sanders: well said and thank you so much for the great work you and seiu do. let me pick up and close the program by thanking all of our great panelists. i'm sure people watching can understand it is not easy for somebody who is not a politician, not a professional speaker, to get in front of hundreds of thousands of people and to talk about what is going on. that is not easy. so i appreciate all of our panelists and all the people who are doing such important work for workers in this country. i want to pick up on a point that mary kay made. when i speak, i quote nelson mandela often. nelson mandela said something that i think is very profound and timely. he said and i quote, everything is impossible until it is done. in other words, people will tell you when you are engaged in a fight for decent wages, when you are engaged in a fight for universal health care, a fight to make sure all of our people can afford to go to college or have high quality affordable childcare or that we can create millions of good paying jobs, they say you can't do it. that's not real

local 2121 and seiu 1021. i was born and raised in san francisco, and my entire family went to city college. when my dad came to this country as an immigrant, he was laid off from his factually job, so i went to city college to improve his english. he learned about the city college culinary program, and he supported my family as the sole provider for two decades. the training my dad received enabled my dad to afford housing in the sunset and get health care. my mom took e.s.l. classes that improved herself confidence and talking to family members. as a senior going to s.f. high, i took ccsf classes when i was a junior, helping me to graduate from u.c. san diego when i was just 19 years old. i expanded city college into the sunset by working with city college, sfusd and local nonprofits, and i spent a year writing the city college workforce and recovery fund education legislation to ensure that we provide opportunities for our working families during covid-19. today, my dad has been played off, like many other

the seiu and the san francisco labor locals representing the trades that engage in cleaning our streets and maintaining some of our parks. they're talking about we need more resources, we need more resources. they believe that this new structure, which is going to put the board of supervisors in the position of straiting political appointee -- placing political appointees into governing these agencies, they believe it will mean significantly higher spending. and nowhere do the proponents of proposition b stay straight to the san francisco people that this is a major spending increase. will it address any of the core issues of cleaning san francisco streets? not if it atdss drug addiction, homeless, and mental illness on our streets, the root of so much of our problem. >> thank you. the same question to you, honey. why create a new department? >> well, i would like to first address some factual inaccuracies in some of those statements. one, the measure does require the department to set public standards for cleaning. we want to hold community outreach to set those standards. there is a m

local 2121 and seiu 1021. i was born and raised in san francisco, and my entire family went to city college. when my dad came to this country as an immigrant, he was laid off from his factually job, so i went to city college to improve his english. he learned about the city college culinary program, and he supported my family as the sole provider for two decades. the training my dad received enabled my dad to afford housing in the sunset and get health care. my mom took e.s.l. classes that improved herself confidence and talking to family members. as a senior going to s.f. high, i took ccsf classes when i was a junior, helping me to graduate from u.c. san diego when i was just 19 years old. i expanded city college into the sunset by working with city college, sfusd and local nonprofits, and i spent a year writing the city college workforce and recovery fund education legislation to ensure that we provide opportunities for our working families during covid-19. today, my dad has been played off, like many other

he is a delegate of his local seiu health care pennsylvania. thank you for being with us. >> i would just like to say it is great to be here with you this evening, great to be joining alongside you with your fight to ensure benefits for everyone and equal pay. this incident, this pandemic, has been like the great equalizer especially within my line of work. we have been taking care of the most vulnerable population in nursing homes. we have fought to guarantee paid sick time, job security, when people left for being sick, seiu also provided ppe as well as protection for the hazard pay that so many of us desperately needed. our residents went through a horrible experience. this is probably the hardest thing i ever had to deal with on top of losing residents. my mother also contracted covid-19, became very ill, had to be ventilated, now has returned to good health. i saw in my shop the employees who were nonmedical, meaning not nursing assistance, all on their normalcy to make sure the facility was properly cleaned. these people are not making af

