Workers Rights

18 Sep 2024

Chipotle Using Robots in California After $20 per Hour Wage Begins

Chipotle Mexican Grill is piloting an automatic avocado peeler and pitter machine at one California location, and an automatic bowl and salad machine at another, as higher minimum wages increase relative yields from automation.

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05 Sep 2024

Over 2,000 SF Hotel Workers Went on Strike Over Labor Day Weekend

Approx. 2,080 San Francisco and San Mateo hotel workers went on strike and demonstrated over Labor Day weekend for better wages and workloads.

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09 Aug 2024

Has the Haight Ashbury Street Fair fallen to our AI overlords?

The artist who won the Haight Ashbury Street Fair’s 2024 poster contest has been accused of using AI. What’s the truth, and what does it mean for art in San Francisco? The Haight Ashbury intersection and surrounding neighborhood are quintessential SF. Hippie, counterculture, music-focused – the street fair that started

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31 Jul 2024

What You Need to Know About Project 2025

The impacts on women, LGBTQ+ rights, families, education and the workforce would be absolutely terrible.

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05 Jul 2024

Why Mayor Breed’s Tenderloin Curfew Will Backfire

I, a Tenderloin resident, believe drug abuse and homelessness persist here because they make certain folks at City Hall very rich.  It’s the last reasonable explanation I can think of, since logistic operations at San Francisco City Hall unfailingly exacerbate them. If the humanitarian crises at the heart of SF

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27 Jun 2024

Oh NO! ‘Ultra-Luxe Private Club’ Sues Transamerica Pyramid Owner

It’s a dark day for the new billionaire’s Club slated for the Transamerica Pyramid. A tragic tale of millionaires suing billionaires over their poor planning, let’s dive into the irony…

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26 Jun 2024

Dark Money is Flooding SF Politics. These People are Exposing It.

San Francisco is on the cusp of its next Phoenix Moment, but shady funding is quietly deciding what will rise from the flames – and what the greedy want to set on fire. There’s always been a back door to City Hall. The garden-variety way is by donating money, and

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19 Jun 2024

Academy of Sciences Workers Say Unionizing Efforts Are at A Breaking Point

The workers in the CalAcademy Workers United have taken to papering telephone poles throughout San Francisco. That’s because the union says the California Academy of Science, which began bargaining with the group in December 2023, has made a slew of decisions in recent months that have pitched tensions between management

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