the struggles of labor. whether colleges, high schools, elementary schools, and communities, we have to find ways of doing it and i think unions have to take the bull by the horn to do this. >> we have time for one more quick question and one more quick answer. we have a few minutes left. this gentleman. >> two things. i think it is a mistake with -- i was with transit union workers for 25 years. i think the impression that wisconsin is an electoral battle, we didn't get into how incredible it was and politicians and labor leaders are still trying to catch up to the rank-and-file who took over ohio and wisconsin state-building for a month and a half or whatever. that needs to be examined more closely, whether that was -- speier question please? >> the other part of that about the democratic party, we need to teach our workers how to not go from demagogue to demagogue. the outspoken question of wisconsin is where the same people who put those republicans in office and the year before, get a year later we are

members of organized labor. his songs endure but many of them were as they see topical and written in the heat of the moment in the crucible so they don't stand up in many ways today. but i think an important part of his legacy, nonetheless, is he was writing songs out there on the line and that is something we could use more today in organized labor. someone to talk a little bit about wisconsin since it is in the title of the panel. i don't claim to be an expert on contemporary labour, but i was thinking about what joe hill might make it coming in for one thing, he did a sent to the celestial realm of the kind of handy on the of fault heroes and he is up there with john henry and paul bunyan and probably gave the blocks to the problem is people don't take their full kilos seriously. i know i really didn't. i didn't know much about joe hill other than the folks on -- folk song. the context that he lived his life and died in this radical militant time has somehow been sanitized and has been appropriated by many o

with that, there is a potential for labor disruption. also, the union and non-union shops working side by side. deliveries of materials that have the potential for disruptions. the pla says all of those work stoppages aside, which is important to us as we try to maintain our overall schedule and we have significant costs that we realize that we are subject to delays. also, we are going to have 50 or 60 trade subcontracts on this contract and about 250 total subcontractors working over 4.5 million hours of labor on this job, so there is just a lot of activity -- two or sometimes three shifts of work. what we call stacking of trades. multiple contractors working in the same area at the same time, and all of that increases the potential for disputes between trades. some of the benefits of the pla -- as we mentioned, it reduces the risk of those types of work disruptions and stoppages. the opportunity for cost disruptions overruns that. establishes the rules for holidays, work rules, setting aside some of the unions have specific black frida

try to curb the social on grass labor unions in the u.k. are rising up and what is arguably the largest strike in decades and millions come out all in a battle over public sector pensions so is it time for american protestors to take a page out of the u.k. of diets and social uprisings we'll compare. it's wednesday november thirtieth in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our. well over the past two months we've seen shocking video of police brutality directed at peaceful protesters from firing pepper sprayed of beating protesters with the times to launch and rubber bullets we're seeing image after image of police violently cracking down on demonstrators and then there is the overwhelming police presence warmth of officers decked out in riot gear have surrounded occupy wall street sites and beyond the local police homeland security has gotten involved in many cases i mean these images questions arise over the role of police officers today are we seeing a military as a nation of the police force are the correspondent on a stuffy

since 1999 book, "labor's great war," one of the award for the best book in u.s. labor history. he has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from national fellowships from national endowment for the humanities,. >> and philosophical society, the woodrow wilson international center for scholars, and the charles warren center at harvard university. is as his have been published in both scholarly and popular press as "the new republic," "the new york times," and journal of american history, among others. his current research scores the impact of organizations on politics government and private-sector labor relations. this is the interest led him to write the book easy to speak about this evening, "collision course: ronald regan, the air traffic controllers, and the strike that changed america." please help me welcome doctor joseph mccartin. [applause] >> thank you very much, tracy. appreciate that introduction. and thank you for your excellent work, preserving the history of workers and the labor movement in the southern labor archives at georgia state university. without th

we had it it was organized labor put into child labor this it was organized labor that created eight hour work day and overtime it was organized labor was unions it created workman's comp it was union and by the way these union members fought and died going right back to the middle of the of the nineteenth century i mean literally the nineteenth century not actually even into the late eighteenth century abraham lincoln was the first president to actually use the word strike prior to lincoln's presidency it was always in quotes in newspapers they use the word strike lincoln president lincoln said labor is superior to capital because it pretty seeds capital in other words you have no wealth until somebody makes something. organized labor brought us a minimum wage organized labor said you know people shouldn't have to die in the workplace we should have laws that will that will guarantee workplace safety and in fact that. fascist government governor excuse me in in wisconsin who wants who wants to bust the unions wants to do it in part over the issue of workplace safety i mean that's on

