the seiu objected to the city's plan because union members were not part of the decision-making process the program would require parking permits on residential streets in the downtown area. residents have long complained of employees taking over their streets during business hours. residents get the permits for free while employees would have to buy the permits. >>> leaders are going to meet with regard to the oak land coliseum complex. the plan to turn the coliseum into a sports complex for the a's or raiders or both. each team is expected to submit a proposal for how to redesign that property. >>> a new withist in the joint stadium discussed in carson for the raiders and the san diego chargers. the "l.a. times" reports developers behind the competing stadium plan are warning carson leaders about docorners being c too fast to track the deal. aeg sent the deal, the company has its own interests at stake in the whole thing, includes l.a.'s farmer field stadium plan which is now on life support. >>> dress rehearsals are over for the san jose earthquakes who play their first regular seaso

they rejected an agreement that would have made it easier for the seiu to unionize their hospitals. enough to they are the leading opponent of the prime takeover. >> we attended every hearing that the attorney general's office conducted. >> in the union's efforts, paying off, prime healthcare pulling its bid to safe the fail hospital chain. >> this is an example of a government overreach that is essentially disrupting the healthcare marketplace. >> because of our advocacy, we think that the pro-says really worked. >> tonight, the hospital workers whose jobs and pensions are on the line are now facing an uncertain future. >> i have been here i have worked here almost 26 years. and for it to close, it would just be very sad. >> now, 17,000 jobs and pensions hang in the balance of the question is was this more about politics than good business as though "wall street journal" suggests, greta we have reached out we said it in the piece i will say it to you, we reached out to the attorney general will you go on cameraened a talk to us about what was a good deal agreed to by the buyer and

in 2012 former san diego star flair player junior seiu committed suicide. others were tormented by physical and psychological pain many years after their career ended. webster died at age 50. >> when you listen to guys like tony dorsett when he talks about his daily battle against aggression and suicidal thoughts. >> the league has funded studies on concussions and adopted it's rules to make the game less dangerous. but prominent people from legendary former player and coach mike ditka to president barack obama have expressed reservations about letting children play football. >> parents hold the key. they are the future of football. if parents are telling their children i don't want you to play the game, i think the game is too dangerous for you where is it going to be in ten years. >> respond to go borland's announcement, an nfl official said playing any sport is a personal decision. we continue to make progress with rule changes safer tackle tackling techniques at all levels of football, and better equipment protocols and medical care. officials say that

former president of the seiu. the service employees international union.here you both are. this is a model, almost a metaphor for what we can about accomplishing in the country. is that overstating that? you can choose i don't know if you're oscar or felix, you can choose. >> i think i should be felix. andy is more the oscar. we've been talking for a long time what it would take to support the country. we've been living in the past and policy. andy and i may not agree on everything but i think we got the same goals in mind. >> i think we do too, andy. i think we want to train as many people as we possibly can to have good job us and earn their own success and be happy, productive members of society. we all want that right? >> i think there's two things here. one is attitude. what glenn and i both believe in. generally, we may not agree on specific policies maybe because i'm a union guy. you have to make deals in america. you can sit in academia and in congress and in the end, it's about making deals. i think what glenn and i are trying to model is you can

where the unions are simply trade- based or other ones that operate across industry, like--like i'm an seiu member, for example, right? or are they just sort of anachronistic, sort of workers' vanguard spectacles that we can just kind of throw aside? >> good. wonderful question. let me try to answer. and again, rather than my spinning out my own thoughts about that, let me start from a concrete example. the steelworkers union here in the united states, one of the largest unions in the afl-cio, here, stunned the world of american labor two years ago when they issued a press release announcing the formal alliance-- i'll use their words--the formal alliance between the steelworkers union of the united states, which--i don't know how many members it has, but in the hundreds of thousands, big union--with mondragon, the corporate--that huge, successful worker's self-directed enterprise in spain. and i remember many of us were taken aback. "what an interesting idea. an alliance." what did it mean? well, the details were hard to come by. it seems as though there was discussion, obviously, between t

or seiu. >> these teacher and union groups are all together -- the strong groups you know a name likemunity strong, it sounds good but you say they're pushing the common core agenda. >> yes, they are. they're in support of common core. and a lot of the policies that are coming down in education which continue to drive a wedge, really, between parents and their own children. that's one of the biggest concerns about common core, as well as the heavy emphasis on testing particularly high stakes testing. >> i understand some of these groups are being funded by george sorose, the lefty billion billionaire who would like to indoctrinate kids with what? >> i was one who had heard about textbooks particularly social studies. i decided to go down and look for myself. and what i saw and what i read was a very subtle shift from really empowering students from an early age to believe that they could be anything that they wanted to be to be independent thinkers into children who believe the government is the ultimate provider and can provide more for them than what our constitution and bill of rig