louis to the hotel workers union. you know, claire and supervisor ferrel said much of what i was going to say. our union was a sponsor of sp 46 and introduced by senator leno. i want to express our appreciation on this extraordinarily great issue. i also want to highlight the exceptionally great work of the deputy director gabby has led in her efforts at communicating your position and advocating the cause of transparency around sb 746. she did a really remarkable job and in conversations with senator leno, other legislators as well as the executive bunch. it really has changed the character of the debate. in sacramento, i don't think many appreciate what we are facing right now. i think there is a real determination not just to move a redo of sb 746 but perhaps take it much bigger and i hope that will play out in the future. thanks to all of you and thanks to the deputy director. >> thank you. commissioner fraser? >> i want to commend everyone for the work on transparency but also want to remind us all that that is no

some production means union jobs for hotel and restaurants workers while shoots are in town. we have day players and not the budget folks coming out of little bay area. i want to read a statement due to an auction i'm unable to come to the meeting such is the life of over 4 thousand members. we live from job to job so secure health coverages. each project that comes to the town is our lifeblood. please expand the rebate program. web series are the wave of the future and let's not lag behind. we have to make sure we're not priced out of the market. we need this for the better time of the community as a whole. katherine howe local president of sagging, air force traffic >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm janet. i'm on the sag conservative. i'm a sag actor. i see your competition is louisiana. a sag actor wants my vote now so i've been seeing a lot of movies their filmed in louisiana louisiana don't have a cap so why do we. that's one question. the other one is i work bet a the other day it's going to be filming mainly in la they're up here for a total of a week. i w

union. senator workers have gone on strike in factories and office buildings and laundries and hotels and fields. some unions in this country are growing. generally speaking, they are the unions that understand that their rig workers are willing to fight to make things better. in fact and i would say the battles are fought by immigrant workers right now in the last 20 years, among the most important things that are making a strong today should make a commitment. we had a little revolution in our labour movement the afl-cio gully taster labor movement position on immigration and we got the afl-cio to make a commitment this of that there would be rid of the law and mexico for somebody to works that our papers. we would also fight to protect the workers right to organize and fight for a decent legalization problem. we should live up to the promise. we should refuse to support any immigration reform that means that thousands of people, in fact millions of people possibly are going to be fired because they don't have papers. that is what mandatory e-verify means in the bill that keeps in place f, and

example, i mentioned that they controlled the four largest labor unions in the u.s., teamsters, laborers, long shoremen, and the hotel workers. under the civil provisions, when those gangsters were convicted, civil suits were filed by the department of justice, removing them from ever being allowed to be a member of a labor organization again, so they couldn't, on paper, have no-show jobs, or in reality become union stewards or other union organizers used as front to maintain the control of the gangsters, so the civil part was enormous when iced throughout this period, 80s, 90s, and since to remove them permanently from ever participating in the labor organization. they couldn't go back to what they knew best, labor racketeering. >> anyone want to talk ransom issue and then the last issue? >> i'm concerned with criminalizing the thing just to pay ransom because you may find a lot of people, a lot of families, desperate, trying to just bring a loved one, and, you know, i -- i have problems with that. i think it just -- we will be criminalizing the wrong individuals. >> thank you very much. i want to thank the panel for just a

unions in the u.s. teamsters, laborers, longshoremen and hotel workers.under the symbol visions, when those gangsters were convicted, civil suits were filed by the department of justice, removing them from ever being allowed to be a member of a labor organization again. so they can have a show jobs are in reality become union stewards or for some of these other union organizers that they used to maintain the control of the gangsters. so the civil part of rico was enormous when it was used throughout this. here's the 80s, 90s and sends, to remove them permanently from ever participating in the labor organization. they couldn't go back to to what they knew best, labor racketeering. >> i'm a little bit with criminalizing the ransom because they may find a lot of people are families trying to just recuperate the loved ones. i have problems with that. i think we would be criminalizing the wrong individuals. >> thank you very much. i like to think this panel. [applause] >> thank you, john ford is always a wonderful, wonderful panel. want to take this opportunit

i mentioned that la cosa nostra controlled the four largest labor unions in the u.s., teamsters, laborers, longshoreman and hotel workers. when those gangsters were convicted, civil suits were filed by the department of justice, removing them from ever being allowed to be a member of a labor organization again, so they couldn't on paper have no-show jobs, or in reality become union stewards or some of become union stewards or some of these other union organizers that they used as fronts to maintain the control of the gangsters. so the civil part was enormous when it was used throughout this period, the '80s, '90s, and since, to remove them permanently from ever participating in a labor organization. they couldn't go back to what they knew best, labor racketeering. >> anybody want to talk about the ransom issue? it's the last issue. >> i'm a little bit concerned with criminalizing the individuals who pay ransom, because you may find a lot of people desperate, a lot of families desperate, trying to just recuperate the loved ones. and, you know, i have problems with that. i think it's just we will be criminalizing the wron

almost all of them are part of labor unions to start seeing themselves as working-xlasz people, to start seeing themselves having things in common with hotel workersf set of rules you could start imposing or ordering or requiring for from top. it really has to be something that people get instinctively internally. that's i think a big mistake in police practices is that there's so much time spent on stuff that's a facade, basically. it has to come from inside. >> i so appreciate that insight, the idea of seeing yourself as working class, just like the folks that you are policing. thank you for being in washington. i hope you will come and join us at the table. some of the things you said, i know you can't see the folks at the table but there was some cheerleading here at the table. alan jenkins, maya wiley, raul reyes, thanks for being here and valerie core who got a standing ovation this week when she addressed the white house on questions of fairness and equality. i'm sure you can see why. when we come back, our foot soldier of the week is next. she's done something quite interesting. she's found folks labeled as drug dealers are actually, you k