We are without the United States. President s day in the u. S. That means a lot of participants stateside but we also see reduced trading over the Asian Session as well. We saw the asian equities session with the nikkei moving higher, 1. 8 . A little higher a little harder to make any headway. More will get to more that. Our focus on what we are doing in europe because without the United States and the chinese and hong kong markets are closed. Thats get the first word news update. President trump spent the weekend criticizing everyone but russia for meddling. He tweeted 14 times over 24 hours criticizing the fbi, democrats and special counsel Robert Muellers investigation. They came after his sweeping indictment of 13 russians for allegedly leading social media efforts to attack trump rival, hillary clinton. In florida, students at the high school where 17 people were shot and killed are speaking out or gun control. They plan to organize antigun violence marches for next month. In the
Out with nonprofits. A case manager and the fully loaded case working for the city is 140,000 a year and the fully cost at well paying nonprofit is only about 80,000 a year. Multiply that by the number of case managers that youre paying for and i think its a significant amount of money that the sector is paying the Nonprofit Sector is saving the government, but this shouldnt be done on the backs of workers. I think its great we can save money and provide Excellent Services but should do so in a way that is fair. Were under a lot of pressure in the Nonprofit Sector. Some of you may know due to changes in the Health Care Reform in january organizations that are between 50 and 100 employees are looking at double digit increases in insurance and we cant increase wages with this and philanthropy isnt the answer and not to back fill government contracts and it helps the mission and be innovative and grow and be better. We look to you to solve this problem and i appreciate your time and inter
Everyone else not getting paychecks and granted we dont get paid crap but thats a different story and we need to stop looking at nonprofits as a stepping stone and as many mentioned and worked at fi nonprofits and thats a stepping stone and 19 of us are workers and do you really want to look at this as a stepping stone . You work at a nonprofit for a few years and thens politician and then a corporate office. Is that what you want . Because we could all run against you and were all smart and capable and were paid 13, 14 an hour and that is disgusting and when we look at nonprofits as an option and not a necessity. Just quick i work at many nonprofits in the city and children and Family Services and boys and girls club, [inaudible] and edgewood and theyre all great organizations all different and serve very high need populations but they all pay very low and they do that because they have this perception that one, they can, and two, they have to and sometimes both are true and sometimes
This budget better. The 5 increase would really help us to serve and also it would help us as a members, the entire nonprofit organizations to be a better person. We are better people and [inaudible] who we are. We are people united. We are people with really good heart. San francisco is very kind city and also the people who represent to us. You supervisors really, really are doing hard work but at the same time we need an extra mile to outreach or to reach what we really need. I just want to say thank you for your support all this time doing for of us and i hope i dont see you next year asking for more money. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My name is stephanie lay and i have spoken here before and a current employee at edge wood and i dont want to bring that up because it distracted from the conversation and theyre funded and they dont need me here and i am here on behalf of the teamsters and everyone else not getting paychecks and granted we dont get paid crap but t
Now is the time to work on the permanent fix. Local three, our members, our employers, we all are here to Work Together to create a permanent fix whether it be the convening of a task force to do that, but now is the time. Also i would like to encourage while were working on this that you consider the 5 cost of doing business increase. Thank you. Thank you want next speaker. Hi. My name is kaitd lynn and the Research Coordinator with seiu 1021. It is high time that the city do right by nonprofit workers and the citys moral imperative and the city can afford it and San Francisco is experiencing Economic Growth in the country and the controllers budget report that was just released projected an end year balance of 250 million but the people providing these Critical Services to san franciscans who need it the most theyre not seeing any of that money. For the 10 year period cited inflationary costs have sky rocketed for nonprofits and increased 143 for some cases and average rent in San Fr