unions. and -- american labor unit help build the middle class and help make it strong. unions of the most effective way to move people into the middle class. they're the reason people have weekends off, good wages and benefits and employer-provided health insurance. they led the fight to end child labor my family medical leave. unions have been responsible for one of the biggest challenges in this country and that is how do we increase family wages #, union workers make 27% more than their nonunion counterpart. this comes out as a results and have not only benefit members at all working people. if we want a strong and growing middle-class, we need strong unions. that's why the decision so devastating. not only for the country but for working families in america. a decision that's the latest in a long line of corporate-funded attacks. the workers were talking about our firefighters, police officers, sanitation workers, wall street, the big banks and business of spent decades trying to undermine unions by denying them the freedom to organize. this decision is a result of t

including labor unions and many others. many holding signs and others hiding their faces. they took a walk to the old city which is beyond the wall there. for about one hour, chanting the hallway. there were hundreds of police officers lining the route on either side of the street. many of them in riot gear with helmets and shields and batons. there were a lot of storeowners

unions helped create the 40-hour work week and ended child labor and strengthened the middle class and unions are still today empowering workers in cities and states nationwide. we know that where there are united states, all workers benefit. and we know united states are the most effective pathway to the middle class. so i'm very proud to join my i eagues to co-sponsor and thank senator hirono for her leadership on this legislation. the bill that she has introduced guarantees that our public employees, that's our teachers, our nurses, our first responders, librarians, the basic right to organ bargain collectively in every state across the country. this is one more important step the democrats are taking to stand up for workers and their united states and build an economy that works for all of us and not just those at the top. earlier this month, we introduced the workers freedom to negotiate act. that will level the playing field by strengthening their bargaining power and right to join the union and be treated fairly on a job. our economy only works when it works for everyone. and i

argentinian labor unions are leading a national strike against the government of your must create group about his economic policies which would cause the local currency to drop in value and inflation to hit thirty five percent as more from one of cyrus. when a friend is completely paralyzed there's no buses subways trains or lights the city is completely empty as the largest labor confident ration in the country has called for a national strike early on monday morning left wing groups were blocking the major entrances towards the capitol to prevent people from coming into the capitol and the reason why the thrive was called by labor unions is mostly because they're claiming that people cannot make ends meet with the inflation the double digit inflation that has been tormenting i didn t. news for years and that was exacerbated by the recent devaluation of the karen see with a strengthening u.s. dollar recently the government was forced to demand an emergency fifty billion loan from the international monetary fund and the government of modi feel markedly says the current strike does not h

labor unions in argentina launch a nationwide strike as the country struggles with brize inflation and the weakening currency. and we visit the deprived suburbs of paris where someone from his world cup stars grew up now the new generation hopes to follow in their footsteps. how i when i'm pleased to say we have got some dry weather now pushing into the southwest of china we've had some pretty awful conditions just around you and i'm province still a fair amount of cloud in place here but this was the scene just around twenty four thirty six hours ago where the very heavy rises led to some widespread flooding all four conditions you can see the disruption that these very big downpours has caused as i said things will turn a little try a little pride for over the next couple of days the plan starting to recede away the skies opening up hopefully by the time we come to what the state the state should be largely dry still a few showers down to the southwest in kona but across the south as well even hong kong still seeing some wet weather for tuesday wednesday will be fired into and you ca

union activity is great. the department of agriculture safety inspection service, in places where you see a lot of grievances and unfair labor practices filed, you see people with 100%. in addition mr. congressman, the most highly paid federal employees are in fdic, the securities and exchange commission, national credit union administration and the comptroller conservancy. when you say $100,000, some of those people in those agencies are making 200,000 a year. the other thing you may not know is that those agencies bargain pay without a specific authorization from the congress to do so. >> okay, several months ago back in january i worked with chairman metals and others trying to write a letter trying to request information from various agencies on official time. it took months and months and months, over five months and then when we finally got a response, it was so difficult to compile staff and countless hours to get the information in a way that it could be remotely understandable. we are still going through it. do any agencies really keep track of official time usage to your knowledge? >> some agencies have as part of