joe biden is endorsed by the seiu. i trust joe biden. joe biden will not turn his back on a spirit he will treat our health care the way he treats his own family health care. protect social security and medicare, while donald trump promised to give back to his wall street friends. the way to stop all of this is to elect joe biden in november. do as i did -- vote early, beau biden, and vote now. here with you,be and forward. >> ♪ i'm coming up i want the world to know got to let it show i'm coming ♪ >> ♪ coming >> ♪ i'm coming up i want to let the world got to let it show ♪ >> ♪ i want to show the world and all i want to be in my ability they're so much more to me i've got it well in hand, and how i plan i've sidled up ♪ >> please welcome dartmouth college premed student. [applause] hi, everyone. my name is -- i am a sophomore at dartmouth college. as a young person looking ahead to my future and the futures of my peers, it is a terrifying feeling to realize that the decision-makers in government don't really seem to have an interest in p

we'll be working with seiu on this. so you can read the rest, we did, as you know, this year very proud of the work we did with the san francisco housing authority to help those employees become employees of the city, the ones who have taken advantage of that are doing extremely well. we're very pleased with that effort. you can see the list here. our apprenticeship sf, i want to call this out, this is ongoing. really the heart and soul of this program, margo has taken a job with the m.t.a., but we are absolutely committed to building on this work, creating a linkage in both the commitments that the trades have made to the city in their labor agreements, as well as the commitments made in the citywide project labor agreement to do everything we can to extend the opportunity to get good paying jobs and permanent jobs in the trades, both within the city and elsewhere. let's move on. as director davis said, coming out of the task force from the mayor's executive order, we have agreed with sciu and local 21 to the creation

the seiu and the san francisco labor locals representing the trades that engage in cleaning our streets and maintaining some of our parks. they're talking about we need more resources, we need more resources. they believe that this new structure, which is going to put the board of supervisors in the position of straiting political appointee -- placing political appointees into governing these agencies, they believe it will mean significantly higher spending. and nowhere do the proponents of proposition b stay straight to the san francisco people that this is a major spending increase. will it address any of the core issues of cleaning san francisco streets? not if it atdss drug addiction, homeless, and mental illness on our streets, the root of so much of our problem. >> thank you. the same question to you, honey. why create a new department? >> well, i would like to first address some factual inaccuracies in some of those statements. one, the measure does require the department to set public standards for cleaning. we want to hold community outreach to set those standards. there is a m

we'll be working with seiu on this. so you can read the rest, we did, as you know, this year very proud of the work we did with the san francisco housing authority to help those employees become employees of the city, the ones who have taken advantage of that are doing extremely well. we're very pleased with that effort. you can see the list here. our apprenticeship sf, i want to call this out, this is ongoing. really the heart and soul of this program, margo has taken a job with the m.t.a., but we are absolutely committed to building on this work, creating a linkage in both the commitments that the trades have made to the city in their labor agreements, as well as the commitments made in the citywide project labor agreement to do everything we can to extend the opportunity to get good paying jobs and permanent jobs in the trades, both within the city and elsewhere. let's move on. as director davis said, coming out of the task force from the mayor's executive order, we have agreed with sciu and local 21 to the creation

i'm joined by the chapter president of seiu. you are not going into work.ded to picket instead. why is that? >> we have been bargaining with ahs for nine months and coming to them for years about really basic problems inner inside the hospital and clinics in this county. i work in the er here at highland hospital and i can tell you that i'm in the unfortunate position of having to send homeless patients and trauma patients out into the cold in the middle of the night. paper pants and sock was no shoes because ahs fails to budget and provide weather appropriate clothing like the law requires. we have a failure to provide basic staffing and safety, not -- there's holes in the walls inside the er where i work. we have patients in the fairmont nursing home who are in hundred degree temperatures sometimes in the summer. our workers hand out popsicles to try to keep them cold. the building next door has air conditioning. we have been baring for these things, homeless patient clothing air conditioning in the nursing home and ahs management has been rejecting those

seiu 1021, chapter president. i want to talk about our student warehouse workers that are being called heros but are being treated as zeros through the district's management because they don't want to continue to pay these guys hazard pay. these people come to work every day putting their lives at risk, and it's -- you know, they're exposing themselves to the public, especially with student nutrition on their hand to hand contact with the public. you know, our members deserve better. they're not expendable members. you cannot just wait until someone gets sick with covid and then say okay, just sit, go home two weeks, three weeks, with no pay, etc., when these guys are deserving, and they care about the kids in the school district, and make sure that they got fed, that they've got a clean school, that they've got the supplies that they need. we need our members treated and respected properly. also, i'm in support of the bus drivers. please at least give them their health care. they've got children. this is not the

