Of supervisors meeting. First item. Hearing on San Franciscos efforts to protect janitors, particularly immigrant women janitors, from physical and economic exploitation, Sexual Harassment, and president breed the floor is yours. Supervisor breed thank you all for joining us this morning. I to give a special shout out to olga miranda and members of the local 87 here today. I called for this meeting to evaluate what San Francisco is doing to protect Janitor Service industry workers particularly imMigrant Workers. These are some of the most vulnerable and i should add tireless workers here in the county. Many are women and many are subject to Sexual Harassment and expectation in the job. At home they face a rising pressures of displacement and addiction. The housing crisis is difficult to clearly to imMigrant Workers. The economic boom in the city has listed many in the tech sector the janitors who clean those offices are often struggling to survive here. This is a labor issue, an economic issue and most importantly a moral issue. We must do more to help janitors and ensure that they are secure and have access to affordable places. I have asked the office of economic workforce to evaluate the status of senator women. Specifically what i am looking for is an overview of janitorial contracts, practices and structure. Looking for data on hiring, policies in place to protect janitorial workforce particularly female workers who may face harassment and or trafficking. What city agencies are doing to protect janitor workers and investigate possible harassment, trafficking, wage theft and other abuses. I think we can all be more informed about this toooften overlooked sector. Local 87 representing 4000 workers is preparing for new contracts. We must fight janitor writes. We need strong protection in contrast to pull janitors out of poverty and into affordable healthcare and home. We are standing up for women immigrants and for those who work so hard every day to keep San Francisco clean. I want to thank olga, president of local 87, secretary and treasurer of San Francisco labor council. Ashel safari sounds like , local 87, james martin, and city staff here today. Lets go with lisa pagan, director of policy and planning. Good morning chair peskin, supervisors breed and yee. The office of Economic Development that is the Important Role of the janitorial sector within our economy. We have a program at city college run by selfhelp for the elderly. Additionally we placed janitorial workers into local jobs through our first source, job referral and placment and workforce placement. Through the month of march we have placed 109 residents. We conducted a formal outreach to this Building Owners, commercial Real Estate Brokers and Janitorial Companies to better understand contracting practices going on right now within commercial buildings. Owd look into how private Sector Companies and Tech Companies negotiate their leases and Janitorial Service contracts. Additionally, what we found janitorial contracts are almost exclusively between the Building Owners or its designees and a thirdparty cleaning service. Office tenants or Office Building managers pull Janitorial Services into master leases in most cases for the entire building. That covers Janitorial Service. Based on the Informal Service we conducted it appears that the historical master lease model still dominates and the janitorial sector within commercial Office Buildings. The information that was provided to us by brokers anecdotally pointed to a movement of master leases from the fullservice model to an industrial growth model. The industrial growth modeln charges less fees directly for their proportional share of the cost of tendency for their energy, janitorial and common area maintenance cost. Additionally the anecdotal movement of master leases to an industrial growth model provides only limited opportunity for increased less ee over the janitorial contract. An individual businesses not have a Significant Impact over the owner contractor relationship unless there is concern about the quality of the maintenance. Common concerns the tenant may have include perhaps quality of service or higher than expected escalation costs. For example notably because Property ManagementCompanies Often work for the Building Owner who faces pressure to offer better rates they generally award contracts to the lowest bidder. Anecdotally we have been told that the process that happens for janitorial contracts which pressures janitorial contractors to bid lower and that has consequences on wages which i will get into. City workforce are challenging Janitorial Service providers even in the midst of this economic boom. We have an expansion of the Hospitality Industry for example under Housekeeping Services in all hotels. Hotels typically higher cleaning positions as fulltime, permanent position within the hotel. These positions typically are not contracted through another company. Often hotels are subject to negotiated agreements with the union. Additionally most tenants do not get involved in other types of Office Buildings. Most tenants do not get involved with administering their own cleaning services. Typically it is governed in their lease by the property manager. So the Janitorial Services sector does face workforce challenges. Actually the demand for Janitorial Services has increased because of the amount of business happening in San Francisco. While new Office Building construction and new businesses create more opportunities, the second does face challenges in terms of wage stagnation and labor shortages. Janitorial wages have been in relative stagnation for the past 10 years. Less workers are going to enter this profession because there are other professions at page similar wages. Additionally it is hard to find employees to fill graveyard shifts which often the janitorial sector has to work in. There are often other higher paying jobs in other sectors of the economy with easier worklife balance or more access to dayton transportation because transportation as we know is often an issue at nighttime. The outside growth in San Francisco metropolitan area, wages have not increased. I want to show you some numbers. The janitorial wages have been relatively stagnant Sector Employment growth outpaces area averages. Outside growth in the San Francisco metropolitan statistical area Janitorial Services have not been able to go up in wages to the extent necessary or competitive with the rest of the economy. Janitorial employment in San Francisco rose 14. 2 since 2005 with average wages increasing 18 over the same time period. While positive the average wages in federal poverty line also rose 28. 1 and 25. 3 respectively over the same period. This is attributable to the lowbid nature and the process for janitorial contracts. Is important to note that since most janitorial are parttime, the costofliving right now is outpacing wage growth in this sector. Since 2005, the hours of work for the average editorial worker to reach the federal poverty line for a family of four, increased by 81 to 1,569 hours, and increase equivalent to two fulltime working weeks. What this table is showing us if the average hourly wages. 2006, 2007, 2015 over 10 years wages have gone up and employment has gone up but when we compare it excuse me if you look at the federal poverty line that has also gone out and total employment in the country has gone up 9. 7 and the average hourly wage has gone up 28. 1 but average wage in the janitorial sector has only gone up 18. 