when early labor leader samuel gompers was asked what labor wanted, he answered in one word-- "more."lter reuther, leonard woodcock, and douglas fraser, auto workers' wages kept pace with auto makers' prices and profits. i'm never satisfied. did you need more time? no. there's always a next time. but big 6 printers had gotten more and seen their employer go under. a manufacturer trying to turn red ink into black could cut costs by cutting pay. but why would union members take less? in the sixties, general motors, ford, and chrysler, the so-called big three, dominated the auto shows and the roads. as in many basic industries, lack of competition allowed them to keep raising prices. consumers trading up had to pay up. but the sixties brought something new to the highways. at first, american drivers and producers couldn't be bothered. 30-cent gas made gas guzzlers a cheap luxury. then came the energy crisis. consumers looked again at high-mileage imports. they were looking and buying. foreign cars hit the auto industry like a cyclone. chrysler was taking on red ink faster than it could b

not an extra labor force. absolutely necessary for the survival of small to mid-sized italian companies. child labor has therefore become indispensable for the survival of crisis stricken italy. but at the other end of europe the crisis is biting too and everyone is doing their best to fight it in their own way. great britain prime minister david cameron has a radical take on social welfare and that's the interaction of the benefits system with the choices people make about having a family i already talked about how many people have to think very carefully about whether they can afford to have children and how many they can afford to her since the crisis the british government has had one priority. budgetary cuts the order of the day to end the benefits culture everyone back to work on other days when doing nothing was a long option a choice under labor that someone was free to make to ponder whether to work or not to work well from now on the message is clear you must work and if you won't work with us to fin

and not an extra labor force. absolutely necessary for the survival of small to mid-sized italian companies. child labor has therefore become indispensable for the. wyvil of crisis stricken italy. but at the other end of europe the crisis is biting too and everyone is doing their best to fight it in their own way. great britain prime minister david cameron has a radical take on social welfare and that's the interaction of the benefits system with the choices people make about having a family i already talked about how many people have to think very carefully about whether they can afford to have children and how many they can afford to have but since the crisis the british government has had one priority budgetary cuts the order of the day to end the benefits culture everyone back to work gone are the days when doing nothing was a long option a choice under labor that someone was free to make to ponder whether to work or not to work well from now on the message is clear you must work and if you won't work with us

>> so the labor participation, labor force participation rate has been declining for a number of years. in fact, some fed staffers wrote a very nice paper about the trend in participation before the crisis. and a number of reasons why that's happening. including the aging of our society, so more people are of retirement age. the fact that women are not coming in to the labor force at the same pace as they were early on. some trend decline in participation by prime age men. some additional school, more people are going to school for longer. so a whole variety of factors are causing participation to decline over time. and, again, this is a trend that existed before the -- before the crisis, before the recession. now, at the same time, it's probably also the case that there are some people who are outside of the officially measured labor force, because they -- their view, perhaps correctly, is that the labor market is too weak and that they're unlikely to find work. and if they could -- if they thought they could find work they might come back in to the labor force. so these people who ar

no not an extra labor force. absolutely necessary for the survival of small to mid-sized italian companies. child labor has therefore become indispensable for the survival of crisis stricken italy. but at the other end of europe the crisis is biting too and everyone is doing their best to fight it in their own way. great britain prime minister david cameron has a radical take on social welfare and that's the interaction of the benefits system with the choices people make about having a family i already talked about how many people have to think very carefully about whether they can afford to have children and how many they can afford to have since the crisis the british government has had one priority budgetary cuts the order of the day to end the benefits culture everyone back to work gone are the days when doing nothing was a long option a choice under labor that someone was free to make to ponder whether to work or not to work well from now on the message is clear you must work and if you won't work with us to

advantage of this cheap labor force. according to recent estimates there are sixty thousand kids working in the naples region today. the state what's the italian government doing about it. this is the headquarters of the labor inspection agency for companions. the director doesn't know the camera is already running he admits straight away but he's powerless. you see my figures on the control of under age workers are pathetic figure should reflect what we're doing about it but they're too weak look here in two thousand and eleven we only did controls on forty eight miners so you're going to tell us all about it now. you know i don't want to talk about it. i do want to talk about is the phenomenon of child labor in general in this city. you know about our activity in the region in general but i don't want to give statistic. why. because on the inspection level you don't have to explain to my minister who watched the interview why i've only done forty eight checks on miners. i mean in a city like naples forty eight checks l

