REI management and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 have five days to challenge the election before it is certified.
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Berkeley REI workers seek union representation
Their effort follows a successful drive to unionize workers at a New York REI, and a national organizing push among service workers.
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Former chair of Berkeley cannabis commission pleads guilty to money laundering
Dan Rush served on the Medical Cannabis Commission for many years, but now admits he was using his position as a union organizer to enrich himself.
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Berkeley medical cannabis commissioner faces fraud and extortion charges
Dan Rush addresses a group at the Cannabis Workers Rising Symposium in Winchester, Nevada. Photo: Facebook The former chair of Berkeley’s Medical Cannabis Commission (MCC) is scheduled to appear in federal court today, Sept. 23, to face extortion, fraud and money laundering charges connected to his dealings with cannabis dispensaries in Berkeley, Oakland and Las […]
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Infusion of money should spiff up remaining Andronico’s
Andronico's has slashed prices in its Telegraph Avenue store to move goods. Photos: Frances Dinkelspiel Starting in January, shoppers at Andronico’s Markets should start seeing upgrades in the chain’s remaining five stores, including new refrigeration cases, revamped displays, and shelves stocked with additional goods. The revamp is part of Renovo Capital’s quest to capture a […]
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Commission ponders growth of unlicensed pot groups
The Medical Cannabis Commission at its September meeting. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel Berkeley’s Medical Cannabis Commission agreed on Thursday to send a letter to the city manager expressing concern about the proliferation of cannabis collectives in areas that are not zoned for them. The commission noted that two collectives — Forty Acres and Perfect Patient’s Plant […]
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Berkeley Bowl workers get new chance for union election
Union rally at Berkeley Bowl in June 2010. Photo: Bob Patterson. Workers at the Berkeley Bowl on Oregon Street are going to have another chance to decide whether they want a union. The National Labor Relations Board in late December nullified the election Berkeley Bowl held in June 2010 that decertified the United Food and […]
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Berkeley Bowl workers decide whether to keep union
Rally on June 21 outside Berkeley Bowl As shoppers go into the Oregon branch of Berkeley Bowl, they may see a table set up nearby with pamphlets talking about unions and justice. Six years after the government ordered Berkeley Bowl to bargain with the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5, that union is struggling […]