labor unions are working hard to give workers a collective voice to gain higher wages, better health care and secure retirement. a tax on public-sector unions on the camel's nose under the tent flap. they are coming after private-sector unions next. the middle class in our country and shape the life of every american by negotiating for labor rights, including minimum wage, eight hour workdays, weekends, health insurance. now is not the time to turn our back on american workers and labor unions. stand withtime to employees who serve the public across the country. if we defeat the previous question, i will offer an amendment to the will to bring up my bill, the public service freedom to negotiate act. the bill that would defend every employee to join a union. it empowers the relation authority to ensure that state and local government employees are treated fairly and that work conditions meet a proper standard. again, the decision is an outright attack on all unions, on all working people and attack on the causes that we here in congress. i urge my colleagues to oppose the previous ques

. >> reporter: labor unions and workers rights groups say no one who works full time should have to live in poverty. they say this increase is great but they want more. >>> reporter: for a city as expensive as san francisco, every penny counts for minimum wage employees. [ speaking spanish ] >> reporter: elizabeth who lives on treasure island is happy the minimum wage will increase to $15 an hour on sunday. >> as of july 1st, our minimum wage will be $15 an hour. >> whoo! >> reporter: she was among the group of elected officials labor unions and workers rights groups celebrating at city hall. >> the $15 demand was considered impossible when it first was said, right? we made the impossible possible. it is with a lot of sacrifices that low wage workers come forward telling about their survival. >> reporter: it was a vision of mayor lee whose ballot measure was approved in 2014. mark farrell says there's still a long way to go especially when it comes to keeping low wage employees in a city with high housing cost. >> we have to build as much affordable housing as possible. that's why this a

i assume labor unions support people who support them. they act in their own self-interest, like any other donor. mr. west, would you agree with that? >> i would certainly agree with that, and all of the activities that we're talking about, the establishment of official time, the activities that are taking place were authorized by the civil service reform act of 1978, and i would just like to remind members of the subcommittee that act passed the senate on an 87-1 vote and the house agreed to the conference report on a 365-8 vote. so it was passed on a purely bipartisan basis. almost nobody in congress opposed it. >> okay, but mr. gilson makes a point. he says yeah, that's true. but in 1978, nobody foresaw the expansion of the use of official time. no one had that in mind when they passed that bill, that it's evolved into something that's not -- would not be recognizable to those people. would you comment on that? have i got that accurate, mr. gilson? >> yes, sir. >> yep. mr. west, what about that? >> i mean, what the legislation allowed

to argentina now where labor unions have led a national strike against the government of president married see a mockery they're angry about his economic policies which have caused the local currency to drop in value and inflation to nearly double unders there is to raise a bow reports now from. roadblocks all around when a site is this is how argentina's capital look on monday after the country's largest workers' confederation called for a general strike against the government of. left wing groups blocked major roads leading to the capital protesting against what they say is a government that rules for the rich. there is a social crisis and a political crisis there is discontent is the beginning of the pact between the i.m.f. and the government that brings about austerity measures the economic situation is worse that's why we will be on the streets. since taking office mackie's government has been unable to control the double digit inflation rate that has tormented arjun times for years the recent baser devaluation caused by a strengthening u.s. dollar forced the governmental request and

the ly reason -- the prinl reason that labor unions have survived to 2018, they are 100 years old -- states have forced employees to join them. without the compulsion of law forcing members to join unions, the unions will be required to offer benefits so that people will voluntarily join. i don't know that they have the financial wherewithal to do this if you look at it from republican versus democrat, as you were just discussing with andy mccarthy because of some crazy phenomenon where blue r union members tend to be more republican, their labor union leaders tend to be more democratic. it's catastrophic for the democrats. >> bill: thank you, judge. >> sandra: thank you. several candidates backed by president trump went to victory last night including south carolina governor henry mcmaster, as a 10-term democrats loses to a 28-year-old democrat. let's go maria bartiromo and brad blakeman, former assistant to george w. bush. richard fowler radio talk show host and fox news contributor. you wouldn't be the a-team if you didn't have lengthy resumes, right? brad, start with you first. w

