>> national union of health care workers and represent about 2600 workers in northern california. >> thank you. >> one other update we did reach a three year agreement with the california nurses association and that was ratified the end of january so just wanted to let you know that has happened and is in place. okay. >> i am glad you're continuing to work in a labor management way at kaiser permanente. thank you. >> thank you. >> are there other plan representatives wishing to be heard at this time? is there public comment on this item? >> i will make it brief. i just want to thank chris and adam and their vice president. they came out to us and spoke to all of our members about the blue shield sutter issue. we had a very full meeting and it was really very, very helpful and i wanted to publicly acknowledge their willingness to do so and they're assistance with all of our members. it was quite gratifying so thank you to all of them. >> thank you. any other public comment? item -- >> 20. >> 20, yes. >> item 20 discussion item opportunity to place items on future agendas. >> hearing n

you see the rise of the union in france, the xena phobic national union and you see radical parties growing in other parts of europe. so they must put in progress measures instead of these mindless austerity measures which end up crushing the private sector which is self-defeating. >> in germany and brussels, the finance ministers who word -- who were negotiating there so driven by the fear of contagion still that they will do whatever it takes just to try and keep greece and the eurozone. >> the contagion danger today is far less than it was three years ago which was very real. they have immunized a lot of that bonded debt of the greek government which is in the hands of official institutions rather than private banks and the like. i think the real threat is political. they all know that spain has got elections, national elections they have local elections next month and national elections in the end of this year. if you get a radical party in there, that would be contagion. >> how concerned is washington still about what is happening in europe? >> unfortunately while there is concern in w

directed -- it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts. for this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. citizens -- by birth or choice -- of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. the name of american, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. with slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits,

the hope is that this will bring about a government of national union unity. >> al jazeera. >> a television appears to suggest that a senior official in the office of president el-sisi was thought to be trying to interfere with libyan affairs. there was a meeting between el-sisi and a cousin of moammar gaddafi. he's believed to control large sums of libya's oversea's investment. the phone call is from more than a year ago when sisi was the defense minister of egypt. >>> meanwhile, hundreds of libyans have rallied to protest against the egyptian airstrikes on libya. the attacks of the brutal murders of 21 coptic christians by a group related to isil. thank you for being with us. how much is egypt's involvement complicated things in libya? >> it would be unreasonable to expect to stand by and stand by when a number of its citizens were brutally slaughtered the way the 21 coptic egyptians were slaughtered by isil. obviously if you get an outside power involved, it becomes more difficult, more complicated but it was already difficult and complicated, and there was unfortunately, i think too muc

of all the state politicians in illinois are paid by unions so they're just giving pay back. >> it happens in the federal level, you have the national treasury employees union rooting for president obama and those are the people who work at the irs and the treasury. the problem is you can't vote out the bureaucrats. we've got -- this is the true entitlement state, these are the guys a lot of these workers watching porn at work or doing full time union work and we're also seeing, watch had this, the geo has recommended 9,000 different ways that these guys can cut waste, fraud and abuse they've ignored it through the decades and now the gao has raised a number of federal programs to 32 including tax enforcement. >> and, mike the reason we're not making any progress in can you get our debt our national debt from what is it now 18.1 trillion dollars is because of this, because politicians in the past have made unrealistic promises to public sector unions. >> the public sector government unions, david have become sort of this form of welfare. i mean, you know, they only have to contribute, for instance 6% of their paycheck towards their

while meeting in baltimore june 7 and eighth and calling themselves the national union party, they adopted a platform that blames slavery for the current state of affairs, argues justice and national safety demanded destruction and calls for a constitutional amendment that will terminate and forever prohibits the existence of slavery within the limits of the jurisdiction of the united states. despite concern from the part of certain leaders the president might not be able to win reelection, he was nominated on the first ballot. when notified of his victory, he expressed gratitude for the parties continuing confidence in him and said he would accept renomination officially after he had read the form, but for now, he wanted them to know he approved the parties declaration favoring a constitutional amendment. he recalled the succeeded states were given 100 days to return to the union and have been promised that no harm would come to slavery. when the states had ignored the notice he said such an amendment of the constitution as is now proposed became a fitting and necessary conclusion to the

