recently i was the commissioner of labor statistics from 2008-2012. and my testimony i would like to talk about the bureau of labor statistics and its role in disseminating economic data. first of all let me note that the bureau of labor statistics is an independent federal statistical agency. as such, it is tasked not only with collecting, compiling and producing economic data, but also with disseminating the data and explaining it to the public. there are a number of principles which any federal statistical agency follows, its disseminate data in both a transparent, independent manner with no bias of any type, there are also tasked with creating a level playing field for the release of data meaning that nobody has an advantage of getting the data early ahead of other people. in addition, they are responsible for the security of the data and that's everywhere including inside the lockup room. in fact, the bureau of labor statistics has the responsibility to decide whether or not to even have a data lockyou. i make this distinction, this is the indepe

, would you ever have thought that the department of labor would be -- or bureau of labor statistics would be the left of brookings able to come up with more green jobs even than one of the great liberal think tanks? you need not answer that one. mr. moss, you're one of the companies that invested heavily in proprietary lines in order to send out in a timely basis, aren't you? >> yes. >> okay, so you did so for two reasons. one was clearly to ensure that your story didn't fail to go out. and i guess the second one is to make sure you got it out at least as fast as anyone else if not a few seconds faster. isn't that right? >> mr. chairman, we're not interested in getting it out faster than anybody else. >> but you at least want to tie the fastest. mr. doherty next to you is shaking his head so i assume he wanted to. >> we have an interest in transmitting the information as instantaneously as the lockup rules will allow. >> and mr. doherty, you also obviously have an interest in absolutely positively not being beat to the newsstand. >> we have -- our interest is to get the information

of labor statistics. the first topic is the integrity of the department of labor's jobs reporting. the department of labor strikes a balance between preventing the unauthorized release of key economic data and providing journalists access to that data a head of time so they can prepare their stories with context about the broader employment situation. this balance is very important. the media are the publics eyes and ears, so it is critical that they have the access necessary to ensure that they have a thorough and accurate understanding so that they can place it in context. a leak of this data could have negative consequences. for example, in the hands of certain traders, early access to this data -- even if just by a few seconds -- could allow their powerful computer trading algorithms to manipulate markets and reap millions of dollars. that is why the department and other data reporting agencies employ procedures to prevent unauthorized releases. recently, the department of labor hired sandia national

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movement was that the government slowly turned against the labor movement obviously labor has had a hard time with the advent of globalization and that's been true around the world but labor in the united states has had the additional burden of government policies that have been increasingly hostile to labor organizing starting with the one nine hundred forty seven taft hartly law which parts of which labor has been trying to repeal ever since most recently with the card check bill that passed in congress that failed in congress a couple of years ago. reagan as you note. there crushed the pack union patco was a public sector union so it doesn't have any direct relevance to what was happening for private sector unions but it was a very symbolic moment and at the same time and probably more meaningful in a practical sense was that reagan appointed the first blatantly anti union leader for the national labor relations board no republican before him it ever done nobody had been quite so so. strongly opposed to. labor labor rights you know to remember back in at the time of the treaty of

not just banning child labor.f actions have to be taken. >> what is save the children doing specifically to address this issue? >> there are very good projects. it is giving these boys to these girls, access to basic education. we implement rich schools next to the slums, next to were the work. within the schools, three hours a day, so that they can still do some working. and they have access to basic health services in the schools. the have a chance in life. they have a chance to get an education and get their smiles back. that is so important. >> thank you for joining us from save the children in germany. >> thank you. >> still to come from all the action from the euro soccer championships. >> first, a quick look at some of the other stories making news around the world. hundreds of islamists in tunisia have fought running street battles with police. demonstrators attacked public buildings and threw molotov cocktails at police in the capital tunis. this is as radical islamists protest an art exhibition they say

>> he was one of the most important labor leaders at a crucial time of conflict between labor and capital. more importantly, he was the central figure in a socialist movement at a time when it was a viable, growing, and important part of the american political culture. >> is he interesting as a snapshot in time or does he have a lasting legacy? >> like many third-party candidates, he and his fellow socialists managed to move the conversation in important directions that have affected the development of american democracy ever since. in that regard, he is of his time, but he's also had a long impact on us as well. >> we will have time to delve into some of the more elections later on. of the five bids he made for the white house, are any particularly significant? >> two for very different reasons. the 1912 bid represents the high water mark of socialism where he got about 6% of the vote. quite different election is 1920, where he was imprisoned in the atlanta penitentiary and got a million votes also while running in prison. >> we will learn more about both of those as our 90-minute progra

