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in a republican administration in those days required at least a diplomatic relationship with the afl-cio. when jim criticized meany, meany's response was devastating. it was, i do not respond to the janitor. and i don't think jim ever recovered from that. jim and i had a wonderful relationship. he is -- my job was the chief operating officer. his job as secretary of labor was to pick big issues that he was interested in and pursue those big issues. and also he was the outside man and i was more the inside man. >> could you give us a character sketch, please, of george meany. >> george meany was an extraordinarily powerful, brilliant, and rouuthless individual. he once said to me something which was very true but chilling, it could have been in his explanation of why he had attacked jim, and after he attacked jim i was in an awkward position because it was my job to continue to have relationships with the afl-cio, but to be loyal to jim i felt quite bifurcated and tugged in that situation. but i'm having this conversation with meany defending jim. and i think i may have told him that jim

let me ask you about the afl-cio strategy this year. in the past, democrats have been accused of taking labor for granted and you have said recently he will hold the democrats' feet to the fire and hold them accountable for not aligning with working people priorities. how is your shift in strategy going this year and how will you change what you do in order to make sure that happens? guest: that is the most important part i have talked about is what we are doing. and in the past, we is to give money to party structure. that party structure would do different things with it but did not build power for working people. this election and the following election, because we are viewing these in three and four alexian blocks, not just a single election -- it is about building power for working people and working-class people. our program will not be geared toward the grassroots. we are trying to make lemonade out of lemons with the citizens united decision. we want to talk to non-union workers are program will be geared toward educating and mo

he is the current secretary- treasurers of the california labor federation, afl-cio. of like to introduce -- i would like to introduce art polaski. thank you very much for being with us today. [applause] >> thank you. i want to acknowledge that this is the first time walter johnson -- that must have been henny who said that. thank you. is that better? i would like for all bus to acknowledge the back that walter johnson is not with as for the first time in the history of this breakfast. senator chave -- cesar chavez would have said that titles do not matter. he has a lot of titles but does not live on them. eliseo medina joined his family at the delano grape strike at the age of 19. at the age of 20, he was an organizer in the difficult and sometimes violent campaign, as an organizer under cesar chavez. he was trained by both cesar and fred ross, sr. he became an organizer for the campaign in chicago. he worked with the sugar cane workers of florida in the campaign against the slave like conditions of the workers in florida. since then, he has not stopped being an orga

conference of mayors and, again, i say, ifs afl cio and chamber of commerce can work together, surely we can work together here. in addition to our core mission, we have a wonderful opportunity with the restore act, the harbor maintenance trust fund, the secure rural schools program, so colleagues, i look forward to working with each and every one of you. my door is always open, and i know we can succeed. it's my honor to turn to vice chairman mica. >> well, thank you so much, senator boxer, and thank you for your leadership of this conference and also for working with me as we've tried to come down this long road of getting us to a conference today. as some of you may recall, we started on the house side in beckley, west virginia, with mr. rayhall and his district. he went across the country to -- we went across country to hear from the american people and a lot of stakeholders, and people who don't have jobs, and communities that are waiting for the congress to make a decision on infrastructure. we conducted a bipartisan, bicameral hearing, probably one of the first i recall, out in

but let me move to the statement, the comment i should say, should by the afl-cio.meant as fun, there is absolutely no place for that kind of joke in a conversation that is extremely serious about how to rebuild our middle class and our country." this is plenty to talk about in the governor's record and we do not believe that is appropriate joke. working people deserve a better conversation much that is not quite a total repudiation of a rather ugly and violent scene, in my opinion. >>guest: no, and the woman who is in the video they asked for a comment today and she says why regret it at all, this was fund, just a game, this is not just a game. these people are pretending to violently hurt a conservative woman with a bat. how is that funny? how is that a funny game. >>stuart: if it was other way around, it were a democrat's picture, or, heaven help us, but the president, for example, it would be a different reaction. >>guest: of course. look what we saw with sandra fluke, they milked that. imagine if obama's face was on what and a tea party was hitting it in we wou

