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Tenants’ Right to Organize: The Regulation of Tenants’ Unions in San Francisco

May 13, 2022 David Popoola

“It’s a union at home. . . . We’re all workers who can unionize at work. Now we can unionize at work and at home.” These words, from a tenant and organizer of a local San Francisco tenants’ union, epitomize the potential impact that tenants’ unions can have on the lives of renters. In much […]

March 22, 2022
News & Commentary

Iman Masmoudi

Following months of litigation in front of the NLRB, Google has settled its case with four former Google engineers over claims it fired them for union organizing. The terms of the settlement are undisclosed, but over the past months the administrative law judge had ordered Google to produce over 1,500 documents it had previously sought […]

Organizing Through a Pandemic: Tartine Bakery Union

Apr 19, 2021 Marina Multhaup

On February 6th, 2020, 146 bakers, dishwashers, prep cooks, servers, bussers, and baristas announced their intention to unionize Tartine Bakery in California. On March 13th they voted. Three days later the U.S. shut down and all of their organizing and efforts were thrown into question. 377 days later the NLRB announced that the union had […]

June 23, 2020
News & Commentary

Zachary Boullt

While individual labor unions and labor groups have continued calling for disaffiliation with police unions, the largest national labor unions’ leadership has largely closed ranks and defended including police unions. One striking defense of police unions recently came from the AFL-CIO’s President Richard Trumka, who defended police unions by analogizing them to employers at an […]

February 4, 2019
News & Commentary

Rachel Sandalow-Ash

As sex workers around the country had warned, sex trafficking has spiked since the federal government enacted SESTA/FOSTA last year. For instance, San Francisco police recorded a 170% increase in human trafficking reports in 2018. Under the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act/Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA/FOSTA), website publishers are now held legally responsible if […]

Today’s News & Commentary — July 2, 2018

Jul 2, 2018 Jenny Braun

Minimum wages are rising across the country. On Sunday, San Francisco’s minimum wage reached $15 an hour for all businesses, the highest rate of any major U.S. city. (Seattle’s $15 minimum in effect last year applies only to large businesses with 501 or more employees.) An estimated 142,000 workers will see a raise, but they […]

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Tenants’ Right to Organize: The Regulation of Tenants’ Unions in San Francisco

March 22, 2022

Organizing Through a Pandemic: Tartine Bakery Union

June 23, 2020

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Today’s News & Commentary — July 2, 2018