those effect the bargaining unit. in years we have the responsibility to increase our staff. they were able to reduce staff in those areas. i can see by the pie chart the resolution is not that good. 38 percent of our staff works with workman's comp. and we have a contract with the administrator. we have 35 percent of our staff implementing the civil service. i want to highlight a couple of key initiatives. we have a community anti research program that we're piloting it's based on a model we use a couple of years ago. that was to reach anti to increase employed communities and open up training modules and ways to give people a leg up believe will increase the diversity of our applicant pool. our most recent mellowing pool for fire department and police it's fairly representative of the process. we want to improve our selection tools and reduce the impact that maybe associated with the historical tools we've used. we're going to implement a testing program. ramp have the candidates wait for when the exam opens up someone who is interested in the firefighter position can go do

in addition to questions regarding bargaining unit assignments, management supervisory confidential designations and so on. then with respect to the commission's budgets, our budgets primarily devote today supporting our personnel costs. i've included there what our current budget is as compared to what we're requesting for the next two years. there is a slight increase and they're primarily due to projected increases in employee salaries due to negotiated contracts as well as fringe benefit costs. and we have recently discussed the mayor's office and agreed to an adjustment to our budget prior to this year every year we were starting off with a deficit. so, this is just realigning our budget with the realities of what our staff costs are. we have no expected changes to the fte calendar for the next two years. at this time we do not intend to request any increases. and we're not projected to have any overtime costs over the next two years. and i think that summarizes the presentation. if you have any questions or comments, i'd be happy to answer them. >> colleagues, any questions? comments? asid

that work here at the school district and i am also assigned as the chief spokesperson for our bargaining unit. we have been bargaining since march. and the last meeting we had was on june 19th. and both the parks are way far apart and particularly in the economic aspects. and we are a little bit disappointed even though we are optimistic that we will be able to get a contract, and attentative agreement, but we are a little bit disappointed because in the proposed budget, our researchers have found out that the district has allocated 2.6 million dollars for the (inaudible) for compensation and other benefits but did notify or include the classified employees. if i, if our researcher is wrong on that matter, we need you to correct us but that is what we found. and so, we tried to really meet with your negotiateors but they are holding on and understands that the budget does not reflect, you know, improvement for our members will have not received since 2006 or 2007 increase of their salary and wages while you know that the inflation and the time commodities have changes and we want you to negot

so, there is the main bargaining unit as you know local 798 that we have employed groups that have all stepped up and will continue to step up when it comes to recruitment. we have a very active asian firefighters association, black firefighters association, united fire service women as well as [speaker not understood] for hispanics. so, to partly answer your question, we will continue to rely on their assistance with recruitment. from a community perspective, less by the recruitment perspective, we're proud of our neighborhood 49ers is training response program. ~. [speaker not understood]. we're grateful for the people that have stepped up and continue to take the training and work shoed doer to shoulder with us in the event that they're needed for a large scale emergency. ~ shoulder. we do have and expand -- mayor lee's initiative is to expand -- it's a free program, but to expand the outreach to some of the populations that do not speak english. we have [speaker not understood] in spanish and cantonese, but the number of classes that we've been able to offer in those languages is p

our average retiree pension in the city of detroit for our bargaining unit, for afscme members is a littles than $18,000 a year. >> bill: whoa. >> $18,000 a year. can you imagine if that's cut? it is just unbelievable to me. we've got -- we're smarter than this. and we just can't continue to attack these dedicated workers. we can't continue to decimate public services. we can't continue to decimate communities. there's got to be another plan of action. i'm calling on straighter heads to prevail here. and i think there's got to be a role with the federal government. now, i'm not suggesting there be a huge bailout although the federal government did bail out wall street. they're one of the reasons we're in this problem. i'm not suggesting that we pour a lot of federal dollars into rescue the city of detroit although i do believe it is going to take some money to do so and neighbor is low-interest loans, maybe some grants, things of that nature but you cannot afford to have this city go under. if this city goes under there is going to be activity in every major urban city across this country

what's going on at irs right now is we have a union and a bargaining unit and an agreement that we will bargain on the question of bonuses with that union. and my answer on bonuses is that there's no decisions been made. going back to my point about following the rules of law and procedure, i have an obligation before i freeze the bonuses for irs if that's the decision that's ultimately made, i don't know at this time. because my first step and my legal requirement is to bargain that issue with the unions, and that takes time. we're going through that process right now -- >> mr. chairman, we need a sense of urgency with 24 and length to put a freeze on these bonuses. >> time has expires. mr. becerra. >> mr. werfel, thank you very much for being with us. and look forward to having you come back. i think you've mentioned that everything you've stated in your reports and everything that the irs has done so far to investigate this matter is not yet complete, is that accurate? >> that's correct. >> so when you say at this point you have found no evidence of wrongdoing, it's as of this point.

