here and executive director working america and stuart a letter and union organizer who is by the way going to be signing copies of his latest book plain bigger than you are it's a great book i've read it tomorrow night at six thirty eight pm at busboys and poets on fourteenth street right here in washington d.c. so let's let's all get started it is a great book and it really is the minutes it's and you do play bigger than you are and. you know i i want to start with i want to get into the rallies that we've had around the united states but bill as the chief economist of the. i would love to hear and we just did a debate on economics and my position has always been the economy is driven from the bottom up i think that's kind of what adam smith david ricardo said and what pretty much everybody is until ronald reagan came along and that good wages and a good strong middle class builds a good strong economy. do i have that right well that was absolutely the consensus in the united states you even put up where the republican party stood in the one nine hundred fifty s. and in the one nine

-cio here and executive director working america and stuart a letter and union organizer who is by the way going to be signing copies of his latest book plain bigger than you are it's a great book i've read it tomorrow night at six thirty eight pm at busboys and poets on fourteenth street right here in washington d.c. so let's let's all get started it is a great book and it really is the minutes it's and you do play bigger than you are and. i you know i i want to start with i want to get into the rallies that we've had around the united states but bill as the chief economist of the. i would love to hear you know we just did a debate on economics and my position has always been the economy is driven from the bottom up i think that's kind of what adam smith david ricardo said and what pretty much everybody is until ronald reagan came along and and that good wages and a good strong middle class builds a good strong economy. do i have that right well that was absolutely the consensus in the united states you even put up where the republican party stood in the one nine hundred fifty s. and

had a loss for words, something to say which was union city, union city high is a greater been a high school. that is wonderful. i want to come back here in five years and hear people talk about union city as a great high school. no excuses for the fact that it is in this tough city and everything i know about this high school says that it is well on its way to that. takes a long time and it takes one more thing. that is the engagement of this community of a mayor or mayor who never sleeps, whose phone number you will find in the book and handed down on his business card, you might as well have an easy hand. striving around the city, what a great little area. what is that plaza doing their. because of the mayor who is very effective here, gets to talk about these schools as bragging rights in trenton, gets to bring home the bacon that we are in the middle of, pretty good. not bad. you get a community that is engaged in the schools and that didn't happen by accident. you go back 25 years ago, people would have talked about union city as a case study of how to fail urban latino kids. st

new york is a forced union state. but half of the states are. if a majority of workers in your area vote to form a union everyone must pay the unions. i did for 36 years but no more now i am at fox which is nonunion. i think it's great there's a trend away from forced unionization. indiana, michigan recently passed right to work laws which say workers cannot be forced to pay union dues. they joined 24 states that had the law. great. no, that's terrible says david madlin says for america's biggest think tank. why am i wrong sfwh>> you are wrong for a couple of reasons. first you can never be forced to join a union. you can be required to pay union dues that cover the cost of for example representing you and bargaining for your contract. the bigger and more important reason is that unions make the middle class. they help make the middle class stronger and without unions you are under cutting the middle class. >> where is the evidence that the union makes the middle class stronger? henry ford doubled auto worker's wages and shortened the workday ye

the majority of workers in your area vote to form a union everyone must pay the union.did for 36 years, but no more. now i am at foxwoods is non-union. i think it's great that there is now the trend away from forced unionization. indiana and michigan recently passed right to work laws which say workers cannot be forced to pay union dues. they joined 24 states that already had such laws. great? no, that's terrible says david maitland of the american worker project. the center for american progress. so why am i wrong? >> you're wrong for a couple of reasons. first, you could never be forced to join the union. you can be required to pay union dues to cover the cost of representing you and bargaining for your contract. the bigger and more important reason is that unions make the middle class. they help make the middle-class stronger. the unions you're really undercut the middle-class. john: where is the evidence that the union makes the middle-class stronger? henry ford double autoworkers' wages and shorten the work day years before the uaw even existed. >> well, i think th

