are government-sector unions, not public-sector unions. they are government-sector unions. they have had this incredibly corrupt relationship, been in bed with the democrats for decades. what scott walker did was slam a padlock on the door of the candy store at which both sides have been gorging for decades. of course, the unions went bananas. but the taxpayer said, finally, we have somebody in office, precking us and our interests. the american taxpayers -- we are going to see it nationwide. >> sean: i agree. david limbaugh, you wrote the encyclopedic book this week on barack obama. talk about the relationships that he has, when you go back in his background and social justice and a.c.o.r.n. -- is it all intertwined here? >> the class struggle. he wants to pit labor against business, the stroy -- the great destroyer is the book. i would like to merge their ideas? >> you want to take their seats and redistribute it. >> everybody will be on the top row. if we can do that next time, but i want to merge their ideas that has to do with the tri

today is a union day. the reason has to do today's subject, that is the war ships from the limited war to a hard war. once the war does that, it really does start to affect the two societies quite differently. so today, like i say, i want to look at what shift a hard war meant for the union. i want to think about why the happened. what i would like you to be asking yourself, though, is did a shift of hard war, and we'll talk about what that meant, revolution. it starts as a limited war, do we have an actual revolution by 1862? if we do, how and when and why did that happen? for whom, and what difference did that make to the way that the war played out? so those are our big questions for today. i want us to start by doing historians' favorite thing to do, that is take something you think you know, something that is familiar, and make it strange all over again. i passed out the lyrics to the battle hymn of the republic, which you have known since grade school and you probably can't listen to without hearing

the european union. that was sort of to the west that we did something similar like that to the east where the moment really poland is the way quite nervous about germany and russia for example one project in the east would be to have hypo high power voltage lines connecting russia to western europe and have common institutions of poland then you have a big growth area and if you have a new approach to the economy then you have a growth it was germans are concerned how far they're willing to go i believe germans very much want to see what the benefit they have to be we mean we benefit for free trade we benefit from human rights and benefit from the american democracy was all imposed on us we didn't become democracies we were made democrats we only example in history maybe japan i can think of where it actually works. that's a different program but this is so so we're very happy to have it i think we'll pay for it that's fine. but i'm a nobody really doubts about the leading role of germany as a super eco

unions. union membership has seen a steady decline private unions have been hit particularly hard while public-sector unions have seen some growth. now my point. it can serve as a wake-up call for the american labor union and the democratic party. on the show we often lament on the decline of the middle class. that is directly related to the loss of union membership. fewer union members means less benefits, less salaries for american workers, period. the question we now face is how does the labor movement move forward especially after last night. what does a 21st century labor movement look like? maybe we need more union members with more bargaining power for every day people instead of less of both. maybe unions can think differently, too. more aggressively, more progressively about what they can offer an employer in exchange for the wages and membership they're seeking. in fact, unions can be the the premiere resource for the most highly skilled workers in the world. our competition are fro

this is before the union tripping law. here is that same union's membership today. we don't have the stats on all public unions but what we have looks the same. this is the american fed ration of teachers before the tripping law went into effect and this is the membership now. a year after scott walker's law took effect. that's what they have been able to do in a year. now because they could not stop the implementing of this law, the democratic side in the wisconsin recall effort doesn't have the means to compete politically that they usually have the unions play a political role to the extent that unions are going away, they can play less of a political role. it's a big reason why the republican side has had a spending advantage that's reached at times 25 to 1. $25 on the republican side for every single dollar on the democratic side. this recall election on tuesday is really close. democrats might yet pull it off. they say that the ground game is key. who used to be best at the ground game? unions. killing off the unions is what republicans want to do in every sta

private sector union. my dad was a construction worker, not a racist. voted for richard nixon. public sector unions are never going to move to republicans never. they may not matter but they will never move -- >> i totally disagree. i never met a democratic policeman or fireman never in my life. >> they keep putting jerry brown in office and guys like that. >> adam, a final point here. >> i'm from chicago where are there are are plenty of democratic firemen and policemen. we can't have it both ways here. either they are on death's door or they are the most powerful interest group in america. i don't think either one is true and i don't think one election is going to be a referendum on union power. >> neil: i find it interesting, adam. a little more than a month ago a lot of prominent democrats were saying this was a crucial battleground and then when they started seeing the polls it isn't that important, really not that big of a deal. you have to admit. that is what i do. i say well, this wasn't important.