while meeting in baltimore and now calling themselves the national union party they adopted a platform that blamed slavery for the current state of affairs. argued that justice demanded its destruction and called for a constitutional amendment that would "terminate and forever prohibit the existence of slavery within the limits of the jurisdiction of the united states." despite concern that the president might not be to win pre-election, hughes nominated on the first ballot. he expressed gratitude for the party's continuing competence and him and would officially accept renomination after he read the platform. he wanted them to know he approved the declaration favoring a constitutional amendment. he recalled that the seceded states had been given 100 days to return to the human and promised no harm would come to slavery. when the state ignored a notice -- he urged union men everywhere to give legal form and practical effects. he was on board by this time. there are suggestions that before this, he was on board encouraging the convention attendees to say more about this issue of constit

person -- and still write letter after letter after letter after letter calling for a stronger national union that led up to a constitutional convention. he could do all those things and he was not a waxman. he was very much a living, breathing able, vibrant human being with hopes and dreams and visions. and a vision for this country that he -- he was not a great speaker. but john adams said he was the greatest political actor he ever saw. he could -- he conveyed an image and power with his resolution with his letters certainly. he was a good writer. but his dignity and his sense of purpose, he was a -- he was an amazing human being. at any party, he would talk with all the men and dance with all the ladies. he knew, he was a human being. and he could balance all these things. so he was very active here. changing the crops that were grown, bringing in new livestock. he was very active here. and so he was -- these were exciting times. this i always regret that in the great biographies of washington including how a six, seven-volume one by free man and then the five-volume one by flex nor and t

and some of the letters from the national labor union not with standing because we're contesting those we did allow those to go forward there was an open and free vote and our staff voted against it. >> i actually think the record sort of speaks for itself and i think it's it's it's unfortunate because i i think this is an important and needed service but i don't believe we should go down the path of creating this kind of relationship with an entity that unfortunately the people who work there have very serious concerns about the way those workers are being treated and if you treat your workers that way you can only imagine how you interact with the families that are served. >> there are a minor group of folks at edgewood feel like we haven't moved along as quickly as we'd like to and again, the majority feel the same way. and i invite you to come out and tour the facility see what we're trying to do with the limited funds that we have and what we've been able to accomplish within those constraints. >> i take you up on that offer i certainly i look forward to that. >> i just wanted to

the decision was made at a summit meeting in ethiopia of members of the 54-nation african union. attacks by boko haram have intensified in the weeks leading up to nigeria's presidential elections next month. boko haram is responsible for thousands of deaths, and the group is still holding hundreds of hostages, including the schoolgirls the militants abducted last april. german chancellor angela merkel today appeared to rule out any plan to forgive more of greece's debt. in an interview with a german newspaper, merkel was quoted as saying, "i don't see a further debt haircut." greece is scheduled to repay about $11.5 billion worth of debt this summer. greece's finance minister will meet with his french counterpart in paris. he has called germany's approach to the crisis "fiscal waterboarding." meanwhile, in spain, there was a rally in support of an anti- austerity party, much like the one that just rose to power in greece. violence between pro-russian rebels and ukrainian government forces continues to escalate. there was heavy shelling today in eastern ukraine, near russia, and a

. >>> delegates from more than 60 countries as well as representatives from the united nations and european union have attended an anti-extremism summit in washington. u.s. president barack obama has called on the world to unite in the fight against terrorism. >> we must remain unwavering in our fight against terrorist organizations. >> obama delivered the remarks at a ministerial level meeting on thursday. they also stressed that the international community should try to enlighten people as well as counter poverty and support education. the president says this would keep youth from being attracted to radicalism. japan's state minister for foreign affairs condemned the recent killings of two japanese hostages by islamic state militants. >> translator: we strongly condemn these despicable acts of violence. japan will behave responsibly as a member of the international community in the fight against terrorism. >> he reiterated japan's plan to offer $15.5 million to fight terrorists in middle eastern and african countries. jordan's foreign minister nasser jude said they're fighting a war against ext

