South Bay

The IFPTE Local 21 Negotiating Team has been meeting with the City over Retiree Healthcare. In mid-December we received the first written proposal from the City.

We have just 3 weekends left to walk precincts to Hold Herrera Accountable. Absentee voters have just begun returning their ballots. Rose continues to spread her lies about how she's saved city services and continues to blame employees for the city's problems.  

View the New Rose Herrera TV Ad

She Flips and Flops and does what the Special Interests Command.  Please forward the "Jumper" TV commercial which begins airing on 11/2/12 to all those that want to Hold Herrera Accountable.

On October 4 the Committee for Safe San Jose Neighborhoods launched its TV advertisement campaign to Hold Herrera Accountable!

Rose Herrera does not respect you or the work you do for the residents of San Jose. Herrera wants to outsource your job and if re-elected, she will continue to make poor public policy decisions and continue her track record of deceit and dishonor. We need to educate the voters in District 8 about the Real Rose Herrera.

Local 21’s members in the City of San Jose overwhelmingly voted to adopt a Sick Leave Payout agreement, reached between the City and the Union on August 27. City Administration attempted to eliminate Sick Leave Payout for all current and future employees.

Months ago, NBC Bay Area News uncovered how San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed knowingly misrepresented city pension costs and used inflated figures to promote Measure B among local voters, which unlawfully cuts public employees’ benefits.