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SEIU Funds New Book to Rewrite History
BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News @ June 30, 2010 # Comments Off
In the last five years, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has gone from being a media darling to generating more bad press for itself than any other labor organization. Some of SEIUs negative publicity is a product of right-wing union bashing. But a huge amount is self-inflicted the result of conflicts with other unions, internal corruption scandals, and unseemly battles with its own members in California. To bolster its fading progressive brand, SEIU commissioned a documentary film in 2008 called Labor Day. Several million dollars worth of membership dues money later, Labor Day was dead on arrival. Now, SEIU has produced a slick $25 dollar coffee table book called Stronger Together: The Story of SEIU. Among its questionable claims is that Andy Stern’s meddling in the UNITE HERE divorce led to attacks on SEIU by other unions, a unique perspective on that dispute, to say the least.
Cautious Optimism for Add-Back Day
BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News @ June 30, 2010 # Comments Off
Today is the last day for the Board of Supervisors Budget Committee to debate and make changes to Mayor Newsoms budget for the upcoming year. Its the day when Budget Chair John Avalos and Board President David Chiu negotiate with the Mayors Office on a final compromise and millions of dollars get restored through the add-back process. And with Newsom having balanced his budget on cuts to social services, privatizing City workers and mass condo conversions, its easy to be pessimistic about the final product. But a look at the numbers and comparing them to last year, when the Committee saved crucial services gives cause for cautious optimism. Supervisors must be vigilant at getting concessions today such as taking unused funds, and appropriate reductions to the Fire Department. But theres no reason why we cant stop the worst of budget cuts. Here is why
I Heard That: Riley Jameison Golf Tournament at Sharp Park!
BeyondChron: San Francisco's Alternative Online Daily News @ June 30, 2010 # Comments Off
SHARP PARK GOLF Course in Pacifica is the focus of a fight by environmental activists who want the course CONVERTED into a HABITAT for the San Francisco garter snake and the California red-legged FROG!!! Golfers who play the course, and others, are fighting to petition the City of Pacifica to declare the course a HISTORIC LANDMARK – a designation aimed in part at environmental activists who want the course reduced from 18 to nine holes as part of a wetland restoration process. SAVE SHARP PARK!
Peanut Butter Miracles
SF Weekly | News @ June 29, 2010 # Comments Off
IN CAP-HAÏTIEN, Haiti, everyone rises with the roosters, and by 8 a.m. the unpaved streets outside Hospital Justinien are jammed. Taxicabs and pickup trucks, some painted with religious slogans and turned into makeshift buses called taptaps, jostle for space on the narrow thoroughfare…