thoroughly unionized.uest: right there's been a lot of discussion about that and i think a number of northern european unions it's true they're more unionized but they work more in conjunction cooperatively with employers and in the united states there's antagonism between unions and business. and collective bargaining and ad ver sarl relationship that hasn't been productive. host: debra? sin si in the the? caller: i'm sitting here with nickels and in timdimes in my h. while your of having this conversation. large citizens numbers snd hours to a dictatorship. how can you sit there and say people don't have the right to bargain? we have the right, but people want to take that right away and make it illegal. i mean - you talked about the people striking for against the transportation workers or striking and what reports would you have them do? is if they're unhappy or feel they're being treated unfairly? host: question for chris edwards? guest: workers have the right to move to companies that respect their c

monday union the main thing that is a political union has in its editions and it's run. if i may say it's run by twenty seven governments which together and. decide all together that's not i know that is not the united states of here is it yet last night you know it went to several governments have signed the treaty for sort of diety and cohesion both are very important not just a little bit but have also tried to be coherent with the rest of you'll try the whole show that i want out of a crisis when you're trying trying to talk oh here. well i think you will come back where we started i mean it has to have a crisis you know to come to a higher conviction of institutions to be a selfless. how do you do that well. you know no no i'm not trying to be facetious here ok because when you look at the united states had to fight a terrible awful civil war after being established for almost a century what ninety years ok we don't have a lot of time here now and the problems of people are very well aware of lawyer but i think we have the but also of course as in germany when we lo

unions are big money. five of the top ten political spenders over the years are labor unions. but government unions, specifically, are these very politically connected groups that give lots of money and get paid i think something like the average compensation is over $40 an hour compared to the private sector, where it is about $28. so these government unions are special interest. so the democrats can pretend to be fighting against special interests, but not when they are on the same side of the government union. >>> well listen, there is a real crisis in the state and local governments today, which is they are -- their revenues are down dramatically and they cannot reduce their costs in part because a lot of these public service unions have compensation way in excess of the private sector, in terms of pension and his in terms of hourly pay. it is $1414 çan hour higher on average for the public sector union than for the private sector union. you have the sense of things that private citizens are working for the government rather than the government working for the public. the

between 73 and now, we've gone from 34% unionization to 8% unionization.e same exact time we've had huge wage inequality. there have been places after places after places where when you don't have people having the right to have some way of bargaining their wages, you see wages in the middle class going down. that is what the union movement is about. they're not, it's not an independent entity. and so, if we're talking about the united states and growing a middle class. we need to actually have workers have a voice. >> can i just say, can i just say one thing? just empirically in terms of the data, you cannot look at the data about the american political economy and conclude anything but that unions are on the decline, median wages have stagnated. inequality have gone up. corporate profits have gone up. those are the facts on the table. whether you think the balance is still out of skew with 8% union density and stagnating median wages, you can make that argument. but you cannot make an argument that unions have been in assent or that corporate wages have

by the union soldiers? >> that varies a lot. and the way -- and this is a tricky -- this is a tricky question. in that you know, some of these camps called contraband camps are without question, sites of humanitarian crisis, and there's no way to sugar coat that. mortality rates in a place like we haven't gone to vicksburg yet because it hasn't fallen, but there will be a big one in vicksburg. the mortality rates there are so astonishing that one aide worker said if you wanted to kill slaves, you couldn't have found a better way. they're dreadful. how do we think about that? are these camps -- are the places where union soldiers and slaves come into contact sort of, you know, wonderful sites of refuge? no, but they're not outright, kind of a way to kill off the population. here is how i see it, when did the red cross come into existence? the u.s. isn't part of it until much later. the army is not a humanitarian organization and there's not world precedence yet. i have been thinking about this question a lot

