in our union, we think ford motor company and the uaw, ups with the teamsters union, at&t with cwa. there is a handful of corporate players in our economy that are responsible, that are able to earn a profit and do right by their workers. that is an ethos we are bound and determined to return to our entire economy. >> that is it for our time. thank you to mary j henry, president of the service employees international union, joining us from san francisco. think you for your time. >> thank you. >> let me turn to andy sullivan and patrick temple west. some big buckets in this conversation. let's start with the minimum wage debate in this country. you referenced that the federal is not going anywhere. why not? >> you have to pass a law through congress. as long as you have republicans in control of the house of representatives, you will probably not see any significant increase in the minimum wage. they are pretty unified on that. quickly states and localities -- have many had enough experience to know who is right and a debate over what happens when you raise a minimum wage? >> a lot of

and into the woods. the men repelled all the unions attacks. fighting spread to the orange plank roadway the third corps arrived. all that initially stood between the rebels and the road, which if that would've wrecked wrecked grant's of vincent at the very beginning was a single regiment, the fifth new york cavalry fought a brilliant delaying action until a second core and the division six corps arrived. the infantry division stopped the troops in a bloody battle that lasted hours and left the woods inflames. the second core was the largest, most famous, hardest fighting for in the army of the potomac. when hancock, grant's most reliable general, commanded it. grant would turn to hancock and the second core again and again. when hancock's divisions collided with a third corps at the plank road, the jungle like vegetation and the thick smoke made it impossible to see more than a dozen pieces ahead in the dark woods. that is until sheets of enemy fire lit up the woods and then fell dead or wounded. the 46 north carolina called it a butchery, pure

local 42 in chattanooga and it is a union. only exciting to see what they're doing they realized if they workers, they want to join voluntarily, they're not and they can't force anyone to pay dues in tennessee. we've got a y, majority, they're volunteer to our union. can you recognize us. to your point, in tennessee, the employer and the union officials trying to get the workers to join the union. when they voted in a secret that i voted against representation. host: can union workers opt out dues.ying for guest: not easy, they can. a difficult decision for them. wo cases in the right to work foundation litigated both of them. it was a supreme court case that decided in 1988. what the supreme court said in hat case, we found out there was a telephone line, harry beck out in oregon. he lives in la plata, maryland. spending hishe was money on things he didn't agree with in candidate. all the a lawsuit, wept way back to nlrb in new york. they were spending 19% of all of he union dues for those in collective bargaining arbitration.

and southern californians usually fought for the confederacy. more is known about the union californian units. they became the 69th, 71st, and 72nd, 160 pennsylvania volunteers. all told, california divided -- provided more troops per capita than any other state in the civil war. california also sent monthly over $5 million in gold to purchase war bonds. more than any other state. and they gave more money than any other state, in gold, to the sanitary commission for the entire duration of the war. i would say that california gave both blood and treasure to the war. that had a great deal to do with it. one of the things that has come across really clearly from yesterday to today is how important it is to look at primary documents. primary documents for historians are looked at by a process known as a close reading. close reading is a careful, briefned examination of a text. it is interpretive in nature and focuses on the specifics. try to put the passage you are reading into such context as possible. reading. as a historian, you need to know a lot about the general to underst

union. every year.aises and if we didn't have a union, i wouldn't be at my salary. so you started at $18 an hour and you're currently -- caller: i started at $18,000 a year. host: $18,000 a year, now $61. caller: yeah. of the unions. i get a 3% raise every year. he unions represent us for upper management. now, working for the state, the the raises. my dues are $25.60 every two weeks. $50 a month for union represent raises, what's wrong with that? who did you want want that? caller had aad the good experience. she's been able to get what most think, ould like, i which is that as they progress in their career, as they become they're able to get a steady increasing income, of the kes them part middle class. gave them basic security, to rtunity, the ability provide for their children, send their kids to college. a all of the things that we would associate with the middle class. unfortunately, it's been very, very hard for most people in the today.y we've had decades of stagnant wages. at the same time the wages have for most people, they've had rising costs for college,

both a dangers phase because there's no conversation there's nothing going on between the district and union now i know you'll discuss all those tonight in closed session since i don't invite us in then listen to this with critical areas for teachers and parents those negotiations are not funny they're not something, something to say well, i hope you can still be my friend and giggle about it they're in no way funny those negotiations determine the ways our members and families live those negotiations are our life we take it can them seriously and the road you've chosen to go down is the wrong road we'll hope you'll send our bargaining team back to the table where we can come to a negotiated agreement thank you thank you mr. kelly seeing none, public comment is closed again this is item two which is superintendent proposals first reading may i have a motion and second to an one 49 dash 1950 one authorization to grant our easiest deny the renewal position for the san francisco flex academy charter school may i have a motion and second and i moved is i need a second and second and okay. thank

