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She was also active with Office and Professional Employees International Union, Local 3 in San Francisco, California. Wohforth was a member of "A Growing Concern," a caucus within Local 3 seeking to reform the organization and draw attention to women's and gay issues after a 19 week-long strike at Blue Shield failed.
[49] After dozens of Bay Area unions voted for a general strike over the next few days, the San Francisco Labor Council voted on July 14 to call a general strike. [50] The Teamsters had already been out for two days by that point. [51] San Francisco Mayor Angelo Rossi declared a state of emergency. [52]
The 1980 San Francisco hotel strike was labor dispute between 6,000 members of Local 2 the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union and the Hotel Employers Association in the San Francisco Bay Area. The strike occurred began on July 17, 1980 and was characterized by massive picket lines at luxury hotels during the peak of the tourist season.
In 1995, Federated Department Stores (now Macy's, Inc.), which owned both Macy's and I. Magnin specialty department stores, closed the I. Magnin chain. Macy's 1929/1948 building and its Union Square-facing buildings formed an "L" shape surrounding the I. Magnin Union Square store at the southwest corner of Stockton and Geary streets, built in 1946.
Mike Casey (born January 6, 1958) is the president of the San Francisco Labor Council [1] and the former president of the 12,000-member Local 2 chapter of UNITE HERE, the union that represents hotel and restaurant workers in San Francisco. He was elected president of the union, Local 2, in 1994 and succeeded by Anand Singh in June 2015.
The union has also lost votes at 100 stores. But in either case, that is still just a fraction of the company’s 11,200 company-operated stores in the United States, employing about 201,000 ...
The completion of the Union Street Stores inspired the formation of a commercial district along a five-block stretch of a deteriorating area in San Francisco that became a popular commercial destination in the city and “charting the course and the ambiance of the well-known shopping and dining mecca we know today.” [3] Along with the historic Ghirardelli Square and The Cannery (a former ...
The agreement follows an investigation by the OLMS San Francisco-Seattle District Office. [51] A UFCW member in Southern California filed a complaint in 2013 with the OLMS against former UFCW 1036 Trustees for illegally transferring $100,000.00 from the local union (1036) to UFCW International in a violation of Section 303 of the LMRDA. [52]