More Than A Thousand Members Of The San Francisco Municipal Government Trade Unions Gathered To Protest.

< p > April 15th is the deadline for filing tax returns in the United States. More than a thousand members of the San Francisco municipal government trade unions have gathered to protest against the city government's failure to cut taxes on high-tech enterprises and weaken social and livelihood services under the leadership of Mayor Lee Meng Yin. The police arrested 24 people.

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Participants in the P protest were mainly based on the SEIU branch of the International Service Employees Union.

The largest government employee Union in San Francisco consists of health care workers, public school staff, cleaners and security guards of government property.

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< p > the protesters unified the purple T-shirt, and some wore the moustache of Li Mengxian, mayor of San Francisco.

Starting from the city hall, they walked along the market street to the twitter headquarters of the social networking site, and then returned to the municipal government.

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< p > the participants condemned the municipal government under the leadership of Li Mengxian under the form of speeches and slogans, and stationed in San Francisco with various high-tech companies such as tax a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > preferential measures < /a >, seriously damaging the interests of the city and the public.

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< p > the labor union's statement to the media pointed out that 3 years ago, Li Mengxian provided tax concessions to high-tech companies such as twitter, attracted at least 18 technology companies, and 17 commercial enterprises were stationed in the middle of the market street. However, San Francisco lost hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue every year.

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< p > only by taking Twitter as an example, last year, it got less than a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > tax < /a >, which amounted to $about 50000000.

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< p > the statement also pointed out that urban services and civil society < a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > welfare < /a > were therefore affected. Medical staff in the General Hospital of San Francisco were inadequate, and 911 of the emergency service centers lacked enough operators to delay the lifesaving service.

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P also claims that many wage earners and low-income families are unable to pay more and more expensive living costs, health insurance and housing prices and are forced to move away.

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Susan Gad, who represents the San Francisco municipal government and trade union negotiators, told the media that the target of the day's protest against twitter was p.

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P said that the contract between the trade union and the municipal government will expire in June this year. The Union hopes to force the city government to agree to a series of requests, such as raising the minimum hourly wage in the next 3 years, and paying health insurance for employees. The municipal government should pay at least 300 million dollars for this purpose.

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