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These are among the incidents detailed in discrimination complaints against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> universities since the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, at least 17 colleges in the state are in the crosshairs of multi-pronged federal investigations into antisemitism in higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Justice is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029887/trump-doj-investigate-university-california-over-antisemitism-allegations\">investigating\u003c/a> whether the University of California system has allowed antisemitism to create a hostile work environment for Jewish employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-educations-office-civil-rights-sends-letters-60-universities-under-investigation-antisemitic-discrimination-and-harassment\">investigations\u003c/a> into allegations that students of Jewish ancestry have been denied access to education at nearly a dozen schools in the state — including a handful of UCs, California State Universities at Sacramento and San Diego and private institutions such as the University of Southern California, Chapman University and Stanford University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, President Donald Trump’s administration has gone even further by withholding federal funds from schools, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/doj-hhs-ed-and-gsa-announce-initial-cancelation-of-grants-and-contracts-columbia-university-worth-400-million\">Columbia\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/g-s1-59090/trump-officials-halt-1-billion-in-funding-for-cornell-790-million-for-northwestern\">Northwestern and Cornell\u003c/a>. 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With billions of dollars in federal research funding on the line, there’s no easy path forward: Columbia, which largely capitulated to the administration’s demands, \u003ca href=\"https://communications.news.columbia.edu/news/statement-federal-funding\">still hasn’t seen\u003c/a> its funding restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we have from this new task force from the federal government is an unprecedented, unique, coalition of federal agencies and they’re operating absent law,” said Catherine Lhamon, assistant secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education under Biden and chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Commission_on_Civil_Rights\">United States Commission on Civil Rights\u003c/a> between 2016 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal actions announced since January have also largely ignored the fact that many of these universities were already under scrutiny — and in some cases, had strict compliance agreements with the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was theater for the current administration to list University of California schools as schools that are somehow newly under investigation [for antisemitism],” Lhamon said. “They’re already subject to federal monitoring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gutting the Office of Civil Rights\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel’s subsequent devastating war in Gaza, campuses across the country became freshly embroiled in widespread \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984636/violence-erupts-at-ucla-as-protests-over-israels-war-in-gaza-escalate-across-the-u-s\">protests\u003c/a>, labor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987499/academic-workers-at-ucla-davis-are-next-to-strike-over-response-to-protests\">strikes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984645/photos-campus-protests-grow-across-bay-area\">encampments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lhamon said her office received “a huge influx of new cases” including antisemitic complaints like those listed above along with allegations that Palestinian and Muslim students had been doxxed, physically assaulted and greeted with signs reading “Hamas will kill and rape you all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993683\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UC Berkeley pro-Palestinian encampment outside of Sproul Hall in Berkeley, California, on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response, the OCR opened cases against more than a dozen higher education institutions in California, requesting voluminous responses including school policies, the names of witnesses and complainants and disciplinary actions taken by the schools. 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While a March 10, 2025, letter from the incoming head of the OCR called resolutions like this toothless, it includes extensive reporting requirements, campus police training, and individual redress for specific students, including reimbursement of tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, Lhamon wonders who is actually monitoring the agreement. On March 11, half of the OCR employees in the country were terminated, and the Office of Civil Rights in San Francisco, which had spearheaded investigations in California schools, was closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a single investigator in the state of California anymore in the Office of Civil Rights,” Lhamon said. “Not a single person who was involved in those cases is still involved in those cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many other cases investigating discrimination against students with disabilities, Black, Palestinian and Muslim students are also in limbo, court filings show. California is among the states \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031176/california-other-states-gear-up-fight-department-educations-dismantling\">suing\u003c/a> the department over the mass firings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to OCR attorneys named in complaint documents posted on the DOE website, but none agreed to be interviewed. DOE officials did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Denise Katz-Prober of the Brandeis Center, a Jewish advocacy nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., which has filed numerous administrative complaints on behalf of students, said many resolution agreements haven’t gone far enough to address the “root causes” of antisemitism on campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035691\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1409\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-800x564.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-1536x1082.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-1920x1353.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A building at Scripps College through a corridor of trees in Claremont, California, on Aug. 13, 2022. Scripps College is one of 17 California colleges and universities under federal investigation. \u003ccite>(Jim Brown/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said her group feels optimistic that the Trump administration is “ acting quite forcefully and vigorously to hold institutions, accountable.” So far, she doesn’t have concerns about the functioning of the OCR, which she said acted swiftly to open a new case after the center filed a complaint against Scripps College in February. Another case against Chapman, filed over a year ago, is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Monica College, which has three pending complaints with the OCR, was among the 60 institutions that received letters from the Trump administration on March 10. A spokesperson said via email that the \u003ca href=\"https://admin.smc.edu/administration/campus-counsel/documents/OCR-3-10-2025.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> didn’t include any new information — or determination — about the three pending cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you actually care about kids, if you actually care about discrimination that’s occurring in school, you fully monitor the agreements that you have, and you look for the other places that need you,” Lhamon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the Trump administration has made no mention of enforcing the parts of the agreement crafted to address discrimination complaints filed by Palestinian students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestine protesters attempt to block a counter-protester with an Israeli flag at UCLA on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Attendees rallied to protest ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who led protests at Columbia University last year. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UCLA distinguished professor Sherene Razack chairs the Task Force on Anti-Palestinian, Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim Racism, which has submitted three \u003ca href=\"https://uclaracismtaskforce.com/\">reports\u003c/a> to university leaders. Razack said the consequences of this bias to faculty and students can be severe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Medical residents who even mention anything to do with the genocide are getting seriously doxxed,” she said. The consequences of doxxing range from death threats to people “writing to you and saying, ‘You’ll never get a job,’” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Razack said the administration has largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46594/Open-Letter-to-Chancellor-Julio-Frenk-From-the-Ucla-Task-Force-on-Anti-Palestinian,-Anti-Muslim-and-Anti-Arab-Racism\">ignored\u003c/a> her task force’s recommendation, instead adopting recommendations from the \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ucla.edu/ucla-announces-initiative-to-combat-antisemitism\">Antisemitism Task Force\u003c/a>, perhaps in “anticipatory compliance” to escape federal repercussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Distinguished Professor Stuart Gabriel of the UCLA Anderson School of Management — who has been tapped to lead the Initiative to Combat Antisemitism — did not respond to KQED’s emails requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘False flag’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The DOJ investigation brought under \u003ca href=\"https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-civil-rights-act-1964\">Title VII\u003c/a>, which prohibits workplace discrimination, has already begun contacting people, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/10/trump-administration-begins-interviewing-uc-faculty-as-part-of-antisemitism-probe-00282965\">reporting\u003c/a> by \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em>. Faculty unions had urged the administration to fight \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034221/trump-administration-subpoenas-uc-faculty-information-antisemitism-investigation\">the subpoena of the names and contact information\u003c/a> of hundreds of UC employees who signed letters in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A letter to members from the University Council — American Federation of Teachers, the union that represents almost 7,000 UC teaching faculty and librarians, called on university leaders to protect “worker privacy and due process of law at every turn,” and encouraged workers and students to “resist participating in investigations that are clearly motivated by politics and the intent to silence debate, dissent, and disagreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035694\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Leigh Kimberg speaks during a press conference with UCSF medical professionals to call for a ceasefire in Gaza outside of the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights in San Francisco, California, on Oct. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The UC Office of the President did not answer questions about the compliance agreement or the actions of the federal task force. In an email, a spokesperson said the institution “unequivocally condemns antisemitism in all forms” and ”is committed to responding to all inquiries in good faith as we continue to take important steps to foster a welcoming and safe environment for all.” A spokesperson for the DOJ declined to comment on the status of the workplace investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while some faculty members see a sharp divergence between the Biden administration’s approach to civil rights enforcement and the Trump administration’s, others, like Leigh Kimberg, a UCSF professor of medicine, feel this is merely a continuation of the ongoing suppression of legitimate protest and pro-Palestinian voices, which includes many Jewish voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I have spoken out saying that actually the liberation of the Jewish people and the Palestinian people are inextricable,” Kimberg said.[aside postID=news_12034703 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-14-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']As a result, she said she has been accused of antisemitism. After speaking about Palestine during a talk about trauma-informed care, she said she was banned from speaking in public courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberg said students have shown incredible bravery even in the face of potential discipline, arrest and immigration enforcement actions. In the past month, dozens of students and faculty at California universities, including Stanford, UCLA and UCSB, have had their visas revoked by the State Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katz-Prober said she’s not an immigration expert, but said the Brandeis Center appreciates the Trump administration taking antisemitism seriously and “that there are consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poulomi Saha, a UC Berkeley associate professor of English who was faculty co-chair of an advisory committee on Muslim and Palestinian student life, sees these investigations as a “false flag mission” in an attempt by Trump to “control what happens on college campuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, it’s antisemitism. Tomorrow, it will be something else. This is an incursion into a project of free inquiry and free speech on college campuses,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, DOE has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/office-civil-rights-initiates-title-vi-investigations-institutions-of-higher-education-0\">set its sights\u003c/a> on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at universities and K–12 schools. Cal-Poly Humboldt, California State University San Bernardino and UC Berkeley have received notice that the OCR is investigating “race-exclusionary” practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Department is working to reorient civil rights enforcement to ensure all students are protected from illegal discrimination,” wrote U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Immigration agents have arrested international students like \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/tufts-student-detained-massachusetts-immigration-08d7f08e1daa899986b7131a1edab6d8\">Rumeysa Ozturk\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-15014bcbb921f21a9f704d5acdcae7a8\">Mahmoud Khalil\u003c/a> for their actions in support of Palestine. The latest \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/dhs-to-begin-screening-aliens-social-media-activity-for-antisemitism\">news\u003c/a> is that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is now monitoring the social media feeds of immigrants for evidence of antisemitism and “terrorist sympathizers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Federal Antisemitism Investigations in California Higher Ed\" aria-label=\"Map\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-P7BCl\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/P7BCl/7/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;\" height=\"794\" data-external=\"1\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some in civil rights law and academia warn that the extraordinary and even extralegal tactics and disregard for existing discrimination protections point to the administration’s true ambition: Not to create an inclusive campus climate for all, but to stir up fear and extract concessions from traditionally left-leaning centers of learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past month, \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.ucla.edu/messages/initiative-to-combat-antisemitism\">UCLA\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-848726\">UCSB\u003c/a> have announced new initiatives to address antisemitism, while some state \u003ca href=\"https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=ac9da6d3c73d17a4&docid=fb2a1b12b6b3fe52_ac9da6d3c73d17a4&dapvm=1&highlight=e0218af7ac44146a&utm_source=highlight_deep_link\">lawmakers\u003c/a> and faculty groups have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034221/trump-administration-subpoenas-uc-faculty-information-antisemitism-investigation\">called on\u003c/a> university leaders to stand up to the federal government in order to protect privacy and free speech rights. With billions of dollars in federal research funding on the line, there’s no easy path forward: Columbia, which largely capitulated to the administration’s demands, \u003ca href=\"https://communications.news.columbia.edu/news/statement-federal-funding\">still hasn’t seen\u003c/a> its funding restored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we have from this new task force from the federal government is an unprecedented, unique, coalition of federal agencies and they’re operating absent law,” said Catherine Lhamon, assistant secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education under Biden and chair of the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Commission_on_Civil_Rights\">United States Commission on Civil Rights\u003c/a> between 2016 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal actions announced since January have also largely ignored the fact that many of these universities were already under scrutiny — and in some cases, had strict compliance agreements with the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was theater for the current administration to list University of California schools as schools that are somehow newly under investigation [for antisemitism],” Lhamon said. “They’re already subject to federal monitoring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Gutting the Office of Civil Rights\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>After the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel’s subsequent devastating war in Gaza, campuses across the country became freshly embroiled in widespread \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984636/violence-erupts-at-ucla-as-protests-over-israels-war-in-gaza-escalate-across-the-u-s\">protests\u003c/a>, labor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987499/academic-workers-at-ucla-davis-are-next-to-strike-over-response-to-protests\">strikes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984645/photos-campus-protests-grow-across-bay-area\">encampments\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lhamon said her office received “a huge influx of new cases” including antisemitic complaints like those listed above along with allegations that Palestinian and Muslim students had been doxxed, physically assaulted and greeted with signs reading “Hamas will kill and rape you all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993683\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/L1005168_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The UC Berkeley pro-Palestinian encampment outside of Sproul Hall in Berkeley, California, on May 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Aryk Copley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response, the OCR opened cases against more than a dozen higher education institutions in California, requesting voluminous responses including school policies, the names of witnesses and complainants and disciplinary actions taken by the schools. