my goal is to get into the carpenters union. thank you >> (clapping) >> thank you. i was going to say in full disclosure about 15 years ago i was president of the san francisco conservatism core and i'll tell you that the graduation ceremony they do for the kids that get their diploma through the charter schools or ged eventual is a recharging of the batteries that's a wonderful occasion and annie graduate you on how many years the wonderful core is doing and the men and women helping rec and park so thank you very much. ed >> thank you ann i feel and . >> commissioner harrison. >> yeah. just a short comment. i know ann and janet when i worked for a living. and very supportive of the conservatism core not only for the work they do and the work ethic and the trainings they get from doing those training for rec and park in particular but they teach the folks college diploma and assistance with bank accounts and stuff things they don't teach in school. those are extremely survival tucks so thank you ann for what you do >> thank you ann. >> well thanks for indulging us

sanchez with the carpenter's union and first of all i want to say that san francisco is growing. and we need housing. and this building has all of the provisions of the general plan which is housing, and also, this project was approved by the board of supervisors and also by the planning commission. and so those folks they know what they are approving. also, if i am not mistaken, the objectives of the eastern neighborhood plan is to maintain a nice mix of neighborhood, and commercial. and this project has given us. and i think that the developer's goal is to improve the area. and make it a more friendly, so please, deny the appeal. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> mira, aliza and i am here to support the appeal for the project. and we are primarily concerned about precedent setting high limit ex-exception and shadows and traffic and parking in the area, potrero, avenue is incredibly crowded now and with the amount of development coming it is going to get worse and for anyone to say that there is no environmental impacts on the park and traffic, restrictions th

he was about my age and had been a carpenter. not union carpenter so is retirement was not organized and lucrative, not as generous. he had worked for 30 years. there were a lot of things he could not do. he had trouble lifting things. he was doing pretty well with his income but his body was breaking down. i was in youngstown. a woman put her hand up. "i have worked all my life and now i am working two jobs. i just have to live another year and a half so i can get health care." imagine somebody thinking -- she had no insurance. her goal was to live long enough to get health care, not to see her grandchildren or to complete some hobby or work twice success, but just to get to. when we think about retirement age, we need to think in terms of personalizing. we know that the gap in life expectancy. those two people i mentioned. on the average they will live not nearly as long as those of us who dress this way and have jobs like us. we know those same people, what they represent a much less havey than seven of us to leg oft the three -- the st

he was about my age and had been a carpenter. not union carpenter so is retirement was not organized and lucrative, not as generous. he had worked for 30 years. there were a lot of things he could not do. he had trouble lifting things. he was doing pretty well with his income but his body was breaking down. i was in youngstown. a woman put her hand up. "i have worked all my life and now i am working two jobs. i just have to live another year and a half so i can get health care." imagine somebody thinking -- she had no insurance. her goal was to live long enough to get health care, not to see her grandchildren or to complete some hobby or work twice success, but just to get to. when we think about retirement age, we need to think in terms of personalizing. we know that the gap in life expectancy. those two people i mentioned. on the average they will live not nearly as long as those of us who dress this way and have jobs like us. we know those same people, what they represent a much less havey than seven of us to leg oft the three -- the st

that people i've gotten to know and was in my late 40's and early 50's he had been a carpenter since he was 18, non-union carpenters and his retirement wasn't as organized and lucrative but nonetheless, he worked for 30 years and there were a lot of things he couldn't do now. he had trouble lifting things and he worked outside he was doing pretty well with his income but his body was drinking dumps a woman put her hand up and she struck me as someone she said i've worked all my life and now i'm working two jobs and 63-years-old and then she said i have to live another year and i have so i can get health care. imagine someone thinking in their life their goal she had no insurance i don't think she had been injured much of her life. her goal was to be able to live long enough to get health care, not long enough to see a grandchild or live long enough to complete something, some hobby or workplace success or something, but just to get to. .. personalizing. we know that the gap in life expectancy. those two people i mentioned. on the average they will live not nearly as long as those of us who dress this way

e-mail me three times to make sure i said carpenters, i'm glad to do that because if there is any reflection of competence in the city whether it's electrical unionthat is doing something on van ness with their money or carpenters laying dower their invaluable protection, you have to know they have a high level of confidence for this city. that's the level of confidence that we've always wanted to build in this city and that's why i'm working hard with the supervisors to build investor confidence in this city, not just for this project but for the quality of life in this city. we have to have that level of confidence, that level of confidence for contractors to be here for them putting their money in the resources, the hiring goals and training for all the future and present construction workers, men and women and people from all different backgrounds investing in their time that they want to build and be a positive force here. this particular project has so much meaning, mr. gallup to all of us. it's not just a reflection of a great family which i'm very glad to be introduced to but all of these partnerships that we are putting great confidence

union disturbance in the united states, is it? >> the guilds would be more traditional vocations. or alder or a joiner carpenters where the guild structure come in. comes in andon 2010, union organizers try to organize it. we have almost an american brave new world because these are new jobs. massive distribution centers, nine of them across europe. there are 9000 employees by amazon which are full-time. there are 14,000 temporaries and none of this existed five years ago. the ancient yelled structure which dates to the middle ages does not translate to the tech economy. that is the challenge with amazon but also with google. how do europeans deal with this tech onslaught? they don't know quite what to make of it. does this mean that amazon will replace live humans with drones? i think that's a fairly futurist notion. you have seen this happen like withuber and private cars which is causing trouble. but thisis still out is effectively going to be a huge problem for them going forward. amazon is starting to shift the workforce out of that particular region and into other areas. it will be incredible challenging

carpenter. since governors have been elected they raise my taxes by five percent. when the republican sign the alleged not to raise taxes, he raised my taxes. our unionupported him, which is the first republican we have supported since i got into the trades. running on an agenda that he was supposed to be a uniter not a divider. we had protests in our state capital, the agenda for voting rights, it seems as if governor walker and the governor of ohio and i don't want to pick on gop's because i am independent, but it seems as if they all had a hidden agenda and they promised the world before they got there and once they get there they're acting totally different. aup, thenting across whole u p has a for sale sign up there. i was politicians would not talk out of both sides of their mouth. theo you attach a lot of current economic condition to your current governor? >> no. michigan was a big free state. automotive manufacturing -- michigan was a big three state. slammed byanholm got opposite party for jobs. economic conditions created the situation and then the lowering of taxes and the lowering of so there's not as much money for the government. it is