SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Boycott of Organic Food Company Amy’s Kitchen Has Some Grocers Pulling Products From Shelves The darling of the organic-vegetarian frozen food aisle took a hit with some workplace safety allegations at their Santa Rosa plant, creating some grocer boycotts and talk of workers unionizing.
SF News Local Unions Likely To Oppose Mayor's $600 Million Affordable Housing Bond What's set to be the largest housing bond in San Francisco history could be tanked on the November ballot by vocal opposition from local labor leaders who are concerned about a union-related provision relating to such housing bonds.
SF News Facebook Cafeteria Workers Unionize, Say They're Not Sharing In The Tech Wealth A decision by about 500 cafeteria workers at Facebook's Menlo Park campus to unionize led the Guardian to do this piece profiling a husband and wife who work in the cafeteria and are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shady Former Hong Kong Lounge I & II Owner Pleads Guilty To Labor-Related Felony In 2012, the now-former owner of popular Richmond district restaurants Hong Kong Lounges I and II, Ming Lian Zhou, was ordered to pay 48 workers more than $90,000 in unpaid back wages.
SF News Amazon Tests Out 30-Hour Workweek For Some Employees Amazon's latest innovation isn't a new subscription program or e-book reader: It's a 30-hour work week for certain employees on technical teams, the Washington Post reveals. A few dozen workers at the Seattle,
Arts & Entertainment Video: Cool Aerial Dance On Side Of SF State Building Celebrates Women In Workforce To celebrate the 30th anniversary of SF State's impressive Labor Archives and Research Center, the center's director Catherine Powell commissioned a dance performance choreographed by Jo Kreiter and produced by local apparatus-based dance
SF News BART Has No Idea How To Cover New Labor Deal's $77 Million In Raises Even if BART can manage to get voters to agree to that $3.5 billion infrastructure bond they want to put on the November ballot, it's not like all their money worries will
SF News Concession Workers Strike Outside AT&T Park Today If you're heading to AT&T Park today to see the Giants take on the Rockies, you might come across another heated battle. An estimated 750 concession workers are on a one-day
Arts & Entertainment Breaking: S.F. Symphony Musicians Go On Strike After a rather tone-deaf protest at San Francisco City Hall yesterday -- where, while donning L.A. Dodgers hats, a quartet performed in front of a Giants cap on the dirty floor --
SF News Live: SEIU Protest At San Francisco City Hall In Progress Justin Beck is live at City Hall covering today's SEIU occupation. So far there are an estimated hundred or so protesters inside, one brandishing a bullhorn to shout and chant stuff. Supervisors Eric
SF News Muni Ends Hiring Freeze; About Half of All Muni Drivers Aren't Working Each Day Of the 2,100 Muni drivers currently employed by the SF MTA, some 900 or so are unavailable for work on any given day due to sick leave, long-term leave, or days off.
SF News Jennifer Siebel-Newsom <s>In Labor</s> Gives Birth OK. Here we go. Jennifer Siebel Newsom is in labor. Gavin Newsom, via Twitter, says: gavinnewsom: "Arrived at hospital -- hours away from becoming a father" about 2 hours ago from txt gavinnewsom:
SF News World Dominated By Hitler Goes for $100K Now, before you go labeling Pritiklin an anti-Semite, this man is character -- a true collector and unique hoarder. His home is a mansion stocked with bizarre collectibles, SF Mayoral signatures, its own
SF News Daly Family Scorecard -- XX: 2; XY: 2 From your SFist editor's district supervisor's blog: A day before the polls open, local reporters already started writing their Election winners and losers stories. While I won’t make any big predictions, I
SF News Oh You Should Totally Vote! It Looks Good on You. Oh is it a voting day or something? It totally sneaked up on us! It still feels like Monday today. Actually it also feels like October. Anyway, you should probably vote yes on
SF News Gap Kids: Made for Kids, by Kids As if Don Fisher doesn't have enough on his hands, now this: in addition to environmental carelessness and No-on-A-isms, the Gap founder can now add human right violations and child labor abuse to
SF News Late Last Night When We Were All In Bed, Margaret Pavese Left The... Aw. This kind of sucks. School teacher Margaret Pavese got slapped with a misdemeanor charge for causing the 47+-acre Lick fire that erupted on Labor Day Weekend. Apparently, she was using a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Eagle Drift-In That Is No More, Will Be...What? We walked by it yesterday and the doors were open, so we snapped this photo of the space's renovation. Does anyone know what it's going to become? We asked one of the workers
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Fall TV Premieres Tonight The last season of "Prison Break" didn't actually take place in prison, with its band of prisoners finally breaking free and hitting the road in search of buried treasure. Of course, a show
misc Week Around the -Ists There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren't many alternatives to the
SF News Your Commute: The Bay Bridge Is Back! Was it just us, or did you also think, as soon as the Bay Bridge closed, that the only things you wanted to do over Labor Day Weekend were on the other side
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Lick Fire We were coming back from our Labor Day we're-outta-here yesterday and saw this over the hills to the north. It was big enough that we turned on the radio to make sure that
SF News SFist Blotter ...And that's not even the curviest part! A car chase that started in Marin County around 3:00 a.m. Monday morning ended abruptly when the driver, speeding at around 75 mph over
