in the labor-management. the one weak spot in the regime established by the protocols was factory safety and worker safety. this had always been -- in the preceding decade this had been a bitter subject because of something called the lock their case. it was a supreme court case from 1905. a man who owned a bakery bread. there were passing something called the bait shop back to new york which limited the hour sounds in the bakery because the conditions or rent a spirit a lot more intimate basements. there was no inspection. of course is not only endanger workers but anyone who can send these goods. so the bait shop ipad initially been very popular. lot owners successfully sued -- sued and won. basically saying the state legislature of new york had no business telling him how to operate his business or have to deal with his workers. that was a very crucial thing in the resistance to unions. what the call liberty of contracts. companies, just like people, have certain rights and that a large company in dealing

i'm the director of the san francisco labor council. i'm encouraged by your comments, but i'm still going to work off the agenda as i saw it when i walked in this morning. i want to be clear -- vince courtney is a great leader in our trade union movement. he is well versed in a lot of the different functions of san francisco and the puc. it is obviously one of the most important commissions in all of san francisco. mr. courtney sits as an executive officer on our legal counsel. -- on our labor council. the labor council recommends him highly for this very important position. supervisor campos: thank you. is there any other member of the public who would like to speak on this item? please come forward. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is gregory reed. i'm the executive director of the randolph institute, and i'm here today to give our support as well as with me today, and i brought a van full of community members and members of our chapter. we wholeheartedly give our support to mr. courtney's appointment to the puc. thank you. s

i will point to the history of the strong labor movement, but i also point to highroad employers. our city is blessed with a community of employers who, as you call them, highroad employers, who want to provide well for their employees. on the other point, if i may, commissioner, if you would be willing, we would love to run by our draft of the 2010 annual reporting form for your feedback, if you are interested in offering it. vice president clyde: i would be very interested in that. there are two issues. one is fairness for all workers. the other one is i believe that health care is something that we have to -- that we should all have access to. and the longer and harder work for that, the sooner that they will come. president yee: i think it would be beneficial if you can share that report our director so all of the commission can have a copy of it. commissioner o'brien: i have one technical question, i suppose. it says there is a correlation between employer size and participation in the city option. the larger the employer, the more likely it will use the city option. is that

i am head of the labor enforcement department. i am here with matt goldberg, who is fairly new and n will be heading the enforcement of health care security, and he will be doing the presentation. good by way of introduction, i know all of you are familiar, but as a reminder, the health care security ordinance was first passed by the board of supervisors in august of 2006, amended in april of 2007. if those two things. it sets up and -- it does two things. it sets up a comprehensive system as an option, and it also requires employers with 20 or more employees to spend so much per hour on health care benefits for their employees. the ordinance requires employers also to do some annuals and reporting to the city, and we have now done reporting to understand employers choices and how they are complying with the ordinance, and we have done the reporting in 2008 and in 2009. we are here to talk about what we found out that night to be of interest. matt is going to give you a brief overview, but we have to hand out. it looks like a hand

right now consistently in practice project labor agreements are predominantly organized labor and that's the reason they're in place you know that that's why democrats lobbied for them so what do i say if i'm one of those construction work ninety percent of construction workers who can't get this job i certainly angry and become very outraged i'm a construction worker and if you join a union. well i'll give you guys are running out of time but you know i just think it's very interesting to see how much this is shifted over the years over the decades in america but do you think of this as a bit of a.

over the past decade, the slave labor task force worked to document the history of slave laborers who constructed the walls of the united states capitol. we all know that by now that we know the valuable contribution of the reed family. from a dark chapter in our past, an age of equality deny, rights reduced, a dream not yet realize, these masons, carpenters, painters, and others gave us this house of liberty and this began of hope for our nation and indeed, the world. history books have until now have not recorded their story or describe the pivotal role they played in erecting the capital. yet the story will be written for ever into these walls, etched into the structure and spoken from this marble chamber. today it is enshrined in these plaques which state ago this original exterior wall was constructed between 1793 and 1800 of sandstone, worried by enslaved african americans who were an important part of the labor force that bill the united states capitol. for all to see and read and savor and treasurer and value when they visit this capital of the united states. never again will

when you expand the labor curve, a simple economist will say the price of labor goes down and we're all hurt. the more people that work here, the more people that are chasing jobs and we're all doomed. wrong. the expansion of the available labor force creates opportunities that did not exist before. you have innovation and entrepreneurialism that increases the actual size of small and medium-sized businesses. they consume and that expands the demand curve. you have a dynamic economy for 90% of u.s. born workers that enhances their wages. the other 9% got whacked up side the head with globalization and immigration and everything you can list and they need help. getting rid of immigrants doesn't really help them. the final point is if you look at the last 15 years, 25% of publicly traded companies in the united states are essentially from the bay area region and one out of four was started by an immigrant. we have great data on this because it's all transparent. you can look it up. you can tabulate it. it's all a list of companies that we own, from google to intel, we know these companies

