Bay Area Victories For Living Wage
Talking Union
San Francisco voters approved Proposition J. This will increase the minimum wage to $15 by July 2018.
Boom & Bust in the City of Gold - Living & Leaving San Francisco
Portside
The dramatic changes in the economic and social landscape of San Francisco has not gone unnoticed by some city officials, especially when confronted with continuing community pressure such as a the very lively and youthful Oct. 4 march through the Mission demanding an end to evictions.
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Fast-Food Workers Set to Strike over Wages
SFGATE.com
Low-income workers from 150 U.S. cities and 33 countries in protests on Thursday to call attention to wealth inequality.The protest comes amid a national push to raise the minimum wage - and it could mark a significant moment in the campaign, according to John Logan, a professor of labor and employment studies at San Francisco State University.
Dispatches from the Culture Wars - Do It On Monday edition
Portside
Moral Monday pix; Fracking for you but not for me; Guggenheim; Google; Smart diapers
Media Bits & Bytes - Sorry, Wrong Number Edition
Portside
Judge Declares Phone Spying a No-No; Internet of Things Coming Up Fast; Many "Things" Are Already Plugged In; Social Media Becomes a Trusted News Source; San Francisco Gets Free WiFi
Media Bits & Bytes - Bay Area Blues edition
Portside
Hail & Farewell Andre Schiffrin; Silicon Valley Warping San Francisco; Oakland Building Big Brother; Ebooks Challenge Academic Presses; NSA Drops 50,000 `Sleeper Cells' in Computer Networks Worldwide; New Site to Seek Funding from the Masses for Investigating Reporting
Protesting Twitter
New York Times
Although Twitter’s founders, investors and employees deserve to be rewarded for their ingenuity and hard work, the company’s public offering provides an opportunity to take stock of the growing disparities and misplaced priorities in the home of the nation’s celebrated technology industry.
Elderly Family’s Eviction Fuels Growing San Francisco Housing Rights Movement
People Power Media
A growing number of city workers, teachers, and other union workers can’t live here anymore.
What We’re Reading Now
New York Times
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Judge Grants Bay Area Transit Strike Reprieve
The Sacramento Bee
Negotiations between BART and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1555 and Service Employees International Union Local 1021 began months ago, but the two sides remained tens of millions of dollars apart on wages, pensions and health care benefits last week.
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