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even the national office of the afl-cio expressed discomfort.ait until you hear the reason why they didn't like it. stu were let's start with this. i'm gleaning -- i'm getting the feeling that the unions don't love governor haley. what is behind this? >> reporter: there is no love lost between governor haley and the unions. look at pinata. you will see a note attached to it. the note says unions are not need, not wanted and not welcome in the state of south carolina. that's a quote from governor nikki haley in her state of the state recent message. so clearly no love lost between nikki haley and the unions. this goes back to the boeing case. boeing wanted to move to a non-union manufacturing plant in south carolina and move from the union state of washington to south carolina. governor haley was in favor of that move. the unions sued governor haley and told her to stop talking about the union issue. don't even mention the unions when you talk about boeing. they sued, they lost. no love lost between the unions and governor haley. then you have th

however, the washington based afl-cio disagrees saying it was inappropriate joke.y tweeted the video adding, "wow! i wonder if the unions think this kind of thing will make people take them seriously." finally the man who made channel surfing possible died over the weekend at the age of 96. eugene policy invented the wireless television remote control in 1955. polly began his career with zeenet electron nix stock room before rising through the engineering ranks. ten years ago he said the flashmatic remote was the next most important zil used invention after the flush -- civilized invention after the flush toilet. >>> john edwards' fate is in hands of north carolina jury. jonathan serrie has an update live from greensboro. >> jurors went home without returning a verdict. it was the first day of deliberations they did not request additional evidence. but based on their recent request, it looks like they are following the money trail. the most recent request was to review two letters from alex forger, the estate lawyer for bunny melon, the heiress provided much of the

that's the position that the afl-cio has taken. there are many activist groups that will be working on these kinds of proposals. >> the last few minutes of this hearing. you can see it at c-span.org. live now to capitol hill as the house financial services subcommittee on financial institutions and consumer credit is holding a hearing today on what's too big to fail. members are considering how to define and designate what is a systemically significant financial institution. jpmorgan's bank recently lost $2 billion. that's expected to be a topic during this hearing. set to testify, government officials from the treasury department and the fempl reserve as well as members a number of banking experts. congresswoman shelley moore capital i toe is the chair of the subcommittee and carolyn maloney is the ranking member. >>> this hearing is called to order. i want to welcome everyone. this morning, the financial institutions and consumer credit subcommittee will examine the impact of being designated as systemically important financial i

your afl-cio analogy was a great one. i actually met with the pentecostal seven in 1982 when they were holed up in the russian-u.s. embassy to the soviet union in moscow and we did stand steadfastly by them and time was not the issue. i thought your point was extraordinarily well taken if you wanted to elaborate that. my hope is and i know the press have all left, but i think it's very important that the president of the united states, i would appreciate your views on this, speak out from the perch of the white house. obviously as the leader of the free world, it's amazing to me that when asked about guangcheng he said he had no comment. during the horrible days of aparthe apartheid, if any president, reagan bush were to be asked about tremendous individuals they would launch into a defense of those brave men and women and yet no comment from the president. your thoughts on that, if i could. the hurry up offense, time is on our side. we could have worked this pain stakingly before allowing chen to leave the -- leave the e

but there was speculation in the press that i would succeed jim and there were afl-cio types who advocated that, so i thought i was in pretty good order generally. i think i had a reputation of being a good administrator within the administration and a good reputation with both management, labor and civil rights groups which are our three constituencies, but i knew i was not amazed when i was asked to leave. i was astonished that all the resignations -- they were all asked to resign and that the number of resignations which were accepted. >> not many. >> plenty. >> of course, the government was -- >> yes, in the labor department everybody's resignation was accepted except for mike moscow who was my deputy went over to an assistant secretary of hud under jim lin who was elevated from undersecretary of commerce to secretary of hud. but the labor department was pretty much wiped out. >> i think alexander haig would explain that the challenge he faced was he found a half-staffed government when he comes in as chief of staff in '73. >> yes. and many of those white house people were put all -- p

