workers in all business related decisions it does this by doing it by using something called a works council a special union like organization that works with management on a number of issues including safety in strategy if the workers of all boats wagons chattanooga plant had voted to join the u.a.w. they would have been able to create a works council of their own but friday's election results throughout possibility out the window and now they had a volkswagen's works councils someone who has a direct role in that company's business plans international is. saying that if volkswagen doesn't see any improvement in labor relations in town to see the company may have to rethink building any more plants in the south he told a german newspaper on wednesday that if having a works council isn't guaranteed in the first place we as workers will hardly be able to vote in favor of potentially building another plant in the americans so in other words southern republicans should shut up and let workers unionize roles volkswagen will start building cars somewhere else joining us now for more on this is st

if the vote goes through, the uaw would establish a first of its kind german-style works council. gligent wages and benefits under tennessee's right-to-work law, workers would not have to join the union to be represented. republican senator bob corker, who is the former mayor of chattanooga, tennessee, has expressed concerns about job losses if the uaw takes hold. he is on the wrong side of this, i think. foreign auto companies have opened factories in the united states generally in states with less union activity. the uaw has struggled to add members from those facilities. joining me tonight, bob king, united auto workers president. mr. king, good to have you with us tonight. how big an opportunity is this for the uaw and these workers if this vote is thumbs-up, bob? >> it's tremendously important for the workers in chattanooga, tennessee. it allows them to be a part of the codetermination system globally. they believe in representation. they believe in codetermination. they say codetermination is a critical factor in their success. and this will give chattanooga workers the right

so volkswagen wants some type of a works council slash union at this facility in chattanooga. workers voting for the uaw, they're saying, we need one eventually, the uaw has a long history of auto unions, why not join them. >> so what you're saying this was a rejection of the uaw more than it was a rejection of any unionizing? >> reporter: well, i think that's a rejection of both, to be quite honest with you. look, for the uaw, this is a huge blow. they need to organize these foreign transplant auto plants in the south. >> right. >> reporter: and you're looking at about 16 of them, and this is the best opportunity they're ever going to have. for those workers down there, however, keep in mind, it's not just at the vw plant. i've talked with workers at other plants in mississippi and alabama. there is no desire at all, for the most part, for those autoworkers in the south to join the uaw. it's just culturally not something that they're interested in doing, and they look at it and say, we're making good money, generally speaking, we're being treated well, why are we joining the

with the works council workers have voice in all aspects of a factory's operation.t, worker representatives guide basic decisions for volkswagen internationally. that is a very big deal. and using this volkswagen has become one of the most successful automakers in the world. it's the second largest auto company by sales. and the value for stockholders rose by 107% over the last three years. that's the highest of any automaker in the world over those three years. >> let me ask you. >> which was a successful model globally being applied here. >> you can respond to that. what is so wrong with that model? >> well, it's a good model and it works, first there is a question of the professor mentioned the if it is even legal. the national laborñ2h)elations act prohibits the company, saying the reason they do that is because they don't want a company colluding with the union against the workers, or the company establishing a union to collude against the workers. and was this push to have kind of a works council, more coop rattive management and union organization it was call

would bargain wages but hopes to sets up a works council, standard in germany and in plants in other countries, giving blue and white color workers a say in work hours and training. >> it would help us have more communication, more open communication with management for improving anything on the lines or anything that employees may have a concern is important to them. >> 600 hourly employees are voting this week by secret ballot. there's a lot riding on the outcome. if the u.a.w. is successful, it could push for a lead at other plants in the south, bike b.m.w. and nissan. >> i feel in my heart they're ramming this down my throat. >> mike works in the body shop and feels a union would create more red tape, hurt his wallet and lead to more work hours. he said the u.a.w. is making to many promises. >> they're telling them they're going to give them $28 an hour. me, personally, i've been there three years now. i'm making more money than that now. i'm going to take a cut in pay, all these other people are going to take a cut in pay but are being told that they're going to make more money.

