{"id":2173,"date":"2010-07-13T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T19:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2017-05-28T15:53:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T23:53:12","slug":"newsom-sinks-to-new-low-gifts-public-treasury-favors-to-police-fire-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2173\/newsom-sinks-to-new-low-gifts-public-treasury-favors-to-police-fire-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom Sinks to New Low: <BR>Gifts Public Treasury Favors to Police, Fire Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/budget_rallies_sffd_seiu_090616\/_w2w2385_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has maintained a quid pro quo relationship with fire and police unions.   File photo by Luke Thomas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>July 13, 2010<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has sunk to a new low in his bid for higher office, Fog City Journal can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>In anticipation of passage of a pension reform measure, Mayor Newsom agreed to amendments to memorandums of understanding negotiated by the Department of Human Resources with police and fire unions, changes that will reverse previously agreed wage concessions.<\/p>\n<p>Authored by Public Defender Jeff Adachi, &#8220;SF Smart Reform&#8221; aims to rein in unsustainable healthcare and pension costs projected to exceed $1 billion by 2016. Newsom and labor leaders are opposed to the measure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Incredibly, the Mayor&#8217;s office has gone back to the police and fire contracts and altered them so that in the event SF Smart Reform passes in November, police and fire \u2018concessions\u2019 would be reversed and police and fire employees would receive accelerated pay raises,&#8221; Public Defender Jeff Adachi said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;This is an effort to negate costs savings generated by the SF Smart Reform charter amendment and circumvent the will of the 75,000 San Franciscans who signed the petition,\u201d Adachi added. \u201cClause 188(b) of the proposed new Police Union contract reads: \u2018In the event that a City Charter amendment or State Ballot measure or State legislation is implemented [before June 30, 2012], resulting in any reduction in represented employee wages or fringe benefits, the [new wage concessions] shall terminate.\u2019 The Firefighter contract has similar language.  These Clauses allow the police and fire to terminate their salary concessions in the event that any law passes that would reduce their salaries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No other unions have been granted generous concession reversals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why was this provision included to protect police and fire from actions by voters or lawmakers?\u201d Adachi asks.  \u201cThere is no reason to give police and fire favored standing over other city employees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a very simple answer to Adachi&#8217;s question:  Newsom is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/the-right-side-of-the-road\/\">pandering to police and fire unions<\/a> in his bid for Lt. Governor.  In essence, Newsom is using the public treasury to advance his political career at the expense of taxpayers, jobs and city services.<\/p>\n<p>Responding, Newsom spokesperson Tony Winnicker said: &#8220;Jeff Adachi simply doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s talking about. These are provisions negotiated as part of the police and fire agreements weeks ago and ratified last month. There&#8217;s nothing new about them. Remember, police and fire already agreed to increase pension contributions to 9 percent as part of Prop B which voters approved last month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The legislative branch of San Francisco government will have an opportunity to weight in and expose Newsom\u2019s latest maneuver during its weekly Board of Supervisor meeting today at 2 pm.  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