SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- San Francisco public health workers held a protest Friday alleging that women and minorities are being unfairly targeted for job cuts.
Service Employees International Union, which represents the workers, contends that the city is disproportionately laying off hundreds of jobs held by minorities and women, and meanwhile hiring in high-paying managerial positions.
State senator Leeland Yee feels the cuts may violate Proposition H, an equal wage measure approved by San Francisco voters in 1985.
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"We have now turned the clock back in that there is a situation now within the city whereby there are going to be women put in a lower classification doing pretty much the same type of work, but lower pay," Yee explained.
The city mantains that there is no discrimination and that more women and minorities are being laid off because they account for 80% of city public health workers.
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