>> teamsters! >> who are we? >> teamsters. thanks to the reverend for putting this together. it was in 1968, this great speech was constructed. there was a dream that was bigger that we can ever imagine. it was conceived before the assassination of our great dr. martin luther king. he had a vision. he said within 40 years we would have the first black president of the united states. that is not by accident. that is by conception. we need to recognize, and reclaim this dream for our kids, our history -- this tea party saying they have fundamental beliefs, how can they demonstrate against dr. martin luther king's speech, the very basic ideas that made this country great? do you know what that is like? we had a president who was a great republican, abe lincoln. that is like his rejecting the gettysburg address. this is serious. i have my brother greg. the reason we are able to do this is because we have relationship with the man connecting the dots. it is about the future of our kids and grandkids. greg floyd, local 237. brief, because we all want to go in march and we want to h

. >> a strike by workers has had a big impact on trash servic 12 members of teamsters are staging a two-daytrike against the ox mountain wae transfer station and landfill in half moon bay bay. however, some 300 other union drivers and workers ofllied waste, including these in san carlos, have decided to honor the picket line. this means there will be no residential trash pickup in most of san mateo county in the next two days. the county has a phone message urging its customers to be patient. >> a labor dispute not related to the san jose division. it should be resolved in the next 48 hour we will begin serving as soon as possible. we ask you leave your can out and it will be serviced by sunday, august 29th. >> new home sales have hit their slowest pace since the government began keeping records back in 1963. sales were down 12.4% in july from a monthly earlier. that report cos a day after the gornment reportedhat existing home sales fell to their lowest lev in decades. experts blame the big drop on the expiration of the president's tax credit as well as cash-strapp consumers. >> they' goin

two names officially have beenas one is bryan cirigliano. 61, president of teamsters 105, he was thornton'sng. a second victim's name has been released also. 59-year-old victor james. we're live in manchester tonight. i'm jamie muro, news 8. >> the union that represented the victims and omar thornton has released a statement about the tragedy and about the claims al hsent the connecticut teamsters say, quote, ringh thornton was repreby local 1035, he reported no concerns about racial discrimination to the union. we take the representation of all of ou meb they went on to say, we have lost friends and family as a they went on to say, we have lost friends and family as a kher help each other through >> the owners of the beer distribution company says, quote, everyone at hartford distributors is devastated by this morning's tragic and senseless act. our focus right now is on the families. one of the survivors of today's attack was steve hollander. he was shot twice but survived. tonight, he tells the associated press that omar thornton was as cold as ice as he began firing his gun. hollander s

as today's rally in oakland was organized by the united food and commercial workers union and the teamsters. but bevmo argues the union is inaccurate and misleading. the company says it has over 500 full-time employees eligible for healthcare and 401(k) plans in stores throughout california and arizona. and i'm told a little more than 160 people, about 10% of all workers, had their hours reduced as of this month. and they are being offered healthcare benefits through january of next year. still, the majority of all bevmo workers are part time, apparently not that unusual for a retailer. the union says the shift to downsize with part-timers has been going on from the '70s but picks up speed when the economy slows down. >> it's been a constant move by business to recost and benefit costs to kick people off plans and it has spiked as the economy has gotten worse, employers becoming more brazen in their attack on workers. >> reporter: yeah, should the workers vote to unionize, the whole process could take weeks, even months. juliette, just a little bit of background on bemo. it opened in 1994 w

both the teamsters union and the company say there is no record of any complaints from thornton. >> if you knew the hollanders, they would never tolerate that. >> reporter: among the victims, 50-year-old lewis felder jr. the father of three was a respe respected member of stamford, connecticut's orthodox jewish community. remembered today as this entire community mourns its devastating loss. peter alexander, nbc news, manchester, connecticut. >>> want to turn to the oil disaster. the coast guard said today that static kill operation to stop the oil flow is working and they do not expect any more oil to gush into the gulf of mexico. nbc's chief environmental correspondent anne thompson joins us tonight from venice, louisiana. anne, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. bp says the static kill is working extremely well, but tonight there's a new controversy over just how much oil is left in the gulf. 107 days after the leak to poison the gulf began, president obama delivered some good news. >> a report out today by our scientists show that the vast majority of the spilled oil

. >> a strike by workers has had a big impact on trash service. 12 members of teamsters are staging aay strike against the ox mountain waste transfer station and landfill in half moon bay bay. however, some 300 other union drivers and workers of allied waste, including these in san carlos, have decided to honor the picket line. this means there will be no residential trash pickup in most of san mateo county in the next two days. the county has a phone message urging its customers to be patient. >> a labor dispute not related to the san jose division. it should be resolved in the next 48 hours. we will begin serving as soon as possible. we ask you leave your can out and it will be serviced by sunday, august 29th. >> new home sales have hit their slowest pace since the government began keeping records back in 1963. sales were down 12.4% in july from a monthly earlier. that report comes a day after the government reported that existing home sales fell to their lowest level in decades. experts blame the big drop on the expiration of the president's tax credit as well as cash-strapped cons