>> i think union looks different looking forward, looking back. so does the idea of the nation i think it's implicit in jefferson's thinking about the american people as being dedicated to liberty. >> does jefferson link union and nation in his mind. by the time of the civil war they're deployed interchangeably interchangeably. they'll drop all of them in the same far graph. >> it's a wonderful question the idea of a nation is implicit in the notion of popular sovereignty and self-determination that is an idea of the people as an organic hole. a great family of families, i talked about the importance of family before but by the time we get to lincoln at medicine tourry and beyond this is the great period of romantic nationalism, there's something about the nation as its organic hole that supersedes subsumes individuals, it subsumes everything. your identity is a national identity. it trumps everything else. >> well for some people. >> for some people -- >> for many people. >> we don't want to exaggerate it, because lincoln is not about to abolish states though he would love to

union. lawmakers have talked about using the taft-hartley act which authorities the president to get involved in the strike that causes a national emergency. problem is, the union is not officially on strike. so it's unclear right now whether that law would apply. the national retail federation is reaching out to the white house directly. >> they told us they are seriously monitoring the situation and keeping an eye on things. that's great but we need them to step beyond monitoring now. >> reporter: imports and exports have slowed to a crawl. container ships have been sitting identify for days. it's a problem for shipments of perishable goods. >> in this yard we have had loads of oranges for 23 days. imagine what happens i 23 days. >> reporter: there could be a $2 billion a day loss if it turns into a full-blown strike. rice and almond growers are months behind for shipments to asia. the two sides say they are negotiating. anne makevoc, kpix 5. >>> a new law pushed up the price of eggs and that has people turning to an alternative. a man who sells baby chicks in alamo say sales are up 30%. people are lining up to buy them. they

union. there is even a national a national rest, national wrestling championship in the area once the sovietollapsed immigrants were coming hear to get away from the oppressive government and with them about the love of wrestling. i went to lafayette high school where they are seeing the 1st year of a wrestling team largely due to the clamoring of ms. becky students. >> i just tell them we have a wrestling team in school. i spoke to the coach. >> .-dot -- 23 students on the team. students are coming hear far ahead of the curve with the skills needed. what i i realized is the students are far ahead of the game. it's been great to see how they come together. the whole team concept is good. there learning the culture. >> but it's not just this high school. eight others in brooklyn. those with the most are actually top and the division. it's really amazing how it is transforming. >> usually when you are the immigrant you are ostracized >> the actually part of an international program. this actually help the students from both schools come to talk to one another and make friends and joined togeth

host: next, he began his career with the college republicans and the national taxpayers union and is the president for the americans for tax reform. our line for independents from south dartmouth, massachusetts, ray, good morning. caller: hi, how are you? guest: hi, massachusetts, my parents still live in the boston area. i grew up there. host: how much snow you have, by the way, ray? caller: let me tell you something, number one, i think elizabeth warren is a very good senator. number two, i think any company that moves their corporate headquarters out of this country so they don't have to pay their fair share shouldn't have any contracts with the u.s. government. i'm talking c.v.s., burger king, any of those companies, you know. they moved their companies out of the country their headquarters, so they don't have to pay their fair share. you know, elizabeth warren has done plenty for this state. and you think you're going to take over on 2016? take another look. host: ray, thanks for the call. what about the inversion issue? guest: you brought up the question of american policy and

about unions and labor and attacking the pension costs and all these different things is union membership nationallythe weaker unions get, the more republicans are pushing to curtail them. >> that's true but let's look at data on this. the difference between public and private sector unions. the public sector is about 1 in 3, about 35%. private sector is less than 7%. >> for republicans it's a winning issue because when you attack unions, you bring in not just tremendous outside contributions like scott walker collected like $22 million forrom the koch brothers. to the discredit, some of our democrats are maybe eyeing those contributions as well as seeing this as a pop list issue that is easy to demonize unions and they don't have the strength to fight back. >> they do have the strength in some places. this is where we get into a huge conundrum. it's a bigger part of what you're talking about. you mentioned fast track and tpp. democrats have often supported free trade deals that have really kicked the heck out of a lot of industrial cities. now we have a situation where, yes, public sector workers o