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>To that end, the UC reached a resolution \u003ca href=\"https://journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/document-view?collection=ac9da6d3c73d17a4&docid=12292ad5a6780a_ac9da6d3c73d17a4&page=1&dapvm=1&highlight=634e6ffe678dfce1&utm_source=highlight_deep_link\">agreement\u003c/a> with the Department of Education in December to address discrimination against students with “Jewish, Israeli, Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim ancestry” and close nine open Title VI cases. While a March 10, 2025, letter from the incoming head of the OCR called resolutions like this toothless, it includes extensive reporting requirements, campus police training, and individual redress for specific students, including reimbursement of tuition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, Lhamon wonders who is actually monitoring the agreement. On March 11, half of the OCR employees in the country were terminated, and the Office of Civil Rights in San Francisco, which had spearheaded investigations in California schools, was closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a single investigator in the state of California anymore in the Office of Civil Rights,” Lhamon said. “Not a single person who was involved in those cases is still involved in those cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And many other cases investigating discrimination against students with disabilities, Black, Palestinian and Muslim students are also in limbo, court filings show. California is among the states \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031176/california-other-states-gear-up-fight-department-educations-dismantling\">suing\u003c/a> the department over the mass firings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to OCR attorneys named in complaint documents posted on the DOE website, but none agreed to be interviewed. DOE officials did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Denise Katz-Prober of the Brandeis Center, a Jewish advocacy nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., which has filed numerous administrative complaints on behalf of students, said many resolution agreements haven’t gone far enough to address the “root causes” of antisemitism on campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035691\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1409\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-800x564.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-1020x719.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-1536x1082.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/ScrippsCollegeGetty-1920x1353.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A building at Scripps College through a corridor of trees in Claremont, California, on Aug. 13, 2022. Scripps College is one of 17 California colleges and universities under federal investigation. \u003ccite>(Jim Brown/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said her group feels optimistic that the Trump administration is “ acting quite forcefully and vigorously to hold institutions, accountable.” So far, she doesn’t have concerns about the functioning of the OCR, which she said acted swiftly to open a new case after the center filed a complaint against Scripps College in February. Another case against Chapman, filed over a year ago, is still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Monica College, which has three pending complaints with the OCR, was among the 60 institutions that received letters from the Trump administration on March 10. A spokesperson said via email that the \u003ca href=\"https://admin.smc.edu/administration/campus-counsel/documents/OCR-3-10-2025.pdf\">letter\u003c/a> didn’t include any new information — or determination — about the three pending cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you actually care about kids, if you actually care about discrimination that’s occurring in school, you fully monitor the agreements that you have, and you look for the other places that need you,” Lhamon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the Trump administration has made no mention of enforcing the parts of the agreement crafted to address discrimination complaints filed by Palestinian students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035711\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/UCLAProtestGetty-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestine protesters attempt to block a counter-protester with an Israeli flag at UCLA on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Los Angeles, California. Attendees rallied to protest ICE’s detainment of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who led protests at Columbia University last year. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UCLA distinguished professor Sherene Razack chairs the Task Force on Anti-Palestinian, Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim Racism, which has submitted three \u003ca href=\"https://uclaracismtaskforce.com/\">reports\u003c/a> to university leaders. Razack said the consequences of this bias to faculty and students can be severe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Medical residents who even mention anything to do with the genocide are getting seriously doxxed,” she said. The consequences of doxxing range from death threats to people “writing to you and saying, ‘You’ll never get a job,’” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Razack said the administration has largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46594/Open-Letter-to-Chancellor-Julio-Frenk-From-the-Ucla-Task-Force-on-Anti-Palestinian,-Anti-Muslim-and-Anti-Arab-Racism\">ignored\u003c/a> her task force’s recommendation, instead adopting recommendations from the \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.ucla.edu/ucla-announces-initiative-to-combat-antisemitism\">Antisemitism Task Force\u003c/a>, perhaps in “anticipatory compliance” to escape federal repercussions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Distinguished Professor Stuart Gabriel of the UCLA Anderson School of Management — who has been tapped to lead the Initiative to Combat Antisemitism — did not respond to KQED’s emails requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘False flag’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The DOJ investigation brought under \u003ca href=\"https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/title-vii-civil-rights-act-1964\">Title VII\u003c/a>, which prohibits workplace discrimination, has already begun contacting people, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/10/trump-administration-begins-interviewing-uc-faculty-as-part-of-antisemitism-probe-00282965\">reporting\u003c/a> by \u003cem>Politico\u003c/em>. Faculty unions had urged the administration to fight \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034221/trump-administration-subpoenas-uc-faculty-information-antisemitism-investigation\">the subpoena of the names and contact information\u003c/a> of hundreds of UC employees who signed letters in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A letter to members from the University Council — American Federation of Teachers, the union that represents almost 7,000 UC teaching faculty and librarians, called on university leaders to protect “worker privacy and due process of law at every turn,” and encouraged workers and students to “resist participating in investigations that are clearly motivated by politics and the intent to silence debate, dissent, and disagreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12035694\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12035694\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/231031-UCSFGazaPresser-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Leigh Kimberg speaks during a press conference with UCSF medical professionals to call for a ceasefire in Gaza outside of the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights in San Francisco, California, on Oct. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The UC Office of the President did not answer questions about the compliance agreement or the actions of the federal task force. In an email, a spokesperson said the institution “unequivocally condemns antisemitism in all forms” and ”is committed to responding to all inquiries in good faith as we continue to take important steps to foster a welcoming and safe environment for all.” A spokesperson for the DOJ declined to comment on the status of the workplace investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while some faculty members see a sharp divergence between the Biden administration’s approach to civil rights enforcement and the Trump administration’s, others, like Leigh Kimberg, a UCSF professor of medicine, feel this is merely a continuation of the ongoing suppression of legitimate protest and pro-Palestinian voices, which includes many Jewish voices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I have spoken out saying that actually the liberation of the Jewish people and the Palestinian people are inextricable,” Kimberg said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>As a result, she said she has been accused of antisemitism. After speaking about Palestine during a talk about trauma-informed care, she said she was banned from speaking in public courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberg said students have shown incredible bravery even in the face of potential discipline, arrest and immigration enforcement actions. In the past month, dozens of students and faculty at California universities, including Stanford, UCLA and UCSB, have had their visas revoked by the State Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katz-Prober said she’s not an immigration expert, but said the Brandeis Center appreciates the Trump administration taking antisemitism seriously and “that there are consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poulomi Saha, a UC Berkeley associate professor of English who was faculty co-chair of an advisory committee on Muslim and Palestinian student life, sees these investigations as a “false flag mission” in an attempt by Trump to “control what happens on college campuses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, it’s antisemitism. Tomorrow, it will be something else. This is an incursion into a project of free inquiry and free speech on college campuses,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, DOE has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/office-civil-rights-initiates-title-vi-investigations-institutions-of-higher-education-0\">set its sights\u003c/a> on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at universities and K–12 schools. Cal-Poly Humboldt, California State University San Bernardino and UC Berkeley have received notice that the OCR is investigating “race-exclusionary” practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Department is working to reorient civil rights enforcement to ensure all students are protected from illegal discrimination,” wrote U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The fluorescent lighting inside a hospital can be unforgiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Freddie Gutierrez settles into a waiting room at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-general-hospital\">Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital\u003c/a>, wearing sleek, designer shades like the kind celebrities wear to avoid the public eye. Soon, he’ll swap his sunglasses for protective, medical-grade eyewear — still cool, but with more of a sci-fi edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guiterrez, 33, has kind, dark eyes. They could inspire pop songs. Etched between his ear and right eye is a small tattoo of an upside-down pitchfork. Above his left eye, he has a second tattoo of a crown, about an inch long. The designs refer to his past gang life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How’s school?” asked nurse Judy Wong as she prepared him for the exam room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a while since I’ve done a timed math test,” said Guiterrez, who is studying computer science at City College of San Francisco. “Sometimes, it’s eating up my life. When I’m done getting my bachelor’s, I’m gonna have gray hairs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guiterrez braces for a painful procedure. Since September, he’s been undergoing laser treatment to remove his tattoos. The face is an especially sensitive area. He described the pain as similar to a rubber band snapping against the skin repeatedly, but he thinks the sessions, which last a few minutes, are worth the discomfort — a decision he made to start fresh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030039\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-23-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-23-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-23-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-23-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-23-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-23-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-23-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freddie Gutierrez says goodbye to clinicians after a session at the tattoo removal clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>April is Second Chance Month, which highlights the experiences of millions of Americans who are formerly incarcerated and the stigma they face for having a criminal record. As spring kicks off, patients like Gutierrez are grateful for SF General’s tattoo removal clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opened in 2009, the clinic, a partnership with UCSF and the San Francisco Department of Public Health, serves low-income people who have tattoos linked to incarceration, trafficking or gang affiliations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only the physical removal of tattoos is rewarding, but also just seeing people as they are in their journey of recovery — being a part of that and being a consistent face in that is really special,” said Dr. Matthew Pantell, who runs the clinic and is a researcher at UCSF on the social factors of health care.[aside postID=news_12034006 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250327_SoberHousing_GC-9-1020x680.jpg']Pantell took over the clinic from its founder, Dr. Pierre Joseph Marie-Rose. In 1998, he launched a similar effort, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/location--carecen-2nd-chance-tattoo-removal-clinic\">Second Chance,\u003c/a> for gang-affiliated youth in San Francisco (it’s still located at the Central American Resource Center on Mission and Cesar Chavez streets). While working at SF General Hospital, he applied for a grant to start a tattoo removal program at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a thermal injury. I was humbled that [patients] would come back and ask me to do it again,” Marie-Rose said. “I’ve never taken that for granted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When patients enter the laser room, lo-fi hip-hop music plays. Wearing a baseball cap, jeans and fresh kicks, Pantell arms a long glass cylinder, which resembles a thin highball cocktail glass, at the tattoos. Over the music, it’s hard to hear anything noticeable as patients brace for the pain. The procedure can last anywhere from a few minutes to a half-hour, depending on the tattoo size, complexity and location on the body, according to Pantell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other factors, such as ink color — red and green can be stubborn — and quality, can play a role, Pantell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t want to do two lasers in the same day, so we’ll do the black ink first and then come back every six weeks till it’s gone,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12030036 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCSF Dr. Matthew Pantell uses a laser tattoo removal machine during a session with Nikki at the clinic he runs at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since patients are required to return every six to eight weeks for treatment, the hospital setting helps connect patients with other health care services, according to Pantell. He pointed out that patients are linked to their primary care physician and other social needs, like housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For patients like Guiterrez, the tattoo removal visits are often the most consistent contact with the medical system that they have had. He said he has been “in and out of the [criminal justice] system” since he was a kid growing up in Santa Barbara. Last July, he was released from state prison after serving a nearly 13-year sentence for charges related to carjacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought about what I want to do for myself and being a two striker, meaning that if I catch another strike that will give me a 25-to-life sentence. So that makes me really think about every decision I make,” said Gutierrez, who said he sought self-help groups in prison and got support from Criminals & Gang Members Anonymous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said a contact affiliated with Jails to Jobs, a Bay Area-based nonprofit that supports re-entry to the workforce for formerly incarcerated people, referred him to the clinic. Jails to Jobs estimates there are around 300 similar tattoo removal clinics in the U.S. Just under half of them are located in California which, in recent years, has seen an increase in access to these services — inside prisons through the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, at university health systems like UC San Diego and in cities, like Santa Rosa, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2829\">launched\u003c/a> a similar effort this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People typically seek tattoo removal to improve job prospects, but there’s also the societal stigma that can be as difficult to shed, said Mark Drevno, founder and executive director of Jails to Jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030034\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Navarro ices her tattoo to ease the pain before a session at the tattoo removal clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Simple things like traveling on the bus. I’ve had people tell me how they hide their hands on the bus because they don’t want anybody to see their hands,” he said. “Besides the practical stuff, there is inner work going on. They’re touching their soul when they’re removing these tattoos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the wider acceptance of tattoos in modern American society, their associations with prison life, gangs and violence persist. Recently, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5341544/ice-el-salvador-jerce-reyes-barrios\">reportedly\u003c/a> cited a tattoo of a Spanish soccer team as evidence for one of the 238 Venezuelan migrants deported from the U.S. to El Salvador over their alleged allegiance to the Tren de Aragua gang, which has become a target of the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers with UC San Diego, where a free removal clinic was established in 2016, have studied motivations for tattoo removal among “justice-involved adults.” Their \u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306624X221102807\">2023 study\u003c/a>, published in the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, found that over half of the participants cited reasons associated with “public or interpersonal stigma,” which included better perceptions among friends and family. The study also found that more than 80% of participants said they felt they had been discriminated against because of their tattoos.