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Oakland teachers strike enters second week with no end in sight; school board...
Still deadlocked on negotiations related to pay and proposed “common good” measures, the Oakland Education Association prepared to enter its second week on the picket lines, and planned to rally...
View ArticleOakland teachers strike day 6: District pushes back on ‘common good’ measures
The Oakland teachers strike continued Thursday after a more contentious turn the day before, as allegations of misleading figures, canceled board meetings and a doubling-down against the “common good”...
View ArticleOakland teachers strike Day 7: Union calls district’s $1 billion common good...
OAKLAND — Teachers, parents, students and school staff headed to the picket lines Friday for the seventh day of the Oakland Education Association’s strike against the Oakland Unified School District as...
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Oakland teachers end 8-day strike, classes resume Tuesday
Oakland teachers are returning to the classroom on Tuesday, marking the end of a strike that kept 34,000 students out of school for eight days — and as of Monday afternoon there were no plans to make...
View ArticleEast Bay business owner didn’t pay employment taxes, gets a year in prison,...
OAKLAND — A federal judge sentenced a Berkeley resident to one year in federal prison Tuesday for committing employment tax crimes, authorities said. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White handed the...
View ArticleLongshore union, employers reach labor deal, ending 13 months of West Coast...
The West Coast longshore union and its employers have agreed to a tentative six-year contract, ending 13 months of negotiations that saw tensions rise in recent weeks, as well as accusations and...
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A Northern California restaurant must pay workers $140,000 after allegedly...
New York — A restaurant in California has been ordered to pay $140,000 in back wages and damages to employees after it hired a priest to extract workers’ confessions, in what federal investigators are...
View ArticleApple illegally interrogated staff about union, judge rules
By Josh Eidelson | Bloomberg Apple Inc. “coercively interrogated” retail employees about their pro-union sympathies and restricted the circulation of union flyers, a US labor board judge ruled, marking...
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Boss who dumped 500 pounds of oily pennies on ex-employee’s driveway is...
By Rebekah Riess and Ramishah Maruf | CNN New York — The Georgia autoshop owner who in 2022 paid one of this employees his final wage by dumping 91,500 oil-covered pennies in his driveway has been...
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Why airline delays and cancellations are so bad: It’s not just the weather
By Chris Isidore and Caroll Alvarado | CNN New York — Hundreds of thousands of US airline customers were stranded this week as severe weather grounded planes and led to canceled flights. But storms...
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The minimum wage just went up in several Bay Area cities–will it make a...
Many of the Bay Area’s lowest-paid workers are receiving a pay bump this month as several cities increase their local minimum wage. While the wage hikes are welcomed by labor advocates who say...
View ArticleBay Area restaurant chain fined $550,000 for denying overtime pay, violating...
BURLINGAME – The operator of Bay Area restaurant chain Crepevine has been fined more than half a million dollars for denying overtime pay to 114 workers and violating federal child labor laws,...
View ArticleHollywood actors join screenwriters on strike
By Andrew Dalton and Leslie Ambriz | Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Leaders of a Hollywood’s actors union voted Thursday to join screenwriters in the first joint strike in more than six decades,...
View ArticleWhat you need to know about the SAG-AFTRA strike that will upend Hollywood
Jami Ganz | (TNS) New York Daily News NEW YORK — Lights, camera, pause. Hollywood is officially on hiatus as the union representing on-screen talent has joined screenwriters in striking against the...
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UPS and Teamsters reach a labor deal, potentially avoiding a crippling strike
By Vanessa Yurkevich and Chris Isidore | CNN Philadelphia — UPS and the Teamsters have reached a tentative deal on a new contract, potentially avoiding a strike. A labor stoppage could have started as...
View ArticleSan Jose flooring company owner sentenced for shorting workers $1 million in...
SAN JOSE — The owner of a San Jose flooring company has been sentenced to four months in jail — and ordered to pay over $580,000 in restitution — after failing to pay his employees $1 million in...
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San Jose city workers vote to strike in mid-August
Two unions representing around 4,500 San Jose employees voted to authorize a three-day, mid-August strike, ramping up pressure on the mayor and city council to support higher wages for its workers. If...
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Are they students or employees? Stanford joins surge in graduate student...
When fifth-year PhD student Jason Anderson volunteered for a pop-up food pantry on Stanford University’s campus, he would see hundreds of grad students standing in long lines in the middle of their...
View ArticleSan Jose averts largest city workers strike since 1980s; council to vote...
Averting a strike that would have disrupted services in Northern California’s largest city, unions representing over half of San Jose’s administrative workforce on Monday reached a tentative deal with...
View ArticleSan Jose approves pay bumps for 4,500 city workers, avoiding major strike
What may have become the largest San Jose city employee strike in decades fizzled on Tuesday after councilmembers approved a significant pay bump for about 4,500 of its workers, a major win for South...
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