action over the past decade you know that i'm all about local community benefits and local jobs and local union jobs and prevailing wages. it was the advocates that went to the lafco and insisted that we get the enernex report to happen and it would show what local community benefits would really mean to this community and even though enernex didn't have anything to look at with the behind the meter resources it's showing 4500 jobs in this area that about that are going to be going to people and we, as advocates, now that we know this program is moving forward, the main thing we're communicating about is making sure there's local union jobs and not the community benefits that communities like the ones that are underserved right now that you have been the champion for get these benefits and so what i would ask is that all of you unanimously support sending the communication to support the program but along the lines of what you said commissioner king i'd also include in that communication a request to the sfpuc and the staff to engage this department on what i was talking about before which is r

with the new version of cleanpowersf that offers a product that is affordable green and creates local union jobs and offer the support of the san francisco department of the environment to assist the sfpuc in this effort particularly with respect to planning behind the meter resources such as efficiency and renewable energy and with effect to community outreach a motion please. >> the second. before we do a quick vote was there any other parameters we should be aware of? all right. all of those in favor please say aye opposed say no. all right passes. thank you everybody and thank you for all of your work. a long time. >> the next item is consent agenda. all matters constitute a consent agenda are considered to be routine by by the commission and will be acted upon by a single roll call vote . approval of resolution 2015-02 and exemptions for city properties subject to limitations. in your packet is a copy of the draft resolution and i will be pulling up the pesticide list on the screen momentarily. this is an action item. >> >> if we can just have a real quick explanation for the commissio

tribune's death was the climax of the paper's labor-management battle against the typographical union's localaid, with the most complete control over job conditions of any union in the world. in 1963, big 6 president bertram powers had led new york's newspapers on a 114-day strike, a strike drawing fire even from labor allies. it is clear that the local of the international typographical union and its president, bertram powers insofar as anyone understands his position are attempting to impose a settlement which could close several newspapers and throw thousands out of work. the printers returned to work in april 1963, but two years later, as 1965 contract negotiations neared new york newspapers and their union member employees were feeling the bite of computer technology. newspaper copy which took a linotyper hours would take minutes by computer. automated and computerized typesetting machinery could cost union printers jobs. but higher wages, without automation's productivity, could force less-profitable papers to close. that would mean jobs, too. what would the union do? printers' union ch

francisco i'm speaking no support of the project on van ness on behalf of the members of local 38 plumbers union local six the electrical unions and the sprinkler unit and the sheet metal workers and the partners in building here in san francisco i would like to each one that is in the room that is going to benefit from those construction jobs to be able to stand up so you see the numbers emerald fund has been a big supporter of union labors this project will create 3 hundred and 60 jobs while there's a lot of construction jobs there was 3 years 35 are percent unemployment we need to continue to support union construction jobs so we don't have another surge of unemployment that creates one hundred plus unit in san francisco has a housing crisis it is hard for construction workers to afford the high rents in san francisco this project includes 50 above unit making 55 percent of museum income that creates dense housing in a transit rich and bike infringe neighborhood that is called for in this location for those reasons we urge your approval without delay thank you. >> is there any additional publ

we have been working with the local union and employees on making the most use of that as well as tightening some of the leave usage programs and we have seen a reduction in leave usage in the last couple of months and resulted in more staff to answer calls and a positive trend we hope to continue and increase in productivity over the work force over this same period. the challenges we've had not due to our work force being less productive at all and it's actually the reverse, and as i mentioned we have had three classes seated and we are working with the budget office on a long-term staffing plan and in the meantime we have been using a loft overtime to -- a lot of overtime to answer the calls in a timely fashion. quickly i will highlight a couple other areas of focus. we have been working with the fire department on technology and procedural changes to try to improve medical and fire dispatch. that's a big focus for us and that relates to the third thing, the bullet enhancing training for low frequency high impact events and the fire end of the fire department focuses on are low frequency

local building trades council and after after affiliates. are you looking at all of those kinds of things? >> obviously you got to include labor and we engaged the electrical union ibew was involved they were involved in the monthly meetings and we've prioritized good local and union jobs but we haven't set requirements for that our own staff is very small and i think everybody in this room knows but just to clarify the staff of the program can be light we're essentially purchasing power and in our case paying third parties to administer programs you may administer them yourself and the staff is small we have 9 people today and will grow to 15 or 20 over time but we do sit down with the electrical union and building trades and talk about projects we've signed 70 me megawatts of solar and made that a priority when we don't do union in our local area we're we're doing living wage and that's important to us. we have tried -- this is another area where we try not to have too many ridged rules too early and that's a hard thing to do because there's a lot of pressure from all sides to some really specific conclusions right out of the gate but we try to reup that conve