unionized? >> people have a right to unionized. i think any group of workers has a right to unionized. i think unions historically played an important role in our country and that said, it is time to look the issues of not being able to fire people whether it is teachers or government workers. i worked in the clinton administration, and we had somebody who is a civil servant who never came to work. >> what is going on. in front of the congressional panel lois lerner didn't want to incriminate herself. she is paid by the taxpayer and she can plead the fifth? and in the aftermath she's not let go. she was put on administrative leave because she is part of the union. it drives us crazy. >> i think you can support idea of unionizing and still have it drive you crazy. the argument of not firing her right away, they want to get all of the information and find out what happened, but it sends a message to the american people to the irs. we can't plead the fifth if we are audited. >> wayne, what about the public sector unions, are you okay with those, too? >> i think you have to ask yourself, e

the majority of workers in your area vote to form a union everyone must pay the union.6 years, but no more. now i am at foxwoods is non-union. i think it's great that there is now the trend away from forced unionization. indiana and michigan recently passed right to work laws which say workers cannot be forced to pay union dues. they joined 24 states that already had such laws. great? no, that's terrible says david maitland of the american worker project. the center for american progress. so why am i wrong? >> you're wrong for a couple of reasons. first, you could never be forced to join the union. you can be required to pay union dues to cover the cost of representing you and bargaining for your contract. the bigger and more important reason is that unions make the middle class. they help make the middle-class stronger. the unions you're really undercut the middle-class. john: where is the evidence that the union makes the middle-class stronger? henry ford double autoworkers' wages and shorten the work day years before the uaw even existed. >> well, i think the best ev

the unions, money -- it's a money pit. it supports certain politicians to get to office and thigh use it to pay back the union. that is what is happening with the national union labor relations board. that's why they appealed our decision. it took almost a year but it finally went to the board of the national labor relations board. and we won the decision 3-0. our people were happy. the sad thing is there are people all over the midwest with other companies that didn't stand up like we did. the people are subjected to this and paying union dues and not making any more money. i'm here today because i want to -- i truly want to help you. the union said they want to, but their goal is survival. and the american public needs to know what is going on. i hope you will listen, i hope you'll spread the word. this is wrong. we need to do what is right for the american people. thank you very much. [applause] dave, that was just a heart warming presentation. i read the book, and the book conveys a lot of what you said. everybody shoul

they are a traditional union but before -- they perform many functions on know, a steel, construction would not perform because of what the union does simply in baseball and other sports bargains minimum standards on salary and a minimum wage as we know as the owners frequently negotiate to their everlasting regret as is the case with the yankees with rodriguez with the amounts of money some said are considerably with the minimum as well as they negotiate the pension. and one of the things i talk about in this book is the fact of the year that i fell in love with baseball and played it as a kid as a player's first became interested seriously in the union in the summer of 1946 when the former nlrb lawyers tried to guide the players and they've rejected that but out of that came what we would call a company union the organization to create the first pension plan that is vital for athletes that have such the abbreviated career and what will happen beyond that. >>host: who were some of the players active in 1946 to push the union? >> some of them, one of them was dixie walker, and we call

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if this is a loss for unions, is it a win for jobs? >>> a loss for unions but a win for jobs? this week a court ruled against the national labor relation board's so-called poster rule. this would have reired over 6 million employers around the country to hang up this sign that tel workers basically how to organize. the judge says this new rule violates employers' freedom of speech. rich, you say this is great news for jobs. how does that work out? >> yeah, i think so. you know, unemployment istill close to 8%, and i think it's just -- for the government, for a government entity to kind of sow the seeds of discord and content between employers and employees i think is a terrible thing to do. employers are dying for talented, committed people. here's a copy of the poster. i circled the stuff that was very anti-employer here. here's the stuff that speaks on the employer's behalf. it's so lopsided it's ridiculous. >> gandy, it is kind of, rick, an ad for unioning. and ads work. otherwise people wouldn't spend money on them. >> i thought rich's comment was perfect because it highli

unionize? >> because people have a right to unionize. i think any group of workers has a right to unionize. i do think unions have played an important in the country. that said, it is time to look at some of the issues about not being able to fire people whether it's firing teachers or government workers. i work in the clinton administration and we had somebody who was a civil servant in my area who just never came to work. >> allow me. what's going on. lois learner who pled the fifth in front of a congressional panel saying that she didn't want to incriminate herself. she wants to plead the fifth.nd in the aftermath of that, she is not even let go. she is on leave with pay. this drives us crazy. >> for drives everybody crazy. you can support the idea of unionizing and still have it drive you crazy. in favor of not firing you right away is they want to give you all the information. it's a fundamental message to the american people about the irs. they don't think they are accountable. none of us can plead the fifth if we are audited. >> that are would be great. move on to wayne. what about t

