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Blogs
May 23, 2012
Court Workers to Decide on Possible Strike
There are few experiences in San Francisco more excruciating than waiting in line outside the Hall of Justice to take care of a traffic ticket. People crane their necks, instinctively trying to snatch a sight of the front of the line. Somebody inevitably says, "Why are three of the windows closed?" ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2012
Occupy Decides Not to Occupy the Golden Gate Bridge After All
(Update 5:15 p.m.): The Golden Gate Larkspur and Sausalito ferries will not be in service tomorrow due to a planned strike as part of the May Day action. The ferries will resume service again after 2 p.m., according to transit officials. Hopefully, this gives ferry commuters some time to make altern ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2011
Boots Riley: Oakland General Strike Is "Like Us Flashing Our Guns"
via EKA PhotographyBoots Riley at Occupy Oakland The Occupy movement doesn't have a leader, but Oakland activist-rapper Boots Riley is serving as one sort of de facto spokesman for his hometown's defiant occupation, lending the collective grievances a high-profile voice. Inspired by public g ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2011
Oakland Dogpiles on Mayor Jean Quan
Mayor Jean Quan has had better days Now that she has somewhat placated Occupy Oakland protesters, Mayor Jean Quan is pissing off police and the business community. Like a mother with rivaling children, Quan is stuck trying to balance the demands of both police and protesters as the city braces fo ... More >>
Calendar
July 6, 2011
Striking Data
Mayor Jean Quan has had better days Now that she has somewhat placated Occupy Oakland protesters, Mayor Jean Quan is pissing off police and the business community. Like a mother with rivaling children, Quan is stuck trying to balance the demands of both police and protesters as the city braces fo ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2011
S.F. Ferry Ticketers to Strike Today to Protest Automation
Matt SmithMr. Ferry Boat doesn't like to get angry.UPDATE: Media outlets are reporting that the planned strike has been called off. Original story 7:25 a.m.:Ticket taking on the Golden Gate ferry system has been one of the last manual labor jobs kept safe from automation. But that may change with ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2011
Muni Operators Vote to Authorize Strike -- City Threatens to Sue
Negotiations are as spotty as Muni service ... It wouldn't feel right at this point if negotiations between Muni and its operators went smoothly. And it appears even the drivers are prepping for the worst -- the union has voted in favor of a strike should negotiations break down. A preliminary vo ... More >>
Blogs
September 15, 2010
'Muni Sickout' San Francisco's Own Quran-Burning Moment
Is this the braniac behind the Muni 'sickout' flier?With threats of a Muni sickout receding into the distance, San Franciscans can get back to their usual litany of complaints about our transit service: urine, loons, crime, loud music, the driver accelerating while you're trying to sit down, and ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2010
No Muni 'Sickout' -- Yet
No sickout here...If Muni drivers do hope to pull off a "sickout," it's gotten off to an anemic start. While an anonymous, all-caps flier urged drivers to call in sick en masse from yesterday to Sept. 17, that hasn't happened -- yet. Per the flier, "ALL TRANSIT OPERATORS WILL CALL IN SICK ON SEPT ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2010
Labor Dispute Over Solar Panels Heats Up
Members of Aboriginal Blackmen United wait for a meeting with City Administrator Ed LeeA labor dispute over solar technology is heating up, with one union now considering legal action against the city, and a Bayview worker's group visiting City Hall to demand meetings with top officials.At issue ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2010
Convention & Visitors Bureau Kicks Out Unruly Union
Since its labor contract expired in August 2009, hotel workers' union Unite Here Local 2 has spent months waving signs in hotel-visitors' faces and generally causing a ruckus (this is, after all, how labor actions work) in its efforts to win a new labor contract. Tired of this crap, this week the ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2010
The Coast Should Be Clear for Alice Waters' Book Signing Next Weekend
There sure was a whole lot of hullabaloo surrounding Alice Waters this week, but, as Eater SF reports, it ended with a fizzle. In other words, it won't be some great act of political defiance to go see Waters when she hits sweet little Noe Valley shop Omnivore Books on Food to sign copies of ... More >>
Blogs
November 19, 2009
Bay Links: Ballard, Booksellers, & Santa
The eminently quotable Nathan Ballard!Top five Nathan Ballard quotes. [Sweet Melissa]Quick, where did you stash your slutty Santa costume last year???? [Laughing Squid]Local booksellers not carrying Palin book: ""We're a small store and it would probably gross us all out." [SFgate]The best new bu ... More >>
Blogs
July 30, 2009
BART Strike Would Impact 40 Percent of Employees ... In the Communications Department
When one juxtaposes the terms "union negotiations" and "BART," images of men and women in jumpsuits driving or fixing trains come to mind. You don't think of spokespeople or anyone with the term "multi-media" in his or her job. But you should. Of the five employees in BART's communications depart ... 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 >>
Blogs
July 2, 2009
Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of General Strike Falls Amid Renewed Police-Labor Feud
See you on the waterfrontThis Sunday, July 5, San Francisco's International Longshore and Warehouse Union will hold a procession to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of Bloody Thursday, the clash between police and striking longshoremen during the city's 1934 General Strike that led to a permanent lo ... More >>
Calendar
July 1, 2009
Fighting to Work
See you on the waterfrontThis Sunday, July 5, San Francisco's International Longshore and Warehouse Union will hold a procession to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of Bloody Thursday, the clash between police and striking longshoremen during the city's 1934 General Strike that led to a permanent lo ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2009
Gavin's Dilemma: Dis Firefighters or Darling of LGBT Political Community?
