{"id":1665,"date":"2010-03-25T09:09:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/25\/kicking-17474-san-francisco-city-workers-to-the-curb\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T06:08:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T14:08:34","slug":"kicking-17474-san-francisco-city-workers-to-the-curb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1665\/kicking-17474-san-francisco-city-workers-to-the-curb\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicking 17,474 San Francisco City Workers to the Curb"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Rebecca King Morrow<\/strong>, RN PHN, Member of SEIU 1021<\/p>\n

March 25, 2010<\/p>\n

The current attack on city workers is more than the result of an economic downturn. The attack is mean spirited, unfair and just plain nasty.<\/p>\n

The real financial challenges of our times are hard to escape. We all know someone who has lost a job and\/or a home due to the economic down turn. Federal bailouts and cash for clunkers, successful or not, were attempts to deal with real economic problems.<\/p>\n

San Francisco is not exempt from the financial challenges affecting the entire nation. However, the new blame game directed at unionized city workers is unprecedented. San Francisco has a proud labor history and the current attacks are inconsistent with our past and detrimental to our future working relationship with the city.<\/p>\n

During tough financial times, the city comes to labor and asks\/demands help in closing budget gaps. SEIU 1021 has stepped up to the plate and has given back millions of dollars. Miscellaneous SEIU1021 members voted to give up pay for 10 holidays. We reached agreement in recession bargaining at both the SEIU 1021 Registered Nurses and the SEIU 1021 Miscellaneous Employees tables last year.<\/p>\n

We gave back in good faith and our goal was to save both city jobs, but equally important, city services. The City came back and rewarded our SEIU 1021 members for their sacrifices by directing 80 percent of the layoffs to our union alone.<\/p>\n

When services are threatened with cuts, San Franciscans come to City Hall and testify at the Board of Supervisors. The public speaks about how they value and benefit from critical health services, libraries, parks and recreation centers.<\/p>\n

I have a drawer full of handwritten thank you notes clients have sent me over the years. The public does value the services we provide. It is the anti-labor business community that knows an opportunistic mayor will use this time of economic challenges as the right time to launch an attack on city workers.<\/p>\n

17,474 city workers now sit and wait to see if their job is one of the jobs that will be “saved” by yet another “giveback.” Sadly, it is mostly unrecognized that these blows to city workers disproportionately injure the lowest paid union members.<\/p>\n

Some of us with other options have in the past, and will in the future, walk away and never look back at this employer. Others will never abandon their role as “public servants” and the city knows this and takes advantage of our good will. Still others are desperate for a job, any job at all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Francisco is not exempt from the financial challenges affecting the entire nation. However, the new blame game directed at unionized city workers is unprecedented. 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