San Francisco criminal court clerks issued a "cry for help" on Monday, threatening to strike for three days if the court did not respond to their demands for more staff and better training to handle an influx of criminal cases. After 11 hours of negotiations, the clerks' union and the court's bargaining team came to a tentative agreement on Tuesday night.
A thrilling World Series, set to resume tonight with Game 6 in Toronto, will bring to a conclusion another blockbuster Major League Baseball season. The Blue Jays are one victory away from their first title in 32 years but must win against the game's best team and best player. A couple weeks ago, the Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani a delivered arguably the single greatest individual performance in the 122 years of the World Series era by hitting three home runs and pitching six shutout innings.
An estimated 31,000 registered nurses and other front-line Kaiser Permanente health care workers went on strike Tuesday to demand better wages and staffing from the Oakland-based health care giant. Organizers say the five-day strike across 500 medical centers and offices in California, Hawaii and Oregon is the largest in the 50-year history of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals. The strike could grow to include 46,000 people.
Blue Bottle is set to leave the iconic WC Morse building in Oakland's Temescal district on September 26, per a sign on the cafe's door. Blue Bottle has occupied the historic former car dealership since 2014 and used to offer espresso tech repairs, visible through a plastic partition in the space. The cafe has recently shaved down its opening hours, and an employee said declining business made continuing unviable.
President Trump is wading into the brewing labor dispute between the Long Island Rail Road and its labor unions, announcing today the formation of an "emergency board" to " investigate " the conflict. The presidential intervention heads off, for now, a strike, and comes at a time when Republicans are making an effort to forge closer ties with labor unions - worthy goals, to be sure.