as lisa mentioned earlier there is these units that open collective bargaining agreements for pricing in those contracts because we all now realize there are unintended consequences that can result to what we agree on in terms of health care. there is an intelligent strategy that we have to take. in the middle of these group discussions that we've been having at city hall in comes this story about kaiser and the rate increase and with hhf as leadership and all the unions in that committee have joined forces and stepped forward and went before the hhf and went to them and asked them to reject the increase. hhf has done a turn around and for all the reasons that they have cited this morning that you accept it instead of reject it. when most of us are in the rejection mode that having felt the more information we receive, more felt more strongly that this was a give away and something that really shouldn't be accepted by either hhf or board of supervisors. i was happy when the kaiser representative were called to the podium. unfortunately i don't think they were asked the right questions

ers could these cwa tell you, collective bargaining in the united states has become all defense, like you are cleaning off -- clinging onto a cliff. ontoow long can we hold our health care, how long can we hold onto our job, how long can we hold onto our retirement? how long can we hold onto our rights? seven or eight years ago, we defined our key issues to cut across the five main industry groups that make up our union. around those four things, job, healthcare, retirement, and our rights. we set out, whether it was an bargaining or in congress to move that agenda. we soon saw that despite 2008, which i think most of us would say is a high water mark in terms of what you could do with these rules, we saw in 2009 that at the federal level, first because of senate rules, nothing even got discussed. 111th congress passed over 400 items, mostly legislation, never got discussed for one second on the floor of the senate. far-er it was much more reaching healthcare reform, the employee free choice act, which would have meant workers had real organizing rights in this country again in the pr

whistleblower sits it out still at a moscow airport it seems has become something of a bargaining chip between russia and the united states washington promises to be the execute all torture edward snowden the man who exposed its worldwide surveillance tactics should he be handed back to the u.s. moscow those says there are actually no legal grounds for his expulsion right now lindsey france picks up this ongoing story. the world's media and u.s. law enforcement may not be chasing edward snowden from country to country at this point but there is plenty of chasing going on at the airport and there's no sign of it slowing down as the weeks passed the kremlin has stuck to its guns on allowing snowden to stay as long as he does not harm the united states by disclosing any more information tension mounted wednesday when reports emerge that snowden's russian advisor anatoly could chat and was in route to share the metro airports terminal with documents allowing snowden's temporary release from the transit zone while his asylum bid is considered but he showed up toting a brown paper bag filled with nothing more than new cl

bargaining teams for the two main units also went in just before 1:00. both sides say the two new state mediators asked them to keep dmonts a minimum z their talks inside of the negotiating room. >> i'm just a guy who would be grateful to head off -- have a well paying job again. >> jeff burger did show waip sign a licensed commercial pilot says he hasn't been fully employed in sometime. >> bart employees get paid very well for what they do. and i respect them but there are people out there that are willing to do what they do without the without going on strike. >> workers say they're happy to have jobs they just want a fair deal for the transit system. the unions want 4.5% per year over three years. >> out here as long as we need to be. >> bart spokesman says it will take a half day to get the system back up and running. >> goitsing to take 12 hours, longer, less. >> now there is no timetable tonight for talks to end. they're on a dinner break at this point. the board of directors scheduled a special meeting for tomorrow on at jenda. a couple items allo

whistleblower said set out at a moscow airport it seems he's now becoming something of a bargaining chip between russia and the united states washington promises to me that execute nor torture edward snowden the man who exposed its worldwide surveillance tactics should he be handed to the u.s. moscow those says there's actually no legal grounds for his expulsion linsey fronts picks up this ongoing story. the world's media and u.s. law enforcement may not be chasing edward snowden from country to country at this point but there is plenty of chasing going on at the airport and there's no sign of it slowing down as the weeks passed the kremlin has stuck to its guns on allowing snowden to stay as long as he does not harm the united states by disclosing any more information tension mounted wednesday when reports emerge that snowden's russian advisor anatoly. was in route to share the metro airports terminal with documents allowing snowden's temporary release from the transit zone while his asylum bed is considered but he showed up toting a brown paper bag filled with nothing more than new clothes and a few copies of russi

members care about, we hit a dead end as any of these cwaers could tell you, collective bargaining in the united states has become all defense, like you are clinging onto a cliff. and how long can we hold onto our health care, how long can we hold onto our job, how long can we hold onto our retirement? how long can we hold onto our rights? seven or eight years ago, we defined our key issues to cut across the five main industry groups that make up our union. around those four things, job, healthcare, retirement, and our rights. we set out, whether it was an bargaining or in congress to move that agenda.with partners. we could not move an agenda like that on our own, no matter what. we soon saw that despite 2008, which i think most of us would say is a high water mark in terms of what you could do with these rules, we saw in 2009 that at the federal level, first because of senate rules, nothing even got discussed. so that 111th congress passed over 400 items, mostly legislation, never got discussed for one second on the floor of the senate. whether it was much more far- reaching healthcare reform,

