We examine worker safety, workplace regulation, employment trends and union organizing.
Dublin Teachers Set to Strike as District Negotiations Stall
Hospital Security Debate Swirls After San Francisco Social Worker Stabbing
Advocates Worry California Immigrant Truckers Still Face Uncertainty After License Debacle
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie Looks to Eliminate 500 City Jobs
SFUSD Teachers Union Overwhelmingly Approves Contract Deal
Oakland Schools, Teachers Union Reach Deal, Avert Strike
Judge Says California Must Allow 20,000 Immigrant Drivers to Reapply for Commercial Licenses
San Francisco Court Clerks Launch Strike Over Staffing and Criminal Case Backlogs
Alameda County Officials Look to Stave Off Mass Hospital Layoffs as Medicaid Cuts Loom
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So far, they’ve been unable to agree on proposed wage hikes, increased health care benefit coverage and class size reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other school districts across the Bay Area, Dublin Unified has maintained that it doesn’t have the money to fund the union’s proposals, which would cost an estimated $14.2 million. The district said in a statement on its website that it has operated in budget deficits over the last three years, depleting its reserve fund, and will have to make millions more in budget cuts this year to pay its bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the union declared an impasse and entered mediation. 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It also recommended that the district begin to cover the full price of employees’ healthcare premiums by 2028, and up its contributions for those with spouses or dependents on their benefit plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district remains committed to reaching a fair and responsible agreement that supports educators while maintaining the fiscal stability necessary to sustain strong programs for Dublin Unified students,” it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the union has not agreed to the settlement’s terms, calling its proposed wage hike “meager.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dublin teachers are among the highest paid in the Bay Area, according to the report’s findings, but the union said the district’s raises have fallen behind California’s cost-of-living allowance in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dobrzenski said educators haven’t gotten pay raises for the last two years. 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Three of the four districts where the majority of Dublin employees live already fully cover the cost of their educators’ benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other surrounding districts where teachers have recently gone on strike, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074913/sfusd-teachers-union-overwhelmingly-approves-contract-deal\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066588/west-contra-costa-teachers-agree-to-end-strike-and-return-to-class-after-a-week\"> West Contra Costa\u003c/a>, educators have won paid coverage for their full families. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074794/oakland-schools-teachers-union-reach-deal-avert-strike\">Oakland’s\u003c/a> school district also pays for educators’ and their families’ health plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union agreed to the fact-finding report’s proposed benefits agreement, which would increase contributions for health plans, including spouses and dependents, but not fully cover those costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Class sizes are another major sticking point. The union is asking for classrooms to be capped at 20 students across elementary school classrooms, with high schools’ class sizes reduced to match middle school levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal the district has agreed to would create a committee to look at funding options to meet that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike threat comes at a turbulent time in Dublin’s school system. While it’s one of few districts across the state seeing rising enrollment and, in recent years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dublinusd.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=443607&type=d&termREC_ID=&pREC_ID=1002191#:~:text=Overview,on%20the%20revised%20school%20boundaries.\">opening new schools\u003c/a> to accommodate more students, it’s also facing budget challenges and major leadership changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a December message to the district community, Funk announced a $3.6 million budgeting error — adding to an existing budget shortfall. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Dublin teachers are set to strike next week, joining a growing wave of California educators\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074650/2026-oakland-teachers-strike-ousd-when-oea-union-alameda-county\"> taking to picket lines in recent months.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay school district’s teacher union announced Thursday that its 700 members would strike beginning Monday morning if they aren’t able to reach a labor agreement with Dublin Unified School District before then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s time for Dublin Unified to reprioritize the budget, support Dublin kids and start putting our students at the center of every financial decision they make,” Dublin Teachers Association President Brad Dobrzenski said in a statement announcing the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dobrzenski said that if Superintendent Chris Funk and the school board “won’t commit to the best for Dublin students,” the union is prepared to strike until Dublin Unified provides the resources all Dublin students deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and school district have been locked in contract negotiations for months after their previous deal expired last summer. So far, they’ve been unable to agree on proposed wage hikes, increased health care benefit coverage and class size reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other school districts across the Bay Area, Dublin Unified has maintained that it doesn’t have the money to fund the union’s proposals, which would cost an estimated $14.2 million. The district said in a statement on its website that it has operated in budget deficits over the last three years, depleting its reserve fund, and will have to make millions more in budget cuts this year to pay its bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the union declared an impasse and entered mediation. In January, it moved into the final step of the process, known as fact-finding, when a panel with representatives for the district, union and a neutral chair hears arguments from both parties and issues a non-binding settlement recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075645\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075645\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-DublinTeachersStrike-08-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-DublinTeachersStrike-08-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-DublinTeachersStrike-08-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-DublinTeachersStrike-08-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dublin High School in Dublin on March 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hours after that settlement proposal was released on Thursday, the union announced its plan to strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said it would support the panel’s recommendation, which proposed a 2% wage increase and one-time payment equivalent to 1% of salaries this year, and the opportunity to reopen negotiations on raises ahead of the 2026-27 academic year. It also recommended that the district begin to cover the full price of employees’ healthcare premiums by 2028, and up its contributions for those with spouses or dependents on their benefit plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The district remains committed to reaching a fair and responsible agreement that supports educators while maintaining the fiscal stability necessary to sustain strong programs for Dublin Unified students,” it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the union has not agreed to the settlement’s terms, calling its proposed wage hike “meager.