this workforce is excluded from including protection from discrimination and harassment occupational safety and health protections and there's all a whole host of protections and to this day caregivers for the aging are excluded from even minimum wage and overtime protections so if you can imagine people working around the clock living in taking care of their sometimes twelve fourteen hour days and they're not even entitled to the minimum wage living in poverty working hard and living in poverty and not legal so there's still so much to be done to transform needs into good jobs for the twenty first century but fortunately because of lobbying efforts like the organization that you're present you guys didn't get a bill passed in new york that has provided some of these basics right basic amenities and protections over domestic workers talk about that bill and also can we expect to see similar efforts across the states absolutely so in two thousand and ten domestic workers were successful in passing the first domestic workers bill of rights bringing them under basic protections and including some paid ti

the early seventy's expanded those safeguards with the creation of agencies like the occupational safety and health administration whose mission was to protect workers the environmental protection agency was created human health and the environment. regulation is nothing more than the imposition of a set of rules to prevent the free market from behaving in a way which is contrary to the common good. a decision was reached by corporate america that working with unions working with government to improve the standard of living for all people was not the right thing to do in one thousand nine hundred seventy one corporate leaders began to orchestrate the details battle plan to eliminate any government policies that might stand between them and profits the plan was laid out in an influential memo called a act of american free enterprise system. lewis powell was a well respected citizen of richmond virginia he was a corporate lawyer a partner in a prestigious corporate law firm and friends with an executive at the chamber of commerce named eugene sidner and sydney asked his friend if he would draft a pos

this workforce is excluded from including protection from discrimination and harassment occupational safety and health protections and there's all a whole host of protections and to this day caregivers for the aging are excluded from even minimum wage and overtime protections so if you can imagine people working around the clock living in taking care of their sometimes twelve fourteen hour days and they're not even entitled to the minimum wage living in poverty working hard and living in poverty and not legal so there's still so much to be done to transform needs into good jobs for the twenty first century but fortunately because of lobbying efforts like the organization that you're present you guys did get a bill passed in new york that has provided some of these basics right basic amenities and protections over domestic workers talk about that bill and also can we expect to see similar efforts across the states absolutely so in two thousand and ten domestic workers were successful in passing the first domestic workers bill of rights bringing them under basic protections and including some paid time

abuse the early seventy's expanded those safeguards the creation of agencies like the occupational safety and health administration whose mission was to protect workers the environmental protection agency was created human health and the environment. regulation is nothing more than the imposition of a set of rules to prevent the free market from behaving in a way which is contrary to the common good. decision was reached by corporate america that working with unions working with government to improve the standard of living for all people was not the right thing to do in one thousand nine hundred seventy one corporate leaders began to orchestrate the details battle plan to eliminate any government policies that might stand between them and profits the plan was laid out in an influential memo called a act of american free enterprise system. lewis powell was a well respected citizen of richmond virginia he was a corporate lawyer a partner in a prestigious corporate law firm and friends with an executive at the chamber of commerce named eugene sidner and sydney. i asked his friend if he would draft a po

abuse the early seventy's expanded those safeguards the creation of agencies like the occupational safety and health administration whose mission was to protect workers the environmental protection agency created human health and the environment. regulation is nothing more than the imposition of a set of rules to prevent the free market from behaving in a way which is contrary to the common good. a decision was reached by corporate america that working with unions working with government to improve the standard of living for all people was not the right thing to do in one thousand nine hundred seventy one corporate leaders began to orchestrate the details battle plan to eliminate any government policies that might stand between them and profits the plan was laid out in an influential memo called a act of american free enterprise system. lewis powell was a well respected citizen of richmond virginia he was a corporate lawyer a partner in a prestigious corporate law firm and friends with an executive at the chamber of commerce named eugene sidner and sydney asked his friend if he would draft a positio

abuse the early seventy's expanded those safeguards the creation of agencies like the occupational safety and health administration whose mission was to protect workers the environmental protection agency created human health and the environment. regulation is nothing more than the imposition of a set of rules to prevent the.

