i am asking the board to support the efforts that larry bradshaw mentioned to you. i hope that the board of supervisors would encourage them to sit down with you and work it out. i was from the housing clinic. i was a community organizer. i walked the streets and i know what these nonprofits do. i know that their work is hazardous. it is unbelievable what they provide to the city in terms of value. maybe it is time to look at the very rich in this city. they make it so that tourism and commerce can happen. they allow you to extend invitations. it is some of the work of these community groups and the public services of the public employees. it is time that the wealthy take a look at this. everybody is giving to preserve

. >> hello, supervisors, i'm larry bradshaw, a fire paramedic. i'm here to speak against the contract at san francisco general hospital. i'm going to let the supervisors know the union has put forward a counterproposal that provides for a higher level of security and saves as much money as d.p.h. says it will save by contracting out to unarmed private security guards that have no power of arrest. now, d.p.h. management makes the excuse that they are not interested in our proposal because they're not interested in being in the security business and they with an to concentrate on their core admission which is health. that's an antiquated vision of health. the national institute of occupational safety and health and the federal osha both recognize violence in the workplace as being about those health and safety. workplace violence is the second leading cause of occupational death in this country. each week an average of 20 workers are murdered and 18,000 are assaulted at their place of work. workplace violence is clustered in certain occupational ca