unions have been giving money to p.r. firms to help boost their image the only problem the same p.r. firms are helping to destroy the unions at the same time labor journalist my delicacy here to get to the bottom of this story and you would think a nuclear disaster would make a government rethink using nuclear power right wrong why is the japanese government restarting nuclear power plants while thousands of japanese citizens are protesting the streets and the crippled fukushima plant spews radiation. and we begin tonight with bad news for those who want four more years of president obama in the last six presidential elections the candidate with the most money has won the white house. hasn't won the only exit i'm sorry in the last six presidential elections the candidate with the most money has won the white house all but one time the only exception is bill clinton in one thousand nine hundred two who was outspent by incumbent george h.w. bush yet still prevailed and never not once ever never as an incumbent president been outspent by his challenger it's never happened before never before unti

>> we are a public service union. that means we represent state, local government. we have paid attention to khalkha workers. we are going to be to need to organize those workers. we have a new home care worker out of california who will be my partner in moving forward. >> the supreme court recently had a ruling dealing with fees paid by non-union members that can be used for political members without their consent. >> let us be clear about what the decision did. it was based upon a special assessment that one of the union's levied against its members. a special assessment. what you had was justice scalia decided to take it upon himself to challenge the whole notion of charging nonmembers a fee for the work that we do within that unit. he decided that maybe we should look at the whole notion of agency fees or the nonmembers pay a certain feet into the union. he took it out of bounds. that just shows you where their heads are. they wanted challenges every step of the way. they want to have fees associated with representing nonmembers, which we are obligated to do in t

that's what union bosses are buying with union dews. who are the fat cats now? >> right now there is a dangerous uny scenario in sir yampt new reports of violence spill nothing lebanon as government forces crash in violence rebels are crossing the border for refuge. many families are displace water and electricity and medical supplies are running short. 15,000 people are killed since the fighting began and the annual running of the bulls. kicking off in spain with a week long fiesta. the bulls chasing them on a course. several people were injured. one of them a 73 year old man with a severe leg injury. we send you back with forbes on fox. have a great day. remember this? wall street executives and hedge fund managers this year collected biggest bonus in our history. >> wall street once more tax cuts for corporation. when is enough, enough? guess what, the labor cats, bashing so call fat cats are just as fat. a fox business executive - on exclusive from lizzie finds that unions are buying hotels and private jets all with unidues. steve hypocrisy going on >> you c

union work? >> that's right. there are full time police officers that do nothing but union work and over 2,000 hours a year allocated for others. >> how much union work can there be? >> there is no end to it, john. >> john: it's kind of like a slush fund. they can do this work whatever they want? >> it amounts to a million dollars a year. >> in phoenix, taxpayers pay $4 million for 73,000 hours of union relief time? >> that is absolutely right. we have no idea what these people are doing except we know what they are not doing which is what they were hired to do. >> john: national president of american federation of government employees john gates says gains in quality, productivity. efficiency, year after year, department after department simply would not have been possible without the reasonable and sound use of official time. >> there are some bureaucrats better off not doing what they are supposed to be doing. when you look at cops in particular. every hour diverted away from law enforcement is a serious lost hour. ther

union work? >> that's right. there are full time police officers that do nothing but union work and over 2,000 hours a year allocated for others. >> how much union work can there be? >> there is no end to it, john. >> john: it's kind of like a slush fund. they can do this work whatever they want? >> it amounts to a million dollars a year. >> in phoenix, taxpayers pay $4 million for 73,000 hours of union relief time? >> that is absolutely right. we have no idea what these people are doing except we know what they are not doing which is what they were hired to do. >> john: national president of american federation of government employees john gates says gains in quality, productivity. efficiency, year after year, department after department simply would not have been possible without the reasonable and sound use of official time. >> there are some bureaucrats better off not doing what they are supposed to be doing. when you look at cops in particular. every hour diverted away from law enforcement is a serious lost hour. ther

union work? >> that's right. there are officers that do nothing but union work and over 2,000 hours a year allocated for others. >> how much union work can there be? >> there is no end to it, john. >> john: it's kind of like a slush fund. they can do this work whatever they want? >> it amounts to a million dollars a year. >> in phoenix, taxpayers pay $4 million for 73,000 hours of union relief time? >> that is absolutely right. we have no idea what these people are doing except we know what they are not doing which is what they were hired to do. >> john: national president of american federation of government employees john gates says gains in quality, productivity. efficiency, year after year, department after department simply would not have been possible without the rea and sound use of official time. >> there are some bureaucrats better off not doing what they are supposed to be doing. when you look at cops in particular. every hour diverted away from law enforcement is a serious lost hour. there are people getting kil

