BOEING CONTRACT CUTS INTO LOCAL LABOR INFLUENCE
By PHUONG LE Jim Bearden, administrative assistant for District 751 of the Boeing machinists union, tells reporters that workers voted to accept Boeing’s latest contract offer to keep the assembly…
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BART union ratifies contract that ended strike
By TERRY COLLINS FILE – In this Oct. 22, 2013, file photo, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) passengers wait for a train in Oakland, Calif. A BART labor union overwhelmingly…
SF TRANSIT STRIKE HAS COMMUTERS FACING GRIDLOCK
By LISA LEFF and TRACIE CONE With the BART transit system on strike, people wait in line to catch a ferry to San Francisco Monday, Oct. 21, 2013, from Jack…
TRAIN KILLS 2 TRACK WORKERS AMID SF BAY STRIKE
By TERRY COLLINS and TRACIE CONE A BART police officer covers one of the two people that were struck and killed by a moving BART train along Jones Road in…
2ND SF BAY AREA TRANSIT STRIKE IN 4 MONTHS BEGINS
By TERRY COLLINS Roxanne Sanchez, left, president of Service Employees International Union Local 1021, left, speaks during a news conference on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013, in Oakland, Calif. San Francisco…
LA. GOVERNOR DEMANDS FEDS DROP SUIT AGAINST STATE
By PHILIP ELLIOTT In this Aug. 30, 2013, photo, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks at the Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s Defending the American Dream Summit in Orlando. Jindal on Wednesday,…
GREECE: SCHOOLS SHUT, PROTESTERS PEPPER SPRAYED
By ELENA BECATOROS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Striking teachers protest in Thessaloniki on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. Thousands of school teachers and other civil servants held an afternoon demonstration to demand…
POLICE MOVE IN ON MEXICO CITY PROTESTERS
By MARK STEVENSON and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Protesting teachers light a bonfire in Mexico City main plaza, the Zocalo, Friday, Sept. 13, 2013. Thousands of teachers who have camped out…