to regulate the movement of labor. but not if it's just allowed for the corporations to take control of it because how are we going to ensure that the people that do come in are paid and treated well. during the program, there was the wages of the domestic farm workers were basically frozen. so are we going to see that same effect on the domestic farm workers that are already here in the u.s. so there can be adverse effects for legal workers here in the u.s. but for mexico it would be a very good way of regulating it and also providing labor for farmers especially in areas like california where you basically have large agribusiness industries there. and it's a good way to bring labor. but i think there's better ways. increase the number of legal entry. that is one way of handling it. for the united states also to become involved in the mexican economy in terms of for giving loans, loan payments. ensuring that in areas where -- in the -- where we consider policies, a lot of us have found a lot of undocumented people are

a threshold here is to have one hour of apprenticeships labor for every five hours of german labor on the project. the apprentices will be graduates of state certified apprenticeship programs that are administered by the trade unions. we plan to come back, as maria mentioned, to the board, to provide quarterly reporting on the apprenticeships and pre- apprenticeship programs and the efforts we have been engaged in and to monitor and report on progress of the contractors, unions, on referring and enlisting apprentices on the project. that concludes my presentation on the pla. we recommended to the board for adoption. happy to answer questions you might have. director ortiz: i am sorry i was done here the lost time, but you discussed it in october. i have a couple of questions. director reiskin mentioned something. reporting done about the jobs created? >> that is correct. if you look at the last resolution results clauses and the resolution, we will be doing it. director ortiz: as a partner of this, contributor of funds, ac transit representative, i would like to see the breakdown geog

been completed by local labor. if there are any questions -- director kim: comments or questions? director reiskin? director reiskin: thank you. ghraib report. it looks a tremendous progress that you all are making. -- great report. while it is clear the progress is significant, just looking at the graphics of the status of the wall, but dress, it looks like you might be running ahead of schedule. it would be helpful in these presentations to get a better sense of not just how much progress we are making, but where we are relative to the baseline original, and baseline cost. just glancing at the summary, it looks like you are going to beat the shoring wall and buttress. >> that is based on the original baseline schedule. more than one month ahead in completing that area. unfortunately, that is not worth the critical path runs through the project. that is through the buttress that at this point. a thing that we can do to expedite that. but it is getting close to right where we expected it to be. there had been some

and private sector labor relations. this is the interests that led him to write the book he is here to speak about this evening, "collision course: ronald reagan, the air traffic controllers and the strike that changed america." please help me welcome dr. joseph a. mccartin. [applause] >> thank you very much, traci. appreciate that introduction, and thank you very much for your work, preserving the labor movement in the southern labor archives at georgia state university. um, without that repository, i couldn't have written this book, and we would know much less, i think, about one of the most important events in recent american labor history. thanks, too, to my hosts here at the carter center, especially tony clark and director jay hakes. i did an important segment of my research here at the carter library and worked at other presidential libraries, the kennedy library and, of course, the library of ronald reagan. for those of you who don't though them, these presidential libraries are really a treasure-trove of americ

try to curb the social unrest labor unions in the u.k. are rising up and what is arguably the largest strike in decades millions come out all in a battle over public sector pensions so listen it's time for american protestors take a page out of the u.k.'s guide to social uprise well compare. the reasons for holding the elections useful to be able to return home to corruption and crime. as the arab spring moves into arab winter so does a better reality the egyptian elections might not have been a free and fair as everyone was hoping for artsy is on the ground with the latest in egypt. it's wednesday november thirtieth five pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our t.v. . well over the past couple of months we've seen shocking video of police brutality directed at peaceful protesters from firing pepper spray into beating protesters with but times the loss and rubber bullets we're seeing image after image of police of my. me cracking down on demonstrators and then there is the overwhelming police presence warms of officers d

