Service Employees International President Andy Stern today advanced a threat to dismantle the union's 150,000-member Northern California health care affiliate, announcing plans to move some 65,000 workers into a new group dedicated solely to providers of long-term nursing care.
The move is seen in U.S. Labor movement circles as a ploy to neuter Sal Rosselli, president of United Health Care Workers - West.
Rosselli has clashed with Stern over a 2004 agreement with nursing home chains in w
After more than 20 years, a new International Hotel is set to rise on the site where riot police evicted elderly tenants during one of the city's most famous protests
A recent study regarding mature women's turn-ons is, somewhat ironically, published in a journal whose title is an instant turnoff: The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. In any event, a U.C. San Francisco survey published this week plumbed the desires and activities of more than 2,000 women aged 45 to 80 (you try telling a 45-year-old woman she's "geriatric" -- be our guest) and found that 60 percent had been sexually active within three months and nearly half -- 43 percent -- reported
In his illustrious National Basketball Association career, Kevin Johnson racked up 1,082 steals. Now a San Francisco miscreant has registered a steal at Johnson's expense. In his blog, Johnson, now mayor of Sacramento, wrote that his weekend trip to San Francisco was highlighted by someone swiping his suit bag -- while Johnson assisted a struggling elderly pedestrian. "I didn't expect to be a crime victim on the streets of San
Francisco. Nobody does. But it happened, on a beautiful evening th
Life Begins @ 30Job trainees in the Meals for Change kitchen.Nibbles, film, discussion, and a good cause: Sounds like a recipe for an interesting evening. Got any plans for tonight?
Meals for Change is a nonprofit, food-based social enterprise kitchen that seeks to boost Bay Area Community Services' programs for the elderly and disabled, all while supporting family farms and keeping food spending in the local community. Oh, and shrinking our carbon footprints here in the Bay. Whew! How?
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