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dublin teachers are among the highest paid in the Bay Area, according to the report’s findings, but the union said the district’s raises have fallen behind California’s cost-of-living allowance in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dobrzenski said educators haven’t gotten pay raises for the last two years. The union is demanding a 3.5% increase, along with one-time payments equivalent to 3% of educators’ current salaries.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We want to make sure that we’re retaining the best educators,” he told KQED. We don’t want our teachers to be priced out of being able to teach, and we want to recruit some new amazing educators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, though its wages are significantly above average compared to similar neighboring districts, according to the report, DUSD doesn’t match many of their healthcare contributions. Three of the four districts where the majority of Dublin employees live already fully cover the cost of their educators’ benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other surrounding districts where teachers have recently gone on strike, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074913/sfusd-teachers-union-overwhelmingly-approves-contract-deal\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066588/west-contra-costa-teachers-agree-to-end-strike-and-return-to-class-after-a-week\"> West Contra Costa\u003c/a>, educators have won paid coverage for their full families. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074794/oakland-schools-teachers-union-reach-deal-avert-strike\">Oakland’s\u003c/a> school district also pays for educators’ and their families’ health plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union agreed to the fact-finding report’s proposed benefits agreement, which would increase contributions for health plans, including spouses and dependents, but not fully cover those costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Class sizes are another major sticking point. The union is asking for classrooms to be capped at 20 students across elementary school classrooms, with high schools’ class sizes reduced to match middle school levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal the district has agreed to would create a committee to look at funding options to meet that goal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike threat comes at a turbulent time in Dublin’s school system. While it’s one of few districts across the state seeing rising enrollment and, in recent years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dublinusd.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=443607&type=d&termREC_ID=&pREC_ID=1002191#:~:text=Overview,on%20the%20revised%20school%20boundaries.\">opening new schools\u003c/a> to accommodate more students, it’s also facing budget challenges and major leadership changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a December message to the district community, Funk announced a $3.6 million budgeting error — adding to an existing budget shortfall. The district now needs to cut $8.6 million in ongoing expenses, Funk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075644\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075644\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-DublinTeachersStrike-03-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-DublinTeachersStrike-03-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-DublinTeachersStrike-03-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260306-DublinTeachersStrike-03-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dublin High School in Dublin on March 6, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The following week, the superintendent announced that he would retire at the end of the year. In January, the teachers union overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence in Funk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dobrzenski said the union has tried to work with the district to “reprioritize” its budget, including considering early retirement incentives — similar to those employed by Oakland and San Francisco — and implementing independent study for absent students to recoup funding based on attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to offer solutions,” he told KQED. “We’re ready to work for our kids, and our management team just doesn’t seem to have that same alignment in values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The parties are set to resume bargaining Friday afternoon, and Dobrzenski said the union’s negotiators are willing to continue through the weekend to avert a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the work stoppage does go forward, the district said campuses will be open Monday, though many will have modified half-day schedules. Operations would be uncertain“as we settle into a temporary, dynamic routine,” DUSD said on its website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breakfast and lunch will be served, and students will be supervised, the district added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to strike, we want to be with our students,” Dobrzenski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he said, if they can’t reach an agreement before Monday morning, “our educators will be out picketing to demand that our district invests in our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/lsarah\">\u003cem>Lakshmi Sarah\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Standing in the lobby of the University of California, San Francisco, administration offices on Thursday, Alejandro Alvarez was struck by the line of six security officers preventing him and other social workers from going upstairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s five more than we had,” said Alvarez, one of dozens of UCSF social workers who flooded the lobby during their lunch break in an attempt to meet with Chancellor Sam Hawgood and demand changes to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068599/salt-to-a-wound-social-workers-still-reeling-in-aftermath-of-ward-86-stabbing\">safety protocols at San Francisco General Hospital\u003c/a> and other facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally occurred nearly three months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066248/stabbing-at-san-francisco-general-hospital-leaves-social-worker-in-critical-condition\">a patient fatally stabbed their colleague\u003c/a>, Alberto Rangel, at the city’s historic HIV/AIDS clinic, Ward 86 at SF General, last December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff issued warnings in the weeks leading up to his death about the alleged killer, Wilfredo Tortolero-Arriechi, who they said had threatened violence toward a doctor before Rangel stepped in to try to calm him down and was attacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Department of Public Health oversees SF General alongside UCSF. Union representatives say they’ve met with Public Health Director Daniel Tsai and Mayor Daniel Lurie in the weeks and months since Rangel’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075559\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075559\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_019-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_019-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_019-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_019-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A supporter holds a sign reading “Protect Our Workers” during a rally outside UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay in San Francisco on March 5, 2026, where union members gathered to demand stronger protections for health care workers following the fatal stabbing of social worker Alberto Rangel. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But they’ve yet to have a direct sit-down with UCSF leadership, and their frustration is boiling over. Some staff have yet to return to work because they’re experiencing the same post-traumatic stress symptoms they’re used to diagnosing and treating in their patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alberto’s blood is on their hands!” yelled one social worker to the UCSF labor and employee relations official who came downstairs to take the letter with their safety demands. “He was killed at work!” another cried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The months following Rangel’s tragic death have been heavy with loss and fear of danger in the workplace.