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January 17, 2012
Ross Mirkarimi to Appear in Court This Week
Luke ThomasSheriff Ross Mirkarimi was supposed to appear in court today, but his attorney is now telling reporters he will be arraigned Thursday on domestic violence charges. Mirkarimi was booked into his own county jail on Friday on three misdemeanor counts of battery, child endangerment, and at ... More >>
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February 22, 2011
Wisconsin Union Battle Resonates in S.F.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott WalkerIt was only a matter of time before San Francisco politicians and activists began weighing in on the pitched battle over union power in Wisconsin. Even more so here than in most states and cities, labor is an essential factor in all political equations. So is it that un ... More >>
News
October 20, 2010
Let It Bleed
The city is awash in red ink, thanks to billion-dollar benefit giveaways and our politicians' lack of will.
News
July 14, 2010
Jeff Adachi for mayor!
The city is awash in red ink, thanks to billion-dollar benefit giveaways and our politicians' lack of will.
Blogs
June 18, 2010
Labor groups to picket Israeli ship to protest May 31 raid deaths
Not in Oakland you're not...Bay Area labor groups plan to picket the Israeli container ship, Zim Shenzhen, June 20 when it is scheduled to arrive at 5:30 am in the port of Oakland, said local longshoreman Jack Heyman."South Africa, Norway, Sweden, are going to be following suit," Heyman said. "Th ... 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
November 24, 2009
Supervisors Try to Save Jobs of Those Who Got Them Their Jobs
For the past two weeks, the progressives on the Board of Supervisors have been falling all over themselves to protect the jobs of health department workers who belong to SEIU Local 1021. Why are lefty board members going to such lengths to protect these jobs in the midst of a financial meltdo ... 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 >>
Blogs
July 1, 2009
Will Supes Vote to Save $31 million -- Or to Save Their Asses?
San Francisco likely won't be outsourcing any jobs in the near futureThe issue of contracting out city services to private firms has long been the third-rail of San Francisco politics. Even though outsourcing would save taxpayers a lot of money, the city's supervisors almost never approve a departm ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2009
Supervisors Push for Resolution Supporting Alleged Cop Killers
San Francisco Eight, Board of Supervisors, Sophie Maxwell, Eric Mar, San Francisco Police Department, Sgt. John Young, Black Liberation Army, Black Panthers
Blogs
June 8, 2009
Union President: Supervisors' Resolution Supporting Alleged Cop Killers is 'Spitting in the Face of Every Cop in San Francisco'
The Ingleside police station, where Sgt. John V. Young was killed in 1971The president of San Francisco's police union railed against supervisors Eric Mar and Sophie Maxwell today for their sponsorship of a resolution asking that charges be dropped against the seven men charged with killing a city p ... 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 >>
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
November 5, 2008
SF 2008 Election Winners & Losers
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 >>
News
June 20, 2007
Fore Play
The city's new New Deal: Privatizing public parks
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
January 3, 2007
Picket Up
Do union members know their boss stands to benefit from turning their pension fund investment into a gambling casino?
Music
December 13, 2000
House Of Tudor
"Moth Light: Artists Experiment With Illumination"; Los Lobos; South of Market Rhythm and Technology Bazaar and other events
News
December 1, 1999
Rage Against the Machine
Tom Ammiano's mayoral bid: inside the campaign that has become a cause
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
September 24, 1997
Unspun
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
February 28, 1996
Judging Matthew Rothschild
Why is the Democratic Party elite backing an underqualified party operative for the local judiciary?
News
August 30, 1995
Achtenberg's Third Act
Roberta Achtenberg bristles when anyone dares say that Williw Brown is the one who gets things done. "I have gotten things done my entire life, right?" she says, citing when her accomplishments as a law school dean, her 800-page book on sexual orientatio

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