flow well coming up i hear about the euro crisis the never ending agony of the european union where do the problems come from and just anyone have any solution the first step to take to steer the slow lead. to discuss this i'm joined by a gusto carlos lopez he is director for the global indicators and analysis department of the world bank also we have jeff there he is an economist and we have tom conway he's a principal at reinsurance consultants international ok jeff if i could go to you first. when you when we look at the euro crisis today doesn't watch fox put into what could go wrong because it seems to me that we have nineteen emergency meetings nineteen. and everybody keeps looking over the cliff and we keep hearing a solution is in sight and then we have another emergency meeting when told it went so wrong. i think there are. two factors that have to play that one is political and the other one is economic the political one is that i think we have to keep in mind that democracy is a very slow process definition and european union is is maybe too democratic for song good which pl

for the european union. european union is already russia's biggest commercial partner accounting for around fifty percent of all russian trade it's also the biggest source of foreign direct investment you putin is the biggest client of the most important exports from russia i mean energy and russia is the bureau accession opens additional produce for trade and for the development of our economic relations we believe this can be very important for the future of office you probably know as vision is now in a phase of full implementation and i'm happy to say that president putin sees it as a priority russia using the gauge in a very important process and we are very proud to be partners of russia in that regard building a partnership between all societies means also and having closer relationship between our peoples this is why visa issue and mobility issues are so important we are now engaged in the implementation of the common steps towards the three drivel that we have launched last i mean. we will come to s

there you can't do it without a federal so while the monetary union is in some ways a union and in some ways not and you've got to just how is the problem of eventually you have to go back to the fundamental flaws in the original structure of the euro. supposedly it's a single currency but in actuality. it's a currency mainly or all that is any each individual country because the sovereign governments of each country are soley responsible for the bonds they issue so what you will but at the same time this is what got greece ok is it if you have your own currency you can default you can devalue you can do you can start over again yes but the euro is a straitjacket you can't do that in the argument just winning the argument is made because you can't do that you surrender your sovereignty and it's somewhere in berlin it's somewhere in brussels it's not at home well. in some ways that's true but in saying that there's no way out i think i wonder there is ways out and there's history on earth i mean if you look back ten or twelve years to the time that argentina had their peso a link to the

if it's a compact then this union is aeptable. story didn't believe that it was acceptable because he's saying this in the wake of nullification. in essence the federalists after the nullification crisis, people like daniel webster story say, nothconsti is tiont a compact between the states. daniel webster. if a lgue between sovereign powers containing -- if it's a ague between the sovereign wers containing nothing, making it perpetua it subsists only during the good pleasure of both parties. if it is a compact seceson is constitutional. lincoln was clearly arguing th it'sot a compact. he also wants to argue against a common southern perspective as reflected by jefferson davis. he makes a logical point that one of you pointed out. if we as a nation had the right to leave britain why isn't it the right of a sovereign state the government. it's very logical assumption. it's no coincidence thatis gives his inaugural address on washington's birthday referring to t birthday of the man most enidthe blishment of indepennce and esblishmat

well, join a union. big labor making a push to unionize the unemployed.y, you say this could actually keep people unemployed longer, how so. the great milton freeman, i'll quote him. therefore, much union activity is concerned with rationing the available jobs among job seekers and union members get higher pay because they allow fewer jobs to exist. that's what a cartel does and the whole idea here, by definition, it would not help jobs, okay? don't take it from me, take it from milty. >> jonas, do you agree or a different perspective on things? >> they're the anti-union employee and-- >> and that's such a-- >> another thing i want to say, look, in general, the one thing unemployed have going for them is their relative low cost compared to union labor and as the work of employers too hire somebody and part-time worker, it doesn't get hired and harder to hire, in fact, if there's an organization, and the unemployed were in a union they might get hired even faster. >> i'm going to take this and block that answer. >> part of the union idea, gary b, they'll b

so you get western union seeking privacy and western union payment standards in the telegraph should do the same bystanders in the post office. so the government is not necessarily the best guardian of privacy of the citizenry and i think it is a lesson we can take from the history of the 187 days in the 1880s. >> host: desanto borst i read from his invention? >> samuel morris died rich because samuel morse, a business manager hired the good sense to invest in western union and that is what saved sammy morris, even the western union was in effect the great rival. and the irony is even richer because western union saw the value asserted a poster child for the new type apology and they're actually behind the statue from the still standing in central park. one of the first erected to a living american. morris is still alive and by linking him with western union, and they created this historic mythology that's really falls to the history, but it is one that cuts to associate a corporation, which had a rather low regard of the heroic adventurer who had a high regard today. so yes, by inve