[aside postID=news_12068599 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251230-SFSocialWorker-19-BL.jpg']Findings from a recent survey conducted by the union representing UCSF social workers say that the vast majority of workers have directly experienced or witnessed violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 90% reported having experienced physical, sexual or verbal threats, assault or intimidation on the job, according to the survey. Around 20% of social workers said they have been violently assaulted on the job, and 50% of respondents said they have been sexually assaulted or harassed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the survey results, UCSF issued a statement saying, “We have not independently reviewed the underlying data or methodology. We are interested in learning more about the information generated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a criminal investigation into the stabbing is still ongoing, UCSF and the Department of Public Health have implemented several changes on site at Ward 86, which opened in 1983 and today serves many low-income patients with dual diagnoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve created a 24/7 threat management team to triage and respond to non-emergency safety concerns, added panic buttons at some sites, and updated their security training plans and developed new threat-escalation protocols for staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075556\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_013-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_013-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_013-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_013-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tia Blackburn, a clinical social worker of four years, addresses workers and supporters during a rally outside UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay in San Francisco on March 5, 2026, calling for stronger workplace safety protections following the fatal stabbing of social worker Alberto Rangel. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city said it has also increased security staffing at Ward 86 and other sites, an issue many social workers said has been top of mind since before the December incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to the stabbing, SF General had reduced staffing of sheriff’s deputies from 45 in 2022 to 28 at the end of 2025, according to Ken Lomba, president of the San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs’ Association. Multiple workers and a patient told KQED that Ward 86 did not have any metal detectors on-site either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As additional safety measures have been added to Ward 86, social workers at other clinics said on Thursday that they’re still waiting for the same kind of response where they work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just heard today that any changes needed to our clinic, be that like metal detectors or more panic buttons, could take over a year, so that’s frustrating to hear,” said Nicole Morris, a clinical social worker on the CityWide stabilization team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066544\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251209-SFGENERALMEMORIAL-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251209-SFGENERALMEMORIAL-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251209-SFGENERALMEMORIAL-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251209-SFGENERALMEMORIAL-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A memorial for social worker Alberto Rangel, who was fatally stabbed on Dec. 4 at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, outside the hospital on Dec. 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But part of the low security is by design. SF General and Ward 86 often care for patients that other hospitals and clinics may refuse, whether that’s due to lack of insurance or the complexity and challenge of the medical and behavioral needs they present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So too much security or barriers to entry could cause vulnerable patients to avoid care altogether, patient advocates say. Adding too much police presence or security measures has become a point of friction, even in an industry that’s known for having the highest rate of non-fatal injuries, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very challenging industry to work in. You have risk factors, you are dealing with a public that’s sick, hurting, in pain, all of the above, trying to get access to care,” said Cammie Chaumont Menendez, a research epidemiologist with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.[aside postID=news_12066395 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/San-Francisco-General-Hospital-Getty.jpg']“It might be alarming for patients who are seeking care to go to a hospital that has metal detectors everywhere. Because health care is based in large part on skill, but also on trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarez, who stepped in to pull the patient off of Rangel during the stabbing, said his safety concerns have been made worse by a warped public narrative of the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was the individual who physically intervened in an attempt to stop the attack. A sheriff’s deputy who was present on the unit and assigned to provide safety support did not immediately intervene and was prompted by staff before taking action,” Alvarez said at Thursday’s rally. “When staff have to guide the sheriff to a life-threatening moment, that tells us something in the system is not working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some patients say they feel safer with the added security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Adams, a longtime Ward 86 patient, was in the clinic on the day Rangel was attacked. He is seeing a therapist but still struggling with nightmares from the event. But he’s seen the gradual security enhancements at his doctor’s office and said that’s made it easier for him to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_016-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_016-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_016-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_016-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton speaks to workers and union members gathered outside UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay in San Francisco on March 5, 2026, during a rally demanding stronger safety protections for employees following the killing of social worker Alberto Rangel. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s now a locker system outside of the entrance where people can leave their personal items with no questions asked before passing through a metal detector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel a lot more comfortable about the safety of the building itself,” Adams said. “But the safety risk factor has always been there because of who the clientele is here. A lot of folks are at the lowest economic level, coming off of the streets or maybe under the influence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with more adequate security, social workers are asking for the hospital to beef up its behavioral health workforce, lower case loads and boost pay for their line of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve appreciated meeting with the mayor and the public health director, but the staffing funds come specifically from UCSF. They have not increased any staffing. