> hopefully when i -- if i do get released today, take my ged, go to the interview with the iron workers unionn workers union, save up my money and do what i have to do to do what every other person does. works every day, start a family. >> is that a possibility? >> yes, it is. >> mr. elkins, i've read your report. the recommendation is he be given credit for time he served and that he be released today. are you agreement with the recommendation here made by the probation officer? >> judge, it really bothers me that this young man is sitting here today. he's had numerous services offered to him by this court. he's 18. he has no education. he has an adult record in another state. he has a serious juvenile record. and unless he gets his life together very quickly i know after being a prosecutor for 25 years that he's headed for a very bleak future, and it just bothers me to see somebody at 18 walking out of this court that's provided him so many opportunities to change, and he hasn't av@yled himself to the opportunities. but because there are no further services that the juvenile court can provi

union organizer. i was an iron worker for over 30 years. i am definitely with the labor movement about bringing jobs and opportunity, especially to those who have lacked access and the opportunity to be in a lot of these trades. the opportunity of this particular project is for multi years. not only will the construction trade benefits. i am in great sympathy with that nurses to have issues. one of the things i have always been able to say, if nothing else, the union has had a talk about the issues. i would hate to see buildings not being able to go up. it would be public and community benefits that would be able to benefit from this, especially the low-income housing, which is greatly needed. there are too many things and too many opportunities for us not to be able to recognize that this is a win-win situation for everybody. i applaud the opportunity to be able to stand here before you and plead the case that a hospital of this magnitude and in this many different districts, representing this many different job opportunities. thank you. >

worker, what i would do is join a union. he takes bobby kennedy who was assassinated, supporting the progress i movement of 1968 and even abraham lincoln is there who is ironicallyganize and form unions. why should the facts matter, ed? more importantly, this is the beginning of the 99% spring training. the baseball spring frtraining over and this spring training is progressives across the country, 100,000 of us, started today training each other on the economic issues of our time and our own narrative about how we talk about the economic issues of our time. this is 100,000 working people and how we will take collective action together. >> as far as darrell issa is concerned and what the republicans, the union busters out there are doing, is they're trying to present the picture that union management is shaking down workers in the workplace to create this political fund that could go out and spend it any way they want. i need you to respond to that. >> yeah, well first of all, we totally oppose citizens united and that supreme court decision. we need to get the money out of politics. we need to restore the democracy to where every vote counts, not every billiona

isn't it ironic that we were born in madison, wisconsin and workers got together to talk about the importance of joining a union and having their voices heard? in 2012, we are battling a governor named scott walker betook collective bargaining away from us. -- who took collective bargaining away from us. we have a hard history of working a partners over this country whether it is the students or retirees. we believe we built a mainstream movement to deal with the challenges and issues that confront 95 americans right now. in mid is an linzie #1968, we recognize -- in memphis, tenn. in in 1968, we recognize this. there are fighting for dignity and respect and the right to be heard. were it ironic that we fighting that fight in the mid- 1930's? we're fighting it in 1968 when martin luther king gave his life to support city workers. we are still fighting that battle. we have come a long way. we have a long way to go. we've got folks that are trying to take our freedoms, democracies, and right away from us. we have to join together like never before. we have to close ranks like never before. we have got to make our

isn't it ironic that we were born in madison, wisconsin and workers got together to talk about the importance of joining a union and having their voices heard? in 2012, we are battling a governor named scott walker betook collective bargaining away from us. -- who took collective bargaining away from us. we have a hard history of working a partners over this country whether it is the students or retirees. we believe we built a mainstream movement to deal with the challenges and issues that confront 95 americans right now. in mid is an linzie #1968, we recognize -- in memphis, tenn. in in 1968, we recognize this. there are fighting for dignity and respect and the right to be heard. isn't it ironic that we were fighting that fight in the mid- 1930's? we're fighting it in 1968 when martin luther king gave his life to support city workers. we are still fighting that battle. we have come a long way. we have a long way to go. we've got folks that are trying to take our freedoms, democracies, and right away from us. we have to join together like never before. we have to close ranks like never before. we have got to ma

isn't it ironic that we were born in madison, wisconsin, and where members, state workers got together to talk about the importance of joining a unionhaving their voices heard, having the right to collective bargaining. yet in 2012 in the state of wisconsin we're battling a governor named scott walker who took collective bargaining away from us. and i'm sure we're going to be talking about that more as this program continues. we also have a proud history in working in coalition with our partners all over this country whether it's the students or whether it's retirees, the civil rights community, the faith-based community. we must, again, we believe, rebuild a main street movement to deal with the challenges, to deal with the issues that confront the 99% of americans who are suffering right now. and we are committed to doing so. many of you know that in memphis, tennessee, in 1968 -- and we just recognized the deaths of dr. king last week on april 4th -- dr. king was in memphis supporting 1300 sanitation workers who were afsme members. they were fighting for dignity and respect and the right to be heard, the right to have their voice