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| May.28 |
San Jose |
Janitors approve contract, return to work About 6,000 janitors in the Silicon Valley and East Bay are back to work after approving a new contract and ending a nine-day strike
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| May.20 |
San Jose |
Silicon Valley janitors strike| Janitors at some of technology and biotechnology companies will go out on strike, having dismissed a contract offer from cleaning companies | | |
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| May.18 |
San Jose |
Silicon Valley janitors set to strike
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| May.6 |
Barry Bonds |
Union asks Selig about Bonds collusion |
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| May.2 |
San Ramon |
63 Restaurant Workers Nabbed In Raid U.S. ICE agents arrested 63 employees of Taqueria El Balazo, a Bay Area Mexican restaurant chain, for being in the country illegally
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| Apr.30 |
San Francisco |
Walkout Potential Looms At West Ports
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Ship Pilot Charged With Lying In Spill Probe
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| Mar.29 |
San Francisco |
Striking Nurses Go Back To Work
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| Mar.21 |
Bay Area |
Bay Area Nurses Launch 10-Day Strike| Thousands of nurses who work at hospitals affiliated with Sutter Health have gone on strike for the third time since October | | |
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| Mar.14 |
Martinez |
Nurses' strike in Martinez averted |
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| Mar.13 |
Atherton |
Housekeeper sues couple for OT
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| Mar.11 |
San Francisco |
Nurses at Sutter Health to strike again |
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| Feb.22 |
Millbrae |
Workers Strike At Convalescent Hospital
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| Jan.27 |
Santa Rosa |
Priests back workers at hospital chain |
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Ex-Brocade CEO Gets Prison
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| Dec.15 |
San Francisco |
Bay Area Sutter Health Nurses End Strike
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| Dec.13 |
Oakland |
Nurses Strike For 2nd Time In 2 Months
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| Dec.12 |
San Jose |
Building inspectors end strike
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| Dec.7 |
San Jose Downtown |
Building inspectors' strike slowing projects |
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| Dec.2 |
Pleasanton |
Safeway, workers agree to contract |
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| Nov.30 |
San Jose City Hall |
Building inspectors go on strike |
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| Oct.19 |
Contra Costa County |
Prosecutors authorize strike Prosecutors in the county may be walking off the job soon if they don't get the pay raises they're looking for
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| Oct.12 |
Oakland |
Nurses Not Allowed To Return After Strike |
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| Oct.10 |
San Francisco |
Thousands Of Nurses Strike In Bay Area| Nearly 5,000 nurses in the Bay Area and beyond are staging the two-day strike to protest what they say are unacceptable proposals | |
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| Sep.28 |
San Francisco |
Nurses authorize N. California strike
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| Sep.27 |
SF Downtown |
Security Officers Returning To Work |
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| Sep.25 |
Port of Oakland |
Longshoreman's Death Shuts Down Port
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| Sep.24 |
SF Downtown |
Security Guards Go On Strike Security guards who normally protect the downtown high rises can be found outside instead, picketing as their strike gets under way
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| Aug.28 |
Emeryville |
Hotel Workers Win Battle For Back Wages After a tense, rowdy hearing the City Council ordered the Woodfin Hotel to pay workers $350,000 dollars in back wages and penalties
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| Aug.13 |
Oakland |
MediaNews no longer recognizes Guild |
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Black Muslim bakery assets to be liquidated
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| Jul.30 |
Alameda County |
Regular Garbage Collectors Back To Work For the first time in 4 weeks, regular garbage collectors are back on the job after voting to approve a new contract
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| Jul.29 |
Oakland |
Teamsters Approve Contract |
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| Jul.26 |
Oakland |
Deal Reached To End Garbage Dispute| Officials from Waste Management, the Teamsters and Mayor Dellums emerged from negotiations to announce a tentative agreement. The Teamsters will take a vote on Saturday. On ... | |
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| Jul.25 |
Oakland |
Negotiations continue for garbage lockout |
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| Jul.23 |
Oakland |
Garbage Talks Round Has No Agreement Another round of federally-mediated talks between Waste Management and Teamsters Local 70 ended with no agreement
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| Jul.22 |
Oakland |
Union, company return to table |
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| Jul.19 |
Oakland |
Mediator Talks Continue In Trash Dispute |
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| Jul.18 |
Oakland |
Fed. Mediator Seeks To End Lockout Alameda County's garbage collector and its unionized drivers were set to return again to the bargaining table
