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Campaign Trail

Another big-money anti-tax front group emerges in SF

Tim Redmond - October 19, 2020

The Chamber of Commerce and GOP donors have created Fed UP SF to attack progressive taxes.

Movies

Screen Grabs: Keeping it together—and falling apart

Dennis Harvey - September 21, 2020

Spotlight on mental health with Blackbird, Last Call, the Swerve, Rialto, and Oliver Sacks. Plus: The Beatles, Chuck Berry, Space Dogs

Featured

Uber drivers protest billboard campaign

Garrett Leahy - September 10, 2020

Company claims to support Black workers while undermining their rights with a state ballot initiative.

Labor

Drivers rally against Uber and Lyft extortion

Garrett Leahy - August 21, 2020

About 70 drivers rallied outside Uber’s headquarters on Market Street on Thursday, decrying Uber and Lyft’s threat to cancel rideshare services in California in retaliation...

Labor

Judge orders Uber, Lyft to treat drivers as employees

Garrett Leahy - August 10, 2020

San Francisco Superior Court judge Ethan Schulman issued a prohibitory injunction ruling Monday stating that Uber and Lyft must cease classifying employees as independent...

Business + Tech

Uber, Lyft drivers rally as state sues the companies

Garrett Leahy - August 8, 2020

On Thursday, about 50 Uber and Lyft drivers joined a caravan outside the Uber Greenlight Hub in Oakland demanding that the rideshare companies classify...

News + Politics

Fielder shows surprising strength in state Senate fundraising report

Tim Redmond - August 3, 2020

Incumbent state Senator Scott Wiener and his challenger, Jackie Fielder, have raised almost the same amount of money between February and June, campaign finance...

Business + Tech

Lyft drivers have to pay for their own masks and hand sani

Garrett Leahy - July 23, 2020

When Lubungu, a Navy veteran and longtime Uber and Lyft driver, saw a group of activists passing out free facemasks, gloves, and hand sanitizer...

Housing

City Planning (finally) admits it has a problem

Tim Redmond - July 23, 2020

The Land Use and Transportation Committee hearing this week was remarkable: For the first time ever, as far as I can remember, the Planning...

Culture

Laborfest 2020 highlights global struggle from Vietnam to George Floyd uprising

Marke B. - July 1, 2020

The George Floyd uprising, the massive Juneteenth Oakland port blockade, gig workers protesting outside CEO's houses: All of these in the past month have...

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