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Gross Profit: Money Given to Clipboard Kids Rarely Makes It to Nonprofits

It's Official: The Bay Citizen Unionizes

Hellman's Frankenstein Monster ​Just a year after Warren Hellman launched The Bay Citizen, the editorial newsroom decided to officially unionize. On May 26, The Bay Citizen signed union cards indicating they want to join the Pacific Media Workers Guild, Local 39521 of The Newspaper Guild-Communica ... More >>

Kaiser Union Election Produces Winner, Legal Battle

Matt SmithTime to put the signs back in the shed.​The Service Employees International Union yesterday decisively won an election to represent 43,000 workers at Kaiser medical facilities around California, an occurrence academic observers predict could be the death knell for dissident leader ... More >>

Protesters Protest What Happened at Other Protest

We'd protest too...​A half dozen men from Carpenters Local Union 152 picketed outside the Safeway at Fourth and King Friday morning. It seems they didn't make much of a splash. For one, they held rather vague signs about what the mammoth grocers' alleged sins were. And, unless you were on foot -- ... More >>

San Francisco Federal Appeals Court: Companies Can't Be Forced To Hire Back Illegally Terminated Illegal Aliens

'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 f ... More >>

NLRB Tosses Faux-Paisano Pizza Protesters' Complaint

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 brawl ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

East Bay Newspapers Rescind Layoffs... Temporarily

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 ... More >>

SEIU boss Andy Stern wouldn't mind if McCain gets elected

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 ... More >>

Newspaper Union Stirring to Life in the East Bay

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 ... More >>

Building Racism

Segregation and racism are used to pit black and Latino carpenters against each other at a low-income-housing site

Local Union Leader Rosselli Blasts SEIU Boss Andy Stern

Segregation and racism are used to pit black and Latino carpenters against each other at a low-income-housing site

Paper Chase

The Guild is up against a cost-cutting mogul and declining revenues, but the union continues to seek converts

KRON's Last Gasp

How a once-proud San Francisco television station became ground zero in the nation's most controversial experiment in local TV news.

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

Letters to the Editor

Week of February 19, 2003

Letters to the Editor

Week of February 12, 2002

Bent Outta Shape

San Francisco bike messengers hit some nasty economic potholes as they struggle to unionize

My Supermarket, My Friend

Is that forced Safeway smile a customer service, or an annoying attempt to control?

Riff Raff

Is that forced Safeway smile a customer service, or an annoying attempt to control?

The Grid

Is that forced Safeway smile a customer service, or an annoying attempt to control?

Esprit de Court

How Susie Tompkins Buell built, wrecked, and sued San Francisco's legendary Esprit de Corp. clothing company, and why she still gets to sit next to President Clinton

Unhealthy Debate

There's a new and nasty labor-management war. Health care is the battlefield. San Francisco is the front line.

Big Deal

There's a new and nasty labor-management war. Health care is the battlefield. San Francisco is the front line.

Dog Bites

There's a new and nasty labor-management war. Health care is the battlefield. San Francisco is the front line.

Paper Trails

There's a new and nasty labor-management war. Health care is the battlefield. San Francisco is the front line.

Dog Bites

There's a new and nasty labor-management war. Health care is the battlefield. San Francisco is the front line.