they want to work together with volkswagen and works council. the great principals at the volkswagen operate around the world. the company is stronger when workers have representation. there are a lot of folks who believe in that strongly. we had a majority at one point. corker's intimidation of threatening to take away incentives really hurt us. >> do you think that turned the tide? >> i think it had a huge impact. >> is it over it? do you move forward? are there possible ethical issues here for a united states senator? >> yeah, i think there are. there are a number of different legal options that we have that we're talking about internally. we're obviously communicating with our great allies in the volkswagen works council. we're looking at a number of different options. workers don't want to take this lying down. it's a huge disappointment to pro uaw workers. they picked themselves up the next day. we're going to be there supporting them, helping them in every way we can. >> what would force you to take legal action, if couyou could, against

wanted to create in chattanooga was supposed to be part of a plan to create a european style works council like they actually have in germany volkswagen didn't oppose the unionization rose fight with. but it appears that a last minute scare campaign by led by republican lawmakers including tennessee senator bob corker of tennessee governor bill haslam worked like a charm it's hard to see just how many votes corker has the other conservatives took away from the u.a.w. but there's no question that there are scare tactics had a huge impact on that election by threatening to take away volkswagens tax incentives of workers approve the union and by warning that a pro union vote would scare volkswagen away from building its new s.u.v.s in town and see neither which might have been true anti-union crowd apparently so frighten the small number of workers that they provided the margin for the u.a.w. to lose the vote. tragically in this era of declining union membership an anti worker fervor. a failed aloon you know election is not all that surprising union busting has become a two billion dollar a y

if this plant votes to unionize, the uaw would establish the first ever german style works council. it would negotiate wages and benefits for the plant. it is a right to work state. workers, they're not going to be forced to do anything. they don't have to join the union. nobody is beating the living tar out of them. they can do what they said. that's why i asked you to focus on the word freedom. it's what the republicans love. make no mistake, if this plant unionizes, it would have national implications. the chattanooga plant would be the first foreign assembly plant to unionize in the united states. hold it right there. wow, that's a mouthful. we love china. we love everybody else who takes our jobs, but if a foreign company comes into our territory, wait a minute. they're a foreign company. we can't have them do that. i think it is very interesting that it's a german company. germany, they look unions and wages and they actually make stuff. they're a manufacturing country. if the vote fails, unionizing other foreign manufacturing plants, it's going to be pretty difficult. there ar

volkswagon operates a union workforce in their home of germany and also operate something called a works council, a committee of white and blue collar workers who work with management on policies and solves problems. volkswagon seems interested in a german style council at the chattanooga plant. you would think, great, workers are going to choose on their own, corporation's going to stay out of it which basically never happens in union election and it's a free country, right? we've got free market capitalism where the big bad government doesn't tell companies what to do? this would be a matter that would solely be between management and the workers. but no, no, big government has decided that it doesn't want to leave the decision to the workers or management of this private company. >> senator bob corker spoke out against the united autoworkers on tuesday. take a look. >> we're just concerned about the impact an outside entity. look at detroit if you want a comparison. look at the impact that they could have on our community. >> yeah, that's republican senator bob corker of tennessee who wants t

if indeed they're able to put together the kind of work council vw has with its employees across the s working and working successfully, if the uaw is able to bind to that, if they wind tonight and cooperate and work with management on a whole range of issues related to productivity and pay and so fort, and attracting new jobs there, this could be a new model for the uaw which is obviously what they're looking for and hoping for no the long run. >> what's the fight about, john nichols, work rules problematic for management, that's negotiable, or is it the pay? is the way they're giving people lower in michigan or indiana or where they're unionized? >> the pay lower in southern plants sometimes as much as 20 bucks an hour. when you combine the pay and the benefits. >> i don't think in this instance it's as low as that, though, john, in fairness to the tennessee model, i think this plant is not as low -- it may be in some instances but not near. >> let me finish the thought here. there are many, many different work positions and in some cases, the pay is substantially less. and the key