for example, on may 4, the afl-cio president says, i think we're all unanimous on whether we should build the pipeline. it simple seems like it makes sense to me. four years is long enough. let's go ahead. this is an integral part. in my state alone, it takes 500 trucks a day off the road. and 500 trucks a day that are beating up our roads and creating real safety issues for our people. north dakota may pass up alaska next year in oil production, but we can't get that oil to our refineries if we don't have the pipelines to do it. recycling coal ash is the same thing. we need to prove these provisions forward for the best highway bill possible. thank you, madam chairman. >> three minutes. >> thank you, madam chair, don isn't incompetent, that mike doesn't work. senator inhoff mentioned the cost of the extension in one way. i'll mention the cost of extension in another. we have seven states reporting that they will forego 60,000 jobs this construction season because of the temporary nature of the extension. they simply can't plan beyond that for federal funds. so if we can successfully conc

the afl-cio just recently endorsed barack obama for reelection. you're on the executive committee of the afl-cio. did you vote for endorsing obama? >> no, i didn't go to the meeting. >> why? >> we haven't taken a position on barack obama. our nurses worked so hard the last time on his campaign. they worked for months. i mean, people left their homes. they were excited. you know, they actually believed in his candidacy. they thought that he meant what he said when he actually supported single payer. and all we needed to do was get him there. but we made a tremendous mistake. i mean, as a country, as the nurses, everyone. and that is he said, "you need to push me." well, no one pushed him, except for the right, and except for wall street. we didn't push barack obama. in fact, we had the liberal groups who were yelling at anyone who stepped out of line to get in line. so now we're in a situation that we, in part, helped create. that's the dilemma here. you can't solve the problem without changing the way you do your own work. and so this isn't about

miss owens previously served as director of public policy for the afl-cio and founded and ran the workers options resource center which fought for an increase in the federal minimum wage. before we hear from our first witness, we'd like to turn to senator corker for whatever comments he has. >> thank you. i know we're having a series of votes and thought for a moment this hearing had been called off. so i apologize for being a few minutes late. thank you for being here and i appreciate your focus on long-term unemployment among seniors. i know we have some great witnesses here today, and i think we all recognize that long-term unemployment is actually hitting lots of demographic groups and obviously we don't want to pick winners and losers in that. i'm happy we're having this hearing and look forward to questions and comments after. and thank you for calling it. >> thank you very much, senator corker. ms. whitelaw? >> good afternoon. my name is sheila whitelaw. i am british by birth and i am proud to say an american citizen. i have been an executive director of three nonprofit organizatio

for example, on may 4, richard trumka, afl-cio president says they think were all unanimous by sayingwe should build the pipeline. warren buffett yesterday on fox business network said i'm not an expert, but it certainly seems like it makes sense to me, and quote. four years is long enough. let's go ahead as an integral part. and i sit alone it takes 500 trucks a day off the road and we want to send 100,000 barrels of oil to market 500 trucks a day that the debt grows and create a real safety issues for our people. north dakota may pass up alaskan oil production but we can't get oil to refineries that we don't have the pipeline to do it. recycling is the same thing. it reduces the cost of her is that we provide strong environmental safeguards with the state led approach. we need to the provisions forward for the best tie with all possible. thank you, madam chairman. >> thank you, senator. >> madam chair, that mike doesn't work. sender and hostage in the cost of the extension one wyatt all mentioned it in another. we have had -- those seven states recording that they will forgo a 60,00

the chamber of commerce, afl- cio. they all hated the bill. they said to make sure it does not pass. it hurts illinois. 15% of our federal funds for highways over the next five years, eliminates what has been set aside for mass transit for 30 years. it takes 25% out of support for amtrak. it eliminates the tiger grant programs. the list goes on. i salute my two illinois congressman who had the courage to step up and say they would not vote for the bill as well. the final point i want to make is this. this is not the first keystone pipeline. this is the second one. the first one from alberta goes down to illinois. it is in my district to the conoco refinery where they have invested $1 billion in receiving them and cleaning them into viable products. we did this in the ordinary course of process. now comes keystone xl and the suggestion is if we pass the bill today, gas prices will go down tomorrow. not true. last week on friday, the state of nebraska announced finally where they want to place the pipeline. the state of nebraska said keystone xl