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| Jul.17 |
Oakland |
Hearing For Garbage Lockout |
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| Jul.16 |
Alameda County |
Lockout Continues As Garbage Piles Up |
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Alameda County |
Normal Garbage Service Promised |
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| Jul.12 |
Oakland City Hall |
City To Sue Over Garbage Lockout |
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| Jul.7 |
Alameda County |
Waste Management Plans To Collect Trash |
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| Jul.6 |
Alameda County |
Garbage Piling Up As Lockout Continues |
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| Jul.2 |
Alameda County |
County Garbage Workers Locked Out| Waste Management has told 500 sanitary workers not to show up. Trash collectors were locked out, as negotiations remain deadlocked | |
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| Apr.25 |
Hayward |
Teacher Strike Over Public school teachers ended their 10-day-old strike upon reaching a tentative agreement with the School District over salary increases
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| Apr.21 |
San Jose |
Activists Rally For Exploited Workers |
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| Apr.20 |
Hayward |
Injunction Sought to End Teachers Strike |
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Google To Buy DoubleClick For $3.1B
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| Apr.6 |
Hayward |
Tensions On Day 2 Of Teachers Strike |
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| Apr.5 |
Hayward |
Teachers Go On Strike Teachers in Hayward Unified School District set up picket lines at several schools while the district brought in substitutes
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| Mar.12 |
Hawyward |
Teachers OK Strike |
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| Jan.19 |
San Francisco |
Premiums Up 750% For School Bus Drivers |
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| Nov.28 |
Napa |
Pelosi's Business Scrutinized
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| Oct.27 |
Alameda County |
Garbage Strike Averted |
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| Oct.24 |
Alameda County |
Garbage Strike Looms
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| Oct.20 |
SJ Mercury News |
Mercury News to lay off 101 employees |
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| Sep.25 |
SF Downtown |
Alcatraz Ferry Service Changes Hands
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| Sep.12 |
San Francisco |
Tentative Agreement In Hotel Dispute Union leaders representing 4,200 workers announced that a tentative agreement was reached on a contract
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HP Sought Director Records in Leak Probe
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| Aug.31 |
SF Downtown |
65 Arrested In Hotel Worker Protest |
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| Aug.28 |
Concord |
Hospital Workers Launch Two-Day Strike |
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| Aug.24 |
SF Downtown |
Hotel wokers vote to authorize strike |
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| Aug.20 |
UC Berkeley |
Labor Protesters Greet Students
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| May.10 |
Oakland |
Teachers Ratify New 2-Year Contract |
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Oil breaks through record $75
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| Mar.16 |
Oakland City Hall |
PD Reaches Tentative Labor Agreement |
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| Mar.13 |
Oakland |
Labor Stalemate Slows Crime Fight
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| Mar.8 |
Castro Valley |
Eden contract settled |
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| Mar.7 |
Castro Valley |
Lockout In Eden Med Center Labor Fight
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| Feb.23 |
Concord |
2-Day Hospital Strike Begins
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| Feb.1 |
Oakland |
Impasse In Teacher Contract Talks |
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Energy crisis as Georgia freezes
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| Jan.21 |
Stanford |
Hospital strike averted |
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Feds Seek Records in Porn Probe
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| Dec.12 |
Stanford |
Service Workers Stage One-Day Walkout |
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| Nov.16 |
San Francisco |
School strike averted
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| Nov.12 |
San Francisco |
Hospital workers ratify contract |
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| Sep.30 |
Oakland |
Kaiser, unions have pact |
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| Sep.17 |
San Francisco |
Katrina Refugees Cross Picket Line |
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| Sep.13 |
Berkeley |
Strikers Set Up Pickets At Hospitals
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| Jul.25 |
SF Chronicle |
Paper, employees reached tentative deal |
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| Jul.19 |
BART |
Union Approves Labor Agreement |
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| Jul.14 |
San Francisco |
Hotel union says no to new offer |
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| Jul.9 |
SF Downtown |
Unions Urging Conventions to Not Meet |
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| Jul.6 |
BART |
Strike Averted After Early Morning Deal Union and management negotiators reached a tentative 4-year agreement before 3 a.m. that averted a strike
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| Jul.5 |
BART |
