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A blue-state Democrat with a lifelong tendency against the spending his party was known for, the frugal Brown had the experience and political capital to challenge public employee unions who typically hold sway over Democratic politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is newer and younger, and won his office in part with strong union backing. In campaign statements, he pledged to unions that he will protect their pensions; in fact, state firefighters \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpf.org/go/cpf/political-action/firefighters-for-gavin/\">cited\u003c/a> Newsom’s commitment as one reason for giving the governor-elect their endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Democrats, who have been a majority for some time, also with strong backing overall from organized labor, only gained ground in the November election. As the Legislature convened on Monday, they had not just a supermajority but a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/a-deep-blue-sea-of-california-lawmakers-take-oath-of-office-today/\">“mega-majority”\u003c/a> in both chambers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those developments favor the priorities of public employee unions, as does the seemingly flush economy of the moment. California is projecting a $15 billion surplus this year, compared to a $27 billion deficit when Brown returned for his second stint in the governor’s office. The unemployment rate stood at 4.1 percent in October, compared to 12.1 percent when Brown was sworn in in January 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11710837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11710837 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Governor Jerry Brown announces his public employee pension reform plan October 27, 2011 at the State Capitol in Sacramento, California. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the Great Recession cratered state finances and the public gained awareness of generous retirement benefits, Brown was able to leverage those issues to successfully champion a package of changes from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2012/09/12/news17720/\">Public Employee Pension Reform Act of 2012\u003c/a> with tacit approval from labor leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Brown did not get \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-crisis-brown/\">key changes\u003c/a> needed to slow down the growth in retirement costs, the Legislature did agree to what the governor called the “biggest rollback to public pension benefits in the history of California.” Among other money-saving measures, Brown was able to raise the retirement age for new employees, ban retroactive pension increases, stop practices such as hoarding vacation and sick time to inflate calculations for retirement benefits, and ban the purchase of additional years of service, known as “airtime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple labor unions sued, arguing that Brown’s 2012 changes infringed on their employer’s contractual obligation to provide retirement benefits at the level that was promised on their first day of work. That premise—the California Rule—left state and local governments with little room for savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to Wednesday’s high court hearing, lower courts weighed in on the precedent with mixed messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11243683/a-case-study-on-pension-reform-san-joses-grand-compromise\">A Case Study on Pension Reform: San Jose’s Grand Compromise\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11243683/a-case-study-on-pension-reform-san-joses-grand-compromise\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS14834_iStock_000047219414_Large-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In a 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/revpub/A139610.PDF\">ruling\u003c/a> upholding a lower court’s decision, Justice James A. Richman of California’s First District Court of Appeal broke from decades of court decisions in finding the Legislature can alter pension formulas for current employees and reduce their anticipated retirement benefits. He wrote that a public employee has a right to a “reasonable” pension, not “the most optimal formula of calculating the pension.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But another appeals court came to a different conclusion about the “California rule” by deciding in favor of union employees in Alameda, Contra Costa and Merced counties. While the justices agreed there are limits to the California Rule, they said benefit adjustments require “compelling evidence” showing that the changes are necessary to the success of the pension system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court agreed to take up the issue and is first hearing the firefighters’ case over whether airtime is a vested right. While Adams, for the firefighters union, said he hopes the court will recognize that airtime is earned through service, Brown’s lawyers argue taking away the optional benefit doesn’t mean the employee gets less in pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s lawyers wrote in a brief that although airtime was thought to be cost neutral, employees could purchase fictional years of credit \u003ca href=\"http://majlabor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/PA-20171106-State-Answer-Brief-on-the-Merits-Air-Time-00042485xDC64Ax.pdf#page=10\">“often as much as 40 percent below the actual cost.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System is carrying $111 billion in unfunded liabilities and the California State Teachers Retirement System faces $76 billion in unfunded liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/41490.htm\">oral argument\u003c/a> in Los Angeles, the justices seemed to be searching for where to draw the line that would protect workers without giving them limitless retirement benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye questioned labor attorney Greg Adam about how airtime is protected by the state Constitution when the employee hasn’t performed the work to earn it. And Justice Goodwin Liu wondered aloud whether pension rights extend to life insurance, health insurance or a sabbatical leave that may be offered during employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681898/california-teacher-pension-debt-swamps-school-budgets\">California Teacher Pension Debt Swamps School Budgets\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11681898/california-teacher-pension-debt-swamps-school-budgets\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/Teachers-Pension_003-1280x800-1180x738.