any forced labor raising the bar for labor standards around the world. for the high school high wage jobs here in the united states. it's important hearing we look forward to our witnesses. >> thank you mr. chairman. this is very important hearing. they estimate nearly 25 million people in the world are victims of forced labor. the criminals behind this tragedy nearly $150 billion in profits every year. as horrifying as that is, nearly 30 percent of the victims are also victims of forced sexual exploitation. and generate maybe 9 billion or two thirds of those profits that i just read. the fight against forced labor is not a democratic issue or a republican issue. it is an issue that unites all americans. that is critical to remember. americans including consumers and businesses are all committed to this fight. in doing everything possible to combat this. the problem lies know them foreign autocrats and individuals who lack all since a basic humanity. our fight is with them. for example, is the chairman just mentioned, china's government has pressed nearl

child labor. so the problem extends far o beyond shin jang, the be neighboring regions or even china as a country, and needs to be tackled on a global basis. and not the least of which the problem is as soon as one regioe becomes marked as high-risk, those goods will find their way to market through other regions. so we have to apply the data collection, the transparency ass we call it. we have to apply it uniformly across supply chains, or else goods will find their way to market one way or another. des and it'll be nearly impossible.n and i do want to underscore the complexity here. a multinational company has ey v thousands of suppliers, maybe l tens of thousands.ng a and they have not, by and large, identified all of the actors in their supply chain yet.easy f so by setting a clear standard what customs can do is make it very easy for companies to aren obtain that baseot line level o visibility to know who the andn actors otare, not just direct b indirect. and not just in high risk regions but

but the labor movement was a huge beneficiary of this growth, with labor laws, protective labor laws in place, we had an enormous growth of the middle class in america. it became the prosperous plays it was in the fifties and sixties and that has been the base of our countries great global wealth. >> good morning. you mentioned she was a strong supporter of the wpa. i wonder if she had friendships with dorothy lang. >> francis perkins was less immediately involved in the wpa and the public works projects. hello. i just have a question about the programs he created.s- >> sorry? >> what was her top priority? >> it was an acting social security, and that was her biggest single source of pride in our entire life. she thought it was a program that would last forever, and there's 50 million people on social security today. >> could you comment on her relationship to eleanor roosevelt? >> they had a very interesting, complicated relationship. they both shared the affection of franklin roosevelt in different ways. eleanor was an enormously valuable -- frances perkins was the one who came up

it put the ban on child labor. other things she did, fha insurance, she was the primary booster of the civilian conservation corps, the largest single supporter of the wpa. truly this was a really remarkable woman. now, it's a little interesting and unusual that i came to write this book. i came from a staunchly republican family. i actually came from a family of roosevelt haters. but when i came to washington, d.c., in 1988, as a young business reporter, one of the first things i did as i set out to learn my way around the town was to sign up for a trolley bus tour of the city. one of the first things i noticed was the francis perkins department of labor. as those of you who live in washington know, there's very few washington named after women. i noticed it and i filed it away and wondered who was francis perkins? i had never even heard of her. as we around this day, we got around by the washington monument and the tour bus driver said in his -- along with his regular patter, what american woman had the worst chi

but the labor movement was a huge beneficiary of this growth, with labor laws, protective labor laws in place, we had an enormous growth of the middle class in america. it became the prosperous plays it was in the fifties and sixties and that has been the base of our countries great global wealth. >> good morning. you mentioned she was a strong supporter of the wpa. i wonder if she had friendships with dorothy lang. >> francis perkins was less immediately involved in the wpa and the public works projects. but she did was lobby for the funding that allowed those programs to happen. she was the reason any of those things actually happened. she has a wonderful story. when she went to the white house and battled fdr to keep those programs in place, the money for all the various programs, and in fact, david taylor will be speaking about this talking about the authors program that was part of the new deal at that time. >> hello. i just have a question about the programs he created. >> sorry? >> what was her top priority? >> it was an acting social security, and that was her biggest single

