Workers Rights

25 Jan 2025

Relief Fund Launched for Restaurant Workers Impacted by LA Fires

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. | As devastating wildfires continue to ravage Los Angeles County, One Fair Wage has launched the LA Service Workers’ Relief Fund to provide immediate financial assistance to restaurant workers and other low-wage workers impacted by the crisis.  Building on the success of its Emergency Coronavirus Service Workers’ Support Fund, which raised

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06 Jan 2025

Supervisor Matt Dorsey Wants ‘100 arrests a night’ Going Forward

Supervisor Matt Dorsey is proposing a plan to make “at least 100 arrests” per night in South of Market, with the goal of funneling the sick and suffering into “compulsory detox and treatment” through Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie’s new measures.

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26 Dec 2024

San Francisco Hotel Strikes are Over!

Union Says New Standard Has Been Set for SF Hotel Workers

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22 Dec 2024

Daniel Lurie Helps Bring End to Marriott Hotel Strike

With three weeks to go before he assumes office, Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie is already at work for San Francisco. His influence helped bring part of one of the longest strikes in the city’s history to an optimistic end. Sunday marks three months from the strike’s beginnings on Sept. 22. If

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05 Nov 2024

California Companies Wrote Their Own Gig Worker Law. Now No One Is Enforcing It

California’s Industrial Relations Department has stated that it does not have jurisdiction to handle Prop. 22-related wage claims, leaving the state attorney general to enforce the law, which mandates better wages and benefits for gig workers.

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27 Oct 2024

SF City Hall Clerks Go On Strike

Frustrations of overworked and undertrained clerks at San Francisco City Hall reached a boiling point last week. Officials had approximately a month to honor requests for updated training and more courtroom space. Two weeks ago, the unionized workers authorized a strike. Clerks held a protest outside City Hall on Thursday,

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02 Oct 2024

San Francisco Amazon Warehouse Workers Unite, Join Teamsters

More than a hundred Amazon employees at San Francisco warehouse #DCK6 formed a Union this morning, represented by the Teamsters. Underpaid warehouse workers fed up with unsafe conditions demanded that Amazon recognize the coalition in a “March on the Boss” early today. The worker-led initiative echoes many similar movements happening

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24 Sep 2024

San Francisco Hotel Workers On Strike!

Hotel workers in San Francisco have gone on strike to demand higher wages, improved healthcare and pension benefits, as their previous contract expired and negotiations with the Westin St. Francis, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, and the Grand Hyatt San Francisco have stalled.

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