Striking Marriott Workers in San Jose Agree to Contract; S.F. Walkout Continues
Striking Marriott hotel workers have ratified an agreement to end their 37-day labor dispute, union leaders announced Friday on social media.
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Striking Marriott hotel workers have ratified an agreement to end their 37-day labor dispute, union leaders announced Friday on social media.
Negotiators for the city of Oakland and the larger of two striking unions have agreed to try to settle the strike in mediation starting Monday, the two sides said Saturday night.
Two labor unions, SEIU Local 1021 and International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 21, have informed the city of their plans to strike.
As union members marched in Oakland, San Jose and other Bay Area locations Monday for a $15 national minimum hourly wage, Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, added her voice to the chorus.
Federal investigations show Napa's Queen of the Valley Medical Center retaliated against workers who were talking to the union by changing their schedules.
The United Steelworkers Union called for its refinery workers to stage their largest walkout in more 30 years Sunday, saying its negotiations with Shell Oil Co. broke down less than two weeks after they began.
The contract that covers nearly 20,000 West Coast dockworkers is set to expire June 30, as negotiations continue in San Francisco.
Ed Reiskin, director of transportation of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, spoke with KPIX 5's Phil Matier Sunday about the status of Muni contract negotiations and whether the recent sickout action by some Muni employees is likely to continue.
A union representing service workers at the University of California, Berkeley has filed a complaint with state authorities over the death of a custodian.
With little debate, a State Senate committee killed a proposal Monday that would have banned transit workers from going on strike.
The Bay Area could see the start of another BART strike as early as October 11th if negotiations that resumed this week fail to lead to an agreement.
AC Transit workers have voted to reject a tentative contract agreement reached with management last week, union officials said Sunday.
Officials with the Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) said they were making progress Tuesday in ongoing contract talks with the union representing its bus operators and other workers.
With the BART labor negotiations on commuters' minds, SFSU Professor Dr. Jason Henderson gives suggestions on how to alleviate the Bay Area's growing public transit issues.
BART labor contract talks resumed on Monday after negotiators took a break over the weekend and so far neither side sounds terribly optimistic.
With a strike looming, the two largest unions representing over 2,300 Bay Area Rapid Transit workers resumed talks with BART management Sunday afternoon at the request of California Gov. Jerry Brown in a last-ditch effort to reach a deal.
Concession workers at the AT&T Park where the San Francisco Giants play have voted to authorize a strike.
After 16 hours of tense talks, the NHL and its players finally achieved their elusive deal early Sunday morning, finding a way to restart a sport desperate to regain momentum and boost its prominence.
A 24-hour Christmas Eve strike by union nurses at eight Bay Area hospitals ended Tuesday morning with no reported incidents, according to a spokeswoman for one of the hospitals.
Statements from a Raley's spokesman and from the United Food and Commercial Workers union said talks between both sides resumed Sunday morning.
Nurses at a Sonoma County hospital are in the second day of a three-day strike protesting wage offers and other issues.
Union workers at Raley's supermarket chain, which operates more than 100 stores in California and Nevada, went on strike Sunday after last-ditch efforts to reach a new contract failed.
California's biggest state worker union has tentatively agreed to a plan where covered workers will take 12 unpaid days of leave over 12 months starting July 1.
Threats of a Golden Gate Transit bus strike, planned for May 10th have been canceled after the union and Bridge District were able to negotiate a tentative framework over a contract dispute.
Occupy Oakland protesters said Monday that their plans for a general strike on Wednesday include marching on the Port of Oakland and shutting it down.
