You. When i think about this book i see it as having three major parts, after you introduce a situation now, you do a really good job of talking about through stories how workers struggled, they themselves built the middle class in this country to a great extent by organizing, by striking, bargaining through a lot of adversity and demanding more from policy changes and then you go through a lot of the hard times of what i call the reagan era which we are still in Work Companies and starting with the president of the United States really attacked workers a lot and their unions and then you tell a lot of hopeful stories about different creative and innovative ways that workers have been organizing and unions and other forms and make policy recommendations and one thing i have to say, a lot of books like this are criticized because they come up short on the policy recommendation but i hope we really get into that because you made quite a few interesting suggestions on what might be done t
Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents should be provided to the clerk. Items acted on today will appear on the march 10 board of supervisors agenda. [agenda item read]. Chair mar supervisor fewer, thank you for joining us this morning as the sponsor of this hearing. The floor is yours. Supervisor fewer thank you, committee. I call this hearing today after discussions with ifpte local 21 because i am concerned about the use of Civil Service exclusions and the impact it has on our Civil Service industry. I realize that discussions have been ongoing between the department of Public Health and local 21 regarding a process of conversion for these positions since the last hearing that we called on this issue in april 2019. Since that time, this agenda at the time that this agenda was posted for todays meeting and this morning, an agreement has been confirmed between d.
So as not to disrupt the event. And when we get to q a please line up at the microphone it will be great as we are audio recording and cspan from a tv as well. We really like to have your questions in there. Following q a just leave your chairs where they are we have a couple more events today. Today we are very excited to welcome robert plumb with his newest book the better angels. A collective biography of five extraordinary civil war how the conflicts left openings for women for those roles usually held by men showing the depth of their passion and commitment. Harriet tubman tireless work of the underground railroad where she began the work that led to the American Red Cross chronicles how Harriet Beecher stowe to ride on goal toms cabin and then to be inspired by military actions with the battle hymn of the republic. So demonstrate for patriotism by advocating for a national day of thanksgiving. And a Brother Union and arms and written for Montgomery County historical society, the
Imperative upon to understand these people that have done these jobs many, many years, actually granting them some expertise that could be a qualifying factor to retaining these jobs. I would love to see a recent analysis, also, about those people in temporary and exempt positions by race and wage levels. Because when we took a good preliminary look at this, we saw that many people in management positions that were exempt were actually white individuals, while we see in the temporary positions, very lower positions that were paid much, much less, they were primarily people of color and African Americans and latino. So i think were in agreement, mr. Ponder, that that is absolutely not acceptable. And i would just want to say that i would suggest to you and also to miss ng from the Civil Service commission, that we are putting people into training positions, that we should be also allocating a pathway to permanent Civil Service. That anyone that comes into a training position, that they
Support that employee needs, whether its emotional support, whether they need attention in the Emergency Department or any kind of physical or behavioral support they need. So its quite a lot that we do to respond. Supervisor stefani i just want to make sure, too, because if a violent incident is occurring, like say someone is under meth induced psychosis and in that moment a nurses life is threatened, how quickly i know there is the deputy sheriff. I just want to make sure the Response Time is quick and thats what im trying to get at. Its not just verbal assault from what i heard, especially with p. S. And what were experiencing on the street with methamphetamine and what that can do to people and what that can do to the nurses. I didnt mention the sheriffs department. We have a multimillion dollar contract with the sheriffs department. We have posted positions. We have roefg positions. Our Security Director oversees that contract. We have a captain and many others throughout the heal