Jobs and Labor

Rhapsody Lays Off 24 Today, 12 Two Weeks Ago?

Newspaper Union Accuses Company Of Retaliation

East Bay Newspaper Managers Continue to Cut Jobs

SEIU Moves to Dismantle California Health Care Affiliate

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 ... More >>

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 rel ... More >>

Funemployment: Jobless young San Franciscans are welcoming the worst recession of their lives with open arms. Too bad the party can't last forever.

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 rel ... More >>

Temps of the World, Unite!

The Wobblies set out to organize temporary workers

Investing in Willie

Integrated Health Services of Maryland puts its stock in Brown

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

Integrated Health Services of Maryland puts its stock in Brown

Local Union Leader Rosselli Blasts SEIU Boss Andy Stern

Integrated Health Services of Maryland puts its stock in Brown

West Coast Dockworkers Dispute Could Paralyze U.S. Economy

Integrated Health Services of Maryland puts its stock in Brown

Paper Chase

The Guild is up against a cost-cutting mogul and declining revenues, but the union continues to seek converts

Mazzola Is Slippery

The union boss has once more escaped punishment for funds diversion

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

Mother’s Work

Some working moms face job discrimination, while others encounter barriers to success. They're all potential activists for the new grass-roots group, MomsRising.

Labor's Pain

Why it's unlikely there'll be a strike at the Chronicle this summer

Maid in San Francisco

Secretly, don't you hope the hospitality multinationals crush those loud, annoying, striking hotel workers? Find out. Take the quiz.

Former Pimp Laid Low

Muni union official suspended over racy book on whoremongering past; sexual harassment alleged

Bent Outta Shape

San Francisco bike messengers hit some nasty economic potholes as they struggle to unionize

Letters to the Editor

Shake, Rattle, and Roll;Musical Notes;Puni, Unlike Muni, Keeps Rolling Along

As a Matter of Fat

The city's new weight discrimination law is badly reasoned, legally defective, costly, and bad for public health

Closed Shop

Organizer out of work after bucking SEIU 790's Willie Brown lovefest

Breaking Ranks

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

Rewarding Failure

What's really wrong with Muni? For starters, one third of its employees don't show up to work, causing systemwide delays and costing the agency more that $20 million a year in overtime. First in a two-part special report

Cothran

What's really wrong with Muni? For starters, one third of its employees don't show up to work, causing systemwide delays and costing the agency more that $20 million a year in overtime. First in a two-part special report

Riff Raff

What's really wrong with Muni? For starters, one third of its employees don't show up to work, causing systemwide delays and costing the agency more that $20 million a year in overtime. First in a two-part special report

The Grid

What's really wrong with Muni? For starters, one third of its employees don't show up to work, causing systemwide delays and costing the agency more that $20 million a year in overtime. First in a two-part special report

Unhealthy Debate

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

Big Deal

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

Labor Games

San Francisco is spending $5 million on a flag-waving, candy-bar-giving, feel-good course called Express to Success, hoping it will move welfare recipients into jobs. But no one is measuring the success -- or failure -- of the program itself.

Temporary Solidarity

With a new (powerful) champion in Silicon Valley, a recent court victory, and ranks that continue to swell by the day, long-beleaguered "contract workers" have reason to believe their house may not be so bleak after all.

Unemployed straight guys attend transgender job fair

With a new (powerful) champion in Silicon Valley, a recent court victory, and ranks that continue to swell by the day, long-beleaguered "contract workers" have reason to believe their house may not be so bleak after all.

Gavin Newsom is no civil service reformer

With a new (powerful) champion in Silicon Valley, a recent court victory, and ranks that continue to swell by the day, long-beleaguered "contract workers" have reason to believe their house may not be so bleak after all.

Fighting to Work

With a new (powerful) champion in Silicon Valley, a recent court victory, and ranks that continue to swell by the day, long-beleaguered "contract workers" have reason to believe their house may not be so bleak after all.

U.C. Employees' Picket Line Blocks Out Gavin Newsom

Will HarperIf ever you were looking to keep Gavin Newsom away, scare up a picket line Employees of the University of California vociferously protesting proposed fee hikes and furlough days had an unforeseen consequence on the plans of one Mayor Gavin Newsom -- who may or may not have a Santa Clara U ... More >>

Be Elated As You Ride BART Monday. Who Knows How Long It'll Last?