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Then Liu turned to Brown’s attorney, Rei Onishi, to ask if the state has a right to change benefit formulas midstream in a worker’s career, which strikes at the heart of the California rule. Onishi said yes, if it applies to prospective work. He reasoned that because a worker hasn’t earned the benefit, it’s not an impairment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That brought on questions from Justice Leondra Kruger about whether the Legislature could wipe away benefits for a class of existing state employees going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onishi responded that wouldn’t be likely because “other cases of this court have said you have a right to a substantial and reasonable pension as soon as you begin employment. I think completely terminating the system going forward, prospectively, would certainly raise questions about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the hearing focused on legalities, the realities of Democratic politics weren’t far from the courtroom. In an unusual move, the governor had his own attorneys argue the case rather than Attorney General Xavier Becerra—a choice that \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/27/editorial-brown-comes-to-taxpayers-defense-on-pensions/\">fueled speculation\u003c/a> that Brown hoped to shield the attorney general, a Democratic elected official, from union pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And prior to the hearing, the court dodged a thorny question about whether Brown’s most recent nominee to the bench could be impartial. Last month, Brown nominated long-time aide Joshua Groban, who would have provided him counsel on many legal matters. While it wasn’t known if Groban was involved in the case brought by the firefighters union, there was an open question about whether he would have to recuse himself—a question successfully sidelined when Groban’s confirmation hearing was set for Dec. 21, after this week’s arguments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11710882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11710882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1291\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939-1020x686.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-1058496338-e1544218878939-1200x807.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom speaks during election night event on November 6, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. \u003ccite>(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gov.-elect Newsom has said he would prefer to stay out of the courts to resolve pension disputes. When CALmatters asked him if the state should be allowed to renegotiate the future benefits of current workers, he suggested a legal fight wasn’t necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even with the California rule, we have the tools through collective bargaining to negotiate reforms and commensurate offsets,” \u003ca href=\"https://elections.calmatters.org/2018/statewide-postings/governor-of-california/\">Newsom said then\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The economy might change his mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Economists have been warning of an inevitable downturn; Wall Street losses translate to deficits here because of California’s reliance on capital gains taxes. That vulnerability, even more than politics, says Jack Pitney, professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, could force Newsom to confront pensions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite his reputation for being more progressive, the economic reality might end up forcing prudence,” Pitney said. “As he contemplates the governorship, he’s aware of the constraints. He’s a smart guy and he knows how difficult the pension situation is going to be in the years ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://calmatters.org\">CALmatters.org\u003c/a> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Six years ago, as California strained to emerge from the Great Recession, Gov. Jerry Brown worked a minor political miracle — a rebalancing of the massive state pension systems for public employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shuttling between unions and the strapped governments on the hook for public sector benefits and paychecks, Brown scaled back some of the rules and perks that have made public sector workers more secure, arguing that the pain would be worth it. Results were mixed: The largest benefit rollback in state history yielded some savings, but not enough to entirely fix a pension commitment that taxpayers are increasingly finding hard to manage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as Brown prepares to leave office — his own pension at hand, after five decades in public service — even that hard-won modicum of fiscal change could be loosened. In a case that went to oral arguments this week, the California Supreme Court is weighing a key legal precedent that could restore the generous pension formulas Brown worked so hard to tighten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11710843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11710843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1628\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577-160x136.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577-800x678.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577-1020x865.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/California-Supreme-Court-Justices-e1544215421577-1200x1018.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Supreme Court justices in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Judicial Council of California)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown, who at 80 has already surpassed the average retirement age of state workers by 22 years, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/california-retirement-pension-debt-explainer/#What-do-the-courts-say\">predicts\u003c/a> that he’ll win. But Wednesday’s proceedings made it clear that workers’ arguments are also compelling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the ruling, Brown’s successor, Gavin Newsom, will have to cope with the outcome. And — though the state’s unfunded liabilities persist, and economists warn another recession could be just around the corner — Newsom will face a very different political landscape. Should California land in another downturn, Brown’s pension reform miracle could be difficult, if not impossible, to repeat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case heard by the high court this week involves the California Rule, a legal precedent that requires the state to compensate public employees if their retirement benefits are lessened. In a \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/1-s239958-apps-pet-rev-020817.pdf\">challenge\u003c/a> brought by Cal Fire Local 2881, the firefighters union argues that the ability to purchase additional years of service credit toward retirement, known as “airtime,” is a pension benefit that employees rely on as part of their decision to go into public service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://e.infogram.com/_/eIcXwSdoRKljMPslJeSG?src=embed\" title=\"Social: Retirement Debt\" width=\"800\" height=\"790\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s attorneys \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/6-s239958-intervener-resp-state-ca-answer-brief-merits-110717.pdf\">counter\u003c/a> that airtime was never intended by the Legislature to be a vested right and never negotiated through collective bargaining. Therefore, the state can take it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone agrees that workers are entitled to the pensions they earn for work that’s already been done. And the argument might seem to be over a procedural technicality on the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the court sides with Brown, it could open the possibility of future governors and legislatures modifying current employees’ pensions for prospective work, and perhaps setting a new precedent in which already negotiated benefits are fair game. If the court sides with the union, it would bind the state’s finances and commit taxpayers to paying already expensive retirement benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703925/high-expectations-on-the-left-for-governor-elect-gavin-newsom\">High Expectations on the Left for Governor-Elect Gavin Newsom\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703925/high-expectations-on-the-left-for-governor-elect-gavin-newsom\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/NewsomElex-1180x785.