Bayer Healthcare on Dwight in Berkeley The 414 union workers at Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals in Berkeley overwhelmingly turned down a proposed new contract on Wednesday. The vote against the new contract was 264 to 90, according to Donal Mahon, an organizer for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 6. The two sides will return […]
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Laid-off Bayer workers still fighting for their jobs
Bayer Healthcare on Dwight in Berkeley. Photos by Lance Knobel When 414 workers at Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals vote on a new contract on today, Anita Holloway won’t be among them. Holloway worked in janitorial services at Bayer Healthcare on Dwight Way for three years, earning $22.65 an hour. Then in August 2010, she and 28 […]
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Biotech Academy students get hands-on education
Biotech Academy students look for clues. The woman had been missing for six months, with no clue to her whereabouts. Now police had found her car, and it was covered with what looked like blood splatters, blood trails, and a bullet hole. William Clark and Evanney Salisi went to work analyzing the clues. They looked […]