that was masonic. >> yes, and union terrace that helped to fund it, and calmed the traffic but way predated vision zero, going on for years. >> commissioner yee. >> this begs the question, maybe what we need is a better definition of what we consider a vision-zero project. it seems like there is different definitions floating around right now. >> yeah. >> if i may. the co-chair of the vision zero task force for the city. i think what is happening here, you are right, we met with some supervisors and some definitions of what is vision zero project, and maybe they were in planning before we officially adopted vision zero. we had the executive session in 2010. these are leading towards that, and we have an update coming up on the status of the education outreach program that we are working on. to clearly define what vision zero is as a city policy. and identify the projects supporting vision zero and the support of these 24 projects. yeah, there is some that were clearly in the planning before we officially said, this is the vision zero resolution to the city. but we think they are consistent

security is operated separately as a non-union company and andrew is operated as a union company. both of those companies are essentially owned by goldman sachs, i believe. they are a large corporation and they have done this kind of work before. we also have performance bond requirements as stated earlier. so if there is a failure on performance and paying wages, there is $800,000 for non-performance with the contract and another 800,000 for non-payment for labor and equipment. >> thank you, that was my second question. you beat me to it. thank you. >> other questions? >> director borden? >> you can't really change the orders. there is no more money after the contract to get through. >> for the city to get more on the contract? >> no. the amount we are allocating for today, if the cost were higher, we wouldn't be on the hook for that, despite >> we would not pay higher than the bid amount. there are always changes and proifgsz provision to the contract but this is the price we would be paying. >> thank you. >> it seems to me that one of the things that cypress has very eloquently

the confer process and the city has not responded to the unions request for continuance negotiations she if listen to our advise in the rules and she even gave us not good signal in terms of norwalk with his in good faith this is not the beginning of a pro traffic fight with the district if you remember during the and/or 1021 has filed cases over cases because the human resources at that time was craving hostilities with the union this is the beginning of our demonstration to showing show that 1021 is not going to tolerate those practices we just want her to consider the civil service rules and bumming her out of her position she said she's doing the job so she can get out from under the district for her to not consider to bump the people that are not permanent civil service is not good for our relationship we are not going to just sit back and listen to what she going to say we're going to be 5th back i was the driving from our local union and you know we're going we're not going to stay away. >> thank you. next speaker, please mr. solomon. >> i have a question before i start, i put

and southern californians usually fought for the confederacy. more is known about the union californian units. 71st, ande the 69th, hundreds pennsylvanian volunteers. all told, california divided more troops per capita than any other state in the civil war. they also spent monthly over $5 million in gold to purchase war bonds. more than any other state. and they gave more money than to theer state, in gold, commission for the entire duration of the war. i would say that california gave both water and treasure to the war. blood and treasure to the war. one of the things to come across really clearly from yesterday to today is how important it is to look at primary documents. primary documents are looked at by a process known as a close reading. and interpreting nature and -- its on the specifics is interpreted in nature and focuses on the specifics. you always tried to put passage --t such conduct is possible but context possible. that's look at an example. of a general point of view. will be given. order to find out -- generally gives in order to general yunnan is up to. the

wide ranging... >> would a union negotiate over the number and length of practices? perhaps a union would bargain over the number of games. if the school and union are at an impasse, would athletes go on strike? are these schools ready to make some tough decisions like cutting support to other athletic programs like lacrosse field hockey, or even raising tuition? >> the list of grievances these players presented are a list of grievances that players could have presented 5 or 10 years ago across the college community, but they haven't been addressed. whether or not you have the security of a scholarship, for how long, whether you have health insurance, stipends, transfers...we've been over this. we've been over this and over this and over this... >> it's bringing us into a sea of complete uncertainty. >> the ncaa says it will fight the northwestern effort all the way to the supreme court. >> i'm not saying the ncaa created institutional racism and poverty in the us. but the ncaa consciously benefits, because they put players from a particular back

until the french sort out their legal structures and particularly their north korean attitude to unions and protecting unions, i think we will be fairly slow to open bases in france. >> you have expressed in the past dismay about the way the pilots approach this industry. what advice would you give over to air france right now? policy he isy the presently pursuing, making concessions to the pilots, which are ludicrous concessions, would not expand trans onvia -- transavia.

he and his men captured some union soldiers just prior to the election. ey forced the soldiers to take off their blue uniforms and that the ferrets but on the uniforms as they got lincoln's ballot and they went up to the polls and voted for lincoln. they do not support to lincoln but they wanted to prove a point. one wrote after this saying "no one could object to us after voting for lincoln." all of this sort of evidence suggests there was a great amount of pressure and even version -- coersion. i found one artillerist who said if i was a civilian i would say what i thought of it but at present, i better keep quiet. what does this all mean? first, i have to say, i love abraham lincoln. i think he is our greatest president. i've written several books. i would not devote all of this time to lincoln if i do not think he was worthy of the study. and certainly, i think his reelection was the best thing that could've happened was that it led to the death of the confederacy and the ultimate extinction of slavery. i also think it is important to understand the me

