By Tim Redmond : 48hills – excerpt
Board members furious that the Felton Institute refused to answer questions at a hearing on union-contract issues.
A social-service nonprofit that gets more than $20 million a year in public money from San Francisco is engaged in a union struggle—and has refused to discuss the situation with the Board of Supervisors.
SEIU Local 1021 is trying to organize workers at The Felton Institute, which provides a wide range of social and behavioral health services, and union members say they are facing resistance.
But when the supes Government Audit and Oversight Committee held a hearing on the issue last week, nobody from Felton was willing to answer questions…
“They do good work,” Melgar told me. “But they have to be fair to their workers. And the best way to make sure that happens is for all the workers to have a union.”…(more)
How can they be doing good work when they are ripping off their employees?