the labor department notified. she's another organizations about major changes in plan for the operation of lockups. dan has covered changes in details. i won't repeat those, but needless to say we were taken aback by the plan changes. they were to mandate an announcer that any explanation of the rationale. importantly to us without the affected news organization. i want to be clear on two points. first report of lockups are extremely useful in promoting accurate and authoritative dissemination of sensitive data because they provide time to better understand information before sending it to the public. second, we fully understand responsibility of the department of labor will to implement lockup rules and information using everyone's interest that the department to do so. indeed we believe the lockout procedures now in place have been effective in preventing release of the data but despite this success, the department plan announced in april would require us to use government equipment to do her work as a matter of

many people were worried about the labor problem. many workers felt in the face of this rapid industrialization, that their skills were less valuable, that their wages were being pitted in the national and international market where they wereetting declining wages and a more difficult work environment. there was an enormous see that labor was deeply unhappy. for debs, debs turneit and said, the problem is not labor. the problem is capital. the real problem here that workers are unhappy and going onstrike. theo problem is that these enormous concentrions capi are undermining american democracy. >> socialism was on the rise in europe. how was what the socialists and what debs was trying to do here different? >> it was similar at first. they considered themselves to be internationalists. essentially, socialism needed to be a worldwide movement and they expected it would be. they felt there were distinctive challenges in america in order to convince workers is to do that, a stronger sense of a working class in europe on which to draw for

unions and the american federation of labor and other labor unions in this period. so his message appealed to increasingly more people from diverse amounts of background. the red special would have been a good unifying kind of sim billion to use to unite what were very disparate groups of people who were either working on farms or in urban areas. so it meant to his supporters kind of a challenge to big business, a challenge to capitalism. they would have called it big business or monopolies in that period. that's what red would have indicated in the 1908 election. >> next caller, randy. welcome. >> caller: thank you. my father actually voted for eugene debs in his election. the only thing, as i went through school through primary grades of school through high school, we never heard of eugene b. debs. and it seems like one of the things that is really lacking in our education system is labor history, the fact that when people talk about social security, unemployment insurance, and a lot of people are surprised that people died for those benefits. they were not gifts.

and i tend not to get as much in labor relation issues. because the laws that we have in terms of like local hire or first source don't really take me down that train in other industries except at this point construction. >> right. my understanding and i know we have the city attorney is the l.a. case that's referred to often is we cannot condition the development agreement based on conditions of labor agreement. but we could still talk about community benefits and what's fair to the existing permanent work force. but can i just ask for that advice? my understanding is that we can discuss issues that are related to the impacts of the project. but we just can't condition them kind -- with these labor negotiations, is that right? >> supervisor mar, audrey pearson from the city attorney's office, labor relations are really governed by the federal law, the national labor relations act and the city is not allowed in its regulatory capacity to condition any sort of approvals on resolution of some sort of a labor agreement. community benefits agr

all of our labor needs are being met. we have not had any shortages in labor. as you heard previously, we have had to reportable accidents this past month. one was at a prior meeting where a worker slipped and had a cut on his face in needed to get stitches and returned to work the next day. the second was a welder who had second-degree burns and has also been able to return to work. >> to of the contracts you will hear to date will be our first contracts awarded under the plu. the geothermal and grounding packages. we also advertise the substructure package, which will be a substantial package. the estimate is $77 million. we're taking the bids on that in july. the geothermal package is primarily plumbers. the grounding package is primarily electricians, but the low-rate package will bring an iron workers, laborers, and some masons. in terms of high school students, we are starting to have summer interns report to tjpa, program management team, turner, and web core. a total of 11 interns' this summer. it withey also met with city college, and representatives o

labor statistics. the first topic is the integrity of the department of labor's job reporting. democrat of labor strike as balance between preventing the unauthorized release of key economic data and providing journalists with access to that data ahead of time see that they can prepare their stories context about the broader employment situation. this balance is very important. the media are the publics eyes and s,

of labor statistics. you will recall that a d theol received -- the dol received $5 million to train workers in so- called green skills. an audit found the effort to be a otter failure and a tremendous loss of taxpayer money. failure and a tremendous loss of taxpayer money. the jobs may be needed, the skills may be viable, but they are certainly not all of a sudden green after being around for hundreds of years as professions. aside from the excuses, they have been using the guises of green jobs to ensure ongoing funding of the press and's green agenda. they have counted as a green job college professor, environmental reporter, policy experts at any think pat -- think tank. in fact, lobbyists can be green. i have been in washington for nearly 12 years. there is a lot of green with lobbyists. none of it should be counted as environmentally green. there are 30 through -- 32 times as many corrine jobs in the septic tank and portable toilets servicing industry as there are in a solar, energy, and utility area

