On Friday, July 26, in Los Angeles, actors who work in the video game industry and are organized under the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) went on strike.
Over the past four months, a raft of consequential negotiations has been underway between two parties: a coordinated amalgam of unions called the Public Employee Committee (PEC) that represents tens of thousands of city workers, and the City of San Francisco.
Legislation recently introduced by San Francisco supervisor Ahsha Safaí could go a long way toward stimulating much-needed housing development, putting union pension dollars to work, and providing plenty of union construction jobs for the building trades in the City — all in one fell swoop.
The Labor Center at the University of California–Berkeley earlier this month released an analysis of Los Angeles’ Proposition HHH Community Workforce Agreement, a project labor agreement (PLA) that resulted from L.A.’s popular 2016 measure to fund and develop affordable supportive housing.
A recent bill in the California State Legislature that would have allowed striking California workers to collect unemployment insurance (UI) benefits has been killed — by Democrats.
Ground has finally broken on a highly anticipated and much-needed project that’s set to transform the City’s Parnassus Heights neighborhood while providing a significant amount of work-hours for building trades members across the crafts clear through to the end of this decade.
As we all already know too well, we are in the midst of a massive election year. It’ll be huge for the nation at large, but it’ll also be huge for the City.
On Friday, April 26, rank-and-file building trades members gathered with union and council leadership at the Southeast Community Center near India Basin to chow down on some choice lunch while celebrating the standout work of six loyal public-sector building trades workers: Lawrence Ferraz, Greg Gonzales, Michael Lunardelli, Sean Robinson, Dean Tolosa, and Ryan Zhu.