and not an extra labor force. absolutely necessary for the survival of small to mid-sized italian companies. child labor has therefore become indispensable for the survival of crisis stricken italy. but at the other end of europe the crisis is biting too and everyone is doing their best to fight it in their own way. great britain prime minister david cameron has a radical take on social welfare and that's the interaction of the benefits system with the choices people make about having a family i already talked about how many people have to think very carefully about whether they can afford to have children and how many they can afford to have since the crisis the british government has had one priority budgetary cuts the order of the day to end the benefits culture everyone back to work gone are the days when doing nothing was a long term option a choice under labor that someone was free to make to ponder whether to work or not to work well from now on the message is clear you must work and if you won't work with

just that it's not forced labor . end up admitting the children are working in the fields so who is going to buy up to back up. what types of cigarettes to produce tobacco for people much variance. for. the future we mainly produce for philip morris. he's the principal buyer. so the tobacco produced by children ends up in cigarettes which belong to philip morris in packets of chesterfield merit among other brands which is sold on the global market. on his website however philip morris claims we do not tolerate the illegal employment of children and we do not tolerate forced labor so we called philip morris to. find out if he was aware of these abuses i'd like to ask you two questions the first one is are you aware of what's happening in bulgaria with so good that using title and if you are. the second one is if you're not aware what are you going to do about it. my and. what this communications representative tries to tell us is that philip morris is financing a foundation against child labor the e.c. l.t. yet the e.c

and so eleanor is designated to be the kennedy emissary to the african-americans and labor. and so her campaign is instrumental there for the president's victory, although he won for many reasons but i think the one statistic that's very interesting is that as you all know he becomes president because he carries illinois by 247,000 votes. he wins 267,000 african-american votes in chicago. and eleanor spends three days of the last 16 days of the campaign working with the naacp, going to african-american churches and holding rallies. so there was a, let's say, an iou that was, you know, desperately earned there. and when president kennedy appoints fewer women to presidential appointments than any president after fdr, eleanor begins -- there's no other word for it -- to browbeat him into appointing women. and so, she writes him letter after letter after letter of this is the woman that you should consider to be in this position. this is her phone number. this is her home phone number. you know, this is her work address. and finally, she writes him a four-page single spaced type

on this labor day thank you to all of the great leaders. mayor brown and mayor quan and mayor lee and all those who pictures are symbolized throughout this hello. those who worked so hard to make this historic day come to past. now my pleasure to introduce the senator (clapping) >> yes 24 years since is earthquake. it's about time everybody isn't it? it's also while we're doing touch stones 8 years since the bay area delegation came together in a time of financial hardship when there was a question of the bridge maybe just being a ramp to the i'd like. and put together the program that led to every state owned bridge in california and i was proud as part of the bay area delegation at this time along with our majority leader ellen who's here and along with the senator with assemblyman john and, of course, brian kelly our new head of california trance who was working with the senator. as a delegation we put together a bill that i was proud to be able to carry a b-144 that led to this beautiful bridge today. my thought then and annoy is that t

today is a big day after 6 months of working from labor and federal bureau of investigation's we're excelling excited to announce san francisco intention to kick start the green finance sf program. an environmental program that will continue san francisco's tradition of being at the forefront of embattling climate thanking changed that will push obvious further doing down the road and put san franciscans to work in our neighborhood through a strong workforce component that were all bay of helping san francisco property owners in renutritional project in their homes. green finance sf is the program for residential properties of 4 ruin u opts or less known as pace. it's a financing structure that will allow san franciscans at no cost to our city st. to have refume upgrades to property homeowners in san francisco. it's the special pinsz that will help prevent energy efficient upgrade and a spreading e spraifd the cost recovery over the life the unit. it will help to finance upgrades through the property assessment and the capita will be priority by private entities would no financial risk to our

