architectural metal and glassworkers union, the sheet metal workers' international association, local union 104, and others. may i hear a motion and a second to the tentative agreement? thank you, a reading. >> thank you, vice president mendoza. i want to thank our craft union partners for the common agreement and their acknowledgment of the need to contribute to solving the district's current fiscal problems. commissioner: i need to inform the board that i will be abstaining for reasons. vice president mendoza: roll call, please. secretary: [reading roll] thank you. that is four ayes. vice president mendoza: may i hear a motion for the tentative agreement? a reading by mr. ruiz. this action is to adopt this for the carpenters' local unit 22. vice president mendoza: thank you. commissioner: we have two agreements with th

local 22. i stand before you as a person who was born here i have worked all my life as a nd i represent roughly the members of the carpenters' union not even tryz7 to reitere any of the things that have been spoken. .,we, the carpenters who have built the places where we live, [wwork, and play here in sentences, have indoor long and Ñdeep unemployment. we care about what we build here. we are trained and professionals. we think this project is deserving of construction, so we ask the term sheet before you today, and also that you please take every step possible to move this project along to construction so we can go to work. thankq commissioner fong: thank you. >> goodp) afternoon, board members and director. my name is fred allen viceu6 -- allerdyce. láqáq'ting a group known as open space for our waterfront. too the 1960's when san francisco redevelopment took responsibility for north of broadway, will close at all, took away property rights, reduced the area original history as a founding part of san francisco, a )(q@f neighborhood, and rebuild it with the celebrated golden gateway3z center, the embarcadeo center, and golden ga

. >> reporter: it was also a show of force by a local longshoreman's union which stopped work at several local ports including here in oakland. >> it's our way of speaking out to the world that that kind of behavior is unacceptable. >> reporter: dozens of members came to protest police brutality over the years against teamsters and say the shutdown is justified. >> there is no amount of money that can equal the loss of a life. >> i think it's really important for the community to see each other coming together for a purpose. >> reporter: this rally comes less than two weeks before the sentencing of former bart officer johannes mehserle convicted in july of involuntary manslaughter for killing oscar grant at the fruitvale bart station on new year's day 2009. a scene infamously captured on witness cell phone video. >> the closer it gets to sentencing the more stressful it becomes. but yes, you know, we're just leaning on the community. >> reporter: in the meantime, johannes mehserle's attorney is asking for a new trial citing a similar case in kentucky where the officer was not found crimi

diego, and what's so exciting is that mayors are coming together, superintendents, heads of the local unionsare coming to the around the movie. they're saying, don't let other people define this experience. they're going because they say going to the movie, buying a ticket is saying, this is my first step in saying, i care about education. and if you buy a ticket to an online service, through donors choose, you get a $15 coupon to give to a teacher who has a classroom project who needs it. so right away that 15 bucks you're spending on a ticket goes directly to a teacher. it's very exciting. that's what we saw in "an inveeb truth" it became a rallying point for people to say wait a minute, let's stop and focus on this and say we care. >> well, we do care. and as you know, as a follow-up to education nation, we are staying with this. we have another interview tomorrow with bob compton one of our guests from education nation, and we follow the success of "waiting for superman." congratulations. >> thank you for having me on your show. thank you very much. >> thank you for being here. >>> and u

. >> reporter: it was also a show of force by a local long shoreman's union which stopped work at several local ports including here in oakland. >> it is our way of speaking out to the world that that kind of behavior is unacceptable. >> reporter: dozens of members came to protest police brutal ity over teamsters. >> there is no amount of money that can equal the loss of a life. >> i think it is really important for the community to see each other coming together for a purpose. >> reporter: this rally comes less than two weeks before the sentencing of former b.a.r.t police officer johannes mehserle convicted in july of involuntary manslaughter for killing oscar at the fruitvale b.a.r.t station on new year's day's 2009. it was captured on cell phone video. >> we are just leaning on the community. >> reporter: in the meantime johannes mehserle's attorney is asking for a new trial citing a similar case in kentucky where the officer was not found criminally negligent. >> if he goes home on probation it will be a sad day not just for us as a family but for the system in itself when it comes to