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Findings from a recent survey conducted by the union representing UCSF social workers say that the vast majority of workers have directly experienced or witnessed violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 90% reported having experienced physical, sexual or verbal threats, assault or intimidation on the job, according to the survey. Around 20% of social workers said they have been violently assaulted on the job, and 50% of respondents said they have been sexually assaulted or harassed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the survey results, UCSF issued a statement saying, “We have not independently reviewed the underlying data or methodology. We are interested in learning more about the information generated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a criminal investigation into the stabbing is still ongoing, UCSF and the Department of Public Health have implemented several changes on site at Ward 86, which opened in 1983 and today serves many low-income patients with dual diagnoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve created a 24/7 threat management team to triage and respond to non-emergency safety concerns, added panic buttons at some sites, and updated their security training plans and developed new threat-escalation protocols for staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075556\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_013-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_013-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_013-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_013-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tia Blackburn, a clinical social worker of four years, addresses workers and supporters during a rally outside UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay in San Francisco on March 5, 2026, calling for stronger workplace safety protections following the fatal stabbing of social worker Alberto Rangel. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city said it has also increased security staffing at Ward 86 and other sites, an issue many social workers said has been top of mind since before the December incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to the stabbing, SF General had reduced staffing of sheriff’s deputies from 45 in 2022 to 28 at the end of 2025, according to Ken Lomba, president of the San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs’ Association. 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SF General and Ward 86 often care for patients that other hospitals and clinics may refuse, whether that’s due to lack of insurance or the complexity and challenge of the medical and behavioral needs they present.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So too much security or barriers to entry could cause vulnerable patients to avoid care altogether, patient advocates say. Adding too much police presence or security measures has become a point of friction, even in an industry that’s known for having the highest rate of non-fatal injuries, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a very challenging industry to work in. You have risk factors, you are dealing with a public that’s sick, hurting, in pain, all of the above, trying to get access to care,” said Cammie Chaumont Menendez, a research epidemiologist with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It might be alarming for patients who are seeking care to go to a hospital that has metal detectors everywhere. Because health care is based in large part on skill, but also on trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarez, who stepped in to pull the patient off of Rangel during the stabbing, said his safety concerns have been made worse by a warped public narrative of the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was the individual who physically intervened in an attempt to stop the attack. A sheriff’s deputy who was present on the unit and assigned to provide safety support did not immediately intervene and was prompted by staff before taking action,” Alvarez said at Thursday’s rally. “When staff have to guide the sheriff to a life-threatening moment, that tells us something in the system is not working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, some patients say they feel safer with the added security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Adams, a longtime Ward 86 patient, was in the clinic on the day Rangel was attacked. He is seeing a therapist but still struggling with nightmares from the event. But he’s seen the gradual security enhancements at his doctor’s office and said that’s made it easier for him to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075557\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075557\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_016-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_016-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_016-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_016-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Shamann Walton speaks to workers and union members gathered outside UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay in San Francisco on March 5, 2026, during a rally demanding stronger safety protections for employees following the killing of social worker Alberto Rangel. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s now a locker system outside of the entrance where people can leave their personal items with no questions asked before passing through a metal detector.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel a lot more comfortable about the safety of the building itself,” Adams said. “But the safety risk factor has always been there because of who the clientele is here. 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And they haven’t added any resources that we need to also implement the changes and the protocols that have been enacted,” said Julia Pascoe, a Ward 86 social worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 71% of those surveyed said they considered leaving their positions at UCSF due to safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075560\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075560\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_024-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_024-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_024-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/030526_-SOCIAL-WORKER-SAFETY-_GH_024-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dozens of union members and supporters gather inside UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay in San Francisco on March 5, 2026, demanding stronger safety protections for employees following the fatal stabbing of social worker Alberto Rangel. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response to funding and staffing demands, UCSF officials said the union and university recently reached a labor agreement that includes compensation terms. “Any additional compensation proposals must be addressed through the systemwide bargaining process,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pascoe, Alvarez and other social workers say they still don’t feel ready to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Going back without adding even more resources to implement the changes feels “even less safe than it was before,” Pascoe said. “And it was incredibly unsafe before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Departments are now required to send in new staffing cut proposals to the mayor’s budget office by March 12.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s second year in office has coincided with another year of tough budget decisions. Last year, the mayor proposed cutting around 1,400 jobs, but the vast majority of those were vacant positions. About 100 filled positions were cut in last year’s budget; however, the city also moved to end about $100 million in grants and other funding from the city’s budget to narrow the budget gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058872\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058872\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-23-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-23-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-23-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/230808-SanFranciscoCityHall-23-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Hall is reflected in the Veterans Building in San Francisco on Aug. 8, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year’s directive would eliminate far more filled positions. While the budget is not yet final, advocates for city staff and services are already fighting back against the proposed cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is nothing short of heartbreaking to hear for our labor partners, and knowing that we are choosing to gut San Francisco’s social safety net,” said Anya Worley-Ziegmann, a spokesperson for the People’s Budget Coalition, which is advocating to preserve the jobs. “That’s really what these layoffs mean, it’s more than individual workers. The city will suffer as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Budget cuts are falling on departments such as public health, which the mayor has asked to cut spending by around $40 million over the next two years, \u003cem>Mission Local\u003c/em> reports.