[aside postID=news_12026600 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-Dream-Keeper-Returns-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Part of the appeal of clinics like the one at SF General is that there’s no cost to patients. The UC San Diego research cites cost as a significant barrier. Treatments at private establishments can cost thousands of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pantell estimates around a dozen patients visit the weekly clinic at SF General. Ana Navarro has a rose design on her right ankle. It’s hard to see it as the treatment appears to be working. She said she has had it since she was a teenager and has been trying to get it removed for almost a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was young, not in the right relationships,” Navarro, 32, said. “So, being able to remove them, it feels like I’ve been an opportunity to clear the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a while, Shannon Whiley, 53, has been trying to get two tattooed dots removed — marks that were placed as part of her breast cancer treatment. The dots, about the size of a freckle, help doctors accurately position patients during radiation therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nikki, a sexual violence survivor, has an arm sleeve filled with interwoven hearts and flowers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Pantell took over the clinic from its founder, Dr. Pierre Joseph Marie-Rose. In 1998, he launched a similar effort, called \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/location--carecen-2nd-chance-tattoo-removal-clinic\">Second Chance,\u003c/a> for gang-affiliated youth in San Francisco (it’s still located at the Central American Resource Center on Mission and Cesar Chavez streets). While working at SF General Hospital, he applied for a grant to start a tattoo removal program at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a thermal injury. I was humbled that [patients] would come back and ask me to do it again,” Marie-Rose said. “I’ve never taken that for granted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When patients enter the laser room, lo-fi hip-hop music plays. Wearing a baseball cap, jeans and fresh kicks, Pantell arms a long glass cylinder, which resembles a thin highball cocktail glass, at the tattoos. 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The procedure can last anywhere from a few minutes to a half-hour, depending on the tattoo size, complexity and location on the body, according to Pantell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other factors, such as ink color — red and green can be stubborn — and quality, can play a role, Pantell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t want to do two lasers in the same day, so we’ll do the black ink first and then come back every six weeks till it’s gone,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12030036 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCSF Dr. Matthew Pantell uses a laser tattoo removal machine during a session with Nikki at the clinic he runs at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since patients are required to return every six to eight weeks for treatment, the hospital setting helps connect patients with other health care services, according to Pantell. He pointed out that patients are linked to their primary care physician and other social needs, like housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For patients like Guiterrez, the tattoo removal visits are often the most consistent contact with the medical system that they have had. He said he has been “in and out of the [criminal justice] system” since he was a kid growing up in Santa Barbara. Last July, he was released from state prison after serving a nearly 13-year sentence for charges related to carjacking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought about what I want to do for myself and being a two striker, meaning that if I catch another strike that will give me a 25-to-life sentence. So that makes me really think about every decision I make,” said Gutierrez, who said he sought self-help groups in prison and got support from Criminals & Gang Members Anonymous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said a contact affiliated with Jails to Jobs, a Bay Area-based nonprofit that supports re-entry to the workforce for formerly incarcerated people, referred him to the clinic. Jails to Jobs estimates there are around 300 similar tattoo removal clinics in the U.S. Just under half of them are located in California which, in recent years, has seen an increase in access to these services — inside prisons through the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, at university health systems like UC San Diego and in cities, like Santa Rosa, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2829\">launched\u003c/a> a similar effort this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People typically seek tattoo removal to improve job prospects, but there’s also the societal stigma that can be as difficult to shed, said Mark Drevno, founder and executive director of Jails to Jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030034\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030034\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250227-UCSFTATTOOS-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana Navarro ices her tattoo to ease the pain before a session at the tattoo removal clinic at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco on Feb. 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Simple things like traveling on the bus. I’ve had people tell me how they hide their hands on the bus because they don’t want anybody to see their hands,” he said. “Besides the practical stuff, there is inner work going on. They’re touching their soul when they’re removing these tattoos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the wider acceptance of tattoos in modern American society, their associations with prison life, gangs and violence persist. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tens of thousands of workers in health care, service, research and other roles at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027153/uc-workers-vote-to-strike-amid-federal-funding-threats\">University of California\u003c/a> walked off the job on Tuesday for the third time in five months as contentious contract negotiations drag on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor experts said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028446/tens-of-thousands-uc-workers-strike-disrupting-campuses-hospitals-labs\">yet another strike\u003c/a> across all UC campuses, hospitals and laboratories — this one limited to a single day — points to a high level of frustration with the state’s second-largest employer as workers push for improved wages and staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These workers — who are community members but also patients in the health care system — are determined to make sure that these jobs are sustainable and that they can remain in these jobs,” said Rebecca Givan, a professor of labor studies and employment relations at Rutgers University who has followed the health care industry for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday’s walkout over UC’s alleged unfair labor practices was initiated by the University Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE), which represents about 20,000 physician assistants, pharmacists, IT analysts and others. An additional 37,000 patient care, technical and service workers represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) joined the strike in solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both unions have repeatedly gone to state regulators to accuse the UC system of unlawful bad-faith bargaining, which the university strongly denies. The California Public Employment Relations Board is investigating the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Berkeley on Tuesday, a long line of workers marched around campus, holding signs that read “For our patients, for our research, for our students,” and “On Strike,” before a midday rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12032232 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-2201544551-1020x729.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All we want is to be able to have adequate staffing, to have enough co-workers to accomplish whatever our mission is at our worksite,” said Catherine Callaway, a UC Berkeley museum scientist and UPTE worksite representative. “What it feels like day to day is looking at all the things that you can’t possibly get done, watching your co-workers slowly burn out, watching people leave before they should really have to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UPTE members \u003ca href=\"https://upte.org/ucstrike\">argue that the university’s plans\u003c/a> to increase their health care costs without bargaining over the changes will exacerbate a recruitment and retention crisis that is hurting patient care and research. The university denies that a staffing crisis is taking place, \u003ca href=\"https://labor.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/upte-2025-fact-sheet.pdf\">pointing (PDF)\u003c/a> to lower turnover rates and increasing headcounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, UC President Michael Drake announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032232/head-of-ucs-largest-union-blasts-top-brass-for-hiring-freeze-amid-massive-vacancy-crisis\">a systemwide hiring freeze\u003c/a> and other cost-saving measures as the university faces threats to its federal and state funding. Since contract negotiations with AFSCME and UPTE began in January and June 2024, respectively, UC has offered “generous wage increases,” expanded sick leave and other benefits to try to avoid strike disruptions, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/statement-april-1-upte-and-afscme-strike\">statement\u003c/a> by the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These strikes cost the University system millions of dollars, at a time when federal and state funding is uncertain,” the UC statement read. “UPTE and AFSCME are not being forthright in their characterizations, which is upsetting since we’ve made sincere efforts to find mutually beneficial solutions. Regardless, we are hopeful AFSCME and UPTE will make meaningful efforts to settle these contracts soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034103\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-12_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-12_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-12_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-12_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-12_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the University Professional and Technical Employees Local 9119 and the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 strike at the UC Mission Bay Campus in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The unions argue that even if budget reductions are necessary, the cuts should not be disproportionately shouldered by their members’ paychecks and working conditions. They have noted that the university approved big raises for campus chancellors last year and continued to invest in new hospital buildings and other large capital projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AFSCME and UC representatives are scheduled to meet in the coming weeks, according to a university spokesperson. State regulators have intervened in the UPTE negotiations after that union declared in January that talks with UC broke down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strikes by UPTE and AFSCME, including for a few days in November and February, have been the largest in the country in 2024 and so far this year, according to Johnnie Kallas, who directs the \u003ca href=\"https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/\">Labor Action Tracker\u003c/a>, a project by Cornell University and the University of Illinois.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In health care, education and other settings, limited-duration strikes are much more common than indefinite walkouts, which tend to be more disruptive for employers as well as workers who forgo their paychecks, Kallas added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Workers and their representatives in the unions are very frustrated that UC hasn’t — at least in their mind — meaningfully come to the table to resolve their outstanding issues,” he said. “But it hasn’t reached the point where, for a variety of reasons, the union and the workers have decided they want to go on an even longer strike, which would be even more disruptive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All we want is to be able to have adequate staffing, to have enough co-workers to accomplish whatever our mission is at our worksite,” said Catherine Callaway, a UC Berkeley museum scientist and UPTE worksite representative. “What it feels like day to day is looking at all the things that you can’t possibly get done, watching your co-workers slowly burn out, watching people leave before they should really have to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UPTE members \u003ca href=\"https://upte.org/ucstrike\">argue that the university’s plans\u003c/a> to increase their health care costs without bargaining over the changes will exacerbate a recruitment and retention crisis that is hurting patient care and research. The university denies that a staffing crisis is taking place, \u003ca href=\"https://labor.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/upte-2025-fact-sheet.pdf\">pointing (PDF)\u003c/a> to lower turnover rates and increasing headcounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, UC President Michael Drake announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12032232/head-of-ucs-largest-union-blasts-top-brass-for-hiring-freeze-amid-massive-vacancy-crisis\">a systemwide hiring freeze\u003c/a> and other cost-saving measures as the university faces threats to its federal and state funding. Since contract negotiations with AFSCME and UPTE began in January and June 2024, respectively, UC has offered “generous wage increases,” expanded sick leave and other benefits to try to avoid strike disruptions, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/statement-april-1-upte-and-afscme-strike\">statement\u003c/a> by the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These strikes cost the University system millions of dollars, at a time when federal and state funding is uncertain,” the UC statement read. “UPTE and AFSCME are not being forthright in their characterizations, which is upsetting since we’ve made sincere efforts to find mutually beneficial solutions. Regardless, we are hopeful AFSCME and UPTE will make meaningful efforts to settle these contracts soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034103\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034103\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-12_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-12_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-12_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-12_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-12_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-12_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-12_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the University Professional and Technical Employees Local 9119 and the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 strike at the UC Mission Bay Campus in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The unions argue that even if budget reductions are necessary, the cuts should not be disproportionately shouldered by their members’ paychecks and working conditions. They have noted that the university approved big raises for campus chancellors last year and continued to invest in new hospital buildings and other large capital projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AFSCME and UC representatives are scheduled to meet in the coming weeks, according to a university spokesperson. State regulators have intervened in the UPTE negotiations after that union declared in January that talks with UC broke down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strikes by UPTE and AFSCME, including for a few days in November and February, have been the largest in the country in 2024 and so far this year, according to Johnnie Kallas, who directs the \u003ca href=\"https://striketracker.ilr.cornell.edu/\">Labor Action Tracker\u003c/a>, a project by Cornell University and the University of Illinois.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In health care, education and other settings, limited-duration strikes are much more common than indefinite walkouts, which tend to be more disruptive for employers as well as workers who forgo their paychecks, Kallas added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Workers and their representatives in the unions are very frustrated that UC hasn’t — at least in their mind — meaningfully come to the table to resolve their outstanding issues,” he said. “But it hasn’t reached the point where, for a variety of reasons, the union and the workers have decided they want to go on an even longer strike, which would be even more disruptive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Cross-border politics have cost the UCSF Medical Center a leading heart surgeon from Canada who was set to start his job this month but changed his mind. The reason: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909303/canadians-to-trump-we-are-not-having-it\">economic and political hostility toward our northern neighbor\u003c/a> emanating from the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF touted the hiring of Dr. Marc Ruel late last year, saying he would be relocating from Canada to serve as the chief of the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dr. Ruel is one of the world’s most highly regarded cardiac surgeons, and his leadership will undoubtedly elevate our division to new heights across all our missions,” Dr. Julie Ann Sosa, chair of the Department of Surgery at UCSF, wrote in its December newsletter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ruel, too, had notified colleagues in Canada that he was leaving his post at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ottawaheart.ca/profile/ruel-marc\">University of Ottawa Heart Institute\u003c/a> (UOHI) to head up the division at UCSF, a position he accepted last fall. But a message from Sosa and another UCSF physician sent on March 4 to colleagues notified staff that Ruel had decided not to move to California, apparently influenced by President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025404/canada-tariffs-paused-california-wineries-fear-trade-dispute-would-be-crushing\">threats of tariffs\u003c/a> and talk of annexing Canada as the 51st state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message, signed by Sosa and Dr. Joshua Adler, acknowledged that much preparation had been made for Ruel’s arrival, adding that he “made the personal decision not to move forward with his relocation, given the evolving political climate and his commitment to serving his current institution in Ottawa.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12024922 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Anna Monkeymaker/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The message also noted the “tremendous effort” UCSF teams put into preparing for Ruel’s arrival, “laying the groundwork for his transition … and extending a warm welcome to him and his family.” Despite that lost effort, the physicians said the medical center “respects his decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impact of Ruel’s decision is being felt by patients in the Bay Area, including Jennifer Friedman of Berkeley. She has a hereditary condition leading to a partially blocked artery to her heart — a condition she was told could, at some point, require invasive open-heart surgery and a very long recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was excited to learn from UCSF that Ruel could treat her using a far less invasive procedure. The two connected by text, email and phone to get her on his schedule at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dr. Ruel was the hero surgeon that was coming to teach everybody at UCSF how to do the magical procedure,” Friedman told KQED. “And I was so excited that he was coming.”