Tech’s Benevolent Boosters Still Confused About How To Not Be Evil
We attended SF Tech Week's block party for tech's supposed do-gooders. We couldn't find the party. Nor the good.
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Organizing Through the Heartbreak: Director Brett Story on Filmmaking, Amazon and Unions
Bay Area Current sat down with the director of Union (2024) to talk about labor narratives, Amazon and the role of left media.
Starbucks Is Trying to Close Half of the Bay’s Unionized Stores. These Antioch Workers Are Fighting Back.
Starbucks management, citing “sinking profits” amid astronomical CEO pay and luxe retreats, is closing 500 stores nationwide. Workers say they smell a rat.
Scene Report: Santa Cruz Verve Workers Union Launch Rally
We wanted to hear what Verve Coffee workers and their supporters had to say, so we attended their union launch rally. Here's what we found out.
Verve Coffee Workers Want Living Wages. Fighting for a Union is How They’ll Get It.
These workers have joined an industry-wide rebellion against management greed — and they’re prepared to go the distance.
Meet the Young Revolutionaries Building the Bay Area Workers’ Movement
Young workers, sick of bosses' bullshit, are hitting the picket lines. But their motivations aren’t only economic.
Breaking News: SF Homeless Outreach Workers Unionize (and Think You Should Too)
Workers at San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team spend their days helping people living on the streets. Now they want a fair workplace.
Pleasant Hill Health Workers Strike to “Save the Heart and Soul of this Hospice”
Hospice East Bay management praises their work in public. But in private, workers say they’re trying to cut back on the quality of end-of-life care.
Touchstone Climbing Gym Workers in the Bay Area Enter the Fight
The effort to build power on the gym floor expands as workers at Dogpatch Boulders, The Studio, Mission Cliffs, and Diablo Rock Gym join the union drive.
Delays and Belays: Touchstone Climbing Gym Management Stonewalls Workers
They’ve had a mass shooter threat, an FBI investigation, a strike and a boycott. Touchstone workers just want a union contract.
Urban Ore Workers Get Back to the Line
Union workers at Urban Ore launch informational pickets and community petition, allege continued bad faith bargaining from ownership.
“El poder está en el trabajo”: Docentes de Oakland se enfrentan a los ataques del ICE contra estudiantes y sus familias
Docentes y otros miembros del sindicato Oakland Education Association están recaudando fondos para defensa legal y exigiendo al gobierno local que haga más para proteger a los estudiantes.