SF: DO NOT SIGN ANTI-LABOR petition to cut Muni drivers' wages

Democratic Supervisor Sean Elsbernd is circulating a viciously anti-labor petition to cut bus drivers' pay as his way of solving public transportation problems. WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR PAY CUT BECAUSE YOUR EMPLOYER IS AN INCOMPETENT MANAGER? PLEASE DO NOT SIGN THIS ANTI-LABOR PETITION FOR A NOVEMBER BALLOT INITIATIVE.

This horrifying anti-labor nightmare, wihch will only make public transportation worse in San Francisco as it will guarantee a general strike that will last a long time, must be boycotted right now. It is sponsored by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) and Rescue Muni. It is being promoted as a means of solving public transportation problems in San Francisco. ALWAYS READ WHAT YOU SIGN. If the workers who signed this petition had bothered reading it, they would not have signed it. It is setting Muni drivers' wages through collective bargaining instead of the prevailing wages for bus drivers in the area, which has assured labor peace. Here is the summary:
http://sf.streetsblog.org/wp-content/upload1/MTATS.pdf
and here is the Charter Amendment verbatim:
http://www.thesweetmelissa.com/files/muni-charter-amendment.pdf

You will notice the snotty comments complain about drivers' "behavior." First, I suggest these complainers try driving for a living in San Francisco on crowded city streets and dealing with the general public for an 8 hour shift, 5 days a week. Everybody and anybody rides Muni, including all kinds of mental health cases. Second, since most of the drivers are non-white, usually either African-American or Latino, the racism is obvious in the complaints. And anyone who thinks cutting people's wages solves any problems clearly does not think at all.

TO LABOR: DO NOT BE TERRORIZED BY THIS PETITION INTO SETTLING FOR A WORSE CONTRACT. Your fight is our fight and labor must stand its ground if we are all to advance. WE CANNOT TOLERATE ANY MORE ATTACKS ON LABOR. The Central Labor Council needs to send out a mass Email to all its San Francisco members for whom it has Email addresses tell them to NOT sign the petition. It ALSO MUST PRINT LEAFLETS TO DISTRIBUTE THROUGHOUT SAN FRANCISCO at bus and train stops throughout the City and in all the restaurants and laundromats in the workingclass neighborhoods, which is most of San Francisco to tell people NOT to sign this anti-labor petition. DO NOT DELAY; NOW IS THE TIME TO GET OFF THE DIME.

AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL!
SOLIDARITY FOREVER!