the autopsial safety and health -- occupational safety and health administration could inspect the scene today. >>> a natural gas rig in the gulf of mexico has to be secured after it caught fire earlier this week. the blow out occurred when workers hit an unexpected pocket of gas. now, however, because of natural gas, the incident is expected to have limited environmental impact unlike of course the bp gulf oil spill. >>> time is 8:55. a quick thinking 13-year-old girl helped catch a suspected burglar. she was babysitting her younger brother when she heard a strange noise. police say she looked out a window and saw a man's reflection. >> heard some kind of ransacking in the garage area. at that point she grabbed her little brother and went to the back bedroom. >> i'm proud of her. i'm proud of her, you know, she took care of her brother. >> the girl also called her mother who called 911. police say they got there about 20 seconds after they were notified. they saw two men leaving the backyard and they arrested 22- year-old quinton braithwaite. >>> a bay area lawmaker is rallying support

. >> the terrifying accident is caught on camera by an employee of the occupational safety and healthal agency charged with setting and enforcing workplace safety standards. inspector pat is on site that day for a visit. seconds before the collapse, his colleagues begin recording the crane, not for work but for pleasure. >> we were videoing it just to see and it turned out to be the best evidence we have. >> iron worker jeff kasinski is watching the lift from a man basket, a bucket suspended from a crane inside the stadium. >> you don't go to work expecting, you know -- you don't expect to see one of the most catastrophic construction accidents we've ever had. >> the retractable roof is the showpiece of the cutting edge baseball stadium, but lifting the preconstructed structure into place isn't easy. it weighs 400 tons. >> you may as well be lifting the world. that's a lot of iron to be lifting at one shot. >> the crane, nicknamed big blue, is the largest in north america at the time. it lifts the roof nearly 200 feet into the air. everything proceeds as planned until -- >> it was lou

was a consumer issue too and so we pushed through the environmental protection act the occupational safety and health agency and a whole variety of others and then the great breakthrough was the free information act amendments of one nine hundred seventy four and that put us number one in the world and our ability to get information from secretive government. that's extraordinary now a few minutes ago when i was there you were talking about the the auto safety. you talked about how you were able to get legislation passed the save a million lives and then you kind of at it almost as a throwaway line said you couldn't do that today i suspect that's not a really a throwaway line that there's no story there you know we would have approved our country no honestly if we just had a chance to have a chance of getting a hearing in congress and in the media and what happened over the last thirty years is number one the democratic party started dialing for the same corporate dollars you could just see it from seventy nine hundred seventy nine into the eighty's it all began to close down civil citizen groups and

occupational safety and health administration reports that customers and employees of the nail salonsng subject to these toxins. >>> and "wolverine" clawed his way to the top of the box office. it sold enough tickets in the first three days. "conjuring" was bumped down to second place and "despicable me 2" was third place. it expanded in theaters around the country. >>> hey. let's quickly check in with sal and see what we're seeing around the toll plaza right now. >> it's light, which is unusual. the whole hour it's been light, which is nice. we're not going to be asking a lot of questions about this. traffic looks good as it has been slow. the east shore freeway approaching the mays because of the earlier problems. interstate 880 traffic looks good. i want to show you the road sensors real quickly. some improving here, but still slow on the way to berkeley. now let's go to steve. >> a lot of overcast, sunshine, breezy conditions. it'll be a cool day and a cool week. temperatures inland, 70s, 80s. if you like it cool, then this is for you. >> and keep that coming. >> yeah. sometimes,

stealing from people as workers, as consumers, stealing from them, harming their health and safety, pollution, occupational hazards and, in effect, blocking them from accessing institutions fostered by our constitution so that they can fight back. one example of that which no presidential candidate of the two parties has even mentioned, listen to this one, the government accountability office was called the general accounting office. in 1992 estimated that 10% of the entire health expenditures of our country goes down the drain due to computer fraud and abuse bills, computerized billing, fraud and abuse. that is $270 billion today, this year. 270 billion. billion. and it's not, it's not a campaign issue. that would almost cover the uninsured. and yet it's not even talked about even though it's regularly documented by professor malcolm sparrow at harvard who is an applied mathematician as in the expert on billing fraud in this area. corporate crime, our health research group headed by dr. sid wolfe in the '70s put out two books called "pills that don't work" and "over-the-count pills that don't work." and t