[aside postID=news_12073638 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/SFMayorDanielLurie.jpg']“We have serious concerns about any funding cuts that would harm HIV and AIDS prevention and care, but in particular ones that would cause disproportionate harm to communities that are already disenfranchised by existing health care systems,” said Tyler TerMeer, CEO of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, in a statement. “We know that Black and African American people in San Francisco experience higher rates of HIV diagnoses than other communities — now is not the time to pull back on valuable investments made to improve health outcomes in these communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates criticizing the proposed cuts are calling on the city to push back against large San Francisco-based tech companies fighting business taxes. Companies such as Airbnb, Uber and Lyft are currently suing the city to claw back collectively over $300 million in taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why should workers get laid off and residents lose essential services when big tech companies like Airbnb are holding up hundreds of millions of dollars, suing the city to get out of paying their fair share in taxes?” Worley-Ziegmann said. “Mayor Luire helped end the hotel strike and stopped a National Guard takeover with two phone calls. Maybe he should call these CEOs before asking workers and residents to foot the bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the funding from those cases, if resolved, would only provide one-time dollars, Worley-Ziegmann said it would buy the city time to address structural funding issues that still lie ahead. 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Early Friday, the Oakland Unified School District \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074794/oakland-schools-teachers-union-reach-deal-avert-strike\">reached a tentative agreement\u003c/a> with its teachers union to avert a looming strike, and Berkeley also secured a deal earlier this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really happy, proud of them and looking forward to hearing about many more districts doing the right thing and making sure that our schools are fully funded,” Curiel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the new deal, SFUSD will begin to cover the full cost of health care premiums for educators with dependents. Union leaders have said that previously cost members up to $1,500 per month.[aside postID=news_12074197 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260210-SFUSDStrikeDay2-47-BL_qed.jpg']The contract also grants an 8.5% wage increase over two years to security guards and paraeducators, who work as classroom aides. 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SFUSD is looking to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12067247/as-teacher-strike-looms-san-franciscos-school-board-set-to-review-proposed-funding-cuts\">cut $100 million in ongoing expenses\u003c/a> this spring, not considering the additional costs of the labor deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, the school board approved dozens of layoffs, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073441/san-franciscos-teachers-strike-has-ended-what-comes-next\">more reductions are expected\u003c/a> in the coming months. 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Last week, the Oakland Education Association, which represents about 3,000 teachers, nurses, social workers and other credentialed staff, voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, following neighboring districts like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073306/sfusd-teachers-strike-no-end-in-sight-health-care-battle\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066588/west-contra-costa-teachers-agree-to-end-strike-and-return-to-class-after-a-week\">West Contra Costa\u003c/a>, where teachers took to the picket lines in February and December before securing new contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12056738\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12056738\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/007_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/007_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/007_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/007_KQED_OUSDSolidaritySchool_05112023_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Unified students and parents make signs to support teachers at a ‘solidarity school’ in Diamond Park, Oakland, on May 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“By averting a strike and reaching this agreement, OUSD and the Oakland Education Association have forged a new path forward — one built on cooperation and a shared commitment to our children,” Mayor Barbara Lee said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While there is still work ahead, I am proud of what was achieved today. Our students deserve teachers who are supported, valued, and have everything they need to teach — and this agreement moves us closer to that promise,” she continued.[aside postID=news_12074650 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/DSC7276_qed-1020x680.jpg']The union was demanding higher wages, saying its educators are among the lowest paid in the Bay Area, leading to high turnover rates and understaffing in schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the school district has maintained it is unable to meet those demands as it grapples with a more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064579/oaklands-school-district-must-cut-100-million-its-proposed-plan-doesnt-get-close\">$100 million budget deficit\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, the union proposed 14% raises over two years, while the district offered no pay bump. 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That analysis was affirmed by a neutral mediator earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Retaining teachers has been a major goal of the board for a number of years,” school board President Jennifer Brouhard told KQED.[aside postID=news_12071551 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OUSD-OFFICE-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“The board has given that direction to do that, and we’re beginning to see that work happen. I think from the district standpoint, they also realized that we have to retain our educators. It’s very expensive, both in terms of student outcome and in terms of cost, to have the turnover that we have had.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Implementing the new deal will also be expensive. OUSD has estimated that 11% raises will cost more than $55 million alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brouhard said it will be up to district leaders to do so in a way that doesn’t harm students or jeopardize the district’s fiscal status. 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The state \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068027/california-delays-plan-to-reissue-commercial-licenses-drivers-mired-in-uncertainty\">paused a plan \u003c/a>to reissue the non-domiciled licenses in December, after sending 60-day cancellation notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cancellations threatened the livelihoods of drivers through no fault of their own, according to lawyers for several license holders who sued the DMV in Alameda County Superior Court. Judge Karin Schwartz is expected to issue an official ruling in the coming days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of those who received cancellation letters are Sikh asylum seekers from Punjab, India, who said they have valid work permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re heartened. This is great news,” said plaintiff attorney Munmeeth Kaur Soni, with the Sikh Coalition, a New York-based national civil rights and advocacy organization, after the court hearing on Wednesday. “It’s a relief that a state court judge recognized that we need to hold our state agencies accountable.”