Who should I snub? Ballard! My magic eight-ball!If you were Gavin Newsom -- and, odds are, you weren't -- these were your choices: Head to last weekend's U.S. Conference of Mayor's in Providence, R.I. and talk about your treasurer's innovative economic plan and a former supervisor's innovative healt ... More >>
News
October 1, 2008
SEIU boss Andy Stern wouldn't mind if McCain gets elected
Who should I snub? Ballard! My magic eight-ball!If you were Gavin Newsom -- and, odds are, you weren't -- these were your choices: Head to last weekend's U.S. Conference of Mayor's in Providence, R.I. and talk about your treasurer's innovative economic plan and a former supervisor's innovative healt ... More >>
News
February 6, 2008
West Coast Dockworkers Dispute Could Paralyze U.S. Economy
Who should I snub? Ballard! My magic eight-ball!If you were Gavin Newsom -- and, odds are, you weren't -- these were your choices: Head to last weekend's U.S. Conference of Mayor's in Providence, R.I. and talk about your treasurer's innovative economic plan and a former supervisor's innovative healt ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2007
SF Safeway Grocer's Strikes Looms -- And We So Don't Care
Who should I snub? Ballard! My magic eight-ball!If you were Gavin Newsom -- and, odds are, you weren't -- these were your choices: Head to last weekend's U.S. Conference of Mayor's in Providence, R.I. and talk about your treasurer's innovative economic plan and a former supervisor's innovative healt ... More >>
Blogs
November 5, 2007
Writers Guild of America on Strike: Rerun City
Who should I snub? Ballard! My magic eight-ball!If you were Gavin Newsom -- and, odds are, you weren't -- these were your choices: Head to last weekend's U.S. Conference of Mayor's in Providence, R.I. and talk about your treasurer's innovative economic plan and a former supervisor's innovative healt ... More >>
Blogs
October 25, 2007
Will Paris' Bike-Share Program Work in S.F.?
Who should I snub? Ballard! My magic eight-ball!If you were Gavin Newsom -- and, odds are, you weren't -- these were your choices: Head to last weekend's U.S. Conference of Mayor's in Providence, R.I. and talk about your treasurer's innovative economic plan and a former supervisor's innovative healt ... More >>
News
January 3, 2007
Picket Up
Who should I snub? Ballard! My magic eight-ball!If you were Gavin Newsom -- and, odds are, you weren't -- these were your choices: Head to last weekend's U.S. Conference of Mayor's in Providence, R.I. and talk about your treasurer's innovative economic plan and a former supervisor's innovative healt ... More >>
News
May 4, 2005
Darth Vega to the Rescue
New Chronicle Publisher Frank Vega has been cast as a villain, but he may be just what the Hearst empire needs to defeat the dark forces of the new economy
News
March 30, 2005
I Picket, Ergo Sum
With philosophy on their side, there's no way San Francisco hotel workers can't win their labor dispute
News
October 27, 2004
Apathy to the Rescue
How to make the undecideds break for Kerry? Threaten to turn off Survivor and Friends reruns.
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
January 22, 2003
Bent Outta Shape
San Francisco bike messengers hit some nasty economic potholes as they struggle to unionize
News
June 5, 2002
Off the Waterfront
News media have abandoned the labor beat and missed a story of global financial import: the looming possibility of a longshoremen's strike at West Coast ports
Culture
February 28, 2001
Treat Him Write
Sam Hamm writes great scripts. So why do they rarely get made?
News
March 24, 1999
Strike While the Iron Is Hot
Bike messengers organizing for April 15 walkout
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.

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