As that big clock at 5th and Mission ticks its way to 6 tonight, the Media Workers Guild will start to assemble to vote on management's insulting offer to the union. We here at SFist would like to cast aside any tattered shreds of objectivity we might have once had to say that we support all the Guild workers at this very difficult time, and wish you the best. We can't imagine what you......

Since our last update, there have been no major breakthroughs in the negotiations between Chronicle management and the Media Workers Guild. Based on the latest reports from management and the Guild, it seems that the two sides are still quite far apart, even though the deadline on management's 'best' offer is due to expire at midnight on Monday. While the Guild is still at the table, the Pressman's Union has become much more active......

SFist welcomes some new members of the family -- in English and in French (anybody want to contribute in Mandarin?). Oh, and Rehab the Crab! This is what happens when you introduce a conservative political columnist to postmodern critical theory. Though we admit, even we have a few pet conspiracy theories. Gerardo Sandoval owes Duane Baughman $15,000 -- a little more than a month's pay if he were the Assessor Recorder and made as......

We'll we've got an update in the oh-so-exciting negotiations between the Media Workers Guild and the management of the San Francisco Chronicle (as you should know by now, part of the Hearst publishing empire). Okay, we know...boring! But damnit, it's good for you. Anyway, in a personal note from Kathleen Rhodes to Guild members, she writes: The Guild bargaining committee met with management this morning. To my mind it basically repudiated the good faith......

While you're worrying about how you're going to get to work next week if there's a strike on the BART, we're worrying about our friends who toil for Hearst over at 5th and Mission. That's right, there's not one but two big contracts expiring today -- many Chronicle unions, including the Pressman's Union and the Media Workers Guild, among others, are in the 11th hour of negotiations. And if Frank "Darth" Vega's behavior is......

KRON 4's Brian Shields organized a huuuuuuge blogger meetup at their studios. They've decided to keep working on the rollout of their aggregator and commentary. SFist sells out and is co-opted by the drunk and beautiful crowd at the Black and White Ball. Oh, wait, we are that crowd. As our friend pointed out, it's 'Gay Season' in San Francisco. Which means that the city is full of drama -- by which, of course,......

SFist managed to get their hands on the latest memo to the members of the Northern California Media Workers Guild at the Chronicle. Looks like they have now entered into negotiations with the management of the Chronicle. What's troubling is that unlike previous contract negotiations, which involved all the locals that represent employees together as the Chronicle Newspaper Unions, each local is now bargaining on their own (the Teamsters have already renegotiated their terms until......

Layoffs, health insurance cuts and a new cooking school director for the Chron....