so coming up at 11:30, we'll tell you how they have support from the local union, the faith-based communitiesand members of city council. back in about 25 minutes. live now from outside the airport, monique braxton, nbc 10 news. >>> and robert menendez is expected to appear in federal court in newark today. he's charged with accepting nearly a million dollars in gifts and contributions from a long time friend in exchange for political favors. menendez is the ranking democrat on the senate foreign relations committee. he's accused of using the power of his seat on capitol hill to benefit wealthy florida eye doctor salomon melgen a political donor and menendez's personal friend. the indictment says he accepted golf trips, vacations to the dominican republic on the luxury jet, and also a stay at a parisian hotel. >> it seems to me that people have been trying to bring down senator menendez for quite some time and there never has been anything to it. i'm inclined to believe innocent until proven guilty. >> just because you have friends, wealthy friends in high places doesn't necessarily mean that

. >>> a san francisco supervisor accepts a dare from a local union.want him to write duty for 22 days. that number has a significant here. >>> it was breezy as well, lots of fault, little bit of drizzle. what's going to happen tomorrow? as we move forward we are going to get into a warm weather pattern. how much warmer and when it's dark -- starts . >>> another development today in the controversy over requiring vaccine for school children. a major study published today that childhood vaccines carry no risk of autism. but as john reports it still may not be convincing enough for some. >>reporter: the controversy over vaccines remains surprisingly durable. despite evidence of safety and health benefits. >> i know there is plenty of vaccines i chose i chose not to give my daughter because i didn't feel they were in her best interest b-1 a new study, the most comprehensive and compelling yet 95,000 children find absolutely no link between common childhood vaccines and autism. >> a major dagger in the heart of the anti- vaccination people. it just refutes

members of the teamsters local union in san leandro. the union says it's seeking the same wages and benefits that facebook drivers have. facebook's contract carries an average pay of more than $27 an hour, which the union considers a living wage for the south bay. >>> hold the ice and help your bar. two san francisco bars are raising awareness about our drought. wish bar and bond bar in the mission are offering customers $1 off every drink if they request no ice. the move comes following new water regulations passed earlier this month which include provisions that restaurants and bars are only permitted to serve water upon request. >> so if we get that rum and coke, no ice and you get a dollar off? something like that? maybe you get more extra liquid. they have to fill the cup up. >> true. >> you have taken it to a whole new level. >> i wasn't going to go there. but you could get a good deal. >> and ice, bring reusable ones in the cooler. you could be that guy at the bar. all right. live look outside the san francisco bay camera. you ca

rally is organized by local union. they have work with these workers in the past most recently as a member, as well as january. the these strikers, they are not unionized. they are employed by agencies which include prospect and prime flight those are agencies contracted by airlines like u.s. airways to provide services. these workers currently make $7.25 an hour. they make this wage almost a year after city voted to a have prove a new hourly wage. mayor nutter sign off on a 2-dollar hourly wage for city subcontracted workers. difficult ask how that works if the contract is with actually the city or airlines. it turns out they say that because this operation is on city property they are do you that $12 an hour. we did speak to a worker striking and she tells us why, let's listen. >> we have been fighting. i will keep fighting until we win. i cannot live in povertity. i have four kids. i have a husband. i have car insurance mortgage. i have all kind of bills and living off $7.25 is not enough money at all. >> reporter:

. >> reporter: local 427 union president, charles car on thein was with the injured worker as he was taken to hahnemann hospital by medics suffering non-life threatening injuries. >> he felt jolts going through his body. that is when we got asked to come on the scene. >> i think it is very dangerous. i know that a lot of kid even mine, climb up on that pole, so it is a little scary to hear that. >> reporter: when we asked peco officials about how it happened they referred us to city officials explaining maintenance of light poles was their responsibility. a spokesperson for the streets department, responding with an e-mail that reads in part, we suspect that this was a defect in the aging high pressure sodium, hp thes light fixture, these are typically 240 volts, the spokesperson adding that in the past decade, they have replaced more than 5700 aluminum poles with non-conductive fiberglass poles, but more than 6,000 metal poles remain. meanwhile, just down the the street directly across from the school and playground we found this light pole. one cover totally missing partially seale

