Labor

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…

2 years ago

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.

2 years ago

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,…

2 years ago

Oracle Park concession workers vote to strike

Nearly 97 percent of Oracle Park concessions workers voted to strike Saturday.

3 years ago

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…

3 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

5 years ago

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…

5 years ago

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…

5 years ago

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,…

5 years ago

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.

5 years ago

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.

5 years ago

Alameda teachers negotiate 4.5 percent pay increase

Alameda teachers would get a 4.5 percent pay raise under a tentative agreement recently reached.

5 years ago

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.

5 years ago

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…

6 years ago

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…

6 years ago

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…

6 years ago

Arrests cap protest over hotel wages

Seventy-five protesters were arrested Monday in San Francisco demanding improved conditions for hotel workers.

6 years ago

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…

6 years ago

Labor groups condemn Supreme Court ruling

In a setback for unions, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the use of mandatory fees for nonmembers of public…

6 years ago

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