Fast-Food Workers In Oakland Walk Off Jobs, Want Higher Pay, Right To Unionize
Fast-food workers throughout Oakland are walking off the job and joining in on a worldwide campaign Thursday to ask for higher pay and the right to form a union.
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Fast-food workers throughout Oakland are walking off the job and joining in on a worldwide campaign Thursday to ask for higher pay and the right to form a union.
The head of the Los Angeles-area company that makes Sriracha hot sauce has compared government restrictions on his business to those he faced in communist Vietnam.
Sullivan's Funeral Home and Cremation Services owner Jim Sullivan said he has been thinking of retiring and selling the valuable plot of land, now that his kids are grown and have their own careers.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee is pitching a new spot for filmmaker George Lucas's art museum. In our column, Matier & Ross, Andrew Ross and I reported on Thursday that Lee thinks a lot across from Piers 30-32 would be a good spot and he's enlisting several powerful San Francisco figures for support.
A wildly-popular smartphone-based game that mysteriously shut down earlier this year will soon return with multi-player functionality, according to the game's creator.
Bay Area fast food workers planned to participate in a nationwide strike Thursday to protest low wages.
Amazon is bringing hundreds of jobs to the Bay Area.
An unsafe lane change made by Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia on Aug. 4, 2013, caused another motorist to spin out of control and into a cement center divider, where the driver suffered broken bones and injuries, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said Wednesday.
A new overnight transportation service is set to launch this month targeting late-night revelers on both sides of the bay in order to get them home safely.
Anti-eviction activists, a group of Google investors, and a group led by Reverend Jesse Jackson are holding protests outside Google's headquarters in Mountain View.
Europe's highest court Tuesday gave people the means to scrub their reputations online, issuing a landmark ruling that experts say could force Google and other search engines to delete references to old debts, long-ago arrests and other unflattering episodes.
The San Jose City Council is expected to vote on Tuesday to drastically reduce the number of medical marijuana dispensaries in the city and create some rigid new rules.
He may be royalty, but Jordan's King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein knows a thing or two about entrepreneurship and technology, which he'll be sharing Tuesday morning at a UC Berkeley forum on innovation in the Middle East along with GoogleX's Project Loon chief.
Watch any episode of HBO's "Silicon Valley" and you'll see four white male techies, and one Pakistani-born programmer, and that's an example of why the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition is in the Bay Area this week at eBay and Google shareholder meetings, to make a case for more blacks, women, and other minorities in the real Silicon Valley.
Vinod Khosla, a billionaire venture capitalist, is expected to testify Monday afternoon in Redwood City in a case where he's accused of violating public access laws when he closed off Martins Beach.