. >> when you say that the labor market is going to improve, your forecast is for unemployment to get to 9% from where it is right now so how many new jobs are we talking about? how many more people will be hired? >> we're looking for payroll increases to be maybe around two and a half million on net in 2011, so that would translate into a couple hundred thousand a month. certainly stronger than we've seen at any point in this recovery yet. and it will start the process, we think, of bringing down the unemployment rate. but we have a tremendous amount of wood to chop. 9% unemployment rate is not acceptable to anyone. it's better than we are today. but it's not anywhere near where we need it to go. we need to have a number of years of this kind of job growth that we're anticipating for 2011 to continue for us to get unemployment even close to back to where it was before the recession. >> now as you know, we have an employment reports that's coming out this friday. will that number show growth, will it be a good report or a bad one? >> i think so. you know, last months was a clunker. it

>> we had incorporated labor savings already based on the labor negotiations. it is already in the budget. >> let me rephrase the question. there are no anticipated revenues in here based on saflingse from the t.w. contract? >> it would be impacting next year, not this year. >> and there are no anticipated savings for the following year? >> there are no anticipated savings or increases. >> very good. >> thank you, director. director? >> it will be very interesting putting together the information to see what has happened with transit fares and parking citation. the parking and traffic fees and fines is fascinating to me. i remember the fight when the transit fares were increasing, and the parking fees were increaseded. then the parking citations go down, and you see no, the people don't want you to write citations. which one is it? you can avoid the vie takes by feeding the meter correctly. with the new other meets, it is edieier for people to geed them. when you drive away, somebody else has to buy a whole new chunk of time. i loved it. it was like ok, nobody

labor had some concerns about certain personnel doing the job of other personnel. under our contracts, that is not permitted. that was brought forward to school staff. they investigated it. there was something in the area that was not clear. in that conversation were our parent volunteers. when do they stop becoming volunteers and start supplanting some of the work that was previously done by an employee that is the logger budgeted at the school site? there was a clear message from our labour director ruiz. because we have these cuts, and to be mindful that parent volunteers are much appreciated. community volunteers are appreciated. the level of their volunteerism, there is a line. sometimes it is blurry. we have to make sure that they and the school staff understands that. the information was brought forward and addressed and publicly been noted the results of that. the memo went out to all schools about that. president kim: i am going to take the liberty to take our city and school district reports. they are both on student assignment. most of the action items h

i don't think we know the extent of our labor pool or our local training initiatives. i mean, you know, if -- you can't -- you can't, for instance require city employees to live in san francisco, ok? so we have these local hire mandates. what prevents someone from just getting an address in san francisco and, you know, with their cousin or their friend and being then, being then eligible under this ordinance but not really living here? i mean i just find that there are many details that haven't been vetted, so i'm really concerned, commissioners, that they are not. i'm also concerned with legislation that advantages the largest businesses because they are equipped to manage these programs where our l.b.e.'s and smaller businesses, it takes them more time. but i think my biggest concern is the local workforce and the time it takes to ramp up the apprenticeship programs to develop our own skilled labor from our own neighborhoods. and also, where will they live? because one of the challenges for skilled labor is housing, you know, and for a working family to have a qualit

of labour. -- department of labor.l be our guest for the next 13 minutes. miami, fla., go ahead. caller: what i would like to find out from the guest today is you are saying that regulations have created problems. were these regulations [unintelligible] that is my first question. my second question is i would like to know where the institute funding is coming from to figure out whose views he is expressing -- she is expressing. guest: this is from a non- partisan think tank. one person specializes in housing. another specializes in energy and in general economics. he is also a columnist for the sunday times. this is a very big problem and some people have suggested that the inconsistency in the government taking out some companies and letting others go bust has contributed to the meltdown. the government has made itself into the bailout chief. with the new financial regulation bill being legalized, the government can restructure this that might cause systematic risk to the economy. this is a very different role than it