you need blacks on your side to preserve the union. we'll elaborate on that today and especially next week. but douglass made that very clear. was there another question? now to go back to lincoln's inaugural address, now what you might not know is lincoln drafted it. he labored over and when he arrives in washington he circulates the draft to some d advisers. and -- and in the draft he circulates, he opposes congressional efforts to amend the constitution. and in his draft he says i'm for the old ship. in his draft he knew the congress was debating this new 13th amendment. they haven't they hadn't passed it. he vows to reclaim the federal forces captured rather than simply preserve those that remain in federal hands. and then his draft, it's a much firmer ending. his draft ends by saying with you and not with me is the solemn question. shall it be peace or the sword? your choice. he circulates this draft to william stewart in particular who thinks it is way too strong. plus some other republican advisers, orville browning, frances bla

. >> "union rags" at the gun. pacer, "union rags" fighting for the rails. "union rags" has got him. "union rags" in the belmont stakes. >> "union rags" wins the belmont. he atones today. >> it was just the fact that a mile and a half is an unknown distance. if we are going to get there, we will not get there. he rider andh t the course being as game as he was, they got the job done. >> bodiemeister finished second at the preakness. >> our coverage continues at pimlico. >> today was the day that everyone thought wfive "i'll have another" would make him a triple crown winner. that did not dampen the spirits of those who came out. >> "union rags" in the belmont street. >> it was "union rags" that took home the trophy. >> of sort of finish, exciting. >> it was exciting but to? "i'll have another" could not raise. that was a disappointment. >> that feeling was clear saturday. this was not the party it was supposed to be. many tables were empty. "i'll have another" hats left untouched. a lot of people did not show up after the announcement friday that "i'll have another" was pulling out o

pay dues to that union. it's been reported by "the wall street journal" that over half of the members of the second largest union in wisconsin, and that is the federal and state local employees, they have left their union since these laws were passed. there is something out there that goes beyond money and organization. there is something stirring in the country about what's happening at the state and local level. i just think we have to take account of it. >> ari fleischer, as the republican in the group, if you're the romney campaign and you're scrubbing this tonight trying to figure out what's the lesson, what is it? >> a couple of things. number one, if you go back to what's happened since president obama was elected, really an anti-bush, anti-iraq mood of the country and a surge for president obama, he has not had any good domestic election results since. 2009 both virginia and new jersey went from a democratic governor to republican. 2010, of course, scott brown took ted kennedy's seat in massachusetts

is to create a fiscal union with a great political union monetary union it means one country means united states means russia and in my feeling this is a one solution with only one solution for europe to move in that direction it's inevitable but do people want people want out there i mean united states of europe in theory would work and i'm an american and i know i know i know that anyone that votes an election to determine the presidency it's michigan it's florida it's california and new york you can't win the presidency without those states ok as a result candidates don't go anywhere so you know what i'm getting at ok and in this is what europeans want i mean i remember we did this mechanism for a security in peace and a lot of people don't have security and people are getting less prosperous very clear that europeans. i don't want european voters don't want. united states of europe but i think you can start in places and that's what i was trying to do this may make sense to people if you look at the way the european banking system looks right now that you have cross border banking all

then, whether it's united farm worker or some other union.ny of them? or a very small number? >> a very small number. i would say about 1% or 2%. >> reporter: 1% or 2% of farmworkers you see are involved in organized labor? >> yes. >> reporter: cesar chavez's friend and ally, chris hartmire, wishes the union was more active in the farm fields. >> from an outsiders perspective it doesn't seem like there's a lot of new organizing going on, and i wish there were, but i also know it's extremely difficult. workers in the fields now don't know who cesar chavez is. they think he's a boxer from mexico, julio cesar chavez. >> the reality, it is tough. >> reporter: ufw president arturo rodriquez acknowledges his union's declining influence but says it's refocusing its energy to organize farmworkers, including labor agreements benefiting field hands picking mushrooms and strawberries. the union is also fighting for immigration reform. >> there is no doubt that we have a lot of work to do, but at the same time we have made a lot of gains, we've made a lo

