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Let the Ides of March beware the 1021 NewsWire - March 9, 2012
March 11, 2012 10:53:06 PM PDT
Randy Lyman <[email protected]>
<[email protected]>
Vol. V, Issue 3.2 - March 9, 2012
In This Issue:
City-style justice on the FRONT PAGE.
Public work, private prophets in THE LIVE WIRE.
Beware the idiots on the march in CALENDAR.
Aren't you in the 1021 Network yet?
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Front Page
SF Court workers reject concessions, fight
to refund justice
Pictured (l. to r.): SF Superior Court bargaining team members Michael
Diles, Angelica Young, Mary Leong, Jaque Willis-McGhee, Priscilla
Agnunag, Jose Rios Merida
San Francisco court workers emphatically rejected their employer's
concessionary contract proposal on Wednesday by a nearly two-to-one
margin: 126-68.
The proposal called for an across-the-board five percent wage cut and would have shortened the time that laid-off
workers could be on the recall list from five years to three. In return, management offered to increase its employer
contribution to the health care premium nine percent per year over the three-year agreement. It also expanded
bereavement to cover in-law relatives and those of domestic partners.
In negotiations the union countered with different ways to give the courts the five percent cut other than in straight
wages, offering to take some of it in furlough days. They also asked for guarantees of no layoffs and a sunset or end
wages, offering to take some of it in furlough days. They also asked for guarantees of no layoffs and a sunset or end
of the wage cut when the contract expired. All union proposals were rebuffed. Management said the proposal was a
package: no changes, take it or leave it.
Members were unhappy with management's inflexibility in negotiations even though they understood the SF Court is
restrained by the financial mismanagement of the Administrative Office of the Courts, the bloated bureaucracy that
runs California's court system. Top AOC executives have been caught spending thousands of dollars on steak and
martini dinners, and revelations of exorbitant executive perks have raised eyebrows and ire.
But it's the $2 billion being poured into a boondoggle still-not-working database — more than enough to cover every
cut in every court in the state — that's really drawn fire from our members and the public.
Read the full story on the SF Superior Court home page.
Click here to download a flier for the SF Courts March 27 Rally for Justice.
SEIU 1021 members expose secrecy in SF Redevelopment Agency
dealings
Employees of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency will reveal at a press conference on Monday how major
redevelopment projects are at risk due to lack of transparency and public accountability in the transition of projects
to a successor agency under new state law (SB26).
SFRA workers represented by SEIU 1021 and IFPTE Local 21 will present their case immediately before a meeting
of the oversight board created to oversee the redevelopment transition. Experienced staff doesnʼt know if they will
have a job in three weeks and San Francisco taxpayers have no idea if their money is being wasted.
With only weeks to go before a March 30 deadline, the SFRA management has shut out current employees from the
transition process, making it impossible to identify which projects are covered under SB26. The unions have
requested a list of these enforceable obligations and even volunteered to help in the process. Still, the city refuses to
provide the list.
Projects at risk include the Transbay Terminal, Hunterʼs Point Naval Shipyard, Treasure Island and the Mission Bay
development. Together these are expected to create some 200,000 construction and other local jobs.
Oakland launches petition to keep city jobs for city workers
To get ahead of the upcoming city deficit and the cuts and layoffs projected to come with it, the City of Oakland
chapter is circulating a petition to the city administrator, demanding that Oakland cut the outsourcing of city jobs
instead so that current city employees can do the city's work.
"We need everyone to sign on as soon as possible," chapter President Dwight McElroy said. "We have to stay
vigilant if we are going to save our jobs and city services."
Get the full story, then download and print the petition on the City of Oakland chapter page.
The Live Wire
Bloomberg Poll: Americans support unions
... and honoring a deal
Bloomberg: "Americans Oppose Republican Attack on Unions in
Poll Divided Over Benefits"
Americans reject Republican efforts to curb bargaining rights of unions
whose power they say is dwarfed by corporations, a Bloomberg
National Poll finds.
As battles rage between state workers and Republican governors in
Wisconsin and Ohio, 63 percent don't think states should be able to
break their promises to retirees, and respondents split over whether
governors aim to balance their budgets or weaken unions that back
Democratic foes, according to the poll conducted March 4-7.
The poll shows that political challenges to government workers are
failing to draw broad support from a public more concerned about
unemployment than government deficits. ... About half say governors
are unfairly targeting unions and 46 percent say public employees should be willing to accept benefit cuts. ...
[One respondent said] budget deficits are a result of the economy and years of tax cuts, not the actions of public
employees. "They're putting it now on the backs of their enemies even when these particular unions are willing to
bargain," he says.
Candidate Walmart launches first national campaign ad
Following his explosive appearance at last month's Conservative Political Action Conference, Candidate Walmart
(pictured) is releasing a national campaign commercial reminding Americans that he's the true conservative
candidate, funneling money from the 99% to the 1% since 1952!