[aside postID=news_12032263 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250320-JAPANESEAMERICANSDENOUNCE-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Friedman said it was her understanding that in preparation for Ruel’s arrival, UCSF was going to “send a team of people from UCSF to Canada to see what his whole operating room situation looked like so they could basically recreate it here in San Francisco. And I don’t know if that happened or not, but then Trump was elected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internal UCSF letter to staff was careful not to weigh in on the U.S. political situation — not surprising given the enormous amount of federal dollars UCSF receives — but said, “We respect his need to adapt to changing circumstances — just as we do every day to advance our mission and provide world-class care to our patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, UCSF received $789 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which the Trump administration is trying to slash. In February, the University of California announced its \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-supports-legal-action-against-misguided-plan-cut-vital-nih-research-funds\">support for a lawsuit \u003c/a>filed by Attorney General Rob Bonta and 21 other states seeking to block the action. Earlier this month, a federal judge extended a temporary restraining order pausing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">efforts to cut NIH medical and scientific research grants\u003c/a> to universities and hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF did not publicly announce the loss of Ruel and declined KQED’s repeated requests for comment while referring us to the doctor. A spokesperson for the University of Ottawa confirmed that Ruel changed his mind over political considerations and will likely stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior shot of the UCSF Health building in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The outside of UCSF Health in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to UOHI’s website, Ruel, who was trained at Harvard, led its Division of Cardiac Surgery for 11 years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Friedman said it was her understanding that in preparation for Ruel’s arrival, UCSF was going to “send a team of people from UCSF to Canada to see what his whole operating room situation looked like so they could basically recreate it here in San Francisco. And I don’t know if that happened or not, but then Trump was elected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The internal UCSF letter to staff was careful not to weigh in on the U.S. political situation — not surprising given the enormous amount of federal dollars UCSF receives — but said, “We respect his need to adapt to changing circumstances — just as we do every day to advance our mission and provide world-class care to our patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, UCSF received $789 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which the Trump administration is trying to slash. In February, the University of California announced its \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-supports-legal-action-against-misguided-plan-cut-vital-nih-research-funds\">support for a lawsuit \u003c/a>filed by Attorney General Rob Bonta and 21 other states seeking to block the action. Earlier this month, a federal judge extended a temporary restraining order pausing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">efforts to cut NIH medical and scientific research grants\u003c/a> to universities and hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF did not publicly announce the loss of Ruel and declined KQED’s repeated requests for comment while referring us to the doctor. A spokesperson for the University of Ottawa confirmed that Ruel changed his mind over political considerations and will likely stay there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior shot of the UCSF Health building in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The outside of UCSF Health in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to UOHI’s website, Ruel, who was trained at Harvard, led its Division of Cardiac Surgery for 11 years. The university notes that the focus of Ruel’s research and work has been to make cardiac surgery “less invasive, more evidence-based, and performed with better patient outcomes.” He is currently the director of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery at UOHI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to Friedman sent on March 4, Ruel told her of his regrets that he would no longer be coming to UCSF, stressing that it was his personal affection for his nation that drove his decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am a proud Canadian, above all else, and I cannot in my patriotic conscience ignore what is happening,” Ruel wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Friedman, 57, is back to square one, looking for a new surgeon. \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I’m disappointed, I’m sad and I’m scared. And I feel like this is just the beginning of the ramifications” of Trump’s policies, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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At UC Berkeley, hundreds of workers from both labor groups were joined by students and community members as they marched through campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carmen Lee, a shuttle driver at UC San Francisco and AFSCME executive board member, said she decided to strike because of the ongoing affordability crisis. Lee said workers need better compensation so they can keep up with increases in housing and health care costs. She believes the university has the funds available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee pointed out that the university increased compensation for top executives last year while refusing to pay its service and patient care workers enough money to afford housing near UC campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Patient care and service workers in the UC system left because the university is not invested in taking care of them or really prioritizing their well-being,” said Liz Perlman, executive director of AFSCME Local 3299, which represents more than 30,000 UC employees statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UPTE Local 9119, which represents approximately 20,000 workers, authorized the strike earlier this month with 98% approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contract negotiations between the two unions and UC — one of the state’s largest employers with over 200,000 workers — began months ago, but no agreements have been reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university offered UPTE a \u003ca href=\"https://labor.universityofcalifornia.edu/upte/\">5% wage increase\u003c/a> starting July 1, 2025, followed by a 3% raise both in 2026 and 2027. Its offer for AFSCME included \u003ca href=\"https://labor.universityofcalifornia.edu/afscme/\">raises of 5% in 2025\u003c/a>, 4% in 2026, and 3% in 2027, 2028 and 2029. The unions have said the proposals are insufficient and suggested wage increases do not accurately reflect the increased cost of living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12028885 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-10_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the University Professional and Technical Employees Local 9119 and the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 strike at the UC Mission Bay Campus in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the last four years, more than 13,000 UC patient care and service workers have resigned from their posts, according to a Tuesday press release from AFSCME. Despite the invaluable services UC workers provide to the university, they’re dealing with a 10% inflationary cut to their real wages, Perlman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many employees are struggling to keep up with rising housing and health care costs, forcing some to sleep in their cars or endure hours-long commutes just to continue working at the university, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union representatives and UC employees have also expressed frustration with what they say are pervasive staffing shortages at many of the university’s medical facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much demand in the hospital and not enough staff to address patient needs… so patients are staying longer,” Shawn Singh, a nurse case manager at UCSF, said. “It just really creates the recipe for burnout, moral distress and poor quality in patient care within the hospital system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh said health care workers and technicians, expected to handle an exorbitant number of responsibilities, are being stretched thin. It’s starting to harm their patients, which is why the employees decided to go on strike, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12028926 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Roberts, a medical interpreter at UCSF and other members of the University Professional and Technical Employees Local 9119 and the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 strike at the UC Mission Bay Campus in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2025. \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sarah Roberts, a Spanish medical interpreter at UCSF Medical Center, is one of the thousands of striking medical workers. She said her department has been cut in half despite the demand for language interpretation services at UC facilities staying consistent. Roberts said discharging patients after serious procedures without a language interpreter leads to more medical complications and higher readmittance rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see patients that should be getting the services of a qualified in-person medical interpreter not getting that, and their care is suffering because of it,” she said. “I am completely burnt out. I don’t know how much longer I can even stay here if this continues to be the way the university wants to do things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2023, UC Chief Financial Officer Nathan Brostrom told the Board of Regents that vacancy staff rates have tripled since the pandemic, but the university is arguing the opposite. Heather Hansen, a spokesperson with the UC Office of the President, said university data indicates that the headcount of UPTE members has increased and turnover rates are flattening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no truth to the claim that we have a vacancy issue,” Hansen said. “They want to demand we freeze positions and have them set aside for union members in perpetuity, but that would severely limit our ability to adapt to changing operational needs and unforeseen consequences such as a pandemic.”[aside postID=news_12028309 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/241023-SFUSDSuperintendent-12-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hansen said the university is disappointed in the two unions for deciding to strike, but she said the UC is ready to resolve a contract with both unions. The university has plans to bring in contract workers to minimize disruptions to patients, students and school operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, the parties agreed that dozens of employees essential to health and safety operations will not participate in the strike. The UC withdrew its request to the California Public Employment Relation Board for a court injunction against the unions, according to Felix De La Torre, general counsel for the PERB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both UPTE Local 9119 and AFSCME Local 3299 have accused the university of engaging in unfair labor practices before state regulators, including for an alleged crackdown on free speech, which the university denies. The PERB is investigating the charges, and Hansen said the process could take months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of our responsibility to our patients, it’s important that we are able to speak out when we see things that are detrimental to the quality of that care,” said Michael McGlenn, a clinical psychologist at UC San Diego. “The UC has moved to restrict our ability to speak out and advocate for our patient… Our providers care too much about the folks that we serve to be silenced and we’re not going to keep our heads down any longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The labor action comes as the federal government and the National Institutes of Health threaten to cut funding for biomedical and public research at universities and research facilities across the country. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carmen Lee, a shuttle driver at UC San Francisco and AFSCME executive board member, said she decided to strike because of the ongoing affordability crisis. Lee said workers need better compensation so they can keep up with increases in housing and health care costs. She believes the university has the funds available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee pointed out that the university increased compensation for top executives last year while refusing to pay its service and patient care workers enough money to afford housing near UC campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Patient care and service workers in the UC system left because the university is not invested in taking care of them or really prioritizing their well-being,” said Liz Perlman, executive director of AFSCME Local 3299, which represents more than 30,000 UC employees statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UPTE Local 9119, which represents approximately 20,000 workers, authorized the strike earlier this month with 98% approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contract negotiations between the two unions and UC — one of the state’s largest employers with over 200,000 workers — began months ago, but no agreements have been reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university offered UPTE a \u003ca href=\"https://labor.universityofcalifornia.edu/upte/\">5% wage increase\u003c/a> starting July 1, 2025, followed by a 3% raise both in 2026 and 2027. 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Despite the invaluable services UC workers provide to the university, they’re dealing with a 10% inflationary cut to their real wages, Perlman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many employees are struggling to keep up with rising housing and health care costs, forcing some to sleep in their cars or endure hours-long commutes just to continue working at the university, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union representatives and UC employees have also expressed frustration with what they say are pervasive staffing shortages at many of the university’s medical facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much demand in the hospital and not enough staff to address patient needs… so patients are staying longer,” Shawn Singh, a nurse case manager at UCSF, said. “It just really creates the recipe for burnout, moral distress and poor quality in patient care within the hospital system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh said health care workers and technicians, expected to handle an exorbitant number of responsibilities, are being stretched thin. It’s starting to harm their patients, which is why the employees decided to go on strike, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028926\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12028926 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250226-UC-STRIKE-MD-09_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarah Roberts, a medical interpreter at UCSF and other members of the University Professional and Technical Employees Local 9119 and the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 strike at the UC Mission Bay Campus in San Francisco on Feb. 26, 2025. \u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sarah Roberts, a Spanish medical interpreter at UCSF Medical Center, is one of the thousands of striking medical workers. She said her department has been cut in half despite the demand for language interpretation services at UC facilities staying consistent. Roberts said discharging patients after serious procedures without a language interpreter leads to more medical complications and higher readmittance rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see patients that should be getting the services of a qualified in-person medical interpreter not getting that, and their care is suffering because of it,” she said. “I am completely burnt out. I don’t know how much longer I can even stay here if this continues to be the way the university wants to do things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2023, UC Chief Financial Officer Nathan Brostrom told the Board of Regents that vacancy staff rates have tripled since the pandemic, but the university is arguing the opposite. Heather Hansen, a spokesperson with the UC Office of the President, said university data indicates that the headcount of UPTE members has increased and turnover rates are flattening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no truth to the claim that we have a vacancy issue,” Hansen said. “They want to demand we freeze positions and have them set aside for union members in perpetuity, but that would severely limit our ability to adapt to changing operational needs and unforeseen consequences such as a pandemic.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hansen said the university is disappointed in the two unions for deciding to strike, but she said the UC is ready to resolve a contract with both unions. The university has plans to bring in contract workers to minimize disruptions to patients, students and school operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, the parties agreed that dozens of employees essential to health and safety operations will not participate in the strike. The UC withdrew its request to the California Public Employment Relation Board for a court injunction against the unions, according to Felix De La Torre, general counsel for the PERB.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both UPTE Local 9119 and AFSCME Local 3299 have accused the university of engaging in unfair labor practices before state regulators, including for an alleged crackdown on free speech, which the university denies. The PERB is investigating the charges, and Hansen said the process could take months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because of our responsibility to our patients, it’s important that we are able to speak out when we see things that are detrimental to the quality of that care,” said Michael McGlenn, a clinical psychologist at UC San Diego. “The UC has moved to restrict our ability to speak out and advocate for our patient… Our providers care too much about the folks that we serve to be silenced and we’re not going to keep our heads down any longer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The labor action comes as the federal government and the National Institutes of Health threaten to cut funding for biomedical and public research at universities and research facilities across the country. Earlier this month, a federal judge in Massachusetts placed a temporary block on the cuts, which the university said would amount to hundreds of millions of dollars per year, after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026447/judge-blocks-trump-plan-cut-research-funding-after-california-other-states-sue\">California and several other states filed suit\u003c/a>. The pause was extended last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers with UPTE Local 9119 will be on strike through Friday, and those represented by AFSCME Local 3229 will be on strike through Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The union said the strike has been scheduled for Feb. 26–28 and will involve members across all UC campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It represents the latest escalation in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12011878/thousands-of-uc-san-francisco-workers-are-preparing-to-strike\">conflict over top union concerns such as staffing levels and compensation\u003c/a> that sparked a two-day work stoppage at UC San Francisco in November. Also on Friday, the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, which represents more than 37,000 UC patient care and service workers, announced a strike at all UC campuses and five medical centers from Feb. 26–27.