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i am proud of the fact that we are a union shop "the bill press show." and i am proud of the fact that we are 100% supportive by some of our great labor unions in this country. he specially proud today to welcome a leader of the afl-cio, karen nusbaum, with working america, which is reaching out to working families and working men and women who are not necessarily members of labor unions in this country, getting them involved in the important issues of the day. karen, welcome. you are doing great work. good to have ut. >> thank you. it's nigh pleasew. >> want to hear more about it. it's fun to attend this big kickoff at the afl-cio a couple of weeks with you a couple of weeks ago when you launched your campaign to be active in all 50 states? >> that's right. >> in the next five years. find out how that is go can. you join the team here this morning, peter ogburn. you have met peter ogburn and dan henning. alicia cruz has the phone lines. cyprian golding keeps us looking good on the individualvideo camera. on the political front yesterday, it was big news

the fact the year that i fell in love with baseball was the air the players became interested in a union in 1946 when a farmer and al irby lawyer tried to guide the players and give them advice while they reject that. out of that came what we would call a company in hand, an organization which created the first pension plan, something always vital for athletes who have such an abbreviated career and are concerned about what's going to happen to them beyond it. >> host: who are some of the players active in 1946 and pushing the so-called union? >> guest: some of them -- one of them was dixie walker. these are called in the people's choice with burke remains who patrol the outfield for the brooklyn dodgers. johnny murphy at the new york yankees. montemayor and, shortstop of the road champion 1946 world champion st. louis cardinals. these were some of the pioneers. of course the players that year, the first year 1946 that i fell in love with the game were trying to protest their conditions, not simply by negotiating new pension schemes, not simply by trying to be involved with the union, bu

have gotten absolutely decimated a third of the workforce used to be unionized now it's down to below a tenth and just this year the end of last year when michigan decided to go right to work become a right to work state and there was a huge blow to the union movement i mean michigan is where private eyes private sector unions were born and it's come full circle now and with these right to work laws that's that's real danger for the legislature let's we only have a short amount of time left but let's talk about this attack on to unions that we have seen coming from all over the place does a union realistically have a chance of being born and an era where unions are being destroyed practically by the day well that's a good question you know unions are losing the battle right now whether or not they're trying to gain momentum and in reclaim the battle is another question but they're losing i mean we're conservatives who want to destroy the democratic fund raising wing are succeeding in corporate elite to want higher profits don't want to pay their workers more the

middle class a share of income there's a direct connection between union station rates and the middle class a share of income in our in our economy but when it comes down to it unions fight for things like higher wages better benefits better hours and more work place safety and all those things. bite into c.e.o. salaries and corporate profits so there's a reason why you know the entities the corporate entities do not want unions they want more money i mean it's really that simple. it seems like yes i mean the right to work laws are just so confusing to people who just are there it gets kind of that you know no child and it's good for children but the right to work laws are actually really convoluted and conflicting with really what they're you know can you explain what they really do because a lot about a lot more say that i want to put up a map while you talk about it how many states have really an act of these right to work was church well you know right to work it does sound like something that's reasonable but basically what it does is its support unions and it bankr

wearing the unions blue vest and a protector from attacks at night. she earns one euro purse back. she has to look after her mother. question is also in the union, and he has big plans. -- christian is also in the union and he has big plans. >> i want to buy new shoes and i want to go to college. >> henry is a union delegate. he and his colleagues are working on a letter to the government, asking it to enforce their wages and provide free medical insurance. the union wants to see child labor fully legalized. >> we got the government to change the constitution. it no longer bans trout labor out right, only the exploitation of children -- it's no wonder bans child labor out right, only the exploitation of children. >> being a union activist has changed henry. he used to live on the streets like many job workers, and he had a bad habit of sniffing glue, which is addictive. dependency is a major problem along bolivia's child workers. >> when you are high on blue, you do not feel the cold. you feel light. but when it wears off, you feel the hunger and the cold again. sniffing glue did me