most of the members of the work -- 98% of the members in the works council are emittal members.oth believe in deeply in germany. it's a great opportunity for american industry to say how can we create better partnerships between workers and management. this is an opportunity to do it. >> phil? >> i'm curious, a lot of people look at this as a one off and say you're almost invited in here because of the works council, but with regard to the other foreign automakers in the deep south, many believe you have got no shot of ever organizing them in the future. does this change the equation in your opinion? >> well, i think what we'll demonstrate is when workers have a free democratic choice without management coming in and threatening them or threatening the future the plant, they will choose representation. we have been successful in the south. we represent three large frightliner facilities in the south south. we have won a number of supplier places -- >> but you haven't won any of the large automakers. pardon me for interrupting. >> that's correct. because we've never had a situati

the uaw would bargain wages and helps to set up a work council which is standard in germany at a volkswagonlants in other countries. >> it would locally help us have more open communication with management for improving anything on the lines or anything though employees may discern is important to them. >> reporter: 1600 hourly employees are voting this week by secret ballot. if the uaw is successful in unionizing the chattanooga plant, it could lead to a push for unions at other plants. >> i feel like they are ramming this down my throat. >> reporter: mike feels a union could create more red tape, hurt his wallet and lead to more work hours. he says the uaw is making too many promises. >> they are telling them they are going to give them $28 an hour. i'm making more money than that now, so i'm going to take a cut in pay, but they are being told that they are going to make more money. >> we're down to 40 hours a week, instead of six days a week, and we have a three-day weekend every week. let's no mess that up. >> reporter: the united auto workers has declined requests to speak to al jazeer

right now volkswagen says it hopes to bring a german-style work council to the chattanooga plant. unfortunately, though, under u.s. law for them anyway, under u.s. law you need to have a union to do that. ultimately friday night's vote means the uaw fails to expand outside of detroit at least for now. now, expect the union to target mercedes, honda and bmw plants in the future. uma? >> all right, brian, thank you very much. >>> shifting gears and heading out to the western part of the country, it's the state with a major water problem and now that month-old emergency drought declaration in california is prompting action from the feds. the white house now pledging millions in aid to farmers and ranchers. the president who is in california at the moment also announcing he's ramping up his pledge to tackle climate change. mr. obama is setting aside a 1 billion fund to help communities across the country to research climate change. joining us now for more reaction to this california's democratic congressman john garamendi, welcome, great to have you here today. >> also good to be with

. >> they wants a work council slash union at this facility in chattanooga. >> jon: the old reverse psychologyhead be in the union. we'll be best friends forever let's us enjoy a rave together. ♪ [laughter] sthump. [ laughter ] apparently we store these in the carpet. [ laughter ] so the germans like the union or as they would say, they felt ubergubenvagen -- [laughter] -- vokes waken was -- volkswagen was okay with it who was against it? >> politicians worked hard on this once. they came out strongly against the union. they said it was because they thought it would hurt economic development in the region. >> jon: politicians that has to be pesky democrats because they stick their noses where they don't believe. i believe the germans call that [making up a word] beautiful language german. which was of the democrats was it? >> there was powerful pressure from tennessee republican governor bill haslam. >> the senator said he learned vw will bring the new s.u.v. to chattanooga if the employees at the current plant decide not to unionize. >> jon: if only that were true and volkswagen itself hadn't

volkswagen's plant open just three years in chattanooga is the establishment of what the company calls "work councils." "where labor aand management meet and discuss ways to improve the plant." but u-s labor law requires employees to vote on whether they want a union to represent them in these councils. it's to prevent such a forum from becoming overly pro-management. if the union wins, it would be the first foreign-owned auto plant in the u-s to unionize. perhaps only the first one. "the uaw is already working on mercedes and on nissan in mississippi." and that's where opponents have drawn a line in the tennessee sand. they include tennessee's governor bill haslam and u.s. senator bob corker. "we've had several businesses that have told us if the uaw come in, it would dampen their enthusiasm for tn." senator corker's comments at a news conference this week, came from this edited video posted online by the chattanooga times free press. "it's something that would hurt the standard of living of people here in tn, because businesses are not going to want to locate here." and opposition has grown. "some

