2017 YEAR IN EAST BAY POLITICSAs fall began to bleed into winter, everything seemed to go wrong for Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf. The unions were already nipping at her heels with a campaign-style website portraying her leadership in dire tones…. Read More ›
OAKLAND CITY COUNCILOakland is headed toward a work stoppage as more than 3,000 members of the Service Employee International Union (SEIU) Local 1021 and other city unions announced they will strike on Tuesday. SEIU Local 1021 and the Oakland city… Read More ›
OAKLAND CITY COUNCILOakland’s largest public employees union filed a lawsuit in Alameda County Superior Court Tuesday alleging the City of Oakland is violating its City Charter with an over-reliance on part-time workers. Representatives for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU),… Read More ›
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf won’t likely face a credible candidate for re-election next year but SEIU Local 1021 is acting like anopponent. OAKLANDFew East Bay labor unions are more aggressive than the Service Employees International Union Local 1021. Whether in… Read More ›
Henry Levy will be sworn-in as Alameda County’s next treasurer-tax collector sometime in May. ALAMEDA COUNTYIn the end the unions got their man. Following an hour-long deliberation, highlighted by some contention, including questions about the applicant’s integrity, the Alameda County… Read More ›
ALAMEDA COUNTYAlameda County supervisors will wait another week before appointing a new treasurer-tax collector while the powerful Service Employees International Union Local 1021 decides which of the four candidates to endorse. The four candidates are former Fremont Mayor Bill Harrison,… Read More ›
Hayward City Council candidates (pictured clockwise): Councilmember Al Mendall, Matt McGrath, Councilmember Elisa Marquez, Mark Salinas, and Councilmember Francisco Zermeno. MEET THE CANDIDATES Every four years in Hayward, voters have the unique opportunity to alter a majority of their city… Read More ›
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors reign as champions of local entrenched poltics may come to end on June 7. JUNE PRIMARY PREVIEW |1. I think Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley is scared to the point that he cries at… Read More ›
Hayward council candidate Matt McGrath retired as a Hayward department head in 2014. HAYWARD CITY COUNCIL | Hayward has a dearth of prospective candidates at all segments of its city government, but one may have been hiding all these years… Read More ›
Some of the 13,000 signatures SEIU Local 1021 submittted last January to the Hayward city clerk. HAYWARD | MEASURE C | It’s one thing for a group to file a local ballot measure and other to fund the fees and… Read More ›
SEIU Local 1021 members in Hayward staging a three-day strike in 2014 to protest the city’s then-alleged unfair labor negotiations. HAYWARD | Months after a state Public Employment Relations Board found the city of Hayward’s five percent wage imposition two years ago… Read More ›
A campaign flyer given to Hayward residents advocating for the charter amendment. The literature was paid for by SEIU Local 1021. HAYWARD CITY COUNCIL | A charter amendment to move Hayward municipal elections from June to November starting in 2018… Read More ›
Hayward City Manager Fran David’s unwavering stances against union city workers was found to be improper, according a legal finding. HAYWARD CITY COUNCIL |After Hayward city employees–working without a contract for two years–agreed to a new contract last summer, they… Read More ›
ELECTION16 | Starting in 2013, the Hayward City Council waged a war over wages and ultimately imposed a five percent wage cut on more than 300 city employees represented by SEIU Local 1021. Following the council’s decision in February 2014,… Read More ›
HAYWARD/Nov. 3, 7 p.m.The Quiet War with labor continues CAMPAIGN FINANCE ORDINANCEA truce over the war between city employees and the Hayward City Council, starting in 2013, was technically settled earlier this year when both sides agreed to a new… Read More ›
MTC chair said the decision to override its Executive Director Steve Heminger’s (pictured) plan is not a knock against the proposal. MTC-ABAG MERGER | Steve Heminger, the executive director of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) said his staff pleaded against… Read More ›
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf is the city’s representative on MTC. MTC-ABAG | The proposed merger of two influential regional agencies has been likened by some as a hostile takeover. The quickly drawn up merger by Steve Heminger, the head of… Read More ›
Hayward city employees during a three-day strike in August 2013. Union members get 4.5% wage bump over 3 years HAYWARD CITY COUNCIL | Following a protracted labor dispute between the City of Hayward and over 300 of its employees that… Read More ›
Hayward Councilmembers Greg Jones and Al Mendall may be targeted by unions for their vote to impose a wage cut on city workers. Some CMs may fear union reprisal in 2016 election HAYWARD CITY COUNCIL | With an eye toward a… Read More ›
