seiu united healthcare workers west political issues committee. support quality neighborhood schools for all, yes on h, supported by entrepreneur joanna reese and education reform advocates. committee for parental choice and religious freedom sponsored by the jewish community relations council. h no, let parents decide, sponsored by and with major funding from united educators of san francisco. fix our streets, yes on b. yes on proposition g2011, see additional page for full committee name. it was a longer name that involved seiu and labor unions in support of proposition g, a sales tax measure. rebuilding san francisco schools, yes on proposition a. yes on proposition d, supported by public defender jeff hadachy, basic american foods executive george hume and business investor michael moritz. standing up for working families, yes on c, no on d, a coalition of teachers, nurses, firefighters, public employees and healthcare advocates. and finally, san franciscans -- and finally, until the next stack is handed to me, san franciscans united on pensio

have preliminary- -- preliminarily identified working with the control officers and kesse are you -- seiu on how they are employed and how they are used to manage traffic. we will see in this coming fiscal year before it starts, some improvements in that regard. we recognize it as a shortcoming and recognize one of the reasons mta was put together in the first place was the use parking and traffic management to help muni flow better and i do not think we have realized the benefits of that to date. supervisor chu: thank you. i would love to hear an update as we go forward. >> i would be happy to. back to the slide. what we're trying to achieve in this expenditure plan, are reductions to streamline and make ourselves more efficient but also investments to make transit first work to improve safety and establish accountability for the department. these are things that i believe will start moving us in the right direction. a little bit more specifically, just for those who have not already read through and memorized our strategic plan. a few targets that we have concluded in the plan are liste

. >> well, is anyone here from seiu? i'm sure you can -- yes? >> they're in the building. >> we know that. >> yes, behind you. >> you cited individual donors and corporations and you talk about shareholder resolutions. how are you going to try to pressure the big individual donors who are funding these super pacs? >> i'll start and then others will jump in. look, i think all these pieces go together. and i think we have seen with sheldon adelson, for example, that it's very easy to trace which company connects with which donor. and so we're going to make it clear to corporate america that the public won't accept this and there's many different forms of response. i think they all connect, whether it's a shareholder resolution, whether it is a pension fund making clear that they are uncomfortable with the choices made by corporation. whether it's a kind of direct action you have heard laid out here. it all goes together. so whether -- if it's directed at a wealthy individual who is entirely associated with the publicly traded company or directed a

seiu local 21, the machinists that represent half of our employees, those contracts are open so we are negotiating with the city and to the extent that we can secure concessions, or cost savings that would help close our gap. supervisor avalos: all along these lines of reductions we could make in the budget, what work has been done to try and lower the amount of work orders? it is a big hot topic over the years. i know that we have been still maintaining a high level. $6.65 million a year around their. what efforts have been done to constrain that work orders leaving the department? >> for the most part, work orders are a vehicle used to purchase services from city departments -- we used to purchase services from city departments. -- by city hall essentially. we are paying an allocation of general service or we are paying for a specific level of service that we need. so for us to reduce work orders, there would either need to be a change in the city's allocation methodology which would have likely adverse general fund impact or we would have to purchase our services a different way or

tell me about seiu's plans to mobilize. >> our members think we need to stand with the 99% and unitee labor union, across communities, students with our elders, to make the case that this election is about our vision for america. and whether we can be the 99% that stands for the 100%. make sure everybody pays their fair share. gets america back to work, gets our economy going again, and makes sure that everybody has an equal voice in our democracy. >> there's a new poll out this morning that is not very good for the president. his approval rating plummeted to an all-time low. and gas prices have a lot to do with that. i saw a statistic on your website. the average union member makesless than $50,000 a year. obviously, gas prices are very important for them. do you think this is going to be a big problem for the president? is it going to hurt him among your union members? >> i don't think it's a problem for the president. i think it's a problem for the country. and that this president has been leading on how to as a nation get the economy going again and make the economy efficient and

[cheers and applause] megyn: well, that was the service employees international union or seiu at workng the front lawn of an executive of a bank back in 2010 as part of protests over foreclosures. foreclosures on people who weren't paying their bills. now the politically influential seiu is joining forces with other labor unions and liberal reform groups such as moveon.org, occupy wall street and others to attack corporations that make political donations. the groups claim the private sector has too much influence over elections even as they use their own political action committees. joining me now, lou dobbs, host of lou dobbs tonight on the fox business network. so, i mean, the unions, seiu and others, are upset that some corporations are going to headache donations to these pacs and super pacs, and they're allowed to do that, but the unions don't like it. and they say they're going to apply boycotts and even calls for pension funds to die vest from these -- divest from these offending companies. >> they're going to community organize corporate america and work as hard as they can a

common cause, public citizen, the coalition for accountability in political spending, seiu, move on, u.s. action, campaign for america's future. leadership conference on civil rights. national people's action, progress now. every child matters. healthcare for america now. occupy wall street. the whole gamut of organizations that are trying to make sure our democracy is really here for all of us. simply put, a lot of us are happy to be involved in local and state government. who run pension funds that total by the way $1.5 trillion. a lot of us around the country got together and formed the coalition for accountability in political spending -- caps. we did this in response to the citizens united two years ago. the reason was that we thought our democracy was threatened. we thought that pension funds, local and state government had to play a role in responding to the possibility that money would flood our political system and warp it once and for all. the organizations here every single one of them have been responding as well. every single one of them hassed a a powerful response. now

