Dec 7, 2015
Santa Clara County Initial data on gender/race pay equity & direction on pay equity in County contracting policies Commission on the Status of Women’s (CSW) Pay Equity Study: In advance of the forthcoming pay equity study that will be undertaken by the Office of Women’s Policy and the Commission on the Status of Women, County Counsel and Administration have conducted…
Dec 4, 2015
Today marks end of former-Mayor Chuck Reed’s pension reform fiasco. The City of San Jose has now agreed to a settlement of the dispute surrounding Reed’s Measure B with City workers. The agreement covers all but one of the nine non-public safety unions, which represent 3,000 City employees. The terms of the settlement are similar to deal made with the…
Apr 22, 2014
Sometimes politics is described as a pendulum swinging back and forth: one side may be very successful for a while, but eventually political momentum tends to swing back the other way. At the City of San Jose in recent years, the pendulum has swung very far in the pro pension-reform direction. There has been a sense among pension reform advocates…
Mar 7, 2014
On February 25th, the Washington Post decided to wade into San Jose’s pension wars with a major article by Michael K. Fletcher. Alas, the venerable Post apparently did not even do minimal research or fact-checking before putting pen to paper. The result is a disappointing mega-whopper. Tweet
Feb 14, 2014
On February 6th, Jennifer Wadsworth wrote a column for San Jose Inside discussing Mayor Chuck Reed’s lawsuit against the ballot language published by the California Attorney General for his statewide pension initiative. She quotes Reed as accusing the AG of failing to give voters a “true and impartial summary” of the initiative. But Wadsworth fails to alert readers to the facts…
Jan 31, 2014
California Attorney General Kamala Harris is drawing the ire of the San Jose Mayor. The title and summary of Reed’s proposed statewide pension initiative explains to voters how the measure would “eliminate constitutional protections for vested pension and retiree health benefits for current public employees.” Mayor Chuck Reed plans to sue the Attorney General over the wording. Tweet