a greenhouse, we have the solar panels ready the trades, into the carpenter's union, we want to expand that and look at local 39 and get them into stationary engineering, the labor's union to continue to get students who are getting these skills that cannot be found elsewhere in high schools and get them out. i want to introduce our three students who are here with tjpa and turner and have them share with you some f the opportunities they had and what they do at john o'connell. >> i just want to add, it's a really great problem. at public works, we have three or four students who are in the program and they come once a week and they work in the shops and learn trades also. >> absolutely, they're there today. >> hello, my name's tala, i attend john o'connell high school and i've been in the construction lab for about two years now and work witching the bct lab and turner, i've come to raeltz that safety is a very important concept and we feel that it is very important for the people to get back home safely and also because lives do matter. thank you. >> hello, my name is defany and i'm part of the building an

public-sector unions are governed by state law and local ordinances passed in the 1960's and 1970's. as private-sector unions have declined, public unions have remained stable or constant. their histories are different. i argue the way they operate and the way they affect policy is different. public-sector unions get two bites of the apple. they can win things for their members through collective bargaining, and also through politics, through participating in the political process electioneering, and lobbying, in a way that the private-sector counterparts cannot. public employee unions are different in a sense that they can exercise influence on both sides of the bargaining table in a way that private-sector unions cannot hope to do, which is through that second bite of the apple, lobbying and electioneering, public employee can gain influence with those who are acting as management in a way that private-sector unions, whether that is machinists unions here in seattle, which has no say over who boeing's ceo or cfo is. that is not the same in the public sector. fourth, the big differen

a local 898-ibw union represent arrived on scene later. they released this statement reading in part, quote everyone at the mall and involved in the project are focused on the individual and hoping for a fast recovery. chopper 6 hd over the scene at 7:30. one member of the construction scene working on the mall -- >> and back out here live we're told one of the workers cut into the energized cable that started a small fire that was contained. the third man was taken to the hospital was uninjured. he was taken as a precautionary measure. members of the kop mall say business is usual at the mall today, all stores are open. reporting live at the king of prussia mall, annie mccormick channel 6 "action news." >> paula brown the managerful managerful -- manager of the coal winl delaware county -- colwyn delaware county will learn her fate this evening. brown told us today that the district attorney should get involved in the showdown with city council. she said borough bills cannot be paid finishes fired. david henry will have a live report on t

it was a local credit union, and they were totally fine with our marijuana money.ike the rest of the banks, they had federal auditors, and this summer we got kicked out of there, so we're kind of in limbo right now. >> yeah. >> hello, would you like a flyer for recreational marijuana? we'll be open wednesday at 8:00 a.m. >> i think you would probably find that there's a number of folks who live here that don't necessarily want to see that business on main street. >> this is certainly a new category, and all four of those shops desire to come to main street. there's no question about that. >> you know, when visitors come here, they know that colorado has legalized marijuana. they don't know whether it's on main street or airport road. they know it's here. >> our citizens overwhelmingly passed it so all i'm saying is let's -- let's own it and address it. >> i like to be part of history and i think this is part of history. i just don't think we realize it yet. >> january 1st is fast approaching. nobody really knows what that is going to be like. you got it booking rig

a greenhouse, we have the solar panels ready the trades, into the carpenter's union, we want to expand that and look at local 39 and get them into stationary engineering, the labor's union to continue to get students who are getting these skills that cannot be found elsewhere in high schools and get them out. i want to introduce our three students who are here with tjpa and turner and have them share with you some f the opportunities they had and what they do at john o'connell. >> i just want to add, it's a really great problem. at public works, we have three or four students who are in the program and they come once a week and they work in the shops and learn trades also. >> absolutely, they're there to

. >> reporter: a local 98ibew union representative arrived on scene a shorter time later. construction operates the site. their president released this statement reading in part "everyone at the mall and involved in the project are primarily focused on the injured individual and are hoping for a fast recovery. a full investigation is being untainted to evaluate what occurred ." reporting outside of the king of prussia mall, annie mccormick, channel6 "action news." >> philadelphia police are looking for the man who broke into a popular cheesesteak shop on south street. the thief used a rock to break the front door of ishkabibbles two. investigators release the surveillance from the burglary. the suspect stole a picture frame from the wall containing $80 and you can take a closer look at that suspect on our web site at 6abc.com. >> time for a first check of accuweather tonight. we're enjoying a stunning monday with tons of sunshine and mild conditions. >> this is what we think avenue spring. sky six looking live in atlantic city right now. temperatures climbed into the 70's

