i am connie ford. toanted to take a second tell you i'm a former opeiu,ry/treasurer of vice president of the san francisco labor council, for not bef you who might aware. we try to bring the labor movement in san francisco, over 100 unions together, to form policies and initiatives to help about 85,000 working people. i want to mention a few important people in this room today. have our secretary treasurer, olga miranda, here from the labor council. i also want to mention -- the this, i'm mentioning don't know if you know this. but u.s.f. is a union shop from bottom to the top, from the bottom to the top from the top bottom. represent -- 200 professional administrators and the janitors and every part of for this university, so thank you, u.s.f., for being good union shop. opeiu is here, ofalie nailor, director representation and those who do the hard work of helping this run smoothly and getting respect for the workers, it's gina alvarez. gina.you, so let me just be clear and -- everybody on this panel

i'm connie ford. i want to stand in solidarity with everything that's been said here. i have great's a respect. i've been working with soma. i've been on the soma stabilization fund since its beginning realizing that my son and daughter in law live here and so i belong to in this instance an organization called good jobs for all. we're in solidarity in particular with what alex said and mario said. these jobs, this community, is going to be experiencing must be good jobs, somewhere in the report it says 30,000 to 40,000 jobs. what are the jobs? are there categories? are they good, living-wage jobs? who will be -- the people that are doing the work at the hotels, the people that will do the service jobs in these high towers, the security guards, janitors, how will they be good jobs and good jobs for all is a program that we'll sit down with the developers as the plan goes out and we would like some of this within the plan that says, any of these jobs need to be for -- especially the entry level jobs need to be opened up for the community, for the people that live there,

we will be hearing from connie ford. she was instrumental there founding san francisco's branch of jobs with justice, a coalition of labor unions and community organizations dedicated to expanding economic justice for all workers and i'm so honored she's here because the labor piece of this is very important. we will be hearing from a champion in the labor movement, tom o'connor. he currently serves as the union president for san francisco's firefighters. he is leading the nation in trying to detect and prevent cancer among firefighters. he will tell the story of how this firefighters he will tell the story. now, i'm honored to bring up my co-chair, he came from his own e vent in the north bay. congressman mike thompson is a champion in so many ways. if you've seen him recently coming to the aid of the people in his district and beyond in terms of the fire in the north bay. he is the chair of our task force in the congress on gun safety, gun violence prevention. he's is veteran, a gun owner and hunter and he knows well h

we'll be hearing from conny ford, instrumental in founding san francisco's branch of jobs justice coalition of labor union and committee organizations dedicated to expanding economic justice for all workers. i'm so honored she is here because the labor peace of this is very, very important. we will be hearing from a champion in the labor movement, tom o'connor. tom currently serves as the union president for san francisco's firefighters picky is leading the nation in trying to detect and prevent counts among firefighters. people tell the story of how this bill a fax our public, our first responders and the rest. now i'm honored to bring up my coach of today's event. he just came from his own event in the north bay. congressman mike thompson is a a champion of congress in so many ways. as you've seen them recently, very prominently, coming to the aid of the people in his district and beyond in terms of the fires in the north bay. he also is the chair of our task force in the congress on gun safety, gun violence prevention. he's a veteran. he's a gun owner. he's a hunter and he knows full wel