Tom Saggau represents San Jose city employees who are upset about the city’s proposed ballot initiative to restructure pensions. Saggau agrees reform is needed but disagrees with San Jose’s proposal.
Menlo Park passed the Pension Reform Initiative, Measure L, with nearly 75 percent voter approval. The measure would relieve the cash-strapped city, but labor unions may mount a legal challenge.
In San Carlos, employees doing the same jobs have different pensions depending upon when they were hired, and the city is negotiating even leaner benefits for future city workers.