Has BART found the map to smooth service?​If you were hoping to work from home Monday, your best excuse just pulled out of the station. BART and the tenacious ATU No. 1555 union reached a tentative accord yesterday. You can ride the morning train with a new-found enthusiasm Monday. See you over th ... More >>

Layoffs Commence -- Yes, Again -- At the Chronicle

​Word from the Chronicle newsroom came SF Weekly's way this afternoon that the paper's "after Labor Day" layoff date is right here, right now. Newspaper employees were informed less than an hour ago that the paper is, once again, downsizing. A bulletin was sent out by the Newspaper Guild that Chro ... More >>

Tangling With Muni Union Helped Make Mayor Frank Jordan Into Ex-Mayor Jordan

A number of work rules that may have made sense when this bus was new are still in Muni's union contract...​As many folks steaming on Muni know, the drivers' union last week spurned concessions that would have saved the city some $15 million -- while accepting city charter-mandated raises for $8 m ... More >>

Labor Pains

A fight between two unions here could set the course of the U.S. labor movement.

How Many Minimum Wage Workers Are There in S.F.?

Counting workers -- whoops! -- can be hard​Yesterday we reported on the pending augmentation of San Francisco's minimum wage to $9.92 an hour. Yet when we tried to find out how many city workers would be benefiting from the new minimum wage -- well, that's maximum labor. It appears no one in the c ... More >>

Is Marijuana Union Battle Budding?

Meanwhile, over at the pot dispensary...​Don't smoke that! Get a union man to smoke that! San Francisco is a famous union town, a reputation won on the docks. But this isn't the 1930s, and "budtenders" at cannabis dispensaries aren't the spitting image of striking longshoremen. Still, organi ... More >>

Premium pay nets city workers millions in bonuses for just doing their jobs

Meanwhile, over at the pot dispensary...​Don't smoke that! Get a union man to smoke that! San Francisco is a famous union town, a reputation won on the docks. But this isn't the 1930s, and "budtenders" at cannabis dispensaries aren't the spitting image of striking longshoremen. Still, organi ... More >>

Never Mind the City's Budget Crisis: Supervisors, Mayor to Get Pay Raise

Pay raises won't help close the budget gap​Closing a multimillion-dollar budget deficit is no easy task -- and handing out raises to elected officials will only make it that much harder. The Examiner reports today that in the face of a $300 million budget crisis, the Civil Service Commission has r ... More >>

Bay Area Newspapers: How Much Longer Until They Are Extinct?

It's worse than you think.​So you think the Bay Area's newspapers are bad now - they are only going to get worse. A new survey shows that local newspapers will continue to strip away what little staff and resources they have left. Newspapers will get leaner, despite the fact that they have already ... More >>

Muni Contract Falls Through

It's worse than a reality show ​Update: Union leaders deny leaking tentative deal to press ahead of time. Read more after jump. Muni operators overwhelmingly rejected a contract agreement last night -- and are squarely placing the blame on a Muni spokesman. As the Chron notes this morning, union o ... More >>

Apple Employee Wants to Unionize

Taking a bite out of Apple​There's a great scene in The Social Network where Andrew Garfield's character, Eduardo Saverin, storms into the Facebook office, picks up Mark Zuckerberg's laptop, and sends him a strong message by shattering it.That's the sort of scene we imagined when word got out that ... More >>

Grass Roots Is First S.F. Medical Cannabis Dispensary to Join Union

Look for the union label​San Francisco is known as a union town and a city rich with medical cannabis dispensaries. It was only a matter of time before the two intersected. A year after United Food and Commercial Workers began organizing medical cannabis operations in Oakland and Marin County, Gra ... More >>

Unemployed Still? Cannabis Jobs Fair at Cow Palace This Weekend

And you wouldn't have to pay taxes!​This being election season also means it's jobs season -- as in jobs-talking season. Jobs are on the lips of every politician worth his or her soft money -- from Barack Obama's jobs plan, to Mayor Ed Lee's own Wilsonesque 17-point jobs plan (in some ways eerily ... More >>

Examiner Newsroom Hit with Layoffs

This will be a very unmerry Christmas for Examiner staff​As expected, the San Francisco Examiner's new owners trimmed its newsroom yesterday afternoon, laying off half the copy desk as well as other editorial staff. We called Todd Vogt, publisher and president of the Ex, who told us layoff notices ... More >>

San Francisco's Minimum Wage Is Now the Nation's Highest

micro10x / ShutterstockClearly a woman making minimum wage in SF.​As of January 1, 2011, San Francisco's minimum wage went up from $9.92 to $10.24, which now makes it the nation's highest. California state's federal minimum wage is $8 -- that means San Franciscans are paid 28 percent more than min ... More >>