. >> here are the headlines president obama facing a lawsuit from the union affiliated afl cio. a president of the local chapter said they are suing over unwarranted parking rate increases at the labor department. >> senate lawmakers investigating a charity accused of exploiting veterans to keep their tax exemption status. records showing disabled veterans making $56 million only to spened most of that cash with a marketing company to help solicit more donations. the money that we know the to veterans spen is the money on care packages used dress shoes and bags of coconut m and m's. the company denying any wrong doing. >> it is time for a look at who is talking. nicky haley is makeling headlines after south carolina union leader had a pinata of governor haley on it. that is her beating her pinata during a collegiate a retreat. >> it is creepy. i still hurt every time i see it. this is what i will tell you. this is not typical of south carolina lynnians. this is typical of union thugs. i will tell you the last week the demes came after me with racial slur and hit me on a pinata.

this is video from the afl-cio. is how they celebrate at picnics in south carolina. >> this look like a tough girl. >> whack her. [ applause ] >> whack her again. that's what she needs. >> dana: does it ever cross their mind it might be atrocious behavior? >> eric: it's so bad it's actually -- can we point out those are south carolina democrats, right? >> dana: sure. >> bob: was it atrocious when they had character of barack obama with a bone -- >> eric: that as well, bob. >> bob: did you find that atrocious? >> greg: the terrible thing about this is the lack of candy in the pinata. a terrible pinata. >> bob: you think it was worse than obama with a bone in his nose? >> kimberly: waiting for stimulus money to load it with candy. that behavior is not nice. >> bob: this is not good behavior. you see a scene like that. you hanging out. >> dana: nikki haley has been a target of number of attacks. her family was indian-american. >> bob: barack obama has been attacked by eric bolling his life. >> eric: wow! that is not fa

the idea for a big boost in construction is supported by the afl-cio but it's also supported by the chamberf commerce. those two don't get along on much. they agree we should rebuild america. >> and so, it seems to me that the only way we're going to get this done is if the democrats get both chambers. >> apparently that's the case. republicans are moving more and more to the right. they are get spendi ining even it's to hire contractors in the private sector. they still don't want to do it. let me remind you that if we're ever going to borrow money to put all of these millions of americans to work, no is the time. we haven't seen the borrowing costs for the united states this low in many, many years. they yield on a ten year treasury is down to below 2%. you can't get lower than that. >>> a big move on the government on solar energy means a lot for manufacturing jobs in this country. >>> later, i'll show you why arizonanas might not get the chance to vote for president obama in november. stick around. [ mechanical humming ] [ male announcer ] we began with the rx. ♪ then we turned the page

carolina governor, nikki haley, not popular among some union leaders, among them donna dewitt, with the afl-cioround. wack her! [cheering] >> you give her another wack. wack her again! [cheering] wack her again! this one's for me! [cheering] >> she is a pinhead. that's it for us. check out the fox news factor web site. and we would like to have you spout off about the factor from anywre

you pointed out seiu, afl-cio, the international socialists movement, the american communist party, assorted anarchists and let's not forget bill ahers and van jones very tightly involved in this from the beginning, from last summer, they orchestrated this. >> bill: you don't think that the president of the united states should distance himself from those people? >> here's why he cannot do it, bill. occupy wall street was set up and orchestrated for two reasons. one to supply president obama with his central campaign theme of inequality and number two -- don't be so sure. >> bill: they were going to bomb his headquarters in chicago. they arrested three of them there. >> this gets me to my second point. to create enough chaos and disorder in this country to justify two things. either a, a government crackdown or b, to justify any kind of -- any kind of activity to get the redistributions agenda out. wait a minute, this is all about destroying the economic system in order to destroy the political system. >> bill: they don't have enough numbers, as i said, to do that and i also predicted the oc