. >>> the supreme court ruling on unions is considered a blow to california's labor unions. union leaders argue that corporate interests are taking precedent over the rights of the disenfranchised and middle class. rob malcolm is in the newsroom with a breakdown of who is affected and what it means. >>> reporter: unions will now have to do more with less and still hope members choose to buy in. at stake with this decision are the rights of workers and the ability of unions to have enough in the war chest to continue fighting on the behalf of workers. >>> reporter: the 5-4 decision in the supreme court was considered bad medicine for members of national nurses united, the largest union and professional association of nurses in the nation. members rallied today in front of ucsf medical center in san francisco. >> i feel it's a corporate attack on working people and communities, and, um, i think it's an unjust use of the first amendment. >> reporter: noon rallies were held across california. nurses argue about safety as a state mandated patient ratio that unions have fought for

we have a decision actually from the supreme court on this labor union case. so let's start there. williams, live outside t court for us. >> reporter: the supreme court has dealt a big blow to public sector unions in the u.s. overruling an earlier decision so it will have a big consequence for public sector unions. and remember over half of the union might bes in america are public employees. here was the issue. the supreme court has long said if you don't want to join a union, you don't have to pay the dues, except you do have to pay a portion of the dues that covers the cost of collective bargaining. the supreme court in the past has said this would prevent free riders, people who get the benefits without having to pay thinking. but for the last five or six years, various people have challenged this saying that it still violates their free speech rights because sometimes the union takes positions that they don't agree with. and that having to pay any fees at all to the union violates their free speech rights. and today by a vote of 5-4, the supreme court agreed. you now, i have to

labor unions in argentina launch a nationwide strike as the country struggles with rising inflation and a weakening currency. and we visit the deprived suburbs of paris where some of france's world cup stars grew up now a new generation i hopes to follow in the footsteps. hello once again welcome to another look at the international full cost sad things looked pretty standard across the middle east at the moment clear skies pretty much all the way one of two showers up towards caspian towards the caucuses raising over towards. through georgia and mania forty five celsius there in baghdad want to see showers as you can see just continuing across the fall northeast of rhesus in some very heavy rain recently cities as we go on into wednesday much of the reason as you can see at this stage just hot and dry sums it up twenty celsius of pirates a nice a fine weather on the eastern side of the bed but we're into the mid forty's for many graci thirty four celsius the chances and a lot of the showers here a little bit of cloud meanwhile across the southern end of the arabian peninsula but elsewh

and labor unions in argentina launch a nationwide strike as the country struggles with rising inflation and a weakening currency. hello there is pretty hot across parts of europe the my in the central belt the still a fair amount of clouds you can see and that's just drifting its way towards the south but in the west that's where there's not a great deal of cloud showing up at all and the temperatures soaring so london all the way up to thirty maybe even a touch higher as we head through the next few days and paris not far off either towards the south even hotter madrid right up at forty one so that will be a real shock the temperatures here being far below average recently towards the east that's where we've got the showers and they're also stretching down towards parts of greece and bowl garia this region here is looking at some very lively thunderstorms over the next few days they could give us some flooding rains and maybe some damaging hail as well across the other side of the mediterranean we've also you see plenty of thunderstorms here they've given us a lot of electrical activit

supreme court just dealt a setback to labor unions.nonunion workers to pay fees that go to collective bargaining. >>> the mountain view city council voted to put a head tax on the november ballot. if passed that would force google and other big businesses in town to pay a tax for every person they employ. >>> a driver rammed his car into a residential care home in san leandro. and police say he did it on purpose. the driver is now in custody. >>> stay with us; a look at traffic and w eather in just a moment. >>> good morning. we are tracking a new accident along southbound 680 slowing things down. the crash near monument boulevard backup stretching to 242. your ride is heavy heading southbound from willow pass down to highway 24, just under 15 minutes. all lanes clear on westbound 24 at broadway of an earlier accident really tied things up. we are seeing delays. you have about 21 minutes between 680 and 580. eastshore freeway dealing with a couple of problems. you have about 40 minutes from highway 4 down to the maze. we had some earli

