It doesn t even eliminate miss-outs, Sullivan said, referring to the practice by which Muni employees can fail to show up for work without even calling. The Yaki measure won't improve transit service in San Francisco. It could, in fact, make things substantially worse. We appreciate President Ammiano s efforts to bring riders and labor together to reach some sort of compromise, said Rescue Muni vice chair Daniel Murphy, but the text introduced today falls short on several fronts, particularly when it comes to reforming Muni s antiquated work rules and cumbersome ties to a civil service bureaucracy. Politicians in City Hall keep telling us that putting tough service standards and merit pay in the charter isn t good government, that we should trust the politicians to develop their own service standards, said Rescue Muni co-founder Ken Niemi.
Riders know better.
Riders know that City Hall has been asleep at the switch for years on Muni, and that if we want better service, we have to be specific. The mayor says he wants one ballot measure for Muni. We agree, but we think it should be the measure that does the most to improve transit service. The supervisors should vote to put Newsom s version before the voters, Niemi said. None of the alternatives measure up.