we have fought to guarantee paid sick time, job security, when people left for being sick, seiu also provided ppe as well as protection for the hazard pay that so many of us desperately needed. our residents went through a horrible experience. this is probably the hardest thing i ever had to deal with on top of losing residents. also contracted covid-19, became very ill, had to be ventilated, now has returned to good health. the employeesop who were nonmedical, meaning not theirg assistance, all on normalcy to make sure the facility was properly cleaned. these people are not making affordable wages. i am very lucky. have, worked as long as i i have been paid pretty well. people that work under me, the essential workers such as the housekeeping, we had housekeepers that went for two with no weekends off. they just work because that's what they wanted to do. been an honor and a privilege to be able to join them and to fight for them. i believe very strongly in the fight for having everyone being able to join a union for the benefits not just for the wage increases, but the dignity and

we'll be working with seiu on this. so you can read the rest, we did, as you know, this year very proud of the work we did with the san francisco housing authority to help those employees become employees of the city, the ones who have taken advantage of that are doing extremely well. we're very pleased with that effort. you can see the list here. our apprenticeship sf, i want to call this out, this is ongoing. really the heart and soul of this program, margo has taken a job with the m.t.a., but we are absolutely committed to building on this work, creating a linkage in both the commitments that the trades have made to the city in their labor agreements, as well as the commitments made in the citywide project labor agreement to do everything we can to extend the opportunity to get good paying jobs and permanent jobs in the trades, both within the city and elsewhere. let's move on. as director davis said, coming out of the task force from the mayor's executive order, we have agreed with sciu and local 21 to the creation

one from the seiu on behalf of 2 million members of services employs international union and one on behalf of a national constellation of disability rights groups. >> without objections. >> so, judge barrett, if i might, the calendar behind me maims clear something about the context that we're in. because i think folks watching this at home despite the wonderful efforts that a number of my colleagues made to make this accessible may have difficulty understanding exactly why we're here and why under these circumstances and why we keep bringing up the affordable care act. so let me try and walk that through. these aren't normal times, as you all know. most of us are wearing masks. there are a number of members of this committee and the senate who have been infected by covid as our president has, and that's resulted in the senate being closed this week, and are not being able to proceed. we're in the middle of a pandemic. and we are just three weeks from an election. a presidential election in which folks are voting in more than 40 states, millions votes already cast. just a week after that e

one from the seiu on behalf of the 2 million members. one on behalf of that national constellation of disability rights groups. >> without objection. >> judge barrett, if i might, the calendar behind me makes clear something about the context we are in. i think folks watching this at home, despite the wonderful efforts than a number of my colleagues have made to make this accessible, may have difficulty understanding exactly why were here and why under the circumstances and why we keep bringing up the affordable care act. let me try to walk that through. these aren't normal times, as you well know. most of us are wearing masks. there are a number of members in this committee and the senate have been infected by covid, as our president has, that resulted in the senate being closed this week and not being able to proceed. we are in the middle of a pandemic. we are just three weeks from an election. a presidential election in which folks are voting in more than 40 states. millions of votes of artie been cast in a week after that election th

he took a shot at it in knox versus seiu. the concurrence in that case said, wait a minute oochs, quote, the majority's choice to reach an issue not presented by the parties briefed or argued disregards our rules. but justice alito didn't like something about abood, so he took the shot. then we went on to harris v quinn. alito took another shot at abood in that case, describing it as having analysis that is questionable. he undertook an extended critique of the decision. justice kagan spotted that. in her defense she said today's majority cannot resist taking pot shots at abood and described its critique of abood's foundations as gratuitous dicta. but the message went out from judge alito that he wanted to do something about abood. there was something about abood that he did not like. with that we went to -- that's the prequel. then we went to the two cases that followed. the first one was friedrich which was supposed to get rid of abood. it had an interesting travel. the lawyer in the case was one of the groups from janas, i

