seiu 1021 steward, and delegate. i'm here because i worked for the city five years and witnessed firsthand constant discrimination against my black colleagues. seen it in the hiring or the lack thereof. in the hiring, many black workers are not getting their foot in the door. seen it in the black of promotions from my black colleagues. seen the eligible list with names of qualified colleagues who do not get the promotions they applied for. not only is it wrong for my colleagues and right for the decent livelihood, but bad for the public they serve. do not staff the agency for what they serve, and lack of delivering the best service possible to the public. my agency treats their jobs as a career path stepping stone, they do not value delivering the best service possible, my own friend who is black was not fairly fired. she lost her job, a young mother of two. as stated earlier, this discrimination results in a lack of quality services and in the settlements that keep costing the taxpayers money due to inept management

and one thank you that's really important, i wanted to thank seiu for bringing this to our attention and for meeting with my staff, and bringing this forward because i think it's something that we need to address now. thank you. >> supervisor kim: thank you, supervisor brown. supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, i'll be very brief. i have a lot of questions and i echo much of what my colleague on the board said about our african american population and clearly a whole package, it is about economic growth ability for african american population here in san francisco and the overall health of our african american population and our are they getting a piece of the pie here in san francisco as our economy has grown and where are they in that picture, and had they been able to capture any of this growth in our economy for their own economic stability. so i'm going to have some questions, actually, i think that when i was on the school board, you know, we saw the achievement of african american students and we had to really drill down and i think this is what i inten

i'm from laguna honda hospital and seiu member. i'm here to address the evil management in laguna honda hospital. >> yeah! >> i thought i was coming to a civilized [inaudible] to work when the federal government invited me to come here to work as nurse. and i figured it out that america somehow is not civ lied. -- civilized. i can't understand in 2018 we still talking about race that has been dealt with 200 or 300 years ago. it breaks my imagination we're talking about a human life in a government hospital. local government hospitals. county hospitals. what do i take outside united states to tell people? that this is my witness here. caring for people and you can't speak up. when you speak up in laguna honda, your job is gone. that shouldn't be. that shouldn't be in a civilized world because any one of us can lay down on that bed. you never can tell what happens. please, i want you, supervisors, not everybody has been saying something and makes people come over here to lay complaints and nothing is done. all of you should have a co

i do want to thank seiu 1021 for asking me to call this hearing in june, it's been a pleasure to work over the last two months. and for u just the beginning, and it was incredibly important to get all the stories and i know two minutes was incredibly short for the years of experience people have been encountering. i do want to give -- i had a very long list of questions being that we only have 15 minutes remaining. i wanted to give supervisor brown and fewer an opportunity to ask questions but i have to limit the time. so begin with supervisor brown. >> i just want to say that an hour and a half -- hour and a half -- >> supervisor kim: i only have 15 minutes. >> nothing compared to years of racism and discrimination that we have -- >> supervisor kim: you could not be more correct. i completely agree. >> supervisor brown: thank you, chair kim. i'm kind of overwhelmed by all of the different testimony here today. and i just want to let you know that i hear you. i feel that we really, it's kind of the tip of the iceberg. and i think we need to open this up more. i think we also need to o

there's 15 employees that are either drivers or parking attendant folks, and they are right now under seiu, and kaiser wanted to contract that out to make it more flexible in terms of services, and one of the main concerns i have with that is, what do you -- we're going to lose union jobs, and they assured me that the company that they are going to work with is a union shop, and, in fact, i confirmed that with the teamsters who are the bargaining unit for that company. and so we wouldn't be losing necessarily union jobs. now, what happens to these workers, do they get -- would they be able to get the jobs back from these companies from, you know, moving from kaiser employee to be this company's employee, and there was assurance that they would, and, in fact, that they wouldn't be starting at a beginning rate, but actually would be grandfathered to whatever they are making now. and the rates themselves in terms of starting rates, i believe they are one cent apart. the other option that these 15 employees would have, my understanding from kaiser, is that they would be able to work -- if they

where the unions are simply trade- based or other ones that operate across industry, like--like i'm an seiuember, for example, rright? or are they just t sortf anachronistic, sort of workers' vanguard spectacles that we can just kind of throw aside? >> good. wonderful question. let me try to answer. and again, rather than my spinning out my owown thoughts abouut that, let me start from a concrete example.e. the steelelworkers un here i in the united states, one of f the largest ununions in the afl-cicio, here, stunned the wod of american labor two years ago whenen they isissued a press ree announcing the formal alliance-- i'll use their words--ththe forl aalliance betweeeen the steelworkers union of the united statates, which-h--i don'tt know many members it has, but in the hundreds of thousands, big union--with mondragon, the corporate--that huge, successful worker's self-directed enterprise in spain. and i remember many of us were taken aback. "what an interesting idea. an alliance." what did it mean? well, the details were hard to come by. it seems asas though there was discussion, obvio