movement which is that labor leaders are always too afraid of appearing too radical. i mean the original story that made it is that these labor leaders were executed for a role in a police riot you know somebody get killed a police right in the innocently really does wrecks a cubit and that was international workers day meeting because of something happened to chicago on may first one thousand nine hundred six but what happened is that they got red beat it and so when the u.s. the u.s. congress declared it wadded and so we moved it to a very piecemeal september labor day and i think that's a similar thing that happened today if you look at a fellow c.e.o. president richard trumka instead of being out in the streets today we're actually being at a factory workers are on strike like a caterpillar and julian illinois he was out of bloomberg washington some speaking after alan greensburg on bloomberg t.v. i mean bloomberg t.v. isn't even on cable i mean he wasn't speaking any workers and i think this is a sad part of it i mean after that you know trump spoke to a conferen

thing so the whole labor thing that's what that value layer. if that labor thing you know worked in and stuff people can get behind that and we endure let me actually amazing before we go here to you know you say that it's overall been a pretty happy to have haven't seen a completely over zealous and. in fact today where there are a lot of cops and they just weren't you know pepper spraying their beating and who knows why i was there police it was their presence actually subdued. well there was definitely a big police presence in york city today i know i got off the train at penn station this morning and there were metro cops armed with rifles everywhere their dogs go in all throughout the train station on the streets there is definitely increased police presence i know walking around you could see a front of grand central station today at one point there was one entrance to the building that had thirteen armed cops standing there not letting people in banks had private security working the door station inside. there was actually one point peop

or the labor movement has is. under enormous pressure. you know one cause as you mention is globalization the fact that corporations can move their production sites to any place in the world. usually towards two to countries where wages are extremely low and workers have no rights and the other the other causes the rise in this country what we call the right wing extremism. mainly gathered in the republican party and you know in their view labor should have no rights at all no collective bargaining rights. so that's another danger well what's your attitude towards china a country that did that still is labeled as communist but actually it is a super capitalist country a country where workers have practically no rights at all well china is is a changing country oh is there a few years ago and it's uncontestable that they have made. enormous improvements for the lives of. tens of millions hundreds of millions of chinese people lifting them out of poverty at the same time as you say there are extremes that they have billionaires to so i don'

i'm a strong supporter of organized labor. doesn't mean that i think labor unions are perfect. oftentimes many of the people in the community where i live feel that they cannot access labor unions, that they can't get in, that they can't get membership. yet, i think that project labor agreements are the best way to get the quality and the assurance, that we're getting the best bang for the buck. and so again, i reiterate my support for the grimm amendment and yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new york. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. culberson: i ask for the yeas and nays. the chair: the gentleman asks for the yeas and nays. pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, futh proceed thonings motion by the gentleman from new york will be pose poned. -- further proceedings on the amendment by the gentleman from new york will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from

i couldn't imagine it not supporting the labor party. so the sun in a sense was the only one in this rather odd space. >> but i was -- although we set ourselves that objective, i don't -- i think if you'd have asked me in 1994, did i think the sun would back us in 1997, i probably would have said no. >> did you regard having to deal with mr. murdoch and his press as a necessary evil? >> well, i think it was part of the job. it was part of my job to help tony blair communicate to the public and part of that was through the media. rupert murdoch, there's no point denying is the single most important media figure. and it would have been foolish on our part not to have sought to build some sort of relationship with him. >> did you regard having to deal with him as a necessary evil? >> well, i don't like the word evil in relation to anyone. but i saw it as a part of my job, and i saw it a part of what we sought to do. i mean, i often -- as again is clear from my diaries, it was often when i didn't particularly like having to do it. and at tim

the biggest share is in labor. san francisco in general, wages are higher here than they are elsewhere and significantly higher than the north bay. depending on the industry, they may be more or less than the south bay bill. on average, they are about 8% higher in san francisco than elsewhere. that can make a significant difference to businesses that hope are forced to pay more for being in one area rather than another. why is that? why are there differences in labor costs in the bay area? for many businesses, it's relatively easy to relocate in the bay area and take advantage of these opportunities. a major reason is housing costs. most households, the single biggest expense is housing costs. san francisco, since the housing crash, has the most expensive housing in the bay area. because our housing has fallen by less than it has another places, we are the number one housing costs area in the region and that helps to contribute to the high labor costs. this chart looks at housing affordability before and after the

staying on the topic of labor historically labor organizations have spearheaded economic change in america through strikes rallies and marches in fact may day itself or what's better known today as international workers day has its roots in the labor movement of the nineteenth century demanding better working conditions and pay conditions during the robber baron era right here in the united states and today as workers now face similar challenges the labor movement is once again organizing and back in the streets richard trumka the president if l c o released a statement on today's action saying workers' rights should be universal and every person no matter what nationality at this is he or gender must have equal rights and the opportunity to achieve a better life but now that the occupy movement is carrying the banner for today's action what is labour's role stuart take up joins me now he's the chief chief of staff of the utility workers union of america former director of organizing for the a.f.l.-cio also author of several books his most recent plane bigger than you are a life in organiz