local 2121 and seiu 1021. i was born and raised in san francisco, and my entire family went to city college. when my dad came to this country as an immigrant, he was laid off from his factually job, so i went to city college to improve his english. he learned about the city college culinary program, and he supported my family as the sole provider for two decades. the training my dad received enabled my dad to afford housing in the sunset and get health care. my mom took e.s.l. classes that improved herself confidence and talking to family members. as a senior going to s.f. high, i took ccsf classes when i was a junior, helping me to graduate from u.c. san diego when i was just 19 years old. i expanded city college into the sunset by working with city college, sfusd and local nonprofits, and i spent a year writing the city college workforce and recovery fund education legislation to ensure that we provide opportunities for our working families during covid-19. today, my dad has been played off, like many other

the seiu and the san francisco labor locals representing the trades that engage in cleaning our streets and maintaining some of our parks. they're talking about we need more resources, we need more resources. they believe that this new structure, which is going to put the board of supervisors in the position of straiting political appointee -- placing political appointees into governing these agencies, they believe it will mean significantly higher spending. and nowhere do the proponents of proposition b stay straight to the san francisco people that this is a major spending increase. will it address any of the core issues of cleaning san francisco streets? not if it atdss drug addiction, homeless, and mental illness on our streets, the root of so much of our problem. >> thank you. the same question to you, honey. why create a new department? >> well, i would like to first address some factual inaccuracies in some of those statements. one, the measure does require the department to set public standards for cleaning. we want to hold community outreach to set those standards. there is a m

local 2121 and seiu 1021. i was born and raised in san francisco, and my entire family went to city college. when my dad came to this country as an immigrant, he was laid off from his factually job, so i went to city college to improve his english. he learned about the city college culinary program, and he supported my family as the sole provider for two decades. the training my dad received enabled my dad to afford housing in the sunset and get health care. my mom took e.s.l. classes that improved herself confidence and talking to family members. as a senior going to s.f. high, i took ccsf classes when i was a junior, helping me to graduate from u.c. san diego when i was just 19 years old. i expanded city college into the sunset by working with city college, sfusd and local nonprofits, and i spent a year writing the city college workforce and recovery fund education legislation to ensure that we provide opportunities for our working families during covid-19. today, my dad has been played off, like many other

local 2121 and seiu 1021. raised in san francisco, and my entire family went to city college. when my dad came to this country as an immigrant, he was laid off from his factually job, so i went to city college to improve his english. he learned about the city college culinary program, and he supported my family as the sole provider for two decades. the training my dad received enabled my dad to afford housing in the sunset and get health care. my mom took e.s.l. classes that improved herself confidence and talking to family members. as a senior going to s.f. high, i took ccsf classes when i was a junior, helping me to graduate from u.c. san diego when i was just 19 years old. i expanded city college into the sunset by working with city college, sfusd and local nonprofits, and i spent a year writing the city college workforce and recovery fund education legislation to ensure that we provide opportunities for our working families during covid-19. today, my dad has been played off, like many other service sector

the seiu and the san francisco labor locals representing the trades that engage in cleaning our streets and maintaining some of our parks. they're talking about we need more resources, we need more resources. they believe that this new structure, which is going to put the board of supervisors in the position of straiting political appointee -- placing political appointees into governing these agencies, they believe it will mean significantly higher spending. and nowhere do the proponents of proposition b stay straight to the san francisco people that this is a major spending increase. will it address any of the core issues of cleaning san francisco streets? not if it atdss drug addiction, homeless, and mental illness on our streets, the root of so much of our problem. >> thank you. the same question to you, honey. why create a new department? >> well, i would like to first address some factual inaccuracies in some of those statements. one, the measure does require the department to set public standards for cleaning. we want to hold community outreach to set those standards. there is a m

the seiu and the san francisco labor locals representing the trades that engage in cleaning our streets and maintaining some of our parks. they're talking about we need more resources, we need more resources. they believe that this new structure, which is going to put the board of supervisors in the position of straiting political appointee -- placing political appointees into governing these agencies, they believe it will mean significantly higher spending. and nowhere do the proponents of proposition b stay straight to the san francisco people that this is a major spending increase. will it address any of the core issues of cleaning san francisco streets? not if it atdss drug addiction, homeless, and mental illness on our streets, the root of so much of our problem. >> thank you. the same question to you, honey. why create a new department? >> well, i would like to first address some factual inaccuracies in some of those statements. one, the measure does require the department to set public standards for cleaning. we want to hold community outreach to set those standards. there is a m

