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Mission Inn Employees Better Off Without Union

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And the union protests the loss of dues labor policies

Labor unions for hotel workers make no sense. Is there an apprentice program for maids?

“During negotiations, a group of employees decided they didn’t want to be represented by the union and they circulated a petition that was signed by the majority of our employees,” Levenfeld explained.

“Based on the petition, we notified the union that the employees withdrew their recognition of the union. The union wasn’t pleased and made a series of accusations against us that we believe are false.”

Levenfeld said the inn has replaced the union’s health care plan for its employees with one that is fully paid by the employer and replaced the union’s retirement plan with a 401k option.

Mission Inn Employees Better Off Without Union

Wharf Association Wants To Ban Chowder Samples

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Soon the wharf will be a bad as the ‘Row. Keep the chowder samples. Keep the wharf funky.

Wharf Signs

“It cheapens the experience down here to be handed chowder at every place in the wharf they walk at,” says Board Member Kevin Phillips. “We think it’s better off without it.”

Phillips, who also owns Abalonetti’s, said it’s been a problem for years. Now, he thinks it’s out of hand.

“This whole barking and oral advertising that goes along with it,” says Phillips. “A lot of people are uncomfortable with it.”

But other businesses like the Old Fisherman’s Grotto don’t agree.

“It’s a great thing,” says Owner Chris Shake. “Why would you want to take away something that is very positive for the wharf?”

Wharf Association Wants To Ban Chowder Samples

Bad Broccoli Again

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Skip the salad, just bring me the steak please.

Bad Broccoli

A Northern California company has voluntarily recalled products sold at supermarkets across the West because they could contain contaminated broccoli. Tracy-based Taylor Farms Pacific announced the recall this week after a random test by agricultural officials came up positive for the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes.

Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.

Bad Broccoli Again

Tax On Soda? Assemblyman Monning Says Yes

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Sounds to me like the politician didn’t get enough campaign contributions from the “massive corporations”.

“Taxes shouldn’t be a tool for social engineering, or an instrument to penalize people for doing nothing wrong,” said J. Justin Wilson, a research analyst at the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Consumer Freedom, in a statement posted on the group’s website.

While Monning admits part of his goal is to change consumer behavior, he refuted the social engineering argument.

“The real social engineering is the massive corporate advertising that targets young people,” Monning said. “It’s open season on young people to market these beverages.”


Tax On Soda? Assemblyman Monning Says Yes

Medicinal Pot Not Affecting Mexican Drug Wars

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The bloody battles continue south of the borders.

Fifteen years after voters approved Proposition 215, permitting medicinal marijuana use, strong varieties like those produced in Northern California’s so-called Emerald Triangle dominate the market. Weaker Mexican pot, once the weed of choice for the 1950s Beat generation and the 1960s flower children, is less popular, according to drug policy experts and law enforcement officials.

But overall, sales of Mexican marijuana continue to earn that nation’s violent drug cartels as much as $2 billion a year.

Medicinal Pot Not Affecting Mexican Drug Wars

Unclear Of Concept

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Sounds familiar. Read the first story, printed on December 4, 2010

Church Opens New Store: Everything’s Free

There are many stores that charge just $1 for most items, but the metropolitan area now has a store where everything on the shelves is free.

The first Free Store opened Saturday in Lee’s Summit and operators said they hope the public will help them make an impact.

The store is filled with clothes, coats and toys of all sizes.

Members of Heaven’s Gate Gospel Church collected donations to stock the shelves and they hope they can serve at least 500 families this season.

Then read the second story from February 21, 2011

Free Store In Lee’s Summit Closing

Officials said the funding they had to cover rent and utility expenses ends this month.

“It is sad to have to close, but it is awesome to know that we helped so many families during Christmas and during this extreme cold weather. We have helped so many families in the past three months with clothes, food, toys, and household items … everything. The need is great and the community has responded with items to be given away,” said Brenda Lang, one of the directors of the store.

Unclear Of Concept

Salinas Makes Forbes List Of U.S.A.’s Most Miserable Cities

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Salinas. Not a good place.

No. 1 Stockton, Calif
No. 2 Miami, Fla.
No. 3 Merced, Calif.
No. 4 Modesto, Calif.
No. 5 Sacramento, Calif.
No. 6 Memphis, Tenn.
No. 7 Chicago, Ill.
No. 8 West Palm Beach, Fla.
No. 9 Vallejo, Calif.
No. 10 Cleveland, Ohio
No. 11 Flint, Mich.
No. 12 Toledo, Ohio
No. 13 Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
No. 14 Youngstown, Ohio
No. 15 Detroit, Mich.
No. 16 Washington, D.C.
No. 17 Fresno, Calif.
No. 18 Salinas, Calif.
No. 19 Jacksonville, Fla.
No. 20 Bakersfield, Calif.

Salinas Makes Forbes List Of U.S.A.’s Most Miserable Cities

If The Sheriff’s Rescue Team Saves You, They Check You For Warrants

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Bad bummer – wet, freezing, stranded then arrested

Corey King

Corey King, 22, of Pacific Grove, was arrested on felony warrants for driving under the influence, driving with a suspended license and petty theft with a prior.

The arrest came after King and two of his friends called for help when all of their backpacking gear, including matches and clothes, were soaked by rain. Officials said the men, who have been backpacking since Friday, had been in “grave danger” of freezing.

Following the rescue, officials learned that King had a felony no-bail warrant for his arrest. King was arrested for the warrant and the two other men and dog returned home.


If The Sheriff’s Rescue Team Saves You, They Check You For Warrants

DUI From P.G. That Ran Over Campers Goes To Trial Soon

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“We’re hoping to go with that date in January,” she said this week. Petrick, who was 25 at the time of the accident, was arrested by the California Highway Patrol for felony DUI and taken to Monterey County Jail after allegedly driving over Carmel High School student Ryan Marden — son of Carmel River School principal Jay Marden — with his 2007 Toyota Tundra pickup truck while trying to get up a hill. Marden and a friend had been in sleeping bags on the ground when the accident occurred shortly after 2:30 a.m. May 2, CHP public information officer Bob Lehman reported at the time, and Petrick was reportedly unaware what he had done until passengers in his truck yelled.

DUI From P.G. That Ran Over Campers Trial Soon?

DirecTV Viewers Could Lose KSBW

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No, its not a Comcast NBC buyout threat.

Nbc

KSBW-TV 8 announced Friday that KSBW-TV may no longer be carried on DirecTV satellite systems effective January 1, 2011, if the parties are unable to conclude retransmission consent negotiations currently underway.

Satellite distributors are prohibited by law from carrying broadcasters’ signals without their consent. The removal of KSBW’s signal from the DirecTV system will only result if negotiations between representatives of Hearst Television Inc., KSBW’s parent company, and DirecTV are unsuccessful in reaching a conclusion before December 31, 2010.

DirecTV Views Could Lose KSBW