yes or no. >> my priority will be to best serve as labor secretary to make sure the department of labor delivers on its mission and absolutely the priority is what you just mentioned in terms of supervising, managing making sure the department works well and the staff has what they need to perform their jobs at the highest level. >> the buck stops with you as labor secretary in california. california has provided at least ten.4,000,000,031,000,000,000 in fraudulent unemployment insurance payments under your leadership. yes or no answers. shortly after your appointed secretary of state auditor urging the employment development department to address the mailing system after millions of social security numbers were included but the issues of unemployment insurance but that audit audit happened will before and then to be implement it. >> and with the federal funding in response to covid-19 and in september 2020 the state auditor was directed by the california joint committee to conduct emergency audit of edd. the audits conducted one was about fried you directed the employment with a certai

secretary of labor. senator burr and i will have an opening statement and then i will recognize senator padilla to introduce secretary su. after her testimony the senators will have five minutes each for a round of questions. i'm happy to stay for a second round if any senator has remaining questions. before we begin i do want to walk through the safety protocols in place. we will follow the advice of the attending physician and sergeant at ours and conducting the hearing. we are grateful to everyone who has worked hard to help set this up and make sure everyone is healthy. committee members will stay six feet apart and some are participating by video conference. while we are unable to have this fully open to the public, live video is available on the website. if you are in need of accommodations including closed captioning, you can reach out to the committee or office of congressional accessibility services. we received secretary su's formal nomination and her paperwork, including her public financial d

but hispanic female labor force has shrunk 4.4%. black female labor force has shrunk 5.6%.taggering numbers, and we need to do much more to reduce the barriers of people going back to work. the huge growth we saw in leisure and hospitality jobs, that is where the growth was concentrated this month, is encouraging because those jobs are often the first rung on the ladder. job where we see lots of low income workers, people who have not gone to college. many of those service industries like salons disproportionately employ women. so signs that they are coming back to life and recovering again is encouraging, means those populations that have been hardest hit may have a chance of recovering. guy: i want to come back to the issue of female participation in the labor market. you spoke about schools a moment ago, the impact that has. that has disproportionately fallen on the female portion of the labor market. how difficult will it be to get those women back into the labor market? once schools return full time, once that issue of childcare is resolved -- and we hope that it happe

these include emotional labor, aesthetic labor, intimate labor, hope labor, and play board. we used to think about mental labor and manual labor. this is really getting at a better understanding of what contemporary forms worker requiring of workers. and then over the course the book you focus on a series of jobs in the contemporary economy. these include domestic work both the on wage work we do in our households but also wage domestic work and care work, teaching, retail, nonprofit work adjunct, teaching, artistic work internships, sports, and computer programming. and you know each of these with the unique form of work, you also in some ways they are also a representative one from some larger trends or aspects. i'm going to take one of these and ask you, what you think the job of the home care aide teaches us about trends or requirements are what we do at work or the problems in the contemporary economy. so how is home care work important in and of itself. but also not just an isolated example. >> homecare is one of if not the fastest growing jobs in america right now, ri

the clerk: h.r. 842, a bill to amend the national and labor relations act, labor management relations act 1947, and the labor management reporting and disclosure act of 1959, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 188, the amendment printed in part a of house report 117-10 is adopted and the bill as amended is considered as read. the bill as amended is debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking member of the committee on education and labor. the gentleman from virginia, mr. scott, and the gentlewoman from north carolina, ms. foxx, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia. mr. scott: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks even insert extraneous material on h.r. 842rk the protecting right to organize act of 2021. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. scott: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia. mr. scott

the labor side of the education and labor committee. you are protecting the right to organize act of 21. that passed house last week. for viewers who don't know about the bill, what does that do? guest: well, the protecting the rights to organize act eliminates some problems that presently exist in perpetuating the right to organize into a union. the national labor relations act describes how that is done. it says that the national labor act should encourage the formation of the union, but regrettably, some of the provisions are so weak that people who want to join a union find that they can't do it. as many as 50% of the workers in america would like to be in a union if they could get in, but only 10% actually are in a union. part of that is because some of the sanctions for unfair labor practices like firing somebody illegally when they try to form a union. if you fire people, that is an unfair labor practice. but the sanction, regrettably, in many cases, has none at all. the sanction would be that you have to rehire the person and pa