labor situation.he report was unavailable for one hour. if the april 10 order had been in effect, the result would have been potentially catastrophic. this increase market vulnerability and volatility in the modern era of computerized trading, people compete in and it illustrates how small incidents can result in disruptions. when the department of labor hosted a conference call to announce -- to ask questions about the new policy, i asked, what is the problem you imagine this will prevent? the department of labor's response was, i think we are gone to -- going to move on. operator, we will take the next question. ultimately, there was a report that has not been publicly released. the department has alleged its new policy is necessary because unauthorized people has planted the unauthorized equipment into the department's communications system. the report speaks of those who oppose the recommendations as adver -- aversions. does the department believe the media is an adversary demo what laws do they t

shortage because of inaccurate assumptions about labor costs. to make up for that, proposing to increase parking enforcement. could you comment on that? for example, the increase in parking enforcement, was this already planned? if so, why was that revenue not in the original budget? this is a narrative, as you know better than i, has been developing out there. it is important to explain to the public how this proceeded. >> thank you. it is a fair and good question. we have been looking at our parking control for a while now. recently, as i mentioned, we made a management change in the area. we recently had the benefit of some resources from the comptroller's office to look at how we manage our parking control officers and enforcement unit. that has been getting us to the conclusions that we got to in this revised budget. it did coincide and it was not a coincidence that it coincided with our need to close a gap. what is driving it is our needs to be able to enforce across the city. we hear, including through your office, concerns of adequate en

yet in conversations with the department of labor, the subcommittee learned that the vets agency at labor collects this information, but never reviews it for any purpose. and the office of federal contract compliance has the authority to audit contractor compliance, but in fact conducts very few and never attempts quality assurance reviews. this doesn't make any sense to me. it's almost like we're going through the motions and don't care what the result. it is called make work that have no results. i called this hearing today to bring together two groups who are actually taking steps, active steps to promote contractor employment of veterans. we're here today to learn from some of the nation's leading veteran services organizations about the challenges facing veterans. we will also hear from two large and well-known businesses about the excellent work they're doing in recruiting and hiring veterans. i look forward to a constructive discussion today. i also want to make one point clear from the outset. the status quo is just not acceptable. the notion that these highly trained, and frankly

it is labor conquers all. now we are the reddest state in the union which is a ironic thing. >> thank you so much for your comments, we'll let that stand and take a call from eric in los angeles. go ahead. >> caller: this is eric. i also am enjoying the program. i think eugene debs tried to keep us to our ideals. my question is about joe paraman. he was a social christian socialist who ran on the ticket with debs in 1900. and later involved with the trial of the mcnamara brothers who were accused of using sabotage to further their cause. joe was one of the attorneys with clarence darrow. i know debs defended in print the mcnamaras. i wondered if they could comment about that. thank you. >> lisa phillips, is this a period of debs' life you could fill us in on? >> i don't know enough about it. i do know that i failed to mention earlier that clarence darrow was a big part of debs' defense in 1894 after he was accused of convicted of contempt of court after the pullman strike. i don't know enough about joe paraman

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

highlights the fact that the labor cost in labor actually labor of the. usa labor cost in russia is that structurally higher than it should be. so this immigrant flows actually highlighting this how supporting the idea that this positive trends in labor cost labor costs and labor incomes and actually do exist all right all the marilyn would never have come to russia. this sort of ice continue. and people would have never come to russia otherwise right if less than it was over we had higher wages. logical marilyn's has also been saying that it expects russia to keep raising taxes due to increasing social spending how soon do you think we could expect this to happen. while prior to election the new president of the ordinary a president a new war president has promised a lot of spending and we do think that most of these spending promises will be funded by raising taxes higher seemingly don't think that russia will be able to will be willing to actually told the world of finance all the spending and therefore they give the ever increasing spending to spend i

that is the labor view. i understand that the manager of opposition business is going to try and chuck around unsound allegations and smear come because he does not know anything about education or the working people are supporting them. if he has an allegation, he should put it. he should pretend that he has one concern about schools in this country. i have never seen him deliver any interest in what he is supposed to be doing in this parliament -- >> the prime minister will return to -- >> of course, madam doug peters speaker, that lack of care for working australians -- madam deputy speaker, the lack of care for iraq in australia's characterize as this opposition. >> the reason why standing orders must be debated is because the parliament has a right to know. why we should not have to suspend a member for douvelle yesterday. he needs to be given the opportunity to speak for 10 minutes to put his side of the story so that we know as members of parliament that we should not have suspended him yesterday, a m

how does big labor impact business, from your perspective? because you are -- you are not a takeover specialist -- >> a turnaround. >> sean: parted of your job is to take companies that are about to go bankrupt and you go in and try to save the company, like what bain capital does. you bring an infusion of capital. how does labor impact your ability to save a company? >> it is company. it's how a company is spun. if they are not spun by bringing people together and say this is the goal and the objective. if we are alined that this is the goal, we only do one thing at a time, we take small chunks at a time and we spin the company very, very quickly. when you talk about the unions. they are counter intutive to the free market. the free market will correct itself if you let it be free. when it's free, it shows where the demand is. when you see where the demand is, small business capitalizes on the demand. if you try to regulate it, youville a slow death that is the death of a business, every single time. it's the death of a country. we do not li

