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Upcoming Meetings
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Potluck dinner and general meeting in January! ¡Comida comunitaria y reunión general en enero!
Our next general meeting will be held on January 6, 2012, at the Westminster Hills Outreach Center in South Hayward beginning at 6:00 P.M. Members whose names go from A-L should bring a favorite main dish, and M-Z should bring a salad or dessert. Our featured speaker will be Supervisor Nadia Lockyer, who will address us at 7:00 P.M. We will also present a slate of candidates for positions for the 2012 year, for election by the members. We hope to post our newsletter soon, which, in addition to other topics, will focus on the Occupy Movement. We look forward … Continue reading →
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October meeting, and thank you for making the Fall Festival a success – la reunión de octubre, y gracias por hacer de nuestro festival de otoño un éxito
Thank you to all who made the Fall Festival an unqualified success! Our next Executive Board meeting will be held on Monday, October 3, 2011, at Westminster Hills/New Bridges, beginning at 6:30 P.M. At that meeting we will schedule a date for the October general membership meeting. Some of our members who attended the Fall Festival filled out a survey, but we will shortly be sending out a survey to the entire membership to discuss things such as future speakers and events, and the opportunity to choose to receive the newsletter via email, thus saving the club money and … Continue reading →
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There will be no meeting in August – no habrá reunión en agosto
Our next ‘general meeting’ is the Fall Festival. We will have Brigid O’Farrell as a speaker. She has written a wonderful book about Eleanor Roosevelt, and her relationship to the working class. Brigid O’Farrell is an independent scholar whose research and writing has focused on employment equity, especially for women in nontraditional jobs. She has traveled from factories in New England to fire and police stations in the Southwest, from child care programs in the Midwest and Alaska to union meetings across the country. A sociologist by training, she delves into labor history to better understand the issues and barriers confronting today’s … Continue reading →
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La reunión de mayo
Hemos suspendido la reunión de mayo, pero tendremos una reunión el 17 de junio, y presentaremos un panel laboral para discutir la visión laboral sobre varios temas, incluyendo la atención médica.
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May Meeting
The May meeting has been cancelled, but we will have a meeting on June 17th, and we will be hosting a labor panel to speak about the labor view on various issues, including health care.
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Potluck dinner and general meeting in January! ¡Comida comunitaria y reunión general en enero!
Category Archives: Resolutions
A PROPOSED RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT A BILL OF RIGHTS FOR DOMESTIC WORKERS UNDER A.B. 889
WHEREAS: domestic workers are excluded from basic labor protections that other California workers enjoy, and because of the complexity of the current laws and exclusions, employers and workers are left without any clear guidelines, unwittingly exposing employers to liability; and … Continue reading
A RESOLUTION TO SUPPORT AN IMMIGRATION POLICY BASED ON LABOR AND HUMAN RIGHTS
WHEREAS: the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Central America Free Trade Agreement, and other similar agreements, and structural adjustment policies and other so-called economic reforms continue to boost corporate profits while creating massive poverty in countries such as Mexico, … Continue reading
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