nations. >> robin adams, thank you very much for that. >> on friday, the rugby union six nations gets underway with a big game between championship contender wales and england but unwailings research has been taking place into the effects of concussions on players which is causing increasing concern. we have a report. >> the bigger the sportsmen the bigger the tackles and the impact. >> it's a simple equation. with the increasing size of those who play rugby concussion and long term effects are something they need to take into account. >> in wales the professor and his team analyzed 280 current and retired players in laboratory conditions and investigating the early onset of dementia. >> concussion an injury to the body or the head. most don't involve consciousness, they are very, very subtle, so these are alternative techniques, if you like that allow us to have a look into the brain. >> long term damage from concussion in current and former players is a shoutout creeping across sport. last year, thousands of football players in america were awarded compensation for injury. >> in rugby contac

it comes two weeks before national elections and the day after the african union announced it would send in regional force to fight the armed group. more from the capital, abujah. >> reporter: after the military in collaboration with civilians and vigilantes are repled and attacked from four different locations on the city of maidrugi. a security force told them that they have been chased away and now, there is a raging battle currently going on the town of mafa after the failure of boka haram to take over maiduguri. they have been trying to take it for three times since the beginning of this year. on all occasions, they have been successfully repled by the military and vigilantes. this is coming at a time when boka haram suffered defeat in the hands of the nigerian and chadian military following the launch of attacks on several positions of boka haram in northeast nigeria. this morning's attacks signify the desperation on the part of boka haram to continue to make inroads into borno state and perhaps to expand its area of operation in that particular state. this morning should have resu

the strike led to changes in national and local law including the right to collective barking, union hiring halls and the national relations board. those are great contributions. but because ceqa isn't always intuitive, not common sense, but more finding connections. while mr. bridges may have been revolved at the ila union hall during the strikes and afterwards. he is not associated with the buildings. the ceqa guidelines that has the building be historic based on this, clearly says there is an association between this building and the person. that states that a person that lived and worked in the building for a long time. there is no evidence that mr. bridges was in there all the time and the more issue that the strike events were the historically remarkable issue that really determines this building historic resource designation. it is as we noted on papers and you have in the document we submitted, mr. bridges, the artifact building has a commemorative plaque that says harry was in this office building. he wasn't even in. it doesn't matter. that's where he was. we don't believe th

union. the national collegiate athletic association -- or ncaa -- sets the rules for college sports.ut those rules could soon be overturned. fault lines investigates the multi-billion-dollar business of college football, the players who produce that wealth, and their demands for a more equitable game. >> i just hope the ncaa does understand that some things do need to change. >> the first thing right behind me, you guys see our lovely bookstore. lots of orange apparel. you guys all got coupons for that. ten percent off. head in there afterwards. today is solid orange friday which is a little bit of a tradition in tigertown. with anybody who has attended clemson we all like to show our orange around clemson on friday. if you want to become part of this family, get your orange today. >> we've joined along with a tour of clemson campus. we're following abby, she's a sophomore here, and she clearly loves clemson. and a couple times college football has come up as a big part of the life here. it's actually a 40 million dollar enterprise for the schools. >> now the part of the tour you've

approach to protect those in need. >> the united nations says 3.8 million fled the syrian civil war, but only 6% of those refugees ended up in european unionion and of that number 126,000 were granted asylum in europe last year. e.u. nations pledged to resettle another 33,000 syrian refugees. >>> one teenager who fled has gone from refugee to talk of the town. it was over a year ago when he started to play the piano. in that short time the musical prodigy made it all the way to carnegie hall. >> reporter: carnegie hall most performers spend years practicing for getting a chance to play. for this boy, it's been 18 months since the first piano lesson. to be being one of 50 children chosen to perform here. it wasn't easy for a young man whose family fled the civil war. >> there's a lot of the kids like me at my age, maybe dying because of cold or because of bombs, i don't know. and i am not happy for that. i'm sad for that. i hope it will end soon. >> he knows he is lucky not just to have talent - first playing the accordion and the traditional music of his heritage. he's lucky that turkey's president gave him and his family what many want. c

union. lawmakers have talked about using the taft-hartley act which authorizes the president to get involved in a strike which causes a national emergency. problem is, the union is not officially on strike so it's unclear if that law applies. the national retail federation is reaching out to the white house directly. >> they told us they are seriously monitoring the situation and keeping an eye on things. that's great but, you know, we need them to step beyond monitoring right now. >> reporter: imports and exports have slowed to a crawl. container ships are idle for days and that's especially a problem for shipments of perishable goods. >> in this yard we have had loads of oranges. they sat here for 23 days. you can just imagine what oranges turn in 23 days. >> reporter: experts say the economy could lose $2 billion a day if the slowdown grows into a full lockout or strike. california almond farmers and rice growers are months behind in shipments to asia. they are now hoping the president gets involved while he is in san francisco. the two sides are still negotiating. anne makovec, kpix 5. >>> protestors who blocked bart train

