7) Labor Against the War in Iraq 
        Labor Rally Against the War -  last updated 8/31/05

Sep 12, 2005 - Notes from NLG L&EC meeting
        -Sweatfree ordinance coalition - Laura Juran reported about the coalition's success in SF.  Laura was recommended for a position on the Advisory Committee representing the NLG.  
        -Suspending Davis-Bacon laws for rebuilding in the wake of Katrina - Suzanne Marria reported re the Bush Administration looting post-Katrina by not assuring that those who labor to rebuild, including many victims, won't be paid a fair prevailing wage and benefits.
        -ELECTION ACTIVITIES - Dobby Walker focused on the need for better election material around Prop 75.  Distinctly missing is any analysis or compelling arguments re the fact that corporations are not required to get check offs before they spend corporate funds on election activities.  Dobby Walker will followup with David Rosenfeld at teh VanBourg firm re his ideas about this issue (to follow on his work during the Prop 226 campaign).
        Lora Jo Foo reported on the election organizational structure (the Alliance for a Better California and the California Labor Federation programs).
        Decided to seek volunteers in each of the labor and employment law offices to recruit attorneys and non-attorneys to volunteer to do phone banking and precinct walking.
        Lora Jo Foo will contact the Bay Area chapter Exec Director Carlos Villareal to make sure we can do some election recruiting at the membership meeting.
        Laura Juran & Danielle Lucido will announce recruitment  efforts at the NLG membership meeting Sep 28.
Eleanor Morton (Leonard Carder in SF), Danielle Lucido (Leonard Carder in Oakland), Laura Juran (Altshuler Berzon), and Fran Schreiberg (Kazan) will be the contacts in their respective offices.  Laura will contact Lisa Pau in the Beeson Tayer office to see if she can volunteer.  Dobby Walker will ask Dan Boone in the VanBourg office if he or another person he suggests can volunteer to help recruit volunteers for phone banks and walks.
        ANYONE ELSE who wishes to volunteer to recruit folks from their office would be great.   PLEASE CONTACT Fran Schreiberg if you can do this and then CONTACT the local Labor Council directly.
        Election schedule materials.  Leaflets from San Mateo, San Francisco, Alameda and CCC are available with phone banking and precinct walking dates and locations;  these can be used to help recruiting lawyers and legal workers to volunteer in the counties where they live.  Volunteers should call the contact person on the leaflets to let them know.  The most useful thing would be for an office to volunteer to fill say 2 or 3 (or more for larger offices) phone bank positions each week on a specific day and then the hone bank organizer will know to rely on at least a certain number of volunteers for each session . 

GOOD & WELFARE
1) Send a letter to the Gov supporting Sally Lieber's bill to increase the minimum wage - AB 48 - take action using the California Labor Federation website. 
2) Sep 23 - from 6 - 9 pm - Fundraiser party at the Law Offices of Golstein Demchak et al, Kaiser Building, 300 Lakeside Drive #1000, Oakland
3) Sep 24 - rally at 10:30 am - Attend the labor anti-war march on - rally at 10:30 am at Tennis Court in Dolores Park, main rally at 11 am, march beings at noon - march goes to Jefferson Square Park
4) Sep 28 - 6:15 pm - the SF Bay Area Chapter membership meeting (open to all) on What does the AFL-CIO split mean for labor?  Remarks by Mike Casey, President of the Hotel Workers Local 2-Unite/HERE, and David Bacon, Acclaimed Labor Writer and Photographer.  At the Humanist Hall, at 27th & Broadway, in Oakland.