in america's labor movement there are two significant dates each year. labor day and may first. we thought this year during the month of may we would bring you a look back at some of the significant times and events here in the bay area and northern california. we begin tonight with a strike in san francisco in the 1930s that has shaped the labor movement in san francisco ever since. george watson first brought us this report in 2000. >> movie cone is covering the waterfront. >> reporter: san francisco was one of the busiest sea ports when shore men went on strike. it was may 9, 1934. >> with vital stars in the grip of strikers, signs such as these are typical displays. nerve centers of the strike by the food marts, jammed by citizens fearful of a food shortage. the few eating places still open and able to get supplies do a rushing business. >> reporter: 56 days after the strike began, a riot took place. 96 ships were idle. shippers said the strike was costing them $1 million a day. cargo was being off loaded on to truck, five thousand longshoremen and their supporters showed up

most of the labor supported one. some laborers supported other and after the election they'll take out i think scott walker. he's had billions of interest. they brought things in and he's still very, very unpopular. he is permanently unpopular because he took on and a tacked workers and rather than creating jobs that he told the population he was going to do. the other thing is the last time we took out two of those republican sen senators and you should remember this. the four races that occurred. an obama won that state by 4%. these four senators won their senate seat bias an equal number. they were safe senate seats we took two of them out and the total vote was on those four senate seats. we had little over 50%. they got 50 plus in two seats and we have more in the other seats so in the highest poor performing districts they lose two seats and barely hold on to one and another wins. you'll see a couple more senators go by wayside this time and what you'll see is hopefully a change of attitude by the senators that

most of the labor supported one or the other. after the election, they will come together and i think we will take out scott walker. he is still very unpopular. he is permanently on popular because he took on and attacked workers rather than creating jobs. he told that population he would do that if he was i elected. in wisconsin, the last time we took out two or three republican senators. the four races that occurred, obama won that state by about 13%. in that election, these four senators won their senate seats by an equal number. they were state senate seats and we took two of them out. the total vote of those four senate seats, we got a little over 50%. they got 50 + and two seats in of the other cities. in their highest performing districts, they lose two seats, they barely hold on to one and another wins. couple more senators go by the wayside this team and hopefully what you will see is a change of attitude by the senators that are there on both sides of the aisle to be able to say that they sent us here to create jobs and

blair was very much in favor of the new labor agenda. so was i in terms of, say, in terms of the crucial decision on that, which was to change clause 4. i mean i published a pamphlet about that in '93 and nothing to do whatever to do with "the sun" or anything else. they regarded the pamphlet as rather boring. i don't think there was -- there was any compromise of our integrity. if you take the area that mr. blair had been involved with between '92 and '94 and i took over from '94 to '97, which was law and order and crime, there were people who were saying, our critics sort of on the liberal left, they were saying we were only doing this because we wanted papers like "the sun" and the "news of the world" on site. that wasn't true. i was doing it because we believed in it and we hadn't been satisfied with the very soft approach which the labor party had taken on crime before that, which had lost support of an awful lot of our working class supporters. >> paragraph 38, mr. straw, you say during my period as justice secretary i would often

labor through labor eight hundred giving birth to a new global day oh the resistance against. terrorists is the word go wall street ok so again banks are a little bit above organized labor in the opinion of the american public and we're looking at why americans have no faith in these big institutions well here's the headline for you max m.f. global customers press j.p. morgan for fun customers of m.f. global holdings are pushing regulators to get tougher on j.p. morgan chase about money that went missing from accounts just before the firm's collapse and a letter sent to regulators and m.f. global customer group calls for j.p. morgan. and to return hundreds of millions of dollars in m. a global oh i remember operation twist the latest effort by the fed to stomp on interest rates and penalize savers they should rename it operation oliver twist because then they got the schmuck customers begging j.p. morgan the very company the stole their money they're saying lose to me the cruel more superior to me and that's like you know he's played the role of faith doesn't he other. pick up

i think all of labor will go out. >> can labor deliver ohio? >> i think question deliver ohio. the extremism there with kasich has changed the dynamics of ohio. i think oh was really in play. people have really come together to say, this is wrong taking away collective bargaining from public employees. i think that's good for the president. i think we can win ohio. >> james hoffa here with me in las vegas. later in the show, he weighs in on what happens to labor in the country of scott walker is victorious. >>> coming up, arizona defunds planned parenthood. what will it mean for thousands of women in the state? terry o'neil will join me on this critical story. >>> later, i was a guest on realtime with bill maher. we're right back. >>> welcome back. from the state that brought us the papers please law targeting hispanics, arizona now has its sight set on low income women the governor jan brewer signed law defunding planned parenthood. the law will deny thousands of poor women access to planned parenthood services including breast examines and cancer screenings. the state already