. >> how about cost of labor? with have affordable care act. a lot of people feel just the base level of labor after being steady for a long time might start going up in 2014. >> yeah, you know, that's definitely a possibility. but we're very excited about the growth and the brand. we feel when you're growing top-line sales on a consistent basis, we're going to be able to deal with any increases we see in labor overtime. >> let's go back to this a idea of innovation. i told you i love this burger, i

labor is ordinary. somebody washing windows. >> is there any, like might we go to a mace of business and someone could be a traffic person? >> yes. someone recently went to a local shop and said my family brought me over from here country and they forced me to open the store in the open and close it at night and she said, i need help. i need to get out of this situation. >> did someone help her? >> yes. by reporting. we see these run by organized crime, family and people who know them. friends that can happen. what we know is with human trafficking, when we talk about international victims, people are recruited from their own ethnicity. so someone that owns a business. there was a case in south dakota that ran a comfort in. they were filipino that brought these people. they owed more because they had to pay for their room and board. they owed more than they made. they had to sign their pay checks over every friday. >> what happens to traffic persons when they are relieved of that status. do they get dep

i don't even reserve stuart is the labor issues through that are you know we're totally against both the way this is being done and what is being there for a transparent process but we're also for the trade deals that serve to lift up workers and not drive the economic global economic race to the bottom we are complicit this country is complicit in our trade deals with driving the economic race the bottom nafta lowered manufacturing wages in mexico not just in this country in mexico so the only ones who benefit from these giant trade deals are the elites and all the countries we're told i mean it be different if the negotiators were as concerned about child labor as they are about intellectual property rights they worry all day long about intellectual property rights nobody gives a. rat's tail about a thirteen year old working for eleven days in malaysia. and in a clothing factory he would you feel threatened by this kind of i mean if this deal passes this is going to be a huge power grab by global multinational corporations that the expense of individual sovereignty around the world

so the members of the labor organizations standing behind me do i have the opportunity to be 2r5i7bd for jobs here in the 21st century and want to thank pat mulligan and as well as a number of our labor leaders for making this a reality. spent the concerns we are confident that san francisco's program can move forward and be successful. we've seen count also programs operate successfully would no threat of being constituting shut down. we're doing all we can a city to protect prosperity owns and certainties they need to operator the in our program. governor jerry brown currently passed a program that will address the sf concerned and freddie mac and fannie mae won't be effected. we've, participating in the state fund to make sure our properties are fully protected. ultimately in the end green finance st. is the solution we've been searching for it creates local jobs. green finance sf will if you thought cement >> is a a natural leader to errors the effects of cloiment changes and make it easier for homeownership to refinance. we have more work to do in rolling out this program i hope

and before the labor in concrete and steel, there was the labor in the minds of men. and we now building this bridge would be remiss indeed if we did not set forth in the record of sunk and towers raised in the acknowledgment of the service performed at the birth of this project and the subsequent developments by the citizens public officers and civic organizations. and for thousands of men and women around the world that contributed to the construction and for all of the people in california, this is a day to celebrate. and today we have a right to embrace, a sense of achievement, and a sense of thanksgiving. none of us will forget that the newly sfan is first and foremost the public safety project and despite the journey length it has been completed before the arrival of our next big earthquake. and thank goodness for that. [ applause ] >> the bridge is looking and just a bonus that all of us who are so fortunate to live here in the bay area, will be able to enjoy. and so today, we will say hello, to the newly span, but we also say good bye to the original version.

does inflation which was precisely improving competitiveness through unique labor cost being moderate you're after year after year and if we could make the euro do the whole it was because we had this long term strategy so you see in eighty and ninety proper he had behavior in since the setting up of the year whole germany in a bad situation fancied a good situation and then the situation leave earth because because germany was very very consistent in person competitiveness and i trust that. it is what my country should do take after all these years and all the problems tech european union has experienced do you still trust that it was a good idea to bring all these different countries and. of course of course i profoundly trust that and it seems to me you can look at this present situation through two different angles so you can look at it. then of course you see as i said that the a.p. center of the crisis crossed the atlantic and came for the us to the you were here to give up the general of the u.n. here in particular and that of course creates a lot of problems and you had to adj

