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’94 strike treasurer bore witness to solidarity
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’94 strike treasurer bore witness to solidarity

Pacific Media Workers Guild December 10, 2014June 3, 2015 0 comment

Unless excused, a person had to walk the picket line to receive a strike check. A week’s striking was worth only $200, no matter how much one’s normal pay was.

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Strikers remember rain, pain and some gain
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Strikers remember rain, pain and some gain

Pacific Media Workers Guild November 15, 2014March 8, 2020 0 comment

A strike had been percolating for weeks before 2,600 workers from 11 unions at the Examiner, the Chronicle and the San Francisco Newspaper Agency walked off the job Nov. 1, 1994. Four days of round-the-clock negotiations hit a logjam over salary and job security, but by then, a solid structure had been formed for a strike.

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Reporter retrospective on 1994 strike
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Reporter retrospective on 1994 strike

Guild Staff November 14, 2014March 8, 2020 1 comment

There were serious conflicts in the pressroom and distribution system, and the mailers (by this time we had figured out these were the people who assembled the papers and preprinted inserts into bundles for delivery) still had legitimate issues twenty-six years after the 1968 strike.

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1994 San Francisco news strike pushed limits and ushered in online media
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1994 San Francisco news strike pushed limits and ushered in online media

Pacific Media Workers Guild November 13, 2014March 8, 2020 0 comment

By Larry Hatfield

The 1994 strike was remarkable for a variety of reasons, the most profound of which may have been that it was a seminal event in the development of online media. Both sides made significant contributions.

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Calling volunteers for 20th anniversary strike history committee

Michael Applegate August 28, 2014November 22, 2014 0 comment

We are putting together a committee to decide how we’d like to honor the 20th anniversary of the San Francisco newspaper strike. Please volunteer.

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