. >>> a major setback for public sector labor unions. the supreme court struck down an illinois law that forced workers to pay fees. 5-4 ruling overturns a nearly 40 year court precedence. >> abc7 news was on market street tonight as hundreds of san francisco hotel workers rallied for a new contract. pushing forha allow hotel workers that live and work in san francisco on one job. >>> tonight the department of homeland security has requested housing from the military for 12,000 migrant families. housing will not be at the old air force base in concord. they say they are not letting their guard down at all. >> we need to keep watchful eye and make sure that it doesn't happen. >> instead secretary of defense says the military intends to provide housing at fort bliss and goodfellow the administration must separate children with their parents. >>> a 95-year-old concord woman who was the victim of a purse snatching has died. 93-year-old ann peterson was knocked to the ground and severely injured in the robbery in may. the contra costa will de

hub in one aside and as you can see it's completely paralyzed a sign of the strength that the labor unions have in argentina growing i right from northern argentina and was not sure how to make it home where the girl is a winner we knew this was happening but i thought there would be something very is nothing i understand the need to go on strike but we are all affected by what's happening. the i.m.f. loan brings back memories of the two thousand and one economic crisis when argentina defaulted on its sovereign debt because your book. was part of the negotiating team at the time and says that the situation is different now. the government responded fast they sought help from the i.m.f. because they knew nobody else would loan them the money the crisis would have been worse if they hadn't. and that's why many on the streets are not as optimistic and fear that another economic crisis may be closer and the government would like to admit. i'll just see that one aside is let's bring in political analyst adrian bowler in washington d.c. he's the founder of the bubble dot com a current web site i

and labor unions in argentina launch a nationwide strike as the country struggles with rising inflation and a weakening currency. turkey's president. returning to office with sweeping new executive powers he says it's a win for democracy but international monitors of criticize the outcome saying the ruling party had unfair advantages in sunday's polls will now be able to issue laws by decree and make key appointments to the judiciary and the civil service has the latest from ankara. there were stark differences in the messages from red to saber two on the victor of sunday's election and his closest contender his closest rival a hundred injured a one repeatedly said that she planned on being a president for all of turkey he said that she would not allow for any person to be discriminated against in this new turkey under this new system regardless of their political views their gender or their ethnic origin obviously this is seen as maybe an attempt by the president to reassure those who are concerned on that this new system a lot of the power is concentrated in the presidency in one pers

so next year, we will have 26 labor unions that are open. our office and the controller's office added a temporary staff person in order to perform that analysis and work to support the city's position in that big list of work that will happen next spring. >>> okay. >>> otherwise, it was tidying up partial positions. >>> so we've been trying to prioritize moving people living on the streets into permanent housing. what new programs in the budget are helping us to achieve that goal? >>> i believe, supervisor, that your question would be best directed to homelessness and supportive housing when they come up. >>> okay. >>> in the mayor's office of housing and community development, we're an important part of that continuum because we are providing construction of new units for people leaving homelessness for permanent supportive housing. the budget does include continued increase over both budget years of the number of units supported by the local operating subsidy program. so those are supportive housing units that are in a variety of our diff