we had taken this labor. we were using this labor, and now we wanted to get rid of this labor.iddle of the 1950s during the eisenhower administration, there was an operation called most unfortunately operation wet back, which was designed to dump even more mexicans out of the united states and across the border. in all there were over a million who were actually deported during operation wet back. but this is the kind of love/hate relationship with labor from abroad that america had had for a long, long time, and here it was with respect to our southern neighbor. we wanted them when we wanted them because we needed their labor, and when we didn't need their labor anymore, we wanted them to go home, and by 1964 the formal agreement between the two governments is ended, and that's the end of the bracero program, but it's not the end"0qo migration of labor back and forth across the border by any means. the mexican labor is simply too important to american growers. in addition to that, it helps the american growers to keep the price of their produce low. they are working these mexi

this directs money to the department of labor.e implementation side, there will still be hiccups. getting money out the door to jobless worker just like have been for the past 12 months. caroline: quite amazing if it does indeed cut child poverty in half. i am interested in the efficacy as they will deem it. many felt that perhaps the stimulus checks in particular were just save rather than spend. is that what you want to see, some savings so people protect themselves, if they do have to meet rent, it is no longer on hold, or do you want to see it plowed back into the economy so that everyone then hopefully sees all boats rise? elizabeth: i think it will depend on family financial situations. we know that black families on average have much less than that much less liquid wealth than white families. it will certainly have an effect on financial stability for families left behind in previous recessions and in our labor market. on the other hand, you want folks as soon as we all have shots on our arms to get on planes, take vacation

the same way that attending to sites of labor, for instance, as i was talking about, happiness labor, we intend to use forms of labor, we can also see how truck tours of ine -- struck tours of inequality exist in paces that are celebrated for the supposed equality of peer production and i think the pandemic is another sort of vehicle to make these things much more visible, and of course it has intensified inequality in addition to making it visible. >> thank you. we have reached the top of the hour so i think it's time to let you both go, so silvia, thank you for joining us tonight with literati. so thrilled to have your virtually. so cop grates on prototype nation and to viewers thank you for joining us as well. stay safe and be well and we look forward to seeing you the next event. until then have the a great weekend and take care, and good night, al. ...

have a seal of approval for compliance with certain the labor standards avoidance of china's child labor never saying in places like bangladesh. or otherwise so that these are issues that are in a global economy that are more and more intertwined with continuously we have these difficult challenges but what i'm trying to work towards is that we use the leverage of international firms to. impose labor standards across the globe which i think i'm pretty sure will be much more successful as a long term strategy as trying to impose that by government to government relations ok and in a time we have left out of pocket in the time we have left mr nick i just want to look at what many people are calling the coded vaccine fiasco in germany it's not what you needed in the run up to parliamentary elections later this year and crucial regional contests this weekend there's a polls already show huge dissatisfaction 2 thirds of germans say there are unhappy with key aspects of your covert policy particularly the slow backs in nation program front is you've become accident prone. doesn't the governmen

productivity it was a shock to one part of the labor market and one sector in the labor market and raises wagers in that sector and it raises aggregate wages and there's something like this going on here which is that a large part of the labor force at the lower end is the part that we are required to look after. so right about the chapter four and the coming crisis than the service sector particular and able to protect the wages for those who find technology a substitute rather than a complement so you are protected at the upper level they are protected because of the process and it's not just a relative story. i think it is an aggregate one as well. .. long and winding road i spent a number of years

so, the labor mark is substantially regulated. we see slack in the labor market. those disparities have come down to record lows since we started keeping the data that way. as recent as a year ago. but they go up as twice the speed of white unemployment. our tools effect unemployment generally. but we're going to look at those as a form of slack in the labor market. and thinking there's progress there. this was something that effected many minorities. the workers in the service industries don't have a lot of financial assets. they're not tremendously well paid. they may have jobs and other things like that. this was a direct hit on the economy. so, we like to see the people continue to get supportive as the broader economy recovers, which is very much doing now. in terms of different levels of vaccinations, they're unfortunate fax. they're not something we have in our policy tool kit to address. it's true to data we have suggest there's significant disparities between ethnic groups. but that's not for us. that's for fiscal people in the kmupt to generally work on.