larry fazio is the director of the office of examination and insurance at the national credit union administration and candace franks is the commissioner of the arkansas state bank department. she also serves as chairman of the conference of state bank supervisors. i would like to ask all you -- all your witnesses -- all the witnesses, written testimony be made part of the hearing record and if you could such up your oral testimony by five minutes, it will give us a chance to have a dialogue with you. we'll start with miss eberley. >> thank you. chairman shelby, ranking member brown and members of the committee, i appreciate the opportunity to testify on behalf of the fdic, on regulatory relief for community banks, as the primary federal regulator the fdic has a particular interest in the opportunities they face. they provide traditional relationship based banking services to their communities. although owe hold only 14% of assets they account for 45% of all of the small loans to businesses and farms made by insured institutions. while more than 400 community banks failed during the recent financi

morning as part of a nationwide strike joining workers from eight other refineries across the nation. the union a new contract focused on working conditions, worker safety and understaffing as well as fati e fatigue. the union represents workers at 63 plants. that includes the shell refinery in martinez and the chevron refinery in richmond. the refinely will continue to operate as a terminal during the strike. it will take in products and ship them out. it just won't be producing anything. >> and those nine refineries mark 10% of the refining capacity in the country. we'll see what happens there. 5:50. >>> it has likely been a long weekend for someone in the bay area who bought a winning lotto ticket. someone in antioch matched five out of six powerball numbers saturday night making the winning ticket worth $1.43 million. here is the catch. the ticket holder had to wait until the lotto offices actually opened later today to claim the prize. she still has not yet -- great numbers for twitter, too, by the way. sunday's game the most tweeted super bowl ever. scott mcgrew, twitter welcoming those r

the attack comes two weeks before national elections and a day after the african union announced it would send in a regional force to fight the armed group. >> japan said a video showing the killing of kenji goto by isil is authentic. the prime minister has condemned the beheading calling it a heinous act of terrorism. >> more now on our breaking news the relation of our colleague, peter greste. let's talk to john grayson a canadian journalist joining us from toronto. i'm intrigued to hear your responses as a fellow journalist who spent time in the same prison. >> and its a great day. it's excite to go hear the news about peter and of course our thoughts are also with bahir and muhammed very concerned that they also be released soon. >> can you speculate what you think might happen in this reward and the sort of pressure that canada has been placing on getting them out? >> a lot of canadian have been putting a lot of pressure on our government and our minister of international affairs john baird traveled to egypt to speak on behalf of humid's release. we hope that had an impact. many rumo

that many people, certainly he, from what i understood, felt this would be a symbol that the nation and the union would survive. ok, so the war is finally over. then we move into the reconstruction time. reconstruction was the only really -- it only lasted a few years. it was the -- the objective of it was, as i said earlier, the republicans in congress, was to set in motion to create structures that would give political rights to the blacks in the south, because they were all now free. the old ways died very slowly in the south, and someone said that perhaps they haven't died yet. and so, in terms of governance of the district, there was a lot of struggle back-and-forth. what kind of governance for the district would be best. you had an elected mayor and a bicameral legislature. a lot of people for a number of reasons, some progressive, others not so progressive, made a very strong case for reinstituting commissioner government, the original form of government which was temperate for the district, commissioners appointed by george washington, and the view was that it will be a lot simpler, but p

some by national during the union. but the white hot spotlight of the national media in a presidential election is brutal. i think someone like a christie is kind of used to it, right? i mean he's been under the spotlight and the new york media, the new york daily news, obviously the posts "the wall street journal," "new york times," all the local markets, media markets. he's kind of used to it. so he knows how to deal with it a little better, but even he got hit with the vaccine the other day. he had to deal with that news cycle for a while. this is what's going to happen. hillary clinton is enjoying this i'm sure, but she will never get the treatment that any republican in the primary process or in the general will get from the media. never. >> i'm sure she is gearing up to answer questions on evolution and the like and prepping behind closed doors right now. laura ingraham, thank you so much. good to see you. >>> the big controversy at last night's oscars did not involve who won or lost but comments made by a winner.

