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By Luke Thomas
August 4, 2010
Public Defender Jeff Adachi will debate the merits of a controversial and recently certified pension and healthcare reform measure later today with Floyd K. Rollins II, Director of San Francisco Firefighters Union Local 798.
The debate, sponsored by San Francisco for Democracy, will be held tonight at 7 pm at Schroeder’s German Restaurant, 240 Front Street.
Luke Thomas
Luke Thomas is a former software developer and computer consultant who proudly hails from London, England. In 2001, Thomas took a yearlong sabbatical to travel and develop a photographic portfolio. Upon his return to the US, Thomas studied photojournalism to pursue a career in journalism. In 2004, Thomas worked for several neighborhood newspapers in San Francisco before accepting a partnership agreement with the SanFranciscoSentinel.com, a news website formerly covering local, state and national politics. In September 2006, Thomas launched FogCityJournal.com. The BBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox News, New York Times, Der Spiegel, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, 7x7, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Bay Guardian and the San Francisco Weekly, among other publications and news outlets, have published his work. Thomas is a member of the Freelance Unit of the Pacific Media Workers Guild, TNG-CWA Local 39521 and is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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August 5, 2010 at 9:02 pm
If this country can move past its opposition to gay marriage, which took a huge step yesterday, than I know how the city can save a fortune…end Domestic Partner benefits.
This was championed, correctly, to provide equality to the men and women who could not get married, and they deserved it. What it is now is a free ticket to any who have a friend working for the city.
For those whose loved ones have passed, you get to keep your benefits, and the rest can get married in twelve months or lose coverage and right to coverage.
August 5, 2010 at 2:45 pm
If this was just about firefighters, this measure would be an easier sell for me.
Trouble is that janitors and health care workers are going to be priced out of health care for dependents, and that’s not right.
August 4, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Hope Adachi will ask that Firefighter’s rep why firefighters keep talking about the great “concessions” they’ve made to solve the City’s budget crisis while taking 6% in raises between July 1 2010 and July 1 2011 OR, why the firefighters can’t contribute more for their pension and health benefits when they earn ON AVERAGE over $150,000 a year in wages and benefits, DOUBLE the average annual compensation of a City worker in the private sector at $75,000 who is seeing his City services cut…
I’d start there…