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Labor Unions

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2012

    Ammiano Bill to Allow Marijuana Businesses and Sales That Are Already Legal

    Mr Fix-It​Call it an industry, call it a movement, call it a gigantic scam. Law enforcement and politicians can't agree what to call California's medical marijuana scene, except to say it exists in a legal gray area.And how. A dispensary operator in Vallejo was arrested last week -- twice -- becau ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 15, 2012

    A Nation Mobilized

    Mr Fix-It​Call it an industry, call it a movement, call it a gigantic scam. Law enforcement and politicians can't agree what to call California's medical marijuana scene, except to say it exists in a legal gray area.And how. A dispensary operator in Vallejo was arrested last week -- twice -- becau ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 6, 2011

    Striking Data

    Mr Fix-It​Call it an industry, call it a movement, call it a gigantic scam. Law enforcement and politicians can't agree what to call California's medical marijuana scene, except to say it exists in a legal gray area.And how. A dispensary operator in Vallejo was arrested last week -- twice -- becau ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    Medical Marijuana Bills Killed by Odd Bedfellows -- Labor and Business Groups

    You can't really win against business AND labor​Public safety and jobs. To a California politician, they are the bread and butter -- if bread and butter means getting elected, that is. There are fewer worse labels for a politician than "job-killer" or the pejorative "soft on crime."You'd think, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Muni Workers Want Bigger Bonuses for Night Shifts

    ​In January, SF Weekly published a cover story on the $70 million per year San Francisco spends on "premium pay" -- bonuses offered to employees for doing certain types of work. Because such pay requires no extra work and is often seemingly redundant with job descriptions -- firefighters, for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Will Mayor Ed Lee Cave to Labor Over 'Bumping' Rights?

    One bump sometimes leads to another​On Monday afternoon, labor organizers planned to pack a City Hall hearing room to protest Mayor Ed Lee's plans to eliminate the controversial practice of "bumping," which allows city workers who are laid off in one city department to displace lower-seniority wor ... More >>

  • News

    January 26, 2011

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

    One bump sometimes leads to another​On Monday afternoon, labor organizers planned to pack a City Hall hearing room to protest Mayor Ed Lee's plans to eliminate the controversial practice of "bumping," which allows city workers who are laid off in one city department to displace lower-seniority wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Guardian Parrots Propaganda in Endorsement Issue

    War is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. Vote YES, YES, YES on public power!​The San Francisco Bay Guardian's "How You Should Think" edition hit newsstands this morning. It's not surprising to see the Guardian inform its readers to do everything organized labor would wish of th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Bell-Ringing Boycott More Terrible PR For Muni Union

    Rick DikemanNo bells, no whistles​Leadership of the Transportation Workers Union, it seems, inadvertently read the Dale Carnegie tome How to Win Friends and Influence People backwards -- and constantly endeavor lose friends and alienate people. Just when you think the Muni Drivers' union couldn't ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    U.C. Regents Boot Documentary Filmmaker Ric Chavez From Meeting

    No cameras, pal!​University of California police and U.C. officials barred an independent filmmaker from a Regents meeting in Mission Bay today after police said he was filming "security arrangements" of the campus cops. To turn the molehill into even more of a mountain, state Sen. Leland Yee, who ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    Rosselli: Andy Stern Retirement Would End 'Sad Chapter' in SEIU History

    ​Today's news that Service Employee International Union Boss Andy Stern plans to announce his retirement this week was met with a scathing career obituary from his west coast rival Sal Rosselli, who said Stern will be known for abetting  corruption and quashing union democracy while cutting s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2010

    Marching Muni Drivers Overwhelm 'March Against Muni'

    All Photos | Joe EskenaziMarch Against Muni organizer Jared Roussel looks on as Muni Drivers' union boss Irwin Lum snatches away his bullhorn and addresses the crowd​"March Against Muni," the odd amalgam of largely young, hip people deeply incensed at rude Muni drivers, paper Fast Passes, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    D'oh! Labor-Backed Pension 'Reform' Would Cost City Millions More Than Earlier Estimate.

    ​On Wednesday, we reported how a pension reform bill intending to save the city money was affixed with a union-crafted amendment that would actually cost San Francisco more than $13 million annually.The notion of pension reform actually costing the city more in both the short- and long-term is bad ... More >>

  • News

    December 9, 2009

    Charitable Front

    Mysterious organizations in the Bay Area profess to be advocating for liberal causes. In truth, they appear to be part of a secretive group with a bizarre radical past.

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    Were S.F. Public Works Jobs Part of Massive Fraud Scheme? Union Officials Say Yes.

    Don FeriaPolice escourt a woman from NBC General Contractors' Oakland offices during a May raid​If you're looking for the Lord Voldemort of local labor, Bay Area union officials have a nomination: Monica Ung. The owner of NBC General Contractors has been charged by Alameda County prosecutors with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2009

    Transit Train Wreck Turned Aside: Winners and Losers in Tentative BART Settlement

    http://world.nycsubway.orgGuess who's still here?​If you rode BART to work this morning and came to the horrible realization that not only was your seat cold, but wet, too -- congratulations! You're still a winner. You can still go get a new pair of pants at Ross or Old Navy and get to work in les ... 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

    June 4, 2009

    Peace Breaks Out! Fasting Pro-Union Workers Come In From the Cold at Dianne Feinstein's Office

    At Guantanamo, hunger strikes don't end earlyThis just in from the San Francisco Labor Council: Apparently a group of workers have broken off their fast at Sen. Dianne Feinstein's local office on Post Street. The workers' hunger strike was the latest in a series of local events and rallies organized ... More >>

  • News

    June 3, 2009

    For contract talks, BART and its unions take the information superhighway

    At Guantanamo, hunger strikes don't end earlyThis just in from the San Francisco Labor Council: Apparently a group of workers have broken off their fast at Sen. Dianne Feinstein's local office on Post Street. The workers' hunger strike was the latest in a series of local events and rallies organized ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    If Clergywomen Beat the Gong For an Antidemocratic, Pro-Union Bill and Dianne Feinstein Isn't There To Hear It...