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>On a larger scale, the case also could mark the end of a Brown-led era of fiscal reform in Sacramento. A blue-state Democrat with a lifelong tendency against the spending his party was known for, the frugal Brown had the experience and political capital to challenge public employee unions who typically hold sway over Democratic politicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom is newer and younger, and won his office in part with strong union backing. In campaign statements, he pledged to unions that he will protect their pensions; in fact, state firefighters \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpf.org/go/cpf/political-action/firefighters-for-gavin/\">cited\u003c/a> Newsom’s commitment as one reason for giving the governor-elect their endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Democrats, who have been a majority for some time, also with strong backing overall from organized labor, only gained ground in the November election. As the Legislature convened on Monday, they had not just a supermajority but a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/articles/blog/a-deep-blue-sea-of-california-lawmakers-take-oath-of-office-today/\">“mega-majority”\u003c/a> in both chambers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those developments favor the priorities of public employee unions, as does the seemingly flush economy of the moment. California is projecting a $15 billion surplus this year, compared to a $27 billion deficit when Brown returned for his second stint in the governor’s office. The unemployment rate stood at 4.1 percent in October, compared to 12.1 percent when Brown was sworn in in January 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11710837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11710837 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/GettyImages-130631114-e1544218303260-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Governor Jerry Brown announces his public employee pension reform plan October 27, 2011 at the State Capitol in Sacramento, California. \u003ccite>(Max Whittaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When the Great Recession cratered state finances and the public gained awareness of generous retirement benefits, Brown was able to leverage those issues to successfully champion a package of changes from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2012/09/12/news17720/\">Public Employee Pension Reform Act of 2012\u003c/a> with tacit approval from labor leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Brown did not get \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-crisis-brown/\">key changes\u003c/a> needed to slow down the growth in retirement costs, the Legislature did agree to what the governor called the “biggest rollback to public pension benefits in the history of California.” Among other money-saving measures, Brown was able to raise the retirement age for new employees, ban retroactive pension increases, stop practices such as hoarding vacation and sick time to inflate calculations for retirement benefits, and ban the purchase of additional years of service, known as “airtime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple labor unions sued, arguing that Brown’s 2012 changes infringed on their employer’s contractual obligation to provide retirement benefits at the level that was promised on their first day of work. That premise—the California Rule—left state and local governments with little room for savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to Wednesday’s high court hearing, lower courts weighed in on the precedent with mixed messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11243683/a-case-study-on-pension-reform-san-joses-grand-compromise\">A Case Study on Pension Reform: San Jose’s Grand Compromise\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11243683/a-case-study-on-pension-reform-san-joses-grand-compromise\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS14834_iStock_000047219414_Large-qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In a 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/revpub/A139610.PDF\">ruling\u003c/a> upholding a lower court’s decision, Justice James A. Richman of California’s First District Court of Appeal broke from decades of court decisions in finding the Legislature can alter pension formulas for current employees and reduce their anticipated retirement benefits. He wrote that a public employee has a right to a “reasonable” pension, not “the most optimal formula of calculating the pension.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But another appeals court came to a different conclusion about the “California rule” by deciding in favor of union employees in Alameda, Contra Costa and Merced counties. While the justices agreed there are limits to the California Rule, they said benefit adjustments require “compelling evidence” showing that the changes are necessary to the success of the pension system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court agreed to take up the issue and is first hearing the firefighters’ case over whether airtime is a vested right. 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Days before the supervisors' hearing, Marriott CEO \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702796/marriott-ceo-slams-hotel-workers-union-refuses-to-attend-s-f-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arne Sorenson criticized\u003c/a> Unite Here, claiming it was more interested in coordinating a national labor action than in settling local contract issues at the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walkouts by Unite Here in San Jose, Oakland and other cities around the country ended in recent weeks while the San Francisco picketing continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I attribute that to the fact that San Francisco enjoys one of the highest, richest standards in a contract of any other city in this country. 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Several workers hired to replace hotel employees, who walked off the job in San Francisco, filed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11708777/replacement-marriott-workers-say-they-werent-paid-file-wage-theft-claims\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wage theft claims\u003c/a> with the California Labor Commissioner's Office, alleging the company that hired them neglected to pay them thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike represents the largest hotel labor dispute in San Francisco since workers were locked out of more than a dozen hotels in 2004, part of a weeks-long conflict that at one point involved then-Mayor Gavin Newsom briefly joining a picket line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh said Unite Here Local 2 will now focus on setting strong contract language with other hotel companies in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Because Marriott is the largest employer, it was important to engage them first, for them to set a pattern,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the union's contracts for major hotels in San Francisco with companies like Hilton, Hyatt and the Intercontinental Hotel Group (IHG) have expired, according to Singh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The standard has been set. 