Elsbernd and Weiner didn't want labor peace or equalized bargaining power when they championed Prop G in 2010. They were adding rubbish to the charter IN ORDER to tip the scales in bargaining against workers.

oh wait there's more: This is because strike activity, including credible strike threats, “equalize the parties’ bargaining power” and “render collective bargaining a more efficient method to
bring labor peace.”

Let's see what PERB & California courts have to say abt whether the possibility of strikes are bad for the public: "PERB has explained that “[b]ecause of its importance to the bargaining process, the right to strike is as much a matter of statewide concern as is the duty to bargain in good faith."

Recommendation #5 is to fix the City's bargaining process because the SIX legal challenges have created a risk of "possible future employee strikes." (I fucking hope so.) www.spur.org/sites/defaul...

Maybe the charter is too long because a bunch of it is illegal? Worth a think.

More on this jackass. As a labor guy, the SPUR report complains about the City losing at PERB (often appealing to the Cal Supreme Court and losing). It doesn't mention that the City lost SIX times. PERB ruled repeatedly that charter provisions were void and unenforceable.

Whenever Elsbernd talks about how to "make City Hall work for residents" remember he was the direct architect of a policy specifically designed to make Black City workers poorer with Wiener's full support. He's never AFAIK acknowledged or apologized for this. This is structural racism in action.

Not unrelated, Muni driver is one of the job classifications in San Francisco government that is most disproportionately Black.

Here from City data: public.tableau.com/shared/P8B9N...

While it was in effect, Prop G allowed the City to impose worse pay and longer progressions on Muni drivers. The result was documented massive driver shortages that caused major service disruptions. Here from 2018: www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

In 2017, Prop G was mostly struck down by PERB in the state courts. San Francisco over the years has adopted charter rules on collective bargaining that violate state law. The SPUR report referenced in Elsbernd's op-ed wants to KEEP DOING THAT. Here's the decision: perb.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

Here's the SPUR analysis of Prop G at the time. It was supported by then supervisorial candidate Scott Wiener and opposed by his opponent, Rafael Mandelman. Elsbernd alleged that it would "fix" Muni by fixing collective bargaining.

You're not gonna believe this, but it didn't work.

Loki tv series.

Anyway are pics from a simpler more innocent time in December 2016 when some very young-looking friends and I delivered a seven foot styrofoam spine to Pelosi’s office to try to give the Dems some backbone. They were not amused.

The best thing that can be said about her is that she’s better than Schumer who should also retire yesterday. …

…having the vision to appoint Gerry Connolly instead of AOC to a leadership role where he died in office, and otherwise getting us in the mess we are in now weakening the party by attacking the left her entire career.