-- 10 labor unions and 15 community organizations. label -- labor council and jobs with justice feel that these amendments are worse for the workers than the previous loophole was. these amendments basically will hurt the workers, and that is our key element that we look at. how will it hurt the workers? it will begin to shift workers and employers back into these hra's, which are the cheapest form of health care under our health care security ordinance. so it will be natural for these 20% of these employers who are violating this health care security ordinance -- it is only a small amount of people who are doing this. for this small amount, they will continue to look for the cheapest way to go forward, and the cheapest way is these health care hra's, and these hra's will lead to not any better health care for the workers who really need them. $4,000 or $5,000 a year is not enough to pay for any kind of very large medical bill. so this money needs to be rolled over. as the worker himself said, any time there is an incentive for the em

extended you know after we construction you saw child labor exploding we had immigrant labor we had restricted immigration of the united states to one hundred twenty four and that suppressed the cost of wages so it seems to me i mean looking at this arc of history and i've written two books on it i've done my homework that there really is only this one period this is all forty year period from one nine hundred forty basically until the one nine hundred eighty s. when there was what we would call a middle class the united states when we rely on either on literally on slaves or on wage slaves were child labor and since the one nine hundred eighty s. and one nine hundred ninety s. that particular clinton's trade policies were back to rely on slaves we just don't have them here in this country anymore we we've export a good find slaves well i mean you were not right i mean i think first i find that i mean it's a loaded term you were not going to relying on slave owners they were lying on low wage workers overseas which which person i don't think it's necessarily entirely accurate there

and hire cheaper labor. one of the problems with these series of bills we are dealing with here today is that it will result in a rush to the bottom. in terms of regulation. the lowest common denominator in terms of clean water and air standards. among other things this legislation says that we should take into consideration the standards in other countries. so china's going to now set our clean water and our clean air standards? give me a break. give me a break. let's get real. let's bring something to the floor that will make a difference in the lives of the american people. especially those who aren't employed. let's bring a real jobs bill to the floor. let's do something meaningful. i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts reserves his time of the the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. woodall: i thank you, mr. speaker. we could likely go back and forth all day long with my friend from massachusetts believing that he loves workers more, with me believing me i lo

in asia per merican companies to feast on and boy do they love cheap labor in fact our nation has a long love affair with cheap labor from the dark days of slavery to the horrors of industrialization in sweatshops to the exploitation now of immigrant workers not to mention the destruction of labor unions in general that have turned our jobs that used to garner middle class income and the jobs that keep people barely afloat relegating them to the working poor and today thanks to so-called free trade we can pick up right back where we left off employing people for close to nothing in far off places and the added benefit we don't even have to look these new slaves in the eyes of the more tom weighed in on this consequence of so-called free trade and it's the subject of tonight's deleted. one hundred years ago this year a fire broke out of the triangle shirtwaist factory in downtown manhattan fire killed one hundred forty six employees in the factory mostly women who were burned alive or jumped out the windows because their exit doors on the on their floors the eighth ninth and tenth fl

we always have some labor strike smoor labor dispute going, and, of course, the stuff that's going onnational level like the national health care debate. i think people do want to get involved, and a lot of times they just don't know how, and i know that if you are in san jose, they do have community organizations. i think that's part of the construction, so at least in many percent peblgtives -- >> that was delores about three years ago talking about her foundation and the united farm workers. up next here, the voice of the -- stay tuned. [ mom ] hey guys. guys... [ female announcer ] pillsbury cinnamon rolls with cinnabon cinnamon are an irresistible sunday morning idea. nothing calls them to the table faster. sunday morning ideas made easy. grands! and gravy. man, it's butter all the way.g? uncle ray, gravy or butter? definitely butter. boom! or gravy. ham. turkey. or nothing. as long as it's grands!, i'm good. [ female announcer ] grands! holiday ideas made easy. [people chatting] everyone, it's $37 a piece. paying with your smart phone instead of cash. that's a step forward. with

i mean, labor is going to be counted on big-time.'ve seen a lot of different organizations come together. in mihind sight, this might hav been the best thing that happened to labor in america. >> first of all, i think this vote is going to show the extreme right wing like john kasich, who took a terrible economy and took advantage of workers and tried to destroy their values and their rights was actually an overreach. and ohio, the citizens of ohio, have said, no, we are not going to allow workers to be treated like this. and i think this energy, and i believe this galvanization is going to carry over throughout this country and particularly going so carry over in the battleground states where right wing politicians like rick scott, scott walker, snyder, chris christie, are going to have to face an electorate that is energized. >> richard, have you found the template to fight citizens united? i mean, are you a lot better tonight than you were back in wisconsin a few months ago? i mean, is it starting to grow the infrastructure, and h

