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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Harris hates white folk. She's made that inordinately clear in CA.
Not likely to happen. I'm predicting a long walkout.
I remember that. He should have told her to kiss his ass.
Shouldn't Jerry Brown replace them with illegal aliens who are willing to do the jobs Americans (or at least union workers) aren't?
She’s your next Democratic Presidential Candidate if we get to 2020 - considering the fragile state of this world hanging by threads.
“Harris is one bad piece of commie work. She would be as bad or worse than POSObana.”
You are right about that. She is Obama with a dress but even worse. Your POSObama would be replaced with DBHarris. I suspect you can decode that.
You’re right on and the code is great.
If hate speech were actually illegal, Kamala would have to be gagged 24/7 for her own protection!
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