but they were true labor migration. coming at different times during the year to take part in those jobs which they liked best. they liked it better than indoor work. the eastern european jews, the second largest group, second to the italians during this period have no intention of going back because they've come in part, not just for economic opportunity but in-flight of persecution. they're not going back to the saw, they're not going back to that world and so for them, it's a permanent one-way migration, at least that's how they look at it. and so you have other groups here to, you have polls sense loves and greeks and so many different groups coming for a variety of reasons. that it is a big job for the federal government to process all these newcomers and to inspect them and to all the things that are necessary to make their country safe, as the federal government understands it at that time. in >> 1917, the government imposed a reading test for immigrants at the age of 16, but was that intended to do? >> there was

it is the labor party mr.peaker, his labor counsel that puts up taxings across country that is the way they'll behaves and it is priewngt fiscal management by this government that we've been able to fight this pandemic in the way that we have. yeah. >> talk about tax rises? they should because this matters counsel up and down country forced to decide now whether to put counsel tax up that's the $2 billion rise on families. i'm not bringing counsel. they've been starved to funding for a decade labor and conservative counsel are in same position might want to concentrate on his own constituency his own counsel. voting to increase tax counsel by 4.8%. just a prime minister think they're right to do that? prime minister -- >> the counsel and come with most conservative counsel has been running lower taxes lower counsel taxes than labor up and down, up and down. he's completely wrong mr. speaker. i'll correct him top ten highest tax counsel in this country are run by the labor party. and they are all going to -- th

simona: i think we are going to have a robust labor market recovery. a lot of this simply hassed to with the process of the economic reopening and full economic reopening. i am hopeful that some of these disparities that really are very troubling across income, educational levels, different demographics will narrow as we progress on the road to reopening, but i think the fed and policy makers are looking at the concept of fairness, equality, inclusiveness in a much closer way than before covid because if anything, you know, makes the covid recession different, it really is just the extent of disparities in terms of how different parts of the economies have been affected. and you heard chair powell yesterday talk about we want a strong labor market recovery, not just a strong recovery, but inclusive recovery. when he talks about when are we going to meet the parameters, it's not just about one number, the unemployment rate, but all the other things that make us understand when are we truly looking at employment. investors are learning to learn at unempl

capitol. , to amend the national labor relations act, the labor management relations act, 1947, and the labor-management reporting and disclosure act of 1959, and for other purposes. all points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. the amendment printed in part a of the report of the committee on rules accompanying this resolution shall be considered as adopted. the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended, are waived. the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill, as amended, and on any further amendment thereto, to final passage without intervening motion except, one, one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on education and labor or their respective designees. two, the further amendments described in section 2 of this resolution. three, the amendments en bloc described in section 3 of this resolution; -- resolution, and, four, one motion to recommit. section 2, after debate pursuant to the first section of this res

the national labor relations act prescribes how that's done. and sayings the national labor relations act should encourage the formation of unions but regrettably some of the provisions are so weak that people who want to join a union find they can't do it. some surveys show 50% of the workers of america would like to be in a union if they can get into a union but only 10% are in a union and part of that is because some of the sanctions of unfair labor practices like firing somebody illegally when they try to form a union, if you fire people, that is an unfair labor practice and the sampings regrettably is none at all. the sanction is that you would have to rehire the person and pay back pay when somebody is trying to pay their mortgage or get food, a year from now, they need a job. the other part of that is you get to dunth what was made in the process. if you fire somebody from the job and they get another job and make even as much or even more there may not be liability at all. you don't have to fire many people in this situation without mea

many people continue to go back into the labor foyer base the labor force and the recovery continued. people were not permanently sidelined in the way many thought they would be and it's completely understandable. nobody would blame the workers because their sector was wiped out. they will be coming back in. we need to pay attention to what policymakers are going to do right now and that relief is essential to have a full recovery and by that necessary relief to workers and their families and state and local governments. romaine: we talk a lot about having a more equitable recovery and a lot of concerns about the financial crisis and the economic rebound that left a lot of people behind or at least allowed a lag in the opportunity here. we saw the black unemployment rate pick up here. what gets us back to parody on that level? -- to parity on that level? elise: that is why policymakers need to make sure we have an equitable recovery. it's important to a member that in the before times, things were not perfect. we still had a black unemployment rate that was twice as high as the white