the south relied on not just the supply of cheap labor, but an oversupply of cheap labor. in order to plant and chop, tend and harvest the tobacco, the cotton, the sugarcane and the rights that were the staples of the southern economy. and they needed to make sure the people were ready and available and oversupplied so that the labor costs would be as low as they possibly could be. many of the people, of course, were working, were working not even being paid, they were working for the right to live on the land they were farming, they were sharecroppers. and so they were in a very difficult fix all along. this migration did not begin until something happened that would effect the entire world, and that was world war i. there have been people who want to believe for many, many, many decades, but they didn't leave until the opportunity arose and world war i began. and it was world war i in which the north had a problem. the north needed hay boar, and that's -- labor, and that's because there were, there was a loss of labor, of people who had been european immigrants, who'd be

the pla provides for labor supply, but then there's some best effort language. i wonder if you could help reconcile those -- guarantee compared to best effort. >> yes, i think obviously, there are limitations. i think it is more in the arena of best efforts. we do have provisions to go to the union hiring halls for referrals, but at any point the unions are unable to fulfill the call, the contractors participating are free to go beyond the union hiring hall for employment, but the first stop is the hiring hall. at least in today's environment, the unions are showing as they have an ample supply to meet our needs, but i think part of it -- and part of the benefit of it is improving the communication and awareness of our programs in the unions so that they know this work is coming and when our packages will be coming out, and then we can plan with their members accordingly. >> there is one phrase that says for the trade unions that will be signatory to the pla. are there any that are not? >> at this point, we do not anticipate any. >> with regard to the committee,

local labor 261. >> good morning, directors. on behalf of my members, this is one of the greatest pla's i have ever seen. i have to think area. she put in a lot of effort for the perhaps quickest pla that has happened in history. i think we did a great job. this pla can put thousands to work. not only in east bay, san franciscans, all over the bay area. it is a really good pla. i forgot to mention, everything that will be put into the building, that facility will need to be made in the united states, which is really good. i hope you support all of that. thank you. director kim: i noticed many of your members are here. would you like them to stand in support? thank you. >> james bryant. >> good morning, directors. >director kim: we called mr. bryan be we will continue to call the names. >> james bryant. western regional director. have done a very fine job, maria, you always have done a fine job around the city. you continue. i am impressed that you all have been very good about looking at what is important about making sure this

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that is a 20% growth rate in the labor sector. that makes this the fastest- growing group in this country. currently latinos are less likely to have a college degree than both white and african american counterparts. latino workers earned only 70 cents on the dollar compared to whites. we know we can turn these numbers around, but to do so we must harness the talent of our best and brightest. that is why president obama and i continue to fight in washington for passage of the dream act. we need to stop demonizing in is a young people for the actions of their parents by denying them a chance to earn an education or serve in the military. they deserve a chance to obtain legal status by pursuing a higher education or serving in the military they love. here in the capital, the president and i are fighting for passage of the american jobs act. you have probably heard about this bill, but there is one section i would like to highlight that will make a big difference for low income latino youth. the american jobs act would invest $5 mill

newt gingrich said child labor laws should be changed for that reason. you say it will make a more successful adult. i am not talking about putting them to work in nuclear west and we are not talking about that. we are talking about -- it goes on in asia and japan. they can work, let them work x. by the way, these yobs are not pushing others out. dennis, we are not talking about coal mines and that sort of work. newspaper routes. >> and like making rugs or like eight year olds do in india. this makes us look bad . it happen in a bad times. when you don't want -- retirees needs a yob as a bag boy. i don't want them competing against a 10 year old. eliminate the minimum wage. that would give more young people jobs. >> and look at the ceo's who started out working at er a. the head of diagonal was washing dishes and head of windy loading box. and and the fact is, a lot of successful people worked as kids. >> and laws were designed when child labor meant work nothing the coal mine. it is no harm as long as it is great physical to lower the age by year and ha

there have been some labor disputes in the state of washington. boeing decided because there were having impasses with their labor unions in washington to simply scrap -- the increase was going to be in the state of washington. with the debate and discussion with the union, boeing decided to move to south carolina. you're not supposed to use a punitive action against a labor organization for its fighting the benefit of the workers. nlrb decided that the move from the state of washington was directly responsive to what was happening in the state of washington, and therefore decided to go to south carolina. i heard a previous speaker say the next thing boeing will not go to south carolina. if boeing wanted to leave the young states of america, there would have left and not considered south carolina -- wanted to leave the united states of america. people around the world want u.s. products. even in china. people know that the u.s. product is something that is guaranteed, it will function, you have redress if the dozenit. 't. it will be difficult to c