FILE — San Francisco Public Defender Manohar Raju (center left) prepares to speak about the Superior Court’s trial backlog in front of the Hall of Justice on June 9, 2023. (Deidre Foley/Bay City News)

Clerks at the San Francisco Superior Court have called off a one-day strike scheduled for Wednesday after reaching a tentative agreement, a spokesperson for the union said. 

Court clerks had scheduled the one-day strike to begin at 7 a.m. Wednesday to address what they said were concerns about chronic short staffing and inadequate training. On Tuesday evening, the union, Service Employees International 1021, said a tentative agreement had been reached in contract negotiations with court management. 

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Katy St. Clair got her start in journalism by working in the classifieds department at the East Bay Express during the height of alt weeklies, then sweet talked her way into becoming staff writer, submissions editor, and music editor. She has been a columnist in the East Bay Express, SF Weekly, and the San Francisco Examiner. Starting in 2015, she begrudgingly scaled the inverted pyramid at dailies such as the Vallejo Times-Herald, The Vacaville Reporter, and the Daily Republic. She has her own independent news site and blog that covers the delightfully dysfunctional town of Vallejo, California, where she also collaborates with the investigative team at Open Vallejo. A passionate advocate for people with developmental disabilities, she serves on both the Board of the Arc of Solano and the Arc of California. She lives in Vallejo.