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Sutter Health nurses set to strike Monday across Bay Area
Nurses and health care workers at 12 Sutter Health facilities across the Bay Area plan to hold a one-day strike Monday.Read More
Kaiser mental health workers strike Monday, demand culturally-sensitive care
Nearly 200 Kaiser mental health clinicians are striking Monday in Oakland to demand better care for communities of color.Read More
Hundreds of SFO food workers to protest Wednesday for better health care
Hundreds of airport workers will protest Wednesday at San Francisco International Airport to highlight demands for affordable health care benefits, according to union officials. The protest is scheduled from...Read More
Oracle Park concession workers vote to strike
Nearly 97 percent of Oracle Park concessions workers voted to strike Saturday.Read More
Chinese Hospital nurses strike for better work conditions
Registered nurses at Chinese Hospital in San Francisco began a one-day strike Tuesday to protest their working conditions, which they say are poor enough to drive away experienced nurses...Read More
Santa Clara nurses reach tentative contract deal with county
Santa Clara County and its nurses union have tentatively reached a new contract deal that the union says prevented a strike of more than 3,000 workers.Read More
Vigil outside Kaiser honors suicide victims denied mental health care
The message during a candlelight vigil held by Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians outside the health care giant’s downtown Oakland headquarters early Wednesday morning was quite clear: These patients...Read More
Santa Clara County health workers plagued by ‘staffing crisis’ strike for 5th day
Santa Clara County workers continued striking Monday morning, entering the fifth day of the strike over what workers say are unfair labor practices. Started at 8 a.m., workers from...Read More
Economists discuss productivity decline, automation, future of work
Automation is changing the workforce, an executive at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco said Friday at a conference on the future of work. Sylvain Leduc, executive vice...Read More
Kaiser strike vote begins Monday amid charge execs ‘thriving’ at worker, patient expense
Kaiser Permanente workers will begin voting Monday on whether to authorize a massive strike that would affect Kaiser facilities nationwide, according to the Service Employees International Union, one of...Read More
Hundreds march, rally at Oakland May Day event
Hundreds of union workers, social justice advocates and their supporters rallied and marched through the streets of Oakland Wednesday.Read More
UC hospital workers stage one-day statewide strike
A one-day strike by nearly 40,000 University of California hospital workers has the potential to disrupt normal operations.Read More
Alameda teachers negotiate 4.5 percent pay increase
Alameda teachers would get a 4.5 percent pay raise under a tentative agreement recently reached.Read More
Marriott workers announce tentative agreement to end strike
Workers at Marriott hotels on strike for two months have reached a tentative agreement with the company.Read More
Striking Marriott workers march in San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland
The strike by hotel housekeepers, bellmen, cooks, dishwashers and other workers against Marriott Hotels continued Saturday.Read More
Striking hotel workers arrested at downtown Marriott
Union officials said 41 Marriott hotel workers were arrested Friday evening in San Francisco as they rallied for changes from their employer.Read More
Bay Area McDonald’s workers join nationwide walkout
Organizers and service workers, wearing the words “Fight for 15” across bright red t-shirts, gathered in front of the 24th and Mission McDonald’s Tuesday to protest sexual harassment.Read More
UC nurses set to vote on new five-year contract
Some 14,000 registered nurses working in University of California medical centers and student health centers are scheduled to vote this coming week on a new five-year labor contract.Read More
Arrests cap protest over hotel wages
Seventy-five protesters were arrested Monday in San Francisco demanding improved conditions for hotel workers.Read More
Salinas man pleads guilty in restaurant murder
A Salinas man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for killing his supervisor more than three years ago outside a restaurant where he was drinking, Monterey County prosecutors announced Tuesday.Read More