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DESCRIPTION:12/27 SF Protest SFPOA Stop Bullying SF City Workers-SFPOA Is Bullying SF 
 City Workers To Seize SFERS Pension Plan For Speculators\nNo More Pension 
 Money In Hedge Funds\nTuesday December 27, 2016 4:00 PM\nPOA 
 Headquarters\n800 Bryant St.\nSan Francisco, California\n\nThe racist San 
 Francisco Police Officers Association SFPOA has a history of bullying the 
 members of the Board of Supervisors, the San Francisco Labor Council, 
 African American trade unionists in the ILWU and other unions. Now they are 
 bullying San Francisco City Employees and retirees to remove the only 
 non-police fire member on the pension board. Herb Meiberger is the only 
 representative of the of the vast majority of SF City workers. Now the  POA 
 along with Bob Muscat of IFPTE Local 21 and the MEA which represents city 
 bosses wants to pack the SFERS board with police and firemen who want more 
 hedge fund purchases. Even Warren Buffet warned Meiberger that this was 
 problematic for a public pension fund but the fix is in for these corrupt 
 officials. They are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to get Herb 
 off the board and have pushing retired cop Al Casciato who wants more 25% 
 of our money in hedge funds. He also is the post boy for the twisted public 
  pension scams going on among top officials of city government. He retired 
 from the city with $208,937 and is doing outside consulting to pad his 
 pension. What Caciato doesn't want you to know is that on his last year on 
 the payroll the was paid $118,000 in base pay and $203,000 in other pay. 
 Over $1.3 million was paid out in the last 4 and half years to Caciato and 
 now he wants to push speculative hedge funds at the SFERS.\nThis is part of 
 the problem of our pension system. While low paid workers are getting pay 
 cuts from so called "pension reform" pushed by the Casciato, Driscoll, the  
 POA, IFPTE Local 21 Bob Muscat and the MEA along with some unions that have 
 been hoodwinked by this crew.\nThe other cop on the SFERS is racist Bryan 
 Stansbury who has targeted African Americans and actually arrested public 
 defender Jami Tillotson for telling Stansbury he could not interrogate her 
 young African American client at the Hall of Justice while they were 
 attending a hearing. The former police Chief Greg Suhr later gave Stansbury 
 a promotion for his good work. Also Stansbury made the arrest when he 
 should have been at an SFERS meeting instead of engaging in racist 
 harassment and arrest of a San Francisco City Public Defender.\nIt is time 
 to say enough is enough!. Speak out and let all city workers that we will 
 not be bullied and harrassed by the SFPOA who want to completely capture 
 the pension board to push more hedge funds with kickbacks to hedge fund 
 operators. One of the hedge fund operators sitting on the board appointed 
 by Lee is Wendy Paskin-Jordan who has kept secret, the benefits she 
 receives from hedge funds that the city is investing hedge  funds. She has 
 even had to recuse herself on hedge fund votes and the Mayor wants her to 
 push pension money to his funders as kickbacks for his city work for 
 them.\nWe need to stop the corruption and take back the pension fund from 
 these hustlers and management operatives on the pension board.\n\nSponsored 
 by\nUnited Public Workers For Action UPWA\nwww.upwa.info\n\n"Truth And 
 Fiction" SFERS Board Member Herb Meiberger Exposes IFPTE 21Muscat Hit Video 
 On His Record\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTpKYF5KqBA\nThe IFPTE Local 
 21 run by executive director Bob Muscat has produced a hit video attacking 
 Herb Meiberger who is a board member of the San Francisco Employees 
 Retirement System SFERS. Meiberger  has opposed more of the city employee 
 pension funds being invested in speculative  hedge funds. Meiberger 
 explains what is really going on with the "charges" against him by Bob 
 Muscat. Both The IFPTE Local 21 leadership, the Police Officers Association 
 POA and the Management Employees Association MEA have pushed for more hedge 
 fund investments and now want to remove the only non-fire and police 
 representative on the pension board representing all San Francisco city 
 employees. They and the POA also tried to bully Meiberger to drop out of 
 the race. Muscat, the MEA and the SFPOA also supported taking away the COLA 
 that city workers have won for their pensions in a so called "reform 
 pension" initiative that particularly hurt low paid CCSF workers which 
 actually cut their pay by cost shifting the costs of the pension and 
 healthcare on their backs. The same crew supports Wells Fargo bank which 
 stole homes from SF City workers and has a racist discrimination record. 
