to be in this lovely building and for the executive board for the retirement i'm pleased the mayor and commissioner hur is here and we have several members of congress london bremember cor englander and thank you. we have other lady that's the could owner of the nicholas company recognized by president obama on their workplace flexibility thank you nicole for being here. (clapping.) many of you know that the women bureau was created in congress shortly after the women got their rights to vote our vision

is to incur all women and our priority secures is hire minimum wage for women and over the past few months we've been engaging groups if a don't even dooeven to chicago to boston and here in san francisco to identify initiative that benefit the america's working families and the economy we're bringing together high ranking officials and researches and business leaders and federal and local elected officials to have a conversation been business practices that benefit working families. the conversation and story as those regional forums will be encoder on june 23rd at the white house we want to list up the key issues that american families are facing and you

encourage everyone to add our voice to the national discussion you throughout the forum you can tweet our comments urging the ash tag followup. please consider drafting a tweet after today and post it you can see more on twitter. we also have a story sharing wall in the reception wall you can add your thoughts on a posted notes on how families need to be supported. i'm honored to introduce mayor ed lee he's the 403 reading mayor and the first asian-american mayor i was elected in 2011 and has a long record of public city he began working in the city and county

of san francisco as an investigator for the first whistle blower ordinance and the director of city purchasing and the director of public works and the city administrator he's worked are hard to keep us on introducing track to create jobs and champion everyone that supports parks and transit and quality of life in our neighborhoods and pedestrian safety. we're very fortunate to have him with us please welcome mayor ed lee >> kelly thank you very much and thank you for your work for the people as well. >> hello, everyone welcome to san francisco. i was tickled when leader councilmember englander said you're looking thinner i said that's what a lot of contracts

and other things pelosi thank you and welcome back and establishing san francisco we're honored to host one of the forums across the country to be chosen to be a location for a discussion on working families and also just want to take an opportunity to thank all the chronicle representatives we have a national agenda we can do everything locally and hello, again to melanie she's been a wonderful contact welcome back to the recreational office. ellis you know your economy that red hot we're a thooifl economy and we got another great enhancement we're at a record

low in unemployment of 4 percent there are challenges. and while our economy maybe the envy of other places around the world i'm hard at work to make sure our residents are getting the full-time work they need and that's sustainable. we know there's no greater income gap between that person who has a job and that personal who doesn't we will be relentless to grow jobs in our city crossing across all sectors not only technology it's fast growing by not the big driver biotech and international trade and film and video production and construction and health care

are on a having having good foundation all growing ail parts of the diverse economy and creating good paying jobs for everyone. we're making sure that we do everything we can to make sure the workforce policies are friendly to families. that's why i've joined up with supervisor david chiu on his family friendly workplace we're going to be funding a bit of that this year. he's been asking for that extra funding to make sure it's not just a good sounding ordinance but we reduce the barriers for working families. we need to make sure our priority is that you're working families can afford to call it home one of the many ways in which we'll be addressing affordability is through housing. we've got an aggressive agenda

got to create thirty thousand new housing pardon mely affordable to locate and moderate income families and we're making good progress we're opening up more homes for cities families in the first 5 months of this year there than the entire year of mifl. we know your city is an expensive place so we should bring an increase to all minimum wage yet still (clapping) yeah. but we've got to keep pace and this is what paying attention to working families is all about not about what we did yesterday although we celebrate that we have to keep the pace with rising consumer costs i know

that a few more dollars an hour can make a difference and san francisco has done we need to lead by example we're the first city in the nation to establish our own minimum wage a model for the rest of the country. we're going to work with the board of supervisors that impacts small businesses and experts to seek coincidence in a significant wage increase for working families. we also continue to join in the fight for equal pay giving our women equal pay for equal work. yes (clapping) equality for all was not only a slogan but also been a san francisco value and our city values equal pay for everyone and make sure our women are

succeeding and treated equally and nancy pelosi said when women skeekdz san francisco skeekdz yes (clapping) and you can see it's true in the leadership of our city i'm proud to nominate carmen chu the assessor recorder she's going to deserve that i've appointed katie tang to our board of supervisors you'll find women in the highest levels of local government and fire cheer chief joanne haynes-white our health director and port director and other and our naivety department head appointed last week debbie

