Subject: Jobs and Labor

• Rhapsody Lays Off 24 Today, 12 Two Weeks Ago?

  February 1, 2008

• 8,000 SF Employees Take Home Over $100,000 -- And Then Some.

  March 28, 2008

• Newspaper Management Strikes Back

  July 4, 2008

• Newspaper Union Accuses Company Of Retaliation

  July 15, 2008

• East Bay Newspaper Managers Continue to Cut Jobs

  November 7, 2008

• Fledgling Newspaper Union Appeals Labor Board Decision

  By John Geluardi Three Contra Costa Times reporters, who say they were targeted for layoffs once they succeeded in forming a union, filed an appeal last week with the federal labor board after the board rejected their initial complaint for lack of evidence. Last July, just weeks after organizers established the first newspaper union to be formed in the United States in over 40 years, managers laid off 29 newsroom employees, 21 of whom happened to be involved in union organizing efforts. The

  December 29, 2008

• SEIU Moves to Dismantle California Health Care Affiliate

  Service Employees International President Andy Stern today advanced a threat to dismantle the union's 150,000-member Northern California health care affiliate, announcing plans to move some 65,000 workers into a new group dedicated solely to providers of long-term nursing care. The move is seen in U.S. Labor movement circles as a ploy to neuter Sal Rosselli, president of United Health Care Workers - West. Rosselli has clashed with Stern over  a 2004 agreement with nursing home chains in w

  January 9, 2009

• S.F. Labor Icon Jack Henning Dies -- But the Labor Movement He Joined As a Young Man Died Long Ago

  Jack HenningLabor leader Jack Henning, the president of the state's AFL-CIO from 1970 to 1996 and the man credited with helping pass bills that gave farm workers and government employees the right to form unions and strike, died today at his home in San Francisco. He was 93. According to a press release from the California Labor Federation, Henning, a former U.S. undersecretary of labor and ambassador to New Zealand, was among the first American labor leaders to make opposition to racism a worke

  June 4, 2009

• Funemployment: Jobless young San Franciscans are welcoming the worst recession of their lives with open arms. Too bad the party can't last forever.

  June 3, 2009

• Rec & Park Workers Terrified Over Looming Layoffs Amid New Hirings of $100K Managers -- and Ready to Rally

  The Recreation and Parks Department has found another way to get folks out of the pool: Cut jobs and cut hoursYou have to feel for Jared Blumenfeld. Taking over the city's Recreation and Parks Department -- especially on an interim basis -- is like being handed a feather duster and being asked to tidy the hotel suite after Mötley Crüe has completed their coke-fueled orgy. In short, Rec & Parks may be the biggest mess in San Francisco government. Think about the ramifications of that statem

  February 19, 2009

• Temps of the World, Unite!

  June 28, 1995

• Investing in Willie

  January 17, 1996

• SEIU boss Andy Stern wouldn't mind if McCain gets elected

  October 1, 2008

• Local Union Leader Rosselli Blasts SEIU Boss Andy Stern

  February 20, 2008

• West Coast Dockworkers Dispute Could Paralyze U.S. Economy

  February 6, 2008

• Paper Chase

  The Guild is up against a cost-cutting mogul and declining revenues, but the union continues to seek converts

  December 19, 2007

• Putting the "Yay!" in Yay Area

  April 15, 2009

• Mazzola Is Slippery

  The union boss has once more escaped punishment for funds diversion

  June 6, 2007

• Union Disunity

  The secret deal worked out between SEIU bosses and nursing home owners denies union members the right to speak out, strike, or protect patients

  April 11, 2007

• Mother’s Work

  Some working moms face job discrimination, while others encounter barriers to success. They're all potential activists for the new grass-roots group, MomsRising.

  December 6, 2006

• Filling the Civic Gap

  Meet Donald Fisher, the private billionaire with unprecedented sway over ordinary San Franciscans' lives

  June 21, 2006

• Labor's Pain

  May 4, 2005

• Requiem for a Pension Fund?

  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger launches an attack on CalPERS. The giant pension fund's Democratic allies aren't taking it lying down

  April 6, 2005

• Maid in San Francisco

  Secretly, don't you hope the hospitality multinationals crush those loud, annoying, striking hotel workers? Find out. Take the quiz.

