huerta, the seiu, what role will they play?mbers hitting the streets and can nothing on doors several weeks now not just within nevada but members from california and other states hitting the streets and knocking on doors and getting the one-on-one conversation with working families to come behind hillary clinton so we're really excited and we hopefully anticipate a victory here. >> tell me, we're explaining the caucus system, how does the international, the seiu here locally, how do you decide how to pick a candidate? how's it done? >> we have a very robust pro tess in seiu and we started early last year by putting out the platforms for the working families and saying what is the platform for working platforms in the united states. and we had a large worker convention that weighed in on that. we did polling and surveying and we did teleconference town halls and over 80,000 people participated. >> was it a spanish and english? >> yes. our executive board which is all rank and file voted in favor for hillary clinton for the endo

now, this is all being done in partnership with seiu local 509 leadership representing social workers. these workers often haven't had the playbook or the support from the top to do their work and do it well. tonight i want the thank peter mckinnon and all of our social workers for your hard work on our behalf and on behalf of the kids of the commonwealth. the children served by dcf are just like everybody else's kids except they're among the most vulnerable. they need the support, love and sense of security that most other kids have because let's face it. when you're a kid, that's really nothi the hidden wait to get in the door and allowing nearly three quarters of customers to get in and out in 30 minutes or less and we are just getting started. now, working collaborateively with the legislature we have closed more than $1 million in budget deficits without raising fees or taxes. instead we tightened our belts, got rhcreative and taking a pat and setting a healthy, responsible course. and working together, we've made investments in school aid and local aid. no longer will beacon hil

in pennsylvania seiu represents 80,000 health care workers, school employees and social service workers and security officers and property service employees. chaka fattah is set to go on trial on corruption charges lighter this year. >>> coming up a former miss new jersey pageant winner is seriously injured in a crash in salem county and jeff skversky is in florida waiting for the arrival of the phillies and the start of spring training. those stories and more when "action news" continues tonight. >> montgomery county judge that refused to dismiss the sexual charge against bill cosby now the appeal with the superior court is still pending. bill cosby is accused of assaulting tam pel university staffer, andrea constand in 2004. >>> and a pageant winner from new jersey was injured in a crash last night. her car spun off the road shortly before 7:00 and the car hit a tree head-on and spun again and hit two more trees before ending up on an embankment and investigators say that speed and wet roads appear to have caused the crash. >>> four firefighters were taken to cooper medical center for

wishful thinking as the republican controlled legislature has no plans to push for a $15 minimum wage. seiu public service labor union. in tallahassee, matt galka, newschannel8. >> bills raising the minimum wage have yet to be heard in the house or the senate. >>> the waters will be very busy in clearwater beach. >> sailors hoping to go to the summer olympic games will be racing for championship racing. peter bernard joins us live. this is pretty cool peter. >> reporter: absolutely. good evening jenn and josh. sailors from 26 nations are here on san key to participate in the racing that could send them to the olympics. take a look around me. this is the staging area. here, they sail out to the gulf of mexico. they are fast, they are sleek. and since the year 2000, these so-called 94er boats with a bat like wing have competed in the summer olympics. and they will be there again this summer on newschannel8 as we bring you the summer games. explained the carbon fiber, fiberglass shape. >> the point is to add leverage for the sailors an we stand on the side of the wing. >> reporter: all of the

first stop in the midtown headquarters of 1199 seiu. they represent hundreds of thousands of health care workers. >> i'm a little confused. they told me we wouldn't get in the recreational vehicle and we're going to drive all around the state. i brought my fishing pole. it doesn't sound that way. we're going to go fishing. we're going to go fishing for economic justice all over the state. >> governor cuomo also plans to attend rallies today in the bronx and west bury long island. >>> up next, we are just hours away from the next republican contest. who is leading the polls ahead of tonight's nevada caucus. >>> plus, rallying for apple. supporters hitting the streets today as new criticism emerges battle with the fbi. >>> hey, for all of you women in your 20s, this is your chance to peek into the future and get priceless advice from women of all background and ages, family, career, love, and sex. they've done it all. there's a lot of wisdom you don't want to miss out on this afternoon afternoon. >>> coming up next on "new york live" at 1

i want to particularly thank mary kay henry the president of seiu. there's a lot of seiu members here who are supporting my campaign. and i also want to thank a great friend of mine from massachusetts, the leader in the fight against hunger in the united states congress, congressman jim mcgovern and i'm so pleased that he's here as well. i want to start where cory ended. he was quoting maya angelou, one of the great poets of our country. a woman who i was privileged to know, spend time with, and just devoured everything she ever wrote. that poem, that plea that we will rise, is at the core of what i believe about not only america but about americans. i am committed to doing everything i can as your president to make sure our country rises, but also to remove the barriers that stand in the way of any american rising. there are a lot of issues we have to take on. there are a lot of battles we have to fight. but we can't lose sight of the fact that at the root of the american promise is a belief that each and every one of you should have the opportunity