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The union received \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11698707/san-francisco-mayor-jumps-into-marriott-hotel-labor-dispute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support from Mayor London Breed\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11698425/s-f-supervisors-back-hotel-strikers-mayor-still-mum?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=kqednews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several members\u003c/a> of the Board of Supervisors, which held a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703249/striking-hotel-workers-vent-during-special-board-meeting-at-san-francisco-city-hall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special meeting\u003c/a> in early November to hear the workers' stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed and Supervisor Hillary Ronen applauded the deal Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In this time of rising inequality, it is crucial that our workers are able to earn a fair wage that allows them to live and support their families in the increasingly expensive Bay Area,\" Breed said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This was a really important fight for the future of San Francisco and I'm delighted that the parties have reached a settlement,\" Ronen said in a text message through her spokeswoman, Carolyn Goossen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company said during the walkout that it was disappointed its workers chose to strike and emphasized that the seven hotels would keep operating. Days before the supervisors' hearing, Marriott CEO \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702796/marriott-ceo-slams-hotel-workers-union-refuses-to-attend-s-f-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arne Sorenson criticized\u003c/a> Unite Here, claiming it was more interested in coordinating a national labor action than in settling local contract issues at the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walkouts by Unite Here in San Jose, Oakland and other cities around the country ended in recent weeks while the San Francisco picketing continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I attribute that to the fact that San Francisco enjoys one of the highest, richest standards in a contract of any other city in this country. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n the west side of Fresno, there’s an empty lot near the train tracks where thousands of people are buried anonymously. There are no tombstones to mark the location of the graves, just strips of concrete with numbers stamped in them. It’s a potter’s field, a mass burial site for the remains of the abandoned and indigent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno County started burying people in mass graves in the late 1800s, when the city was founded. In September, the county sheriff’s office held a ceremony for nearly 800 people — the ones buried there most recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underneath gazebos erected by sheriffs deputies, funeral attendees sat in plastic white chairs set up on a stretch of AstroTurf. Behind the podium were two coffins wedged into freshly turned soil holding small stacked boxes of cremated ashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One by one, leaders of different faiths came up to a podium framed by flowers. Though their specific words varied, each conveyed roughly the same message: \"Everyone deserves a dignified burial.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the attendees knew the deceased. They were friends or old coworkers. Others were simply members of the public who'd come to pay their respects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Simpson and Skip Morgan, both donning leather motorcycle vests and dark shades, said they'd come to remember a man named Raymond Mata, who took his own life nearly six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Raymond was a young man with a lot of energy and a lot of thought for other people,” said Simpson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11708772\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34114_IMG_1910-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1078\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34114_IMG_1910-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34114_IMG_1910-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34114_IMG_1910-qut-800x449.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34114_IMG_1910-qut-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34114_IMG_1910-qut-1200x674.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Simpson and Skip Morgan at the potter's field in Fresno where their friend and former coworker Raymond Mata was buried. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Simpson is an iron worker, as was Mata. The two worked on tall buildings together, risking their lives side by side, and developed a close friendship. They also rode motorcycles together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A bunch of things kinda came down on him,” Simpson said of his friend. “[He was] unable to cope with it I guess, and we didn’t know his history in the past, that he had had situations like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever Raymond was battling, Simpson says, he kept it to himself. He was always laughing and making other people laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was one of the happiest guys you’ve ever met. He’s not somebody you forget” added Morgan, also an iron worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s what the whole point of living is, somebody remembers you, right?” Morgan said. “That you’ve made a good enough impression with other people that they remember you when you’re gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People can end up in a potter’s field — or common grave — for a variety of reasons. Some lose touch with loved ones, or are the oldest surviving member of their families. Others have families who can’t afford the hundreds of dollars it costs to collect ashes from the morgue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mata wasn’t homeless. He had a job and a family. He was even planning to get married.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MataFlowers-800x457.jpg\" alt=\"Raymond Mata's fiance at the time of his death, Vira Flores, and his friends Mike Simpson and Skip Morgan, stand next to the mass grave where Mata was buried in Fresno. Mata died in a suicide in 2013 and was buried on September 13, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"457\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11709450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MataFlowers-800x457.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MataFlowers-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MataFlowers-1020x583.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MataFlowers-1200x686.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MataFlowers.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raymond Mata's fiance at the time of his death, Vira Flores, and his friends Mike Simpson and Skip Morgan, stand next to the mass grave where Mata was buried in Fresno. Mata died in a suicide in 2013 and was buried on September 13, 2018. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leonard Pelagio, Mata's cousin, said he was loved. When they were kids, he taught Raymond how to break dance and took him to competitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden you come out with two little five-, six- or seven-year-olds doin’ head spins, like boom! Gotcha!