Apr 13, 2014
On Tuesday, April 8th, the San Jose City Council approved an ordinance to provide for the hiring cops or firefighters who are denied disability pensions under Measure B. The discussion of the item provided a rare event – 3 Galactic Whoppers and 1 Mega-Whopper at a single meeting. Tweet
Apr 10, 2014
Recently, Bob Kieve gave a personal opinion on his radio station KLIV that was dead wrong. Kieve attacked Supervisor Dave Cortese and said the most important issue in the Mayor’s race was Labor’s support for him. He opined that such a result would be bad for San Jose. The real issue in this race is who can bring San Jose…
Mar 31, 2014
Ok, I admit it. I’m writing a Whopper critique of a column in the Wall Street Journal – which is kind of like fishing in your bathtub. But I’m busy this week so excuse me for going after the low hanging fruit. My target is Daniel Henninger’s article of March 26th which is titled, “Why Can’t the Left Govern?” Obviously…
Mar 27, 2014
The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is doing something for women you may not be familiar with, but you should be. The ACA does a lot to address what’s wrong with our system of health care in America, and one of the most important ways in which it does that is a huge victory for women’s health. While Obamacare will…
Mar 26, 2014
I have 17 million reasons for wanting to increase the minimum wage. Yes, 17 million—the number of children whose lives would be a little more secure if their moms and dads earned at least $10.10 an hour. When I was in junior high, my daddy had a heart attack. He was home for a while, the medical bills piled up,…
Mar 25, 2014
Mountain View Strengthening the Tenant Relocation Assistance Ordinance The City of Mountain View is moving to make life easier for those displaced by the rapidly rising rental market. The Council will take up amendments to the current ordinance, which requires landlords to provide relocation assistance to households that earn less than 50% of the area median income (AMI) when four…
SJPOA exposes false claims from Sam Liccardo that San Jose has help coming to deal with skyrocketing crime. New city projections released at a Willow Glen community meeting show 100 less officers in San Jose by June of 2016. Tweet
Mar 21, 2014
On March 12th, the Fly, a column posted on the blog San Jose Inside, presented an article titled, “Odd Bunch: Republican Sheriff Laurie Smith, Organized Labor. The piece focused on the fact that Cindy Chavez and other Democrats and labor leaders supported the re-election of GOP Sheriff Laurie Smith. The article is loaded with whoppers, but the most scale-busting lunker…
Mar 20, 2014
We live in an incredibly labor-friendly area, where workers are respected for what they do, and are generally compensated quite well for their hard work. That’s not always the case though, especially when greedy, out-of-state employers operate in our area. Workers need to have safeguards in place that protect them from being exploited by these types of employers. Tweet
Mar 19, 2014
It’s been a year since San Jose voters overwhelmingly decided to raise the City’s minimum wage to $10 an hour, and guess what? Not only has the sky NOT fallen, as critics warned, but the economy and low wage workers are better off than they were a year ago. Some of the major supporters of Measure D, as it was…