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North Bay Jobs with Justice and the North Bay Labor Council have been working together to bring an accelerated minimum wage to multiple cities in Sonoma and Marin Counties.

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When Uber and Lyft began trading on Wall Street as idealistic, tech-disrupting startups, some of their earliest investment came from the nation’s larges

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FORESTVILLE TEACHERS ACTION

May 30th from 4:30pm to 6pm - ForestvilleTeachers are holding a rally in front of their school at 6321 Highway 116, Forestville, CA 95436.  This is the last school board meet of the year.  They are asking that teachers from all around the county join them and meet in front of Carr’s Restaurant.  Please wear red.  Please invite all your chapter members to participate and bring family and friends!  Again, Forestville is 33% below the statewide average pay and is the first CTA chapter in Sonoma county to be at factfinding and to unanimously authorize a strike if necessary.  Every educator in the county has a stake in their success regardless of whether you have settled this year or not.  This is especially true of educators in West Sonoma County.  So, please join us!    

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Healdsburg Student Walkout

Healdsburg Board of Trustees: Respect Labor Rights!

As you may know we've been supporting Healdsburg teacher Greg Costa who was put on administrative leave. This was done straight out without speaker to Mr. Costa first which is a direct violation of Labor Law. Mr. Costa is a 30 year veteran and well loved teacher. His students held a walkout demanding he be returned to their classroom. We've started a letter writing campaign and we need your help. 

Please click on take action and get involved. Students can't be the priority if this is way teachers are treated. 

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Jackson Family Wines vineyard worker dies in ATV crash in Sonoma County

A longtime local worker for one of the country’s largest wine producers died in an ATV crash Tuesday after his vehicle rolled over in a Bennett Valley vineyard, according to law enforcement.

The death of Luis Gonzalez Valencia, 62, of Santa Rosa at the Jackson Family Wines’ Jackson Park vineyard on Grange Road was reported around 8 p.m. by a woman who noticed her father had not returned from work at the vineyard, the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office said. She found her father underneath an overturned all-terrain vehicle, the Sheriff’s Office said.

Central Valley contractor rebuilding homes after Tubbs fire accused of fraud, negligence

A year and a half after she selected a contractor to begin rebuilding the house she lost in the October 2017 Tubbs fire, Lynette Kronick has nothing to show for it. Her burned lot on Lavender Lane in the Mark West neighborhood remains vacant.

“My roommate has a 3-year-old granddaughter,” she said. “I’d like to have this house built before she graduates from high school.”

Healdsburg students protest school district’s decision to put teacher on administrative leave, staff reductions

At least 70 Healdsburg Junior High students walked out of classes Monday morning, protesting the school district’s decision to place a veteran math teacher on paid administrative leave amid additional expected staff departures on campus. Demanding district administrators bring back seventh grade math teacher Greg Costa, students chanted “We want Costa” as the 10 a.m. protest morphed into an hourslong march through several Healdsburg neighborhoods.

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Local dispatcher named best in America for ‘saving countless lives’ during 2017 wildfires

How unlikely it seems that the fire-and-ambulance dispatcher judged to be the best in America would also be a locally esteemed skunk whisperer.

But it’s true. If Cloverdale High School alumna KT McNulty isn’t at work at the 24-hour dispatch center within the headquarters of the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office, there’s a good chance she’s speaking soothingly to a skunk or other wild critter in a bind.

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