\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drivers and unions separately \u003ca href=\"https://www.citizen.org/news/new-lawsuit-challenges-punitive-trump-rule-against-immigrants-lawfully-holding-commercial-drivers-licenses/\">sued to block\u003c/a> a federal rule that aims to exclude an estimated 190,000 asylum seekers, refugees and other noncitizens from holding commercial licenses. The U.S. Department of Transportation argues its \u003ca href=\"https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/newsroom/trumps-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-puts-safety-first-finalizes-rule-stop\">regulation\u003c/a>, published this month, will improve public safety after a series of fatal highway accidents involving non-domiciled immigrant drivers. A panel of federal judges put an earlier, similar rule \u003ca href=\"https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/newsroom/interim-final-ruling-restoring-integrity-issuance-non-domiciled-drivers-licenses-cdl\">on hold\u003c/a> last November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12067538\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12067538\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251216_REVOKE-OF-COMMERCIAL-DRIVERS-LICENSES_DECEMBER_GH-9-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251216_REVOKE-OF-COMMERCIAL-DRIVERS-LICENSES_DECEMBER_GH-9-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251216_REVOKE-OF-COMMERCIAL-DRIVERS-LICENSES_DECEMBER_GH-9-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251216_REVOKE-OF-COMMERCIAL-DRIVERS-LICENSES_DECEMBER_GH-9-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from inside Amarjit Singh’s truck in Livermore, on Dec. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Donald Trump highlighted a June 2024 accident in which an 18-wheeler crashed into a stopped car, severely injuring 5-year-old Dalilah Coleman. Trump, who said the driver was an undocumented person licensed in California, called on Congress to pass a law “barring any state from granting commercial driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many, if not most, illegal aliens do not speak English and cannot read even the most basic road signs as to direction, speed, danger or location,” Trump said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry experts doubt reliable evidence links safe driving with immigration status. They point instead to often grueling job conditions fueling driver fatigue as a contributor to truck collisions — especially in long-haul trucking, an industry that employs many drivers without permanent residence in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the Trump administration changes, states issued non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses to noncitizens who passed knowledge and skills tests and presented federally valid work authorization, but who did not have a green card.[aside postID=news_12068027 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251216_REVOKE-OF-COMMERCIAL-DRIVERS-LICENSES_DECEMBER_GH-5-KQED.jpg']At the court hearing in Oakland, state lawyers representing the DMV argued that its hands are tied. Federal transportation officials prohibited the agency in December from issuing non-domiciled licenses, saying the DMV had not complied with regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has threatened to decertify California’s entire commercial license program if it defies that directive, which could impact hundreds of thousands of drivers, according to the respondent’s brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“FMCSA has placed DMV in an impossible position,” attorneys for the state agency said. “Either stand by while thousands of eligible drivers have their non-domiciled CDLs cancelled, or expire, without being able to issue corrected or renewal licenses, or instead resume issuing these licenses and risk disenfranchising even more commercial drivers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DMV initially said it would revoke about 17,300 of the licenses with expiration date errors in early January, and an additional 2,700 in mid-February. But after public outcry, it extended the deadline to March 6, to give federal officials more time to review corrective actions the state agency said it had taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy responded by announcing his agency would withhold \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069236/retribution-bay-area-lawmakers-slam-160-million-loss-in-federal-highway-funds\">$158 million\u003c/a> of highway safety funds, a decision the DMV is \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72239726/california-department-of-motor-vehicles-v-dot/\">fighting in court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwartz said the DMV must give drivers impacted by cancellations an opportunity to reapply, according to state law. The details of how the agency plans to issue those licenses in a reasonable time, while taking into account federal threats, should be worked out by the two parties ahead of the March 6 deadline, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trucks leave the Port of Oakland on Sept. 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federal officials “have repeatedly threatened to decertify California or take away its funds. The court cannot ignore that,” Schwartz told the packed courtroom proceeding, attended by several Sikh business owners and community leaders from the Bay Area and Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the hearing, some said they felt hopeful, after months of stress and uncertainty for relatives and friends who feared losing jobs in the trucking and logistics industry, a major source of employment for the Sikh community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rajinder Singh said his trucking company stood to lose about 20 of 30 drivers who received DMV cancellation letters, including three cousins. The employees support families and owe loans for homes and trucks they’ve purchased, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t have a license, how can they work and make payments for the trucks, for the homes? It’s hard,” said Singh, who owns Flying Eagle Xpress, based in Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At the court hearing in Oakland, state lawyers representing the DMV argued that its hands are tied. Federal transportation officials prohibited the agency in December from issuing non-domiciled licenses, saying the DMV had not complied with regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has threatened to decertify California’s entire commercial license program if it defies that directive, which could impact hundreds of thousands of drivers, according to the respondent’s brief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“FMCSA has placed DMV in an impossible position,” attorneys for the state agency said. “Either stand by while thousands of eligible drivers have their non-domiciled CDLs cancelled, or expire, without being able to issue corrected or renewal licenses, or instead resume issuing these licenses and risk disenfranchising even more commercial drivers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The DMV initially said it would revoke about 17,300 of the licenses with expiration date errors in early January, and an additional 2,700 in mid-February. But after public outcry, it extended the deadline to March 6, to give federal officials more time to review corrective actions the state agency said it had taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy responded by announcing his agency would withhold \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069236/retribution-bay-area-lawmakers-slam-160-million-loss-in-federal-highway-funds\">$158 million\u003c/a> of highway safety funds, a decision the DMV is \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72239726/california-department-of-motor-vehicles-v-dot/\">fighting in court\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schwartz said the DMV must give drivers impacted by cancellations an opportunity to reapply, according to state law. The details of how the agency plans to issue those licenses in a reasonable time, while taking into account federal threats, should be worked out by the two parties ahead of the March 6 deadline, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-07_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trucks leave the Port of Oakland on Sept. 