\" Pelagio recalled, laughing. \"Every competition we were in, we took first place,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two kept in touch as adults, and Pelagio said he had started noticing some troubling signs, including indications that Mata had been hurting himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn't know about it until I saw his neck,” Pelagio said. “When I visited him one time I was like, 'Hey what's that on your neck?' He’s like, 'Nothin'.' I’m like, 'Nothin'? Don’t give me that nothing.' You know, he promised he would never do it again and I told him to reach out to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly afterwards, Mata hung himself with an electrical cord. He was 34.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his death, Mata's family had him cremated. But there was a huge fight over who had ownership of his remains, and members of his family stopped talking to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As next of kin, Raymond’s daughter was legally entitled to his ashes, but other members of his family said she never picked them up from the funeral home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The daughter didn't respond to requests for an interview for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were told in 30 days if nobody claimed Raymond’s ashes it was considered abandonment,” his mother, Diana Mata, said. “And then when we keep on trying — I have letters. I have emails — but we still couldn’t do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Mata died, the funeral home refused to release his ashes to his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mata's ashes are buried in a seemingly empty lot framed by railroad tracks, cinder blocks and barbed wire. There’s no grass. The podium, gazebos and chairs set up for the memorial service have all been removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Saturday morning, his mother, Diana, drove from her home in Los Angeles to visit her son's gravesite. Sitting in a folding chair, next to a photo of Mata in his iron workers vest and his motorcycle, Diana explained that she did not want her son to be buried here. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had never been abandoned, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was loved,” Diana Mata said. “I’m the one who gave birth to him. Even though he was 34, he was my baby.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she couldn’t get her son’s ashes, Mata held a service for him in Los Angeles, using just photos. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n the west side of Fresno, there’s an empty lot near the train tracks where thousands of people are buried anonymously. There are no tombstones to mark the location of the graves, just strips of concrete with numbers stamped in them. It’s a potter’s field, a mass burial site for the remains of the abandoned and indigent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno County started burying people in mass graves in the late 1800s, when the city was founded. In September, the county sheriff’s office held a ceremony for nearly 800 people — the ones buried there most recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underneath gazebos erected by sheriffs deputies, funeral attendees sat in plastic white chairs set up on a stretch of AstroTurf. 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Some lose touch with loved ones, or are the oldest surviving member of their families. Others have families who can’t afford the hundreds of dollars it costs to collect ashes from the morgue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mata wasn’t homeless. He had a job and a family. He was even planning to get married.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MataFlowers-800x457.jpg\" alt=\"Raymond Mata's fiance at the time of his death, Vira Flores, and his friends Mike Simpson and Skip Morgan, stand next to the mass grave where Mata was buried in Fresno. Mata died in a suicide in 2013 and was buried on September 13, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"457\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11709450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MataFlowers-800x457.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MataFlowers-160x91.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MataFlowers-1020x583.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MataFlowers-1200x686.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MataFlowers.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raymond Mata's fiance at the time of his death, Vira Flores, and his friends Mike Simpson and Skip Morgan, stand next to the mass grave where Mata was buried in Fresno. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]M[/dropcap]erced County sweet potato farmer Stan Silva hadn’t even heard the word “nutria” until a few months ago. He’s still never seen one, but he’s worried about the damage these 20-pound rodents with big orange buck teeth could do in California if they’re not eradicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be devastating,” Silva says. “They can basically ruin the ag industry here — they get in your fields, burrow into your canal ways, your waterways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can also tear up crops and levees, making the state’s water infrastructure more vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708871\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11708871\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron and Stan Silva at the packing plant for their family farm, Doreva Produce. Their family has been farming in Merced County for over 100 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron and Stan Silva at the packing plant for their family farm, Doreva Produce. Their family has been farming in Merced County for over 100 years. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nutria aren’t native to California, or the United States. Fur farmers brought the South American rodent to Southern California in the late 1800s as an attempt to make an affordable mink alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite multiple attempts, the nutria fur business never took off — but the rodents went feral. California’s Department of Food and Agriculture determined that they were eradicated in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last year, a few \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11649794/california-officials-set-up-invasive-swamp-rodent-hotline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were spotted again in Merced County\u003c/a>, and they’re multiplying. Nutria can have up to 200 babies a year. By this April, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife had to create a task force. Now, the rodents are on the move, north toward the San Joaquin Delta, California’s most important water source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re just a menace,” Silva says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is why, for the last few months, the Silva family has given away thousands of pounds of what they grow because what’s most at threat for the Silvas — their sweet potatoes — just happen to be unlikely weapons in the fight against the nutria scourge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708874\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11708874\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Silvas are one of a few farming families in Merced County giving away their produce to help fight an invasive pest. \u003ccite>(Angela Johnston/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stan Silva’s grandparents came to the Central Valley from the Azores and Lisbon, Portugal, in the early 1900s, and