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May 24, 2012
Court Workers Say They Will Strike if They Have to
Court employees empowered union leaders yesterday to authorize a strike if need be, saying they are tired of the dead-end negotiations with management. Local court workers, who are represented by SEIU Local 1021, voted 95 percent in favor of calling a strike if there isn't some movement at the negot ... More >>
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April 18, 2012
American Parasite: Romney's Bain Represents Capitalism's Worst
Court employees empowered union leaders yesterday to authorize a strike if need be, saying they are tired of the dead-end negotiations with management. Local court workers, who are represented by SEIU Local 1021, voted 95 percent in favor of calling a strike if there isn't some movement at the negot ... More >>
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March 16, 2011
List: Why S.F. School Board Members Deserve Raises
Court employees empowered union leaders yesterday to authorize a strike if need be, saying they are tired of the dead-end negotiations with management. Local court workers, who are represented by SEIU Local 1021, voted 95 percent in favor of calling a strike if there isn't some movement at the negot ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2010
Latest State Employment Numbers: Slightly More Abysmal than Before
We know you've been sitting in the closest, in the dark, refusing food and ignoring the increasingly desperate pleas of friends and family to Please, just come out! Not until I get my next installment of the Employment Development Department's monthly labor statistics, you told yourself resolutel ... More >>
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March 30, 2010
Will S.F. Take Well-Paid Cops Off Street to Shovel Horse Shit?
Will San Francisco make a dubious move?Earlier this month, Matt Murphy was told he'd be laid off from his city job, and likely replaced by a uniformed police officer. Since Murphy already works for the police department, that's not so outlandish an idea. But since his job largely consists of shov ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2009
More Shake-Ups at San Francisco SPCA
After being closed all day Thursday for a series of mandatory staff meetings, San Francisco's SPCA re-opened today -- but not, it seems, with all the services available previously. The SPCA has now posted on its Web site that its internationally renowned Academy for Dog Trainers -- which instruc ... More >>
Blogs
July 15, 2009
Bay Area News Group East Bay's Newsrooms Just Got a Lot Roomier -- 17 Shown the Door
http://www.big13.netAnd the time for newsroom layoffs -- is nowAn e-mail ominously titled "staff changes" was moments ago circulated to employees of the Bay Area News Group in the East Bay. Kevin Keane -- the chain's executive editor and the author of the memo -- seems to have the same definition of ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2009
Will Vibe Reboot Digitally?
It's Up to Q: Quincy Jones From NYC tipsite Idolater comes this interesting tidbit (thanks to SFW Music Editress Jen Maerz for passing it on): One day after Vibe magazine announced 50 employees would be laid off and print operations would cease, founder (and Michael Jackson producer) Quincy ... More >>
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June 10, 2009
Businesses feel trapped by costs of Union Square's Business Improvement District
It's Up to Q: Quincy Jones From NYC tipsite Idolater comes this interesting tidbit (thanks to SFW Music Editress Jen Maerz for passing it on): One day after Vibe magazine announced 50 employees would be laid off and print operations would cease, founder (and Michael Jackson producer) Quincy ... More >>
Blogs
April 17, 2009
That's Just the Sound of the Employment Rate Whizzing Past Your Ears
The California Employment Development Department released their latest statistics pertaining to unemployment and industry today, and guess what? They are not awesome. California hit a record high of 11.2 percent unemployment in March, which is nearly five points higher than March of last year. San F ... More >>
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April 8, 2009
Way Above Average
The California Employment Development Department released their latest statistics pertaining to unemployment and industry today, and guess what? They are not awesome. California hit a record high of 11.2 percent unemployment in March, which is nearly five points higher than March of last year. San F ... More >>
Blogs
March 4, 2009
Wall Street Journal Highlights How 86-Year-Old Badminton Fanatic Aced San Francisco
The comedian Alexei Sayle used to say that "you can't fight city hall -- but you can take a crap on the steps and run away." Well, he was wrong. You can do both, and Ed Leong is living proof of it -- at least the fighting part. An article appearing today in the Wall Street Journal recounts how the ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2009
Labor Groups, Babies, Very Old People, Supes Rally Against Rec & Park Cuts -- But Layoffs May Already Be Fait Accompli
Supervisor John Avalos told Rec & Parks workers he'd like to help them -- but he has no idea how. He still got a friendly round of applauseFashion-wise, children often make the best accessories. Far better than purple tchochkes -- but at today's SEIU City Hall rally on behalf of soon-to-be laid ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2009
MediaNews Lawyer Denies Ex-Reporter's Discrimination Claims
A lawyer for MediaNews Group says the newspaper chain plans to deny allegations of discrimination in a lawsuit filed earlier this month by a former reporter at the Monterey County Herald. Andre Briscoe, a black man who worked at the MediaNews-owned Herald from August 2005 through January 2008, asse ... More >>
Blogs
July 3, 2008
Former Employee Flicks Off Mercury News on Flickr
A lawyer for MediaNews Group says the newspaper chain plans to deny allegations of discrimination in a lawsuit filed earlier this month by a former reporter at the Monterey County Herald. Andre Briscoe, a black man who worked at the MediaNews-owned Herald from August 2005 through January 2008, asse ... More >>
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January 16, 2008
This Will Pinch a Little
A lawyer for MediaNews Group says the newspaper chain plans to deny allegations of discrimination in a lawsuit filed earlier this month by a former reporter at the Monterey County Herald. Andre Briscoe, a black man who worked at the MediaNews-owned Herald from August 2005 through January 2008, asse ... More >>
Blogs
June 21, 2007
Chron's No. 2: Out
A lawyer for MediaNews Group says the newspaper chain plans to deny allegations of discrimination in a lawsuit filed earlier this month by a former reporter at the Monterey County Herald. Andre Briscoe, a black man who worked at the MediaNews-owned Herald from August 2005 through January 2008, asse ... More >>
News
November 19, 1997
Letters
A lawyer for MediaNews Group says the newspaper chain plans to deny allegations of discrimination in a lawsuit filed earlier this month by a former reporter at the Monterey County Herald. Andre Briscoe, a black man who worked at the MediaNews-owned Herald from August 2005 through January 2008, asse ... More >>
Culture
May 17, 1995
Aisle Seat
A lawyer for MediaNews Group says the newspaper chain plans to deny allegations of discrimination in a lawsuit filed earlier this month by a former reporter at the Monterey County Herald. Andre Briscoe, a black man who worked at the MediaNews-owned Herald from August 2005 through January 2008, asse ... More >>
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March 15, 1995
Letters
A lawyer for MediaNews Group says the newspaper chain plans to deny allegations of discrimination in a lawsuit filed earlier this month by a former reporter at the Monterey County Herald. Andre Briscoe, a black man who worked at the MediaNews-owned Herald from August 2005 through January 2008, asse ... More >>

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