they made war on the remnants of labor unions.they passed nafta, and that was passed -- bill clinton is the poster child of bankrupt liberalism. [applause] >> clinton understood that if he did corporate meeting, he could get corporate money. and that the working class and labor would have nowhere else to go. and by the 1990s the democratic party had fund-raising parity with republicans. by the time barack obama ran for president, they got more. but the price of that betrayal. of the working class, that traditionally the democratic party and liberal institutions that once protected. and our great failure for those of us who care about ordinary, the rights of ordinary citizens is that in 1994 with the passage of nafta, we did not stand up for the working class and turn our back on the democratic party. [applause] >> we continue to support democratic politicians who spoke in the traditional language of liberalism, that betrayed every single core liberal value. the welfare reform, we now face the prospect with his new midterm election

we were free labor for labor it down there in the south. we went to mississippi to fight for the catfish workers down there. my life was forever changed, never forgetting to remember those two i could beat -- i could depend on. they shared with me and a lot of us to understand firsthand the knowledge of dr. king leading the non-violent civil rights union. but let us understand that he was a revolutionary. he was a visionary. i was listening on my way into andy young. did anyone hear that this morning? because we were all up early. he talked about and he mentioned rev. orange. what is so significant about that? it was the leaders who had the gravitas. i learned that my life was about service. i went to college to go and get my business administration degree and i was in corporate america for seven years. i hated it. i hated it as a job. i moved fast in the 1980's and i moved into the 1990's and i woke up one day and i was going up the corporate ladder. i walked into my job one day, lost my mind, and gave them my letter of resignation. it was

it has to wait for that labor to show up. then it can't employ, say, for example, the architect to redesign the new restaurant that's going to open if it can't get the right people into the restaurant to hire and work there. this mobility of labor has been radically changes in the united states because the housing collapse. people can't leave their homes. immigrants right now are more mobile than any other segment of society. they will probably in a technical sense be the lubrication, kind of great w.d.-40 that gets the gears of the economy again because they're able to move and to the third point, our disproportionately risk taking. it's interesting to me, one stat the rubber chicken dinner, i'm from arizona and i'm the son of a naturalized u.s. citizen. i'm sitting at a dinner, a fancy nice dinner. someone was going on how his vice presidents have to go through this rigorous outdoors thing where he sees the meddle of the man who i will promote or not promote depending on whether or not they screamed when they went down the

change the whole structure of the labor party and had a very easy innings with the labor party because. we were desperate to win the ninety seven election his government really had sort of three strange directions to it and they were actually sort of rather different he was always and remains a market politician he believes in a market economy he's not a socialist in the sense of any kind of economic transformation. yet his government at the same time did introduce quite important social legislation national minimum wage sure start children's centers and human rights activists and quite good things on that and quite libertarian in the sense of age of consent and issues like that then in foreign policy starting out from an ethical foreign policy and the robin cook we've rapidly descended into being a total poodle of the bush administration in the usa and blair's legacy what ever else he says or does in his life is always going to be iraq was labelled bush's spoilt puppy by the british media do you think that the u.k.'s relationship with the us has changed at all since he left power blai

second, what really i think it's fascinating is that the youth labor mobility. if we had people coming in from other countries the way they did i just think that the -- i can't seem to turn the soft. if we had people coming in from other countries the way germans and other europeans did, you know, there would be enormous social tension. i mean, they are serious in italy. they don't seem to be as nearly as serious in germany. one of the reasons i've picked germany is because i really, as i mentioned, of all the places things in germany are least difficult and stressful. the final thing i decided, this poll that the financial times did, they did surveys of countries, america, germany, france, england. the question was -- i just can't get it off. now it's off. the percentage of people who say immigrants have made things worse, highest in britain. i forget where the other countries fall. the united states is somewhere in the middle of the pack in germany is below the nine states. not much, but it is below. there are plenty of people who made things worse, but relati

this was perverse, and i say that in an enlightened cents, a labor of love. for years and years, for anyone who lived in this city or anyone who worked downtown, you wonder what the heck is going on down there. why is this piece of grass under-utilized? why have we not created energy around this area? we were vexed by some very big plans that were going to be difficult, including trying to rematch in this entire area. this is a look when it was the freeway. this would be high on my agenda. the next mayor will get about four or five files we put together on real imagining the fountain area. i want to figure out a way of turning that thing back on. the pumps are costing us a fortune. they are keeping them going. we want to try to get this space activated and create energy around here until we figure out the more permanent vision. i love bocce because it is so easy, not to be great, but you can think you are pretty good if you're doing it against your little cousin or little sister. your little cousin can come out here and feel pretty good about being good at bo

