By Zack Haber | Post News Group Since tenants living in the ReNew on Merritt building on 1130 3rd Ave. in Oakland started collectively withholding rent, management has hired armed guards. Rent striking tenants say they are facing “harassment,” while management has said they hired the armed guards due to “threats” from tenants. Alexandra ‘Ali’ |
If the workers do secure a union, it won’t be the first time Alcatraz ferry workers have been unionized. The companies that had operated the ferry from its opening in 1973 until 2006, had always hired union workers. But when Hornblower Group took over the ferry in 2006, they set up Alcatraz Cruises, an operation that representation for ferry workers, and the Alcatraz ferry workers have been nonunion since then. | By Zack Haber | Post News Group Workers who operate and provide services to customers riding the ferry that runs from San Francisco’s Pier 33 to Alcatraz Island are attempting to form a union. “I think if we formed a union this would be a happy place,” said Erik Anfinson, who works as a captain