Strike Talks Down To The Wire |
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| Jun.30 |
BART |
Employee Contracts Expire At Midnight
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File-sharing suffers major defeat
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| Jun.22 |
BART |
Workers Vote To Authorize Strike 98% of the 975 members of Union Local 790 who voted approved the authorization
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G8 ministers back Africa debt deal
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| May.7 |
San Francisco |
Factory fires 80 immigrants w/o severance |
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| May.3 |
SF Downtown |
Hotel workers' march results in 37 arrests
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| Apr.28 |
Oakland |
Woman struck by chair suing Rangers
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| Apr.27 |
Oakland |
Teachers union rejects contract proposal |
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| Mar.15 |
San Jose |
Massive Layoff Warnings for Teachers |
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| Mar.2 |
SF Downtown |
Cable Cars Resume Service After Strike |
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| Feb.28 |
Berkeley |
Teachers Slash Homework in Labor Dispute
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| Feb.18 |
Woodside |
Workers asked to expose breasts to ape |
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| Jan.24 |
San Jose |
Major grocers, unions agree to contract
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| Nov.20 |
San Francisco |
Hotel employees to return to work About 4,000 maids, bellhops, cooks and other will return to their jobs while contract negotiations continue
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| Nov.16 |
San Francisco |
Kaiser covers locked-out hotel workers
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| Oct.26 |
SF Downtown |
Hotels refuse to end labor lockout |
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| Oct.25 |
SF City Hall |
Mayor vows to join pickets to end lockout Gavin Newsom calsl for a boycott of the 14 facilities and urge other mayors to play hardball with the properties' owners
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| Oct.24 |
SF City Hall |
Mayor Seeks Cooling-Off in Hotel Dispute |
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| Oct.13 |
SF Downtown |
Hotel strike ends, workers locked-out |
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Fuel price strike starts
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| Oct.5 |
SF Downtown |
Hotel operators agree to extend lockout |
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| Sep.29 |
San Francisco |
Hotel workers begin two-week strike Cooks, housekeepers, bellboys at 4 hotels began a noisy action that could spread to other venues and discourage visitors
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| Sep.6 |
SF Downtown |
Arrests at demonstration by hotel workers |
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| Aug.30 |
Alameda County |
Health care workers walk out in protest |
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| May.23 |
Oakland |
Phone Equipment Allegedly Vandalized SBC alleges that phone wires were cut at 6 neighborhood junction boxes during the first 2 days of a 4-day strike by operators
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Jury finds Martha Stewart guilty
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| Jan.28 |
Alamo |
Workers Protest at Home of Safeway CEO
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| Jan.24 |
San Francisco |
'Unruly' demonstration at Safeway |
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| Dec.12 |
San Jose Downtown |
Latino Boycott Closes Some Businesses |
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Schwarzenegger to run for governor
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| Aug.2 |
San Francisco |
Janitors authorize strike |
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| May.17 |
San Jose |
Janitors ratify contract |
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Firm acquitted of copyright infringement
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| Sep.29 |
Oakland Port |
Longshoremen Locked Out Again at Port |
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| Sep.28 |
Oakland Port |
Port Idled by Lockout |
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| Aug.28 |
UC Berkeley |
Lecturers walked off job |
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| Jul.24 |
SF Downtown |
Rally in support of longshoremen |
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| Jul.12 |
San Francisco |
Nurses strike averted |
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CEO claims victory in merger vote
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| Oct.24 |
BART |
BART strike averted Union, representing 238 controllers and supervisors, accepted a wage and benefits package
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| Oct.16 |
BART |
BART union rejects offer |
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Wall Street reopens, Stocks plummet
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| Sep.4 |
BART |
BART Strike Averted |
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| Jun.29 |
BART |
BART strike averted |
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| Jun.26 |
BART |
2 BART unions authorize strike |
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| Oct.9 |
SJ Mercury News |
Newspaper carrier dispute |
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| May.13 |
Oracle |
Former Executive Sues Over Termination |
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'I love you' virus disrupts computers
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| Feb.1 |
Berkeley |
Free-Lancers On Strike at Pacifica News