there is video from people sitting around the seiu, wall street and liberal progressive thinkers, freeking about the same thing. how they know better than capitalist. how they know better than the current way we do government. they are smarter than us. a matter of time before they fix everything. >> dana: people are like -- >> kimberly: just like healthcare. want to take everything over. >> bob: i think there is 30% of the country that are elitist. 70% are not. my definition of elitist is people who think they know what is best for the other 70%. that is the problem. they always think -- that is not just the democratic thing. it's not just a professor thing. the fact is that most people are not as informed on campaign issues. they shouldn't have to be. three, but more importantly, i don't think the candidates are informed; particularly, what you support. >> dana: let me mention one thing. if you look at revolutions and history. think about what has happened in hit the the last few weeks. there are people literally dying for freedom in hit the. radio free asia -- freedom in thibet. they

. >> a new seiu intimidation manual uncovers all the dirty details including union mobs targeting managersrges of racism and sexism, threatening the employer with costly court, and ties of community leaders and organizations. >> every once in a while you get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary. >> i got a letter threatening me if i did not put the poster up. and a public boycott of my business. >> we're told they even held security guards hostage in a booth there. >> we will feet thes fight these until the bitter end. get your camera out of here. it's none of your [bleep] business. get the [bleep] out of here now. >> sean: here's reaction from the fox business network. thanks for being with us. what does this sound like to you. >> the thing is, we know the unions are clearly de desperate because they are numbers are dwindling. i don't understand how these union leaders are ignoring the fact that we have severe budget deficits on every level. obviously the federal, state, and local levels. they're fighting for benefits and conditions that very likely won't exist when t

seiu board member stephan learner said this: >> it's the moment where we can come together and put millionsople in the street. a moment where we can come together and talk about shutting down shareholders meetings where people don't have a voice. i think there has never been a more exciting time in my 30 years of organizing to imagine building the kind of movement that can transform the country, that can really talk about redistributing wealth and power. >> bill: mr. learner wants the forced reredistribution of assets. if the progressive forces prevail we will become a quasisocialistic nation and our debt will continue at record levels. in my opinion that's dangerous as all get out. and that's the memo. now, reaction with us a barack and hard place duo monica crowley and alan colmes. >> where do i begin? means of production by the state. we are not talking about socialism. lowest tax rates since 1950. the idea simply to bring it back to something that's reasonable. free birth control, most people don't get free birth control. a small percentage of people do. that's a lot cheaper than paying

. >> reporter: in a press conference moments ago these groups including moveon.org and the seiu sayswill are putting corporations on notice that they will be tracking every penny they spend on the political process this year. >> we are not going to stand for corporate america domain to super packs, we are going to challenge those donations, challenge efforts to hide donations through c4's and c6's. we'll challenge the wealthy individuals who are flooding our system with money, and we have many tools to do it. >> reporter: those tools include boycotting and public pressure. today the groups pointed to an example involving target stores when they donated to a politically conservative group in 2010. they want to force corporations to get shareholder approval before they can spend on political issues. skeptics say that is the exact opposite of what unions who were a part of day's events do with their own members. >> this press is an example in an exercise in hypocrisy. they should look within themselves and say the proper way to do this is to give workers freedom to control their own dol

it was a big story where the seiu went after a poor little boy scout in pennsylvania 'cause he volunteeredhis is a theme you see running, when you've got these big labor thugs who don't like it when other people can do the jobs they refuse to do. >> brian: about politics, i know you're indoors, rick santorum, on redstate.com, this guy said mitt romney is the guy. jeb bush, dick armey said i'm not against mitt romney as much anymore. are you going to support mitt romney? does it seem inevitable to you? >> it's not inevitable until we get to the convention and everyone has had their say. we've got the wisconsin primary coming up, a lot of people want to weigh in. rick santorum is still doing well in polls in north carolina. and all of the candidates, none of them are dropping out at this point. none of them. not newt, not rick, not ron paul. and so i understand that mitt romney is persuading more and more people, but we'll see. we'll wait until every last vote is counted before we determine who our front runner and standard bearer is. >> steve: it ain't over 'til it's over. rick perry is goi

from seiu?here >> you cited individual donors and corporations and you talk about shareholder resolutions. how are you going to try to pressure individual donors who are finding these super pacs? >> all these pieces go together. we have seen with sheldon adelson, it is easy to trace the money. we're going to make it clear to corporate america and the public will not accept this and there is many different forms of response. the all connect whether it is a shareholder resolution, whether it is a pension fund making clear they are uncomfortable with the choices made by a corporation, whether it is the kind of direct action you have heard laid out here, it all goes together. whether it is directed at 2 it wealthy individual who is associated with a publicly traded company or directed at that company, it is for the same purpose. >> 2012 is going to be the most monied election in the u.s. we will see their president raise $1 billion and the republicans raise $1 billion but in the super pacs, we are f