Government agencies, private organizations and public groups began Environmental Remediation program, transform a so many other things have transformed in the presidio in the past few decade, into an amazing asset for our city and for our counseltry. And key to that success what the formation and citizens volunteering on behalf of our city ~ for the presidio restoration advisory board. These members served as an exchange of information. Earlier this year they held a final meeting after a culmination of 20 years and we talk a lot about Public Service and volunteer efforts and this is, i think almost tough to grasp, being involved for that long and all of your hard service. Certainly someone who grew up, my father was in the military. [speaker not understood]. The px, commissary [speaker not understood], i do remember shopping there for groceries, but people spent so long taking such care of the presidio and really shaping it to be what it is today. Its just heart felt thanks. A few high
Regular verbal abuse and demeaning treatment from her manager and constant pressure to work faster and faster and despite having 7 years of work experience, her manager began cutting her hours and hired someone with new part time hours. She was helping her husband support the family. At the lowest point only working 3 to 4 days a week and 4hour shifts. Frustrated she decided to walk away from her job after ten years. Within this context of lowwage retail workers, ive been working with a coalition of Community Labor and Small Business groups and aligning ourselves with president chiu and his predictable Scheduling Task force and group heworking with and developed a retail workers bill of rights for fair and predictable schedule. [speaker not understood] at large corporateowned businesses. I think the estimate is over 40,000 people would be impacted. The San Francisco Planning Department completed a study of the formula Retail Sector and i thank them for all the hard work on that study a
Thousands of parttime workers just live paycheck to paycheck, but also hour to hour because of abusive oncall scheduling and a lack of job equity for parttime and on call worker. Our communities have been grappling with these economic hag including the cost in housing costs, and [speaker not understood]. Members of my own family work and have worked for large retail chains like the gap, starbucks, mace i. [speaker not understood] lack of hours and unpredictable schedule. I talked to a mother of three who worked at mcdonalds for ten years. We heard many stories in our Committee Hearings over and over again documenting the impacts on many worker in our city, many of them women and largely from immigrant and communities of color. But this one mother of three going to work every day was difficult for her due to the regular verbal abuse and demeaning treatment from her manager and constant pressure to work faster and faster and despite having 7 years of work experience, her manager began cu
The bay area, labor and community, and policy groups in the area to put together this good groundbreaking legislation, but we have also brought in National Educators and legal folks to make sure that we really have something that works and it is something that is broad and something that could also be used as president chiu said, outside a few minutes ago, something that we could have as a model in San Francisco that could be used in other areas and because i know that people are going to be looking nup up in San Francisco to do something, as they often do with the legislation and, this is incredible and i dont think that the Labor Council has been with a more stronger dedicated group and we sometimes drove each other crazy because we came up with new ideas but this is the way that we do things in San Francisco. So we are proud to be the Labor Council part of this coalition and we ask that this gets out of committee and that we move forward to get this passed in San Francisco. Thank yo
Society and the planet law center and ucw and others who worked alongside of representatives from employers to move forward the version of the ordinance that we have today. And colleagues, i look forward to your conversation and i want to mention as supervisor mar mentioned that i will ask for a couple of amendments to the ordinance that i have proposed one in particular to harmonize the Record Keeping requirements. There are several other comparable worker friendly ordinances that we passed this past year, that ban the box legislation, and the Family Friendly workplace ordinance that both have Record Keeping requirements of three years and our legislation had a four year working requirement and what we want to do is harmonize that and have a consistent three year Record Keeping requirement for all of these ordinances and a Second Chance that i would like to suggest and have conversation about this, is to make sure that there is enough time for the osc and the employers to educate the