Owen Hill

Moe’s Books workers voted to ratify its first union contract on Tuesday, securing wage raises and additional COVID-19 safety measures, in what union steward Owen Hill described as a “good, solid contract.” 

On Saturday afternoon, about 100 supporters gathered at the intersection of Telegraph Avenue and Haste Street to celebrate the unionization of Moe's Books.

Owner Jeff Koren originally opened Sleepy Cat Books a decade ago in Orinda but moved to Berkeley because a new owner bought the building, and tenants who held month-by-month leases had to leave.

Peak Point, a Taiwanese restaurant on Telegraph Avenue, is scheduled to close at the end of this month and will be replaced by Tea Time.

Telegraph Avenue’s Caffe Mediterraneum, bracketed between Amoeba Music and Shakespeare & Company Books, is officially up for lease with a purchase component following the owner’s desire for a change in management hands.