more and more, we are hearing about union dues spent errorously . elizabeth mcdonalds doing great job. they are not the for the people like they are supposed to be. it makes sense that air bus comes in and say we don't want to deal with this. >> and the governor said we are a right to work state and that's why they want to be here. maybe all states will follow this model. >> in air bus's case they gave 200 million incentives and south carolina gave billion to beaing in incentives to come here it is not only unfriendly to unions. but it is the amount of public dollars to lure them there. keep in mind. air bus is a french company. it is fully unionized abroad . the reason they chose a so-called right to work state in the united states, they are competing with boeing which chose south carolina. they are competing on the low road and that is not good economic policy for the country. it is what they are doing to pad the bottom line. >> i don't know wayne, maybe all is fair in love and cheese. maybe the french have a point. what work in america. we'll buil

that is what the unions are doing right now. martha: they say that the journal is including too much that they do in the politics category. >> well, let's step back. focus on this comparison, unions versus superpacs misses the dying forest for the desecrated trees. the whole system is rotten and rigged. it was rotten and i rigged before systems united and that's made it worse. martha: that was the supreme court decision the president was criticizing. >> yes. both sides exploit loopholes and bend the rules to gain advantage. now if you're asking me what is the bigger threat to the public interest and the democratic process there is no comparison this is apples to chocolate-covered strawberries. the superpacs do not have to disclose where most of their money comes from. they have no constitutional standing. they were created out of whole lot by the supreme court. martha: who spends more? >> first of all -- >> unions. >> that is not true at all corporations out spend unions ten to one. martha: that's what we thought before this cour

it seems like the lack of unions in the united states are making us more fragile. fragile as an economy yeah maybe i mean i think there's that there's definitely some. there's a there's a breaking point between public and private sector unions and i think it's beginning to expose itself more i think private sector union workers resent the place the public sector union workers have put them is there any trouble in the is there any pooling occurs with his opinions of cooling i've seen on this subject is that sixty over sixty percent of public sector private sector union workers consistently support the right of public employees to close the plea bargain right and you are not much stats that kind of back up the idea that there's an effort to create a war between the two scott walker talked with i mean a billionaire it's like the best in new york times story what's at the some of the publisher went out the jeans will wisconsin he said oh yeah i talked to this guy he was a u.a.w. worker and he said that he said that he hate public sector workers and then it turned out la

what the unions are saying, by the way they're not talking to fox bus. we called them for comment. saying we're allowed to use union funds to buy luxury resorts as preservation or expansion activities. unions would say we thought our dues were for safer working conditions but the i.r.s. is looking at all nonprofits. unions are nonprofit. they have to pay taxes on for profit activities but the i.r.s. is telling "fox business" it revamped in 2008 tax returns for nonprofits and has more questions to ask of all of them, including unions. >> are these unionized hotels? in other words, is the workforce at these hotels unionized? >> that's an important question. we don't know the answer but we know the labor movement has been struggling. there's been a lot of layoffs in the labor movement at a time when, for example the car industry got a lot of bailouts helping the uaw. they've not gotten back to us for comment nor have the other union officials. we didn't expect to to be so extensive. we did a deep dive to find out this information because there's no one kind of general services administ

. >> the contractor hms post saying that if employees are unionized it'll encourage them to work together to resolve their disagreements. >>> a car wash has agreed to pay workers $500,000 in back wages under a settlement announced today. the deal puts to rest a series of reports of wage violations against employees, of power car wash most of whom are latinos. among other accusations the company was accused of subjecting workers to unpaid waiting time while managers decided whether to let them clock in for their shifts. >> the governor and senate president say they will resist any attempt to change voter approved pension reform in san jose and san diego. they are trying to come one a plan for a public pension reform. the governor has offered a 12 point plan but negotiations have fallen short of creating a bill to change the current system. they will try again after the summer recess. >>> the da today released what he said is new evidence in last month's killing of an alleged pimp. he said video shows three of the four defendants together a short time t