the manager of the volkswagen plant in chattanooga says workers did not vote down the idea of a works council to represent themselves. but the idea faces legal pushback. the strike by faculty continues at the university of illinois at chicago. more than a thousand professors and lecturers are protesting over wages. the union - chicago united faculty - is asking for a four-and-a-half percent raise for 2014, while the university is offering 3.25%. raise amounts for the next two years are unspecified. tuesday, about 300-people attended a rally in support of the chicago-based faculty "the university seems to be sitting on a slush fund of billions of dollars that could be spent to lower tuition or raising faculty salaries." a university spokesman says the school values it's faculty, has made a fair contract offer and will work now with the help of a federal mediator. negotiations resume friday. the congressional budget office is out with its view on the cost of raising the minimum wage. the c-b-o determines increasing the minimum wage from the current $7.25 to $10.10 per hour could cut employment

you kahn have a works council without a union.f the union and the company negotiate a works council, it's legal and constructive. >> let's talk about the south. why is the defeat such a big issue in this region of the country. unions are tweeted -- defeated because management goes against effort. >> in the soughts this is true. i want to disagree with the press reports that see it as devastating. it's one step allowing a rad to innovation. ucially failing on the first attempt. wherever it is. whether it's building an inclusive culture. >> this is the first step. i'm not surprised that the first attempt will fail. what surprises me is that they don't come back and try it. >> thank you, professor of international and comparative labour. >> federal obama pledged support. livestock owners pledged to spend $100 million. obama pledged to help the farmers. >> california is a biggest economy and agricultural producer. what happens here is important to all americans, right down to the cost of fruit you put on the family. >> as melissa chan

. >> i want us to have a voice in the global works council. and i want us to be able to bring more products, more cars here to chattanooga. >> reporter: vw's plant in tennessee is a rare opportunity for the uaw to add members after a foreign-brand plant in the southern u.s., something it's never done. over the last 35 years, as foreign automakers like bmw, toyota, and others started building cars in right to work states in the south, their workers have never moved to join the uaw, even though their pay and benefits would have likely increased. meanwhile, as big three plants primarily in the north shut down, uaw membership began to drop. after peaking at 1.5 million in 1979, it fell as low as 355,000 just a few years ago before edging slightly higher in 2012. >> what's at stake here isn't simply a unionized plant but a new way for u.s. firms to compete in the global economy. >> reporter: there are many fighting to keep the uaw out of vw chattanooga. senator bob corker says unionizing the plant would be a mistake. and anti-union groups think wor

. >>> work councils are standard in germany.e plant there says volkswagen will continue to search for a method of establishing a works council. if the company was in favor of a union, uaw definitely in favor, why ultimately wit was rejected? >> it's a vote of members. it's not the politicians, the owners of the auto plant or the uaw. it's was the workers. they decided that they're making sufficient wages and they have a voice with management, they like their jobs and didn't feel like they needed a union representation. the purpose of union is to give workers a voice. and these workers exercise their voice and they we don't need to union here. >> so then let's go here, then. do you foresee any way down the road that this would props be problematic for workers? because, as you said, these unions are established initially to protect the works' rights. >> i think especially in the right to work states in the south, that there's a general mistrust of unions. and you know, a lot of workers blame the unions for some of the things that

this is the model for unionization, the works council model that europe embraced after world war ii. to get it in the united states and he was rebuffed by management. in the 1960s, a lot of conservatives preached more labor union cooperation. when there's a situation where you might have workers and employers coming together on equal terms, conservatives, and especially republican politicians, will oppose it. >> you have talked about this in your book. you track income inequality in this country and it goes almost parallel with the low activity of unions. part of the problem seems to be this is almost a race to the bottom in terms of what the unions have had to agreed to effectively. they've agreed to a two-tier wage system at the three auto-makers. what is the future here as they sort of cultural norms become cemented in and around unions? >> i would hope that we will see a revival of the labor movement. obviously, we're not seeing it today. but when i speak to groups about inequality, what i tell them is if you're interested in the problem of income inequality in the u.s., get inte