yesterday that police in the east bay city of kensington are investigating dave reagan, the head of the seiu's united healthcare workers-west union in connection with an incident in which reagan is accused of pushing a process server down the stairs outside of his home. we reported that reagan attended a union meeting in michigan in 2008 that turned violent. we want to correct that. while members of his union were at the meeting, reagan himself was not. we also did not mean to imply that the man pictured at the union meeting was reagan. it was not. and we apologize for our error. >>> coming up, the cash-only challenge for cannabis. how medical pot businesses say they are putting safety at risk by paying their bills. and the smelly side effect to the state. >> he once trained to be a police officer and now he is accused of killing a richmond cop. we're inside the courtroom as the suspect faces the victims' family. >> it's a welcome sight at sea but an explosion has left a bay area lighthouse in the dark. the scramble to find a solution to keep sailors safe. ,, state. because of the feds, erythi

of education adopts the 2015-2016 initial proposal for the successor contract for the instead of to seiu local 1021. >> no public speakers any comments from the board? >> take a roll call vote. >> thank you ms. chin mr. totiano ms. fewer ms. mendoza-mcdonnell dr. murase ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns mr. haney 7 i's. >> thank you and with an appointment of 5 members to the community advisory committee for special education. >> thank you permeating like to call forward your chief of special education to please read into the record for the recommendation please good evening our chairperson katie is joining me have her introduce the patterns with us from your cac board. >> hi one of our nomination appointees right there and linda tongue is here she did most of work on this report we have 4 on the members that couldn't be here mostly because of oh, it's 8 o'clock they have kids with disability at home oh, she's here she's on our cac board so sure so we're requesting that the board of education of san francisco united appointment a advisory committee members (calling names) and then we have

[laughter] bush: taking on the seiu was not easy to do. but we ended up reducing the government workforce by 13,000, 11%. but florida led job growth, seven out of eight years. 1.3 million jobs were created. don't you want that in washington, d.c.? [applause] mr. bush: and the place that i would start regarding career civil service reform is the department of veterans affairs. here's the deal. here's the deal. [applause] mr. bush: this bureaucracy of 340,000 people, this is a monstrosity, the largest health care system in the world, and all likelihood, that is there to provide care for men and women in uniform who come back. the covenant is that they are and it ise of, not working the way it should. that's not to say there are not dedicated nurses, doctors, and clinicians in the department of veterans affairs. there certainly are. but interestingly, there is a shortage of care providers but massive numbers of bureaucrats. last year, the department gave out $140 million of bonuses for all sorts of reasons, including taking veterans off waiti

. >> hi seiu 10 to one thank you for having us. board of supervisors board of directors i want to recognize the work of the supervisors and the work of our staff at mta coming together the last two weeks and discussing the aspects of this permanent time program look to low and behold i want you know, i think there is sill still two outstanding issues the board of supervisors will look at we can exhaustive improve to address the riders and sfmta i look forward and hope you adopt the resolution that drafts some of the concerns moving temporarily fast forward what are the alternatives you know do we have just those stops or hubs do we have a combination how to deal with moving forward could we get more white sdwoenz a combination of things as well what are the other mitigations with other concerns you've obviously seen the community and others raise both enforcement and pulling up the shuttle buses and making sure our muni services have not yielded interrupted we've been dialoguing and i look forward to your support on the supervisors

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 thougs 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 the

. >> hi seiu 10 to one thank you for having us. board of supervisors board of directors i want to recognize the work of the supervisors and the work of our staff at mta coming together the last two weeks and discussing the aspects of this permanent time program look to low and behold i want you know, i think there is sill still two outstanding issues the board of supervisors will look at we can exhaustive improve to address the riders and sfmta i look forward and hope you adopt the resolution that drafts some of the concerns moving temporarily fast forward what are the alternatives you know do we have just those stops or hubs do we have a combination how to deal with moving forward could we get more white sdwoenz a combination of things as well what are the other mitigations with other concerns you've obviously seen the community and others raise both enforcement and pulling up the shuttle buses and making sure our muni services have not yielded interrupted we've been dialoguing and i look forward to your support on the supervisors

. >> hi seiu 10 to one thank you for having us. board of supervisors board of directors i want to recognize the work of the supervisors and the work of our staff at mta coming together the last two weeks and discussing the aspects of this permanent time program look to low and behold i want you know, i think there is sill still two outstanding issues the board of supervisors will look at we can exhaustive improve to address the riders and sfmta i look forward and hope you adopt the resolution that drafts some of the concerns moving temporarily fast forward what are the alternatives you know do we have just those stops or hubs do we have a combination how to deal with moving forward could we get more white sdwoenz a combination of things as well what are the other mitigations with other concerns you've obviously seen the community and others raise both enforcement and pulling up the shuttle buses and making sure our muni services have not yielded interrupted we've been dialoguing and i look forward to your support on the supervisors

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