In a dramatic blow to SEIU’s efforts to raid UNITE HERE members and jurisdictions, 15 of the nation’s leading unions pledged Monday to provide UNITE HERE with “material and moral” support. Before a wildly cheering and upbeat crowd of 700,
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Still Crazy After All These Years There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but our government can’t find one to quit Afghanistan. Nor propose a truce. Nor, after seven brutal years, disclose an exit strategy, despite recent legislation
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Not much happened at yesterday’s Budget Committee, as Supervisor John Avalos heads into negotiations today with Mayor Gavin Newsom. Stay tuned for the real fireworks at tomorrow’s final Budget session – which starts at 9:00 a.m. The Supervisors, however, took
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It’s like a bad scene out of a grade B horror flick or a front-page story in one of those sleazy supermarket rags, only it’s not funny: the Rev. Patricia McKinney and other elders of the Manifested Glory Ministries in
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UNITE HERE, best known for its Hotel Workers Rising campaign and successful organizing of the nation’s gaming industry, opens its national convention in Chicago today. When the event was scheduled, it seemed a perfect occasion for celebrating five years of
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How would you like to make $100,000 a year, get generous annual raises and retire at 55 – with a pension that pays up to 90% of your final salary? San Francisco firefighters and cops get this, while other City
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Ed. Note: With Gavin Newsom under growing criticism for neglecting San Francisco as he runs for Governor, this piece by a prominent Los Angeles activist about their Mayor’s recent decision not to enter the race should interest Beyond Chron readers.
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The Budget Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will decide this week whether to add back funding for the city’s only program that provides free legal representation to tenants facing Ellis Act evictions. Run by the Tenderloin Housing
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