they can't go to the public union bosses to renegotiate the pensions and salaries well, they're publicon boss. they can't go to the rating agencies and these bond issuers, you have to just trust us somewhere down the road we'll fix this. again we deal with what the ability for the municipalities to pay. right now there is absolutely no confidence in that whatsoever. tracy: you say in your notes we're past the point of no return and far gone. you say this is all politically union motivated. this is cyclical and will continue to spiral downward, won't it? >> and there is also a tendency with these governments to try to kick the can down the road or issue assurances or deal with promises when they come up with their budgets. this would be like me promising i will fly you to chicago and in the middle. flight i admit to you i know we don't have enough fuel to get there but i'm hoping for a real strong tailwind. tracy: that's bad. it is not just california. pennsylvania, there are many other municipalities out there in the same dire straights. the problem though we keep seeing these rating a

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being a public employee union boss is really -- well, it is really the pinnacle of it all.the union bosses make on average 10 times what their members make. the president of the american federation of state, county and municipal employees union -- the union union makes just $535,000 per year. $555,000 per year. president of the national education association, the nea, the american federation of teachers, we will call it that, they are in for 400 grand per year. and the teachers unions, by the way, teachers unions overall collect more than -- i'm just going to use this, teachers unions collect $2 billion in dues each year. think about that. $2 billion in dues. that money is going to liberal politicians, for example, president obama, his signature health care law designed to unionize says that this new book, 21 million health care workers. 21 million health care workers. is it starting to come together for everybody? are we starting to see this web of interesting direction and why? because for every million of these workers, unionized in the 27 non-right to work states, the u

public sector unions made any sense. >> collective bar gaining is different for public workers because their boss is really on their side. >> lies extensively on the roots of america's economic problems. >> they don't want to pay the union mihms too much because it comes out of their own pockets at ford, but that is not true of the government. >> strikes by public employees would be quote the unthinkable and intolerable. but it was within a couple of decades that democratic heirs decided the political upside of public sector unions was worth the risk. the euro caucuse eureka momentd right here in new york city. municipal workers granted the right to bargain collectively. three years later those public unions organize today's reelect him. wagner's unexpectedly strong showing caught the attention of another democrat worried about reelection. president john f. kennedy. >> he sees how this carried wagner to victory and issues an executive order allowing for the unionization of federal employees. state and local governments picked this up as a cue and you have the rapid growth from there on of public sector unions across the

public sector unions made any sense. >> collective bar gaining is different for public workers because their boss is really on their side. >> lies extensively on the roots of america's economic problems. >> they don't want to pay the union mihms too much because it comes out of their own pockets at ford, but that is not true of the government. >> strikes by public employees would be quote the unthinkable and intolerable. but it was within a couple of decades that democratic heirs decided the political upside of public sector unions was worth the risk. the euro caucuse eureka momentd right here in new york city. municipal workers granted the right to bargain collectively. three years later those public unions organize today's reelect him. wagner's unexpectedly strong showing caught the attention of another democrat worried about reelection. president john f. kennedy. >> he sees how this carried wagner to victory and issues an executive order allowing for the unionization of federal employees. state and local governments picked this up as a cue and you have the rapid growth from there on of public sector unions across the

public sector unions made any sense. >> collective bar gaining is different for public workers because their boss is really on their side. >> lies extensively on the roots of america's economic problems. >> they don't want to pay the union mihms too much because it comes out of their own pockets at ford, but that is not true of the government. >> strikes by public employees would be quote the unthinkable and intolerable. but it was within a couple of decades that democratic heirs decided the political upside of public sector unions was worth the risk. the euro caucuse eureka momentd right here in new york city. municipal workers granted the right to bargain collectively. three years later those public unions organize today's reelect him. wagner's unexpectedly strong showing caught the attention of another democrat worried about reelection. president john f. kennedy. >> he sees how this carried wagner to victory and issues an executive order allowing for the unionization of federal employees. state and local governments picked this up as a cue and you have the rapid growth from there on of public sector unions across the

public sector unions made any sense. >> collective bar gaining is different for public workers because their boss is really on their side. >> lies extensively on the roots of america's economic problems. >> they don't want to pay the union mihms too much because it comes out of their own pockets at ford, but that is not true of the government. >> strikes by public employees would be quote the unthinkable and intolerable. but it was within a couple of decades that democratic heirs decided the political upside of public sector unions was worth the risk. the euro caucuse eureka momentd right here in new york city. municipal workers granted the right to bargain collectively. three years later those public unions organize today's reelect him. wagner's unexpectedly strong showing caught the attention of another democrat worried about reelection. president john f. kennedy. >> he sees how this carried wagner to victory and issues an executive order allowing for the unionization of federal employees. state and local governments picked this up as a cue and you have the rapid growth from there on of public sector unions across the

