{"id":197465,"date":"2026-02-28T02:40:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/197465\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T02:40:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:40:22","slug":"s-f-court-strike-ends-on-day-2-services-to-resume-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/197465\/","title":{"rendered":"S.F. court strike ends on Day 2, services to resume Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco court clerks went on strike Thursday morning<\/a> to demand more staff and better working conditions as caseloads surge \u2014 and had reached an agreement with the court by Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe 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,\u201d said Rob Borders, a courtroom clerk and member of the union\u2019s bargaining team, in a statement.<\/p>\n

The details of the union contract were not immediately clear. It would still need to be ratified in a majority vote of the 220 or so clerks who are part of their SEIU 1021 chapter, the union said. The two sides resumed negotiations on Thursday afternoon after the strike was called, it said, and the court made \u201cimportant concessions on cost-of-living adjustments and time off\u201d among other issues, including \u201cstaffing and training.\u201d<\/p>\n

The strike had shut down courtrooms at 850 Bryant St., the San Francisco Hall of Justice, on Thursday and Friday. The building was a \u201cghost town\u201d in places<\/a> and chaotic in others \u2014 some courtrooms were closed, others were full, and clerks were picketing outside the drab concrete building both days.<\/p>\n

San Francisco police have prioritized arrests for low-level crimes<\/a> under District Attorney\u00a0Brooke Jenkins<\/a>\u00a0and Mayor Daniel Lurie, though they are not necessarily winning them<\/a>. Still, more arrests means higher caseloads, and court clerks have sounded the alarm.<\/p>\n

In October, the court warned<\/a> that it would have to release suspects who do not have access to a lawyer. The city\u2019s public defenders have said they are scrambling to keep up, and even private attorneys brought in are overwhelmed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The strike ended quicker than the citywide teachers\u2019 walkout<\/a> earlier this month, which lasted four days. Court clerks, for their part, said they will continue to address the staffing issues \u201cthat have for too long been wreaking havoc on San Franciscans\u2019 lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe made it very clear to court management that the court can\u2019t function without us,\u201d Borders said in the statement. \u201cWe feel that we made our voices heard and look forward to getting back to serving the public.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco court clerks went on strike Thursday morning to demand more staff and better working conditions as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-197465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}