workers rights

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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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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10 Jul 2024

This New Literary Magazine is a Gift to the People of San Francisco

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
02 May 2024

1,500 Hotel Workers & Janitors March Through Downtown San Francisco

Over 1,500 janitors and hotel workers marched through downtown San Francisco on May Day in a protest for higher wages, affordable health care, and better workloads. Union contracts covering 5,000 janitors and 10,000 Bay Area hotel workers are set to expire this summer, and workers say the march was intended to show their employers that they are ready for possible labor disputes.

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19 Jul 2023

The 150-Year History of Work from Home (and Why it Should Always Be a Choice)

First, a history lesson. Yet again, black women don’t get the credit they deserve. This time, its in the realm of working from home. Many laundresses, even before the genius of Clara Brown and all the way through WWII, saw an opportunity to make money AND stay at home. Starting

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24 May 2023

Why We’re Pausing Our Netflix & Hulu Previews Until the WGA Strike is Over

Dear Broke-Ass Reader, This writer’s digest of the upcoming month’s offerings on Netflix and Hulu has been interrupted by the Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) strike. This interruption will continue until the strike is resolved, hopefully in the WGA’s favor.   To understand why this action was taken, this nice summation

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08 Sep 2022

Kaiser Therapists Continue Strike Against Dangerously Long Wait Times for Therapy

Kaiser patients are waiting longer than ever for care, and clinicians keep leaving in droves because the work is unsustainable and patients continue to suffer.

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02 Jun 2022

A Server Is Not a Servant

Some people might not fully grasp this concept, but there is a difference between a server and a servant. Merriam-Webster defines a server as “one that serves food and drink” while the word servant is defined as “one that performs duties about the person or home of a master or

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04 May 2022

MUNI, Are You Okay? What’s Happening With Our Beloved Transit Agency

I was on my way to a sex party when it happened again. I almost felt it rush past, my bewildered eyes darting between street and phone. Arriving, it said, like the ghost of the 38-Geary had erupted from a parallel dimension and onto O’Farrell in true paranormal fashion: visible

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