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contract negotiations between UPTE and UC, the state’s third-largest employer, began eight months ago. However, both parties remain far apart on the union’s goal of fixing the alleged recruitment and retention crisis that is harming patients, research and students, according to Dan Russell, UPTE’s president and lead negotiator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t want to have to strike. But we’re also not going to let this crisis continue to drag out,” said Russell, a business technology support analyst at UC Berkeley. “We hear these stories from almost every group of workers, whether it’s pay is too low, people are leaving to go to Kaiser or people just feeling disaffected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Physician assistants, mental health clinicians, laboratory scientists, IT workers and other UC employees are fed up with the lack of progress, he added. The union declared an impasse on Jan. 3, and the two parties met with mediators later in the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC has \u003ca href=\"https://labor.universityofcalifornia.edu/upte/\">proposed\u003c/a> wage increases for UPTE-represented employees of 5% starting in July, 3% in 2026 and 3% in 2027. The university also offered to streamline some of its career growth mechanisms and expand access to vacation time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the university called the union’s talk of preparing for a work stoppage “disheartening.”[aside postID=forum_2010101908476 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/10714834-thumb.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university has been and remains ready to settle these contracts: we have offered UPTE what it has asked for,” Heather Hansen, a spokesperson with the UC Office of the President, said in a statement. “In the event of a strike, the University is prepared to make every effort to ensure the critical operations of the University system, which includes patient care, continue at a level of excellence UC patients, students, faculty and staff expect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UPTE and UC have accused each other of engaging in bad-faith bargaining on key issues. The union charged the university with unfair labor practices before the California Public Employment Relations Board, including for allegedly failing to provide job vacancy and financial data to assess the extent of staffing issues, increasing employee health care costs without negotiating over the changes and \u003ca href=\"https://upte.org/news/upte-files-major-charge-against-ucs-crackdown-on-free-speech\">limiting worker and union speech\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hansen told KQED last October that the university was working to produce information on vacancy rates and other data. But Russell said the union has yet to receive that information. In a Friday email, Hansen told KQED UC has provided turnover rate data, as well as data that show headcount is going up as separations decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The labor standoff comes as a federal judge in Boston temporarily blocked this week the National Institutes of Health from reducing funding that supports biomedical and public health research at universities, after California and 21 other states sued. The NIH is the largest funder of UC research, and the university said it could lose hundreds of millions of dollars per year, leading to layoffs and disruptions to life-saving research. 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The \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2829547?utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_term=012725\">study\u003c/a>, published last week in \u003cem>JAMA Network Open\u003c/em>, also found that after years of decline, prostate cancer mortality rates have stalled in much of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prostate cancer is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/understanding-cancer-risk/cancer-facts/cancer-facts-for-men.html#:~:text=Prostate%20cancer%20is%20the%20most,as%20a%20man%20gets%20older.\">most common cancer among men in the U.S.\u003c/a> and a leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Some tumors grow so slowly that they never cause harm, while others spread quickly and require urgent treatment. The go-to screening method — the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test — can’t always tell the difference, which has led to concerns about unnecessary procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior shot of the UCSF Health building in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The outside of UCSF Health in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended stopping routine PSA screenings to prevent unnecessary surgeries and complications. However, in 2018, the panel adjusted its stance, advising men between 55 and 69 to talk with their doctors about screening options. Despite this, Van Blarigan said rates continue to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We absolutely need to screen — that’s the bottom line,” she said. “But we have to do it smarter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UCSF study analyzed nearly 388,000 prostate cancer cases in California from 2004 to 2021. Researchers found that 7.2% of those cases were diagnosed at an advanced stage, where the five-year survival rate drops to just 37%. Over the same period, nearly 59,000 men in California died from the disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023867 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BirdFluAP-1020x654.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Central Coast saw the fastest increase in advanced cases, rising 9.1% per year, while the Southern San Joaquin Valley had the slowest rise at 2.3% per year. The highest mortality rates were in the Inland Empire, San Diego-Imperial and North Coast regions, while the San Francisco Bay Area had the lowest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Blarigan said the next step is to find out why rates vary geographically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists are studying advanced imaging technologies and biomarker tests that could help doctors determine a patient’s risk more accurately, reducing the need for one-size-fits-all screening approaches. Van Blarigan emphasized the importance of staying informed and proactive about personal health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s worth asking [your doctor] if a PSA test makes sense for you,” she said. “Then, based on your results, you and your doctor can decide the next steps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Preventive Services Task Force is reviewing its prostate cancer screening guidelines again, with updates expected soon. 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"content": "\u003cp>Dr. Adil Daud, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cancer\">cancer\u003c/a> researcher, is scrambling to keep a critical clinical trial afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His team is developing a treatment for mucosal melanoma, a rare and aggressive cancer. 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Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the NIH.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Pamela Munster, a cancer researcher, said she has never seen anything like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here since 1992, through multiple presidents — Clinton, Bush, Obama. This is completely new territory,” she said. “Scientific meetings aren’t just paused, halted or delayed like this. Even during COVID, we found ways to continue virtually.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At institutions such as UCSF, where NIH funding supports grants, the consequences could be devastating. In 2023 alone, UCSF received $789 million in NIH funding — more than any other public university in the nation, a distinction it has held for 17 consecutive years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011885 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1156\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-800x462.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-1020x590.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-1536x888.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-1920x1110.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCSF, the nation’s top public recipient of NIH funding for 17 years, received $789 million in 2023 — vital support that could face serious consequences if funding is cut. \u003ccite>(Thomas Hawk/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like PTSD,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert. “I’m really activated because it’s all so uncertain. 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The entire system depends on intricate scheduling and coordination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not easy to just postpone them,” Munster said. “I’m not sure how we make up for these delays.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adding to the chaos, NIH staff were reportedly instructed to cease communication with external scientists, halt travel to scientific conferences and cancel meetings between researchers and NIH program officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California is evaluating the deluge of orders issued by Trump and the subsequent agency guidance to understand their potential impact, according to a statement from the Office of the President.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For physician-scientists who split their time between treating patients and conducting research, the instability is particularly concerning. Munster said she and her colleagues translate discoveries from the lab into treatments for patients and bring insights from patient care back to the lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024591 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpJanuary6PardonsGetty-1020x686.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re somewhat of an endangered species already,” Munster explained. “I bring a lot of bedside-to-bench expertise. That will be lost if people like me don’t see academic medicine as a viable career path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Munster predicts more scientists will abandon academia for the private sector, where salaries are often significantly higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We put our hearts and souls into medical research,” she said. “Don’t get me wrong — I make a decent salary as a physician-scientist. But I could make a lot more money if I went into industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy has publicly stated his intent to fire and replace 600 of NIH’s 20,000 employees and shift half of the NIH budget toward “preventive, alternative and holistic approaches to health.” While experts agree lifestyle changes are important, they stress that exercise and nutrition won’t be enough for terminal cancer patients who need breakthrough treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Elad Sharon, an oncologist at Harvard University, likens the current situation to a government shutdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason why there is so much confusion in the scientific community is that there is no purported end date associated with this decision to stop some aspect of grant review and public communication,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he acknowledges that a short pause may not immediately derail scientific progress, the broader implications of these disruptions raise serious concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public health agencies like the NIH play a critical role not just in supporting researchers but in addressing the needs of vulnerable populations,” Sharon said. “Without federal support, many critical questions, especially those affecting individuals overlooked by commercial interests, simply won’t be answered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the more federal health agencies are restricted, the greater the impact on people’s lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We serve the public regardless of political ideology,” Sharon said. “Cancer research shouldn’t be turned on and off based on politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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By Wednesday morning, the administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/29/us/trump-federal-freeze-funding-news#nih-trials-research\">rescinded the freeze\u003c/a>, according to the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023747\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023747\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1302\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-1536x1000.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/DonaldTrumpEOGetty-1920x1250.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. \u003ccite>(Jim Watson/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The disruption coincides with this week’s Senate hearings evaluating Robert F. 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In 2023 alone, UCSF received $789 million in NIH funding — more than any other public university in the nation, a distinction it has held for 17 consecutive years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011885 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1156\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-800x462.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-1020x590.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-1536x888.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-1920x1110.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UCSF, the nation’s top public recipient of NIH funding for 17 years, received $789 million in 2023 — vital support that could face serious consequences if funding is cut. \u003ccite>(Thomas Hawk/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost like PTSD,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert. “I’m really activated because it’s all so uncertain. 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"content": "\u003cp>One outgoing supervisor is calling on the city to harmonize public health and law enforcement’s approach to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/overdose-crisis\">overdose crisis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although overdose deaths have dipped 20% to date this year compared to 2023, San Francisco continues to face an epidemic-level drug overdose crisis. Supervisor Dean Preston, who lost his reelection bid earlier this month, released a report on Tuesday that offers a blueprint for how San Francisco can emulate an approach used in Zurich, Switzerland – one of San Francisco’s sister cities that similarly struggled with an opioid crisis in the 1990s, but has since become an international model for overdose prevention and reducing drug-related crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is making sure the Department of Public Health, the Police Department, homeless services and others at the table are actually pursuing a unified approach, and we do not have anything like that in San Francisco right now,” Preston told KQED. “My hope is that this is a top priority for not only the new mayor but for incoming supervisors also.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After implementing a “Four Pillars Strategy” that unites prevention, treatment, harm reduction and law enforcement, overdose deaths in Zurich decreased by 50% from 1991 to 2010, according to Stanford Social Innovation Review, along with a 65% decrease in HIV infections, and 80% decrease in new heroin users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF addiction expert Daniel Ciccarone has studied safe consumption sites in Zurich and around the globe. He said the report offers a “rational, clear-minded policy analysis that the city needs for this crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The beauty of this report is it gives us an opportunity to look at evidence-based approaches and move the city forward,” he said. “There is no good ‘Plan B.’ Relying on police interventions is not sustainable, and bribing or threatening people into treatment does not work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several differences could make implementation look different between San Francisco and Zurich, including that the Swiss city is about half the size of San Francisco, has a smaller homeless population, and has more medication-assisted treatment options legally available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by the success in Zurich, Preston requested that the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst office produce the report on how San Francisco might replicate that success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997838\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Dean Preston speaks to a local resident at a bus stop at McAllister and Divisadero in San Francisco on June 13, 2024, while campaigning for reelection to the Board of Supervisors District 5. