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Capitol and California – State Politics
Published: Friday, Mar. 4, 2011 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
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The fight between UC Regent David Crane and state Sen. Leland Yee over public employee unionization is escalating by the day.
Now Yee, a San Francisco Democrat running for mayor, is planning a protest today at UC San Francisco to “rally against Regent Crane’s recent attack on working families.”
He also wants to deep-six Crane’s Senate confirmation to the regents.
It all started when Crane’s Sunday op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle questioned whether public employees should be unionized, arguing that unionization makes more sense in the private sector.
Yee said Crane should “put away his Wisconsin playbook and come down from his ivory tower.”
But Crane says Yee is mischaracterizing his position. In a message to The Bee’s Capitol Alert, Crane said he believes UC workers should have collective bargaining rights. What he objects to, he said, is unionization for public workers protected by civil service laws, which UC workers are not.
Yee, not surprisingly, wasn’t assuaged.
“It is unconscionable for a multimillionaire regent to suggest that public-sector workers should not have collective bargaining rights, which has no effect on balancing the budget and protecting vital services,” replied Adam Keigwin, Yee’s chief of staff.
– Laurel Rosenhall
BY THE NUMBERS
California’s economic image suffered another blow this week when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce rated it in the bottom tier of states in the friendliness of its laws to business investment. California was placed in the bottom of three tiers in a nationwide review of state business laws for the chamber by Seyfarth Shaw LLP, a prominent employment and labor law firm.
– Dan Walters
WORTH REPEATING
“Legal obstruction and obfuscation won’t get us any closer to addressing California’s massive budget deficit.”
EVAN WESTRUP, spokesman for Gov. Jerry Brown, on cities’ intention to sue over Brown’s plan to eliminate redevelopment agencies

The fight between UC Regent David Crane and state Sen. Leland Yee over public employee unionization is escalating by the day.
Now Yee, a San Francisco Democrat running for mayor, is planning a protest today at UC San Francisco to “rally against Regent Crane’s recent attack on working families.”
He also wants to deep-six Crane’s Senate confirmation to the regents.
It all started when Crane’s Sunday op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle questioned whether public employees should be unionized, arguing that unionization makes more sense in the private sector.
Yee said Crane should “put away his Wisconsin playbook and come down from his ivory tower.”
But Crane says Yee is mischaracterizing his position. In a message to The Bee’s Capitol Alert, Crane said he believes UC workers should have collective bargaining rights. What he objects to, he said, is unionization for public workers protected by civil service laws, which UC workers are not.
Yee, not surprisingly, wasn’t assuaged.
“It is unconscionable for a multimillionaire regent to suggest that public-sector workers should not have collective bargaining rights, which has no effect on balancing the budget and protecting vital services,” replied Adam Keigwin, Yee’s chief of staff.
– Laurel Rosenhall
BY THE NUMBERS
California’s economic image suffered another blow this week when the U.S. Chamber of Commerce rated it in the bottom tier of states in the friendliness of its laws to business investment. California was placed in the bottom of three tiers in a nationwide review of state business laws for the chamber by Seyfarth Shaw LLP, a prominent employment and labor law firm.
– Dan WaltersWORTH REPEATING
“Legal obstruction and obfuscation won’t get us any closer to addressing California’s massive budget deficit.”
EVAN WESTRUP, spokesman for Gov. Jerry Brown, on cities’ intention to sue over Brown’s plan to eliminate redevelopment agencies