and as any of these are many others in the room could tell you that collective bargaining in united states has become all defense like your cling on to a cliff, and how long can we hold on to our health care? alcon wouldn't can hold onto her jobs quick how long can hold onto our retirement? and affect how long can we hold on to our rights at work? answer seven or eight years ago we defined our key issues to cut across the five main industry groups that make up our union. around those four things, our jobs, health care, retirement and our rights. and we set out, whether it was in bargaining or organizing, or in congress, to move that agenda with partners. could not move an agenda like that on her own no matter what. and we soon saw that despite 2008, which i think most of us would say was a high water mark in terms of what you can do by these rules, we saw in 2009 that at the federal level, first because of senate rules, nothing ever even got discussed. so the 111th congress passed over 400 items, mostly legislation. never got discussed for one second on the floor of the senate. not for one

directed at them - sleeping in parks is already illegal. ".in the united kingdom" >> reporter: >> let them bart and to let them bargained for contract. >> a lot of people have been marking for a lot of years and not having races and they're still glenn a job. >> these people need to get on with the rest of us are all far all of those blue- collar workers. >> why are we met at the workers? if they can get more tried to get more. it is being greedy ben that is not cool. >> jacqueline: warmer than what we expected but cloud coverage for the must've for most of the day and pretty muggy. done in the south bank palo '80s same thing for the north bay the core of the sites. still same limits for the high cloud coverage as this area of moves to the north and to the east. but will have a low cloud coverage returning tonight will have more on that and extended forecast cannot. coming up. century. coming up-- >> reporter: these happened a couple of years ago now with his high-profile wife by his side he admitted to setting this up as we saw in as last summer a year after being forced to resign from, from congress. >> exchanging ina

this ancient path to negotiate grand bargain, or we can resort to the military option or the military strike that i think would be extremely dangerous for the united states to do. it is a that he could not do it but from the nuclear factories or facilities but on the of the handmade and real the united states in another land war that once the war starts nobody knows where it will end. so as a problem, and i think well happen is every and would get the nuclear weapon in we will have to face a very difficult challenge in the gulf. because they've will become much more aggressive than once they have nuclear weapons there is circumspect given toward it. >> with there were things you never challenged the soviet union and we let it go. so i think that is what the outcome will be. i don't think thisz administration will use a military strike. with they would get the nuclear weapon. that is by a feeling. >>host: and you argued against a military strike anyway? they get the nuclear weapon, then what happens? then it is there a military strike? >> possibly. what is happening now in addition to sanctions the policy is to build up a deterrent so we've recent

united states eliminate the causes of certain substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce and to eliminate these obstructions when they have occurred by the practice and procedures of collective bargaining and by protecting the exercise by worker old -- by anders, self organization designation of representatives choosing to negotiate the conditions of their employment or other mutual aid or protection. the policy of the united states to encourage the practice and procedure of this. it is in the act. i suppose people could offer to change the act but i have never heard that. i think you both. for your public service in the past. thise that we can get tomorrow and i encourage you both to respond to the questions for the record as rapidly as possible and as thoroughly as you can answer those questions. that we have a not unreasonable number of questions that need to be responded to. there is nothing more. i thank you both for your willingness to serve on this extremely important to board. is the boardally and workersusiness move ahead. i am aware of the fact that 91% of all the cases that come into the regional offices are settled at the regional level. nine out of 10. that means before it

mean the end of national security journalism in the united states as we know it if it is left to stand. >> president obama is proposing a new grand bargain with big spending on infrastructure, projects while slashing the corporate tax rate. this was panned across town by a local newspaper's editorial board who suggested the president "take his jobs plan and shove it." they called it a further left version of a plan he already proposed two years ago. the president also shot back at supporters of the keystone pipeline and claim that project will create thousands of jobs. the president said they were putting all their eggs in one basket. >> now it's time for republicans to lay out their ideas. if they've got a better plan to bring back more manufacturing jobs here to tennessee and around the country, then let them know -- let me know. i want to hear them. wasting the country's time by taking something like 40 meaningless votes to repeal obama care is not a jobs plan. that's not a jobs plan. we can't be getting into a whole bunch of fads and pretend like, you know, yeah you roll back obamacare and all the jobs are going to be created. becaus