so many more critical leaders in position that direct policy and function for our city. i'm proud to have as my council nancy pelosi and dianne feinstein and congresswoman spear joins us in making sure we're strong and we have a strong fight for our san franciscans and here in san francisco and washington, d.c. so joining with others congress members honda and hoffman and spear and nancy pelosi we're going to move forward and advance workers rights and equality for all of us in san francisco and across the country i know there's a lot of work ahead i remain committed for all

residents i commend you and people in the audience and those i've just met even those years i was just happy to see roses come and join us thank you for coming here today congratulations (clapping) >> good morning and thank you four attending this important forum i'm emmy i'm the region representative for the department of the labor in san francisco i've had the privilege of working at the department of the looker no washington, d.c. for the past 4 years and how time flies when you do something you love with amazing people you deeply respect but it's an honor to introduce secretary tom perez

when we were sworn in as the 26 secretary of labor he infused a new energy and rebranded it as the opportunity for every working family every working person to get ahead like a fair days pay for a fair day's work connecting ready to work people promoting gender equality in the workplace and insuring the developers have access to equal and safe opportunities secretary prez binges a commitment to service and prior to commission he sirtd as the attorney general for the justice department and should to restore and transform the conscious of the in addition

to further fulfill the tutored vance equal opportunity and leveling the playing field he also served as deputy attorney general under janet reiskin with the task force. he was special council to the late senator edward kennedy as a civilize revoke and he served as secretary of labor licensing and regulations for the state of madagascar he resides with his wife and which were i was born in buffalo new york he graduated from brown university where on saturday, he delivered the com mention time speaking speech all

of these make him an amazing secretary of labor a great boss we're sad at his dispatch from his old office but happy to have him here please welcome secretary tom >> (clapping) >> good afternoon san francisco it is great to be here thank you for your kind words it's an honor to be here in the presence of so many important people all of you are important i really enjoyed meeting the rosaries we'll talk them more but nancy pelosi thank you. i know a few people in america is that have not done more for americans than you so thank you for your work

(clapping) and again to all our elected officials and have mayor thank you for the warm welcome we have a wonderful partner i used to serve on their board and mirror was fantastic and the progress is all about progress and moving america forward the the president's opportunity agenda is making sure we grow the economy and add more jobs good jobs and making sure that people have the skills to compete and making sure that everybody has access to educational opportunity from pre k and making sure we reward work with a decent wage that allows you to put a roof over your head and allows to you have health care

and other securities that's the agenda of this president and i'm hoping happy to be working with him we want to make sure that everybody who works hard we reward hard work and the responsibility and we work with members of congress (clapping) we have to acknowledge the working family summit is about we have to acknowledge we're not in leave it to beaver anymore there are more women in the workplace and the family has evolved and the family responsibility have viewed and public policy needs to evolve with those changing democrat garlics and changing trends you tell throughout america i talk to people all the time and they give me the following concerns i need to make enough money to put

food on the tackle but want to be home to eat dinner at that table with my families (clapping) i hear from so many people to go home and take care of my father or mother or pickup my sick child and yet i have to choose been the job i love and the family i love that's an unfair choosing choose most of other criticize countries on the planet don't allow us to make the most important family values or one of the month important is time spent with your family and be able to help our children with their homework and be home at night yelling yet all too many people are working two or three jobs that's not america so

that's why we're having those working families summits across the country i want to applaud my colleague that he department of the labor that's helping to lead and done great work across the country no shedding light on the issues and one of the basically building blocks is earning a decent wage no one who works a full-time job should have to live in poverty and yet (clapping) we see throughout this country millions of americans working hard and fueling u falling you are further behind and one reason is our minimum wage nationally he use it nationally mayor it hadn't kept up it's

lost 20 percent of its purposing power since the 1980s image if you went into a job today and told you have to take a 20 percent pay cut from 20 years ago your gas bill or utility bill has not begun b down by 20 percent that's why it's important to continue this advocacy around raising the minimum wage it's time for 1010 across america (clapping) and i want to thank so many of my friends i've met in the business community because a they've given strong voice to this is that i have recognized powerfully when you take care of our rngz and pay them a decent

