process is to be handled and we're fully committed to working through that process and engaging with seiu on a discussion about this. this didn't come up to me until fairly recently and i -- when it did, i wrote back, you know, responded in writing, saying that we're committed to exploring this with you. [please stand by] per -- last night i was at the transportation authority community advisory committee, and one of your appointees was telling me even with the service we added is so crowded often she cannot get on, why can't we add more service. so, we have a lot of demands on the resources of agency from a lot of different areas that we serve and the budget is a reflection of our best attempt to balance the different interests and meet the most critical needs and i believe that the additional, now two increases to the proposal for crossing guards and conjunction with all of the other work we do in terms of education and engineering and enforcement around the schools is a reasonable step forward and we remain as committed as you do to making sure that our kids and everybody can get to an

on friday -- seiu california filed an amicus brief in the case of the united states vs. california.te to defend one law in particular -- ab 450 -- the immigrant worker protection act.eric wiesner, attorney representing seiu california "workers who are authorized to be here and who are authorized to work are not collateral damage to those enforcement actions."court documents show -- seiu california is not alone in asking the court to defend the state's immigration laws.on thursday -- immigration advocacy groups filed an amicus brief in support of the state.and on friday -- two additional briefs filed in support of california...one by the city of los angeles.the other by current and former prosecutors and law enforcement leaders across the country.in march -- attorney general jeff sessions announced the federal government's lawsuit against california...a mere blocks away from the federal courthouse in sacramento.the u-s is suing over three laws: sb-54, ab 103 -- and ab 450. rosalie garcia bernal, protected under ab 450 "it just brings back memories where i had to struggle to survive."

process is to be handled and we're fully committed to working through that process and engaging with seiu on a discussion about this. this didn't come up to me until fairly recently and i -- when it did, i wrote back, you know, responded in writing, saying that we're committed to exploring this with you. [please stand by] per -- last night i was at the transportation authority community advisory committee, and one of your appointees

process is to be handled and we're fully committed to working through that process and engaging with seiu on a discussion about this. this didn't come up to me until fairly recently and i -- when it did, i wrote back, you know, responded in writing, saying that we're committed to exploring this with you. [please stand by] per -- last night i was at the transportation authority community advisory committee, and one of your appointees was telling me even with the service we added is so crowded often she cannot get on, why can't we add more service. so, we have a lot of demands on the resources of agency from a lot of different areas that we serve and the budget is a reflection of our best attempt

where the unions are simply trade- based or other ones that operate across industry, like--like i'm an seiuember, for example, right? or are they just sort of anachronistic,c, sort of worke'' 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 thououghts about thatat, let me start from a concrete example. thehe steelworkers unin here in the ununited states, one of the lalargest 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'i'll usese their words--the fl 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 unionon--with mondragon, the corporate--that huge, successful worker's self-directed enterprprise 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 thougugh there was discussion, obviou