San Francisco Superior Court clerks say they look forward to getting back to serving the public Monday morning after a tentative agreement was reached Friday afternoon following a strike that started Thursday.

Clerks had taken to the picket line Thursday morning after negotiations to address unfair labor practices had reached an impasse with court management the night before. The clerks’ proposals aimed at improving working conditions, including inadequate staffing and training that were causing backlogs, delays, and mistakes. The proposal also included wages that kept up with inflation.

SEIU Local 102, the union that represents the clerks said court management reopened communication Thursday afternoon. The team negotiated cost-of-living adjustments and PTO, as well as more seriously committed to assessing and addressing staffing and training issues to resolve backlogs.

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“We convened our chapter membership and reached consensus that it was the right thing to do for our families and the public to recommend this agreement for ratification and return to work on Monday morning,” said Hall of Justice courtroom clerk and bargaining team member Rob Borders.

“We made it very clear to court management that the court can’t function without us. We are very thankful to the public who supported us, including the numerous attorneys, other court workers, public officials, and legal experts who stood in solidarity with us and affirmed our importance to the justice system. We feel that we made our voices heard and look forward to getting back to serving the public. Because our work is so critical to so many people’s lives, we have every intention of holding court management accountable to working with us, not against us, to resolve the well-known staffing and training issues that have for too long been wreaking havoc on San Franciscans’ lives.”

The tentative agreement will still need to be ratified by a majority vote of the roughly 220 clerks before it is adopted as a contract. In the meantime, court services are expected to resume as normal Monday morning.

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