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Do we need to do exactly everything that Zurich has done? No. But the defining feature of their Four Pillars approach is that all of these relevant departments are working on each pillar,” he said. “They don’t just work to put Band-Aids on a situation or reactive crisis response. They actually have both a short and long-term plan for success, and that’s what this city has really been lacking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the top of the report’s recommendations is a call for all departments working on overdose issues to coordinate – a seemingly simple task but one that the city has struggled to achieve throughout the current overdose crisis. For example, when the city opened up a temporary overdose prevention center in 2022, police fined some drug users for carrying publicly-funded harm reduction supplies that were provided at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie plans to initiate a state of emergency for the fentanyl crisis when he takes office in January, which Preston said could be an opportunity to implement the report’s recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it’s unclear exactly what the incoming mayor will do with the emergency powers. Lurie ran on a platform of increasing drug treatment availability, improving behavioral health interventions and creating more supportive housing, as well as using ankle monitors on first-time drug dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am in the process of setting up a meeting with Mayor-elect Lurie to go over this,” Preston said. “A culture shift needs to happen, but it’s all doable. And one of the problems right now is we just are not pursuing a unified approach to solve this crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909488\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11909488\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS53605_010_SanFrancisco_TLLinkageCenter_02082022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wait in line to get into the Tenderloin Linkage Center in San Francisco on Feb. 8, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie wouldn’t be the first to declare a state of emergency, which allows the city to bypass certain bureaucratic steps to release and direct urgently needed resources. In December 2021, Mayor London Breed declared an emergency in the Tenderloin, a neighborhood with the highest rate of overdose deaths in the city. It allowed Breed to call in federal law enforcement agencies to help slow the flow of fentanyl into the city and arrest drug dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her emergency order, the city temporarily opened up a safe consumption site in 2022, called the Tenderloin Center, a medically supervised space where drug users could get off the street and get free meals, showers and other basic necessities. More than 300 people visited the center daily, and health professionals reversed 100% of overdoses that occurred on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The safe consumption site was intended to be temporary, and the city closed it after about 10 months following public criticism and scrutiny from local businesses who complained about long lines outside extending into United Nations Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, San Francisco released an Overdose Prevention Plan that called for opening up replacement centers in more dispersed wellness hubs around the city. However, today, efforts to open such centers remain at a standstill and political willpower to make them happen has waned in anticipation of President Donald Trump’s second term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12000161 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/021_SanFrancisco_StFrancisER_08262021_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Budget and Legislative Analyst’s report also recommends that the city open up safe consumption sites and coordinate with law enforcement to help people move safely indoors and reduce drug use in public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the report also calls for expanding medication-assisted treatment, like buprenorphine, which helps curb cravings and withdrawal symptoms for people struggling with opioid addiction. The city has increased access to this type of therapy by reducing barriers, such as providing medication treatment on demand to residents in permanent supportive housing and expanding the city’s behavioral health pharmacy hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re starting to see more people accept treatment, whether it’s abstinence-based, buprenorphine or methadone,” Mayor London Breed told reporters at a Monday press conference about the city’s overdose response. “The people are out there doing the work and making sure that folks know it’s not a one-size-fits-all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, about 75% of Zurich residents with opioid addiction take medication for opioid use disorder. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One outgoing supervisor is calling on the city to harmonize public health and law enforcement’s approach to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/overdose-crisis\">overdose crisis\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although overdose deaths have dipped 20% to date this year compared to 2023, San Francisco continues to face an epidemic-level drug overdose crisis. Supervisor Dean Preston, who lost his reelection bid earlier this month, released a report on Tuesday that offers a blueprint for how San Francisco can emulate an approach used in Zurich, Switzerland – one of San Francisco’s sister cities that similarly struggled with an opioid crisis in the 1990s, but has since become an international model for overdose prevention and reducing drug-related crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is making sure the Department of Public Health, the Police Department, homeless services and others at the table are actually pursuing a unified approach, and we do not have anything like that in San Francisco right now,” Preston told KQED. “My hope is that this is a top priority for not only the new mayor but for incoming supervisors also.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After implementing a “Four Pillars Strategy” that unites prevention, treatment, harm reduction and law enforcement, overdose deaths in Zurich decreased by 50% from 1991 to 2010, according to Stanford Social Innovation Review, along with a 65% decrease in HIV infections, and 80% decrease in new heroin users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He said the report offers a “rational, clear-minded policy analysis that the city needs for this crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The beauty of this report is it gives us an opportunity to look at evidence-based approaches and move the city forward,” he said. “There is no good ‘Plan B.’ Relying on police interventions is not sustainable, and bribing or threatening people into treatment does not work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several differences could make implementation look different between San Francisco and Zurich, including that the Swiss city is about half the size of San Francisco, has a smaller homeless population, and has more medication-assisted treatment options legally available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspired by the success in Zurich, Preston requested that the city’s Budget and Legislative Analyst office produce the report on how San Francisco might replicate that success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997838\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240613-DeanPreston-02-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Dean Preston speaks to a local resident at a bus stop at McAllister and Divisadero in San Francisco on June 13, 2024, while campaigning for reelection to the Board of Supervisors District 5. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Do we need to do exactly everything that Zurich has done? No. But the defining feature of their Four Pillars approach is that all of these relevant departments are working on each pillar,” he said. “They don’t just work to put Band-Aids on a situation or reactive crisis response. They actually have both a short and long-term plan for success, and that’s what this city has really been lacking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the top of the report’s recommendations is a call for all departments working on overdose issues to coordinate – a seemingly simple task but one that the city has struggled to achieve throughout the current overdose crisis. For example, when the city opened up a temporary overdose prevention center in 2022, police fined some drug users for carrying publicly-funded harm reduction supplies that were provided at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie plans to initiate a state of emergency for the fentanyl crisis when he takes office in January, which Preston said could be an opportunity to implement the report’s recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it’s unclear exactly what the incoming mayor will do with the emergency powers. Lurie ran on a platform of increasing drug treatment availability, improving behavioral health interventions and creating more supportive housing, as well as using ankle monitors on first-time drug dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am in the process of setting up a meeting with Mayor-elect Lurie to go over this,” Preston said. “A culture shift needs to happen, but it’s all doable. 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In December 2021, Mayor London Breed declared an emergency in the Tenderloin, a neighborhood with the highest rate of overdose deaths in the city. It allowed Breed to call in federal law enforcement agencies to help slow the flow of fentanyl into the city and arrest drug dealers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During her emergency order, the city temporarily opened up a safe consumption site in 2022, called the Tenderloin Center, a medically supervised space where drug users could get off the street and get free meals, showers and other basic necessities. 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"content": "\u003cp>Shawn Singh said he feels angry that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> hospital emergency room where he works is so understaffed that patients often wait too long to get a bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC San Francisco nurse case manager said he often assesses adults facing heart problems, kidney failure, septic shock and other life-threatening conditions as they lie on gurneys or sit in crowded hallways, denied the dignity of a private space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re in their most vulnerable moments with people walking by them in a hallway — in a public hall receiving care while they wait for a bed upstairs — because there is just not enough staff to be able to plan discharges for patients and make rooms available,” Singh, a 34-year-old San Jose native, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the five years Singh has worked at UCSF, he said hiring and retention problems have worsened, squeezing overworked employees and delaying patient care. The university has largely ignored pleas to improve working conditions, including during current labor contract negotiations that started in June, Singh added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s ready to strike as a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m there to fight for my patients,” he said. “The university is not bargaining with us in good faith. They’re not going to the table with the sense of urgency that we want them to have to be able to hire more staff, retain staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 4,000 health care, research and technical workers at UCSF authorized their union to call a strike over what they say is the university’s failure to bargain in good faith about short staffing and other top concerns. The members’ vote, which concluded Wednesday, passed with 98% support, according to the University Professional and Technical Employees Local 9119, which represents more than 19,000 physician assistants, optometrists, clinical lab scientists and other UC employees statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The threat of a walkout at UCSF comes as 37,000 UC service and patient care workers with a separate union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, are also preparing for a potential statewide walkout. That strike authorization vote passed with 99% support, AFSCME said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both unions filed unfair labor practice charges with the California Public Employment Relations Board this month, alleging that the university has refused to provide essential job vacancy and financial data needed to assess the extent of staffing crisis and develop solutions in ongoing contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges maintain that the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/employee-news/more-wins-for-uc-employees-in-2024/\">third-largest employer\u003c/a> has also acted illegally by announcing it intends to significantly increase employee health care costs, as outlined in an email to staffers, without negotiating over the changes. Health care workers said the move will exacerbate recruitment and retention issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011885\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1156\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-800x462.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-1020x590.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-1536x888.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-1920x1110.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The threat of a walkout at UCSF grew this week as two unions voted to authorize strikes.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 36% of UCSF employees said they felt burned out always or very often on the job, higher than the national health care average of 29%, according to a university staff survey last year. Patients spend an hour longer on average at the UCSF Medical Center emergency department where Singh works, compared to wait times at other large hospitals in the state and nationwide, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/details/hospital/050454/view-all?city=San%20Francisco&state=CA&zipcode=\">Medicare.gov figures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heather Hansen, a spokesperson for UC’s Office of the President, said the strike authorization votes by UPTE and AFSCME were disheartening but not surprising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems that no matter what we presented at the table, UPTE’s move towards a strike was a foregone conclusion,” Hansen said in a statement. “We are disappointed and hope UPTE can reconsider its position and continue earnestly bargaining towards a mutually beneficial agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that the university’s teams will keep bargaining across the system on proposals that include \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/resources/employment-policies-contracts/negotiation-updates/upte-news/\">salary raises\u003c/a> for UPTE members of 5% in 2025, 3% in 2026 and 3% in 2027. UC has also offered to increase pay for AFSCME workers by 26% over a five-year contract, according to Hansen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the university is working to produce information on vacancy rate and other data “on a rolling basis.” Hansen added that health insurance contribution rates for UPTE-represented employees are under negotiation, with UC \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor-news/upte-oct-3-4/\">offering credits\u003c/a> to help offset these costs, though the union considers them insufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bad faith has a clear and legal definition under the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act, and we look forward to the Public Employment Relations Board reviewing and determining the merits of the charge,” Hansen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC’s response to those charges is due Nov. 27, after the university requested and received an extension, according to Felix De La Torre, general counsel with the California Public Employment Relations Board. If an agency attorney finds enough evidence of an unfair practice by UC, the agency would issue a \u003ca href=\"https://perb.ca.gov/how-to-file-an-unfair-practice-charge/\">complaint\u003c/a> and move the case to a settlement conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12007779 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-04-KQED.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, short staffing is a common concern for hospital employees due to burnout and turnover, as many employers are generally opposed to investing more in their workforce because of the costs, according to Rebecca Givan, an associate professor of labor studies at Rutgers University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they can get away with lower staffing levels, they can increase their revenue,” Givans, who has followed the health care industry for 25 years, said. “And so they would prefer to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health care industry is very competitive and employers — even those in public and nonprofit institutions — are focused on revenue and minimizing costs. Employers tend to make investments they believe will help them compete for patients, Givans said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have to be in that sort of arms race to have flashier buildings and more amenities and better branding and advertising campaigns — and all of those things which aren’t really directly related to patient care,” Givans said. “But that’s the health care economy that we’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liz Perlman, executive director at AFSCME Local 3299, said UC is prioritizing raises for top executives and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-20/uc-chancellors-get-big-raises#:~:text=University%20of%20California%20chancellors%20will,did%20not%20receive%20salary%20adjustments.\">chancellors\u003c/a> and the construction of new hospitals in San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, and elsewhere while keeping facilities dangerously understaffed and paying too little to many frontline staffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, we want more care. We want to provide more services,” Perlman said. “But the problem is, if you build buildings but you don’t take care of the people who work inside them, frankly, the buildings are worthless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Shawn Singh said he feels angry that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> hospital emergency room where he works is so understaffed that patients often wait too long to get a bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC San Francisco nurse case manager said he often assesses adults facing heart problems, kidney failure, septic shock and other life-threatening conditions as they lie on gurneys or sit in crowded hallways, denied the dignity of a private space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re in their most vulnerable moments with people walking by them in a hallway — in a public hall receiving care while they wait for a bed upstairs — because there is just not enough staff to be able to plan discharges for patients and make rooms available,” Singh, a 34-year-old San Jose native, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the five years Singh has worked at UCSF, he said hiring and retention problems have worsened, squeezing overworked employees and delaying patient care. The university has largely ignored pleas to improve working conditions, including during current labor contract negotiations that started in June, Singh added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s ready to strike as a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m there to fight for my patients,” he said. “The university is not bargaining with us in good faith. They’re not going to the table with the sense of urgency that we want them to have to be able to hire more staff, retain staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 4,000 health care, research and technical workers at UCSF authorized their union to call a strike over what they say is the university’s failure to bargain in good faith about short staffing and other top concerns. The members’ vote, which concluded Wednesday, passed with 98% support, according to the University Professional and Technical Employees Local 9119, which represents more than 19,000 physician assistants, optometrists, clinical lab scientists and other UC employees statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The threat of a walkout at UCSF comes as 37,000 UC service and patient care workers with a separate union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299, are also preparing for a potential statewide walkout. That strike authorization vote passed with 99% support, AFSCME said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both unions filed unfair labor practice charges with the California Public Employment Relations Board this month, alleging that the university has refused to provide essential job vacancy and financial data needed to assess the extent of staffing crisis and develop solutions in ongoing contract negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges maintain that the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/employee-news/more-wins-for-uc-employees-in-2024/\">third-largest employer\u003c/a> has also acted illegally by announcing it intends to significantly increase employee health care costs, as outlined in an email to staffers, without negotiating over the changes. Health care workers said the move will exacerbate recruitment and retention issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011885\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1156\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-800x462.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-1020x590.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-1536x888.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/3050240908_520abecbfb_o_qed-1920x1110.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The threat of a walkout at UCSF grew this week as two unions voted to authorize strikes.