. >> the announcement came just hours after the supreme court dealt a setback to labor unions . the justices struck down a law that forced nonunion workers to pay fees that go to collective bargaining. the court ruled mandatory union dues violated first amendment rights. that overturns a 40-year-old court precedent. jackie ward talk to union members to see how they feel about the union ruling. >> we were prepared for this type of ruling. as far as what we plan to do, we're going to stay strong and united. >> reporter: she works for the san francisco housing authority and has been a member of the union for more than 27 years. she says there's a misconception that union dues are used for political causes. she tells me that is not with the money goes towards. >> they are used for representation and negotiating. they are not used to have membipinrsr:this impacts public sector union members like firefighters, teachers and nurses. members in sacramento say they will stand by the union despite what they call, a fast -- frustrating ruling. >> we condemn the supreme court decision backed

a sign of the strength that the labor unions have in argentina growing i right from northern argentina and was not sure how to make it home where the burleson were no discernable we knew this was happening but i thought there would be something there is nothing i understand the need to go on strike but we are all affected by what's happening in. the i.m.f. loan brings back memories of the two thousand and one economic crisis when i didn't tina defaulted on its sovereign debt because your book will go insane was part of the negotiating team at the time and says that the situation is different now you're seeing the government responded fast they sought help from the i.m.f. because they knew nobody else would loan them the money the crisis would have been worse if they hadn't. and that's why many on the streets are not as optimistic and fear that another economic crisis may be closer and the government would like to admit it is somewhat i'll just see that when a site is staying in the americas president trump a slab the motorcycle make a harley davidson for planning to move some of its pr

hub in one aside and as you can see it's completely paralyzed a sign of the strength that the labor unions have in argentina growing i right from northern argentina and was not sure how to make it home where the girl is a widow we knew this was happening but i thought there would be something very is nothing i understand the need to go on strike but we are all affected by what's happening in. the i.m.f. loan brings back memories of the two thousand and one economic crisis when argentina defaulted on its sovereign debt. was part of the negotiating team at the time and says that the situation is different now. the government responded fast they sought help from the i.m.f. because they knew nobody else would loan them the money the crisis would have been worse if they hadn't. and that's why many on the streets are not as optimistic and fear that another economic crisis may be closer and the government would like to admit. i'll just see that when a site is. political analyst on the finer of bubble dot com it's a current affairs website he says argentina's economy today is very different to dur

the only reason the principle reason i should say the public-sector labor unions have survived 22,018y are 100 years old because states have forced employees to join them without the compulsion of law forcing members to join unions but the units will be required to offer benefits so people will voluntarily join. i don't know that they have the financial wherewithal to do this but if you look at it from republican versus democrat as you were just discussing with andy mccarthy because of some crazy phenomenon where blue-collar union members tend to be more public and what their union leaders tend to be more democrat. this is catastrophic for them. liz: let's bring in california attorney hermie dylan. is the judge right? >> deaf i am particularly so in the blue states you mentioned california number one on the list where there is this very unhealthy symbiotic/parasitic relationship between the public-sector labor union bosses and democratic politicians in sacramento that end up driving up or our cost of living cumberpatch and everything in california becomes more expensive than difficult

for low income earners, their fight isn't over. >> labor unions and community can work together to ensure that we continue to lift up the lowest paid workers in our city. >> reporter: san francisco is not alone. emeryville will be at $15 on sunday for small employees. cristina rendon, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> checking in on those temperatures from today it did warm your opinion a little bit out there. 95 in antioch. 96 in concord. these temperatures five and eight degrees warmer than yesterday which was what we had planned. cooler at the coast with 60 at pacifica but high temperatures tomorrow even at the coast are going to get into the triple of have seen this season. maybe a rough but it's tough to get records this time of year. you have to get up to 104 to 103 for a record but we'll see. there's a little bit of patchy fog at the coast but it's tough with these offshore winds. so don't count on that. the wind are blowing down the coast. they are going to generally start to clock -- they are starting in the north like this. that's a north wind. that's a northeast wind. north-northeast. and t