amendment to to the 2007-2012 amendment of understanding with the service employees international union local 1021, fire rescue paramedics. president chiu: this is passed. >> item 25, amending the employee relations ordinance to update provisions consistent with state and local law and related clean up provisions. supervisor mar: would like to continue this item for november 9, 42 below weeks. one of the unions would like time to complete their internal process with the gardening -- with the bargaining team. president chiu: that is seconded by supervisor daly. without objection, this will be continued to november 9. >> items 26 through 32 are the ordinances that pertain to repealing and replacing various codes or sections of codes and incorporating various sections of the california vote, including the 2010 california green building standards code and other san francisco amendments, providing the operative date of january 1, 2011 for the fire code, the building code, the electrical code, and mechanical code. president chiu: these are passed on the first reading. >> item 33 is an ordinance ame

. >> reporter: it was also a show of force by a local long shore union which stopped work at several local ports including here in oakland. it is our way of speaking out out to the world that that kind of behavior is unacceptable. >> reporter: dozens of members came to protest abuse. >> there is no amount of money that can equal the loss of a life. >> i think it is really important to see the community see each other come together for a purpose. >> reporter: this rally comes less than two weeks before the sentencing of former b.a.r.t police officer johannes mehserle convicted in july of involuntary manslaughter for killing oscar grant on new year's day 2009, a scene infamously captured on witness cell phone video. >> the closer we can get to sentencing, the more stressful it becomes. we are just whreeng on the community. >> reporter: johannes mehserle's attorney is asking for a new trial citing a similar case in kentucky where an officer was not found negligent. >> if he gets probation it will be a sad day not only for us as a family but the system itself for us to understand whether

fully fund the baltimore city fire department report that is from the union local 734. no word on a cause. investigators say they believe there were no working smoke detectors in the home. we're live in southwest baltimore. wbal-tv 11 news. >> thank you. it was of mylonite in baltimore city. police say three people were shot since 6:00 last evening. the first was in the 3300 block in canton. a woman was shot in the leg during a domestic dispute. a father has been charged with the death of his infant daughter. police say timothy lewis called police to report his 6-month-old daughter stopped breathing. neighbors were shocked, but police say after questioning timothy lewis, he admitted to hurting the child. >> he admitted choking the child after it cried. >> the family, they are nice. >> timothy lewis is charged with first-degree murder along with first and second-degree assault. he has no criminal past in the state. still ahead, protecting yourself against the flu. how local officials helped encourage folks to stay healthy this season. >> "is the rule for the next reforme

. >> reporter: it was also a show of force by a local long shoreman's union which stopped work at several local ports including here in oakland. >> it is our way of speaking out to the world that that kind of behavior is unacceptable. >> reporter: dozens of members came to protest police brutality over the years against teamsters and say the shut down is justified. >> there is no amount of money that can equal the loss of a life. >> i think it is really important for the community to see each other coming together for a purpose. >> reporter: this rally comes less than two weeks before the sentencing of former b.a.r.t police officer johannes mehserle convicted in july of involuntary manslaughter for killing oscar grant at the fruitvale b.a.r.t station on new year's day 2009 a scene infamously captured on witness cell phone video. >> the closer we can get to sentencing the more stressful it becomes. but, yes, we are just leaning on the community. >> reporter: in the meantime, johannes mehserle's attorney is asking for a new trial citing a similar case in kentucky where the officer was not f