B. EVENTS - ARCHIVE 

July 13, 2006 - Oakland Tribune Tower - Justice for Security Workers Rally - click here for additional information 
July 11, 2006 - Downtown Oakland - Stop the New Threat to Nurses: CENA Rally to Defend Nurses' Rights - click here for additional information.
July 9, 2006 - Emeryville - First Annual Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace & Justice Picnic Social - click here for additional information.
June 28, 2006 - Oakland - Jobs with Justice Planning Meeting for July 13 Rally at the Oakland Tribune Tower - click here for additional information
May 14-15, 2005 - Women in the Trades - 4th annual statewide conference - Sacramento - sponsored by Tradeswomen Inc. and the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California and the California Professional Firefighters - for more info call (510) 891-8773 ext 315 - click here for Tradeswomen Inc.
April 8, 2005 - Making Movement: Communities of Color and New Models of Organizing Labor - sponsored by Joint Symposium Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law (BJELL) & Berkeley La Raza Law Journal (BLRLJ) - UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) - click here for more info 
April 8, 2005 - No Shvitz Shabbat - Congregation Sherith Israel - 2266 California St - San Francisco.  Program to support Bay Area Sweatfree Coalition efforts - speakers include Carmencita "Chie" Abad - former sweatshop worker from Saipan, Global Exchange speaker, Donna Levitt - Manager, SF Office of Labor Standards Enforcement, Abby Levine - Regional Director, Progressive Jewish Alliance - click here for more info 
March 19, 2005 - The Bay Area NLG L&EC marched with labor on the anniversary of the war in Iraq.  Click here for the leaflet.   
March 3, 2005 - The Sweatfree Campaign kickoff event for SF featured author Robert Ross author of Slaves to Fashion and Chie Abad, former sweatshop worker, at New College at 7 pm.  Click here for flyer.

C.  PROJECTS ARCHIVE
1) Fighting the state government reorganization of various boards and commissions
2) Fighting the Schwarzenegger raid of state employees pensions 
3) Election law legislative proposals 

1) Schwarzenegger plan to reorganize Labor Agency and consolidate numerous administrative law boards and commissions re labor and employment matters  - the Little Hoover Commission is meeting regarding plans to consolidate a number of the boards and commissions which handle appellate level administrative law matters (workers' comp, unemployment insurance benefits, occupational safety and health, etc.).  If these are made directly reportable to a political appointee (head of the Labor Agency) and if the appointments to this "consolidated board" do not have staggered terms (so there is not a mix from appointments of more than one administration) and do not have security in their terms, and if the decisions can be altered or overturned by the political appointee directly or through implied threat of loss of position, then this reorganization will jeopardize any semblance of fairness.
    The list of Boards and Commissions which the Governor is targeting to eliminate is at: http://cpr.ca.gov/pdf/cpr_boards05.pdf .  
    More information on the California Performance Review and gubernatorial actions involving it can be found at: http://cpr.ca.gov/ .  For a quick summary click here.  And click here for the Agenda of the Little Hoover Commission's meeting on January 26, 2005.  The morning panel will discuss elimination of three important labor boards: the Cal/OSHA Standards Board, the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, and the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board.  Scheduled to testify are Victoria Bradshaw (Secretary, Labor & Workforce Development Agency), Deborah Burger (California Nurses Association), Bob Balgenorth (State Building and Construction Trades Council), and Art Pulaski (California Labor Federation).

5) Schwarzenegger plan to raid CalPERS and take away state government employee pensions.  See Click here to see NLG member Cindy Ossais' Sacto Bee article of 1/28/05.  Click here to see the 1/22/05 letter from Ossias to Gov Schwarznegger.  And click here for 1/14/05 email from CASE (the union that represents the state attorneys) re this issue.

6) Election law legislative proposals - the  AFL-CIO LCC (Lawyers Coordinating Committee) has invited us to participate with them in developing legislative proposals for various states where we have an opportunity to make some positive changes.  
    Lora Jo Foo prepared a list of election reform issues - click here.  Some additions were suggested in a conference call last week (to be posted  shortly).  As well, the LCC is putting together existing legislation in other states where some of these issues may already be addressed in helpful ways (which will be sent to us when it is compiled).
    This project would focus on California and perhaps NEVADA if some of our folks who went to NEVADA want to continue to work with folks there on a legislative package.