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No On Prop C and D Picket
Ciity workers and retirees picketed the kick-off campaign for Prop C by the Mayor, Chamber of Commerce and Labor.
Saturday, September 24, retiree and worker groups formed a picket line to protest the joint Mayor, Labor and Chamber of Commerce kick-off campaign to promote the anti-worker, anti-retiree Prop C.
By joining this appalling alliance, the SF Labor Council succeeded in pitting worker against worker, friend against friend. Worker solidarity was split by this Prop C compromise made without even allowing city retirees to sit in on negotiations. Those workers who joined the campaign rally held inside were forced to meet face-to-face co-workers and retirees picketing Props C and D outside.
Joining strange allies Supervisor Elsbernd, the Chamber of Commerce, SF Labor Council’s Tim Paulson and other labor union officials sold out their members and retirees to support Prop C, a measure they call a “spirit of shared sacrifice.” But it is those workers and retirees who earn less who will sacrifice. Hidden in Prop C is an Elsbernd poison pill that makes a Charter change to convert the fourth elected Health Service Board (HSB) member and replace that position with an appointee of the City Controller.
Why? The Healthcare trust fund contains $65 million in assets. The HSB selects the medical and dental plans for all City employees and retirees. Before a 2004 ballot measure to place an elected member on the board, there were millions in health benefits missing. Without oversight from a member elected by current employees and retirees, health care costs will rise as plans will be awarded to the most successful lobbyists.
Both Prop C and D have the backing of billionaires; Warren Hellman, George Hume, Michael Mortiz who along with Mayor Lee and Public Defender Jeff Adachi claim that city worker and retiree pensions are causing the city to go broke. This city has at least 30 billionaires whom we can guess are not paying their fair share. Twitter gets a tax break; the head of MUNI got a $400,000 golden parachute. But Mayor Lee, labor bosses, billionaires and the Chamber of Commerce want the 41% of retirees with pensions less than $25,000 a year, or the nearly one quarter of retirees with less than $15,000 yearly benefits to sacrifice, face higher healthcare costs and lose COLA supplements. San Franciscans vote NO on Prop C and Prop D! Don’t join in the Tea Party attacks on workers pensions.
By joining this appalling alliance, the SF Labor Council succeeded in pitting worker against worker, friend against friend. Worker solidarity was split by this Prop C compromise made without even allowing city retirees to sit in on negotiations. Those workers who joined the campaign rally held inside were forced to meet face-to-face co-workers and retirees picketing Props C and D outside.
Joining strange allies Supervisor Elsbernd, the Chamber of Commerce, SF Labor Council’s Tim Paulson and other labor union officials sold out their members and retirees to support Prop C, a measure they call a “spirit of shared sacrifice.” But it is those workers and retirees who earn less who will sacrifice. Hidden in Prop C is an Elsbernd poison pill that makes a Charter change to convert the fourth elected Health Service Board (HSB) member and replace that position with an appointee of the City Controller.
Why? The Healthcare trust fund contains $65 million in assets. The HSB selects the medical and dental plans for all City employees and retirees. Before a 2004 ballot measure to place an elected member on the board, there were millions in health benefits missing. Without oversight from a member elected by current employees and retirees, health care costs will rise as plans will be awarded to the most successful lobbyists.
Both Prop C and D have the backing of billionaires; Warren Hellman, George Hume, Michael Mortiz who along with Mayor Lee and Public Defender Jeff Adachi claim that city worker and retiree pensions are causing the city to go broke. This city has at least 30 billionaires whom we can guess are not paying their fair share. Twitter gets a tax break; the head of MUNI got a $400,000 golden parachute. But Mayor Lee, labor bosses, billionaires and the Chamber of Commerce want the 41% of retirees with pensions less than $25,000 a year, or the nearly one quarter of retirees with less than $15,000 yearly benefits to sacrifice, face higher healthcare costs and lose COLA supplements. San Franciscans vote NO on Prop C and Prop D! Don’t join in the Tea Party attacks on workers pensions.
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You are not informed
Mon, Oct 10, 2011 6:07PM
NO ON C And D
Tue, Oct 4, 2011 6:21PM
More Adachi events you can protest
Sat, Oct 1, 2011 1:48PM
Go protest Jeff Adachi adn Prop D
Tue, Sep 27, 2011 8:56PM
El Nuevo Topo editor
Tue, Sep 27, 2011 2:52PM
INFORMED
Tue, Sep 27, 2011 1:18PM
INFORMED
Mon, Sep 26, 2011 8:48PM
The supplanmental COLA is not being eliminated
Mon, Sep 26, 2011 7:52AM
If you understand the information why were you lying on Saturday?
Mon, Sep 26, 2011 7:41AM
I'm a retiree
Sun, Sep 25, 2011 2:03PM
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