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federal officials “have repeatedly threatened to decertify California or take away its funds. The court cannot ignore that,” Schwartz told the packed courtroom proceeding, attended by several Sikh business owners and community leaders from the Bay Area and Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the hearing, some said they felt hopeful, after months of stress and uncertainty for relatives and friends who feared losing jobs in the trucking and logistics industry, a major source of employment for the Sikh community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rajinder Singh said his trucking company stood to lose about 20 of 30 drivers who received DMV cancellation letters, including three cousins. The employees support families and owe loans for homes and trucks they’ve purchased, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they don’t have a license, how can they work and make payments for the trucks, for the homes? It’s hard,” said Singh, who owns Flying Eagle Xpress, based in Tracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-superior-court\">San Francisco’s Superior Court\u003c/a> operations were majorly disrupted on Thursday as 200 clerical workers launched an open-ended strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court clerks, represented by Service Employees International Union Local 1021, announced Monday that they would walk off the job this week following months of bargaining over a new three-year contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union said the court has refused to bargain in good faith over staffing and training issues that have contributed to case delays and a significant backlog at the court, and could lead to mistakes they worry would harm the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re spread so thin that nobody’s really been given the opportunity to be adequately trained for some of the assignments that we’re sent off to,” said Rob Borders, a criminal court clerk and member of the union bargaining team. He said the union has been raising its concerns in bargaining since last year, and hasn’t been able to reach a “sustainable resolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The situation hasn’t gotten any better, and our concerns are the same, and they’re growing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday morning, clerks formed picket lines at 850 Bryant Street, on the steps of the city’s Hall of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074733\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260226-SFCOURTSTRIKE-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260226-SFCOURTSTRIKE-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260226-SFCOURTSTRIKE-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260226-SFCOURTSTRIKE-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Superior Court clerks and supporters rally outside the Hall of Justice in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2026, as members of SEIU Local 1021 strike amid stalled contract negotiations over pay, staffing and workload concerns. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The workers held a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010910/san-francisco-courthouse-clerks-strike-shutting-down-high-profile-cases\">one-day strike in 2024\u003c/a> over similar issues and threatened a three-day walkout in October, as contract negotiations stalled. That month, the union and court reached a tentative deal to avert the work stoppage, but members rejected it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benjamin Thompson, a criminal division clerk at the Hall of Justice and vice president of the union, said court management has refused to bargain over training and staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have decided that not only is staffing not an issue, but formal training to make sure that we do our jobs correctly is not an issue,” he told KQED on Wednesday. “It’s not something they want to address, which I’m flabbergasted by.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are people’s lives,” he continued.[aside postID=news_12074265 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260219-STRIKINGKAISERWORKERS00420_TV-KQED.jpg']Borders said that staffing shortages have existed for years in the criminal division and are being exacerbated as the San Francisco district attorney’s office files more cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union said a number of cases have been dropped after missing constitutionally mandated deadlines. Separately, the court has had to release some defendants pending trial after the San Francisco public defender’s office, since May, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061089/jenkins-san-francisco-superior-court-is-complicit-in-dereliction-of-duty\">rejecting some felony cases,\u003c/a> claiming it is also dealing with chronic understaffing and excessive workloads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/data-dashboards/#cases-prosecuted\">City data\u003c/a> shows that District Attorney Brooke Jenkins filed 8,400 cases in 2025, compared to about 5,600 in 2021, during former District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s last full year on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borders said overburdened clerks have been put in positions that have led to paperwork errors, with consequences like keeping someone in custody longer than they need to be, or a person’s sentence being incorrectly reflected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing catastrophic has happened yet,” he said, but “we would hate to be in a position where one of our members has their names on a minute order that was responsible for releasing somebody that wasn’t supposed to be released, and then something horrible happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the union said it had presented management with “commonsense proposals” that address the staffing and training concerns, but had been unable to reach any agreement to avert the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074734\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260226-SFCOURTSTRIKE-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260226-SFCOURTSTRIKE-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260226-SFCOURTSTRIKE-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260226-SFCOURTSTRIKE-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Superior Court clerks and supporters rally outside the Hall of Justice in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2026, as members of SEIU Local 1021 strike amid stalled contract negotiations over pay, staffing and workload concerns. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Court Executive Officer Brandon Riley, the Hall of Justice will remain open for mandated essential and emergency services during the strike, with \u003ca href=\"https://sf.courts.ca.gov/divisions/jury-services\">limited \u003c/a>hours for its jury services staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mandated services will proceed with the help of management employees who will triage and prioritize emergency matters for people who need help today,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court resources will be shifted to prioritize cases with statutory deadlines, including criminal cases, custody arraignments, unlawful detainers and civil harassment and domestic violence matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matters without pressing statutory deadlines will be recessed, the court said, and clerks’ offices could be closed. Some departments at the Hall of Justice, Civic Center Courthouse and Juvenile Justice Center will remain open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how long the strike could last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Borders said that staffing shortages have existed for years in the criminal division and are being exacerbated as the San Francisco district attorney’s office files more cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union said a number of cases have been dropped after missing constitutionally mandated deadlines. Separately, the court has had to release some defendants pending trial after the San Francisco public defender’s office, since May, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061089/jenkins-san-francisco-superior-court-is-complicit-in-dereliction-of-duty\">rejecting some felony cases,\u003c/a> claiming it is also dealing with chronic understaffing and excessive workloads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfdistrictattorney.org/policy/data-dashboards/#cases-prosecuted\">City data\u003c/a> shows that District Attorney Brooke Jenkins filed 8,400 cases in 2025, compared to about 5,600 in 2021, during former