Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nEditor’s Note:\u00a0 This article has been modified since its initial publication due to a factual error.\u00a0 SEIU 1021 dual-endorsed Supervisor John Avalos and Senator Leland Yee for mayor.\u00a0 FCJ regrets the error.<\/em><\/p>\nAugust 15, 2011<\/p>\n
In what may be considered a repudiation of interim Mayor Ed Lee and a significant boost to Supervisor John Avalos and Senator Leland Yee’s mayoral prospects, SEIU 1021, San Francisco’s largest public employees union, today dual-endorsed Avalos and Yee over Lee for mayor.<\/p>\n
Former Supervisor Bevan Dufty received the union’s third-place endorsement for mayor in the ranked-choice race.<\/p>\n
SEIU 1021 also announced its endorsements in the ranked-choice races for district attorney and sheriff.<\/p>\n
In the race for district attorney, SEIU 1021 endorsed attorneys David Onek (first) and Bill Fazio (second), and Alameda County Prosecutor Sharmin Bock (third).<\/p>\n
In the race for sheriff, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi garnered SEIU 1021’s sole endorsement.<\/p>\n
In a surprising move, the 54,000 member SEIU 1021 union endorsed Mayor Lee’s “consensus\/city family” pension and healthcare reform measure over Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s pension reform initiative.\u00a0 Under Lee’s plan, the majority of SEIU 1021 workers will see their pension contributions increase by at least 3 percent.\u00a0 Under Adachi’s plan, which takes a progressive approach to solving The City’s pension costs crisis, a majority of\u00a0 SEIU 1021 workers’ pension contributions will remain unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a surprising move, the 54,000 member SEIU 1021 union endorsed Mayor Lee’s “consensus\/city family” pension and healthcare reform measure over Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s pension reform initiative. Under Lee’s plan, the majority of SEIU 1021 workers will see their pension contributions increase by at least 3 percent. Under Adachi’s plan, which takes a progressive approach to solving The City’s pension costs crisis, a majority of SEIU 1021 workers’ pension contributions will remain unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n
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