so add ininjury to insult to tell them this is a fair and decent package in terms of this pension where the numbers are not correct? really? i'm not going to do it. our team is not going to do it. and every individual that is driving a bus right now, despite that you think we are incompetent and we don't understand numbers is insulting. it's insulting. so let's clarify that. so secondly, in response to your letter -- i have a response for your letter, for you. i have a response for the board so they can look over on which we propose to you on tuesday through the mediator in which you did not even respond on how to get something before this board and the board of supervisors by your date within the charter. you did not respond so we have that here. let's make it clear, we're not opposed to going to arbitration. we will go there. are you willing to sign off on

language that's saying the arbitrator can't use all in arbitration? >> [inaudible]. >> are you willing to do that? we proposed to mr. riffkin and his negotiating team, a package that would get us to a resolve until later on. have you read that? have you presented that to the board? that's the question. >> this is your time to talk to us. >> i have a copy for you anyway. >> thank you so much. but let's be clear here again. you know, i want to go back and say it's all false tails out here. we have mr. riffkin talking on sunday morning news talking about how he wants to be fair out here.

you telling us we're negotiating. your team just sat there for over two months waiting for us to go to arbitration, waiting for us to get to impasse so you can give it to this lopsided process within prop g to say well, that was bad, but just think if you go to arbitration it's going to be worse. that's what we were dealt with in negotiations. you telling me oh, take it to your membership as well. not going to happen. >> thank you. we look forward to reading your letter. thank you. anyone else wish to address the board this morning? seeing none, anything else to come before the board? i guess that's it. anything else? >> i guess what i'll just say is that we have entered this negotiation in good faith, we have conducted it the way we have and the city has with

every other labor organization so we absolutely believe that the operator should be fairly and well compensated. i believe what we proposed was consistent with that, what the mediator ultimately recommended even more so. in terms of the round rules for arbitration, we have agreed there's an element of prop g that creates a higher burden for the arbitrator that is currently under appeal. we have agreed in writing not to invoke that higher standard for this process so i'm glad to hear, again, that the union is ready to go into arbitration as the charter requires. and to the extent that anything up to this point in the process

was not understood or was not correct, the arbitration is the venue to get those matters resolved. >> was there arbitration scheduled at this point? >> there is a date, which is june 24, i believe, that the arbitrator that i believe that everybody is available for. i don't believe is necessarily a full commitment for folks to actually go into arbitration on that date, but there's a date place holder, i guess you could say. >> if for some reason that doesn't happen by july 1, the current contract is in effect for two more years; is that correct? >> no. not exactly. if we don't have a new contract by june 30, we go into a situation that is called the dynamic status quo, which leaves some of the basic terms of the current agreement in place, so the current wage, the

current retirement benefits, the current healthcare benefit would just stay in place. many other provisions of the contract go away and we would just be in a position of trying to negotiate a new agreement so we'd be in an area of expired contract, which i don't think is good for anyone. it would mean no increases, no movement into the new healthcare benefit, no additional at 5% additional retirement benefit. none of that would come into play. >> how long can that go on? >> there's no time limit associated with that. >> [inaudible] this goes on infinitely? >> until we can get to an agreement. >> members of the board. >> one question. the -- i know the mention swap has come up before in discussion and i do understand it is -- it can be a confusing

thing to understand. if the way we're viewing the math versus is way the union is viewing the math, at what point does that get clarified? does that get clarified by the arbitrator or -- >> i believe we brought the city's compensation manager into the process so he could present all the numbers and calculations. i understand the union brought their accountant in and so my understanding was that both sides were able to present and understand each other's point of view on that. i think that there does seem to be a difference of opinion on what the net wage impact from the swap alone would be, so i believe all the information was shared and i believe that's all documented in the record of the negotiation, but i also believe

that we're looking at both the wage impact and the long term retirement benefit. when you look at those together that's where we have difference of opinion about how good a package this is or not. 5% increase on top of your retirement benefit is pretty significant so it's not just the impact of the wage swap only. you look at the wage swap plus the retirement benefit, that's why i believe every other unit in the city has agreed to do this. >> i know you do hear from accountants that accounting is an art, not a science. but in this situation the numbers are the numbers, but the difference is what they believe versus -- >> what complicates the issue. there's a lot of different

factors, such as how many different deductions you have on your w 2 form. you're right, there's absolutely for interpretation, but we're putting forward something, or what came out of the mediated negotiation, which was a higher er wage than what we proposed, is what we think is a good and fair compensation package for the operators, otherwise i wouldn't be providing it here today as a recommendation. >> members of the board, questions or comments? my understanding is there's no need for a meeting on sunday unless there's an arbitration today or tomorrow. >> unless we come to some other agreement. >> the mta and union? >> correct. i guess i'm still holding out

hope. 48 hours we might be able to -- >> i would say on behalf -- for myself -- it's just so important this service be out this. i ride it all the time. it's just vital. for some people it's an inconvenience if the bus doesn't show up, for others it's very critical. i hope we can get this resolved as soon as possible and keep as open mind as possible and i hope the union does as well. meeting is adjourned.

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>> good afternoon. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday june the 10th 2014. madam clerk, call the role. >> supervisor avalos. >> present. >> avalos present. >> supervisor breed. >> here. >> campos speaker: here. >> president chiu. >> present. >> supervisor cohen. >> present. >> supervisor farrell. >> present. >> kim. >> present. >> supervisor mar. >> present. >> tang. >> here.