San Francisco Readies for Major Labor DisputeCarl Finamorebyline‚ Oct. 27‚ 2009Ed. Note: After 92.3% of Local 2's “Class A” members voted last week to authorize a strike, UNITE-HERE is planning an all-day siege of the Intercontinental Hotel today at 5th & Howard. The Law of Momentum, one of the most powerful postulates of physics, describes a collision “where the momentum gained by one object is equal to the momentum lost by the other object.” Physics is of course one of the “hard” sciences, but the same formula can perhaps be aptly applied to the “softer” social sciences as well, where opposing economic forces collide and jockey for position. We are seeing such a clash in San Francisco ... |