union. another local guy from dresher sets up it's tied at 1. er, the union finally win their first match 2-1 the final thanks to two local guys, what a win down in chester. that's sports, i'm jeff skeverski have a good day. >> some local high school basketball all stars hit the court last night. seniors played in the 6th annual hero scholarship basketball game. the matchup drew a big crowd in media. it benefits children of policemen and firefighters killed in the line of duty. we have new information on breaking story out of bridgeton new jersey, "action news" reported this early this morning. police say a double shooting outside a mexican market has left a man dead and another in critical condition. investigators are searching for the gunman. the action cam was at the scene of the intersection of washington and cohancy street. the fight involved several people and ended with the shooting. the brawl broke out at 2:10 a.m. the investigators are trying to determine what led to the fight. >>> coming up on 7:30, let's head outside to chris sowers an

can a local kid save day for union that much more when we >> just like phillies union off to slow start with only one win in last eight patch matches union mopping worst teams in the league right now nls. ouch. union looking to kick into gear against new england. d.j. sapong praying with broken cheek bone. avoiding header there. doesn't want that near his face. just misses shot at the goal as well. later in the first half 40 second minute christian madonna scores. union takes the lead. but it falls apart in second. philly native john mccarthy gives up two goals including this in 76 minutes. union lose 2-1 only two neemz league fewer points. pga tour, born in west chester ended five year drought. get in the hole. got drapes brdy to beat kevin kissner first fwhxt last 100 farts. fourik one major win in 2003. hopefully this win here will get him going in the right direction. lot of golf to be played this sgln thanks, disbelieve it was a drag race only key quest do this weekend. eye land's great conk republic drag race. they dressed in loads of makeup and raised each other along duval stree

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public-sector unions are governed by state law and local ordinances passed in the 1960's and 1970's. as private-sector unions have declined, public unions have remained stable or constant. their histories are different. i argue the way they operate and the way they affect policy is different. public-sector unions get two bites of the apple. they can win things for their members through collective bargaining, and also through politics, through participating in the political process electioneering, and lobbying, in a way that the private-sector counterparts cannot. public employee unions are different in a sense that they can exercise influence on both sides of the bargaining table in a way that private-sector unions cannot hope to do, which is through that second bite of the apple, lobbying and electioneering, public employee unions can gains him influence with those who are acting as management in a way that private-sector unions, whether that is machinists union's here in seattle, which has no say over who boeing's ceo or cfo is. that is not the same in the public sector. fourth, the

an ex-police officer, a former police union lawyer, and the local news anchor had hundreds of unusual inquiries. >> we paid out tens of millions in the last five years because of representatives of government data. >> john is a representative in the state legislature. in the wake of these stories a state audit found half of the law enforcement employees were likely accessing state data bases for questionable reasons and what worries him is new surveillance technology called a.l.p.r., or automotive licence plate readers. >> this technology allowed law enforcement to do something different which is essentially dragnet the population. >> reporter: mounted in public places or on law enforcement vehiclesing. they scan the licence plate of every car that passes. each device cans each plate against a hot list of stolen cars or wanted people. data from a.l.p.r. devices, including photos, a time stamp and location is retaineded in thousands of databases across the country and shared by various agencies and sold to private companies, with little or no regulation. he says it's unconstitutional.

union against new york city. makes three saves, allowing one goal. another local guy zach pfeffer from treasurer sets upper i can ayuk. ninety-first minute tight at one, vincent nogueira on the rebound, your game winner. the the first time we're saying. that union finally win their first match, two-one. two local guys very thrilling, down in chester today right here on six abc good thanks jeff. >>> mummers are known for musical skills but tonight a handful put on their dancing shoes to raise money for charity. >> ♪♪ >> they were dancing with the mummers star night in south philadelphia. nine mummers partnered with local dance instructor to perform before a sold out crowd. panel of judges pick the winner and audience got to vote on their pick for the peoples choice award. all proceeds go to our lady of hope regional catholic school. >>> much more to come on "action news" tonight at 11:30, people from the mid western town nearly wiped off a map by a tornado returns to their homes to go through what was left behind. >>> plus a bizarre site on the hollywood highway wh

. >>> philadelphia union hosting new york city fc john mccarthy the local kid getting a start in net union. 27th minute zach pfeffer finds the back of the net from about a yard out. but check out eric with a couple of back flips he got the assist. that was the celebration first assist in mls for him and extra time intond minute tied at one vincent nagara left wide open. two-one union win. more news coming up a jim kenney. son of a firefighter. first in his family to go to college. he's been councilman at-large, representing the whole city. a progressive voice who'll be a mayor for our neighborhoods. bringing philadelphia together... expanding pre-kindergarten improving our schools... ...and partnering with businesses, community colleges and universities to create jobs jim kenny, the block by block mayor we need to move philadelphia ahead. that is "eyewitness news" tonight. i'm natasha brown. for james, justin thanks for joining us. if you're up early join our morning team starting at 6am we're online for you all the time. cbsphilly.com. up next, the moving philadelphia forward forum m