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 36% of UCSF employees said they felt burned out always or very often on the job, higher than the national health care average of 29%, according to a university staff survey last year. Patients spend an hour longer on average at the UCSF Medical Center emergency department where Singh works, compared to wait times at other large hospitals in the state and nationwide, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.medicare.gov/care-compare/details/hospital/050454/view-all?city=San%20Francisco&state=CA&zipcode=\">Medicare.gov figures\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heather Hansen, a spokesperson for UC’s Office of the President, said the strike authorization votes by UPTE and AFSCME were disheartening but not surprising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems that no matter what we presented at the table, UPTE’s move towards a strike was a foregone conclusion,” Hansen said in a statement. “We are disappointed and hope UPTE can reconsider its position and continue earnestly bargaining towards a mutually beneficial agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that the university’s teams will keep bargaining across the system on proposals that include \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/resources/employment-policies-contracts/negotiation-updates/upte-news/\">salary raises\u003c/a> for UPTE members of 5% in 2025, 3% in 2026 and 3% in 2027. UC has also offered to increase pay for AFSCME workers by 26% over a five-year contract, according to Hansen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the university is working to produce information on vacancy rate and other data “on a rolling basis.” Hansen added that health insurance contribution rates for UPTE-represented employees are under negotiation, with UC \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor-news/upte-oct-3-4/\">offering credits\u003c/a> to help offset these costs, though the union considers them insufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bad faith has a clear and legal definition under the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act, and we look forward to the Public Employment Relations Board reviewing and determining the merits of the charge,” Hansen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC’s response to those charges is due Nov. 27, after the university requested and received an extension, according to Felix De La Torre, general counsel with the California Public Employment Relations Board. If an agency attorney finds enough evidence of an unfair practice by UC, the agency would issue a \u003ca href=\"https://perb.ca.gov/how-to-file-an-unfair-practice-charge/\">complaint\u003c/a> and move the case to a settlement conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, short staffing is a common concern for hospital employees due to burnout and turnover, as many employers are generally opposed to investing more in their workforce because of the costs, according to Rebecca Givan, an associate professor of labor studies at Rutgers University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they can get away with lower staffing levels, they can increase their revenue,” Givans, who has followed the health care industry for 25 years, said. “And so they would prefer to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The health care industry is very competitive and employers — even those in public and nonprofit institutions — are focused on revenue and minimizing costs. Employers tend to make investments they believe will help them compete for patients, Givans said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have to be in that sort of arms race to have flashier buildings and more amenities and better branding and advertising campaigns — and all of those things which aren’t really directly related to patient care,” Givans said. “But that’s the health care economy that we’re in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liz Perlman, executive director at AFSCME Local 3299, said UC is prioritizing raises for top executives and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-20/uc-chancellors-get-big-raises#:~:text=University%20of%20California%20chancellors%20will,did%20not%20receive%20salary%20adjustments.\">chancellors\u003c/a> and the construction of new hospitals in San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, and elsewhere while keeping facilities dangerously understaffed and paying too little to many frontline staffers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, we want more care. We want to provide more services,” Perlman said. “But the problem is, if you build buildings but you don’t take care of the people who work inside them, frankly, the buildings are worthless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 28\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fairuz Qari still feels the shock of what she heard on Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Screaming people,” said Qari, the owner of Tabroun, a Palestinian restaurant on the picturesque corner where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s Cole Valley meets Parnassus Heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Qari followed the sounds outside to a gruesome scene. Across the street, a dump truck making a right turn from Stanyan Street had struck a 70-year-old man crossing Parnassus Avenue. First responders pronounced the man dead and covered his body with a tarp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish I could unsee this,” she told KQED the day after the collision. “Because until now, my body is very sad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crash marked the city’s 20th \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981195/in-wake-of-deadly-west-portal-collision-breed-announces-initiatives-to-improve-traffic-safety\">pedestrian fatality\u003c/a> this year and was followed days later by the 21st, when a man was killed Friday morning \toutside a hospital on Geary Boulevard near Divisadero Street. They come at the end of a decade-long initiative to eliminate traffic deaths by 2024, a grim reminder that San Francisco is about as far as it’s ever been from its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958918/advocates-rally-at-fatal-crash-site-in-soma-demand-safety-changes\">Vision Zero goal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Twenty is too many,” said Jodie Medeiros, executive director of advocacy group Walk SF. “We always say that we can’t imagine what San Francisco would be like if we didn’t adopt Vision Zero. But things just haven’t gone far enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011142 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dump truck is filled at the construction site at UCSF on Oct. 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pedestrians now make up 70% of the city’s traffic fatalities this year — up 5 percentage points from the average. According to city data, 2024 is the deadliest year for pedestrians since 2014, when 21 were killed. And since the pandemic, small streets — like the intersection of Stanyan and Parnassus — are becoming more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have seen such a shift in where crashes are happening,” said Marta Lindsay, a spokesperson for Walk SF. “And to me, it’s really scary because now every street is becoming high risk. It’s because of this deadly combination of aggressive driving, speeding, larger, heavier vehicles and more traffic. It’s turned little streets into ones where someone could die tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those problems are especially concerning in the area of this week’s deadly crash on Parnassus, where neighbors said large trucks often drive through the hilly, residential streets on their way to and from a construction site at UC San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A construction worker who asked not to be named confirmed that the dump truck involved in the crash was contracted to remove dirt from the ongoing hospital project site at Parnassus and Hill Point Avenue. The truck was identified by \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/pedestrian-dies-san-francisco-near-ucsf\">KTVU \u003c/a>footage as operated by Lally Trucking Inc., which is based in Modesto. While the phone line at Lally appeared to be disconnected, safety reports published on the company’s website show zero involvement in past reportable crashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ilya Kaltman looks at the memorial at the intersection of Stanyan Street and Parnassus Avenue. “I’m 71 years old, and it could have been me,” Kaltman said. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The truck’s driver remained on the scene and did not appear to be under the influence, police said in a statement. The medical examiner’s office identified the victim as Jose Chow, 70, of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday morning, Lydia Byers and her husband, Neil, paused at a memorial on the street corner where Chow was killed. Walk SF and community members held a vigil the night of the crash and left yellow paper hearts, marigolds and a handwritten sign that read: “A driver killed our neighbor here, Oct. 22, 2024.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street, at Sunny Country market, bright sunflower bouquets bloomed out of barrels, with more flowers displayed in rows in front of the store’s tall windows. Bunches of woven baskets hung for sale under the market’s burgundy awning. As trucks and other large construction vehicles rumbled by, the couple looked both ways at the crosswalk and tried to understand how the crash could have happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our neighborhood,” said Byers, who said she has lived in the area much of her life. “This is my intersection that I frequent. It’s really scary that your life could be gone in a flash due to someone making a turn and not paying attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011141\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians cross the street in front of construction at UCSF on Oct. 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Just cut out right turns,” her husband added. “What’s a couple of seconds?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erica Kato, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, said in an email that the intersection has “painted daylighting” in the direction the truck was driving. Daylighting uses markers or red paint to prevent cars from parking near crosswalks to make sure drivers’ views of pedestrians are not obstructed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, on Wednesday, a red SUV was parked at the top of the steep hill approaching Parnassus, next to the red curb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the intersection has not had a pedestrian collision in the last 10 years, Medeiros said neighbors described plenty of close calls, as well as a lack of pedestrian signals at the crosswalk. Both the driver and the victim had a green light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need something,” Qari said. “In the morning, this is a very busy area. We have two schools [nearby — Haight Ashbury Cooperative and Grattan Elementary —] and a lot of kids. Traffic drives very fast, and you see a lot of trucks at the corner. We have to do something and put an extra light up to slow down the traffic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kato said the MTA is conducting a “rapid response review” of the deadly crash to evaluate the existing site and make recommendations for improvements. The location is on a list for future pedestrian signal upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12008419 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GettyImages-1280030498-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who represents Cole Valley, visited the vigil and promised improvements to the city’s roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My office has been in touch with SFPD, the MTA, UCSF and concerned neighbors since yesterday morning,” Mandelman \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RafaelMandelman/status/1849240420926329144\">posted\u003c/a> Wednesday on social media platform X, “and we will continue working with stakeholders both to understand what could have been done to avoid this particular tragedy and to prevent future crashes and deaths at this intersection and elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, improvements at the intersection would add it to a long list of streets where it took a tragedy to spur change. Transportation advocates have long argued for a more proactive approach to making streets safer for all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10413631/san-francisco-fire-department-signs-on-to-vision-zero-pedestrian-safety-plan\">committed to Vision Zero\u003c/a> in 2014, advocates say the city has made considerable improvements to public safety, especially in the city’s “high-injury network,” or the 12% of streets where more than two-thirds of its traffic collisions occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in that time, 326 people have been killed by traffic violence on San Francisco streets, according to the Department of Public Health. That equates to a traffic-related fatality, which includes cyclists and motorcyclists, every 12.11 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011296\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians wait to cross the intersection at Stanyan Street and Parnassus Avenue on Oct. 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, where speeding drivers are one of the leading causes of pedestrian deaths, city officials are working to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976252/as-traffic-fatalities-rise-more-cities-and-states-consider-automated-speed-cameras\">install speed cameras\u003c/a> in areas with the highest crash rates as part of a statewide pilot program \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956244/controversial-speeding-ticket-cameras-could-come-to-3-bay-area-cities-under-proposed-california-bill\">funded by Assembly Bill 645\u003c/a>. Starting next year, drivers will be ticketed for going 11 mph or more over the speed limit in 25 mph zones, according to the MTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents have said cities like New York have already embraced speed safety cameras with dramatic success. They say detection systems shift behavior and can reduce the number of severe and fatal crashes by as much as 58%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, advocates say it will take more funding and urgency from city officials to truly end traffic fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in an election year right now,” Medeiros said. “Our decision-makers need to talk about it as the crisis it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gzada\">\u003cem>Gilare Zada\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crash marked the city’s 20th \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981195/in-wake-of-deadly-west-portal-collision-breed-announces-initiatives-to-improve-traffic-safety\">pedestrian fatality\u003c/a> this year and was followed days later by the 21st, when a man was killed Friday morning \toutside a hospital on Geary Boulevard near Divisadero Street. They come at the end of a decade-long initiative to eliminate traffic deaths by 2024, a grim reminder that San Francisco is about as far as it’s ever been from its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958918/advocates-rally-at-fatal-crash-site-in-soma-demand-safety-changes\">Vision Zero goal\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Twenty is too many,” said Jodie Medeiros, executive director of advocacy group Walk SF. “We always say that we can’t imagine what San Francisco would be like if we didn’t adopt Vision Zero. But things just haven’t gone far enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12011142 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dump truck is filled at the construction site at UCSF on Oct. 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pedestrians now make up 70% of the city’s traffic fatalities this year — up 5 percentage points from the average. According to city data, 2024 is the deadliest year for pedestrians since 2014, when 21 were killed. And since the pandemic, small streets — like the intersection of Stanyan and Parnassus — are becoming more dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have seen such a shift in where crashes are happening,” said Marta Lindsay, a spokesperson for Walk SF. “And to me, it’s really scary because now every street is becoming high risk. It’s because of this deadly combination of aggressive driving, speeding, larger, heavier vehicles and more traffic. It’s turned little streets into ones where someone could die tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those problems are especially concerning in the area of this week’s deadly crash on Parnassus, where neighbors said large trucks often drive through the hilly, residential streets on their way to and from a construction site at UC San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A construction worker who asked not to be named confirmed that the dump truck involved in the crash was contracted to remove dirt from the ongoing hospital project site at Parnassus and Hill Point Avenue. The truck was identified by \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/pedestrian-dies-san-francisco-near-ucsf\">KTVU \u003c/a>footage as operated by Lally Trucking Inc., which is based in Modesto. While the phone line at Lally appeared to be disconnected, safety reports published on the company’s website show zero involvement in past reportable crashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011139\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011139\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ilya Kaltman looks at the memorial at the intersection of Stanyan Street and Parnassus Avenue. “I’m 71 years old, and it could have been me,” Kaltman said. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The truck’s driver remained on the scene and did not appear to be under the influence, police said in a statement. The medical examiner’s office identified the victim as Jose Chow, 70, of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday morning, Lydia Byers and her husband, Neil, paused at a memorial on the street corner where Chow was killed. Walk SF and community members held a vigil the night of the crash and left yellow paper hearts, marigolds and a handwritten sign that read: “A driver killed our neighbor here, Oct. 22, 2024.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the street, at Sunny Country market, bright sunflower bouquets bloomed out of barrels, with more flowers displayed in rows in front of the store’s tall windows. Bunches of woven baskets hung for sale under the market’s burgundy awning. As trucks and other large construction vehicles rumbled by, the couple looked both ways at the crosswalk and tried to understand how the crash could have happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our neighborhood,” said Byers, who said she has lived in the area much of her life. “This is my intersection that I frequent. It’s really scary that your life could be gone in a flash due to someone making a turn and not paying attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011141\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011141\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians cross the street in front of construction at UCSF on Oct. 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Just cut out right turns,” her husband added. “What’s a couple of seconds?