wage you gain locality and if you put money in people's punctuates like henry ford they spent it in our community he and businesses have to hire more people and america skeekdz that's why we continue to work hard and raise the minimum wage. i want to applaud those liberal leaders like mitt romney me and rick santorum you'll have whom in the past two weeks said we should raise the minimum wage in america there's the recognition you look at the powell this is not simple departmentalize it's across the board because there's a recognition that we need to put money in people's pockets that's the matter of fundamental fairness we can reduce the ranks

of food stamps recipients by $2.8 million by raising the minimum wage 3 about the $8 million we'll continue to work hard because this san antonio isn't an issue for a few but for the entire country and so many disare portionly women and women with children if you're a worker you're especially challenged people don't believe me the minimum wage is average 2, 13 an here who people women get tips and their pay check is zero after the seductions they're relying on the tips for the entirety of their income a that's not it 0

fair we have a $2.13 minimum tip wage we have to make sure we have the building blocks and not stop with minimum wage they include talking about the workplace flexibility because people are balancing work and family and the sandwich generation people taking care of the mom and dad and son and daughter and having to work we're in rare company it's not good rare when you are together with the likes of poppa many ginny the only nations on ether that don't have paid leave. i applaud so many businesses owners understand when irks are distracted by the parent or

children's images they're not productive workers and when you give them the flexibility to serve them their productive when at work that's where why is. other countries have recognized the importance of paid leave the importance of providing childcare the net cost of childcare is equal to 38 percent of the average wage that's more than twice of people in oecd nations pay 245i9sd not like they've self-destructed sweden pays more in childcare. brazil unemployment is capacity

to ours but they get one hundred and 20 days of leave for paid sick leave those are under indirectly listed nations we hear time and time again, it will be the end of the world if he allow the radical concept a mom can take their child to the doctor and not get docked for the hours she's gone i believe that's a fundamental family value that promotes public policy (clapping) i believe that our families deserve better and it's a false choice to suggest we either grow our economy or grow our families we can do both in a worker families agenda continues to

make sure we treat women in the workplace with integrity and adequate get their highest talent we have rosaries in the you'd thank you one of the best presents i got was from phyllis gould i'll not tell you phillis age she's slightly ordinary then me she joined her husband in world war ii in welding and they all got paid the same wage as men we figured out out in world war ii that men and women augmenting ought to get paid the same what a expect equal opportunity we're not why we need to be today that's why the working submit will continue to

focus on what nancy pelosi when women skeekdz america skeekdz not only in san francisco (clapping) and let me and by talking about one other pill last year of self-sufficiencies i would be remiss there's one person in the room that played a big effort that's the issue of health care security how is it that in a nation as wealthy as ours it was once the case that you couldn't get access to basic health insurance i spoke to one person in the midwest his employer told him at a fast food restaurant i'm going to fire you if you

can't get to work yesterday. he explained you know the restaurant industry if you're sick i prefer you to stay home putting that aside he teld told his employer how can i afford to get a doctor's note if i can't afford to get to a doctor that's why nancy pelosi and the president put their remunerations on the line for the most important piece of public policy the affordable health care we're on the are the side of history (clapping) millions of americans now have hope many for the first time every because you'll see more and more people signed up 8 million on the challenges and others 8 million on their

families health care we're moving america healthy and when america it healthier it's better and that's why insinuates like this are important to talk about the issues we're making progress but we can and must do better there's nobody that's a played a more important role than the next person your congress minority leader and one of any heros daft of baltimore nancy pelosi. (clapping.) >> good afternoon all of you and mr. secretary thank you for your your generous remarks i decided to leave my speaker on

the chair because you've covered the territory our recognition of what it takes to have america succeed it's my honor to join our great mayor in welcoming you to san francisco we're honored to have one of those meetings in preparation for the wants summit i see the mayor recognizes that when it comes to job creation and fairness in the workplace and when it comes to acknowledging the needs of our families and what it means to have a city of families not because our policies don't respect our families thank you, mayor it's a that's a great honor to be here and join supervisor david chiu and careers chiu in welcoming us to

san francisco you may not know mayor tan done she's the president of cap and the center for american progress she's a master of public policies to meet the needs of american people not only in a way that puts us outgoing the readers of history so welcome to you to san francisco as well. i'm pleased to be here with congresswoman jackie spear we share the honor of rep san francisco and my colleagues from down south and newest clearing jarrett a new member of congress let me say that about him he comes to fill the footprints of lynn