local seiu32bj. these strikers are not unionized they are employed by agencies that are subcontracted by airlines like u.s. airways at the airport, workers say they currently make $7.25 an an hour. this is almost a year after they say the city voted to a have prove a 10.88 cents hourly wage for city workers. they point to mayor nutter just last year signing off on a $12 hourly wage for city subcontracted workers and back out here live, they are setting up as we speak to to march at 6:00 o'clock and go well in the afternoon and evening. is there a rally set the for 2:00 p.m. at city hall in center city. we are live at the airport i'm justin finch for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> police in hamilton township mercer county of shot a man who attacked his parents. the it happened at the village apartment on notinghill lane. the officer got the call around 5:30 late yesterday afternoon. investigators say they found a man who was stabbing his father. they told him to drop the knife. police say when he did not, he was shot. >> he to not drop the knife. the officers used force to prevent any further injury to t

one eighth of the whole population were colored slaves not distributed generally over the union but localized it. these slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. all knew this interest was somehow the cause of the war. to strengthen, perpetuate and extend this interest was the object for which the insur ininsurgentsinsurgents would run the union even by war while the government claimed no right to do war than instrict the territorial enlargement of it. neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it is already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph and result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and prayed to the same god. each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any man should dare to ask a just god's assistance in ringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces but let us judge not that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fu

there it is, finally the union win their first match two-one. thanks to two local guys. >>> jordan spieth had the best score in the history of the masters after two round and spieth maintaining his lead in the third round but watch out for phil mickelson, he is just four shots back right now in second place. mickelson is six under on the day. >>> sixers in chicago tonight against the the bulls at 8:00. nerlens noel will in the play. the rookie is out with a sprained right ankle. sixers have only won one road game over their last three months. >> ♪♪ >> look who it is former phillies manager charlie manual throwing out first pitch at opening day for devon stratford little league in berwyn today. sort of the phillies all time winning manager have to say about all of these kid out here listen. >> listen tour coach listen to your mom and dad, grow up and try to get into baseball, have a lot of fun today, the air feels like spring. good time to play ball. owe i'll shut up. let's he just combo play. >> play ball. got to love charlie. >> every time you see the guy you smil

. >> reporter: jackie jeter, president of local 689 of the amalgamated transit workers' union says different aspects of the service, such as dispatching and bus operations are run by different independent contractors under the washington metropolitan area transit authority. those at the protests say that keeps wages lower than those from metro bus drivers, while their jobs require lifting, loading as well as driving. >> it's a lot different. the work is a lot harder. >> reporter: jeter adds that the working conditions for those drivers isn't as safe as it is for their counterparts who drive the standard metro buses. >> there is this thing that paratransit does with collecting fare hand collecting fares that's very very dangerous and is putting my members in danger. >> reporter: now, these paratransit drivers and workers say they realize that what they do is to give access to people who wouldn't otherwise have it and they appreciate that but they say they're not taking a work stoppage off of the table, if it comes to that. >> a-t-u! >> we don't want to do that. we want to sit down with the co

. >>> philadelphia native john mccarthy making his debut for the union allows one goal. another localand on the rebound get in there that's the game winner. the union win 2-1 the final thanks to two local guys, what a win down in chester! >>> that's sports, i'm jeff skeverski have a good day. >> young champions were honored in germantown this weekend. a parade was held along wayne avenue in celebration of the northwest raiders national football title. the team won the championship this last season. they clinched the championship back in december in a victory over the new britain raiders from connecticut. that's the team i met in disney. >>> the race for philadelphia mayor is heating up. a closer look at one of the candidates vying for the democratic nomination. >>> constructing artwork there's more than fun behind these sculptures, those stories and more, plus meteorologist chris sowers will have the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, when "action news" continues. >> welcome back it is 10:00 a.m. on this sunday, april 12. in the news, beaten stabbed and left for dead. police in

not distributed generally over the union, but localized in the southern part of it.st. all knew that this interest was constituted a peculiar powerful interest and all knew the cause of the war to perpetuate and extent this interest was the object for which the negligents would rend the union even by war. neither party expected for the war the magnitude or duration which it has already attained. both read the same bible and pray to the same god and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any man should dear ask adare ask a just god's assistance in wringing their sweat from another man's faces ss but let us not judge that we judge not. the prayer of either was answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. woe unto the world because of offenses for it must needs be offenses come but woe to that man whom the offense cometh. if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which in the providence of god, must needs come but which having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both