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Occupy San Francisco was a game-changer

Tim Paulson - September 19, 2021

Ten years later, remembering the movement that gave us "We are the 99 percent" and put economic inequality on the national agenda.

News + Politics

Newsom beats back recall handily; now he has to decide who his friends are

Tim Redmond - September 14, 2021

Labor and grassroots Democrats kept him in office. Will he remember that when it comes to making policy?

Labor

Dandelion Chocolate workers’ union vote is approved by NLRB

Garrett Leahy - September 12, 2021

On Thursday, after roughly five months, contested ballots cast by Dandelion workers deciding whether to unionize under International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6...

COVID

A public health nurse makes the case for vaccine and mask mandates

Sasha Cuttler - August 16, 2021

Testing alone has simply not worked. We call this 'universal precautions'—and it has to be part of our response to the ongoing pandemic.

News + Politics

And yet we signed: Behind the letter to the president of Nicaragua

Elaine Elinson - July 15, 2021

Hundreds who spent the 1980s doing Sandinista solidarity work are now condemning Daniel Ortega's new wave of political repression. Here's why.

Labor

Biden, despite promises, has still issued no COVID standards for workplaces

Marc Norton - June 21, 2021

The pandemic is not over -- but workers still have no federal protections.

Labor

Dandelion Chocolate workers protest layoffs during union battle

Garrett Leahy - June 16, 2021

As NLRB counts votes, nine union backers lose their jobs.

The Agenda

Supes to vote on public bank plan

Tim Redmond - June 13, 2021

Plus: Exposing the ongoing PG&E scandal, and a hearing on rent relief -- that's The Agenda for June 13-20

News + Politics

A Democratic president actually talks about taxing the very rich

Tim Redmond - April 28, 2021

Thank Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street and other organizers and activists for forcing the Democratic Party to the left

Labor

AAA insurance agents in California are seeking to unionize

Garrett Leahy - April 26, 2021

Complaints about pay and working conditions drive effort to form a union among giant nonprofit's insurance employees.

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Occupy San Francisco was a game-changer

Newsom beats back recall handily; now he has to decide who his friends are

Dandelion Chocolate workers’ union vote is approved by NLRB

A public health nurse makes the case for vaccine and mask mandates

And yet we signed: Behind the letter to the president of Nicaragua

Biden, despite promises, has still issued no COVID standards for workplaces

Dandelion Chocolate workers protest layoffs during union battle

Supes to vote on public bank plan

A Democratic president actually talks about taxing the very rich

AAA insurance agents in California are seeking to unionize

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