is he says the labor shortage also prompted russian authorities to simplify laws for migrant workers. in the new migrants who stay here have a right to apply for a work permit break cardless of their terms of stay in russia and regardless of the purpose of their stay. in the right. before the pandemic russia had around $10000000.00 migrant workers according to estimates from labor experts at all of those will ever return to russia remains uncertain as some of them are now seeking work in turkey iran and the e.u. . and that's your business. at this hour for more you can always go to our web site that is dot com slash business or you social media we'll be back again shortly in the meantime for me in the team in the end thanks for watching. to the point. on the pinions clear position the international perspective. the arctic ice cap is melting away making it easier to exploit the region's huge reserves of natural resources 3 major powers the us china and russia are vying for the biggest multiple share of the cake so how explosive is their rivalry. to the point. of being 60 minutes long

. >>> the senate labor committee held a hearing for joe biden's pick for labor secretary. [inaudible conversations] good morning. the senate health education labor pension committee will please come to order. we are holding in the >>> hello nomination to serve as deputy secretary of labor will each have an opening statement and then i will recognize senator padilla and in centers will have three minutes each for first round i will be happy to stay for a second round if anyone has remaining questions. i do want to walk to the covid-19 safety protocols will follow the advice of the sergeant at arms and conducting position we are all grateful to everyone including our clerk who has worked so hard to get this set up to stay safe and healthy. committee members are seated 6 feet apart and by videoconference and although we are unable to have the hearing fully open to the public the media for in person attendance live video is available if you are in need of accommodations including close captioning reach out to the committee or the office of congressional accessibility services.

-- the department of labor. i'll be voting against confirming mr. walsh, who the biden administration has already signaled they will ask him to implement a variety of policies that do not serve the long-term interests of a majority of workers. unfortunately, it appears that just won't be the case at the department of labor but throughout the democratic agenda. one of the president's first acts in office was to kill thousands of american jobs, including union jobs, by canceling the keystone x.l. pipeline. both working americans and domestic energy took a back seat to left-wing signaling. we're hearing the next few months might bring a so-called infrastructure proposal that may actually be a trojan horse for massive tax hikes and other job-killing left-wing policies. remember, the house democrats tipped their hand last year. they published a proposal that was why multi-thousand-page cousin of the green new deal. it would have plowed unbelievable sums of money not into the kinds of big, practical kind of projects t

labor movement. on friday, senator bernie sanders traveled to bessemer. >> your message to people all over this country is stand up and fight back. you are going to do it here, we can do it all over this country. amy: we'll have more on this, as well as derek chauvin's trial, later in the broadcast with professor, historian and author robin kelley. in healthcare news, bernie sanders, who chairs the senate budget committee, is planning to lower medicare eligibility from 65 to 55 years, as well as expand the program to cover dental work, vision and hearing aids. the move would be included as part of democrats' upcoming economic recovery plan. tennessee has become the third state this month to impose new laws attacki transgender student athletes, alongside mississippi and arkansas. republican governor bill lee signed the legislation friday, which forces trans students to show legal documents revealing the sex they were assigned at birth in order to participate in middle and high hool sports. 28 states a

the labor shortage also prompted russian authorities to simplify laws for migrant workers. in the new migrants who stay here have a right to apply for a work permit for a guard listen to their terms of stay in russia and regardless of the purpose of their stay. in the right. before the pandemic russia had around $10000000.00 migrant workers according to estimates from labor experts all of the oil ever returned to russia remains uncertain as some of them are now seeking work in turkey iran and the e.u. . and that's all for business now at this hour here on d w you can always find out more on a website called. thanks for watching. the final against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context the coronavirus update 19 special. on t w. n o many push. ups right now in the water right now climate change me different awful story. faces watch closely when photos one week. how much one can really get. we still have time to ask i'm going. to subscribe like this. when it comes to vaccinating israel is

