This just in from our LA Weekly colleague Steven Mikulan:
A press release just issued by the Washington, D.C.
headquarters of the Service Employees Union International announced it has
served trusteeship
papers on its rebel health-care workers local, known as the United
Healthcare Workers-West. The Oakland-based UHW, headed by its president, Sal
Rosselli, has been engaged over the last few years in a struggle with SEIU's executive
board, led by its president, Andy Stern, over the latter's prog
Photo: chron.ronThe color of moneyMail-in voting closes Tuesday on Measure F, a new ordinance in Oakland which would impose a special tax on sales of medical marijuana in the city's dispensaries. The measure would make Oakland the first city in the United States to have a business tax category for marijuana merchants.Dispensaries have already been paying a rate of $1.20 per $1,000 of gross receipts. Measure F would create a separate category for marijuana sellers, at a rate of $18 per $1,000 of
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