volkswagen invited the uaw did and wants to create a works council where moneyees have a say in how theourly works have to be a member of a union to join council. this is more about what is good for the uaw instead of the workers. bob king says the union fates a bleak future unless they can organize these plants in the south. >> thank you, john roberts very much. >> a politician and insurance guy are drowning. who do you save? i'm going to tell you something that will make it an easy choice. the insurance guy. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. yeah. everybody knows that. did you know there is an oldest trick in the book? what? trick number one. look-est over there. ha ha. made-est thou look. so end-eth the trick. hey.... yes.... geico. fifteen minutes could save you... well, you know. ♪ see what's new at projectluna.com >>> 3.3 really? the administration says more than 3 million have enrolled in obamacare but insurance industry officials are telling us a different story. ed? >> in to see you. what they're saying is they think in the numbers are inf

they wanted a works council where people could negotiate on a day-to-day basis about operations. ought them into the plant. at the end of the day i think that the workers in chattanooga worked at the experience in detroit and said we don't need that we don't need to go bankrupt. have bailouts. you know, in many cases, employees actually earn more money in the south than these right-to-work states than they do -- i think they looked at the numbers and thought not that much good can come from this. >> louise, what do you think in terms of the decision to not go with the decision. isn't it for a worker, especially in the auto industry, isn't worker more prone to be part of a union where they feel that someone is out there fighting for them? >> coverage with have to do with other voices that were coming out during. this you know, senator bob corker came out a few days before the vote and said it was his understanding that vw might not give additional business to this facility if the union vote had passed. now, vw has said that wasn't the case. i will tell you actually because i spent

everywhere else in the world and it has an arrangement where management and the unions have a work council at the vast majority of its plants where they help offer advice of how plants should be run. they were very sort of eeg are fetting something like that set up in -- eager getting something like that set up in tennessee. a better atmosphere, a plan by nissan or hyundai -- >> explain that to me. i know that vw was relatively union friendly. rk where the company might actively encourage workers to not sign up with the union, which is something vw the not do here. you know, this was set to relatively fertile ground. they can try again apparently in about a year at the vw plant which they may well do. it's been a number of years since they had an election like this in a southern auto plant and those had not gone their way either. and meanwhile the uaw's total membership was declining. it was about 1.5 members in 1979 and now to about 400,000. >> the 1.5 million members in 1979 now dropped to close to 400,000 in recent years, the new hires make about $15 an hour, wisconsin, michigan had pas

they would bargain wages and plan to set up a work council which is standard in germany and volkswagen plants in other places. it would give blue- and white-collar workers a stay in work hours and training. >> we would have more communication with management for improving anything on the line or anything that the employees feel is important to them. >> reporter: 1600 hourly employees are voting by secret ballot and there is a lot riding on the outcome. if the uaw is successful in unionizing the chattanooga plant, it may push for unions at bmw and nissan. >> i feel in my heart that they're ramming this down our throat. >> reporter: he feels that the union would create more read tape, hurt his wallet and lead to more work hours. he said the uaw is making too many promises. >> he's telling us that they'll give us $28 an hour. me personally, i'm going on three years now, i'm making more than that now. i'll take a cut in pay, but they're being told that they're going to make more money. >> we're down to 40 hours a week instead of six days a week and we have a three-day weekend every week. l

of course the goal from the uaw was to set up this german style work council where they would have you know a say in things that are going on inside the plant. but you know, also there was a lot of outside influence and so it's not clear how much of that influence influenced the workers, we know the uaw tweeted not too long ago john that they were outraged by so many outside groups coming in and getting involved. we know that senator bob corker and tennessee's governor realized that unionsing could hurt the economy, and president obama even weighed in the other day accusing some of the politicians being more concerned about the german stakeholders than some of the u.s. workers. there was a lot of outside talk, some billboards put up across chattanooga. it was a politically charged debate and vote that we just saw. >> all right, jonathan martin in tennessee. we'll have more in the coming days, thank you. >>> now the top stories. president obama's trip to california. air force 1 landed in palm springs, california where the president will talk to king abdalla of jordan. mike viqueria join