middle class a share of income there's a direct connection between union station rates and the middle class a share of income in our in our economy but when it comes down to it unions fight for things like higher wages better benefits better hours and more work place safety and all those things. bite into c.e.o. salaries and corporate profits so there's a reason why you know the entities the corporate entities do not want unions they want more money i mean it's really that simple. and it seems like yes i mean the right to work laws are just so confusing to people who just hear the rhetoric it's kind of that you know no child left behind it's good for children but but the right to work laws are actually really convoluted and conflicting with really what their promise is can you explain what they really do because a lot of other a lot more states actually want to pop a map while you talk about it how many states have really an act of these right to work laws shirt well you know right to work it does sound like something that's reasonable but basically what it does is it sp

unions had a time and place. i am a union man and i know that. i think they did and i appreciate that time and place. but it is not now. they don't have a horse in the race. >> johnathon, you said something interesting. everybody should be allow would to stay? >> i believe so eric. the government doesn't own the country. it is it privately owned. the notion of rounding up illegals and shipping them anywhere is a horrific use of government. >> who is paying for it? we are paying >> in a free society they are paying for. >> they are going to the emergency room when thape get the snivels. come on. >> go ahead, austin, your comment. >> look, on average, the undocumented workers that are working here illegally are paying into the system. >> they are a benefit. >> and any employer where they get a w-2 they are pay nothing social security and medicare and not take out. >> i am on tracey's team with this one. wayne last thought? >> i think the gang much 8 has a good plan. if up are qualified here for 10 years for god's sake and done that kind of thing and

more on that story a little later but first the european union can survive without britain according to the french president who gave a marathon three hour news conference yesterday from seoul and went as far as accusing the british of being a threat to the very existence of the e.u. on these tests cilia has this report. there's been a lot of your skepticism growing in the u.k. and david cameron had said that he wants to put the membership of the e.u. to a vote in twenty seventeen and when a lot was asked this question a lot simply said europe existed before britain joined it. was very noticeable how long has he really been trying to go on the offensive he was acting showing himself to be a strong leader at this point because he is facing a very large and growing euro skepticism in this own country if you just look at the latest figures there is a pew research showing that even if most french people still want to remain as part of the eurozone seventy seven percent of french people think that this closer economic ties with the entire union has been detrimental to their own economies s

dues you can choose you have the right to not pay your union dues so what that creates is it creates a union of simply freeloaders it creates people who are getting all the benefits of the union but are don't have to pay their union dues so what that does is it could turn workers against each other you could see some workers are paying their dues doing the benefits saying hey why isn't this guy paying his dues you know that also someone rests but also bankruptcy unions and of course unions traditionally have been a major political funder of the left so if you can starts rolling back how much money is coming in to unions your old black how much money is going into the political political left establishment and that ends up benefiting certain other politicians on the other side and that's a really good point kind of creating that strife among in and destabilizing the workforce let's talk about west texas plant explosion because this is somebody i work and they go right to work states and if that map that was up you know if you look at those right to work states the vast majority of other than

guaranteeing american workers the right to form and join the union and bargain for a better life. to promote union and nonunion workers alike the act divides essential protections and gives workers a voice and the ability to join together and speak up for fair wages and good in the pits and safe working conditions. these rights are one of the pillars of our middle-class and the people that do the real work in this country to see the benefits when our economy grows. the national labor relations board is a garden of these fundamental rights. few people understand or realize the workers themselves cannot enforce the national labour relations act. the board is the only place workers can go if they have been treated unfairly and denied their basic protections that the law provides. thus the board plays a critical role in vindicating workers rights. for the past 10 years that an alert bee has secured opportunities to reinstate 22,544 employees who were unfairly fired. it is also recovered more than $1 billion on behalf of workers whose rights were violated. the board is just as essential

there's a big issue that we started to learn with respect to contracting out when the serve is he are contracted out. it's not at union scale. [inaudible]. ~ services because it's definitely a problem [inaudible]. sitting here today, i got [inaudible] we heard an hour from the department. i would have loved to hear an hour from the union. but, again, if we're to parse it, i think you disstill the issues, there is a real problem with respect [inaudible].

