Monthly Archives: March 2013

After predicting before last season that the Giants would face the Tigers in the World Series, I again see good things for the Giants. Unlike the 2011 Giants, this year’s team returns all of its key players. Buster Posey is<br> Read More »

In California workforce circles, a main 2013 meme regards the “skills gap”, by which tens of thousands or more of skilled jobs are going unfilled in California, even as our employment rate is 9.8%. Local and firm-based skills gaps are<br> Read More »

Sometimes, a court case is so strong that you don’t need to win on all counts to get the same result. And perhaps the legal precedent you were hoping to set won’t be achieved – because the Justices didn’t need<br> Read More »

When you hear the words “bottled water” and “image,” what comes to mind first? A few weeks ago, I was tabling outside Rainbow Grocery in San Francisco and posed this question to a group of third graders. They were on<br> Read More »

Eat it – It appears that the Accrediting Commission that has San Francisco’s City College in its sights doesn’t think twice about busting a workers’ boycott. The commission held its last meeting in January at the Hyatt Regency in Burlingame<br> Read More »

Employers are waking up to the fact that they are no longer required to follow the NLRB’s orders. The day-to-day application of key federal protections for workers’ collective bargaining rights is becoming paralyzed, say legal experts and union organizers, as<br> Read More »