and the public with a front row seat to one of the most highly anticipated labor votes in -- labor unionization votes in years. joining us, the former chairwoman of the national labor relations board under obama. the last time amazon workers did a unionization vote was in 2014 when a small group decided not to unionize after wall -- after all? will this time be different? >> i don't know what the results will be but this time is certainly different in the aspect of how much attention this vote has gotten written the fact that it involves almost 6000 employees, the fact that it is in the south, coming during the pandemic and in the context of these interlocking crises, the pandemic, the economic crisis, the racial justice crisis, democracy crisis. this is huge in a way that earlier efforts to organize amazon workers and other companies have not been huge. emily: amazon has pushed back hard on this. in a statement we just got, they say, our employees know the truth. wages starting at $15 or more. health care from day one. a safe and inclusive workplace. we encouraged all of our employees to vote

have a seal of approval for compliance with certain the labor standards avoidance of tries child labor never sing in places like bangladesh. or otherwise so that these are issues that are in a global economy that are more and more intertwined with continuously we have these difficult challenges but what i'm trying to work towards is that we use the leverage of international firms to. impose labor standards across the globe which i think i'm pretty sure will be much more successful as a long term strategy as trying to impose that by government to government relations ok and in a time we were left out of boycotts in the time we have left mr nick i just want to look at what many people are calling the coded vaccine fiasco in germany it's not what you needed in the run up to parliamentary elections later this year and crucial regional contests this weekend is it polls already show huge dissatisfaction 2 thirds of germans say they're on happy with key aspects of your covert policy. particularly the slow backs a nation program front is you've become accident prone hasn't the government runni

have a seal of approval for compliance with certain the labor standards avoidance of tries child labor never saying in places like bangladesh. or otherwise so that these are issues that are in a global economy that are more and more intertwined with continuously we have these difficult challenges but what i'm trying to work towards is that we use the leverage of international firms to. impose labor standards across the globe which i think i'm pretty sure would be much more successful as a long term strategy as trying to impose that by government to government relations ok and in a time we were left out of boycotts in the time we have left mr nick i just want to look at what many people are calling the coded vaccine fiasco in germany it's not what you needed in the run up to parliamentary elections later this year and crucial regional contests this weekend is it polls already show huge dissatisfaction 2 thirds of germans say they're are unhappy with key aspects of your covert policy. particularly the slow packs a nation program fact is you've become accident prone hasn't the government'

but now it includes labor unions. many of the labor unions pension plans in particular have been in dire financial straits for years, long before covid-19 even existed. up until now, our democratic colleagues have not been able to find a way to bail out these mismanaged pension funds. as you can imagine, using taxpayer dollars to cover the mistakes of union bosses is incredibly unpopular, and that's because it's wrong. but the authors of this bill have found a couple of workarounds which they have tucked into this pandemic -- so-called pandemic relief bill. in addition to making labor unions eligible for the paycheck protection loans, the covid-19 relief bill also creates a taxpayer fund to bail out underfunded union pension funds. that's not to help the public generally. that's to help labor union members, which is certainly their issue. i understand why it's important, but i don't understand why my taxpayers in texas should have to bail out unfunded labor pension funds in other states. union bosses who have mismanag

we do monitor and communicate very regularly about different labor market -- disparities in the labor market let's say the african-american unemployment rate is you be substantially elevated so is the hispanic unemployment rate we look at those and we see those as -- it has blackened the labor market it is sad to see because those disparities had really come down to record lows since we started keeping the data that way as recently as a year ago february of last year we had those disparities quite low. what happens in a downturn is they move up at twice the speed of white unemployment. we monitor those our tools affect unemployment wholly but we look at those as a form of slack in the labor market and hope there is progress there this particular downturn of course was just a direct hit on a part of the economy that employs many minority and lower paid workers the public-facing workers in the service industries in many cases don't have a lot of financial assets they are not tremendously well paid they might have other jobs and things like that so this was a direct hit on that part of t

have a seal of approval for compliance with certain the labor standards avoidance of china's child labor never sing in places like bangladesh. or otherwise so that these are issues that are in a global economy that are more and more intertwined with continuously we have these difficult challenges but what i'm trying to work towards is that we use the leverage of international firms to. impose labor standards across the globe which i think i'm pretty sure will be much more successful as a long term strategy as trying to impose that by government to government relations ok and in a time we have left out of pocket in the time we have left mr nick i just want to look at what many people are calling the covert vaccine fiasco in germany it's not what you needed in the run up to parliamentary elections later this year and crucial regional contests this weekend is it polls already show huge dissatisfaction 2 thirds of germans say they're on happy with key aspects of your covert policy particularly the slow backs a nation program functions you become accident prone. doesn't the government's runni

