The Sacramento Bee: Jerry Brown offers 12 percent raises (over 4 years) to SEIU Local 1000

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The State Worker /> By Rachel Cohrs /> rcohrs@sacbee.com /> July 29, 2016 – 10:17 AM

The state has offered a nearly 12 percent general salary increase for SEIU Local 1000 employees spread out over four years, or a 9 percent increase over three years.

id="more-69581">The offer, dated July 8, would also require increased payments into funding post-retirement health benefits amounting to a 3.5 percent increase in contributions over either three or four years.

California's largest state employee union is in the midst of contract negotiations with the governor's office. In a newsletter, SEIU officials wrote the talks had come to a “crossroads.”

In the union's most recent bargaining update posted on June 30, SEIU addressed members on its website stating, “Our bargaining team feels that the state's offer does not meet the priorities that you shared with us through town halls and bargaining surveys.”

The union held 13 town hall meetings for members across the state to get feedback on the bargaining process. SEIU also distributed an online survey to “get members' input about the state's offer.”

Allowable overtime mandates for registered nurses under Unit 17 would decrease from five to four per month, and mandatory overtime for medical and social services employees under Unit 20 would decrease from six to five.

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The American Spectator: When Trump Fought the Racists

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Jeffrey Lord /> November 13, 2015 – 9:00 am

And so the cry went up.

“Trump is a racist!” was the mocking cry from an off-stage Larry David when Trump recently hosted Saturday Night Live. The David bit was designed to make fun not of Trump but Trump's critics. In this case a left-wing group calling itself href="http://deportracism.com/">deportracism.com which, without the slightest sense of irony, put together a thoroughly racist ad having children spewing obscenities as they proclaimed their allegiance not to America and its ideals but rather to their race. A chilling reminder of all those fresh-faced young Germans of long ago pledging allegiance to their Aryan race.

id="more-69256">All of this is already old news. But there is a much older “old news” story about Trump that has now resurfaced - a story that paints a highly accurate portrait of the real Donald Trump - the guy who has no time for racism and anti-Semitism and stood up in public to fight both.

The story, linked by a group calling itself href="http://zionists4trump.com/how-trump-fought-antisemitism-and-racism-in-palm-beach-two-decades-ago/">Zionists for Trump, was href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB862335923489989500">published in the Wall Street Journal - in 1997. It revolves around Trump's purchase and operation of the famous Mar-a-Largo estate, built in the 1920s by Post Cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post. Trump had recently purchased the sprawling, seaside estate and turned it into a club. This being located in upscale Palm Beach, Florida, there were other prestigious clubs in the area, clubs that catered to the old order of upper crust Palm Beach society. The problem? Quietly, these other clubs had long barred Jews and African Americans - which is to say they practiced a quiet but steely racism.

The Zionists for Trump headline:

style="text-align: center;">How Trump Fought Antisemitism and Racism in Palm Beach Two Decades Ago

The WSJ story that is linked focuses on the battles Trump faced as a new arrival to Palm Beach, including his new competition with the social clubs of the old order. The story, which quotes Abe Foxman, the longtime head of the Anti-Defamation League, says, in part, the following:

Mr. Trump also has resorted to the courts to secure his foothold here, and many residents wince at the attention his legal battles with the town have drawn - to the town in general, and to the admission practices at some of Palm Beach's older clubs in particular.

…The culture clash began to approach a climax last fall, when Mr. Trump's lawyer sent members of the town council a copy of the film “Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,” a film that deals with upper-class racism. Mr. Trump then approached the town council about lifting the restrictions that had been placed on the club. He also asked some council members not to vote on the request because their membership in other clubs created a conflict of interest.

Last December, after the council refused to lift the restrictions, Mr. Trump filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Palm Beach, alleging that the town was discriminating against Mar-a-Lago, in part because it is open to Jews and African-Americans. The suit seeks $100 million in damages.

… Mr. Foxman seems pleased that Mr. Trump has elevated the issue of discriminatory policies at social clubs. “He put the light on Palm Beach,” Mr. Foxman says. “Not on the beauty and the glitter, but on its seamier side of discrimination. It has an impact.”

In recent weeks, Mr. Foxman says, the league has received calls from Jewish residents telling of how Palm Beach clubs are changing. Locals concur that in the past year, organizations such as the Bath and Tennis Club have begun to admit Jewish patrons. The Palm Beach Civic Association, which for many years was believed to engage in discriminatory behavior, this month named a Jewish resident as its chief officer.

In other words? In other words, long before he was running for president, there was Donald Trump battling racism and anti-Semitism in Palm Beach society. Using every tool at his disposal.

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