necessary and we'll see the their will is done and their voices are heard according to the local trade unions over three million people took to the cities of cross over to protest the decision of the lesser goes to implement this pension reform according to the police it's closer to a million but one thing is certain the fact that these projects are having on the country's economy are tangoing the country is losing so much money and the french government it seems is losing patience while france is very badly affected by the global financial crisis something like this is definitely not. helping statistics of course to show that over sixty percent of the country's people do believe that taking their voice to the streets and taking their opinions to the streets is something that will actually help them with forty three percent of the people saying that they disagree with the decision to literally cripple the country's economy and infrastructure by putting the people out into the streets however nobody seems to be willing to leave and simply stand continue until their voices are gone until their

i represent the carpentersbs union local 22. i apologize for being late.ranger to the embarcadero. he>l knows what the community wants, what the city wants. it is a win-wi!+áion. the situation i posed to you, youlu have this group. they do not want to see it go forward. what do we get? we get nothing. nobody wins. this is- have to move forward. Ñthis is a win-win for and county of san francisco how to bring the waterfront, embarcadero back. 1 i ed and approve this. thank you. .,Ñ>> thank you. -;>>r industry. i want tofárjz this project. labor and management are voicing their support this would be the best way to utilize this proposed piece of landÑ from projects in the past, i can 4e8say with the waterfront partners, they are nothing but a de. we would ask that you approve. /uñ6h>> my name is tobyd? leva member of. waterfront group. i am here to speak on my behalf personally. --6d northeast waterfront grou. i think once it is all built, we appy to have it, as we are with the ballparks. from your perspective. you have3he conflicts. you have the need fo

implementing the member yum of understanding, amendment number 2, service employees international union local 1021, h-1 fire rescue paramedics by extending the term of the parties' agreement through june 30, 2013, and by implementing specified terms and conditions of employment for fiscal years 2010 through 2013. supervisor mar: thank you, from the department of human resources we have martin grand. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm martin grand, play relations director at the department of human resources. as you may recall brought to the g.a.o. and full board 30 concessionary labor agreements last spring. we were successful in bringing all of labor together around concessions which were approximately 4.5%, 4.6% of wages for most groups, on average it was a 4.5% concession. the h-1 paramedics are a very small unit in the city and county of san francisco. they started out as the civilian paramedics in the health department. and through a transfer of function moved into the fire department in approximately 1997. they are sworn cross trained firefighter paramedics, but they are now a small numb

they're very close to bankruptcy and part of that is because the proms made to the states and locals unionshave here is over the years, you know, if you look at union negotiations for public sector workers, they've never sat across the table from a robust negotiator on behalf of taxpayer interests. they've always just dictated terms. it's time we push back, but this is just sin it was -- because this is unsustainable. bill: how does it end, do you raise taxes and give 90 percent of your income to the government? >> let's hope not. there's not enough tax income out there. you can't tax the rich people to pay for the liabilities. that's a transfer from people under duress to retirees who are not earning anymore and that's a huge balloon that's coming. bill: do you have a solution leslie? >> the solution is we have to do accounting, we have to go to a defined contribution plan which means there's no defined benefit. you put in a certain amount, and you live with the consequences, 20 years down the road, when you get your benefits back. but we don't promise you 100 percent, you know. i think th

in one segment i fight with our local union, they are losing $900 million. sick days, retire at age 50. they claim assault, a bus driver when they are spat on. i confront the head of the union about that. we have a clip. a fourth of your workers took more than 15 sick days. in the private sector they wouldn't last long doing that. >> i don't believe that's true. >> reporter: it's not true that if a quarter of the people take 15 sick days? >> about 25% of our workforce are women, women have babies. >> reporter: but in the private sector there are women getting pregnant. >> are you saying that women who are pregnant -- how long -- i mean -- >> reporter: i'm wondering why there are so many sick days. >> i'm telling you why, there's a significant amount of new york city transit workers are women now where as it never was like that. >> reporter: there are a lot of women around here too. >> and when they get pregnant how much time do they take off work. >> reporter: i don't know i'll find out. >> you're pointing your finger at me and my union and you really don't

