SF News Saturday Links: 30,000 Attend AOC and Bernie Sanders’s 'Fight the Oligarchy' Visit In Denver Over 30,000 people attended Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders’s joint tour stop in Denver; two unions representing 60,000 University of California employees are poised to begin striking on April 1; and Bach on BART is in full swing.
SF News 1,500 S.F. Hotel Workers Have Gone on Strike in Union Square Unite Here Local 2, the union chapter representing the workers, says they've been in contract negotiations with the Grand Hyatt San Francisco Union Square, Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Westin St. Francis hotels for months, to no avail.
SF Politics United Auto Workers Union Files Federal Labor Charges Against Trump and Elon Musk Over Anti-Union Comments Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s rambling Twitter Spaces interview Monday night is making more news, as the United Auto Workers union has now filed federal labor charges against both of them for saying striking workers should be fired.
Arts & Entertainment Actress-Turned-Duchess Meghan Markle Seen as a Scab Seated Next to Strike Villain and Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos While Meghan Markle may not need her union anymore or her residuals from the streaming of 'Suits,' it maybe wasn't a great look for her to be seated next to Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos at the Beyonce show Monday in Los Angeles.
SF News The SAG-AFTRA Strike Comes to SF With City Hall Rally Wednesday Night After the striking writers and actors picketed Netflix headquarters in Los Gatos last week, now they’re coming to San Francisco City Hall for a 5 p.m. Wednesday rally where all are welcome to come raise heck.
SF News Dandelion Chocolate Union Vote Wins By One Vote, But Many Union Voters Since Laid Off The artisan chocolatier’s unionization vote passed in a 20-19 squeaker, but does it matter, since half of the ‘Yes’ voters have since been shown the door?
Business & Tech Elon Musk Tweet About Tesla Workers Unionizing Deemed Illegal By Judge Elon Musk and his electric car company were in the wrong when they fired a worker involved with labor organizing at Tesla's Fremont plant, and Musk broke the law with a tweet about the effort, according to an administrative law judge in California.
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 News Tesla Denies Female Engineer's Discrimination Claims, Discourages Unionization With Promises Of Froyo And Rollercoasters Tesla engineer AJ Vandermeyden says she's paid a lower salary than her male counterparts for her work at the luxury electric car company where she claims she's subjected to workplace harassment in an
SF News Things Could Get Messy At Facebook And Google As Janitors Mull Strike Wild cheers as SEIU-USWW janitors hear contract has $15 an hour starting May 1 to $16.50 by 2019. pic.twitter.com/0GPHhloMgO— Beth Willon (@bethwillon) May 2, 2016 The union representing thousands
SF News Classes Canceled As CCSF Shuts Down Tomorrow In Face Of Teacher Strike In what is merely the latest bit of unfortunate news for the students of City College of San Francisco, The Examiner reports that Interim Chancellor Susan Lamb will shut down all eleven campuses
SF News Airbnb Reportedly In Talks With Labor Union, Will Endorse 'Fight For $15' Airbnb's ongoing bid for respectability appears to be taking another step forward, with The Washington Post reporting today that the home-renting company has approached a major international union with the hopes of forming
SF News Tech Shuttle Drivers' Unionization Bid Fails Amid Claims Of Corporate Bullying Drivers for a shuttle company based in San Francisco claim that a recent failed effort to unionize is the result of aggressive company tactics explicitly intended to discourage union support. The drivers brought
SF News [Update] Seattle Approves Unions For Uber, Lyft Drivers Seattle's City Council voted today to allow freelance drivers the right to collectively negotiate such items as pay and working conditions. The New York Times observed that if the right were conferred upon
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: Oakland Fast Food Workers Go Full Ronald, Strike For Better Wages Earlier today, as part of a nationwide fast food workers' strike, employees from several East Bay fast food chains walked off the job. The strike convened on a McDonald's location on Jackson Street
SF News S.F. Man Throws Hammer At Striking BART Workers The attitude aimed at striking BART workers, here in the ostensibly liberal Bay Area, was nothing short of depressing. From Silicon Valley's out-of-touch attitude to angry callers on Tuesday morning's Krasny, it brought
SF News [Updated] BART Strike Is OVER! UPDATE II: BART now running limited service. BART is now running limited svc.— SFBARTalert (@SFBARTalert) October 22, 2013 UPDATE I: Contrary to what they had initially told us, BART won't be running trains
SF News BART Strike: Day 4 Let's dive in, shall we: Monday morning's traffic proved exceptionally sluggish due to the continuing BART strike, now in its fourth day. Over the weekend, a couple of noted tech folks made mistakes
SF News Scenes From BART Strike Part 2: Unions' Revenge Today's BART strike prompted lots of fuss from the media, anguish on Twitter, and even a petition for a ban on BART strikes altogether. More importantly, many commuters are pissed. Rightfully so. Folks
SF News BART Strike Effective At Midnight Here we go, folks. After failing to reach an agreement, BART workers will go on strike starting at midnight. While the union and BART management could agree on heath care and pension, "the
SF News Yes, BART Trains Are Running This Morning Once again, there will be no BART strike today. Trains will run as normal. BART management and unions agree to resume talks. They will also continue to toy with the public. Until next
SF News BART Trains Running This Morning BART union allowed for talks to continue Monday morning, which means that trains will today. "The unions said late Sunday that they were close to reaching a new labor agreement with the transit
SF News There Won't Be Another BART Strike This Week (Unless There Is) Although both sides have yet to agree on a new contract, the unions have decided not to issue a 72-hour strike notice for Friday. It's a good sign that there will not be
SF News Unions Have Big Leverage If BART Strike Resumes BART workers are threatening an even longer strike if contract negotiations can't be settled by the early August extended deadline, and they've got a major piece of leverage in their back pocket, codified
SF News Silicon Valley: Just A Bunch Of Elitist Union Busters? Remember that despicable and elitist piece by PandoDaily's Sarah Lacy about how the BART strike was crippling the nascent tech boom on Mid-Market? Well, it's inspired a much better informed retort from Kevin
