that is why seiu is proud to support the affordable care act. we oppose any effort to repeal or scale back the landmark insurance protections and benefits under the law. protecting the affordable care act also means protecting medicare and medicaid. the corner stones of america's health care system. they provide essential services to americans have no other means of affording health care they need. the 2000 the democratic party platform must include a commitment to protect medicaid and medicare as the cornerstones of our nation's health care system. to rebuild the middle class, we need to pass comprehensive immigration reform which will eliminate the two-tiered labor force so that all workers have a fair shot. it will get undocumented immigrants out of the underground economy into the system and under the rule of law so that every job in this country will be fueled by legal workers to the united workforce can rise together, guaranteeing civil rights and basic fairness for all. just as an aside, this building is guarded and cleaned by the members

i heard mary kay henry at the seiu talk the other day at our american constitution society convention. when you hear the things they are doing around the country, it gives you hope that we can really move forward. all of the things that we do better work supports, that any decent society should do our part of the raising income, whether specifically liked the effect of housing vouchers are living in public housing, that has an income equivalency about it. childcare has an income equivalency about it. pollak rants are obviously worth some pain. and of course the big one is health care. so maybe i'll call for a moment of silence, prayer for justice kennedy. if you're a praying person, cannot come to think some other way to communicate. so we'll find out on monday and we can all hope that the law is constitutional, that medicaid. you know, if there's any question in anybody's mind about has barack obama done what we would've wanted or done good things about poverty, the answer is that he has. we have 16 million people on medicaid going forward, 16 million more people added. we've been tr

anyway, i am retired as a business agent for seiu. i would like to thank you for this award that we're going to get. it took me quite a fuse -- quite a few years to get it together. there was so much confusion about the fillmore and what was going on and being the president of the blues and r&b music foundation, i decided to find a location for a mural. at that time, the mayor located, park and rec -- mayor ok'd and park and rec ok'd it. we came up with -- the mural is beautiful. on the -- jim side. there was lots of confusion as to what was what. i decided to get permission to put a mural on stender and post. for those of you who have seen it, you know it is beautiful. it is not a mural. it is art. h. personality on the merrill looks exactly like himself. being that i knew each person, i tracked them down and we got together. it took two years to pay that merrill. it took a long time, lots of effort and love. the gentleman who did the painting is right here with me. standing by my side like we were for two years. every day with him,

you're seeing more like you saw with some of the suicide of seiu and others. famous players are having a lot of issues. >> eliot: there have been more lawsuits, we're paying more attention to the lawsuits and injuries are becoming more diagnosed we're learning more what the concussions do to the brain. is the league reacting to protect the players or remove them more rapidly when there is a possibility of injury? >> certainly they are getting better about diagnosing concussions and making players stay out longer. that said a lot of issues of the things they have done has been more in the public relations. the best example is the new orleans saints players. the idea that you can make a strong argument that the nfl is trying to make the saints look like lone rogue actors in a sport that is inherently violent violent. >> eliot: that they're the only ones doing that in the defense. >> if we hit the saints really really hard, you might not think that everyone else is doing it. >> eliot: make them look like outliars. >> the rest of the nfl would never do anything li

. >> >> working with seiu. >> was setting the stage for an epiem battle of these organizations and theirlout. a financial crisis would catapult their man to the white house. but it would also bring those dire warnings about public sector unions from fdr's era -- >> union! >> back into focus. one other thing. in 2009, public employee unions actually eclipsed the membership of private sector unions. >> lou, thanks a lot. see you later. >> up next, i go across the country to one of those union towns that just filed for bankruptcy. exclusive to the mi, and commitment is not limited to one's military oath. the same set of values that drive our nation's military are the ones we used to build usaa bank. with our award winning apps that allow you to transfer funds, pay bills or manage your finances anywhere, anytime. so that wherever your duty takes you, usaa bank goes with you. visit us online to learn what makes our bank so different. it's the only way to get fresh coffee. not in my house! this new flavor lock pack from maxwell house helps seal in freshness. wow! that is fresh! am i still yell

