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Transcripts For SFGTV 20141122

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 des ....

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Transcripts For SFGTV 20141202

For their organization. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, commissioners my name is a 58 i cant think im accident executive director he west bay its its a nonprofit that serves the filipino were located on 7 the street and recently, we serve an enabling number of families from the Africanamerican Community im here because its simple i believe that the public hearing should be detailed until after the Holiday Season weve not received the draft from 5 m even though our community has 45 thousand specifically is effected by the demonstration directly and indirectly ive requested our experienced Legal Council who paid the participation in the yerba buena to help with the draft given the long term fire chief of San Francisco and he concerns expressed by res ....

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Transcripts For SFGTV 20141118

First we have a motion to amend both items supervisor wieners comments. Second by supervisor tang. Discussion on that motion . Supervisor mar. If were starting to talk about the motion, the motion to continue, i would urge my colleagues not to support. I know that often more time allows better dialogue, but parts of this legislation was introduced in july. There have been plenty of discussions from meetings with everyone across the table. I know president chiu has been working closely with many different parties a has my office and i know that theres been good discussion with two different budget meetings where weve gone through quite a bit of legislation as well. So, id strongly urge my colleagues not to continue this for one more week. I know that theres a number of amendments or another amendment that may be made right now, but my hope is we vote this up or down today and for second reading next week, given the departure of our president in the short few days in office in
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Transcripts For SFGTV 20141119

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 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
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Transcripts For SFGTV 20141122

Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, commissioners im luis in the last few months weve seen the efforts of 5 m to engage the community and they have had workshops and discussions i have attended some in the beginning even the 5 w of the intersection for the arts and the design they had you know invited all of the components of the jobs to Small Businesses and the affordability in the area south of market id like to see have more of this discussion because of you know the community benefits, the impacts of the benefits and the community im looking forward to hearing more of a discussion in the community and with the hopes that all of the communities needs that is impressed in all of those words of discussion will be incorporated in the overall plan of this thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, commissioners my name is rudy im born and raised in the south of market city still live there i hope im not genocide by ....

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