the supreme court rules government workers can't be forced to pay fees to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining, so-called fair share fees. the court ruled those mandatory union dues violate first amendment rights. it's a major financial blow to organized labor. >> we'll have less sources available in terms of funding, so the chapter members will have to probably chip in more to do things, which is fine. >> local members of the seiu say it's a setback but not defeat. they're putting on a brave face and saying their members are loyal. >> in general the members of our employees will stick with the rule nothing matter filed by republican bruce row never back in 2015. today's decision was a personal victory for him. >> today's supreme court ruling in the case of mark janis versus afscme is historic, freedom of speech and freedom of affiliation for public sector employees. it's always a historic victory for taxpayers. >> reaction is pouring in from both sides. scotus just came down on the wrong side of history. we will come together to fight back and work together to st

is offered a chance to start a smart delivery business and the spraem court deals a setback to labor unionsing hall is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, diane. >> good morning, anne-marie. the supreme court struck down a union ruling. it ruled yesterday nonunion government employees can no longer be forced to contribute to unions that represent them in bargaining negotiations. it reversed an abboud versus detroit school of education >>> meanwhile u.s. stocks finished lower as lynn zbering trades continued to destabilize the market. tech stocks suffered the biggest losses. ultimately the stock fell under 65 points. the s&p 500 lost 23 points and the nasdaq tumbled 116 points. >>> apple and samsung are ending a seven-year legal battle over smartphone designs. the feud began in 2011 when apple accused samsung of co copying. the case landed at the supreme court before being sent back to lower courts. the companies notified a district court yesterday they reached an undisclosed settlement. >>> equifax is boosting security. it includes several states including alaba

the ruling w a blow to labor unions that could result in a loss of members and money. eamon javers reports tonight. >> reporter: a significant decision tay in a blow to public blow unions. this is a cas that's all about whether public employee unions have the right r touire nonmembers who work for that public sector entity to pay unioes, even though they might not want to. mark janice an illinois state employee decided he didn't want $45 a month out of his paycheck for that union and t decided e that case all the way to the supreme court. today the supreme court siding with mark janice. the court deciding that 1977 president doesn't apply any more saying we conclude that the public secto agency shop arrangements violate the first amendment and - the court also going on to sympathize with the unions who will suffen enormous loss of revenue potentially as nonmembers decide not to pay those union dues. we recognize that the loss of payments from nonmembers mca e unions to experience unpleasant transition costs in the short-term a may require unions to make adjustments in o

. >> where is the heart of the labor union movement right now. >> this has been a bugaboo as a sort ofgn finance deraeg later, this is what having a conservative supreme court means to him and republicans. >> they seem to understand this is big casino, the republicans. they seem to get it. that's why they fight so hard for this. >> republicans have galvanized their base behind the supreme court and judiciary for years. democrats have to do the same. 2016 exit polls found that 20% of voters said that the supreme court was the number one priority for them. 56% of those broke for trump whereas only 41% broke for clinton. democrats have not been able to mobilize progressives behind. >> who wins if this issue boys the national issue going into november, trump's pick for the supreme court? >> i think republicans win. they've done a good job of this. they have a whole network of groups funded by some of the biggest donors on the right who get out the vote on this issue. >> mitch mcconnell may be utterly unappealed but he has the politics right because democrats suffer from garlanditis. the de

it is likely to meet resistance from labor unions. anyway, deutsche bank lower on that. at bt group. patterson out after five years at the helm. the and you and result went down poorly with investors -- and the result wentyear down poorly with investors. with -- culminated with patterson moving out as the ceo. a search is underway for his replacement and a successor could be in place by the second half. the board is fully supportive of the strategy recently set out by patterson, but nonetheless shareholders seem to be cheering his exit. france down 2%. they fell 1.7 percent last month compared to one year earlier but at a group level they fell 1%. sorther words, the dutch of popping things up for the parent company, air france. air france down 2%. guy: thank you very much indeed. let's talk about what is happening with these markets and the implications of what next week is going to bring. we have a bunch of central banks. economists see mario draghi's bond buying era ending, even as soon as next week. we will get data next week from the staff of the ecb as well. a surve

