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Council Goes for Local Trash Pickup, Rejects Waste Management

Posted in Business, Community, Economic Development, Labor, Oakland Talks Trash By Ken A. Epstein It was David versus Goliath, a multinational garbage removal…

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Oakland City Council Rejects Challenge to Minimum Wage Ballot Measure

Posted in Business, Labor, Responsive Government By Post Staff The Oakland City Council this week turned down a proposal that would…

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Council to Consider Minimum Wage Ordinance

Posted in Labor, Responsive Government By Ken A. Epstein The City Council next week will vote on an ordinance that…

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City Debates Minimum Wage Increase

By Ken A. Epstein While some members of the Oakland City Council are lining up behind the…

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Brooklyn Basin on a Fast Track, Largest Residential Development in City’s History

Posted in Community, Economic Development, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Labor, Oakland Job Programs, Responsive Government By Ken A. Epstein Media, labor groups and civic leaders were almost…

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Black Construction Workers Overcome Obstacles to Land Army Base Jobs

Posted in Army Base Jobs, Economic Development, Labor By Ashley Chambers Four experienced Oakland construction workers have been trying for years…

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Truckers Call Third Work Stoppage

Posted in Army Base Jobs, Labor By Ashley Chambers Their backs to the wall, independent truckers at the Port of…

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Protesting Port Truckers Surround Oakland City Hall

Posted in Army Base Jobs, Equal Rights/Equity, Labor, Responsive Government By Ashley Chambers Independent truckers lined up around Oakland City Hall Wednesday…

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Independent Truckers Hold Work Stoppage at Port of Oakland

Posted in Army Base Jobs, Labor By Post Staff Independent truckers who work at the Port of Oakland held a…

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More than 250 Jobs and 18 Family and Minority Businesses at Risk

By Ashley Chambers There is a well known African proverb – when elephants fight, the grass gets…

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