District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s last full year on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Borders said overburdened clerks have been put in positions that have led to paperwork errors, with consequences like keeping someone in custody longer than they need to be, or a person’s sentence being incorrectly reflected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nothing catastrophic has happened yet,” he said, but “we would hate to be in a position where one of our members has their names on a minute order that was responsible for releasing somebody that wasn’t supposed to be released, and then something horrible happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the union said it had presented management with “commonsense proposals” that address the staffing and training concerns, but had been unable to reach any agreement to avert the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074734\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074734\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260226-SFCOURTSTRIKE-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260226-SFCOURTSTRIKE-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260226-SFCOURTSTRIKE-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260226-SFCOURTSTRIKE-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Superior Court clerks and supporters rally outside the Hall of Justice in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2026, as members of SEIU Local 1021 strike amid stalled contract negotiations over pay, staffing and workload concerns. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Court Executive Officer Brandon Riley, the Hall of Justice will remain open for mandated essential and emergency services during the strike, with \u003ca href=\"https://sf.courts.ca.gov/divisions/jury-services\">limited \u003c/a>hours for its jury services staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mandated services will proceed with the help of management employees who will triage and prioritize emergency matters for people who need help today,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court resources will be shifted to prioritize cases with statutory deadlines, including criminal cases, custody arraignments, unlawful detainers and civil harassment and domestic violence matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matters without pressing statutory deadlines will be recessed, the court said, and clerks’ offices could be closed. Some departments at the Hall of Justice, Civic Center Courthouse and Juvenile Justice Center will remain open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how long the strike could last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a> leaders are sounding cautiously optimistic about stopping mass layoffs at the East Bay’s public safety-net hospital system ahead of a hearing on the layoff plan on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedahealthsystem.org/service-reductions/\">latest proposal\u003c/a> from Alameda Health System would cut 187 positions, down from earlier plans for close to 300, as executives brace for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1997707/how-will-trumps-mega-bill-impact-health-care-in-california\">major reductions in Medicaid revenue\u003c/a> because of HR 1 — the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” signed into law by President Donald Trump last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 187 full-time-equivalent positions equate to 211 individuals, AHS said, some of them working part-time. Those 211 employees have already received layoff notices with a March 9 separation date, though that could change. The cuts would affect nurses, therapists, food workers and administrative assistants, among others, and would eliminate some programs completely, including two that provide outpatient behavioral health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a rally outside Wilma Chan Highland Hospital Campus in Oakland on Tuesday, Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley urged health care workers to weigh in \u003ca href=\"https://alamedacounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=7805\">at the hearing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Speak your mind, let us know how these reductions in force, the reduction in labor, is going to impact safety net services so that the Board of Supervisors can come to the rescue,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The layoff plans come as AHS expects to lose over $100 million a year by 2030 as a result of HR 1 and its Medicaid cuts, a spokesperson \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12068383/alameda-health-system-to-lay-off-hundreds-in-january-after-massive-federal-cuts\">previously told KQED\u003c/a>. Medicaid payments make up about 60% of the health system’s revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074475\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_015-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_015-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_015-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_015-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, who represents District 4, speaks during a resident physician “unity break” outside Highland Hospital in Oakland on Feb. 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Miley, who leads the Board of Supervisors’ health committee, said he met with AHS leaders last week and sees a path for the county to come up with funding to suspend the layoffs — at least in the short term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current estimate, he said, is that AHS needs between $44 million and $52 million to hold back layoffs for a year. AHS officials confirmed that they are in conversations with the county “about ways they can help us, given the extensive funding cuts we’re facing,” but wouldn’t confirm the figures Miley provided, saying it was “premature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope is the county is going to be able to kick in at least the initial $11 [million] to $13 million so that we can suspend the layoffs for a period of time,” Miley said.[aside postID=news_12072837 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020926_KAISERSTRIKE_8137B-KQED.jpg']He aims to create a working group made up of labor leaders, county staff, supervisors and Alameda Health System administrators and trustees to develop a more long-term plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miley suggested that revenue from \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/MeasureWAllocationPresentation.pdf\">Measures W\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://budget.alamedacountyca.gov/Content/pdf/FY24-25/FY2024-25ProposedBudget-7_10_24.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">and A\u003c/a> — sales taxes approved by voters to raise money for medical and essential services, among other things — could help offset some of the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also floated the idea of the county easing up, at least temporarily, on repayment of what’s known as the “net negative balance,” essentially a county line of credit that Alameda Health System uses to cover expenses when bills come due before large state or federal reimbursements arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are avenues we can pursue,” he said, noting that cuts to non-safety-net services might be left standing. “There might be some things that are good to have but are not necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas agreed that the county can likely stanch the bleeding in the near term, but she emphasized that the real solutions are systemic: “It’s about single payer. It’s about making sure that we close the loophole in Prop. 13 and really address how resources and wealth are distributed in our country, as well as our state and our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_007-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_007-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_007-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/022426_ALAMEDA-COUNTY-HEALTH-CUTS-_GH_007-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikki Fortunato Bas, a member of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, speaks during a resident physician “unity break” outside Highland Hospital in Oakland on Feb. 24, 2026. 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