1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (127+ words) San Francisco is expanding paid parental leave benefits by making it easier for more workers to qualify. Mayor Daniel Lurie signed the ordinance Friday during a ceremony in North Beach after it was recently approved by the Board of Supervisors....

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (778+ words) A ship currently docked in Richmond is at the center of a controversy that involves a Bay Area labor dispute, a mass killing in the Philippines, and hundreds of tons of raw sugar stranded on a dock. The raw sugar…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (370+ words) SVBJ's 2026 Book of Lists ranks 913 Greater Bay Area employers; Kaiser Permanente leads with about 62,840 local workers. A fresh set of rankings released today puts hard numbers behind who really signs the most paychecks across the Greater Bay Area Researchers tallied…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (212+ words) Game industry workers at Keywords Studios’ San Francisco office are bracing for a major cut, as the Ireland‑based provider of technical and creative services to video‑game publishers prepares to shed about 128 local jobs, according to state layoff filings....

10+ mon, 2+ week ago   (176+ words) By Nick Turner, Bloomberg Applied Materials Inc., the largest US producer of chipmaking equipment, plans to cut 4% of its global workforce as it copes with a sales slowdown and trade turmoil. The company will eliminate the jobs to position it…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (400+ words) A humanoid robot waits for a pair of socks to pick up during a demo at the Dexterity Night hosted by RLWRLD in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 13, 2026. For the past several months, I haven’t been able to figure out…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (461+ words) UnPTO's Monday hikes have grown into a support network for Bay Area workers hit by tech layoffs, offering connections, interviews and a place to regroup. About 80 people packed into a Montara Mountain parking lot yesterday, turning a quiet trailhead into…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (416+ words) Exterior view of San Francisco International Airport, April 2, 2018. San Francisco supervisors and a state senator were among 25 people arrested during a May Day protest at San Francisco International Airport on Friday as thousands of airline-contracted service workers rallied over wages…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago   (474+ words) Workers for Sutter Health are gearing up for a strike, with union officials citing “bad faith bargaining” by the nonprofit health care provider amid what they claim are widespread staffing shortages. “We don’t want to go on strike, but we…...

5+ mon, 5+ day ago   (279+ words) A GoPro HERO13 Black camera is displayed at a Costco Wholesale store in San Diego, Calif., on July 19, 2025. The Bay Area-based camera maker GoPro plans to lay off 145 workers, or nearly a quarter of its workforce, to curb spending, according to…...