unit is watson. antonucci is at maricopa awaiting sentencing for manslaughter having plea bargained from charges of arsonnd murder. he and three friends burned down their former employer's office building and one of them didn't make it out in time. >> in the process of starting the fire my best friend ended up catching himself on fire and died in the process, and i got charged with first degree murder as well as the arson, justly so. it was a horrible decision, horrible mistake. something that i wish i had never done but i did and i got to face the consequences now. >> he was preaching the kingdom of god and teaching those things which concern the lord jesus christ with all confidence and what i want to point out today is that is no matter where we are, we need to be serving god. >> while waiting for his sentencing hearing, antonucci has begun leading bible studies for other inmates. >> i'm a devout christian and gotten back to my walk with god. i was working with my church and everything before coming here. it's not like a jailhouse conversion or whatever. i followed a friend and shouldn't have done tha

less did it on the platform for collective bargaining of unions and, which hurts millions, but cutting taxes for millionaires doesn't. how does citizens unitedme? how is this spreading across the country? >> well, the kochs bankrolled scott walker and we have people like john kasic and la page in maine. there were governors who swept across the legislature throughout the country. >> schils. >> they were schills. they're operating off a playbook cut the taxes cut regulation for industry, and cut rights of ordinary people to vote. >> john: who can forget the prank phone call to scott walker walker and they said he was koch and the hoops that scott walker would jump through. it was hilarious if it wasn't discouraging. >>> i'm wondering what is the wide array of forces that are combining now to buy elections on a local level that we may not be hearing about as much as on a state level? >> well, there's always alec. the american legislative exchange council, which is largely corporate supported organization that creates lathes laws on things like voter i.d. on things like the collective bargaining rights that get passed at the state level. scott

bargain and offering all sorts of iranian people. or to resort to the military strike that i think would be extremely dangerous for the united states to do. it is not that we could do it. but we could knock out substantial numbers of the nuclear factories and facilities. the other hand it may 'em broil the united states in another land war that is the waryness that somehow once the war starts no one really knows where it will end. there is a problem and get a nuclear weapon. and will have to face adult challenge. it will embolden them. they can become aggressive there. a great deal of thwarted and we never challenged the soviet union on. we let it go. so i think that is what the outcome will be. i don't think that this administration will use a military strike so we are going to have to. they are going to get the nuclear weapon that is my feeling. >> you argued against military strike anyway, right? into so, they get the nuclear weapon then what happens? >> then do we have military strike. >> well, it is possible. i think that what is happening right now in addition to sanctions, the united states policy to build up a deterrence in th

bargaining power and. the only way they can counter that is through union united saying and we've seen the government weaken their workers ability to do that over and over again so i mean i i just think you know the only advantage these workers have is when they work together here's what president obama had to say about them. because nobody who works full time in america should have to live in poverty i'm going to keep on making the case and fighting for the fact that we need to raise our minimum wage because right now . ok you know minimum wage mark i don't think there should be a minimum wage i think of prices some of the most vulnerable people a lot of them or you know corporate taxes there should be no i mean there's go back to the market where the market would operate eighty nine hundred interesting cause that's really one of the ways the government got heavily involved in artificial market driven factors that they put in one thousand nine hundred when they really got in there you know for a little bit pre-industrial ization but yeah the minimum wage decidable growing out of this idea that first of all

because i think you have dirtied the water with the europeans and it takes the united states off what was previously a strong bargainingand the united states is trying to get this trade deal done. there's voices other there calling slow down this horse and i think this trade deal -- i'm using president obama's words, this was a big thing for their economic program going forward. >> all right. way tonight get so much from you. real quickly, gold. ira and i have a reason there might be more upside than downside with gold. real quickly, it's about china, the yew an and gold. >> november 2ened, 2009, the imf sold 200 tons of gold to india. the chinese were not happy. that price was 1048. in yuan terms it was 7150 -- >> which is where -- >> you might want to buy gold. something happened on july 2nd, 1953, 60 years ago. it was this guy's birthday. ira, happy 60th birthday from everybody at cnbc. you're always everybody's favorite guest. >> thank you. >> carl, back to you. >> happy birthday to ira, rick. thanks very much to you both. now the bells are about to sound across europe on this day that the euro is actually slipped

united states, we don't pay a heck of a lot for water. curtis: at an average cost of about $2.50 for 1,000 gallons of tap water, it is a great bargain. garvin: but the rates that are being charged for water are insufficient to replace existing systems and to expand existing systems. narrator: because original infrastructure investments were frequently subsidized by the federal government, water pricing was often calculated without accounting for the initial cost to build the systems. we made major investments in assets in the '50s, '60s, and '70s. and for the first 40 years of that pipe, there really may not have been many maintenance requirements. we're past that period now. narrator: water pricing based only on day-to-day operation, and not on planning for maintenance and eventual upgrades has resulted in a considerable repair and replacement backlog. allbee: on a national scale, if you looked at what we're spending now, and you looked at the additional investment requirements over the next 20 years, there's a $540 billion difference. man: so one of the greatest challenges is to reflect true value pricing. so that the citizens and