Posted on 05/10/2018 11:54:19 AM PDT by simpson96
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) announced Monday she will boycott the UC Berkeley graduation ceremony, where she was scheduled to deliver the keynote speech, due to a massive union-backed labor strike that forced the rescheduling of over 12,000 surgeries, cancer treatments, and appointments. Harris tweeted, “If we are going to live up to our ideals as a nation, it’s critical we focus on economic equality and economic justice. One key is making sure everyone has access to a good job, with fair wages, and safe working conditions.”
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, campus chancellor Carol Christ will address the nearly 6,000-strong graduating study body in Harris’s place at Cal’s Memorial Stadium Saturday morning.
UC Berkeley announced Monday: “We regretfully share the news that, after much consideration, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris has decided not to speak at Saturday’s commencement ceremony at UC Berkeley due to a UC-wide speaker boycott called by AFSCME Local 3299.”
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “thousands of service workers with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFSCME, walked off the job at all 10 UC campuses Monday in protest of what they said was the University of California’s practice of hiring contractors and displacing longtime employees.”
The unions are reportedly demanding a multiyear contract with annual pay raises of 6%, no increase in healthcare premiums and continued full pension benefits at the retirement age of 60.
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Wow...
12,000 cancelled surgeries, cancer treatments, and appointments and all she can do is bleat about “economic equality and economic justice...making sure everyone has access to a good job, with fair wages, and safe working conditions.”
I’m sure the 12,000 aren’t feeling very good about their “medical equality and medical justice” right now.
What a two-faced beyotch.
I’d bet the 12,000 number will become double that shortly.
Not a natural born citizen.
One is only naturally an American when one cannot be anything else.
She was born an Indian national and a Jamaican national.
Anyone with THREE nationalities is not naturally an American.
No
Leftists are not even leftist enough for leftists.
These are fascistic leftists.
“It was Maxine Waters.”
(insert horrified scream at seeing that name)
Let me make sure I get it—Kamala is OK with cancer patients dying because they didn’t get treated at UC hospitals.
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Hey all fascist leftists understand that one has to break a few eggs to ...
You are right on. Obama was kind of a test and look what he got away with. Harris would not be afraid to go all out.....especially if the Rats hold both houses of congress.
I voted for Loretta Sanchez dont blame me I also got a real sloppy sweaty hug from Loretta at the Huntington Beach 4th of July parade
This quote from her only proves how they use the very system they hate:
“If we are going to live up to our ideals as a nation, it’s critical we focus on economic equality and economic justice. One key is making sure everyone has access to a good job, with fair wages, and safe working conditions.”
A good friend of my llib grandaughter will be graduating.
Pretty funny !
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I don’t want to live in a nation where canceling the scheduled treatment of cancer patients is an “ideal.“ Unions are sometimes despicable.
The labor unions elect almost every politician in CA.
Oh yeah! California can really afford this! Union demands......mandated solar panels on houses.....California is driving people away, Right AND Left.
If I had to listen to one or the other speak, I’d take Obama over Kamala anytime. She has not one shred of respect and doesn’t even pretend she does for anyone I’ve seen her interrogate at hearings.
I’ve also seen her in action and I agree.
Kameltoe Harris ! That’s a scream !
She’s a nasty one.
Is it morally right Kamela? You had a commitment. This strike is causing a lot of damage. Is it morally perfect...bitch.
Cultural Marxism meets a roadblock. Identity Politics needs some Bug B Gon®, not roadblocks.
Reminds me of the politician she replaced:
Sen. Barbara Boxer, California Democrat, gave an Army brigadier general an order this week during a committee hearing: Call me “senator.”
Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh of the Army Corps of Engineers had addressed male senators on the Environment and Public Works Committee as “sir” during the Tuesday hearing. When the time came to speak with Mrs. Boxer, the panel’s chairwoman, he called her “ma’am.”
Mrs. Boxer quickly interrupted him.
“Do me a favor, can you say ‘senator’ instead of ‘ma’am’?” Mrs. Boxer pointedly asked the general. “It’s just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title, so I’d appreciate it. Thank you.”
He obliged. “Yes, senator,” he dutifully responded.
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