AltWeeklies Wire
Union Shuts Down West Coast Ports, But Media Misses the Historic Storynew
Workers, students, immigrants, and antiwar activists came together on May Day in San Francisco, but it was hard to tell from the next day's mainstream media coverage, which adopted its usual cynical view of the growing movement to end the Iraq War. Sure, there were articles, but each missed the main point: this was the first time in American history that such a massive job action was called to protest a war.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Steven T. Jones and Amanda Witherell |
05-08-2008 |
Business & Labor
Drivers Seek Support for Clean Trucks Programnew
The program calls for the ports to replace or retrofit all trucks older than 1994 models, and would require trucking companies to make employees of all 16,000 drivers working in the Long Beach and Los Angeles ports.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Daniel Harju |
08-17-2007 |
Business & Labor
