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San Francisco has announced plans to mobilize its 911 dispatchers for the first time in over 15 years when world leaders flock to the city for November’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. But the dispatchers’ union is opposing the demand, raising concerns over chronic burnout and questioning whether city officials may force workers to log the long hours the mobilization would require for a planned event as opposed to a bona fide disaster situation.