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the city wants to get rid of this guy but powerful unions are protecting him. >> that's true. lking with sergeant rivera, i have got to be honest with you. i was prepared to say this is more public union nonsense and we have got -- we have got to deal with it and we do. nationwide on a different level. in the instance of bosque, rivera convinces me that there is so much corruption around him that. >> bill: bad behavior pointing to other bad behavior. >> this is what rivera says. he says you have got garbage in opa-lo croomplet -- locka. why isn't the florida attorney general, the local state attorneys are investigating. i talked with those folks as well. >> they have been investigating opa-locka since 1812. it's really bad there. >> it's a third of the community is under the national poverty line. >> bill: it's a drug addicted place and this and that. >> 40% of the population doesn't even have a high school degree. >> bill: this is awful story but i want to elevate it i live in nassau county in long island. it is the most taxed county in the country. $200 million in the red. th

well first of all unions are effectively carved out of the disclose act because the way it was crafted i mean unions get their money from mandatory contributions of headway there are moments since one nine hundred forty seven this disclose act was unilateral disarmament it only went after the corporate donors did not go after unions it also had a provision in there that didn't allow any issue ads during presidential campaigns for a very long period of time which may be an infringement on the first amendment i mean you look at this law there are some serious constitutional concerns with the way they drafted up and it's all politics of the falls we know is one of them going to . i've heard one right wing talking head after another say that union spent are going to spend three billion dollars in this election it's just it's a flat out lie what they've done is they've taken this wall street journal. number which we're not even sure whether or not that number is accurate and they've said this is what they're spending this year that number represents the last three presidential cycles the co

if you go to a pharmacy -- >> now they are unionized. >> that is true. >> is that hurting you? >> does it bother me? >> yes. and they can't eat. they are sick and dying. >> i probably don't have an anxiety disorder. >> by the way, of course it doesn't hurt an swrai tee. pot hurts anxiety and makes it worse. unless i have a joint and looking at one of the awesome things i put up, i will eventually have some anxiety. >> there is also a karma thick. by fighting for legalization of marijuana and abusing the system by lying, i don't know -- >> i am starting to feel like an uncle tom here. >> they almost made it illegal. it is like home visits are massages. >> you are not really a masseuse. >> i feel like a tattle tale. >> we are snitches. >> we can get high and get over it that way. >> more stuff to talk about when we return. >>> next topic and it is earth shattering. it is a little bit of heaven at 7-11. for a buck or two you could get mashed potatoes and gravy from a machine. apparently 7-eleven in singapore has these slurpee-type machines and they are showing up here. more proof t

provide for their families. >> and there is both sides have been at this nearly two years and say union workers are causing delays and union workers regard by arriving late to petings and they have decided to cooperate. they'll be here until 6:00. >> and we apologize with the difficulty was the microphone interest. >> there. >> when you leave a spa you're supposed to be looking and feeling and better but that is not always the case especially in many spas which are supposed to be overseen by doctors but aren't always. there is a crack down designed with safety in mind. >> medical spas give impression they're medically trained but because of the low violation, they're getting away with no doctor, some of the pictures you're about to see may be difficult to look at. >> it was painful. >> now under a doctor's supervision, joanne is healing from laser burns. she wanted spider veins removed but instead of going to a doctor she twont a medical spa. it was cheaper. no doctor present. >> i had developed severe red marks. it was apparent they were burn autos internaggal spa association says 1500 medi spas h

the bank and credit union are similar. we do allow tax returns, projections. credit unions do not charge an additional loan or processing fee. processing time, on a small loan, -- consumer loans probably a few days. because we require a business plan, sometimes it takes longer. business plantake a while. especially bank statements. we need to see consistent income coming in. so far, a credit union delinquent rate is quite low because we are working with a client. we want to keep that low and as part of our mission. there is no application fee. if you are interested in an application or information, i have brochures, or you can give us a call. >> thank you. next is marked with wells fargo. >> hello, i work for wells fargo bank. i cover the northern california region. i usually focus on about $350 -- $350,000 of sbe loans. last year, for 2010, i did 43 loans. so we are lending. i usually focus on six different types of loans. start-ups, business acquisitions, real estate purchases with ti's, working capital, a partner buyouts, business expansion. when i am lookin

he opened fire and shots broke out and at last check, they are still on the loose according to police. this morning union city police are telling us they do believe the motive for this crime is home invasion style robbery was indeed theft although at this point it is unclear if these suspects who barged into the house stole anything from the home but again, a woman shot, she underwent surgery and her condition is not known and of course i will work to get information, alex savage ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> it was a very tense scene overnight. our surveillance cameras took footage near the area last night. a man wanted for a serious crime several miles north of sunny veil. the search lasted several hours but there was no sign of that wanted man. >>> three people were forced from their home by an overnight fire. shortly after midnight, they responded to this fire on entry way. they say it looked like the fire started near a shed and quickly spread to the deck. a fire investigator is looking to determine what caused the fire but right now it does not look suspicious. >>> oakland police have arrested d

