After a three-day protest by unemployed locals, UCSF has announced that it will be making a few changes in the local hiring percentage at its Mission Bay hospital construction site.  But wait, what really changed UCSF’s mind? The Bay Guardian gives us the story.

• Division of Labor (SF Bay Guardian) 02/02/11
• No veto for local-hiring legislation (Examiner) 12/24/10
• City Insider: Local-hire ordinance is law - no veto (Chronicle) 12/24/10
• SF Local Hiring Legislation Becomes Law (Bay Citizen) 12/24/10
• San Francisco mayor declines to veto local-hire law, despite Peninsula's concerns (Mercury News) 12/24/10
• San Mateo County wants SF mayor to veto law that could hurt Peninsula workers (Mercury News) 12/21/10
• Hiring at home (SF Bay Guardian) 12/15/10
• Editorial: Local hiring - and purchasing (SF Bay Guardian) 12/15/10
• Board of Supervisors gives veto-proof approval to local hiring mandate (Examiner) 12/15/10
• Avalos/Maxwell: Local hiring law a New Deal for San Francisco (Chronicle) 12/14/10
• City Insider: Supes OK tough local-hire law (Chronicle) 12/08/10
• Local-hiring law to boost work force (Examiner) 12/08/10
• Avalos to Introduce Scaled-Back Local Hiring Bill (Bay Citizen) 11/23/10
• Editorial: SF needs a local hire law (SF Bay Guardian) 11/03/10
• Locals for hire (SF Bay Guardian) 11/03/10
• San Francisco to consider local-hire law (SF Business Times) 10/21/10
• City Hall Watch: Supe pushes for half of work to be done by SF residents (Examiner) 10/20/10
• Supervisor proposes 50% local hiring mandate (Chronicle) 10/20/10
• Local-Hiring Bill Would Target SF's Poor Neighborhoods (Bay Citizen) 10/20/10
• Avalos initiates LOCAL SF (SF Bay Guardian) 10/20/10
• Local hiring on city-funded projects falls short (Examiner) 10/19/10
• Union allocation is roadblock to local hiring (Examiner) 08/04/10
• Study: Public Works Jobs Skipping Locals (Bay Citizen) 08/02/10
• Locals miss out on work (Examiner) 08/02/10

Posted on Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 at 6:23 am