does inflation which was precisely improving competitiveness through unique labor cost being moderate your after year after year and if we could make the euro do the whole it was because we had this long term strategy so you see in eighty and ninety proper he had behavior in since the setting up of the euro germany and a bad situation france in a good situation and then this situation leave earth because because germany was very very consistent in person competitiveness and i trust that. it is what my country should do take after all these years and all the problems that european union has experienced do you still trust that it was a good idea to bring all these different countries and. of course of course i profoundly trust that and it seems to me you can look at this present situation through two different angles so you can look at it from a negative. then of course you see as i said that the a.p. center of the crisis crossed the atlantic and came from the us to the you're here to give up the general of the u.n. here in particular and that of course creates a lot of problems and you

back into the labor force. aboutill give us evidence how much the labor force participation is cyclical and how much is secular. judgeentioned, trying to a healthy labor market, we will not look at just the unemployment rate but we will look at other factors, too. of decline innent participation is one of the more difficult things to measure but it will be one of the things we will consider as we evaluate the labor market. >> the next one, how concerned are you about the growing wealth and income disparities and what should be done about them? >> this is a long-term phenomenon. wealth disparities have been increasing in the united states at least since the late 70's or perhaps even longer. the degree of inequality in the higher thans is most other industrial countries. there are a lot of factors. it is confiscated. certainly, trade and globalization is part of the explanation. on the one hand, if you have low globalizedan open world, you are effectively competing with many other workers with low skills around o

and that is something that you don't hear from the labor unions in the building trades. that the woman are the muscle and i know it as well as anybody. >> i know it. >> and thank you so much, commissioners and so obviously, i am speaking in favor. >> thank you. >> and if i can maybe just say in furtherance of the idea of partnership, you know, we run olevera just came in through the environment now program which could be a program to maybe even partner with the apprenticeship graduates come in with a ray of still sets from our local communities and the environment and now program awareness of open space and are trying to be very successful in the partnership that the labors have with rec and park and the different department and maybe we can talk about finding a home for graduates from the environment now to be in the next class and graduates of the program and we have a surprise for you, following the comments and any thoughts from colleagues? >> how can we find out more information about the program? is there like a website? >> that is a good question from commissioner

major reforms in shawnee know the one child policy will no longer be absolute and labor camps will soon be abolished. and the well fancied at the agency double the punishment. on to create cheating in sports. the we started the philippines where a week after typhoon ie on demolished much of the country since her release is now pouring at a place full of food blankets and mats and i'm now on writing one after another in the areas hardest hit it comes as the official death toll rose to more than three thousand six hundred and just as the tongues and thousands of victims are leaving the disastrous. it's taken almost a week for some people to get their first supplies of food and clean water aid shipments are now arriving by the plane load. it's not enough but it is the start yes people down there there seem to flow flow of goods and that's whats important and not again not just the top woman about to know a couple dozen outlying far distant areas that that might not otherwise have gotten assistants. on the return legs the plain scary people out. mainly children and the injured away from the

labor. about two-third of the people sentenced through reeducation through labor are druggizer, and what we fear is they're simply going to take these forced labor camps, change the sign out front to make them a detox center, and the people will continue in place. and these are detox centers only in name since 98% of the people when they leave relapse into drug use. there are also things like something called custody in education, used for sex workers. there's no mention of discontinuing that. the real difference potentially is for what we're might call misdemeanor offenders, as well as various dissidents -- democracy advocates, human rights vacation, people petitioning against the government, religious dissidents, these are people who had been sentenced under reeducation through labor which basically means the police on their own without a judge can sentence them to up to four years of forced labor. that system is being abolished. we don't know what's going to replace it. whether it will be

>> you are exactly right in talking about why labor -- why the labor participation rate is so low and why job creation hasn't occurred. we've had one of the most painful recessions we've seen in recent years. generally in the past when there's been a steep decline in our economy, the bounceback has been very sharp. that hasn't occurred in this cycle. there are real reasons for it. i think the government is regulating much too much. it's imposing a great deal of uncertainty, new taxes and also new regulations on struggling businesses. 66% of the net new jobs being created these days are being created by small businesses. if they're being faced with the specter of increased taxes, greater uncertainty, they're going to hold back. that's what we're seeing. >> jared, you're not all that enthralled with the labor market story either, are you? >> i'm more thralled than secretary chao is. but i have some issues as well. it's very incorrect for the secretary to say that job creation hasn't happened yet. of course it's happened. it hasn't happened quickly enough. and by the way, i consider 204,