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was argument latched to winning the war and restoring the union. for generations, his stories about mcclellan was not/to that. there was a famous article that was based on better research that said mcclellan wavered and was not as strong on the union as we ought. that myth has been debunked. mcclellan would have done what he could've done to restore the union, but mcclellan would not to theobably cap emancipation proclamation and plates. he would've been fine with trying to win the war and letting the south keep slavery. would've had a lot of peace democrats who voted for hamill who would've said wait a second, the platform says this war is a failure in the platform says we want to let the convention of the states and negotiate with the south auo that to us. how mcclellan would've handled that is impossible to know. i have read several letters by democrats, these are soldiers who say i want to vote for mcclellan, but what if he wins and then dies? get a peace democrat. there were people who thought mcclellan might get knocked off and aps democrats w

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we have service employees and international union president mary kay henry with us tonight. ilwaukee, wisconsin we have the executive director of wisconsin jobs now. and in raleigh, north carolina, we have the ref rebd dr. william barber, president of the north carolina naacp. great to have all of you with us this evening. jennifer, let's start with you. what can you tell us about what unfolded today in the protests in milwaukee. congresswoman moore gets arrested and tell us about what you saw and what this was all about in the minds of these workers who were willing to put their jobs on the line. >> well, only in wisconsin can you both get soaking wet and sunburned at the same time and that's exactly happened here in milwaukee today where we saw hundreds of workers across the state of wisconsin in 14 different cities across our state walked off the job for $15 an hour and the right to join a union. we had 32 workers arrested across the state and as you stated earlier, one congresswoman all for the same goal and we are proud to join the 150 cities across this great country of

he moved from the process to finalize and approved union and collective bargaining agreements and his performance make eric a value member of the sf mta. eric, please accept this award. >> thank you. on behalf of the agency rgs , thank you for the hard work. i understand you have been here only 18 months. great work. >> thank you, director nolan and mr. bora. again, director chairman nolan and advice brinkman. i appreciate this recognition and thank you for all the good work that you do on behalf of our city. the agreements that we achieved provided stability and we reached this stability with our labor and work relations and stuff stability was through the product of teamwork and sincere collaboration amongst the employee relations staff and our managers and supervisors and transit superintendants and those members of our bargaining team. in recognizing this teamwork i want to recognize our note takers, researchers, finance personnel and support and respective bargaining time members. in particular i want to thank and acknowledge labor relations supervisor for leading by example and

he got up and said the union must be preserved. no qualifications, if and or but. the union must be preserved and in the words of one was like an exploded bomb. next was the vice president of the united states john caldwell calhoun from the state of north carolina and the doctrine of the nullification gave the next coast and said the union was dear to the hearts of southerners but only next to the liberty and so given the security definition of liberty that remarkable statement by union next to the liberty was less important. third was martin van buren secretary of the united states who got up and said let's remember this country was founded on compromised. america itself, the constitution compromise and let us always remember it is compromise that kept us together through the various crises in the past. so i thought that was the perfect place to start because of the ideas the union that must be preserved and let's remember the compromised s. together and those were the three philosophies that clash and that compete that wouldn't be out of the armed conflict that cl

all of the festivities and costs are underwritten by the soviet union and the festival was personallysupervised by the head of the kgb alexander who had previously been president of the union of students. they had the cost of sending young americans to the festival basically disrupted by having them debate with the soviet communist counterparts might call the get the post water who was there described it as a college weekend with russians. among the activities was the distribution of books in many languages. 30,000 in 14 languages including a 1984 and the god that failed. apart from the russian edition doctor zhivago was available in polish, czech, hungarian and chinese at the festival. the novel had been published in taiwan and a year of committees within 50 copies for the 400 strong chinese delegation that proved to be impenetrable. some of the chinese wouldn't talk to the eastern european comrades so they found it somewhat difficult to communicate with them. the soviet delegation arrived from budapest in the convoy of buses and it was a blistering hot day and the windows were open.

square and i am excited about the union square and thanks to the chief, and i know that i mentioned the chief a lot and the commander and we are adding the staffing to the station as of saturday and i am very excited to report that we are adding five officers to union square. and right now, we have officer who walks the foot beat in the daytime and we are going to add another officer who cover him on the opposite side and then i am going to add four officers on a night beat, 5:00 p.m. to 3 a.m., four officers, two at any given time, and going to spend a lot of time and get ready for the shoppers and to have the police presence down there when the people get out for work and all of it and in the evening where we are going to start taking care of the areas of geary and post and sutter and jones and all of those areas, too. and kind of like we did in the old days, when you had two beat officers and, and walking the beat at night and so we are starting this on saturday, and very excited thank you, chief and the staff and commander, thank you very much and i am excited. one i think that