started farming on small plots. Now, the \u003ca href=\"http://dorevaproduce.com/\">Silva family farm\u003c/a> grows sweet potatoes on 850 acres and supplies the largest retailers in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We dump ‘em in our wash tank here, they continue on through the conveyor, through the heater, and the ladies on the other end are sorting and packing to go to market,” Stan Silva says as he walks around the packing facility with his son and grandson — three generations of farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the back is a huge gyro machine, which processes 30 bags of sweet potatoes in a minute. Grandson Rueger Silva is in charge of its operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11708881\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweet potatoes at the Silva farm make their way to the cleaning tank. \u003ccite>(Angela Johnston/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m only 18, but my dad had a heart attack so I had to come back and help with everything,” he says as he darts around the machine, pressing buttons and checking the conveyor belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late summer, 44-year-old Aaron Silva had a massive heart attack that left him hospitalized for a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Rueger] left college to come back to help on the ranch until his father gets further along here,” Stan Silva says proudly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron Silva is still recovering from a brain injury that was a side effect of the heart attack. He says he’s having to relearn longtime customers’ names and faces. But, he says, he didn’t lose any memory of the process of farming and packing sweet potatoes. Farming is in his blood, and he doesn’t want anything to threaten it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 20 miles from the packing plant, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/\">Department of Fish and Wildlife\u003c/a> biologist Sean McCain is spying on some nutria making nests in a marsh full of tule reeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11708876\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean McCain, from California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife, points out nutria habitat. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think they know we’re here yet,” he whispers as he sneaks up to the edge of the marsh. He points out a few of the rodents, which look like a cross between rats and beavers, with scaly tails, webbed feet and big orange bucked teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCain first saw a family of nutria here two weeks ago, and since then he’s been coming back to this spot almost every day to check on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been watching the vegetation recede away from the middle of the pond,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nutria can eat up to 25 percent of their body weight in one day. They munch on the roots of green duckweeds, cattails and tule reeds. If they clear-cut an entire marsh like this one, they put all the birds and frogs and other species that depend on it at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nutria problem is potentially so big that the Department of Fish and Wildlife is pulling staff from all over the state for on-the-ground training.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11649829/swamp-creatures\">Swamp Creatures\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11649829/swamp-creatures\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/calnutria_021318_final-1180x1180.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At another pond, the team hasn’t seen any nutria in the flesh, so they’re setting up a wildlife camera to see if they can capture them on tape, and creating a feeding platform within the camera’s range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They wade into chest-deep water, yank reeds out of the marsh to make a little nest, and put bait on a wooden platform: bright orange slices of sweet potato to lure the rodents. It turns out, nutria love its color and taste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCain does this kind of work all day long: trying to get eyes on nutria, assessing their habitat and checking cameras to determine the right place for traps. When we get back to the car, he plugs an SD card from one of the wildlife cameras into his laptop and we watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There we go,” he says as a big family of nutria sneak onto the screen. “Those are adult nutria, and that one just stole our sweet potato.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the team has confirmed a big family of nutria in this swamp, they’ll send in trappers, who will set traps all over the area to start to eradicate this population one by one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11708867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has captured just over 330 nutria so far.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has captured just over 330 nutria so far. \u003ccite>(Angela Johnston/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s part of a larger plan taking place at the Nutria Incident Command Center at an old hunting check station near Los Banos, California. Greg Gerstenberg holds down the fort here as the Incident Command chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the deep freeze out back, Gerstenberg rummages around for frozen nutria. He pulls out nutria heads and bottles of their urine — helpful for trapping. They’re keeping these for training, and they give some to other departments for taxidermy and display in their offices, in case a farmer wanted to come and see what one looked like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also looking at how other states have dealt with the problem. Louisiana is offering a bounty to hunters to counter their out-of-control nutria problem. Gerstenberg is modeling California’s efforts on Chesapeake Bay’s, where they successfully eradicated nutria.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660045/californias-lost-wetlands-reborn-thanks-to-central-valley-rice-farms\">California’s Lost Wetlands Get Help From Sacramento Valley Rice Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660045/californias-lost-wetlands-reborn-thanks-to-central-valley-rice-farms\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeeseOnRice-1180x770.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>On the walls of the command center, huge maps of the Central Valley and San Joaquin Delta are covered with pink, yellow and blue dots showing where nutria have been spotted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerstenberg says, after capturing nutria on camera in the southern Delta, Fish and Wildlife will pull their resources from Merced County and create a sort of fire line just north of this sighting, limiting and pushing the nutria out before they start to multiply in the Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has trapped over 330 nutria since April. Gerstenberg says he hopes they’re not in the thousands, but he has no way to confirm or estimate the nutria’s number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to remove them quicker than they’re reproducing,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story first aired on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/programs/crosscurrents#stream/0\">KALW’s Crosscurrents\u003c/a>. It was produced in collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"https://thefern.org/\">Food & Environment Reporting Network\u003c/a>, a nonprofit investigative news organization.