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it comes after almost three months of strikes from labor unions. they have said they will go ahead with the planned train strikes until the end of the month. now emmanuel macron says he never meant to offend italy with his comments. the french president the country irresponsible and cynical over its decision to refuse save port to -- safe port to a rescue boat carrying migrants, but round amended an apology from paris. the ship in question, the aquarius, has since been rerouted to valencia, spain, with more than 600 migrants aboard. i have been speaking to our correspondent just a few mckenna, in -- josephine mckenna, in rome. josephine: a political row was spiraling out of control over the state of the ship. italy was offended by comments emmanuel macron madee regarding its failure to allow this ship to dock in italy. overnight, president macron ndlephoned giuseppe conte a appeared to have a cordial telephone commerce asian. the prime minister a short time ago released a statement to say that president macron said he had no intention of offending

today argentina's largest labor union the general confederation of labor or c g t in its spanish initials has called a strike shutting down transportation as well as banks and schools across the entire country. the c g t represents about three million members and receive the support of other unions and social movements including the workers central union or c.t.a. leaders say labor leaders say the strike is in response to president machree veto of a bill that would have frozen utility rates for gas and electricity at their november two thousand and seventeen levels mr mercury's labor minister dismissed the workers grievances saying quote they search for conflict for conflicts mr machree faces increasing discontent as he attempts to impose fiscal austerity in hopes of security credit from the international monetary fund and opposing any increase in wages even as high inflation eats at salaries. more than sixty percent sixty percent of every single person on this planet has a cell phone and that is of course a higher if you're in developing nations they'll be five billion of them next year

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all eyes were on the high court after they issued a decision and a blow to labor unions. in a 5-4 vote the supreme court ruled that government workers who opt out of joining unions are not required to pay a share of agency fees because that violates their first amendment rights. the decision overturns a 1977 case that prohibited the use of public sector fees for political causes like lobbying but said unions could use fees to cover the cost of what's called collective bargaining. joining me now is mark janice, he is the plaintiff in the case and a child support specialist in the illinois deputy of health care and family. mark, thank you for being with us. tell us about your -- first of all you will go down in history not just because you had a supreme court case come down in your favor but it was the last case decided with kennedy on the bench. you felt it would infringe upon your first amendment rights to have to have money taken out of your paycheck every monday to go toward a public service union? >> that's correct. because i did not get the chance or the opportunity t

incentive to take a free ride. >> reporter: professor shaken adds california's politically powerful labor unions are left fighting for members as their influence crumbles. >> all working americans -- working californians, union or nonunion alike, are going to be affected. this will diminish unions politically. they will have fewer resources. >> reporter: this statement from lieutenant governor gavin newsom: >> reporter: the train is certainly tougher for unions who will now have to be creative. floyd rollins with firefighters local 798 welcomes the challenges. >> what we will do is we will certainly educate our members as to why it is important to be a member of the union not to mention the fact that, you know, it's a fair share pay. you know, we negotiate contracts, you know, wages. >> reporter: the effects could be long lasting for the democrats who relied on those unions who donated to labor- friendly candidates. some unions may now have to cut back on the political spending. rob malcolm, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> san francisco's department of elections has just certified the results of the june 5

it was just three days ago that the supreme court ruling against big labor unions, for example, and janice versus afsme, a detrimental case to organized labor here. so in terms of the questions that president trump, who is expected to be meeting with potential supreme court justice nominees this weekend, he might be asking about rulings and potential economic cases or where they will fall in line on energy sector cases, as well. just this week, as well, we got that monumental ruling on the president's immigration policy. two big economic cases, immigration cases that the administration feels are a significant win for them. so that is why you're hearing people like senator elizabeth warren this week pushing back against some of these cases that the administration won, aligning themselves with organized labor, people like senator sherrod brown, a democrat from ohio up for re-election this fall, as well. so this is really a devicive time in american politics, obviously, but it would be -- but we have to move beyond some of these more devisive issues and recognize that the supreme court is goi

