SF News Teachers' Strike Ends After Early Morning Deal, Schools Still Closed 'til Wednesday The San Francisco teachers' union and the SF Unified School District reached a tentative deal that was announced at 6 am Friday, after four days on strike, with the union getting a key benefit they had been seeking.
SF News Still No Deal as SF Teachers' Strike Enters Fourth Day Negotiations went later than they have typically been going on Wednesday night as a deal between the SF Unified School District and the teachers' union remains elusive. And now kids may not be returning to the classroom until next Wednesday, with a long weekend ahead.
SF News District Blames SF Teachers' Union For Leaving the Bargaining Table Early Tuesday Night There is plenty of finger-pointing going on with the SF teachers' strike, but what seems clear is that the union may be sensing their upper hand at this point, and a resolution before Thursday seems unlikely.
SF News Striking SF Teachers Rally In Dolores Park as Tensions Mount Over Deal Frustrated parents of SF schoolkids are speaking out in the media, and union reps are keeping up a brave face as a potential third day of the San Francisco teachers' strike looms.
SF News San Francisco Schools Will Remain Closed Tuesday as Strike Negotiations Continue After a rally in Civic Center, and as negotiations continued between reps for the SF Unified School District and the United Educators of San Francisco, the district announced that schools would remain closed a second day on Tuesday.
SF News SF Teachers Union Announces Strike for Monday, But 11th-Hour Bargaining Continues Following two strike votes and the release of a fact-finding report, the San Francisco teachers' union says it will begin its first labor strike in almost 50 years on Monday.
SF News San Francisco Teachers Could, Maybe, Go On Strike Next Week If teachers in the San Francisco Unified School District go on strike next week, amid an impasse with the district over a new contract, it will be the first time in 47 years that this has happened — which, one could say, suggests a resolution to the impasse is still likely to come.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: VTA Worker Strike Means No Transit In South Bay VTA workers are on strike as of today, halting transit in San Jose; three lost hikers, including two small children, were rescued in the Santa Cruz Mountains; and DC is removing a prominent Black Lives Matter mural.
SF News Hollywood's Strike Reaches Silicon Valley: Writers, Actors, and Activists Picket Netflix HQ in Los Gatos Amid the nationwide SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America strike, writers and actors including Sorry to Bother You's Michael Sommers protested Netflix's office in the South Bay Thursday.
SF News State Senate Committee Kills Proposed BART Strike Ban The on-again off-again nightmare of last year's BART strikes and BART strike threats have come to an end as the final and largest union gave their sign-off on
SF News BART Board Mulls Banning Strikes; Tensions Over Contract Provisions Still Ongoing A BART board member has suggested that the rail concern put its own measure on the ballot in the next few years to disallow BART worker unions from striking in the event of
SF News Unions Scored With 3.8% Wage Increases In BART Negotiations Details emerged last night about the deal struck between BART management and their workers' unions on Monday, and the unions certainly came close to getting what they wanted by the 11th hour.
SF News BART Rolls On, and So Do Negotiations Yet again this morning, like yesterday and the day before and the day before that, there is no BART strike, but there could still be one. Everyone's been very mature, and
SF News BART Management Offers 'Take-It-Or-Leave-It' Contract Deal, Unions Pissed We're facing yet another midnight deadline tonight in the ongoing strike threat, the third in a row since Friday, and BART management have apparently presented their best and "final"
SF News BART Strike Averted, At Least Until Monday Although BART and the two transit unions still couldn't arrive at a deal before last night's midnight deadline, both sides agreed to a three day contract extension to keep
SF News Yep. The BART Strike Is Really Probably Happening. Again. Maybe. Though the unions declined to issue a 72-hour strike warning earlier this week in what we thought was a positive sign, tensions have mounted and things don't look great as
SF News There Won't Be Another BART Strike This Week (Unless There Is) Although both sides have yet to agree on a new contract, the unions have decided not to issue a 72-hour strike notice for Friday. It's a good sign that there
SF News BART Strike Looms. Again. Commence Fretting. Remember June? And July? And then August? Yeah, it's happening again. Because 2013 is Groundhog Day when it comes to BART and its unions. The 60-day cooling-off period ends
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Fast Food Workers Strike For Better Pay Although potentially less debilitating than a BART strike, hundreds fast food workers walked out of their low-paying jobs at McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken locations in Oakland today to demand
SF News Another BART Strike Averted; 60-Day Cooling Off Begins Breathe easy, East Bay commuters. A San Francisco Superior Court judge has approved the 60-day cooling off period requested by Governor Brown in the ongoing BART labor negotiations, so we've
SF News It All Comes Out: BART And Unions Still $100 Million Apart [Updated] A public hearing took place today at which BART and its three employee unions were scheduled to make presentations before a panel of state investigators charged with figuring out why the negotiation process
SF News Why Have We Heard So Little From BART Workers About the Strike? We have to hand it to the SF Bay Guardian's Joe Fitzgerald, because even though he's only got two detailed interviews with actual BART workers talking about their real-
SF News Now AC Transit Workers May Strike Wednesday You'll recall that the AC Transit workers's union authorized a strike back in late June, at the same time BART workers did, and now, not wanting to feel left
SF News BART Strike Averted This Week; Governor Brown Takes Charge Late Sunday evening, BART management asked Governor Jerry Brown to step in to stop a strike from happening by its employee unions. He did, and the unions are pissed. Brown appointed a three-
SF News BART 72-Hour Strike Notice Could Come Today BART's unions have indicated that they could announce a 72-hour strike warning today if talks with BART negotiators don't markedly improve this afternoon. The unions also have a
