schwarzenegger Healthcare Deal
Speaker Fabian Nunez went to the LA Times editorial board last week to tell them about the big plans he and Arnold Schwarzenegger are dreaming up: to take their hasty, half-cooked,...
View ArticleThe Lessons UHW's Rosselli Seems to Have Lost Sight Of
Note: Background information about this diary can be found at the new website www.seiufactchecker.org. Mary Kay Henry is International Executive Vice President for SEIUI would like to thank Calitics...
View ArticleUnited We Stand, Divided We Fall
By Scott Hanson Last week, I read in the New York Times how the “unusually militant” California Nurses Association (CNA) swarmed into Ohio hospitals and broke up a scheduled union vote for some 8,300...
View ArticleSecurity Officers Go On Strike Tomorrow
Inter-Con security officers who protect Kaiser facilities will launch an unfair labor practice strike against Inter-Con to defend their civil rights on Tuesday, May 6. This is the first-ever group of...
View ArticleObama Rejected Illinois Rent Control Ban
From today's Beyond Chron.Chicago does not have rent control. In 1997, the Illinois legislature passed - and Republican Governor Jim Edgar signed - SB 531 (the Rent Control Preemption Act), which...
View ArticleSisters of St. Josephs it's time to make peace with your workers
It is a dirty little secret, but often times the more virulently anti-union employers are religious orders that run health systems. Such is the situation with the Sisters of St. Joseph who run the St....
View ArticleFired Up at Sunday's Bay Area Change Is Coming Meeting
Crossposted at www.communityorganize.com.Yesterday 150 former Obama campaign volunteers and staff, and other organizers from around the Bay met in San Francisco to reflect on the successes of the...
View ArticleEMS Workers Circulate Petition to Protect & Improve EMS
Walnut Creek, CA... The EMTs, Paramedics, and other life-saving Emergency Medical Service (EMS) workers of Northern California held a community BBQ last week with area residents to raise awareness...
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