in april, the seiu national industry pension fund which covers 100,000 rank and file members, seiu. this guy, announced his pension has been put in what the feds call critical status. or the red zone. in july, the country's largest union local, seiu united healthcare workers east, had to reopen all of their contracts for 145,000 members two years early. gave up all the raises, reduced the benefit for future hires. so on the union could plug the massive gaping pension hole. wouldn't it be great if they could just get some sort of healthcare that could take care of all of this? in 2007, they only had 74% of the assets needed to pay its benefits. then you have these, the bigger plans operated for the teamsters. altogether they have 59% of the reserves necessary to cover the pensions. 26 funds at the food workers union. 58%. seven locals of the united brotherhood of carpenters, 67%. take a look at funded ratio of 13 seiu local pension funds from 1996 through 2006. i'm guessing it's worse than this now. here they are. 120% funding. look at that. now they're all tracking down here. the mi

the afl-cio and that seiu.hese unions have a substantial interest in the most important decisions pending before the board. that's one thing to come from private law practice represent employers or unions of client. it's quite another to come to the board directly from being an officer in an associate general counsel of the labor organizations with that mention substantial interest and multiple matters pending or that will be pending before the board. last week's hearing was clearly necessary as it revealed that while mr. becker will recuse himself for a period of two years and only for two years from those incentives, when his former employers, the international union are a party and a board proceeding. he did not commit to recuse himself from cases raising issues in which the internationals are involved were impacted and he did not commit to recuse himself from cases involving the locals of these two international unions. parties before the board, whether union or employer have a right to a fair and impartial

more seiu? you know and i know it won't work. the only way is through the people. the people. call it populist all you want. it call it american. more on thththth >> glenn: i have to tell you, it's amazing. i think we're on a journey together that is different than anything i experienced if my lifetime. viewers and lepers have been stopping me and writing and saying they're learning history right along with me. and they're absorbed, i mean people are read aing like crazy. it wasn't until i started to read history myself and prove my daughter wrong on something i started to understand the importance it has on our lives, not just our past, but our future. take a listen to call it, i recently got on the radio because it reinforce reinforcesf the concepts we've talked about every night and you talk about with your family. the founding fathers got it. thigh knew the importance of limited government and the constitution. that's the answer here. you have to discover it on your own. just like the caller did. take a listen. >> you inspired me to start learning my history and i started

it is called seiu. it is called the new black panther party.all of these people who are seeking to undermine this political process, this electoral process we have here and we saw what happened when this new black panther party went to be brought up. the electoral base of the united states of america is under attack which is part of our liberty. that is a key aspect of the rules of engagement. how will we deal with that? how will the deal with the fact that right now you have this thing called universal robert -- bader registration. -- voter registration. how're you going to deal with the fact that a representative out of illinois has introduced an amnesty bill? this is about changing the electoral base of this country. the rules that apply to our political system are being changed right before us. we have talked about the violations of the constitution. how we engage that? how do we make sure that this republic and that is what it is is here for the next 200 years? that is truly what we're up against. we're up against an enemy within and an en

becker's role as seiu associate general counsel and the seiu's involvement with the scandals surroundingcorn and former illinois governor blagojevich blagojevich. yes. it sounded like one of those super bowl commercials. blagojevich. senators attempted to address all of these concerns through interviews, written questions, and a hearing. however, not all the concerns were favorably resolved, and last thursday the nomination was reported out on a party-line vote. i have made numerous attempts to alleviate concerns about mr. becker's stated plans to reinterpret the national labor relations act to limit the ability of employers to participate in the process or otherwise tilt the playing field unfairly against employers. however, his answers have been far from reasecuring. when asked if he would ever support imposing the main provisions of the card check bill through regulatory fiat, he left the door open. he answered that while the statute might be interpreted to not permit the board to uniformly strip employees of the ability to have secret ballot elections, impose mandatory binding arbitr

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[laughter] >> -- major supporters, andy stern, of the seiu, has used some very strong language aboutis that the kind of talk the president associates with or repudiates? >> i have said this many times in this room about different policy debates. nobody should be compared to people that -- to the people that have sought to do the world harm through terrorism. nobody should be compared to nazis. i think in the heat of these debates people tend to get overexcited on both sides of the political spectrum, in both parties, and i think that those types of comments on either side make no sense. let me take a couple more since i know these guys are -- yes, and then i'll come back here. >> robert, in his speech last week, the president mentioned immigration passing, but didn't go into detail. that obviously disappointed some immigrant rights advocates who were hoping he'd throw his weight behind a comprehensiveñr bill that would include legalization. so my question is, if thisñr is such a priority for him this year, why not go stake outÑiÑi a specific position and -- Ñi>> well, look, i think t

. >> and steve brown, of course, mark kirk does not have the benefit of having those seiu guys and the voters driving voters to the polls and other people aligned with the democrats. on the democrat side, it has tightened. right? >> it has tightened over the last several weeks. largely it has to do with giannoulius, state treasure who are had difficulty explaining his role in the family business. he hasn't worked there in four years, he's been a state treasurer. how he got to be the treasurer was touting his connections to family connection in general. it was voiced in a commercial by then senator barak obama. they are friends and giannoulius calls him his mentor. the fact that he is in that position that he's in today, in that post today is largely a part of that experience. now the bank is in a great deal of financial trouble. lost $75 million last year after losing 13 million the year before. there is a lot of questions about what role giannoulius played in some of the rans that went bad. the bank has a lot of development deals in loans that tied in to development deals and a lot of

currently staffed by someone who worked for 23 years for the afl-cio in organizing and with the seiu.there is no such equivalent role for outreach to small business or nonunion employees. while i appreciate that organized labor is an important stakeholder in new york, this record of favoritism, including allowing union organizers to participate in state labor law enforcement, strikes me as clearly inappropriate. indeed, i cannot imagine how my colleagues would react if a republican nominee and a future administration deputized trade associations to investigate or enforce laws with regard to unions. as you can tell, i have grave concerns about this nominee because of these actions. but having also learned that she misled the senate and then didn't correct them when she got the chance, i cannot support her. and i urge my colleagues to oppose ms. smith. i yield the floor. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. wyden: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon -- oregon. to vacate the quorum call and to s

in this call a corner, it is called seiu, what it's called the new black panther party, all of theseople who are seeking to undermine this political process an electoral process we have here. and we saw what happened when this new black panther party went to be brought up, the attorney general decided. the electro basis of the united states of america is under attack which is part of our liberty. and that's a key aspect of the rule of engagement. how're we going to deal with back? how are we going to do with the fact that right now you have this thing called universal voter registration floating around here had to deal with the fact that the united states census was taken out of control and brought into the control of the white house chief of staff rahm emanuel? had to deal with the fact that representative youtube caris introduced with an amnesty bill? would want this is about changing the electoral roll base of this country. we will their rules that apply to our political system are being changed. mcbride before yes. we have talked about the violations of the constitution. how to e