    Three wishes, Dianne!If Sen. Dianne Feinstein is susceptible to gong-accompanied incantations, then opponents of the union-bolstering bill currently wending its way through the U.S. Congress had best take warning.Noon today marked the end of a 24-hour vigil organized by local labor groups to s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2009

    Renegade Healthcare Union Claims Success Cannibalizing SEIU

    The National Union Of Healthcare Workers, a renegade splinter union formed in January when the Service Employees International Union ousted the leadership of its 120,000-member United Healthcare West affiliate, claims to be near stealing away 50,000 workers at Kaiser Permanente.The new union is hold ... More >>

  • News

    February 4, 2009

    Bad Medicine

    A nurses' union joins antidevelopment forces to prevent a new hospital from being built.

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    Oakland Union Boss: 150,000 California Health-Care Workers May Quit SEIU

    The leader of an Oakland-based health-care affiliate of the Service Employees International Union said Monday that workers may quit the union en masse if SEIU president Andy Stern follows through on a threat to take over the affiliate. "If the SEIU International forces us into trusteeship, we w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2009

    Teamsters Head Uses Toilet, Death Analogies to Express Why New Chronicle Presses Must Be Unionized

    "New plant opening up in Fremont -- looks like I'm out of work." In this, the San Francisco Chronicle's 144th birthday week, the paper has giddily promised its readers "144 days of extra surprises, leading up to the biggest of them all -- new presses." You won't read about it in the Chron, but not e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2009

    A Protest with Extra Cheese: Costumed Carpenters' Questionable Claims

    Atsa spicy protest! San Francisco is a town where you can often turn more heads wearing a three-piece suit than nothing at all. And yet, the sight of two burly union carpenters from the Local 22 handing out fliers in front of Amici's Pizza on King Street -- while dressed as Italian chefs - still ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2008

    Fledgling Newspaper Union Appeals Labor Board Decision

    By John Geluardi Three Contra Costa Times reporters, who say they were targeted for layoffs once they succeeded in forming a union, filed an appeal last week with the federal labor board after the board rejected their initial complaint for lack of evidence. Last July, just weeks after organizers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2008

    Local Union Pickets Extreme Sports Event

    By John Geluardi Three Contra Costa Times reporters, who say they were targeted for layoffs once they succeeded in forming a union, filed an appeal last week with the federal labor board after the board rejected their initial complaint for lack of evidence. Last July, just weeks after organizers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2008

    Newspaper Union Stirring to Life in the East Bay

    By John Geluardi Three Contra Costa Times reporters, who say they were targeted for layoffs once they succeeded in forming a union, filed an appeal last week with the federal labor board after the board rejected their initial complaint for lack of evidence. Last July, just weeks after organizers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2008

    ILWU Shutting Down West Coast Ports to Protest War

    By John Geluardi Three Contra Costa Times reporters, who say they were targeted for layoffs once they succeeded in forming a union, filed an appeal last week with the federal labor board after the board rejected their initial complaint for lack of evidence. Last July, just weeks after organizers ... More >>

  • News

    December 12, 2007

    Unhealthy Union

    Could there be a secret deal with Arnold on health care that will inflate union rolls?

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2007

    Alliance between SEIU and nursing home chains now defunct

    Could there be a secret deal with Arnold on health care that will inflate union rolls?

  • News

    February 14, 2007

    Harboring a Land Bonanza

    Do union members know their boss stands to benefit from turning their pension fund investment into a gambling casino?

  • 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

    August 4, 2004

    Progressive Failure

    Why San Francisco supervisors who call themselves progressives should get the boot in November

  • News

    April 30, 2003

    Hosed

    The Fire Department is a bloated fiscal mess that, thanks to union politics, won't face the budget cuts it should

  • News

    February 19, 2003

    Losin' It

    Can Wade and O'Donoghue keep up in this brave broke world?

  • News

    September 4, 2002

    A Dog-Eat-Dog World

    A journalist frets about job security, then realizes things could be worse -- he could be a janitor at Yahoo!

  • 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

  • News

    February 21, 2001

    Trouble at the F-Ex

    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

  • Film

    April 26, 2000

    Lusty Ladies

    Live Nude Girls, UNITE!

  • News

    February 16, 2000

    Mecklin

    Get Me Rewrite

  • News

    December 9, 1998

    Letters

    Get Me Rewrite

  • Calendar

    October 14, 1998

    Cothran

    Get Me Rewrite

  • News

    May 21, 1997

    Chalk Fight

    Teachers' union grand dame Joan Marie Shelley is forced into the campaign of her career by a formerly loyal lieutenant

  • News

    October 30, 1996

    State and National Candidates

    Teachers' union grand dame Joan Marie Shelley is forced into the campaign of her career by a formerly loyal lieutenant

  • News

    August 7, 1996

    Ringmaster Willie

    Although Mayor Brown's opening acts have impressed, he's also allowed more than a few rogue elephants under his Big Top. We begin our stampede watch.

  • News

    July 31, 1996

    What Price Hygiene?

    Janitors claim building managers are treating them like dirt

  • News

    July 31, 1996

    Cleaning Slates

    Superintendent Bill Rojas is pushing a simple solution for troubled schools: Get rid of everybody.

  • News

    August 9, 1995

    Dog Bite

    Superintendent Bill Rojas is pushing a simple solution for troubled schools: Get rid of everybody.

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