labor groups across the u.s. watched the fight in wisconsin closely, and as diane eastabrook reports walker's win may have organized labor reevaluating future battle plans. >> reporter: a jubilant wisconsin governor scott walker greeted supporters last night after winning a bitter recall election. >> tonight we tell wisconsin, we tell our country, and we tell people all across the globe that voters really do want leaders who stand up and make tough decisions. >> reporter: in walker's case the tough decision was stripping public employees of most of their bargaining rights to help balance wisconsin's budget. the move infuriated labor groups and sparked the historic recall effort. university of illinois labor professor robert bruno thinks walker's victory could be a set- back for organized labor. >> the ability to successfully campaign or successfully move their candidates into office is critical to their ability to be able to promote their agenda or at least protect what is won through collective bargaining. >> re

were making them laborers. saying, you know, i don't want to be on the frontline because i'd rather not die. chances of dying are greater when you're on the frontline. i'm going to put a gun to your head and put you on the frontline. the reason for free blacks in the south showing loyalty is because they wanted to retain what rights they have. remember, on the eve of secession, every free state -- chief justicen en tn t en ttaw clear in dred scott. there were debates about enslaving all three blacks and the desire to retain what rights they had, they showed publicly a support for the secessionist, the confederacy. they don't want to be turned into slaves. so one great example is the louisiana native guards, they never fought, but right after the louisiana becomes a confederacy, they march down the streets of new orleans in full confederate garb with muskets on their shoulder showing their public support for the confederacy. ben butler takes louisiana. it's now in union hands. and he interviews some of these nat

community is labor. you know, what it really is about is good jobs, and that is something that both labor and community understand and are pushing for. i work at the tenderloin at tndc. we have a lot of unemployed residents or low-income and working poor. it would be great to see them working at this hospital. we're pushing for more local hire, more than 40 jobs per year for five years, to ensure our residents can work in the hospital being built in their neighborhood. in good conscience, i cannot see myself or have a hard time seeing myself recommending by residents to work at cpmc hospital where workers are treated so poorly. and i have been sitting here listening to all these accounts of nurses. i have talked to stationary engineers who were on strike. and in no good conscience can i say that i fully support the jobs that will come from cpmc if they are going to be the way that has been described today by our brothers and sisters in the nurses' union. so i really wanted to emphasize that for community

indicated that media ownership rules would not be onerous under labor. is it possible that you said that? >> i think not onerous is not the way i would have put it. i can't specifically remember what was said. but it's perfectly possible. if that issue came up, i would have said that's not an issue we're going to be taking on. >> so whar the position, by it be end of that dinner, mr. murdoch would have had some degree of comfort from you at least in this particular domain, are we agreed about that? >> yeah. but i don't know that he would have particularly taken it. this was not something i was doing in order to get support from the murdoch empire. on the contrary, it was something i wasn't going to take this issue at the outset, if we come into power and start at a great thing about who owned what in the media, it would have been a huge distraction for the labor party. as i recall it, the big issue they were generally worried about and i think they were perfectly entitled to do this where they were lobbying very hard was on commitment to trading and reco

john galvin, he's the acting commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics.and he's -- >> and jane oates is employed by the united states department of labor. would you please all rise to take the oath. >> raise your right hands. >> nu do you solemnly swear that the testimony you're about to give is the truth and nothing but the truth? >> thank you. let the record reflect that all answers are documented. you are full answers will be placed in the record. mr. carl fillichio, go ahead. >> mr. chairman, members of the committee, thank you very much the opportunity to share the efforts we are taking regarding the release of economic data. we take our responsibilities seriously, and we value the critical role the press plays and disseminating this information. the office of management and budget statistical directive number three permits, but does not require or recommend pre-released access to news media a principal, federal, and economic indicators. should an agency elects a pre-release, we make sure that there is no premature dissemination prior to the designat

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as you are aware, the national labor relations act constrains the city's ability to effect labor relations acting towards regulatory capacity. the city cannot ->> if the spone reason, something happens to that covenant, cannot move forward with the project, is that right? >> that is correct. >> even though it is passed through the planning commission. you are saying that we cannot condition it with a covenant. let's say eight gets approved, -- let's say it gets approved, they are still facing the purchase agreement, which has this clause in it. for some reason, if that does not pan out, they cannot move forward with the project. >> there is a board of supervisors ordinance that required the economic justice covenant be in the purchase and sale agreement. the wrappers and the desk from my office can confirm they have already entered into -- the representatives from my office can confirm the a party entered into the agreement. >> -- they have already entered into the agreement. >> there will be no building permits issued until this is done? >> to echo the deputy city attorney's point, that i