and i have worked with council while i have been interim director. i want to compliment you for the good work that you have been doing. i think it's solid and i think the housing resolution is one that is really good examples of the solid work that you are doing around people with disabilities and policy development. and obviously the transportation resolution is another one. so i look forward to continuing to provide you my support and my service and thank you for the opportunity to work with you. we also have some staff vacancies that we are filling. it's been almost a year now since ken stein left us. if you recall it was valentines day 2013. we currently have a job announcement out through human resource network. it's for what we call an 1942 program administrator. and this job announcement is something i believe we sent your way by e-mail. thank you. that job announcement closes next week. we are hoping to be able to go through the selection process and testing and interviews fairly quickly and have somebody on board as soon as april. we also hav

says it will honor the decision by its workers, but look to see if they can start a german-style works council at the plant. >> bryan, thanks very much. >>> two days after a powerful winter storm dumped heavy snow in much of the northeast, a live look at times square now. this system still moving across the region. it's coming down right now mainly in the form of rain and a few flurries. this time the storm is only expected to bring a light dusting. so that's what we're seeing right now to most of the northeast. but new england could still face blizzard-like conditions. janis dean live in the fox extreme weather center with the latest. >> hi. yeah. we have three storms that we're watching. i want to point out across the northwest where we've got rain and mountain snow moving in. another fast-moving storm across the midwest. i want to show you the northeast. that storm that is going to hit new england starting to hit new england could feel like threatening because we're going to see wind gusts in excess of 50 miles per hour once the storm really gets wound up. i just want to show you, this is a

certainly would have liked a victory for workers here, we deeply respect the volkswagen global work works council, management and ig metall creating a free and open atmosphere for workers to exercise their basic human right to form a union." ultimately, friday night's vote means uaw fails to expand outside of detroit at least for now. expect the union to target mercedes, hyundai and bmw plants next. >> the people who voted against unionizing citing detroit, we don't want to end up like detroit and they blamed unions for the bankruptcies there. a lot was riding on this. brian will continue to follow it. brian, thanks very much. >>> this weekend president obama sitting down with the leader of jordan. the president and king abdullah ii meeting in if rancho mirage, california. this meeting marks the first in a series of high-profile talks between the u.s. and leaders of the region sunni governments which the u.s. has teamed up with to counter the growing influence of iran. chief washington correspondent james rosen joining us live in our d.c. newsroom with more on this. >> good afternoon. president o

you report that the plant ceo wanted a german style works council.e such a political debate? >> that's right. volkswagen is a little bit different from most american companies. for its entire history had these things called works councils, which are ways of managing day-to-day operations in the plant, from scheduling to stuff that might come up, if a layoff needs to happen, for example. it can be done less painfully. they found that to be a come pet -- competitive advantage. the way they can set one up is by allowing workers to vote for union representation, because that's just legally the only way to do it. >> so what do you think this all says about the uaw's influence and any future prospects? >> i think it says that the uaw still is struggling against some really serious stigma in the south. they were dogged by this perception that they were the root of the problems in detroit. there are billboards all over town showing the city and how depressed it had become. there's many reasons for that. union is maybe one small part of it. but it's going to

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. >> we support the works council notion that they are trying to implement. concerns about the uaw. we know of their track record. we know what's happened in communities were they've been located. we know they have been a job-destroying entity through the years. >> no, no, no, no. corker is lying when he makes comments like that about the uaw. uaw has saved thousands of johns all over the country and they have the numbers to back it up. let me be clear, folks. corker's intimidation of plant workers was absolutely unprecedented. never in american history has a sitting united states senator inject himself and launched into an intimidation campaign against unionization. i mean, it's so bad, uaw hasn't done this before in recent history. they have filed a complaint with the national labor relations board, the nlrb will review the mat and review the matter again and again and likely hold hearings in a few months. really? a few months? i'll get back to that in just a moment. the hearing could spark a revote at the chattanooga plant. now, senator corker isn't happy

