the guy sitting right here was the cio of kimberly-clark, an old friend of mine. so i asked him how many servers per employee he had, and he said we had 0.4 and headed for 0.2, proudly. ok, who do you think is sitting at 30 to one? facebook. would you think is sitting at 50 to one? for your technical people in the room, do you think they are operating inefficiently? no, i do not think so. furthermore, do you think that they are using all those servers to serve up web pages? no. right? these are truly information- power businesses. at the end of the day, my opinion -- lots of people may share this -- is all companies and that being information companies. all companies and of being software companies. i just did he know speech for a large german car company that you may know, that is clearly when you start realizing what they are trying to do, right -- it is really can we use all this cloud technology to takeoff structures down and across this down so now, i can change and 8% spent on a bunch of stuff that other people can go due to 80% i get to build applications,

turkoman executive vice president of the afl-cio. not only has she been a leader for workers' rights but she's been on the front line for immigrant rights, lt bet rights, health care, fair trade, voter education and paid equity. we the feminist majority foundation believes feminists must stand up for workers' rights and we must promote the understanding that the fight for workers is a fight for women. thank you. [applause] thank you. i would like to introduce someone who is making a difference for women at the department of labor. shiastan and the interest of women and disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups as an attorney and a public servant. she's promoted our economic advancement by advocating for increased access to education and employment opportunities. under president bill clinton, she was named the 14th director of the women's bureau, the only federal agency mandated by congress to represent america's wage earning women in the process. she served as director of the women's rights department of the american federation in the s

-cio and our organization which is part of the a.f.l.-cio has been working with the business community trying to pass a strong bill look everyone wants a good transportation system in this country it's the extreme forces in the so you've got the so you've got the tea party faction the tea promptly hold the musical hostage ok and they're largely the creation of the koch brothers and dick armey you know the billionaires and the multimillionaire pastry lobbyist what agenda could they possibly have to to i just don't get it and we don't get it either because the agenda really is about they don't want to spend any money you know people ask me this question all the time is it too much money you know it's just money they don't want to spend money on the needs of our country think about it this way it's one thing to have a debate in washington about some pork barrel item tucked into a bill late at night it's another thing to talk about investment that sometimes these investments last fifty sixty seventy five years old we should invest in the cou

and and cio for the university of north carolina. >> good afternoon. i think i can speak on behalf of my cio colleagues across the country in higher education. we do take this very seriously. but at any rate, as i was talking with my panel colleagues as we were planning about how to approach this we thought it would be great to sort of, you know, work our way down, if you will, a hierarchy which leads me batting clean-up. so you've heard lots of things about the problem, lots of things about the challenges. so at colleges and universities, ultimately all this stuff comes down to somebody like me who has to figure out, okay, what do we do about it, what can we do about it? the good news, i think, as we -- for unc, chapel hill, we've come up with what we think is a multi-facetted approach to the thing. and while we certainly have technology at the base, our fundamental idea is not really a technological idea. i mean, what we're trying to do is, as we've heard, i think, from everyone here, is -- our goal is to change people's behavior. it's a terrible ana

msnbc commentator ed schultz receiving 2,000 $ from the afl-cio. gave the money including paid speeches to the american cancer society. however, web site politico says schultz donated only 100,000 to the cancer charity. joining us from miami the purveyor of bernard goldberg got come. i remember when i was first hired by cbs news i think you were already there for 75 years when i came. >> hey, hey, hey. >> bill: they gave me the cbs pinheads a big packet of information that said i couldn't take money from anyone i reported on. obviously mr. schultz very prounion person, a lot of union have standards changed? >> when you were and i were at cbs news. if we ever took 2,000 $ from the afl-cio from some corporation and did stories, presumably favorable stories about them. they would throw us out so quickly bill they wouldn't know what hit us. those standards haven't changed. what's changed is the media landscape. ed schultz and a lot of others on cable tv aren't journalists. we were journalists. they are not journalists. this is where it gets tricky. but