three national campaigns against the unions. >> watch out for ted cruz for all the reasons we talkedut. >> one more. 12 white guys on a stage and one very smart woman. she is going to pop. >> we are not done yet. we will talk about hillary clinton and her pack of problems, including jeffrey epstein. yes, i said it. we are going there after the break. ♪ >> we are back with alex and steve. we spent the last segment reviewing republicans and now we are switching to the democrats. let's talk about the nominee in waiting hillary clinton. we will talk about her perceived weaknesses. she is giving a speech tomorrow. no message -- is that a problem that she should address and if so, how? >> can i sell her stock short? she has been in the public life for 20 years and nobody knows what she is for. >> should she address it now? >> her whole campaign is predicated not on winning, but sucking up all the money and staff and oxygen from other campaigns. >> no rationale and message. is that going to keep her from getting the nomination? >> there is a rationale. she says the economy is not working fo

national stage. being tough with unions but compromising. >> that is the old chris christie. before bridgegate.t i'm curious about is whether there has been so much inflicted on him. i can understand why he is trying to get back to that place. given everything that has happened. i have some significant doubts and i am curious if you think this is the beginning of him reclaiming that mental or if he is just whistling dixie. mark: if he were elected president he would have a republican legislature in washington to deal with. the crowd did not seem particularly moved. the democratic legislature while they were willing to work with him and his first term they do not see him inclined to give more deals. he does need a pension deal and there could be a deal if he keeps the teachers unions and negotiating with them. let's talk about another thing. john: one of the hard things is for some people there is the memory of the bridgegate thing and in 20 where he talked about talking up with democrats, he punished democrats who were against him and that fight. people wonder how much this talk is belied about

is investigating whether president ford received illegal campaign contributions from the national maritime union. i did not tell him that the attorney general did not know that, but the attorney general did not know what the u.s. attorney was doing. the attorney general had a dilemma. one of his arguments against the special prosecutor bill was that when there was a need, the attorney general could, as a discretionary matter, a point the special prosecutor -- a -- appoint the special prosecutor. he understood the really corrosive, cynical environment and that would be looked at as another generation of the culture of cover-up, so he decided to do what he said would be done in a time of crisis. he appointed a special prosecutor who had been on the watergate special prosecution force. he was doing internal anticorruption work within the department, and he went on to be president clinton's counsel at the time of monica lewinsky. he probably started his investigation in february, and he closed it in september, saying that there was no evidence that would justify any further investigation of prosecut

he had an entire national union establishment. >> understood. >> and he was in the cross hairs. well, i'm telling you. he's not worried about that. >> it's like the news -- >> he's not worried about it in the primary. it's good in the primary. it if he gets to the general. >> the left always has advise. you republicans don't want to talk about this then they talk about it and did you see dana mill beck. >> and then like romney get crushed. >> do you want to win the general election. >> it's not me at all. >> john your point? >> my point was simply look at the big picture. you have a threatened shut down over immigration policy. hispanics are large and growing float. you have a debate controversy over whether the first black president loves the country and is patriotic. that is not helpful to republicans. >> why do you have to put black in there? >> because he's black. >> he is black. >> i know he is but what does that have to do with this? >> because republicans are laboring under a cloud an image cloud, okay. people think that the republican party -- >> that's bad to take it th

private unions are governed by a national law. public-sector unions are governed by state law and local ordinances passed in the 1960's and 1970's. as private-sector unions have declined public unions have remained stable or constant. their histories ourare different. i argued with the operate and the way they affect policy is different. public-sector unions get two bites of the apple. they can win things to their members -- for their members to collective bargaining, and also through politics, through participating in the political process, electioneering, and lobbying, in a way that the private-sector counterparts cannot. public employee unions are different in a sense that they can exercise influence on both sides of the bargaining table in a way that private-sector unions cannot hope to do, which is through that second bite of the apple, lobbying and electioneering public employee unions can gains him influence with those who are acting as management in a way that private-sector unions, whether that is machinists union's here i