"Super Tuesday proved one thing; conservatives are unhappy with the Republican field of candidates," said
Candidate Walmart. "So I'm ramping up my campaign by launching my first national commercial, urging Americans
to take a closer look at whether the GOP candidates truly share their values. The choice now is simple: stay with the
status quo, or take a stand and vote for the candidate willing to champion corporations and the 1%. I've already
taken a leading role in destroying the middle class in this country for the last 50 years, imagine what I can
accomplish as leader of the free world!"
Watch the video and share it with your friends, then check out the campaign website. And keep up with Candidate
Walmart through his Twitter feed and Facebook page.
Candidate Walmart's first campaign commercial on YouTube
Candidate Walmart's website
Candidate Walmart on Facebook
Candidate Walmart on Twitter
Calendar
1021 Calendar | Find an SEIU 1021 Office
Moon Phases - 3rd Q, March 15 - New, March 22 - 1st, March 30 Full, April 6
The Onion Horoscopes: Week of March 6
Capricorn (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19): You will finally settle on the one question
that will define how you interact with the rest of humanity, but sadly, it
turns out that most of them were in fact going to finish eating that.
Download your free March 2012 social justice calendar from RLM
Studios.
Cesar Chavez Celebration
Fr 3/30 - Join members of SEIU 1021, local electeds and SEIU
Secretary Treasurer Eliseo Medina to celebrate the work and life of labor icon Cesar Chavez; food, mariachi music
and salsa dancing included - SEIU 1021, 350 Rhode Island, #100 South Building, San Francisco (enter on Kansas
St.) - Info: Eric at 415-848-3650 or [email protected]
Click here or the image above to download an event flier.
SEIU 1021 Leadership
Sa 3/17 - Phase 2 Bylaws Revision - 9a-1p - SEIU 1021, 2300 Boynton Ave., Fairfield
Sa 3/24 - 1021 Executive Board - 10a-5p - SEIU 1021, 2300 Boynton Ave., Fairfield
Committee On Political Education (COPE)
SEIU CA One Voice Endorsement Interviews
Th 3/22 - East Bay Town Hall - 5:30 - Best Western Plus John Muir Inn (Yosemite Meeting Room), 445 Muir Station
Road, Martinez - Meet State Assembly candidates Susan Bonilla (AD 14) and Joan Buchanan (AD 16) - Info:
Arianna at 510-915-8400 or [email protected]
Calendar of statewide SEIU California One Voice Town Halls
COPE Committees
Tu 3/13 - 1021 COPE - 6p - 350 Rhode Island, #100 South Building, San Francisco - Live via videoconference at
SEIU 1021 offices in Fairfield, Oakland (Myrtle), San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Stockton and Sacramento; phone
conferencing available - RSVP for a location at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/V7X32WL
Education & Training
View the complete catalog and register at www.1021training.info.
Th 3/15, 3/22, 3/29 (3 sessions) - Basic Shop Steward Training - 5:30-8p - SEIU 1021, 37 Hunter Square Plaza,
Stockton
Sa 3/17 - Advanced Shop Steward Training - 10a-4p - SEIU 1021, 600 B Street, Santa Rosa
Tu 3/27 & 4/3 (2 sessions) - Public Speaking - 5:30-8p - SEIU 1021, 37 Hunter Square Plaza, Stockton
San Francisco
All events take place at the SEIU 1021 San Francisco office, 350 Rhode Island, #100 South Building, unless noted
otherwise.
We 3/14 - 6p - SF Industry Council
Social & Economic Justice
Th 3/15 - Social & Economic Justice Committee - 6-8p - SEIU 1021, 350 Rhode Island, #100 South Building, San
Francisco
Mo 3/19 - AFRAM Solidarity Committee - 6p - SEIU 1021, 100 Oak St., Oakland
Mo 3/19 - Disability Caucus - SEIU 1021, 100 Oak St., Oakland
Lavender Solidarity Committee - Contact Eileen Berkun at [email protected] for meeting information
Peace & Solidarity Committee - Contact Linda Ray at [email protected] or 415-824-1505 for meeting
information.
Regions & Industries
Sa 3/10 - City Workers Industry Council - 10a-1p - SEIU 1021, 2300 Boynton Ave., Fairfield
Sa 3/10 - Counties Industry Council - 10a-2p - SEIU 1021, 2300 Boynton Ave., Fairfield
Sa 3/10 - Schools Industry Council - 10a-2:30p - SEIU 1021, 2300 Boynton Ave., Fairfield
Tu 3/20 - East Bay (Region 4) Area Meeting - 5:30-8p - SEIU 1021, 100 Oak St., Oakland; RSVP for dinner to the
Member Resource Center, 1-877-OUR-1021
Retiree Councils
Mo 3/19 - West Bay Retirees - 12-2p - SEIU 1021, 350 Rhode Island, #100 South Building, San Francisco
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