shake up the school system lost his primary battle to vincent gray, candidate backed by the local teachers union. >> i'm honor and humbled to have had the opportunity to serve the young people of the city. the thought of not being in this role anymore is heartbreaking to put it mildly. >> rhee repeatedly angered the union closing down schools, firing teachers and even her own daughter's principal. >> when you have a union that is protecting schools that are failing, at the expense of kids and parents you will have a fight. >> reporter: that fight extends far beyond washington, d.c. remember this exchange between new jersey governor chris christie and a member of the teachers union there? >> you are not compensating me for my education or my experience. >> then you don't have to do it. >> then there is a new documentary from davis guggenheim. he portrays a broken public school system, hampered by the union leadership. one more piece of the education reform puzzle taking shape across the country. >> what we are seeing now is the beginning of the legislators and superintendents will wage. >> she sp

carpenters' union local 22. we are in support of the reappointment to the planning commission. although i may not always agree with the planning commission board, but she has always acted professionally, and she has always been fair and acted in an impartial manner, and i urge your support for reappointment. and i am like christine olague -- what took the mayor so long? we ask for your support. thank you very much. supervisor campos: next speaker please. >> good morning. san francisco green party and our city. i think you probably know where i'm headed with this. i know this is an uphill climb. environmental justice, environmental advocates. we knew this was happening today. did not decide to turn out huge numbers of people, but i am here to the floor you to do something unusual, and that is not okay this reappointment -- i am here to employ you to do something unusual. i have fought on many issues in the last few years on the planning commission, and far too many of them, there is what could for lack of a better term be described as a party line vote when it comes to big devel

local hotel workers union. i want to highlight the inadequacy and eir. the proposed condo's should not be treated like common housing stock. they will be occupied just a small fraction of the year. they will not support the same kind of employment as typical residences would. we raised this during the comment time. the staff responded dismissively, saying that the common does not raise issues regarding the accuracy of this eir. they went on to restate that the demand for employees services by hotel guests would be reduced, but a similar number of police currently providing guest services would be expected to provide similar services to new residents. this defies common sense and it defies our of the -- experience as comparable structures in san francisco. these hotel-branded condominiums are not designed as primary residences. at the four seasons, less than 1/3 of the condos are registered as primary residences. the number is even fewer at the st. regis, and that is the figure that has been stable since he property opened nine years ago. many of the rest

that a local credit union would let a man's house burn down because he failed to pay a surcharge. some come out in favor of the fire. >> if you don't pay your $75, then that hurts the fire department. and you would be sponging off of your neighbor's $75. >> of course that also ignores gene cranick's offer to pay on the spot. >> they put water on the fence line out there, never said nothing to me. never acknowledged as i stood out here and watched it burn. >> the local blow back to the chief of another fire department there. >> it's not the best solution. the last thing a firefighter wants to do is not be able to help when they would like to. >> the politics of a la carte government with chris hayes, the preview of a tea party america this provides with robert reich, and our special guest to respond to those who call him a freeloader, gene cranick. >>> foreign money already in our electoral currency. they are keeping it separate, walled off. a chinese wall? worse, the gop candidate for governor of oklahoma will only speak after all the democrats have left the room. and the latest c

for most students that means going to your local student union and just vote. and the opposition wants to repeal the insurance bill which means those students who come out of school now who are now getting insurance on their parents till 26 will lose it. there's reasons to be inspired to vote in my judgment. we're traveling the country. >> you bring up a good point. that students don't have to go back to their home residential districts. that's been an issue confusing for some. absentee ballots, they missed the deadlines. >> plus, plus, plus early voting. >> right. >> aillinois and california you can vote right now. it is not just tuesday any more. we can vote right now. >> we saw michelle obama casting her vote recently. >> minnesota, wisconsin, onsite same-day registration. all the barriers to voting have been removed. >> what about in terms of what you there with rock the vote have found were the most successful ways to engage young voters. that's a great rocking the vote ad out there. it is e-mails, campus initiatives. what works the best? >> the most effec