public-sector unions made any sense. >> collective bargaining is different for public workers because their boss is really on their side>> nicole writes extensively on the roots of america's economic problems. >> it is not like you are the boss of ford -- they don't want to pay the union members too much because it comes out of their own pockets. that's not true with government. >> furthermore, strikes by public employees like police, firefighters and teachers would be, quote, unthinkable and intolerable. but it was within a couple of decades that his democratic heirs decided the political up side of public-sector unions was worth the risk. the eureka moment happened here in new york city. in 1958, democratic mayor mayor robert wagoner whose u.s. senator father authored the wagoner act, granted municipal workers the right to bargain collectively. three years later, the public unions organized to re-elect him. wagoner's unexpectedly strong showing caught attention of another democrat, worried about re-election. president john f. kennedy. >> president kennedy sees how this carried wagoner to victory and he issues an exec

public sector unions made any sense. >> collective bar gaining is different for public workers because their boss is really on their side. >> lies extensively on the roots of america's economic problems. >> they don't want to pay the union mihms too much because it comes out of their own pockets at ford, but that is not true of the government. >> strikes by public employees would be quote the unthinkable and intolerable. but it was within a couple of decades that democratic heirs decided the political upside of public sector unions was worth the risk. the euro caucuse eureka momentd right here in new york city. municipal workers granted the right to bargain collectively. three years later those public unions organize today's reelect him. wagner's unexpectedly strong showing caught the attention of another democrat worried about reelection. president john f. kennedy. >> he sees how this carried wagner to victory and issues an executive order allowing for the unionization of federal employees. state and local governments picked this up as a cue and you have the rapid growth from there on of public sector unions across the

public sector unions made any sense. >> collective bar gaining is different for public workers because their boss is really on their side. >> lies extensively on the roots of america's economic problems. >> they don't want to pay the union mihms too much because it comes out of their own pockets at ford, but that is not true of the government. >> strikes by public employees would be quote the unthinkable and intolerable. but it was within a couple of decades that democratic heirs decided the political upside of public sector unions was worth the risk. the euro caucuse eureka momentd right here in new york city. municipal workers granted the right to bargain collectively. three years later those public unions organize today's reelect him. wagner's unexpectedly strong showing caught the attention of another democrat worried about reelection. president john f. kennedy. >> he sees how this carried wagner to victory and issues an executive order allowing for the unionization of federal employees. state and local governments picked this up as a cue and you have the rapid growth from there on of public sector unions across the

public sector unions made any sense. >> collective bar gaining is different for public workers because their boss is really on their side>> lies extensively on the roots of america's economic problems. >> they don't want to pay the union mihms too much because it comes out of their own pockets at ford, but that is not true of the government. >> strikes by public employees would be quote the unthinkable and intolerable. but it was within a couple of decades that democratic heirs decided the political upside of public sector unions was worth the risk. the euro caucuse eureka momentd right here in new york city. municipal workers granted the right to bargain collectively. three years later those public unions organize today's reelect him. wagner's unexpectedly strong showing caught the attention of another democrat worried about reelection. president john f. kennedy. >> he sees how this carried wagner to victory and issues an executive order allowing for the unionization of federal employees. state and local governments picked this up as a cue and you have the rapid growth from there on of public sector unions across the c

public workers because their boss is really on their side. >> she writes extensively on the problems. >> it's not like you are a boss of ford. they don't want to pay the unionrs too much because it comes out of their own prophets. that's not true of government. >> furthermore fdr wrote public employees like police, firefighters and teachers would be unthinkable and intolerable. it was within a couple decades as democratic airs decided the political upside of public sector unions was worth of risk. the eureka moment happened right here in new york city. in 1958 democratic mayor robert wagner who's u.s. senator iron he cancally authored the wagner act granted municipal workers. three years later the public unions organized to reelect him. wagner's unexpectedly strong showing caught the attention of another democrat worried about reelection. president john f. kennedy. >> he carried wagner to victory. he issued an executive order allowing unionization of federal employees. state local governments picked it up as a cue. you have rapid growth from there on of public sector unions across the country. >> the story of fred seigel of manhattan institute does the unio

