jeff cohen jeff great to see you again thank you so much for joining us and happy new year in new york are you. coming up union membership maybe at a decades long low but over the past year we saw the emergence of a powerful fast food workers movement and a new awareness about why it's important to fight for better wages so will twenty fourteen be the year the labor movement finally gets back on track i asked james hoffa right after the break. technology innovation. developments around russia. live. live live. live. talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. in screw news organized labor has been on the decline in recent years things in large part to conservative back union busting campaigns to go all the way back to or through the republican congresses passage of taft hartley over harry truman's tud unsuccessful veto attempts in one thousand nine hundred seven through ronald reagan declaring open war on unions in one nine hundred eighty one today conservative groups like alec are throwing billions of dollars at anti-union movements across the u.s. and it helped

jeff cohen jeff great to see you again thank you so much for joining us and happy new year after new york. coming up the union membership may be at eight decades long low but over the past year we saw the emergence of a powerful fast food workers movement and a new awareness about why it's important to fight for better wages so will twenty fourteen be the year the labor movement finally gets back on track i'll ask james hoffa right after the break. i know c.n.n. and fox news have taken some nuts lately but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny it's close to fifty three i think. it's because when full attention and the mainstream media works side by. side of the joke is actually on here. and our teen years we have a different approach. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing damnit i'm not how. you guys talk to the jokes well handled in the us ok. i think just looking. over the place to go did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in th

and jeff cohen puts it, the range of debate in american politics extends from ge to gm, we have a system, the republican toes the right and the democrats are behind them. and there's permanent stagnation no unions, declining incomes, collapsed infrastructure. there's a huge number of people who want to participate, who are really looking for solutions, and that's the great tension that drives our politics. that means to some extents they might have some affect on these candidates but the system is rigged, but also means that the people who benefit by this political system know they're in the minority, and that's something we should keep in mine. the strong purr to make it possible for the top one-tenth of our population to spend unlimited amount on campaigns and effect the vote, the expression is, they can't win a fair fight. all the polling shows -- young people are alienated from that view of the world. they want real solutions. they're not in the traditional cold war think that my generation was raised in, and there's a real opening there, and that has people very scared. that's why t

and jeff cohen put it, the range of debate in american politics extends from ge to gm. we have a political system over here. republican party way to the right, but the democrats followed in their wake. they're right behind them. they're way over here with the ge-gm range of economic range. permanent stagnation, to union, declining income. there's a -- [inaudible] a growing number who are also alienated from that. who want to participate and looking for solutions. that's the great pension that drives our politics fop -- to some extent -- the system is rigged. also means that the people who benefit by this political system know they're in the minority. i think that's something we should keep in mind. the strong thing to make it possible in the top one-tenth spent unlimited amount on the campaign. and to suppress the vote, on the other hand is a passive recognition. they can't win a fair fight. we have the numbers on our side. all the numbers show, especially young people, they are alienated from that view of the world. they want real solutions, they are no the traditional

and jeff cohen puts it, the range of debate in american politics extends from ge to gm, we have a system, the republican toes the right and the democrats are behind them. and there's permanent stagnation no unions, declining incomes,