union members welcomed those fighting words, as public sector unions engaged in a series of battles around the country-- over jobs, benefits and bargaining rights. only a few weeks ago in wisconsin, where a.f.s.c.m.e. was born in 1932, republican governor scott walker survived a union-driven recall attempt. the bitter vote came after walker signed a bill to end collective bargaining rights for most public sector unions. on the same day in california, the labor movement also lost two, smaller skirmishes, as voters in san diego and san jose decided to cut city workers' pensions. it was a setback from only last fall in ohio, where public unions beat back an attempt to scale back collective bargaining rights. these very public debates have now led to a vigorous internal one as well, as afscme tomorrow elects a new president for the first time in a generation. the race pits lee saunders, the current secretary treasury, against danny donahue, head of afscme's new york state branch. saunders-- who would be the organization's first african- american president-- pledges to increase the union's memb

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union density the percentage of workers who belong to private sector unions is down to seven percent which is right where we were at the start of the new deal. and that has been a tremendously important cause offshoring has contributed some trade has contributed some although only recently. until pretty recently until really the mid ninety's. the united states was not really trading very much with countries that had significantly lower wages that changed of course with the rise of trade with china which manages to be a rich country and a poor country at the same time now you mentioned the the divergence in college completion for example or college degrees graduate degrees undergraduate. when reagan became governor of california education was free in that state and and most of the land grant colleges the abraham lincoln had founded. were. damn near free you know through the forty's. for a long long period of time and by the time reagan's presidency was done. that i mean first of all he had ended the free college in california but it had become basically a trend across the nation is th

the union is perpetual. you quoted it. falls in no state upon its own mere motion can get out of the union. referring to the ordinances of secession. the resolutions to secede are legally voit void. acts of violence with a state or states against the authority of the united states are revolutionary. secession is insurrection, revolutionary. plainly the idea of secession is anarchy. unconstitutional. yet for many americans secession was, indeed, considered constitutional. in fact, the preeminent legal authority at the time, chief justice roger taney felt strong that secession was, indeed, legal and constitutional. in fact, his friend franklin pierce, the former president, he hopes secession can result in a peaceful disunion. a peaceful separation. free institutions in each section. this is the preeminent legal authority in the country. this was a private letter. it doesn't carry the weight of the chief justice's public legal opinion. he made it very clear he believed secession was legal. those arguing it was constitutional

unions.heir demands for a livable wage and accessible fiber exits have gutted our economy. ( laughter ) thankfully, public service unions have been taking a beating. first they, lost collective bargaining rights in wisconsin. then voters in both san diego and san jose cut workers' retirement benefits. indiana made it illegal for unions to mandate duse for workers and voters in oz gutted benefits for the lollipop guild. why am i paying for their diabetes medicine. one union scored a major victory and that brins us to tonight's word-- free lunch. folks, despite the national trend against public unions, some people just don't get it. take these greedy school cafeteria worker workers in pennsylvania. >> union ides workers in the school district have won the right to eat leftovers ueven when the food is expired. the union filed a grievance for the right to eat expired cafeteria food for free. >> stephen: these unionized, lunch lady thugs, now have the right to free expired cafeteria food. and give

any union coming after this proclamation is going to be a union without slavery and the union had slavery in 1861. remember lincoln's early political fame grew from a speech in which he said the united states could not entour half is slave or half free. the emancipation proclamation clearly points to which way. finally the union army would enforce the emancipation proclamation. and this one does matter a lot, i think. it made the union in effect what so many of its members were trying to be for some time, and that is a blujon against slavery where ever it went. it's not the magic bullet that did away with the dins tuition of slavery, but also not as a worthless gesture. i think the best way to think about it really is as one step, one important step and a very long and clikted process of destroying what was a very powerful institution. no single document could do it in one fell swoop. this one helped. it didn't do all of it. that's what i think. it's one of the things we talked about on friday what do you guys think and i expect robust disagreement with me on that score. don't disappoint