we are desperately in need of updating this labor law. of the key components is better remedies. something that would pose incentives to employers who obey the law. emily: quickly, if the union loses, will there be another vote in alabama or elsewhere? wilma: there certainly could be. the union may file objections to the elections. if there are grounds, the nlrb could hold another election. if the nlrb does not, the union will be free in a year to come back and seek an election. i think even if there is a loss here, employees at amazon and other places will be encouraged to try to seek union representation. emily: we are going to keep following at every step of the way. former chairwoman of the national labor relations board, wilma liebman, under president obama. coming up, bitcoin continues to go mainstream. visa will use a stable coin backed by the u.s. dollar to settle transactions. do not miss our exclusive conversation with the ceo of crack in about his plans to take the company public. plus, how high he thinks bitcoin will go. bitco

we do monitor and communicate very regularly about different labor market, disparities in the labor marketrican-american unemployment rate is substantially elevated. we look at those and we see those. slack in the labor market. it is sad to see. those had really come down to record lows. as recently as a year ago. what happens in a downturn as they move up at twice the speed of white unemployment. we monitor those things. we will look at those as a slack in the labor market and hope that there is progress there. in this particular downturn was just a direct hit on a part of the economy that employs many minorities and lower paid workers. public facing workers, many cases don't have financial assets, they are not tremendously paid, they may have other jobs and things like that. this was a direct hit on the economy. we like to see those people continue to get support as the economy recovers which it is very much doing now. that really is not anything that we have within our policy toolkit. it is true. the data we have suggested, there are significant disparities between different ethnics gro

so the space organizes the flow of labor. every thing has a function so that you don't even have to watch the slaves because you know what they're supposed to be. so it's a kind of industrial production producing industrial raw materials for the factories of britain and new mass consumption markets so there's a huge transformation of production which means for the slaves it's much more exploitative the output for slaves goes up 10 times an average in each of those crops from what i have been in the 18th century. 9000 kilometers away from europe these men and women with a hidden face of the industrial revolution. the world was changing in the early 19th century europe was urbanizing and amassing more and more wealth money flowed freely and london was now the world's economic at the center in the british capital a growing middle class flocked to the new department stores overlooking that the satin dresses combs ivory umbrellas and sweets they purchased with the fruits of slave labor. there's a distinction between what's happeni

with labor unions and curbs on corporate power.ent again as an enemy of wall street, as an enemy of excessive corporate power. in madison square garden, roosevelt said "the forces of greed and selfishness are unanimous in their hatred for me, and i welcome their hatred." that was the opposite of recent times when democrats had been a little bit more tepid in their support for labor unions than we have heard joe biden about this week. >> fascinating. and how do you see relating to the culture where everyone who's lived through the pandemic, as rough has it's been, and it's been a theme in our coverage tonight can see the great value of certain businesses, whether it's health care companies who fast tracked creating a vaccine or digital companies that safely deliver things that otherwise we wouldn't have. i don't think many people are saying gosh, i'd be better to be in the '50s with no deliveries of this kind. however, we just walked through the balance, it seems quite, quite extreme. >> it is. that's what labor unions were always b

we do monitor and communicate very regularly about different labor market, disparities in the labor market. the african-american unemployment rate is substantially elevated. we look at those and we see those. slack in the labor market. it is sad to see. those had really come down to record lows. as recently as a year ago. what happens in a downturn as they move up at twice the speed of white unemployment. we monitor those things. we will look at those as a slack in the labor market and hope that there is progress there. in this particular downturn was just a direct hit on a part of the economy that employs many minorities and lower paid workers. public facing workers, many cases don't have financial assets, they are not tremendously paid, they may have other jobs and things like that. this was a direct hit on the economy. we like to see those people continue to get support as the economy recovers which it is very much doing now. that really is not anything that we have within our policy toolkit. it is true. the data we have suggested, there are significant disparities between different eth