mary kay henry president of seiu the service employees international union more than 2 million members to see you. thank you for coming on. your union is mounting a massive ground game so tell us about it. tell us about the strategy here. >> we are going to have 13 million conversations, chris, just in the battleground states because we know that our members and working people are going to rely on people they trust to make this decision about who stands for good jobs now. everybody's got to pay their fair share. how do we invest in medicare, medicaid, social security and make sure that we get comprehensive immigration reform. >> when you say 13 million conversations are those phone calls, is that door to door? how do you calculate that number? >> it is a combination. it'll be one conversation directly either in the work place, at home, in the neighborhood, in a meeting. and then reinforced through phone calls, mail, social media. we are going to make sure that we talk about how we can trust each other to make a choice for president barack obama through the barrage of ads that you've ju

he is testifying on behalf of seiu, and uniting the 2.9 million workers in the health care and public sectors. i'm not going to say we say the best for last but i think we saved one of the best for last. >> i appreciate the opportunity and i will be brief if only because i'm the last person between you and cocktails and hors baseball which are sacred in my family. the service employees international union -- 2.1 million members, we are proud to stand with and endorsed president barack obama and the reasons we did that. union members are committed to an agenda that rebuilt the american middle-class and seeks to address the greatest economic and moral issue of our time -- income inequality. for years after mayor romney and his friends on wall street wrecked the economy, the gap between the richest 1% and the rest of us continues to grow. makes you wonder if they are that eager for recovery. americans once offered the promise that working hard and playing by the rules would bring a paycheck that could support a family, provide opportunities to advance and agreed a better life for the nex

it up with research that tock place in the whute white and other members of the administration and seiu. it will be call would shadow bosses and claims it is part of the master plan. >> steve: when they try tod figure out what the supportive care act would look like. okay how can we turn all 21 mullion mirn health care workers in government union employees? that was the plan. it had to do with power and according for every one mullion union employees, unions take in a billion dollars awe year. >> brian: big labor believe they would be federal, state and health care employees. >> steve: he looked at canada's health care system. suct percent of all health care workers are in unions x. extraordinary 80 percent of all nurses in canada are in unions which is quadruple the number here. >> brian: are my sleeves too long or shirt sleeves too long. i found them and and pulling them down. >> steve: you have more cuff. >> brian: do you blame the shurt or suit. >> you think you grew . >> brian: suddenly i have plaxco burris. >> get it fixed before we go to the convention. >> brian: i promise i will

. >>> joining us now form are seiu president andy stern, a senior fellow at columbia university's enrichmentr of the simpson-bowles commission as well, which did you have any idea at the time that, i wonder how many hits you could get every day just on people in the news business saying those two words, "simpson-bowles" together. can you believe it? >> now i can. i wish it had gotten a little more attention as it went on but it's certainly become the favorite story post-simpson-bowles. >> you voted against it at the time and i remember we talked about it once when we were in washington, you joined us on set but can you remind me, what was it that you didn't like and could there be something done, could it be tweaked to where it would be something you think it would be a good thing? >> i believe that the $4 trillion goal was able to be met, in fact, wrote a report myself that outlined how i would do it. i just thought there were a series of things, one of which is about job creation, which it was the lack of investment that was really talked about. i had hoped for an infrastructure bank or so

the board of a comfortable world and the alliance for security and democracy, as well as working for seiu in washington state. the previous president of the united states made the world a very scary place for americans. and nuclear policy was all by decimated. this president has moved us forward in every domain with regard to our national security. this platform speaks to the national security implications of climate change, this platform speaks to the national security implications of nuclear draw kwrourpbgs nuclear nonproliferation, as well as getting us out of wars that have not supported our national security. and doing so in a responsible manner. this platform speaks to everything that our country needs to move forward and work with other nations in a cogent, responsible manner and will bring us very well into the next four years and beyond. thank you. >> thank you. madam chairwoman, my name is kevin greenberg from the state of pennsylvania and city of philadelphia, and i want to compliment mayor nutter for his work on this effort. but i want to speak today on president obama's last