and it's one less reason why a union is absolutely necessary. >> thought unions want the administrationgranting their 20 million members full subsidies, though some analysts doubt that's possible. then, of course, there is the cost. subsidies for 20 million more people could add an estimated $600 billion to the 10 year cost of the plan. bret? >> bret: more on this with the panel. jim, thank you. a royal caribbean crewsship remains in the bahamas tonight after a major fire forced cancellation of its voyage. no one was hurt in the blaze that began early monday morning on the grand you're of the seas. the ship dropped off 2200 passengers in freeport. they were flown back to baltimore today. the judge in the case of the neighborhood watch volunteer accused of murdering african-american teenager travon march citizen severely limiting what the defense can say in opening statements. attorneys for george zimmerman will not be a tillable to mention martin's drug use, suspension from school and past fighting. zimmerman was not in court today. travon martin's parents did attend. zimmerman is accus

military credit union would make credit unions to veterans businesses say a doctor's credit union may make a loan to our hospital or a medical device company and it would still regulators could still nothing else changes except that this arbitrary cap is lifted you know it doesn't change capital ratios or anything or the amount of loans they could make or the quality of loans just that they can make add had business loans to more of their mix which would actually help diversify their when they get in and according to mr mots would make them safer and that's a good point because credit unions are member and they're not for profit meaning that they operate to start their members and not to maximize profits what are some of the advantages to credit unions lending of our banks and community banks and i have nothing against banks in fact i'll argue on community banks in particular as you said that they're suffering from some of the red tape too but i think you know you should lift these arbitrary barriers for for everyone but i think credit unions that yes that th

. >> although betty didn't work in the shipyard she got a job filing parts for a union, known as a jim crow union because of laws that kept it segregated. >> as a young woman of color i could have been working this agriculture or union working in the hall was a step up. >> newly married betty and her husband decided to build a new home for themselves in the rural area known as walnut creek. the dream of their peaceful suburban life never came on to be. >> we begin to receive threatening letters saying that if we dared, on the street, they would burn it. it was absolutely devastating. >> betty and her family refused to give up their home. >> 20 years later, in 1972, that same community. that is how fast social change occurred. when i came back to richmond ten years ago, this time. remember the situation. >> her new role brought her into the rosie riveter memorial museum. >> this is i can do it rosie that was the story. it didn't say anything about my life and my story. >> she spoke up and became a park ranger and made sure the newest historical park included the perspective of all membe

i guess is used too and what we've been seeing over the last several years is a certain extent of you know union busting on a state by state level this is certainly something that we saw being addressed at the protests on may day here in new york city certainly this general attitude i think has a lot to do with the general narrative that unions are kind of bad and people who are demanding more through unions are lazy and this is certainly something that we've seen on a state by state basis from politicians and from corporations and certainly this attitude and up being reflected in the way and making it really harder for unions to in fact get together and even though many economists are saying that certainly unions are a large impact have a very positive impact on the way the economy runs and operates that are saying that certainly a recession is a very good time for people to be able to organize to kind of get the ball rolling again but certainly that's not the case they're definitely going to be a concentrated effort to crush unions and as with the whole wisconsin debacle and really when you lo

a look at this guy. i want you to see him. mark rosenthal, president of new york city's largest municipal union, he spends 1400 a month on food union's dime and forecast there say he also sleeps two hours, two hours a day, at the job. why does he still have the job? it's a huge mystery to a lot of people, but we're going to ask the man himself, the judge, at 10:30. you've got to see that. right now i've got your seven early movers. and here is news about telecommunications spending in europe and italy. and remember it was around $40 a share. aviaggio posted earnings and makes chips for smart phones. apple a big customer of theirs. could be good news for apple. emc commenced on a $6 billion share buyback, and that's the one-two punch for returning to shareholders who are probably disappointed because the stock itself hasn't done much. first solar, you guys feel bad about missing big moves and chasing, guess what, goldman sachs is chasing this one and upped to a buy from a neutral. express looking pretty good. beat by 2 cents, up the second quarter, full year guidance. yesterday, three retailers had huge sessions, add this one