when beginning in october walmart workers in alliance with organized labor unions, and labor activists launched the first work stoppage against walmart in u.s. history. that effort continued to build momentum and culminated with clacko black friday's protest in which they demonstrated at more than 100 stores. workers walked off demanding a living wage and better working conditions. here we are, a year later. bringing you the same story yet again. because for those walmart employees, not much has changed. this year those workers and their labor allies made good on their promise to make black friday strikes, quote, a new permanent reality for walmart organized by our walmart an organization backed by the united food and commercial workers i want national union walmart workers made history again with an even bigger protest on friday. our walmart reported 1500 protests that resulted in more than 110 arrests of walmart workers and supporters in cities across the country. their demands remain the same. better working conditions, more full-time jobs, and minimum living wage of $25,000 a year.

the labors 2 61 the cement masonry and i b w locals. all right. brothers. with that i'd like to introduce want and ceo of american bridge joint venture and mike i do thank you for taking care of of our workers (clapping) >> this is a tiff act to fellow thank god i'm not last. good afternoon it's a pleasure to be here. the bridge is kind of like my little girl. before i started on this job i moved here from the east coast and it's changed my lifelike many of you. the bridge itself build a lot of partnerships. the bridge facilitator the unique marriage of partners not only with reporter to those partnership certainly the design with t y listen and on the owner side with the partnership that involved the ct c and, of course, caltrans. the early days of the job the sas project we had a meeting here in oakland and the department oversight committee delivered the message to get the last key piece done as opposed to. and roar the san francisco bay bridge to seismic safety before the economy could be devastated. the message became a singular focus for all the stake

fin de semana para ♪ >> conozco a un trabajador que estuvo a punto de perder la vida en unaccidente laboralcomo cobran vÍctimas cada día. una ciudad considerada la meca de los alimentos sanos,ahora mismo en primer impacto extra. les saluda pamela silva conde,bienvenidos al primer impacto extra, visitamos a san francisco donde trabajan miles de hispanos, ir donde conocimos a uno que estuvo a punto de perder la vida en un accidente laboral. >> tras sufrir este accidente, este trabajador no habÍa querido hablar para no recordar la pesadilla que habÍa sufrido cuando vio a su compaÑero arder en llamas frente a sus ojos, y Él no pudo hacer nada al respecto, y todo quedÓ captado en vÍdeo. un cable de alta tensiÓn generó la tragedia,atrapados en la altura, dos trabajadores hispanos recibÍan descargas elÉctricas de mÁs de 15.000 v, la situaciÓn desencadenó el pÁnico de las personas. >> la gente espantada,y pienso que se sentÍan impotente, no, de que querÍa ayudarnos, pero no podÍan. >> eduardo guerra tenÍa entonces 38 aÑos de edad,y era el asistente de un hombre de 58, un veterano,sabÍa que se estab

labor. snow, the program we have from 1942 to 1964, this said there were legal because they have visas. and that is what they say about guest workers today, but aides to a and ecb workers were the ones in the new workers that are part of this legislation that is on the table in both the house and the senate, but let's remember the history. they have to live behind barbed wire in camps. they could only grow where growers wanted them to go. people went out on strike they got deported. people did not even get all of their pay. people are still fighting to get the pay that was withheld from their checks in the 1950's and the early 1960's. and when people came to the end of that contract they had to leave the country. that is still the rule for guest worker program sunday. you know something, they have fought to stay here. people had to fight just for the right to have a family. they fought, some of them just walked away from the program. they live here and sell 1986 when people were able to give

whatever, the labor recruiting office. tell the white man behind the desk you want to sign the three years contract and dig the gold for them. they don't care, man, whether your book has got the right stamp or not. what the white man wants, you must go down and bring the gold up to him. i don't want to work in the mines again. i once worked in the mines. there's no money at the end of the month. and it's dangerous working down in the mines because you start boring those rocks and pieces of rocks start falling on your head. you can die any minute there because black men get killed in the mines. and you don't want to die? i don't want to die. are you married, sizwe? yes. children? i've got four children. boys? girls? three boys and one girl. i'm married too, my brother. you've got children? one. only one? yeah, my wife attends this birth control rubbish clinic. you know what, sizwe? if i were to tell you the troubles they gave me before they could put the right stamp in my book, born in this town, the troubles they gave me b