local 2121 and seiu 1021. i was born and raised in san francisco, and my entire family went to city college. when my dad came to this country as an immigrant, he was laid off from his factually job, so i went to city college to improve his english. he learned about the city college culinary program, and he supported my family as the sole provider for two decades. the training my dad received enabled my dad to afford housing in the sunset and get health care. my mom took e.s.l. classes that improved herself confidence and talking to family members. as a senior going to s.f. high, i took ccsf classes when i was a junior, helping me to graduate from u.c. san diego when i was just 19 years old. i expanded city college into the sunset by working with city college, sfusd and local nonprofits, and i spent a year writing the city college workforce and recovery fund education legislation to ensure that we provide opportunities for our working families during covid-19. today, my dad has been played off, like many other

local 2121 and seiu 1021. i was born and raised in san francisco, and my entire family went to city college. when my dad came to this country as an immigrant, he was laid off from his factually job, so i went to city college to improve his english. he learned about the city college culinary program, and he supported my family as the sole provider for two decades. the training my dad received enabled my dad to afford housing in the sunset and get health care. my mom took e.s.l. classes that improved herself confidence and talking to family members. as a senior going to s.f. high, i took ccsf classes when i was a junior, helping me to graduate from u.c. san diego when i was just 19 years old. i expanded city college into the sunset by working with city college, sfusd and local nonprofits, and i spent a year writing the city college workforce and recovery fund education legislation to ensure that we provide opportunities for our working families during covid-19. today, my dad has been played off, like many other

the seiu and the san francisco labor locals representing the trades that engage in cleaning our streets and maintaining some of our parks. they're talking about we need more resources, we need more resources. they believe that this new structure, which is going to put the board of supervisors in the position of straiting political appointee -- placing political appointees into governing these agencies, they believe it will mean significantly higher spending. and nowhere do the proponents of proposition b stay straight to the san francisco people that this is a major spending increase. will it address any of the core issues of cleaning san francisco streets? not if it atdss drug addiction, homeless, and mental illness on our streets, the root of so much of our problem. >> thank you. the same question to you, honey. why create a new department? >> well, i would like to first address some factual inaccuracies in some of those statements. one, the measure does require the department to set public standards for cleaning. we want to hold community outreach to set those standards. there is a m

the seiu and the san francisco labor locals representing the trades that engage in cleaning our streetsg about we need more resources, we need more resources. they believe that this new structure, which is going to put the board of supervisors in the position of straiting political appointee -- placing political appointees into governing these agencies, they believe it will mean significantly higher spending. and nowhere do the proponents of proposition b stay straight to the san francisco people that this is a major spending increase. will it address any of the core issues of cleaning san francisco streets? not if it atdss drug addiction, homeless, and mental illness on our streets, the root of so much of our problem. >> thank you. the same question to you, honey. why create a new department? >> well, i would like to first address some factual inaccuracies in some of those statements. one, the measure does require the department to set public standards for cleaning. we want to hold community outreach to set those standards. there is a metric to address that. also, i do want to correct

the seiu and the san francisco labor locals representing the trades that engage in cleaning our streetsand maintaining some of our parks. they're talking about we need more resources, we need more resources. they believe that this new structure, which is going to put the board of supervisors in the position of straiting political appointee -- placing political appointees into governing these agencies, they believe it will mean significantly higher spending. and nowhere do the proponents of proposition b stay straight to the san francisco people that this is a major spending increase. will it address any of the core issues of cleaning san francisco streets? not if it atdss drug addiction, homeless, and mental illness on our streets, the root of so much of our problem. >> thank you. the same question to you, honey. why create a new department? >> well, i would like to first address some factual inaccuracies in some of those statements. one, the measure does require the department to set public standards for cleaning. we want to hold community outreach to set those standards. there is a me