part of a 400,000 union member force that will spare no expense to counter what afl-cio boss called " pac attacks." and the president obama enjoys more pac support than any of the republican challengers. combined. but it is predicted that unions will put all of the pac's to shame. they do not call themselves pac's. >>guest: well, afl-cio, really, has organized the big protests against the citizens united, and demonized super pac's but they are embracing the have pacs and endorsing a president who embraces them. >>neil: and they are saying have at it, roundly criticized by the president and by unions but they are upping that. >>guest: and they are organizing together to get obama re-elected because he has helped them and given them special treatment since being this power. they were the number one beneficiary of obamacare waivers and, now, the unions are working together to get him elected because they know if a republican is in office they will not get the treatment. >>neil: do you think just the publicity of this gets a lot of americans, whether union or not? they sense that you are

-cio and currently chief of staff to the president the utility workers union of america he's also the author of two brilliant books including his latest plane bigger than you are a life in organizing story welcome tom it's great to be with you thank you for having me on tonight thank you how does this republican budget you know i laid out of a few of the details but you know what's the psychology behind this is solved and working people it's hard for me to figure out i mean it's it's pretty clear that the republicans big is a future of amps and have nots with no middle class and they're working very hard to destroy the middle class i mean one of the things that paul ryan's budget would do would destroy retirement for middle class americans my father who has alzheimer's is in a assisted living home in west tennessee where i'm from as you know. and if paul ryan's budget were to go into effect he'd be thrown out in the street and and with all signers and. i would have to try to find a way to take care of me while i work full time actually there's always this whole time this is a modern v

the afl-cio executive committee at its annual meeting orul reso support of birth control for women and we were thrilled. but when i was a sentence in their statement about birth control where the executive committee of the afl-cio said w around the country and these ttacks on working families a disproportionate impact on women and we are not to stand for it. that's coming from the labor anh them and 're going to win because we are all going to work together. the one thing i want you all to do as you go back home and work to organize your communities, organize your friends, get them engaged in voter education and mobilization is this. talk to the candidates. make sure the candidates know how to talk about these issues that so disproportionately impact women. if the candidates are talking about women, honestly if you scratch the surface of almost every issue facing us today, scratch the surface just a little bit what you'll find is a disproportionate impact on women. get the candidates to talk about how this impacts women and you will find that women say to themselves, ooh so that person

the afl-cio in their executive meeting in orlando came out with a resolution fighting for women.ng the resolution, "as a strong supporter of health care reform, the afl-cio believes all women should have universal access to quality health care at a reasonable cost that is not determined by political agendas." that's big help. >> that is a huge help. and, you know, and that statement also says that the attacks on workers' rights are having a disproportionate impact on women. the afl-cio recognizes it, and it's absolutely true, which is why we are really thrilled to be working with the unions in this extremely important year. >> terry o'neill, president of n.o.w., thank you for your time. >> thank you, reverend. >>> ahead, pumping the truth. president obama took on the republicans promising low gas prices. and it was pretty funny. [ male announcer ] let's level the playing field. take the privileged investing tools of wall street and make them simple, intuitive, and available to all. distill all that data. make information instinctual, visual. introducing trade architect, td amerit

msnbc commentator ed schultz receiving 2,000 $ from the afl-cio.e money including paid speeches to the american cancer society. however, web site politico says schultz donated only 100,000 to the cancer charity. joining us from miami the purveyor of bernard goldberg got come. i remember when i was first hired by cbs news i think you were already there for 75 years when i came. >> hey, hey, hey. >> bill: they gave me the cbs pinheads a big packet of information that said i couldn't take money from anyone i reported on. obviously mr. schultz very prounion person, a lot of union have standards changed? >> when you were and i were at cbs news. if we ever took 2,000 $ from the afl-cio from some corporation and did stories, presumably favorable stories about them. they would throw us out so quickly bill they wouldn't know what hit us. those standards haven't changed. what's changed is the media landscape. ed schultz and a lot of others on cable tv aren't journalists. we were journalists. they are not journalists. this is where it gets tricky. but they do