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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He’s still never seen one, but he’s worried about the damage these 20-pound rodents with big orange buck teeth could do in California if they’re not eradicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be devastating,” Silva says. “They can basically ruin the ag industry here — they get in your fields, burrow into your canal ways, your waterways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can also tear up crops and levees, making the state’s water infrastructure more vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708871\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11708871\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aaron and Stan Silva at the packing plant for their family farm, Doreva Produce. Their family has been farming in Merced County for over 100 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34234_Aaron-and-Stan-Silva-at-the-packing-plant-for-their-family-farm-Doreva-Produce.-Their-familys-been-farming-in-Merced-County-for-over-100-years.-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron and Stan Silva at the packing plant for their family farm, Doreva Produce. Their family has been farming in Merced County for over 100 years. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nutria aren’t native to California, or the United States. Fur farmers brought the South American rodent to Southern California in the late 1800s as an attempt to make an affordable mink alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite multiple attempts, the nutria fur business never took off — but the rodents went feral. California’s Department of Food and Agriculture determined that they were eradicated in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But last year, a few \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11649794/california-officials-set-up-invasive-swamp-rodent-hotline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were spotted again in Merced County\u003c/a>, and they’re multiplying. Nutria can have up to 200 babies a year. By this April, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife had to create a task force. Now, the rodents are on the move, north toward the San Joaquin Delta, California’s most important water source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re just a menace,” Silva says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is why, for the last few months, the Silva family has given away thousands of pounds of what they grow because what’s most at threat for the Silvas — their sweet potatoes — just happen to be unlikely weapons in the fight against the nutria scourge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708874\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11708874\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34239_The-Silvas-are-one-of-a-few-farming-families-in-Merced-County-giving-away-their-produce-to-help-fight-an-invasive-pest-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Silvas are one of a few farming families in Merced County giving away their produce to help fight an invasive pest. \u003ccite>(Angela Johnston/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stan Silva’s grandparents came to the Central Valley from the Azores and Lisbon, Portugal, in the early 1900s, and started farming on small plots. Now, the \u003ca href=\"http://dorevaproduce.com/\">Silva family farm\u003c/a> grows sweet potatoes on 850 acres and supplies the largest retailers in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We dump ‘em in our wash tank here, they continue on through the conveyor, through the heater, and the ladies on the other end are sorting and packing to go to market,” Stan Silva says as he walks around the packing facility with his son and grandson — three generations of farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the back is a huge gyro machine, which processes 30 bags of sweet potatoes in a minute. Grandson Rueger Silva is in charge of its operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11708881\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34237_Sweet-potatoes-at-the-Silva-farm-make-their-way-to-the-cleaning-tank-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweet potatoes at the Silva farm make their way to the cleaning tank. \u003ccite>(Angela Johnston/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m only 18, but my dad had a heart attack so I had to come back and help with everything,” he says as he darts around the machine, pressing buttons and checking the conveyor belt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late summer, 44-year-old Aaron Silva had a massive heart attack that left him hospitalized for a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Rueger] left college to come back to help on the ranch until his father gets further along here,” Stan Silva says proudly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aaron Silva is still recovering from a brain injury that was a side effect of the heart attack. He says he’s having to relearn longtime customers’ names and faces. But, he says, he didn’t lose any memory of the process of farming and packing sweet potatoes. Farming is in his blood, and he doesn’t want anything to threaten it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 20 miles from the packing plant, \u003ca href=\"https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/\">Department of Fish and Wildlife\u003c/a> biologist Sean McCain is spying on some nutria making nests in a marsh full of tule reeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11708876\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34235_Sean-McCain-from-Californias-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-points-out-nutria-habitat.-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sean McCain, from California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife, points out nutria habitat. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think they know we’re here yet,” he whispers as he sneaks up to the edge of the marsh. He points out a few of the rodents, which look like a cross between rats and beavers, with scaly tails, webbed feet and big orange bucked teeth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCain first saw a family of nutria here two weeks ago, and since then he’s been coming back to this spot almost every day to check on them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been watching the vegetation recede away from the middle of the pond,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nutria can eat up to 25 percent of their body weight in one day. They munch on the roots of green duckweeds, cattails and tule reeds. If they clear-cut an entire marsh like this one, they put all the birds and frogs and other species that depend on it at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nutria problem is potentially so big that the Department of Fish and Wildlife is pulling staff from all over the state for on-the-ground training.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11649829/swamp-creatures\">Swamp Creatures\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11649829/swamp-creatures\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/calnutria_021318_final-1180x1180.