1 . Thats the issue with the wage. With that said, our programs in oawd focus on the training and placement portion of the janitorial sector. And thats all i have to present today. If you have any questions i will be happy to answer about what we found. Supervisor peskin is ms. Miranda here . I do not see olga. Supervisor breed we have two more presentations. Ms. Kindal sounds like , the womens policy director of the department of the commission on the status of women. Good morning i am unintelligible . Im going to talk a little bit about the most extreme forms of expectation that might happen in Janitorial Services which is Human Trafficking. The Mayors Task Force on Human Trafficking is an Organization Made up of agencies trying to improve the citys response to Human Trafficking. So we dont have great data about this because data on Human Trafficking in general is pretty unreliable because it is such a hidden population. However we do know from one study in san diego the look particularly at undocumented immigrants from mexico who were working as janitors, 36 of them experience trafficking and the janitorial industry experienced more violations than other industries in this population of Migrant Workers so that is happening in san diego. We can think that it may also be happening here in San Francisco. We started to publish a report where we collect data from different agencies on the Human Trafficking cases that they are seeing in San Francisco for the report that we are about to issue for 2015 there were two cases identified in Janitorial Services out of the total of 65 cases. That was evident in Public Ad Campaign that we ran in january to take advantage of the influx of visitors that we had around super bowl 50. We had some space donated, Public Toilets and visible locations on the embarcadero, fishermans wharf, cablecart turnaround, i was targeting around trafficking that might be happening in Janitorial Services. The ads combined with facebook and in google got a total of 20 million impressions so the message was definitely out there. Again, we dont really have great data on how prevalent trafficking and exploitation is in janitorial industry but we have some background information. We know that women make up 51 of people who work in grounds cleaning and San Francisco; people of color 85 of those employees and asian women a quarter. One in five women will be raped during the lifetime and 12 are assaulted at work and 60 do not report that to the police which is so important that we have good workplace policies of people know where they can report it so they can at least get protection from their employer. We saw the female workers are particularly vulnerable because they work at night, alone, and often there are no witnesses. Often they are from and immigrant population they may not be aware of their workplace rights. They may be immigrants fearful of complaining because of the immigration consequences particularly if they are undocumented. In terms of recommendations of how we can provide stronger support, working in teams would be really helpful so people are not isolated. Increasing awareness is an issue, making sure that employees are giving information about their rights in english and in the language they speak. The training is given to staff and managers about Sexual Harassment. When we reached out to prepare for the hearing we reached out to the federal eeoc which handles Sexual Harassment complaint in their work but they have no data on this, not because they think its not happening but because people are so vulnerable and afraid they are not getting the reporting process. We need to make sure people are aware of their rights and know how to report the matter. Obviously strengthening worker ties to Community Organization or unions. Like mujer activa. So thorganizations that elevate so they can protect their own rights. Supervisor has created a task force to look at Sexual Assault on campuses. Im happy to answer any questions. Supervisor breed i have one question. I know that you have specific recommendations for employees. How does that translate to contractors . I think making sure that the contractors are getting trained in their obligations. And making sure that they are providing that training to the people who work for them. Supervisor breed but it is not necessarily mandatory. Well, there is mandatory Sexual Assault training that is required in california every two years. But making sure thats available in languages that people speak would be important. That could be a requirement that Building Owners try to make sure that if they are contracting with Clean Service that they have those good policies in place. Supervisor breed for example in most cases oftentimes you have companies that contract with the Janitorial Service and how i guess what im looking for is a way to require the dots be connected so that they are held accountable to providing this training. And there is an expectation of the contractor by the employer that or the person who is contracting with the company that this is what they expect because of the challenges around this industry. Right. So Building Owners could create standards that they want the companies that they are contracting with. Supervisor breed they are not required to right now. No. Supervisor breed even though they might be required of the company by state law they are not required to make sure that there is emphasis placed as it relates to contracting with any of these companies. Right. Supervisor breed got it. Chair peskin relative to the two cases you identify of trafficking they became the subject of a criminal prosecution . The way we get the data is aggregated by different agencies. Those identified by communitybased organizations. I dont believe that they were the subject of a criminal investigation. Chair peskin why not . We dont get information on an individual case. I cant say why that was the case. There are people who often dont want to have a criminal investigation for a number of reasons but i cannot say if that was the case. Chair peskin in the liability whether it is civil or criminal goes to the contractor . The liability would be with the person employing the person doing the trafficking. I dont practice these cases so i cant say there might be some if the Building Owner new that a contractor was engaging in problematic behavior there might be some thirdparty viability. I dont work those cases. Supervisor breed olga miranda is here, president of local 87 and the secretarytreasurer of the unintelligible council. Would you like to come forward . Good morning ms. Miranda. Good morning. I want to start out by thanking both of you, supervisor breed, for bringing this to the table. We are 43 days before our contract expires. There is no better time to discuss what is happening in our industry respectfully. The report that you were given identified some of what we face on a daily basis, the women in our industry face. This is also a little bit more about how the city is changing and how it is evolving and how the Tech Industry is affecting how we do our work and under what conditions. I was commenting to one of our board members, patricia hernandez, its not just working in teams, women should work in teams. There also has to be a bigger commitment on behalf of contractors and Building Owners to seek more women forpersons that would be leads on the job. Right now we are about 20 years behind as far as where contractor should be in recruiting and training women for these higherpaying positions. The majority of our industry only reflects men as leads into buildings. This is an endeavor the Building Owners and management associations have responsibility to be able to have this happen within their buildings. Rape on the night shift is unfortunate. In other industries this is rarely talked about. In our industry it is commonplace, not just by their coworkers but also by tenants themselves. It could be an attorney, Software Developer who just happens to be there at two oclock in the morning. These advances are not something that our sisters in the union are asking for or within the industry