. >> sean: coming up, the trayvon tragedy is bringing out the worst from congress to the afl/cio and much more. too many are stoking the flames on an already tenuous situation, could the rhetoric used by so-called leaders -- could it be reckless and irresponsible to the point where there are consequences? consequences? next. i should be arrested for imes against potted ant-kind. [ clang ] my house is where plants came to die. ♪ but, it turns out all i was missing was miracle-gro potting mix. it's got what a plant needs. even plant food that feeds them for up to 6 months. you get bigger, more beautiful plants. guaranteed. who's got two green thumbs thanks to miracle-gro? uh, this g. boo everyone rows with micle-gro. >> sean: during times of national tension, like with the trayvon martin shooting, it is imperative that we rein in the impulse to rush to judgment. but that is not happening. people like reverend al sharpton are asking for an eivealation in civil disobedience, saying i will speak about how the national action network will move to the next level, if zimmerman is not arreste

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to me and gives me this here she eve you don't hear noise your room where your heart lay i will be a cio. to studies a special school for children with disabilities where poet got i'm going to calmly call this paying a visit teenagers with learning difficulties have drawn illustrations for his book today government is reading new poems to the students. many thoughts are on my mind to at least to be precise. you. do yes. this is where my poems are truly loved and understood which i do not know how it happened it was just i think that deep in my heart i am just like them but maybe i am just pretending. and i arrived at the theater of the ingenuous together with their mothers parents trying not to let their children with down syndrome will. not act as yet but both teenagers are dreaming of a career in the theater today they will and the director will make his choice. i want to act at the theater. i want to be the world show it. i love. and i want to. hello hello. hello. i. know i was not forced to get acquainted come on. oh i love you. could you read something please maybe just a short poem

this guy has only a 12% voting record from the afl-cio and big labor basically defeat him in 2006. mitt romney doesn't have much of a voting record on labor issues but his attempts to win over the working americans seems dog-gone flat. this was romney today during a factory tour in toledo, ohio. >> would you like to start it up? >> no, go ahead. >> right there. >> guys, we are about to start it, you need to be back. >> two feet, three feet. >> keep going. i got to press a button which will be my heavy lift in terms of manufacturing. >> that will be his the heavy lift in manufacturing. that is right, romney is doing some heavy lifting in manufacturing. it's almost as authentic as the time he pumped his gas in his campaign bus. there is a dandy picture or the time he did his laundry in his hotel room. well, labor is going to play a major role in the presidential election. super tuesday is what it's all about. these contests are a big test for republican candidates. but the question is, can they relate to the working class folk of america? can they get that segment of the population t

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civil rights groups, national action network, afl-cio and unions.mmy nominated singer and actor who has been in movies like "transformers," one of my own favorites "baby boy." and he's out here in alabama for another reason. like harry belafonte and other entertainers who marched for civil rights, tyrese is also lending his time to the struggle here. thank you both for being here tonight. why has labor groups joined in this fight against immigration and voter i.d. laws this weekend put so much into this effort? >> reverend sharpton, the truth is that we're all connected. and when we look at what's happening across this country, workers, immigrants and those who believe we should have a right to vote. we have a common enemy. workers in this country have been under attack, particularly in the last year. they've tried to take away their right to have a voice in the workplace. to strip them of collective bargaining. the same people who are pushing the anti-worker legislation and trying to prevent workers from having a voice in the workplace are the very