  October 20, 2004

• Former Pimp Laid Low

  Muni union official suspended over racy book on whoremongering past; sexual harassment alleged

  June 25, 2003

• Bent Outta Shape

  San Francisco bike messengers hit some nasty economic potholes as they struggle to unionize

  January 22, 2003

• Letters to the Editor

  Shake, Rattle, and Roll;Musical Notes;Puni, Unlike Muni, Keeps Rolling Along

  August 15, 2001

• As a Matter of Fat

  The city's new weight discrimination law is badly reasoned, legally defective, costly, and bad for public health

  January 17, 2001

• Closed Shop

  March 15, 2000

• Breaking Ranks

  Union leaders endorsed Willie Brown, but the rank and file has other ideas

  November 10, 1999

• Cothran

  June 23, 1999

• Strike While the Iron Is Hot

  March 24, 1999

• Rewarding Failure

  What's really wrong with Muni? For starters, one third of its employees don't show up to work, causing systemwide delays and costing the agency more that $20 million a year in overtime. First in a two-part special report

  December 2, 1998

• Cothran

  October 28, 1998

• Crime and Patronage

  For more than a decade, three different mayors have let one man dole out government jobs to alleged murderers, crack dealers, and other serious felons. The question, obviously, is why.

  August 19, 1998

• Riff Raff

  March 11, 1998

• The Grid

  January 7, 1998

• Unspun

  August 20, 1997

• Unhealthy Debate

  There's a new and nasty labor-management war. Health care is the battlefield. San Francisco is the front line.

  May 14, 1997

• Big Deal

  May 14, 1997

• Labor Games

  San Francisco is spending $5 million on a flag-waving, candy-bar-giving, feel-good course called Express to Success, hoping it will move welfare recipients into jobs. But no one is measuring the success -- or failure -- of the program itself.

  April 30, 1997

• Slap Shots

  January 29, 1997

• Temporary Solidarity

  December 4, 1996

• Unemployed straight guys attend transgender job fair

  May 6, 2009

• Gavin Newsom is no civil service reformer

  May 6, 2009

• Fighting to Work

  July 1, 2009

• U.C. Employees' Picket Line Blocks Out Gavin Newsom

  Will HarperIf ever you were looking to keep Gavin Newsom away, scare up a picket line Employees of the University of California vociferously protesting proposed fee hikes and furlough days had an unforeseen consequence on the plans of one Mayor Gavin Newsom -- who may or may not have a Santa Clara University bumper sticker on the back of his hybrid SUV. The protesters this morning moved their picket line a few steps down the road to the headquarters of  FibroGen, Inc., where the mayor was s

  July 15, 2009

• BART, Unions Reach Accord -- Union Vote Could Come Next Week

  Seats: Still sticky. Union contracts: Tentatively agreed upon.​BART's trains don't run 24 hours -- but its negotiations with unions do. After an all-night session, bedraggled transit and union officials emerged, blinking, before cameras not long ago to announce a tentative pact.  Several sources contacted by SF Weekly expected the transit system's three largest unions to vote on the painstakingly forged contract by next week. It is unclear if the union negotiating teams will give their co

  July 31, 2009

• Be Elated As You Ride BART Monday. Who Knows How Long It'll Last?

  Has BART found the map to smooth service?​If you were hoping to work from home Monday, your best excuse just pulled out of the station. BART and the tenacious ATU No. 1555 union reached a tentative accord yesterday. You can ride the morning train with a new-found enthusiasm Monday. See you over the coffee machine at 8:30 sharp! Of course, this is a "tentative" deal, so everyone is on pins and needles until the ATU ratifies this new contract (or doesn't). It is unclear at this moment when the u

  August 16, 2009

• Layoffs Commence -- Yes, Again -- At the Chronicle

  ​Word from the Chronicle newsroom came SF Weekly's way this afternoon that the paper's "after Labor Day" layoff date is right here, right now. Newspaper employees were informed less than an hour ago that the paper is, once again, downsizing. A bulletin was sent out by the Newspaper Guild that Chronicle management notified the union that "newsroom layoffs are expected to begin this afternoon." The number of workers, departments in which they toil, or duration of this round of layoffs was not di

  September 16, 2009