further investment by vw in the united states unless the workers in tennessee can have some type of works council or reunion representation. remember, they rejected the uaw by a narrow margin last week. senator bob corker before that vote made it very clear that vw would expand production, at least that was his understanding, if the uaw was defeated. now the unions in germany are coming back saying you know what, there ain't going to be any more investment in the southern united states unless things change in tennessee. quick check of what's happening with shares of volkswagen, it's been an interesting move over the last six months. kate? >> absolutely. very tough talk coming out of volkswagen. >>> another story, this one on airplane manufacturing numbers. what are these numbers telling us? >> reporter: continued recovery for general aviation. when we're talking about here, the turbo props, biz jets. the latest numbers, worldwide shipments up 4.3%. a nice increase of 24% in billings. the big move has been in turboprops, only a slight increase in business jets. that's a slight increase from last y

work and look forward to a positive relationship. thank you very much. >> thank you, laura fair. i'm a statewide elective with statewide council and would like to thank you for all the work with the council and we are disappointed that the chief did not agree to the amendments that were very strong and we were very appreciative of the board for taking those extra steps to try to make certain that happened. we are verien encouraged that he is very much committed to see the intent of the mou carried out and the provisions become a reality and looking forward to work with the superintendant to make sure that in that mou is shared with staff. the promises of the mou in terms of reducing arrest and citations and disproportionality for our youth that come in contact with police become a reality. we look forward to ensure that those who work on the police department side also become a reality and staff and officers are trained. we look forward to working with everyone who has turned now words on paper and something that is meaningful for our students and makes it better safer plague -- place four -- for our young people. >> is there

council. we didn't want them to be the symptoms of something else they're getting people to and from work and preventing thoisz thousands of cars from getting on the roads and really reducing the cartoonish emissions but their transporting people to work and that's really the essence of this conversation that he need to get people to work. so how do we make sure it compliments our muni system rather than brushes up against it to create for challenges and safety challenges and others this pilot will give us more information but the great part is the collaboration from the companies who provide the service they'll start discussing with us officially what those challenges are on a zone by zone basis and how to improve the safety and effectiveness of the system >> do you have an issue of how the goose killed the golden egg those reduce the (inaudible) or getting people on cars and now there's regulations that is going into effect. >> we can survivor that if we impose it that's where the collaboration is so they know they want to not be in front of a muni bus trying to pickup people and coordinati

is so different than in europe during if you work in northern europe, you have lots of work councilssed on keeping existing jobs rather than having labor solidity. u.s. labor solidity that allows us to do this so effectively. >> as investors are looking at 2014, are there specific businesses they want to have an eye on? just a few.ack in the debate over minimum wage. how it's going to help bring jobs here. president obama made it clear where he stands. he raise the minimum from one group of workers. we will have the next right here on "market makers." if you miss any of our interviews, you can watch them on apple tv. ♪ ♪ president obama has fired the last shot in the battle over minimum wage. his executive worker minimum governmentaffects contractors. there is continued debate over raising the minimum wage. there's a lot of political noise around this here. look into what a fair minimum wage should be, what did you learn? >> i learned that debate has been going on for years and there has not been a lot of clarity on it in political circles, but there has been progress. be coming seem

not in spite of the union or the works council. think you'd look at other automakers in the south perhaps moving down in road. >> then i think about the decline in private sector union and nothing happens in a vacuum obviously. but civil service laws, i don't -- no one really compares our working conditions to dickens at this point for public or private employees. if it was so essential, why have so many people chosen not to join up, why has it dropped if it was so essential some. >> it's about 6.6% of the private sector -- >> down from 40, right?some. >> it's about 6.6% of the private sector -- >> down from 40, right?ome. >> it's about 6.6% of the private sector -- >> down from 40, right?me. >> it's about 6.6% of the private sector -- >> down from 40, right?e. >> it's about 6.6% of the private sector -- >> down from 40, right?. >> it's about 6.6% of the private sector -- >> down from 40, right? >> down from 35%. so a huge drop over the last 50 or 60 years. but in part that reflect a lot of pressures well i don't understand the con