SF News "Union In Talks To Save San Francisco Chronicle" According to a CBS 5/KCBS/AP report, "Union leaders at the San Francisco Chronicle said they were drafting a compromise to a management proposal that offers severe job cuts that officials indicated
SF News Schwarzenegger set to send layoff notices on Tuesday Budget or not, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is all set to send layoff notices (warnings) to 20,000 state workers. According to the Sacramento Bee, "those with the least seniority among the approximately 100,
SF News Job Losses Largest Decline Since 1974 More grim news from the employed sector. According to the Chronicle (not AP!?), "January's payroll job losses were the steepest one-month decline since the end of 1974 when the nation was battling another
SF News Google Prunes 100 Jobs In the throes of our failing economy, Google trimmed 100 jobs and close three offices this week. According to reports, 100 full-time recruiters were shown the door. Google also shutdown three engineering offices
SF News Logitech Layoffs With corporate offices in Fremont and Mountain View, Logitech announced it will hand out 500 pink slips to employees this week. The cuts will affect middle management and higher, effectively cutting 15% of
SF News Stacey's Demise Regardless what you think about print publishing, Stacey's Books was a favorite. (Its foreign section alone seemed endless!) So after months of guessing when it will close its doors, Stacey's finally told its
Arts & Entertainment Chronicle Reveals Demise in Blog Post? In an odd and somewhat unprofessional manner, the Chronicle announced yesterday that, well, it's imploding. (While layoffs at the Chron are no surprise, the dialing down of SFGate as a whole, however, is.
SF News Bank of America to Prune Up to 35,000 Job Bank of America (who used to be based in San Francisco) has announced plans to cut anywhere from 30,000 to 35,000 jobs over the next three years. As the company sucks
SF News 400 SF City Workers Out of a Job After yesterday's rare appearance before the Board of Supervisors, Mayor Gavin Newsom announced his team's $118 million in proposed "mid-year solutions." Part of said solution will be to eliminate 400 city jobs. While
SF News WaMu to Cut 1,600 Bay Area Jobs It was announced today that Washington Mutual , which was shoved under the thumb of federal regulators and sold to JPMorgan Chase in September, will close its Pleasanton campus and eliminate hundreds of San
SF News San Francisco to Suck in 2009 Awful news, everyone! Most Bay Area executives believe that the economy will get worse through 2009. But wait, it gets worse! The Bay Area Council surveyed 509 executives, and the results show that
SF News Yahoo Announces Layoffs It was officially announced today that at least 1,500 jobs are set to get cut at Yahoo, which effectively hacks off 10 percent of the Sunnyvale Web portal's staff. This most recent
SF News Layoffs II: San Jose Mercury News In more pink slip sadness today, (owned by Denver-based MediaNews Group) eliminated 50 jobs. Fifteen newsroom employees and 19 employees from "other parts of the paper" were let go today. Citing a loss
SF News Layoffs Greet San Francisco School Teachers Today 535 San Francisco Unified School District teachers will receive layoff notices this morning due to state cuts in education funding. Today's pink slip handouts stem from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget '09, which will
SF News Melanie Morgan Gets the Boot Politically-correct, conservative KSFO talk show host Melanie Morgan annonced yesterday that her contract would not be renewed due to financial issues over at KSFO's corporate parent, Citadel Broadcasting Corp. Co-host of the Lee
SF News Yahoo Layoffs Happening Right This Very Second According to a Valleywag tipster: FYI - I've heard the word from my peeps over at Yahoo Search Marketing in Burbank CA that the layoffs are going down as we speak, and people
Arts & Entertainment More Bay Area Print Media Jobs Getting Axed Oy gevalt. The Denver Biz Times is reporting that Denver-based MediaNews Group -- the owner of the Alameda Newspaper Group (which includes the Oakland Tribune) and the Contra Costa Times, will be reducing
SF News Day Around The Bay --Our city rules. [Examiner.] --Today's Matt Gonzalez Mayoral Candidate Magic Eight-Ball reading: Maybe yes. [Left in SF.] --The Punk Rock Sideshow at the Hemlock is hosting a benefit concert next Monday (July 16th)
SF News Day Around The Bay --We're up to 130 Galaxies now. [picture from the Fillmore Jazz Fest this weekend by megac0rp, from the SFist Flickr stream.] --Huge fire on University Avenue in Palo Alto; officials suspect arson. [Merc
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies Next up, let's say the San Jose Metro. Hillary Clinton is not doing very well fundraising in Silicon Valley. Eco-trendiness is getting kind of old. What exactly does it mean to be a
Arts & Entertainment First Chron Layoff Announced And the layoffs begin -- a source tells us the first person to be let go from the Chronicle in their 25% reduction-in-staff campaign is managing editor Robert "Rosey" Rosenthal. We got the
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like
SF News Day Around The Bay --We feel so bad for the Chron with the layoffs. They try to lift everyone's mood with a zillion articles about animals in today's paper. --Someone's listed a Pinole bridge for sale on
SF News Day Around The Bay --Whoa, Ed Jew! See below. Aaron Peskin told the I-Team that the FBI was searching Jew's City Hall office for "$100 bills with specific serial numbers listed." That does not sound good at
SF News Bad Cops: No Doughnuts Now the SFPD is claiming the reason for coming under the hoped-for number is because they have too many cases to solve. And by too many cases, we mean so far there's been