we haven't really talked about jim hodgson as secretary of labor, what was he like? >> hodgson, the "g" is silent. jim is a wonderful human being and a first class -- was a first class secretary. he suffered badly by comparison to george, and george may have been imcomparable in many respects. he did something that hurt him badly. in loyalty to -- there was a -- excuse me, stop. there was a conflict between meany and the administration. i think it involved wage and price controls, but i can't recall exactly what it was. but meany, of course, was at that point allied with the democrats before mcgovern was nominated and is still allied with the democrats in the house and senate at least the northern democrats. and he attacked the white house on something. and hodgson, jim, on his own -- i wish -- i didn't have a chance to consult on that -- was called by somebody in the white house, it could have been colston, urging him to respond in defense of the president. and he attacked meany. i don't think george would have ever done that. because the effectiveness of the secret

there's plenty of air and light and, managers say, good labor relations. all 10,000 of qmi's workers are on permanent contracts, and wages here range from $90 to as much as $150 a month. that's still below what unions say is adequate. but tucker says demands for higher wages, however justified, are a tough sell given realities in the u.s., the biggest market. >> i really wonder if american consumers are willing to pay significantly more for their apparel. >> reporter: really? >> yeah. the cost of apparel has only dropped over the past decade. none of us are paying more for our garments than we were ten years ago. >> we do need to think about what consumers are willing to pay, where we can source these goods to achieve, you know, get the math to work for everyone. from a macro standpoint, i think it's a very complex issue. >> reporter: gap's silten isn't sure if consumers would pay more for ethically produced garments. the interfaith center's schilling says retailers like gap, pressured by competitors and wall street investors, aren't likely to ask them to

captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008 >>> laurence silberman discusses labor policies and politics and the aftermath of president nixon's 1972 re-election and his suspicions that the president was involved in watergate. this is the second of two parts. part one can be viewed at cspan.org/history. >> move to the -- discuss the summer of 1971 and the bureau of labor statistics. let's start by telling us a bit about from your perspective how the bureau produced employment statistics and the extent to which the statistics were accurate or not. >> well, i never had -- i never really had any responsibility to look in to the adequacy or accura accuracy. i relied very heavily on jeff moore who was an utterly first class economist as to the accuracy. there was -- and jim hodgson used to sit down with jeff and his staff to go over the press releases and it was the press releases that became controversial. there was a feeling in the white house that the press releases were biased, that is to say, if unemployment went up, it was very bad thing. if it went down it was a statistical

i think all of labor will go out. >> can labor deliver ohio? >> i think question deliver ohio.emism there with kasich has changed the dynamics of ohio. i think oh was really in play. people have really come together to say, this is wrong taking away collective bargaining from public employees. i think that's good for the president. i think we can win ohio. >> james hoffa here with me in las vegas. later in the show, he weighs in on what happens to labor in the country of scott walker is victorious. >>> coming up, arizona defunds planned parenthood. what will it mean for thousands of women in the state? terry o'neil will join me on this critical story. >>> later, i was a guest on "realtime with bill maher." we're right back. so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. [ woman ] lower cholesterol. [ man 2 ] yummy. i got that wrong didn't i? [ male announcer ] want great taste and whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol? honey nut cheerios. let's get a recap, merv. [ merv ] thanks, other merv. mr. clean magic eraser e

before the labor commissioner. they had gotten him fined for not paying workers their wages. to me, this was unheard of, that mexican workers could stand up, fight, and win. not only did they beat the labor contractor, this contractor happened to be the largest labor contractor in the delano area. he also happened to be white. to me, it was like a light went off in my head. then we started hearing that there was going to be a great -- grape strike. i was 19 years old. i did not know what that was. but i could feel the electricity in the air. i could feel the sense that something big was going to happen, but i just did not know what. one day my mother and sister came running into the house and said, " we are on strike." they said they walked out. i had been at home because i had broken my leg. i was watching "i love lucy." [laughter] that took me away from watching it. i thought it was incredible. they said there is going to be a march. i went out and there were these workers, mexicans and filipinos, marching. there

labor unions have been reducing working hours. there have been cutbacks in the public sector as well. not as drastic in other countries. the picture is slightly better in germany. the economy is doing not too badly. as for the fiscal pact, the chancellor says europe needs a dose of financial discipline to get debt under control. and watering that down with injections of cash and to the economy is not the way to go. of course, the unions for their part say a growth pact need not cost a lot of money. >> it is also not just the unions giving this message at the moment. also, we are hearing back from other european capitals and the man who may be moving into the house in paris also saying that. >> is likely there will be a socialist president in -- it is likely there will be a socialist president in france quite soon. the greeks are holding elections. of course, there is going to be a referendum in ireland at the end of this month. so chancellor martell -- merkel is beginning to look a bit lonely. >> it could be an interesting politic

