SF’s Transit Set-Aside is Flawed, Divisive

Posted July 31, 2014 by Randy Shaw

Only a week after stiffing nonprofit workers on raises, Supervisors Scott Wiener and David Chiu are at it again. Now the two are driving a transit set-aside ballot measure for November that will almost certainly deny nonprofits any increases next
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Ronald McDonald Has No Place in Schools

Posted July 31, 2014 by Casey Hinds

In May I attended McDonald’s Annual Shareholder Meeting and spoke out against them using schools to market fast food to kids. I was flabbergasted when the CEO told me Ronald McDonald does not make appearances in schools and immediately thought
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Soda Tax Myths: Going Sugar-Free Will Kill You!

Posted July 31, 2014 by Dana Woldow

When Mark Bittman broke the news in the New York Times that on July 30th, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) would be introducing a bill in the House of Representatives requiring a tax on sugar sweetened beverages, you could almost hear
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Campos Raises Stakes on Tenant Buyouts

Posted July 30, 2014 by Randy Shaw

Supervisor David Campos introduced legislation yesterday to close a longtime loophole in San Francisco eviction laws that contribute to San Francisco’s affordability crisis. The loophole, often referred to as a “buyout,” enables landlords to evade an official eviction by offering
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Are Home-Packed Lunches Less Nutritious?

Posted July 30, 2014 by Bettina Elias Siegel

A new study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (subscription only) finds that home-packed lunches are nutritionally lacking, as compared to school food. As summarized by Reuters, the study’s researchers peered into the lunch boxes
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Protest to “Stop Illegal Tourist Conversions!”

Posted July 30, 2014 by Ashley Heine

On July 29th, people protested together through North Beach, the neighborhood where poet and senior Diego Deleo has lived for 40 years. He is being Ellis evicted in a neighborhood that is becoming a burgeoning “hot spot for Airbnb and
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Beyond the Minimum Wage: Just Hours and Fair Scheduling Critical in the Fight Against Inequality

Posted July 30, 2014 by Gordon Mar

San Francisco – As the national conversation about low wage workers and income inequality continues to escalate, a coalition of labor, community and advocacy groups have come together to tackle a new issue facing low wage workers: part-time, erratic scheduling
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Can SEIU Unionize Fast Food Workers?

Posted July 29, 2014 by Randy Shaw

SEIU is again being depicted as the agent for reviving the nation’s labor movement.After funding a national convention of fast food workers last weekend, SEIU is credited for framing the fast-food movement as “an economic justice movement comparable to the
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