 These same unions heads  are now spending hundreds of thousands of dollars 
 to remove Meiberger from the board and this could include money from hedge 
 fund operators who would benefit from kicking Meiberger off the board. This 
 presentation was made to City and County workers on December 16, 2016.\nFor 
 more information on Herb Meiberger go 
 to\nhttp://herbmeiberger.com\nhttp://1021.seiu.org/page/-/ReElectHerbMeiberger-SFERSBoard.pdf\nAdditional 
 media:\nhttp://www.stoplhhdownsize.com/What_Price_for_a_Seat_at_the_Retirement_Board_Table.pdf\nhttp://www.ibtimes.com/san-francisco-hedge-fund-proposal-raises-conflict-interest-questions-1700230\nhttp://www.pionline.com/article/20140609/PRINT/306099987/buffetts-suggestion-to-pension-fund-trustee-dont-invest-in-hedge-funds\nhttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/12/02/18794329.php\nhttp://www.wsj.com/articles/teachers-union-and-hedge-funds-war-over-pension-billions-1467125055\nhttp://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2014/12/15/financial-questions-dog-former-sf-first-lady-wendy-paskin-jordan/\nhttp://code.socialdashboard.com/news/investment-by-san-francisco-pension-official-raises-questions-about-favors\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjznPAFcCNE&feature=youtu.be\nhttp://youtu.be/dCz5eMvYPBA\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exbl3wwBx9Y\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6VTO4UHrjk\nhttps://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio/ww12-23-14-sf-public-pensions-with-david-sirota-ca-dir-secret-confernce\nhttp://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Ties-questioned-for-financial-adviser-and-former-5959036.php\nhttp://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/allthatglittersisnotgold2015.pdf\nhttp://www.sfexaminer.com/police-watchdog-officer-wrongly-arrested-deputy-public-defender-courthouse/\nProduction 
 of Labor Video Project\nwww.laborvideo.org\n\nSF Police watchdog: SFPOA 
 officer And SFERS Board Member  wrongly arrested deputy public defender in 
 courthouse\nhttp://www.sfexaminer.com/police-watchdog-officer-wrongly-arrested-deputy-public-defender-courthouse/\nDeputy 
 Public Defender Jami Tillotson, right, was arrested by Sgt. Brian Stansbury 
 in the Hall of Justice in January 2015. (Courtesy photo) \nBy Jonah Owen 
 Lamb on March 11, 2016 11:08 am\n\nA deputy public defender was wrongly 
 arrested by a San Francisco police officer when she tried to stop the 
 officer from talking to her client in the Hall of Justice last year, the 
 Police Department’s watchdog agency has determined.\n\nBut Deputy Public 
 Defender Jami Tillotson is discouraged by the conclusion of the 
 investigation into her arrest. She said that while the video clearly shows 
 the officer was in the wrong when he handcuffed her, the findings seem to 
 indicate there will be little to no accountability. \n\n“If you give a 
 citizen of San Francisco a black eye, you should be held accountable for 
 that,” she said. “I’d like to see [the officer] at a desk job. I 
 don’t think he has a good idea of the boundaries of his 
 authority.”\n\nThe finding comes from the Office of Citizen Complaints, 
 which investigated the January 2015 incident and issued their findings in 
 December. The incident was caught on video. \n\nThose case details were 
 made public Friday by the complainant, and include findings that the 
 officer made an arrest without cause, and that his detaining of a person 
 without justification for a prolonged period was unwarranted.\n\nOther 
 allegations in the complaint were not sustained, but the OCC recommended 
 that the department change its policies regarding interfering with a 
 lawyer’s right to counsel their client and making inappropriate comments 
 to the media.\n\nThe department could not say whether Chief Greg Suhr has 
 made a ruling on the case. In sustained cases, the chief has the discretion 
 to punish any officer for up to a 10-day suspension. Any punishment above 
 that must go before the Police Commission.\n\nTillotson used to tell her 
 clients that they should all file complaints with the OCC, despite many 
 saying it was pointless. Now she agrees. \n\n“I had more confidence in 
 [the OCC] despite the fact that my clients were telling me it was a waste 
 of time,” she said. \n\nTillotson was arrested Jan. 27, 2015, and booked 
 on a misdemeanor resisting arrest charge for refusing to let a client of 
 hers be questioned by a police investigator who was also trying to take 
 pictures of the client.\n\nThe arresting officer, Sgt. Brian Stansbury, was 
 questioning the man in connection with a separate criminal 
 investigation.\n\nTillotson’s client was in court that day while she was 
 in another courtroom for a case, when she heard that an officer was 
 questioning her client in the hallway.\n\nShe walked into the hall and told 
 her client he did not have to answer Stansbury’s questions, and tried to 
 stop the officer from taking photographs. Stansbury objected and ultimately 
 arrested her for resisting arrest and obstructing his 
 investigation.\n\nSince her arrest, the charges have been dropped and Suhr 
 apologized for any distress the incident caused her, but has also insisted 
 Stansbury had a reasonable suspicion to take the photos.\n\n“I think this 
 incident raises questions. Do the police have a practice of photographing 
 people in courtrooms?” Alan Schlosser, the ACLU’s legal director for 
 Northern California, previously said about the arrest of Tillotson.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/12/18/18794780.php
SUMMARY:Protest SFPOA To Stop Bullying City Workers-POA Bullying SF City Workers To Seize Pensions
LOCATION:SFPOA Headquarters\n800 Bryant St.\nSan Francisco, California
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/12/18/18794780.php
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