unions. i think that you know leadership this country particularly big labor has lost its way. i didn't say unions are union members all supported the policies. i said they voted for president trump private sector union members, a majority of them voted for president trump but i soon they were voting for and because they support his policies because union leadership with any other direction. republicans including myself are critical of president obama's policies. i never criticize president obama himself but it always was very critical of his economic policies, not because i i wantd those policies to fail but because i was concerned that they wouldn't succeed. the difference is people are attacking president trump on a personal basis, not on the basis of his policies but on a personal basis which we didn't do it present obama, at least i didn't.n' they were attacking not in the hope his economic policies will succeed. we are seeing great success buts he's being tapped fored this pot is in way not because they might fail because they might succeed and that would set the progressi

foothold in this market which is why it's critical they have a seat at the table and crit tall for labor unions to have a seat at the table to ensure that the industry is creating living wage jobs and not hoarding profits. [reading] no new laws, just transparency for the implementation of these laws. with thi have amendments to the legislation and have provided these to the commune members. aim 1, page 1, line 22 used to read as follows seat h shall be held by a person with household income at or below the poverty line. now reads seat 4 small we held by representative of organizationnizetorganizedborla this person will provide a voice for hundreds if not thousands of delivery service workers. amendment 2, page 2, line 7 used to read, seat 8 shall be held by a person with significant experience in the field of economic development and now read seat 8 shall be held by a person with significant experience in workforce or economic development. the only change is to add the words workforce and which ensures the individual has the experience in workforce develop. this creates a nine-member commission

the court issued decisions on the tral ban, labor unions.here was a decision that said califoia cannot require faith-based pregnancy t centerso provide information on abortion. taken as a whole what to they tell you about the court? >> it was a good term for conservatives at the court. each term is a little different, and most of the cases that were closely watched the conservatives prevailed and justice kitnedy sided w them in contrast to prior years where with some he sided wit h more liberal justices. >> it was a blockbuster term for conservatn really key issues that were important to their base. so to the extent that conservatives voted for the court when they went to the polls in 2016, they got what they were laing for. ra and in the tvel ban ruling, chief justice roberts seized the moment t finally overturn the korematsu decision from ad1944, the up holding of the japanese interment. justice sotomayor saidhere were things in common. >> in my view the over viewing of korematsu was a sop to liberals. it kindf language wished on the court

and the next thing you know within ten years corporation had three times the number of pacs as labor unions. and it's an example of how we often find in my story that often progressive reforms that were designed to meet the ends of laborers or dissenters or outcasts have been exploited by corporations to protect their own interests and rights. corporations are very good at leveraging progressive reform to serve the ends of capital. >> host: are corporations and unions treated same in law when it comes to some of these issues? are unions people too, in a sense? >> guest: yes. many of these things are -- many of the legal rules also pertain to unions and, indeed, some of the important union cases lead to where the unions gain free speech rights to form pacs, for instance, where the supreme court says that's okay. those are cases where the supreme court says corporations can do it too. it's examples of how there often has been connection between these two. what we are seeing, peter, interestingly at the supreme court today though is the expansion of the rights of corporations and the limiting

hub in one aside and as you can see it's completely paralyzed a sign of the strength that the labor unions have in argentina growing i right from northern argentina and was not sure how to make it home for the palace i would know this area we knew this was happening but i thought there would be something very is nothing i understand the need to go on strike but we are all affected by what's happening. the i.m.f. loan brings back memories of the two thousand and one economic crisis when argentina defaulted on its debt because your book. was part of the negotiating team at the time and says that the situation is different now. the government responded fast they sought help from the i.m.f. because they knew nobody else would loan them the money the crisis would have been worse if they hadn't. and that's why many on the streets are not as optimistic and fear that another economic crisis may be closer and the government would like to admit. that one of. our top story in the next hour here on al-jazeera the u.n. had a report that says that hundreds of kids have been used in the fighting in yemen