whether they be a gardner or laborer. that's what our unions are about, making sure these people are doing good, hard work from the city and the citizens we serve. that's all i have today. (applause) >> thank you. let's open this up for further [inaudible]. i have a few cards. nancy wilson. michelle meyers. john rizzo. jim [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood] and lois miles. if you heard your name, please come forward. >>> this one? okay. it. good afternoon, i'm nancy wilson. i'm here to support the apprentice program. i was at the rec and park commission when this was approved and i was extremely impressed with the way it was proposed. it was clear the apprentices would be comprehensively trained. they would provide a supply of qualified men and women to the permanent workforce. and they would also provide extra help in the parks while also saving the city money as they were in that [inaudible]. with their, quote, glitches or something like that in the system. it really is disheartening to feel that there's good pr and people are

very large market it is possible it is thinkable we can have a european union without britain among germany's euro skeptics there's a grudging respect for their british counterparts challenging brussels bureaucracy however they fear they could be in for more of that bureaucracy should the u.k. leave it will probably have a backlash for the european thinking and then they may think well now we have these odd balls out and we can go even further with your way of centralizing everything and even overregulating more than we have already and how do the german people feel about britain looking into divorce. if they want to go then they should if they don't use the euro it's not really. i couldn't care less but if that's what they want then we'll just continue without them. they

nonunion shop we're going to make it a union shop you knew what it was when you came in if you had a business would you want the government telling you who you could hire and how much you have to be would you like that to be something you decide why i do actually. head explode i do actually believe that if you are going to do business in the united states you should do it in a way that benefits the people the benefits the nation that is not toxic to the nation i think that if you can't pay people a certain minimum wage then you have no right doing business if you can you know if you can't conduct your business in a way that doesn't discriminate against particular groups you know it then you have no right to have to have a business so that's that's my position yeah i actually think the government i think the government being we the people i think i think we have the right to do that but we'll continue this conversation more. after the break. wealthy british style. tight tight. tight. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to

a bank. it happened at the redwood credit union on 4th street. was hurt but investigators say the men wore masks. now police say the men drove off in a van that was reported stone lent in a neighborhood and witnesses saw the suspects drive off in two other cars. >>> vendors are threatening to go on strike. 90% of concession workers are authorizing a strike. they are pointing out that the team gets half of all the food and beverage revenue. >> if the giants would share some of that with us, some of our demands could be met. >> now the company -- the company should offer and fans should bring their own food to at&t if there is a strike. >>> and muni is said to vote on an $840 million contract for the central southern projects. in fact, a massive belittling include throw up ground stations and the central subway is expected to open in 2019. >>> sal, what is going on out there? >> well, we are looking at the south bay and northbound still looks good getting to highway 17, and southbound on 680 still looks good, let's go back to you. >>> coming up nex

. ♪ >> to build a union, a free and democratic union and good union for good people willing to do it.e power of persistence. you know, he wouldn't take no for an answer. he had a strong sense of the injustice that farm workers had in our society and what to do about it and he kept with it. ♪ he did it with so much grace. so much class and tenderness that a lot of conviction. >> people who are in the face of discomfort and sadness and tranl di and yet, they stand up you know, strong and they say i am not going to give up and i am going to fight for what i believe in and my family and who i am. ♪ >> just always heari ining horr stories about what's going on, then cesar chavez shows up and things are getting done. >> i told cesar, i want to be a photographer for the union. he says, no, we have joan bae z available, we want you to go out and do concerts and fund-raisers, so, said, okay. >> the reason for the movement. as a young teenager, i use d to play with farm workers in small rallies. this was in the '70s. we use d to play when he would come up in a station wagon, get out. >> the you

it is just a situation -- it is devastating right now. the unioners make $10,000 more a year, 27% more a year than non-union workers. that is why these right to work states -- michigan now, indiana -- they're going to go after the labor movement to try to kill it. this is one to be the fight for our lives now. we need to take back our country, take back our economy, take back our values. secretary rice recently said, we have never seen -- the american people have these shared values, but we have never seen the conditions so radically pour and bad for working people. something has to give. we have to be set for a movement, a big social movement to take back our country and take back our rights. but the units go under, we are finishedecause they are the bedrock keeping us alive. >> the link between what is happening, for example, bangladesh and what is happening in the united states is rarely made. the issue of workers can get something like 21 cents an hour in bangladesh, how can workers in the u.s. compete? then you see the price of that. you see 4