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>At another pond, the team hasn’t seen any nutria in the flesh, so they’re setting up a wildlife camera to see if they can capture them on tape, and creating a feeding platform within the camera’s range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They wade into chest-deep water, yank reeds out of the marsh to make a little nest, and put bait on a wooden platform: bright orange slices of sweet potato to lure the rodents. It turns out, nutria love its color and taste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCain does this kind of work all day long: trying to get eyes on nutria, assessing their habitat and checking cameras to determine the right place for traps. When we get back to the car, he plugs an SD card from one of the wildlife cameras into his laptop and we watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There we go,” he says as a big family of nutria sneak onto the screen. “Those are adult nutria, and that one just stole our sweet potato.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that the team has confirmed a big family of nutria in this swamp, they’ll send in trappers, who will set traps all over the area to start to eradicate this population one by one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708867\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11708867\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has captured just over 330 nutria so far.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34236_California-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlifes-Greg-Gerstenberg-shows-off-a-frozen-nutria-head.-Theyve-captured-just-over-330-of-the-invasive-species-so-far..-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has captured just over 330 nutria so far. \u003ccite>(Angela Johnston/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It’s part of a larger plan taking place at the Nutria Incident Command Center at an old hunting check station near Los Banos, California. Greg Gerstenberg holds down the fort here as the Incident Command chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the deep freeze out back, Gerstenberg rummages around for frozen nutria. He pulls out nutria heads and bottles of their urine — helpful for trapping. They’re keeping these for training, and they give some to other departments for taxidermy and display in their offices, in case a farmer wanted to come and see what one looked like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re also looking at how other states have dealt with the problem. Louisiana is offering a bounty to hunters to counter their out-of-control nutria problem. Gerstenberg is modeling California’s efforts on Chesapeake Bay’s, where they successfully eradicated nutria.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660045/californias-lost-wetlands-reborn-thanks-to-central-valley-rice-farms\">California’s Lost Wetlands Get Help From Sacramento Valley Rice Farms\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11660045/californias-lost-wetlands-reborn-thanks-to-central-valley-rice-farms\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/SnowGeeseOnRice-1180x770.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>On the walls of the command center, huge maps of the Central Valley and San Joaquin Delta are covered with pink, yellow and blue dots showing where nutria have been spotted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gerstenberg says, after capturing nutria on camera in the southern Delta, Fish and Wildlife will pull their resources from Merced County and create a sort of fire line just north of this sighting, limiting and pushing the nutria out before they start to multiply in the Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has trapped over 330 nutria since April. Gerstenberg says he hopes they’re not in the thousands, but he has no way to confirm or estimate the nutria’s number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to remove them quicker than they’re reproducing,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>A version of this story first aired on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kalw.org/programs/crosscurrents#stream/0\">KALW’s Crosscurrents\u003c/a>. It was produced in collaboration with the \u003ca href=\"https://thefern.org/\">Food & Environment Reporting Network\u003c/a>, a nonprofit investigative news organization.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Three housekeepers contracted to replace San Francisco Marriott workers who’ve been on strike for close to two months have told state regulators the company that hired them has neglected to pay them thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The replacement workers have filed claims with the California Labor Commissioner’s office against the Hayward based firm Environmental Service Partners (ESP), alleging that in October the company withheld close to $13,000 in wages and overtime, among other benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Replacement workers are especially vulnerable to workplace abuses,” said Katherine Fiester, a staff attorney at the San Francisco-based Legal Aid at Work, who is not representing the employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The janitorial industry is rampant with wage theft,” Fiester added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 4, more than 2,000 workers represented by Unite Here Local 2 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11698130/san-francisco-marriott-hotel-strike-far-from-resolution\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">walked off the job\u003c/a> at seven Marriott hotels in San Francisco, calling for better wages and job protections, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several similar Unite Here strikes also took place in San Jose, Oakland and several other cities around the country. 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For the last year he’s noticed more folks out walking dogs, and said he can spot one of the “app” dog walkers from a mile way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see them walking around the block with their cell phones, taking video of their leash walk around the block,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11709044 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Truck-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Truck-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Truck-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Truck-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Truck-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Truck-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peacock posing with one of his four-legged customers next to his cattle-themed rig. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both Wag! and Rover run the typical gig model. 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He also assigns each dog an individual theme song.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peacock considers his operation to be entirely different from the services offered by the apps. But a few years ago — after marrying another dog walker with a business degree — he said the couple did try to grow their business using a similar contract worker model.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We were the kind of business America supposedly wants, husband-and-wife.'\u003ccite>Bill Peacock, longtime independent dog walker\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“We sort of exploded,” Peacock says, “We had six vehicles with steer horns on the roof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It went well, Peacock said, until some of his workers demanded to become employees instead of contractors, and become eligible to receive paid overtime and paid breaks, as well as protections like workers compensation. 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