it looks like these planes won't be performing any airstrikes any time soon until workers and their labor strike we'll tell you why workers at lockheed martin are telling the government that they've got to pay to play. plus in the race to cure the global economy each country thinks they have the perfect prescription to get ready for a dose of reality because it seems that neither are sturdy nor and the bailouts are the best remedy will tell you why. it's tuesday may first five pm in washington d.c. i'm abby martin you're watching our team no work no school no shopping no banking it's may day and today marks the first nationwide strike in u.s. history it's a day to remember and it's been long dormant the u.s. but celebrated internationally since an eight hundred eighty nine now the occupy wall street movement has resurrected the workers holiday calling the day without the ninety nine percent. but made it actually originated here in america and the one thousand century unregulated capitalism ran amok workers are being paid very little and working ten to twelve hour days a national for decad

will it when it comes to labor unions they're basically saying that they did not want to raise their pension age they do the retirement age they want equal opportunity rights and basically just told so celebrating the fact that spring is finally here kind of joining god along with some of the basic demands usually put forth by the labor unions where it comes to communists for example there are there of course are still bitter about the fact that their candidate has lost the presidential elections he actually came in second. so they are of course protesting that and also bringing out the usual communist logans which they had to bring out by the last eighty years or so. was it a full day here in moscow whether it's really great and the mood as you said earlier is why sas the people are welcoming in spring finally but as we know may day or labor day as it is now in the world is internationally marked holiday so how is it going to be celebrated elsewhere. while labor day traditionally has been a workers of workers not even a celebration a workplace holiday was a day to commemorate worker

the world unite it's labor day and the turnout is high right here in moscow. the. protests the presidential votes. it's. all the details coming up shortly. in america. occupy movement plans to use may day to stage a comeback and prove it staying power. the world's most famous. top secrets goes head to head with the new president all. throughout the day. live from the heart of the russian capital this is our. welcome to the program. brimming with people this may day with most celebrating demonstrating. under the labor day flag to demand better working conditions and even russia's ruling tandem took to spearheading a crowd of their supporters in the mix of. it will help more than one hundred twenty thousand people out to stop it this is one of the main thoroughfares in the russian town tell me the name and the ability for the amount to make ultimately the amount. of the rather good solid knowledge of the labor unions to the things that matter to since the work they're calling for the retirement age is not to be raised and for better conditions for workers overall the

these then are the general areas covered by gernment regulation of employment and labor.hen an employee goes to work for an organization, it is with the intent of providing a skill or performing a service in exchange for wages, benefits, and future opportunity. the most immediate concern to most employees is the compensation they receive for performing their jobs. the expectation is that an employee's pay will be based on the job to be performed and the skills the employee possesses. in that expectation, candy sesco was no different from anyone else. candy had planned her future very carefully. from high school on, she had concentrated all her efforts on eventually becoming a certified public accountant. all through college, candy focused on her goal. she put in the required amount of stud and graduated with honors. with her degree, her outstanding grades, and her state of the art skills, she had no trouble landing her first accounting job. but after that, problems began for candy. >> i was having lunch one day with a bunch of other people in my department, and we were ki

day laborers, half of day laborers have been completely denied payments for their work. in restaurants, 50% of workers report overtime violations. we know this is a problem that affects workers, but also affects communities. low-wage workers spend their money in community. they spend their money at local businesses. when businesses are less, cities are in less. the client this affects local ae governments. we also know business is best deal money from workers, steel them from government as well. they fail to pay workman's comp. they fail to pay payroll. this affects not only the workers, but the city and local government. think you. ank you. >> good morning. i am from the filipino community center. one of the nine organizations that are part of the progress of workers alliance. the organization has been working in the community for many years and black latino, asian, clear, pacific islander and young worker communities. the progress of worker alliance includes the filipino community center. power, pride at work, and young workers united. together, they have been working

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the office of labor standards enforcement plays that role. your work in the community plays that role. workers coming forward helps to play that role. i think the task force will be really important to make sure that we have real recommendations that can strengthen workforce development and against wage theft. in my district i am looking at putting in resources for serving workers, many of them who are immigrants, and worker rights in district 11. i want to thank you for your efforts in making that come forward. the folks that are representing the residents from district 11 for your work. this is a separate issue, but i see it as very related. i will be supported as we move forward. i am sure everyone on the panel wants to speak, so first up is supervisor olague. supervisor olage: i especilaguei especially want to thank the workers are having the courage to come up and speak against this. a movement is nothing without the workers having the courage to come forward. we would not be anywhere if the workers did not have the courage to stand up f