Entries from SFist tagged with 'seiulocal'
May 1, 2006
It warms our red hearts to see workers marching here at home and around the world on International Workers' Day, otherwise known as May Day. Protests and demonstrations happened from Berlin to Indonesia, and while most were peaceful, there were scuffles with authorities. Here in the United States, the marches were to protest changes to immigration laws, and coincided with many businesses shuttering their doors as immigrant workers walked off their jobs. Marches were......
Continue Reading "Happy May Day"November 15, 2005
Members of SEIU Local 790 employed by the San Francisco Unified School District plan to announce their strike as early as Wednesday. We confirmed information posted on Indybay with a representative from the union yesterday. According to the Chronicle, the strike will not be legal under state law until ten days after a recommendation from a fact-finding panel is issued and considered by both the union and the district, which at the earliest would......
Continue Reading "School District Employees to Strike This Week"December 1, 2004
Alta Bates Summit nurses and other staffers went on a one-day strike and got locked out instead for a week....
Continue Reading "Alta Bates to Disgruntled Employees: Take Your One-Day Strike and Shove It"