public sector union workers the g.o.p. is fomenting rage among a desperate population at the same time keeping themselves out of the crosshairs angry about your low wages don't blame your boss blame the teachers angry about your lack of health insurance don't blame billionaire health insurance executives blame your neighbor the school bus driver anger the wall street bankers gambled with your pension and lost don't blame the politicians who deregulated wall street but the fire department union never mind the facts. you know on average public workers actually make four percent less than their private counterparts in some states as much as twenty percent less when comparing similar levels of education and experience and as far as benefits go government employees simply enjoy the same benefits that corporate workers used to enjoy before reaganomics before republicans dismantle their unions as long as the g.o.p. and their billionaire buddies succeed in dividing the middle class against each other they can carry out their kleptocratic agenda of creating an economy of for and by the rich with little obstruction this is what is happening right now we're turning against each other.

union city public works. the program is also helping him get a ged. >> i see the change in their life, even in the short time that i had them. >> reporter: his new boss has also become a men tore. >> they're doing something productive, it's either paying them to be in jail, or paying them to do something productive in their life. >> reporter: we're told there are still far too many young people in the program than there are jobs available. the challenge is convincing them to take that extra help. live here in union city, eric rasmussen, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> and you can get ktvu news to go. download the ktvu app, click the live icon, and you can watch all of our news live from your app. >> temperatures tomorrow, we can subtract about 4 or 5 degrees off these numbers. it's going to be cooler. fog is not there now. but tomorrow morning, the computer model pretty aggressive with this. the fog back big time. we're going to see more of a westerly flow. not sure there will be this much fog. i think it will be patchy. by the afternoon and evening, it will really be in. temperatures trending down. i'll let you know what you can expect as we go into the 1

union boss. >> i spent a lot of those years smoking a lot of weed. self medicating. but now karen lewis is in the battle that could define her career and the chicago public school year, implications on chicago labor for years to come. the chicago teachers union president wants a fair contract she says and has maintained she's not afraid to strike to get what she wants from the mayor. to win hearts and minds, those who know her say she's relying on her three decades of experience in leading a classroom. >> she is teaching chicago a lesson about teachers. she is teaching the mayor a lesson about teachers. she is someone who does not fool around and because she was a chemistry teacher, she taught a difficult subject, she is going to make sure people get the message. but in the process, lewis has rubbed many the wrong way - like when she mocked secretary of education arne duncan's manner of speech. >> education is the civil rights issue of our time >> now you know he went to private school because if he had gone to public school he would have that list fixed. >> lewis found her way into the public eye in 2008, as a union delegate fighting then cps chief duncan on school

union city public works. the program is also helping him get a ged. >> i see the change in their life, even in the short time that i had them. >> reporter: his new boss has also become a men tore. >> they're doing something productive, it's either paying them to be in jail, or paying them to do something productive in their life. >> reporter: we're told there are still far too many young people in the program than there are jobs available. the challenge is convincing them to take that extra help. live here in union city, eric rasmussen, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> and you can get ktvu news to go. download the ktvu app, click the live icon, and you can watch all of our news live from your app. >> temperatures tomorrow, we can subtract about 4 or 5 degrees off these numbers. it's going to be cooler. fog is not there now. but tomorrow morning, the computer model pretty aggressive with this. the fog back big time. we're going to see more of a westerly flow. not sure there will be this much fog. i think it will be patchy. by the afternoon and evening, it will really be in. temperatures trending down. i'll let you know what you can expect as we go into the 1

boss for twenty some odd years. the industries and sorts with different. we collaborate, as you might expect. >> you mentioned labor struggle in wisconsin. have you ever advised public sector unioneaders and do people seek you out? >> i haven't been presumption use enough to try to give somebody representing a public sector bargaining. the nature is different. we are frequently contacted by unions and the members for letters of sport and assistance. our players, our members, politically are all across the spectrum. when it comes to labor matters they understand the importance of unions. we tried to support the public sector unions every chance we could. >> you're heading into years of labor peace. do you think that people are more willing to negotiate because of what happened with the strike of 1994 and 1995? >> i don't know about more willing to negotiate but you can't understand our success in bargaining without understanding that history. as i said before, we move to a world where there was respect by both sides for the bargaining power of the adversaries because of what happened leading up to perhaps most principally in 1994 and 1995. i don't think you have the agreements yo