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erica Kato, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, said in an email that the intersection has “painted daylighting” in the direction the truck was driving. Daylighting uses markers or red paint to prevent cars from parking near crosswalks to make sure drivers’ views of pedestrians are not obstructed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, on Wednesday, a red SUV was parked at the top of the steep hill approaching Parnassus, next to the red curb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the intersection has not had a pedestrian collision in the last 10 years, Medeiros said neighbors described plenty of close calls, as well as a lack of pedestrian signals at the crosswalk. Both the driver and the victim had a green light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need something,” Qari said. “In the morning, this is a very busy area. We have two schools [nearby — Haight Ashbury Cooperative and Grattan Elementary —] and a lot of kids. Traffic drives very fast, and you see a lot of trucks at the corner. We have to do something and put an extra light up to slow down the traffic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kato said the MTA is conducting a “rapid response review” of the deadly crash to evaluate the existing site and make recommendations for improvements. The location is on a list for future pedestrian signal upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who represents Cole Valley, visited the vigil and promised improvements to the city’s roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My office has been in touch with SFPD, the MTA, UCSF and concerned neighbors since yesterday morning,” Mandelman \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/RafaelMandelman/status/1849240420926329144\">posted\u003c/a> Wednesday on social media platform X, “and we will continue working with stakeholders both to understand what could have been done to avoid this particular tragedy and to prevent future crashes and deaths at this intersection and elsewhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, improvements at the intersection would add it to a long list of streets where it took a tragedy to spur change. Transportation advocates have long argued for a more proactive approach to making streets safer for all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10413631/san-francisco-fire-department-signs-on-to-vision-zero-pedestrian-safety-plan\">committed to Vision Zero\u003c/a> in 2014, advocates say the city has made considerable improvements to public safety, especially in the city’s “high-injury network,” or the 12% of streets where more than two-thirds of its traffic collisions occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in that time, 326 people have been killed by traffic violence on San Francisco streets, according to the Department of Public Health. That equates to a traffic-related fatality, which includes cyclists and motorcyclists, every 12.11 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011296\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011296\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-FATAL-UCSF-DUMP-TRUCK-CRASH-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians wait to cross the intersection at Stanyan Street and Parnassus Avenue on Oct. 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, where speeding drivers are one of the leading causes of pedestrian deaths, city officials are working to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976252/as-traffic-fatalities-rise-more-cities-and-states-consider-automated-speed-cameras\">install speed cameras\u003c/a> in areas with the highest crash rates as part of a statewide pilot program \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956244/controversial-speeding-ticket-cameras-could-come-to-3-bay-area-cities-under-proposed-california-bill\">funded by Assembly Bill 645\u003c/a>. Starting next year, drivers will be ticketed for going 11 mph or more over the speed limit in 25 mph zones, according to the MTA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents have said cities like New York have already embraced speed safety cameras with dramatic success. They say detection systems shift behavior and can reduce the number of severe and fatal crashes by as much as 58%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, advocates say it will take more funding and urgency from city officials to truly end traffic fatalities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in an election year right now,” Medeiros said. “Our decision-makers need to talk about it as the crisis it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/gzada\">\u003cem>Gilare Zada\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>\u003cem>[\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> This story was updated at 10:30 a.m. to clarify UCSF’s response to a KQED reporter’s questions about pay parity.]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brenna Alexander fills her backpack before her shift with granola bars, taxi vouchers and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/narcan\">Narcan\u003c/a>, the opioid overdose reversal medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/uc-san-francisco\"> UC San Francisco\u003c/a> clinical social worker then goes to single-room occupancy hotels in the city, knocking on doors and slowly gaining the trust of residents, many with mental health conditions, so she can help them stay housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Safety is always a concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her colleagues on the roving teams in the Tenderloin and the Mission have witnessed stabbings and have been robbed, she said. They endure verbal abuse almost daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF “campus” social workers like Alexander earn about one-third less than employees with similar qualifications at the university’s large medical centers, according to the union that represents the employees. Many campus social workers, who treat non-hospitalized people in streets, shelters and outpatient clinics, say they feel discouraged and undervalued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot show up for clients like we need to when we are burnt out and left to feel like the last priority,” said Alexander, 32. “This cannot be the way forward. Campus social workers deserve equitable compensation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenna Alexander speaks at a UPTE-CWA union meeting at UCSF on Oct. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The pay disparity contributes to understaffing and burnout for a workforce that is critical to San Francisco’s response to substance abuse, homelessness and mental health crises, University Professional and Technical Employees members and officials said. As campus social workers quit their jobs for higher-paying positions at UCSF medical centers or elsewhere, disadvantaged patients are left languishing on growing waitlists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a town hall organized by UPTE on Oct. 3, dozens of clinical social workers booed loudly when speakers said colleagues at UCSF’s Parnassus, Mission Bay and other medical centers made 31% more on average per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem stems from UCSF hiring campus social workers at lower-paid job classifications, making it more difficult for these employees to move up, even when they have the same licensure and experience as higher-paid colleagues at medical centers and hospitals, according to salary data the union obtained from the public university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007902\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-19-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-19-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-19-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin speaks at a UPTE-CWA union meeting at UCSF on Oct. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UCSF, the city’s second-largest employer, reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsf.edu/about/ucsf-budget#:~:text=The%20second%2Dlargest%20employer%20in,the%20National%20Institutes%20of%20Health.\">$10.2 billion in revenue\u003c/a> in fiscal year 2022-2023. San Francisco has approved 13 contracts worth roughly $300 million with UCSF since 2017 for public health and homelessness services, according to a union analysis of records from the Controller’s Office. But that’s not a comprehensive list, so total city and county payments to the university could be higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who attended the town hall, said San Francisco must use its economic power to push for equitable pay at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If these people leave these jobs, it is just going to exacerbate the spiraling problem that we have on our streets,” said Peskin, a mayoral candidate who was one of seven supervisors to approve a \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6869100&GUID=EF2B0D58-6D96-4440-A921-F95965BE1816\">resolution\u003c/a> last month urging the university to address the wage and advancement inequities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s rightfully a cry to address the abject misery we see on our streets,” he said. “We have to have these workers devote their lives and their professional training to making a difference, and it starts with making sure that they’re compensated appropriately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007898\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007898\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The audience applauds the speakers at a UPTE-CWA union meeting at UCSF on Oct. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UCSF failed to deliver services to help transition people into housing in at least one contract staffed by campus social workers, according to the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25194948-department-of-homelessness-and-supportive-housing-letter-050224\">letter\u003c/a> sent to the Homelessness Oversight Commission in May, department staffers noted that the university had spent just 45% of a $1.5 million budget over two years of the contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The underspending of funds can be attributed primarily to challenges in staff hiring, turnover and retention. Moreover, the constant flux in personnel led to noncompliance in service delivery,” Marion Sanders, the department’s chief deputy director, wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12007119 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230828-ROB-BONTA-AP-MJS-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union officials said they are pushing for UCSF to offer fair pay and career progression, including by reclassifying employees into job titles that accurately reflect their credentials and work. UC and the union have been negotiating a new contract covering more than 18,000 employees since June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university’s most \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-offers-historic-wage-increases-upte-represented-employees\">recent offer\u003c/a> includes raises of 5% starting in mid-2025, 3% in 2026 and up to 3% in 2027. The union \u003ca href=\"https://upte.org/updates/bargaining-update-5-uc-finally-makes-a-compensation-proposal-and-it-leaves-a-lot-to-be-desired\">countered\u003c/a> that the proposal doesn’t make up for inflation costs and shrinks some existing benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF forwarded KQED’s questions to the UC Office of the President, which declined to comment on specific questions about pay parity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC is optimistic we’ll reach an agreement soon,” Heather Hansen, a spokesperson with the Office of the President, said in a statement. “As part of our negotiations, we have representatives from each of our campuses and health centers to collaborate to address union concerns and put forth meaningful proposals so that UPTE-represented members are recognized for their contributions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Differences in the daily tasks of campus and medical center social workers, as well as the sources of funding for each group, could impact their salaries, according to experts at the National Association of Social Workers and the Clinical Social Work Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus professionals often provide one-on-one psychotherapy services, while clinical social workers at hospitals coordinate the care of patients who are discharged, for instance. Medi-Cal, California’s public health insurance program, is an important source of funding for campus social work. Private insurance pays for a larger share of services at medical centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007895\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007895\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matias Campos at a UPTE-CWA union meeting at UCSF on Oct. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matias Campos, UPTE’s statewide executive vice president, said that regardless of how UCSF crafts its budget, it can easily stop underpaying campus social workers in San Francisco. He pointed to UCSF’s construction of new hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland and the big raise in its chancellor’s pay to nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-20/uc-chancellors-get-big-raises\">$1.2 million\u003c/a> per year, which was approved last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why are these the priorities of a university and not fixing the inequities that they already have? The funds are there,” said Campos, a UCSF pharmacist who is part of the union’s bargaining team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another large health care employer, Kaiser Permanente, does not have significant compensation disparities among behavioral and social services employees with similar licensure requirements, according to the workers’ union, Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of our contract negotiations with the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions last year was to ensure wage parity amongst workers in various locations and settings,” said Renée Saldaña, a SEIU-UHW spokeswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Juliette Suarez, a campus clinical social worker at UCSF for four years, said she was deeply bothered that choosing to provide therapy and other services at a small clinic in the Mission for people with severe trauma meant taking a pay cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 31-year-old San Francisco native, who grew up in the Mission neighborhood, said she was priced out of the city. She would like to live closer to the community that she serves, but she can’t afford it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in the red. I can’t afford a medical emergency as a health care provider,” said Suarez, who works at the UCSF Trauma Recovery Center. “I’ve seen colleagues that are struggling with the physical and emotional impacts of the stress and also the inability to fully afford taking care of themselves while they do this work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF “campus” social workers like Alexander earn about one-third less than employees with similar qualifications at the university’s large medical centers, according to the union that represents the employees. Many campus social workers, who treat non-hospitalized people in streets, shelters and outpatient clinics, say they feel discouraged and undervalued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot show up for clients like we need to when we are burnt out and left to feel like the last priority,” said Alexander, 32. “This cannot be the way forward. Campus social workers deserve equitable compensation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007899\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007899\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenna Alexander speaks at a UPTE-CWA union meeting at UCSF on Oct. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The pay disparity contributes to understaffing and burnout for a workforce that is critical to San Francisco’s response to substance abuse, homelessness and mental health crises, University Professional and Technical Employees members and officials said. As campus social workers quit their jobs for higher-paying positions at UCSF medical centers or elsewhere, disadvantaged patients are left languishing on growing waitlists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a town hall organized by UPTE on Oct. 3, dozens of clinical social workers booed loudly when speakers said colleagues at UCSF’s Parnassus, Mission Bay and other medical centers made 31% more on average per year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem stems from UCSF hiring campus social workers at lower-paid job classifications, making it more difficult for these employees to move up, even when they have the same licensure and experience as higher-paid colleagues at medical centers and hospitals, according to salary data the union obtained from the public university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007902\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007902\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-19-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-19-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-19-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-19-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-19-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-19-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-19-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin speaks at a UPTE-CWA union meeting at UCSF on Oct. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>UCSF, the city’s second-largest employer, reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsf.edu/about/ucsf-budget#:~:text=The%20second%2Dlargest%20employer%20in,the%20National%20Institutes%20of%20Health.\">$10.2 billion in revenue\u003c/a> in fiscal year 2022-2023. San Francisco has approved 13 contracts worth roughly $300 million with UCSF since 2017 for public health and homelessness services, according to a union analysis of records from the Controller’s Office. 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The union \u003ca href=\"https://upte.org/updates/bargaining-update-5-uc-finally-makes-a-compensation-proposal-and-it-leaves-a-lot-to-be-desired\">countered\u003c/a> that the proposal doesn’t make up for inflation costs and shrinks some existing benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF forwarded KQED’s questions to the UC Office of the President, which declined to comment on specific questions about pay parity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC is optimistic we’ll reach an agreement soon,” Heather Hansen, a spokesperson with the Office of the President, said in a statement. “As part of our negotiations, we have representatives from each of our campuses and health centers to collaborate to address union concerns and put forth meaningful proposals so that UPTE-represented members are recognized for their contributions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Differences in the daily tasks of campus and medical center social workers, as well as the sources of funding for each group, could impact their salaries, according to experts at the National Association of Social Workers and the Clinical Social Work Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campus professionals often provide one-on-one psychotherapy services, while clinical social workers at hospitals coordinate the care of patients who are discharged, for instance. Medi-Cal, California’s public health insurance program, is an important source of funding for campus social work. Private insurance pays for a larger share of services at medical centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007895\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007895\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241003-UCSF-CLINICAL-SOCIAL-WORKERS-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matias Campos at a UPTE-CWA union meeting at UCSF on Oct. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matias Campos, UPTE’s statewide executive vice president, said that regardless of how UCSF crafts its budget, it can easily stop underpaying campus social workers in San Francisco. 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