but the labor department says some 448,000 government workers were laid off due to the shutdown boosting the unemployment rate to 7.3%. >> the economy continues to be resilient, not with standing the self-inflicted wound s but the numbers show unemployment went up. >> reporter: baltimore based fire line corporation is one small business throwing and prospering in spite of the washington turmoil. they service and install every type of fire protection device and service you can imagine for commercial businesses, generating around $20 million a year in annual revenue and jobs for 160 workers. the plan began more than a decade ago is now paying off. four years ago at age 27, anna gavin took over a family business founded by her grandfather back in 1947. and yes, she's hiring. >> the hiring we're seeing, we're hiring designers, technicians and what happens eventually you end up having to hire administrative people to support those people and growth. >> reporter: there are loath of head winds in the overall jobs market. the labor force shrank again declining by 720,000 persons who simply stopp

birthrights wong we're going to the supreme court and labor law as many of you know the roberts court is one of the most conservative supreme courts in american history time and time again chief justice john roberts and the other four right wing justices have proven that they are friends of giant corporations and a means of everyday working people now once again they have a chance to put a damper on the labor movement that's because this term the roberts court will decide to important labor cases unite here local three thirty five versus mall hall and harris and the quinn and depending on how the court rules it could either keep in place important protections for unions workers or so the labor movement that decades to help us break these two cases doubt i'm joined now by a progressive progressive commentator nate sweet that has gone time to have you with this great let's start with the unite here local three fifty five versus small . this deals with section three zero two of taft hartly taft hartley modified the way a rock. lay out what the wagner act was what taft hartley did what th

though the labor department, bureau of labor statistics says the government shutdown does not appear to have hit private sector employers very hard last% month. quote, no discernible impacts according to the head of the bureau but in a separate survey the unemployment rate rose to 7.3%, and it, as expected, up from 7.2 in september. in part because of the government shutdown. there is some different methodologies that were used in these two reports. the for your weekend reading, here is the six-page technical memo, and you can get it at the labor department website. go for it. now there were some revisions to august and septembers non-farm payroll numbers that totaled additional 60,000 jobs than previously reported. of course the report gave, ginned up the partisan battles here in washington. the president's top economist said that had there not been a government shutdown the jobs han better and he blamed republicans. take a listen. >> it's hard to look at any one indicator and, you know, infer exactly what happened but, i don't think there could be anyone who debates that the govern

[laughter] >> we now turn to another aspect of baseball, labor relations.earlier this yearbook tv sat down with stanford university professor emeritus william b. gould iv to talk about his book, "bargaining with baseball." in the book professor gould, who was chairman of the national labor relations board during the 1994 baseball strike, talks about the strike and the history of player/owner relations. >> and now on your screen is william gould iv. he is an emeritus professor of law here at stanford, and he's also the author of this book, "bargaining with baseball: labor relations in an age of prosperous turmoil." mr. gould, why are you writing about this topic? what's your involvement? >> guest: well, my involvement really is in two different levels. one is as someone who's played the game as young man, as a child, followed it throughout my life. i suppose been passionately involved in it as principally an observer and as well one who has -- someone who has written about it, teaching sports law, talking a lot about baseball in both labor law and sports law

the way do you that by increasing labor supply, amnesty will be a boone to companies to keep labor costsronic to here, the people pushing to increase minimum wage in united states are same people who say we' amnesty, you can cannot have both, if you increase labor supply that will hurt working class and middle class americans it will benefit the investment class, people involved with major corporations and own a lot of shares, they will make out well with amnesty. lou: peter, i said to hank wages are declining, not rising, and that is not reflective of -- as you know, not reflective of a scarce labor force that is an indication that labor is in surplus. and for people with a straight face to walk into washington d.c., is remarkable. >> it is a massive disservice to the american people. lou: i have to leave it there we're went seconds of saying good night, thank you peter. good night from new tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 trading inspires your life. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 life inspires your trading. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 where others see fads... tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 ...you see opportunities. tdd#: 1-