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Posts Tagged ‘SEIU 1021’

Highland Hospital nurses go on strike during long-running labor dispute

By Brian Nguyen | October 7, 2020 | 0
Highland Hospital in Oakland is currently undergoing retrofitting to meet seismic safety standards.

Nurses and healthcare workers at Highland Hospital in Oakland, joined by nurses at two other hospitals in Alameda county, will go on strike for five days beginning Wednesday, Oct. 7 to protest what they’re calling unfair labor practices by the Alameda Health System (AHS) management.

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Peralta Colleges’ reliance on temporary part-time workers under scrutiny

By Meg Shutzer | October 5, 2018
Richard Thoele, SEIU chapter president for the Peralta Colleges, attends the college district board meeting on September 25, 2018.

The Peralta College District misclassifies long-term employees as “temporary,” denying them higher pay and benefits, union officials say.

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Lack of benefits and work continuity weighs heavily on temporary part-time city workers

By Gabriela Arvizu | May 20, 2015 | 1

For the last three years, Connor Crabb has been working as a recreation leader at Studio One, a city-run center in Oakland that offers afterschool and summer art classes to children. The 24-year-old Oakland native starts his day at the center around 1:30 pm, going from school to school, gathering students from different sites, then…

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BART strike derails morning commutes throughout the Bay Area

By Jennifer Chaussee | October 18, 2013 | 4
Man flips off crowd of strikers

After months of bargaining and a week of unfulfilled strike threats that kept commuters on edge, BART workers went on strike after unions and management failed to reach a deal on employee contract terms.

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