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cleveland ohio you have freeport roll head out of phoenix arizona microsoft panasonic fatality you have no cio motorola being questioned about a culture. that's used and their cell phones can go anywhere from sixty four to eighty percent of the world's reserves of coal plant three letter conducted and it's found in almost every cell phone in the world and in almost every electronic device so these are some of the corporations that have been involved in benefiting from the cargo while on the other hand we have countless people dying to the tune of fifteen hundred a day forty five thousand a month five point four million in the last ten years hundreds of thousands. women rape. what really discourages you is to see a patient you treated in two thousand come back five years later with a rape or and even worse than the one she had before oh and this is terribly discouraging it's like you know what gives us courage is the capacity of these women to fight. if one person is brutalized in front of if war but it's time that ends everyone in that area i'm going to take their baggage and leave the communi

opposing ed lee for mayor 2011 sponsored by american federation of state, county, municipal employees, afl-cio and afscme. >> i can see why you referred to double your salary. clearly voice-over is part of your experience. >> and i thank you very much. >> ok, shaking is taking place. >> there's seiu but not --. >> close enough to find the box. >> we'll be selecting three from this group. >> we have ed lee for mayor 2011. >> two more. >> myomoto for sheriff, 2011. let's get a good one. and adachi for mayor, 2011. >> thank you very much. we appreciate your service. >> as a city officer, i am happy to serve. >> thank you. the next item on the agenda is presentation of the public finance report. as noted here, after each election cycle involving publicly financed races, the staff assists us in reporting on execution of the program and answers many of the questions that we have about patterns and trends that may be taking place and provides some very helpful information. i want to thank ms. shaikh and the staff at all levels for bringing us another helpful and comprehensive report on the limited pu

. >> reporter: the deputy chief of staff at the afl-cio. >> go to any private school in washington d.c., you know, take the level of drug use, you know at private high schools. look at bernie madoff. i'm just trying to get my head around this idea of morality being the purview of the wealthy, the elite and the intellectually accomplished. >> reporter: besides, says lee.... >> if you look at the big economic picture in the united states, it's one of a weak labor market, wage stagnation, and growing inequality. the u.s. economy is in a dead end right now because there's been too much focus on cutting costs, cutting labor costs, laying people off, making due with less. in the end what you see is an economy that's shrinking, that's failing, that's not providing a middle class lifestyle. >> reporter: you really think it has nothing to do with all the jobs that have been shipped overseas and more importantly perhaps the technology that has made so many jobs obsolete? >> i don't see the relationship between the changing nature of the distribution of working class jobs and the increased dropou

from the chamber of commerce to the afl-cio to everyone's transportation leaders back home , let's pass this let's pass this bill and send it to the president's desk before it expires. our building trades are yearning for this, are yearning to go back to work. i call on my colleagues to reject another short-term extension, pass h.r. 13, to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman has expire. mr. mica: i yield two mines -- minutes to mr. shuster. mr. shuster: are we going to spend less? yes. but i believe by streamlining we'll create more jobs. >> what are you waiting for? bring it up then. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida. the gentleman from west virginia. mr. rahall: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from new york, a valued member of our committee and the upon sor of h.r. 14, the every other body's nonpartisan, bipartisan transportation bill, which is twice as good as h r. 7. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. >> i thank the gentleman for yielding. our republican collea

the cio of equities at black rock, runs $255 billion and a big, big fan of dividend stocks. he's going to tell you why and which ones he likes best. brian. >> like the old college dining hall. it's taco thursday. well, specifically locos tacos. it's a new taco bell treat served in a doritos chip. the ceo will spill the bean on his new partnership with pepsi's frito-lay division. >> i'm sue herera with tyler mathisen and brian shactman as well. "power lunch" begins right now. >> of course we'll know details from the greek bond swap deal overnight. then the big jobs number comes out. for today stocks higher for a second day in a row on optimism for both. as scott wapner said, we are near session highs. we gathered steam in the last hour up 75 in the dow, almost 1% in the s&p. the nasdaq up over 1%. the pulse of the markets, i want to check out the s&p sector heat map. everything in positive territory. it's a bit of a mixed market. not totally risk-on because health care up 1.25%. materials and industrials up as well. midday movers, i want to focus on a few retailers. coach hit