Subject: AFL-CIO

• ILWU Shutting Down West Coast Ports to Protest War

  March 7, 2008

• S.F. Labor Icon Jack Henning Dies -- But the Labor Movement He Joined As a Young Man Died Long Ago

  Jack HenningLabor leader Jack Henning, the president of the state's AFL-CIO from 1970 to 1996 and the man credited with helping pass bills that gave farm workers and government employees the right to form unions and strike, died today at his home in San Francisco. He was 93. According to a press release from the California Labor Federation, Henning, a former U.S. undersecretary of labor and ambassador to New Zealand, was among the first American labor leaders to make opposition to racism a worke

  June 4, 2009

• SEIU boss Andy Stern wouldn't mind if McCain gets elected

  October 1, 2008

• Local Union Leader Rosselli Blasts SEIU Boss Andy Stern

  February 20, 2008

• Union Disunity

  The secret deal worked out between SEIU bosses and nursing home owners denies union members the right to speak out, strike, or protect patients

  April 11, 2007

• Baby you can drive my TAXI

  February 14, 2007

• Immigrant Song

  It's not just the national anthem being sung in Spanish that's got anti-immigration folks riled up. Which side of the fence are you on?

  May 10, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  News Flash; Sex Change and the City; Defining Dance

  June 20, 2001

• It's an Ugly Day in the Neighborhood

  The self-serving attempts by some activists to block new development are making life harder for the rest of us

  August 9, 2000

• No March Madness

  The fervor isn't building for another gay rally on Washington

  March 22, 2000

• A Hobo's Progress

  U. Utah Phillips, inspiration to Ani DiFranco and card-carrying Wobbly, is Northern California's institutional memory of itinerant folk

  November 17, 1999

• Breaking Ranks

  Union leaders endorsed Willie Brown, but the rank and file has other ideas

  November 10, 1999

• Letters

  January 28, 1998

• Good Hearts Small Stomachs

  January 21, 1998

• The Grid

  January 7, 1998

• The Impotence of Being Earnest

  September 17, 1997

• Unhealthy Debate

  There's a new and nasty labor-management war. Health care is the battlefield. San Francisco is the front line.

  May 14, 1997

• Big Deal

  May 14, 1997

• Temporary Solidarity

  December 4, 1996

• The Trance Factory

  November 27, 1996

• State and National Candidates

  October 30, 1996

• The Road to Promotion

  December 13, 1995

• The Dark Prince of City Hall

  First Larry Bush was a politician. Then he was a journalist. Then he was a politician. So now as editor and publisher of CitiReport, a hard-hitting journal with a private agenda, what the hell is he?

  March 8, 1995