this is a labor management issue. it's between management and the c.w.a. by the way, let me add that the majority of workers at kpfa are unpaid. i'm unpaid. the vast majority of us are unpaid. the c.w.a. didn't want us -- the prior union represented paid and unpaid. so i would urge you to not to vote on this, or at least wait until you've p -- you have a chance to get a full set of opinions on both sides on this issue. thank you. >> i'm going to ask you to vote against the kpfa resolution and i'm particularly going to ask you to vote against it in steve connally's memory. if he were here, if he were alive today he would ask you to vote against this. i can absolutely assure you of that. i'd like to make sure this audio visual works does -- what do i have to do -- there. ok. just want to make sure -- ok. i'm still a district 8 voter, a journalist, a contribute to the bay view, global research and news line e.a., east africa. i'm also a reporter for kpfa weekend news where i have no union representation. in the last two years i've been an expert guest on the

that benefits the labor market overall. >> as the economy continues to improve, the labor minister expects a corresponding improvement in the job market next yea >> consumer prices are moving private -- are moving higher in the eurozone. inflation preceded the central bank's target for the first time in two years. the european union's statistics office reports prices rose 2.2% on the air. economists say the rise in inflation is due to higher fuel and food prices. the european central bank's aims to keep price growth below 2%. analysts say they believe they will keep interest rates unchanged wellnto2011 despite higher inflation. shares for apple computer rose 2% at the start of the year, giving the technology company market value of $300 billion. apple is now one of the most voluble companies traded, talked -- top only by exxon mobil. apple's thou elation plummeted aftethe stock-market collapse in september of 2008. one month later, it was worth $89 billion. the recovery is remarkable. the aft -- apple's market cap past microsoft in may of last year and is worth $60 billion more than its ma

you have to be competitive for prison labor. and so yes, you're right. and i speak at the end of the book about climate change and how it is twinned with this magical thinking, this divorce from reality in fact come in and of course courtesy of exxonmobil. how many millions of dollars to the spend to confuse people about the science of climate change. >> futrell when wheat for the mic. go ahead. >> thank you so much for your talk tonight. you have written a lot recently and have spoken quite a bit about this to might come and get on the understand as has been told to me by my veterans for peace program that you're joining the action on december 16th in washington, the veteran action against the current wars that are continuing to perpetuate themselves. i was wondering a, why now, and b, would you say to people that are on the fence about whether or not they might want to join us? >> well, i've joined other actions. this is the first time i've agreed along with daniel ellsworth and several other veterans to go chain myself to the sense of the white house.

. >> so now we are off to labor and delivery. >> hello.s vinter. >> hello. >> nicole, this is miss vinter. she's our unit receptionist. >> reporter: hello. nice to meet you. >> she's been working with long island college hospital for a very long time. >> reporter: oh, are these all the babies that have been born here? >> yes. a lot of our babies. >> this is our labor and delivery suite. so you know, i switch hats. downstairs i was the gynecologist where i do surgery, i deal with female problems. now on this floor i'm an obstetrician, i deliver babies. >> reporter: i followed dr. comrie as she made her morning rounds. first stop, a woman who's in labor, and expected to deliver any minute now. >> good morning. >> reporter: hello. >> hi. this is nicole. >> hi. >> reporter: nice to meet you. congratulations. >> thank you. >> so this is erica and aaron, her husband. and this is a doula whose name is erin also 37 a dowela say support person. she goes over the birth plan and then she comes in and is a support person to the couple when the couple

for your labor. for your labor.gnizable symbol of our democracy, was not built overnight. it was not built by machines. it was built screw the back breaking work of laborers and slave laborers. this bill, in which we reject -- stand grounded on a foundation laid by slaves. slavery is a part of our nation's history. for which we are not proud. wheat wheat shall not run away or hide from it. the history of the capitol like the history of our nation should be complete. as thousands of visitors walk through our nation's capital, they leave without knowing the true history of its construction. today, that changes. today, we moved one step closer to realizing a dream of an old, inclusive and more perfect union. today, [unintelligible] today, we remind all visitors of the work of the enslaved african americans in building the temple of freedom. again, madam speaker, leaders of the congress, i would like to thank everyone here for their support for the slave labor task force. thank you very much. [applause] >> ladies and ge

he also comes from labor. a strong commitment to working hard and an incredible dedication to his family. i've got four incredible younger sisters. dr. jennifer cohen. we've got erica, ho is not able to be with us. today. we have marlena and katherine. and i'm also very excited to be here speak before my 13-month-old niece. thank you. and the reason why this is so paramount is we must inspire our young people. we must create opportunities, not just for all youth, but also particularly, our women. there are four women on the board of supervisors, and one day, again, we will have a woman who will be president of the board of supervisors. we will have another woman that's going to be mayor of san francisco. [applause] thank you.