countries larger than california -- have their own central banks and partnering with the local banks and credit unions, those of the things that made the good loans and the banks that want their communities to be strong, unlike the out-of-state banks. if we partner with e local banks and credit unions and invest in infrastructure of california, invest in the interest that would be paid would be coming back to california. imagine, the students would have loans not from c zero-run companies were the have private golf courses on their land, but from the state of california that once the students to thrive and universities to thrive. imagine that. that is why i am proposing it. >> thank you, laura wells, for being here and tim redmond, a quick take on the marijuana proposition and then we will go to the naacp after the break on what they feel about it. >> proposition 19 would legalize marijuana in california, but in an interesting way. stake one measure, wis proposition 19 says local communities have the right to legalize pot if they want and to regulate and tax it is they want in the way that they want.

that a local credit union would let a man's house burn down because he failed to pay a surcharge. some come out in favor of the fire. >> if you don't pay your $75, then that hurts the fire department. and you would be sponging off of your neighbor's $75. there. >> it's not the best solution. the last thing a firefighter wants to do is not be able to help when they would like to. >> the politics of a la carte government with chris heys, the preview of a tea party america this provides with robert reich, and our special guest to respond to those who call him a freeloader, gene cranick. >>> foreign money already in our electoral currency. they are keeping it separate, walled off. a chinese wall? worse, the gop candidate for governor of oklahoma will only speak after all the democrats have left the room. and the latest christine o'donnell farce. >> i'm not a witch. i'm not a witch. >> i'm not a witch. >> not that. her claim that her father was philadelphia's local bozo the clown. there are bozo truthers. turns out dad was only an unofficial bozo, a vacation relief bozo. and we'll be j

>>reporter: as general manager more local the union is escalating the action.ilton hotel strike will last twice as long as previous protest. leaders don't believe the city reputation is harmed. >> san francisco l is the destination an because of the workers service they provide people continue to return and important for the though the recognize if they want the business to continue to return they should take care of their workers first. >>reporter: for now every member of the hilton staff from the front desk to the kitchen is a replacement worker. the man year says starting tomorrow the hotel is sold out. with the giants play off game expected to attract thousands of out of town guests, the perception of san francisco will be in the spotlight. >> it's about the experience of san francisco. the experience right now outside the front door of this hotel is not the experience, not the perception we want to give the rest of the world. >>reporter: the issues include health care pensions and work loads. by the way these workers tm the at the largest hilton in the wor

yes, you have a way to contact your local union. i will make sure that your issues handled. caller: yesterday i saw karl rove in he had a contribution sheet from a union because that was all that was disclosed. that it was somehow equivalent to the group's going to republicans. i do not hear anyone making the point that when you disclose the fact that a union is contributing, you publicly know who the elected officials are and you know what their stance is. you do not allow anything about these other groups that are created. guest: you are right, it is completely transparent in the union about who gets to it and how the money is spent. that is not happening with these new groups that have been created where there is no disclosure of the hundreds of millions of dollars in where they come from. host: san diego, good morning. caller: i am a big supporter of unions. i understand the historical importance and representing the working people. the one thing i have a problem with, when i talk to my parents, other members of my family in corporate management type jobs, they do not lik

yes, you have a way to contact your local union. i will make sure that your issues handled. caller: yesterday i saw karl rove in he had a contribution sheet from a union because that was all that was disclosed. that it was somehow equivalent to the group's going to republicans. i do not hear anyone making the point that when you disclose the fact that a union is contributing, you publicly know who the elected officials are and you know what their stance is. you do not allow anything about these other groups that are created. guest: you are right, it is completely transparent in the union about who gets to it and how the money is spent. that is not happening with these new groups that have been created where there is no disclosure of the hundreds of millions of dollars in where they come from. host: san diego, good morning. caller: i am a big supporter of unions. i understand the historical importance and representing the working people. the one thing i have a problem with, when i talk to my parents, other members of my family in corporate management type jobs, they do not lik

