my name is carol eisen. i'm the employee relations director. before you are 27 memorandum of understanding between the city and 33 labor organizations and we're here today to explain the process and the outcomes and ask that you recommend adoption to the board of supervisors. taken together, these agreements cover all city employees except for nurses, sworn members of the police and fire departments, and service critical employees of the sfmta. as you know, police and fire, m.o.u.'s have an additional two years. they're in closed contracts, and the nurses and the seiu, the team centers have reached tentative agreements. they are currently in the notice and ratification process, and those agreements will be coming before this committee at a later date. the m.t.a. service critical m.o.u.'s are all resolved. all but one either through agreement, notably the transport workers union representing the operators and other agreements at m.t.a. were reached by arbitration award. the unions have been in a ratification process, so all of this is resolved.

>> supervisors, my name is carol eisen, i'm the employee relations director. thank you for holding this special meeting to consider the two m.o.u.s in front of you for representing the licensed nurses and the supervisorring nurses. the first group represented by service employees international union and the second by the teamsters local 856. similar to the presentation you heard at our last committee meeting, when you considered the rest of the m.o.u.s now pending in front of the board, both of these m.o.u. follow the same same general wage pattern attempt -- settlement and overtime, compensatory time, their grievance procedures, the issues that we ever covered in the last hearing. i'm not going to go into those at length. i will tell you that in the -- in the nurses' contract, there was a lot of concern from the employees about staffing levels in various units, especially in san francisco general. but also laguna honda as well. we entered into a first-ever side letter with that union, that does provide for specific guarantees in numerous centers throughout sa

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eisen. colleagues, do you have any questions? >> supervisor peskin: congratulations, carol. >> thank you. si -- thank you, sir. it's been a lot of work. >> supervisor mar: actually, i have a few questions. i wanted to congratulate you on the monumental task of getting these labor agreements done on time in a really nonintense way. really appreciate that. and just for the overview that you've just presented to the content of the agreements, it all sounds really good to me. i did -- you know, especially, i just wanted to flag the higher increase for some of the lowest paid positions, you know, sounds really good. i had a couple of questions on the items that the board has had hearings on. just on the exempt positions, you said there was created a process for those workers and those positions to be able to gain full-time permanent status. and then, the other one was just around racial inequities in our city government. you referred to diversity, fairness, and inclusion committees that wasn't -- there was an agreement on that. so if you could just describe -- explain a little bit more on -- f

to rekor 12 million in expenses that are part of carlos ghosn's alleged misconduct sara eisen sat down with caroltled nissan chairman. she claims that her husband multiple arrests in japan were tied to a conspiracy by nissan's board to avoid a potential merge with french automaker renault. >> we know it's a conspiracy nissan did not want this merger. a few people within nissan decided to get rid of my husband that that was the easiest way not to do the merger i mean, it didn't have to be -- there was maybe a more civilized way of doing it. >> and now that you see the proposed fiat renault merger what do you think? >> now it's clear how nissan doesn't want to be involved and they want nothing to do with it. i mean, i think with time we will see more clarity on this story and people now realize that this was a conspiracy against my husband >> we have much more of that interview with mrs. gshon including her plea with president trump to get involved. >>> a lot more on squawk this morning, bernie sanders going after walmart's leaders. we're going to tell you why. first as we take a look at yesterday'