rich trumpka of the afl-cio, mary kay all of the union together.e understand this is really about a fight for democracy in our opinion. we have people that want to destroy our economy. now they want to steal our democracy and we working people have to come together. people, whether they are union or non-union, people who care about america being a democracy, we are going to come together to reelect president obama. >> i will let that be the last word. >> that's bob king president of the united auto workers union. coming up the prodigal son returns. yeah, he wishes. mitt romney hands to lancesing. and first, the war room. put on your seatbelts. plus north carolina and indiana all held potentially game-changing elections today. complete results and smart analysis is on the way. we want you to follow along and join in our twitter page. you can do that at granholm >>(narrator) gavin newsom, lieutenant governor of california, and former mayor of san francisco is coming to current tv. >>every night on cable news networks everyone's focusing on what's wro

the afl-cio proposed the idea. there say they just wanted an annual update on the planning. buffett, who has cancer, says it is a, quote, nonevent. shareholders say that they are okay with buffett's updates and they are confident plan is in place to eventually replace him. >> he said that he's not going to miss any work, that his treatment is going to be just a simple few minutes a day, just -- just walks a few blocks from his office. walks and gets treatment. he won't miss any work. he said he will be perfectly fine. >> buffett says he gets regular updates on his health and that house company's board discusses his replacement more than any other subject. >>> voters in france are casting ballots in a presidential runoff election. rler were polls suggest that the outcome could unseed sarkozy after just one term. he is running against socialist challenger challenger hollande. the winner will serve a five-year term which includes a seat on the number security council. >> this morning the hikers that were once detained

you pointed out seiu, afl-cio, the international socialists movement, the american communist party, assorted anarchists and let's not forget bill ahers and van jones very tightly involved in this from the beginning, from last summer, they orchestrated this. >> bill: you don't think that the president of the united states should distance himself from those people? >> here's why he cannot do it, bill. occupy wall street was set up and orchestrated for two reasons. one to supply president obama with his central campaign theme of inequality and number two -- don't be so sure. >> bill: they were going to bomb his headquarters in chicago. they arrested three of them there. >> this gets me to my second point. to create enough chaos and disorder in this country to justify two things. either a, a government crackdown or b, to justify any kind of -- any kind of activity to get the redistributions agenda out. wait a minute, this is all about destroying the economic system in order to destroy the political system. >> bill: they don't have enough numbers, as i said, to do that and i also predicted the oc

. >> guest: the incarnation as called 99% spring and it includes the afl-cio, the new bottomline organization which is a bunch of low-income groups challenging the banks of the domestic workers alliance and a lot of progress of organizations and the idea is to be able to peacefully protest to know what is wrong with our economy and how we could go back to the things that worked in the last century. there are organizations we've been working with like progress of majorities in the future and others like the working families party and we've been able to successfully move of the local level to be able to support it all the way to the congressional level. >> host: what are we looking at and use a local level? >> guest: the school board, sometimes writing the dog catcher the great thing about that is it lets people get involved and we have to rebuild the dreamed of, something called the contract for the american dream with 131 tells the people, to undermine to be exact -- 209 to be exact. you put the country back to work and put the country back to get through and so the of the ten ideas including

president obama has already been enforced by the afl-cio, the communications union, and others.e teamsters union here in las vegas threw its support behind the president. i spoke with teamster president james hoffa earlier today. >> he's made the turn to the middle class. he believes and his campaign staff believe they will determine the election. you agree with that? >> that's a war on the workers and they are the ones that are under attack by this whole idea of mitt romney and the republicans take away social security and things that we have in this country. president obama is the only guy standing up for us. >> is mitt romney dangerous? >> he's very dangerous. i don't think he has any values. he vacillates on everything. he doesn't stand up and say this is who i am. he's what the right wing says he is. he's got to stand up and really be who he is. he's not going to do that. >> what would labor look like if romney were president? >> first of all, he would come up with national right to work. he said it. he's saying we're going to take away minimum wage. we're going to take awa