we talked to the men who make up the steam fitters, union local 638 who assemble the pipes to supply the new tower with air conditioning and eating. >> to have an opportunity to come down here and show the world, show the terrorists that we are not going to take it. you can hit us and we will get up. we will rebuild and make this country what it is, the best country in the world. we will build the great buildings and let them stare at it from their cave and desert. >>shepard: a full report on this and stories from the world trade center log on to foxnews.com and tune in for the fox report tonight, a report from the rise of freedom at ground zero. we have just gotten word from the associated press, fox news cannot independently confirm it but associated press is

. >> hours later union local 734 sent us an e-mail. "stop playing fire house roulette. how many people have to die before enough is enough? fully fund the baltimore city fire department." fire department spokesman kevin cartwright said one breath of toxic spoke can be deadly, and he said the surroundings response time was not a factor in mr. wise's death. >> they were there in just under four minutes. the national fire association 1710 standard represents an eight-minute response in having an effective fire-fighting force on location. >> friends and neighbors of james wise don't buy it. >> if they would have left them open, normally that would have been prevented totally. >> as for the fire investigation, no word on a cause. scregors believe there were no working smoke detectors in the home. >> a story out of ann arundel county. it appears that a woman police reported dead was actually alive. ruth schilling was found motionless on a bathroom floor and thought to be dead october 1. police called her son and reported her dead. a few hours later, a state anatomy board memb

. $87 million alone from a union of state and local government employees. but democrats say the g.o.p.'s donors will be expecting payback down the line. >> these big interests are fighting hard to get back in power, and i think the american people are waking up to that fact. >> reporter: while these mid-term election are expected to be nose expensive in history, there is proof that the money is in everything. three wealthy republican candidates have spent a combined $243 million for their campaigns, and none of the big-spending candidates is leading in the polls. randall? >> pinkston: thank you. joel brown in washington. turning now to a pair of crit l contests in california. u.s.c.-"los angeles times" poll out today shows democrat jerry brown with a 13-point lead over republican meg whitman in the governor's race. democratic senator barbara boxer is eight points ahead of republican carly fee row narcotic and bill whittiker tells us the race that could decide control of the senate could be california. >> reporter: for senator barbara boxer, it's good to hav

. >> in a show of solidarity yesterday the local long shore man's union stopped work at several ports in the bay area including oakland dozens of members came to protest what they called police brutality over teamsters. >>> federal agents trying to figure out what sparked a fire in roseville. a backpack with possible explosives was left somewhere on the second floor. after a long stand off 23-year- old alexandre piggy was arrested thursday after he locked himself in the galleria and set fire to the mall he claims there were no explosives inside the backpack. >>> the count down is down to the single digits, all right. just nine days until the general election november 2nd, millions across the nation already are voting early including here in california. >>> joe here this morning to talk about the home stretch thanks for joining us. >> good to be here. >> very very interesting, clinton, obama, sarah palin, it is a whose who of politics, coming through california and closing days of this election. question is, will we really get the vote out? >> two names matter, barack obama and michell

go to your local credit union and your local bank, community bank, all get a lot better deal from themdit card fees, obviously not have a credit card and be using your debit card instead. going that direction. credit card monitoring, you can do that yourself. it's a free -- you're going to get a free copy of your credit bureau report once a year. order a copy of that straight up and your credit card payment insurance. that means if you were to be sick or disabled, you would pay your credit card bill. a, we'll get you out of credit card debt so we don't have a problem. b, if there's an emergency, you can pay your own bills and don't fall for the ripoff insurance tactics either. lost wallet protection is a good thing. keep a good list of all your accounts stored away so if something happens, you can fix your own lost wallet issues. >> right. do you have to opt out? do you have to call the bank? >> you have to opt out on some of these things. big deal is pay attention because, you know, for instance, we went with the checking account maintenance fees, people don't look at that. they look

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