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
SF News BART Goes On Strike Monday Morning [Updated] Brace yourselves, Bay Area. Union negotiators left the bargaining table tonight at around 8:30 p.m. What does this mean? It means that, unless an agreement is met within the next couple
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Concession Workers Protest At AT&T Tonight; Bring Your Own Food, Fans The concession workers at AT&T Park will protest again today. Why? Well, it's all a part of the wage dispute between Local 2 and the ballpark's concessionaire and Centerplate regarding wage
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
SF News Chronicle Workers Will Protest Tomorrow With 15-Minute Smoke Break, Red Clothing To protest the Hearst Corporation's plan to shoulder San Francisco Chronicle employees with an additional health care burden, members of the Chronicle staff plan to step away from their desks at precisely 3:
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 AT&T Park Concession Workers Upset That They Aren't Cashing In on Giants' Success A friend of SFist just alerted us to this flyer, which was passed around at Giants FanFest on February 9th. It's sponsored by Local 2, the hospitality union, and it points out that
SF News Port of Oakland Shut Down By Strike Tuesday Morning, Reopened Today A strike by SEIU Local 1021 that began at 5 a.m. yesterday morning succeeded in shutting off the entrance to the Port of Oakland and causing a big backup of semi trucks
Arts & Entertainment Many People Annoyed That Unionmade Clothing Is Neither Union-Made, Nor Affordable Local clothier Unionmade, which has been establishing itself as a growing brand of old-timey, hipster-Americana clothing and accessories since opening a little shop on Sanchez and 18th just a couple years ago, has
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 International Women's Day 2012 Honored By Google Logo, Grand Hyatt Protest Today, March 8th, is International Women's Day. Google has reimagined its iconic logo into a piece celebrating the big day. To honor the holiday, as HuffPo notes, "Google created a simple, colorful doodle
SF News Blue Collar Furious Over Occupy's Port Of Oakland Closure? It's no great shock that blue-collar workers falling outside the esteemed food service industry are as despised by the right as they are they left. They're poor. They lack iconic ¡todos somos! credibility.
SF News Golden Gate Ferry Strike CANCELED; Service Running [Updated] UPDATE: Strike is off! Ferry service is on. Chon reports: "Golden Gate Ferry service will run on its regular schedule [Friday], transit officials announced." Those of you who rely on Golden Gate Ferry
SF News Union Leader's Call For Boycott Of Former S.F. Supervisor's Bar Larry Mazzola Sr., leader of plumbers' union UA Local 38, has called for a boycott of former San Francisco politician Chris Daly's new bar, Buck Tavern. Why? Who knows. Some pointless shit that
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 Prison Guards' Union Endorses Jerry Brown Jerry Brown scored another coup (not that it will matter) when the state's prison guards' union endorsed him for governor. Sacto Bee reports, "California Correctional Peace Officers Association President Mike Jimenez said in
SF News 152 Arrested at Grand Hyatt Hotel Demonstration Cited for "disobeying a lawful order by a police officer and for jaywalking after they sat in the street in front of the hotel," 152 protesters were arrested at last night's Local 2
SF News City Workers Angered Over Newsom's Job Proposal Making up almost half of the city's work force, SEIU Local 1021 members are fuming after Gavin Newsom's proposed a plan "to layoff and then re-hire thousands of municipal employees as a way
SF News Hotel Boycott On If you find yourself lost on O'Farrell, don't ask the concierge of Hilton San Francisco for directions. The hotel workers began a boycott yesterday with an 800 person march and a 160 person
SF News Amalgamated Transit Union Approves Tentative BART Contract, Finally The possibility of a BART strike has most likely been eliminated, as 80 percent of the members of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 have voted in favor of BART's tentative agreement, which
SF News BART & Unions Announce Tentative Agreement; Looming Ends After teasing us over and over and over with a strike that promised to cripple public transportation and the lives of many, BART and union leaders came to a contract agreement, tentatively. According
SF News Striketease: BART's Second-Largest Union Votes Against Contract Members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 -- BART's second-biggest union, representing around 900 train operators, cranky station agents, and other assorted power workers -- voted 100% against management's proposed contract yesterday. The
SF News BART Strike Averted The looming BART strike was nipped in the bud. For now, at least. According to CBS 5 / BCN, "[a]fter a marathon round of negotiations, Larry Gerber, the chief negotiator of Service Employees
SF News BART Strike Talks Move to Mediation The largest union representing BART workers voted overwhelmingly last night to authorize a strike, which btw people, would take place next Wednesday if a deal isn't reached by then. The unions have called
SF News BART Prepares Commuters for Potential Strike on July 1 Many of BART's 355,000 daily commuters are still unaware that the agency might go on strike next week, which would cause quite a meltdown throughout the Bay Area. Five unions representing 3,
