By John Geluardi
Bay Area News Group – East Bay) managers have rescinded the eight newsroom layoffs they announced last week after the company’s new union filed a complaint with the National Labors Relations Board.
Managers told the eight employees who are part of the bargaining unit that they could come back to work or stay at home and collect full pay until the situation is resolved.
The Bay Area News Group – East Bay (BANG), is a cluster of newspapers owned by Media News Group,
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 established the first newspaper union to be formed in the United States in over 40 years, managers laid off 29 newsroom employees, 21 of whom happened to be involved in union organizing efforts. The
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 manages to get one's attention.
The faux-paisano handed SF Weekly an oxblood-red flier blaring "UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT" ... "Amici's Pizza has hired Pacific Construction and Man
Mama Mia! Da NLRB a-rule against mia protest!Late last month, we wrote about the head-turning sight of burly union carpenters dressed as Italian pizza chefs. The theatrical protest in front of Amici's East Coast Pizzeria in Mission Bay disguised a convoluted, modern-day Rashomon, complete with brawls, Ferraris, and calzone. Here it is, with brevity: The Carpenters' Local 22 was "handbilling" outside Amici's because the pizza place has used Pacific Construction to build its new restaurants. Local
New Chronicle Publisher Frank Vega has been cast as a villain, but he may be just what the Hearst empireneeds to defeat the dark forces of the new economy
'Jetson, you're fired! And since you're an illegal alien, I can't be forced to rehire you by the NLRB!'Employers were seemingly given broader license to fire illegal immigrants at will by a San Francisco federal appeals court, which ruled this week that a company cannot be forced to hire back fired employees who can't legally work in the United States.
In a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, an Arizona roofing company does not have to comply with a settlement reached