union. with the cpmc and sutter is how they are using the union as a bargaining chip. that is totally wrong and they are playing of union people against other union people, etc. we are the small players. cmpc and sutter are the big players. they think they are above the government. there are many dangers to us in san francisco. i will not go over all of them because it will take forever. plus, a number of them have been brought up before. the height limits and increasing the zoning. 100 feet. it is terrible. cathedral hill was too big to begin with, the hotel. and to have something monstrous like cpmc at van -- would be terrible. i went to sacred heart cathedral high school. it is a couple blocks away. it has and a part of the history of the city going back two centuries ago. i will not support cpmc if they are going to harm a high-school like sacred heart cathedral. so close. and it already suffers a great deal the dangers -- the kids there, over 1200 from the traffic -- and it will only be worse. i want you to think seriously about not supporting cpmc and saving st. l

. >> what about -- the unions are protected this tng. >> unions have to disclose, too. >> are you suggesting it comes from union members? just the way aexxon pac comes from exxon. this has been one of the great political flips of all time. it ud to be that republicans argued that theyey did not wantt restrictions on the amount, that you should d disclose and that wa good enough. now, suddenly, the ball has moved. the supreme court said that you can spend anything you want andd the ball as move completely down the field to an entirely different place. disclosure means that people will be targeted. >> which is exactly what has happened with the donors on the republican side, who have been targeted personally, the families and businesses. people are worried about disclosure because of the bindi did treatment of people as a exercising the free right of association. >> sorry to interrupt -- you are giving money to produce a vindictive attacking ads. that is targeting. millions and millions to produce some of e most vicioious -- >> when you spend $20, you are not writing the script. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

corrupting influence over the politicians that these contributions seek to benefit. >> eliot: those are union dues that are reported through a multitude of different reports over time and due course whereas i think if this number is correct, half of the contributions to the top nine super pacs were in excess of $1 million. we're talking about truly gargantuan contributions here of a scale that had been unimaginable until a couple of years ago. and none of those currently mandated to be disclosed. so we're talking about a black hole in terms of disclosure for the american public right now. >> yeah and the super pac actually, we should be clear. they are required to disclose reports with the federal election commission on a regular basis. it is the partner groups that they had. the nonprofit groups that are registered under section 501c4 so-called social welfare groups that do not report a dime of their political -- of the money that they take in and only report vague explanations for how they spent the money and then only years at least months after the spending actually occurs. so that's the

interest groups have a problem with that because when i write about smoking or obesity because there are unions actually do that with the membership and private companies already do this they tie health costs to choices you make. that can be a great compromise on healthcare reform. one that again, i saw there was a little bit in the law about trying to do that with your physicals but in terms of blanketly saying to the american people we are all in this together and you need to pay up if your citizen is going to be paying for your healthcare that is not something i have yet to hear a republican or democratic leadership stay out loud. >> i think the challenge is now it is a tax. and the reason they didn't try to argue this as a tax when they put it before the congress they knew they could not get it through. and linda is right, if you add all the different pieces to to healthcare, premium also go up across the board. we don't know how much yet. everybody says --. >> what if they don't? >> i don't know of any study that shows it going down. and you also see not just premiums going up but companie

the republicans said that unions are protected by this thing. >> unions have to disclose, too. >> are you suggesting it comes from union members? >> just the way an exxon pac comes from exxon. this is one of the great political flips of all time. it used to be that republicans argued that they did not want restrictions on the amount did you should simply disclose and that was enough. now, suddenly, the ball has moved. the supreme court's says you can say what you want, and the ball has moved completely down the field to a different place. disclosure means that people will be targeted. >> which is exactly what has happened with donors on the republican side, who have been targeted personally, the families and businesses, and that is why people are worried about the disclosure, because of the vindictive treatment of people exercising the free right of association -- >> sorry to interrupt. they are giving money to produce vindictive, attacking ads. that is targeting. people giving millions and millions to produce some of the most vicious -- >> when you send in $20, you are not writing th

union." their issues are correct. their issues are correct. er the years as unions stepped further and further away from being the real champions of economic justice and i'm not just talking about a good speech. i mean real champions of economic jusce, real allies of communityroupthatre fighting for them. when we stepped away from that of course we were going to become weaker. we were going to become more isolated. and we'd be looked at as special interests. >> why the resentment among so many working and middle class people who've been exploited themselves? why are voters not standing up? >> because it's easier for regular working people to start blaming someone that they can physically identify, someone that is not very strong, someone that cannot penalize them, rather than actually taking on the real powers. they're focusing on other weak, and i'm using the term broadly, weak sections of the population rather than focusing their attention on who really -- who holds the power. >> but the thing on this that i think is really important is none