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Jobs and Labor

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2012

    San Francisco's Minimum Wage Is Highest in the Nation, But Will That Help the Economy?

    San Francisco will soon have the highest minimum wage in the nation starting Jan. 1, 2013 when employee paychecks increase by a whopping 31 cents to $10.55 per hour. Currently, the sometimes grumpy folks serving your sandwiches and making your coffee are generally earning $10.24 an hour. But risin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2012

    Get Hired at Thursday's Good Food Jobs Fair

    What: Good Food Jobs Fair When: September 13th, 8am-12pm and 4pm-7pm Where: Food Craft Institute, Jack London Square, 65 Webster St, Oakland. Cost: Free The rundown: Feel like you have the passion and drive to make a difference in the world of food? Then print up a crisp new resume and bring it to t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2012

    Organized Labor Flexes Muscle for Medical Marijuana Dispensary

    Support from UFCW Helps Mission Organics Win PermitSan Francisco's reputation as a union town was hard-won on the docks and picket lines of the 1930s. Less violence accompanied the city being known as a haven for pot-smoking freaks, but it took the carnage of the AIDS epidemic for San Francisco to b ... More >>

  • News

    March 28, 2012

    Lost Boys of Summer: Some Ex-Ballplayers Seek Help From MLB

    Support from UFCW Helps Mission Organics Win PermitSan Francisco's reputation as a union town was hard-won on the docks and picket lines of the 1930s. Less violence accompanied the city being known as a haven for pot-smoking freaks, but it took the carnage of the AIDS epidemic for San Francisco to b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2012

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

    ​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 minimum-wage workers in other Bay Area cities -- and the federal mi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Unemployed Still? Cannabis Jobs Fair at Cow Palace This Weekend

    ​This being election season means it's also jobs 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 similar to the 17-point jobs plan offered in June by mayoral oppo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    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 >>

  • News

    October 6, 2010

    Labor Pains

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

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    July 1, 2009

    Fighting to Work

    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 >>

  • Music

    June 3, 2009

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

    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 >>

  • News

    May 6, 2009

    Unemployed straight guys attend transgender job fair

    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 >>

  • News

    May 6, 2009

    Gavin Newsom is no civil service reformer

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2008

    East Bay Newspaper Managers Continue to Cut Jobs

    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 >>

  • News

    October 1, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2008

    Newspaper Union Accuses Company Of Retaliation

    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 >>

  • News

    February 20, 2008

    Local Union Leader Rosselli Blasts SEIU Boss Andy Stern

    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 >>

  • News

    February 6, 2008

    West Coast Dockworkers Dispute Could Paralyze U.S. Economy

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2008

    Rhapsody Lays Off 24 Today, 12 Two Weeks Ago?

    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 >>

  • News

    December 19, 2007

    Paper Chase

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

  • News

    June 6, 2007

    Mazzola Is Slippery

    The union boss has once more escaped punishment for funds diversion

  • News

    April 11, 2007

    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

  • News

    December 6, 2006

    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.

  • News

    May 4, 2005

    Labor's Pain

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

  • News

    October 20, 2004

    Maid in San Francisco

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

  • News

    June 25, 2003

    Former Pimp Laid Low

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

  • News

    January 22, 2003

    Bent Outta Shape

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

  • News

    August 15, 2001

    Letters to the Editor

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

  • News

    January 17, 2001

    As a Matter of Fat

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

  • News

    March 15, 2000

    Closed Shop

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

  • News

    November 10, 1999

    Breaking Ranks

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

  • News

    December 2, 1998

    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

  • Calendar

    October 28, 1998

    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

  • Music

    March 11, 1998

    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

  • Calendar

    January 7, 1998

    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

  • News

    May 14, 1997

    Unhealthy Debate

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

  • News

    May 14, 1997

    Big Deal

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

  • News

    April 30, 1997

    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.

  • News

    December 4, 1996

    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.

  • News

    January 17, 1996

    Investing in Willie

    Integrated Health Services of Maryland puts its stock in Brown

  • News

    June 28, 1995

    Temps of the World, Unite!

    The Wobblies set out to organize temporary workers

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