{"id":2449083,"date":"2025-06-18T18:24:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-luries-relationship-with-unions-gets-complicated\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T18:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T22:25:11","slug":"san-francisco-mayor-daniel-luries-relationship-with-unions-gets-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-luries-relationship-with-unions-gets-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie\u2019s relationship with unions gets complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsan-francisco-mayor-daniel-luries-relationship-with-unions-gets-complicated%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2449083&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the developing tensions between San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and labor unions following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/portland-mayor-laughs-at-womens-safety-concerns-over-rising-homelessness-problem\/\" title=\"Portland ... Laughs at Women&#039;s Safety Concerns Over Rising Homelessness Problem\">recent city council meeting<\/a>. During the meeting, police removed approximately a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >dozen protesting union workers<\/a> who were expressing dissatisfaction with Lurie&#8217;s plans to cut around 100 jobs as a means to address an $800 million budget deficit. The protest, which drew over 100 workers, was fueled by concerns over Lurie&#8217;s proposals to eliminate meaningful funding for nonprofit organizations and introduce austerity measures. <\/p>\n<p>Unions have been vocal about their opposition, calling for the reduction of what they perceive as &#8220;wasteful&#8221; private contracts while urging the mayor to preserve all currently filled positions. Several Board of Supervisors members expressed support for the protesters, suggesting choice budget solutions. Critics are labeling Lurie&#8217;s handling of this situation as a failure, arguing he missed an possibility to make significant changes due to his concessions to union demands.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie&rsquo;s relationship with unions gets complicated<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2143833\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/police-and-law-enforcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Police\">Police<\/a> arrested and removed nearly a dozen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/labor-unions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"union workers\">union workers<\/a> protesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sf.gov\/profile--daniel-lurie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Mayor Daniel Lurie \">Mayor Daniel Lurie <\/a>during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/san-francisco\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"San Francisco\">San Francisco<\/a> City Hall meeting on Tuesday, showing the new mayor&rsquo;s rocky relationship with Big Labor.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 workers in attendance were upset with Lurie&rsquo;s plan to eliminate&nbsp;around 100 jobs and hundreds of vacant positions as part of his plan to close an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3425530\/hundreds-jobs-chopping-block-san-francisco-budget-daniel-lurie-deficit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"$800 million budget deficit\">$800 million budget deficit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3446563\/health-cover-up-senate-biden-hearing-criminal-charges-takeaways\/\">Three takeaways from Biden health &#8216;cover-up&#8217; hearing where GOP floated criminal charges<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3446631\/anti-ice-riots-charges-doj-texas-man-explosives-plot\/\">Texas man charged in plot to attack officers with explosives at LA riots<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3446605\/e-jean-carroll-plans-spend-83-million-trump-payout\/\">E. Jean Carroll reveals plans to spend $83M Trump payout: &lsquo;We need to prick his little <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/e-jean-carroll-reveals-plans-to-spend-83m-trump-payout\/\" title=\"E. ... to spend M Trump payout\">balloon constantly&#038;rsquo<\/a>;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Frontline city workers from IFPTE Local 21, SEIU Local 1021, and the San Francisco Building Trades hold a sit-in protest during the weekly San Francisco Supervisors meeting at City Hall in San Francisco, Tuesday, June 17, 2025, to protest against layoffs. (Jessica Christian\/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They also took issue with Lurie&rsquo;s decision to slash $185 million in nonprofit organization and contract funding and impose other austerity&nbsp;measures to close the gap.<\/p>\n<p>Unions have been demanding Lurie slash more &ldquo;wasteful&rdquo; private contracts and are calling on the mayor to trim what they describe as &ldquo;top-heavy&rdquo; management, while keeping all 100 of the currently filled positions.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters were so loud at Tuesday&rsquo;s event that at one point, the Board of Supervisors was forced to go on a 30-minute recess.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Protesters held up signs that said &ldquo;no cuts, no layoffs&rdquo; while chanting &ldquo;whose city? our city!&rdquo; Some put their fists in the air, anticipating that the police would arrest and carry them out.&nbsp;Others from&nbsp;SEIU Local 1021 and IFPTE Local 21&nbsp;screamed, &ldquo;When public services are under attack, what do we do? Stand up! Fight back!&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/missionlocal.org\/2025\/06\/union-workers-erupt-in-protest-during-board-of-supervisors-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"reported\">according to<\/a> <em>Mission Local<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Some members of the Board of Supervisors seemed sympathetic to the protesters and suggested that the city could fill the gap elsewhere. District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan, the budget chairwoman, said she would work to identify redundancies across city departments, reduce vacant management positions, and possibly eliminate the so-called &ldquo;top-heavy&rdquo; management positions.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there are others who argue Lurie, a billionaire heir with no prior experience as an elected official, could have used the opportunity to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dwyane-wade-talks-about-opportunity-to-buy-ownership-stake-in-utah-jazz\/\" title=\"Dwyane Wade Talks About \u2018Opportunity\u2019 To Buy Ownership Stake In Utah Jazz\">make real change<\/a>, but instead caved to the unions by only eliminating 100 filled positions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Frontline city workers from IFPTE Local 21, SEIU Local 1021, and the San Francisco Building Trades are arrested after holding a sit-in protest during the weekly San Francisco Supervisors meeting at City Hall in San Francisco, Tuesday, June 17, 2025, to protest against layoffs. (Jessica Christian\/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;This moment represents Lurie&rsquo;s first major failure as mayor,&rdquo; the <em>San Francisco Standard<\/em> Editor-at-large Adam Lashinsky&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/opinion\/2025\/06\/03\/by-caving-to-labor-daniel-lurie-fails-his-first-big-test-as-mayor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"said\">said<\/a>. &ldquo;The fact is,&nbsp;there was no better time for him to spend his political capital to win significant concessions from labor, which is responsible for a large portion of the city&rsquo;s out-of-control budget. Not only is he popular and enjoying the support of a moderate-majority Board of Supervisors, he justifiably could have blamed a round of tough cuts on his predecessor, London Breed, who gave labor a raise during an election year and&nbsp;&nbsp;repeatedly used accounting gimmicks to balance her budgets.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3445627\/hegseth-deploys-additional-2000-national-guard-los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"HEGSETH DEPLOYS ADDITIONAL 2,000 NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO LOS ANGELES \">HEGSETH DEPLOYS ADDITIONAL 2,000 NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO LOS ANGELES <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instead, Lashinsky said Lurie &ldquo;cut just enough to buy peace with the unions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Calls to Lurie for comment were not returned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2143833\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2143833\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie&#8217;s union relations worsen as police arrest protesting workers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2646,"featured_media":2449084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sanfranlayoffs.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[44589,36475,5894,32422,5038],"class_list":["post-2449083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-daniel-lurie","tag-labor-relations","tag-politics","tag-san-francisco","tag-unions"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/sanfranlayoffs.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449087,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449083\/revisions\/2449087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2449084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}