the teamster's union identified the gunman as omar thornton. a driver for a beer and wine distributor in manchester, connecticut. police say thornton was going to a meeting with management at the beer warehouse at 7 this morning when he opened fire. 8 people were killed and two others were wounded before thornton then killed himself. his union said thornton had been caught on video stealing beer. >>> a recent solar flare-up could cause some rather heavenly sights. and scientists say that increased activity is only the beginning. as jim vargas reports, the phenomenon could cause all kinds of problems during the comes months. >> reporter: this animation depicts a solar mass ejection where tons of solar plasma are blasted into space. the first was due to reach earth tonight. it's nuclear and dangerous. much of it is deflected by the earth's magnetic shield. the closer to the poles someone is the brighter the shows. they're called the northern and southern lights >> if you live in the north of the united states you might be able to see the northern

a teamsters official described thornton as a recent hire. >> it couldn't have happened at a worse time of day, have you the third shift going off, the first shift coming on, the office staff there, the sales staff there. it couldn't happen at a worse time. >> reporter: joanna claims her daughter dated thornton for eight years. >> not much i know about him, he was a down to earth, very nice guy, hard worker. >> reporter: fellow employees were also stunned. >> i'm trying not to cry. it's shocking especially omar, i mean, he just went -- i didn't know there was a problem. >> reporter: among the victims, victor james, a grandfather of four who would have turned 60 this month, and was planning to retire after 30 years as a driver. >> everyone at hartford distributors is devastated by this morning's tragic and senseless act. right now our focus is on the families. >> reporter: clearly omar thornton was a troubled man, but lester, tonight police are just trying to figure out exactly what it was that set him off. >> peter, thank you. >>> turning now to some extreme weather, and it's been a ver

., brandon harris, head of student government for howard university [applause] of thegregreplois teamsters. they represent how we will make this education bill work, education, youth, and independence. i want them to say a word as we get ready to line up. how many of you are ready to march? [applause] how many still believe in the drain? how many of you thank god for martin luther king? [applause] how many of you think dr. height that you can't control your cells. if you are so mad you cannot do what i'm asking, stay here. do not get out there cutting up by dr. king big. this is not your march. you are not that met. ad. do not act like you cannot control yourself. you control yourself all the time. they want to disgrace to this day and we are not giving them this day. this is our day and we are not giving it away. [applause] we are going to line up. >> thank you everybody for being here to represent a march on behalf of martin luther king jr.. my name is anise jenkins and i represent stands up. i welcome you here to the nation's capital, the last plantation, the last colony. as long as you

and teamsters don't want to cross the picket line.0 employees have joined the strike in solidarity. they are upset about proposals to trim healthcare benefits and have them pay into their pensions. >> we have a number of unfair labor practices filed in this company. we are having a 48-hour strike. trying to get the company's attention and hopefully get them back to the table and bargain in good faith. >> reporter: according to allied waste customer's hotline, here's when you can expect relief if you normally have your trash picked up on wednesday it will happen on friday. thursday pickups will be picked up on saturday and friday pickups on sunday. now, allied says they hired replacement workers to cover the initial strikers. but they didn't anticipate the 500 extra strikers. so they weren't able to cover them. >> thank you, anne makovec in san carlos. >>> firefighters expect to fully contain the curry fire on mt. diablo sometime today. it started tuesday afternoon near curry canyon road. that fire is now 90% contained. at least it was

as today's rally in oakland was organized by the united food and commercial workers union and the teamsters. but bevmo! argues the union is inaccurate and misleading. the company says it has over 500 full-time employees eligible for healthcare and 401(k) plans in stores throughout california and arizona. and i'm told a little more than 160 people, about 10% of all workers, had their hours reduced as of this month. and they are being offered healthcare benefits through january of next year. still, the majority of all bevmo! workers are part time, apparently not all that unusual for a retailer. the union says the shift to downsize with part-timers has been going on from the '70s but picks up speed when the economy slows down. >> it's been a constant move by business to reduce costs and reduce benefit costs to kick people off plans, and it has spiked as the economy has gotten worse, employers becoming more brazen in their attack on workers. >> reporter: should the workers vote to unionize, the entire process could take weeks, even months. and as for katherine cordero the woman we interviewed,

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was passed to help the sillies -- to hilda solis, the daughter of immigrants, the daughter of a teamstero her, there were not 132 million jobs on the payroll. after the previous eight years there were fewer americans are working. we are not struggling about just a recession. we are struggling about eight of running up the biggest of the set of anybody in american history and delivering fewer jobs. we are here because dr. king's speech had a lot of whereas-es before he got to the i have a dream part. the whereas the started it was that we did not even have a right to vote. we did not have anybody to vote for if we could vote. but you elected the person we had a chance to vote for, and now we need your help to keep moving the country forward, to keep the dream alive. ♪ >> dallas tx is in the house. board members of national action network please welcome the rev. frederick haynes. >> what happens to a dream deferred? it doesn't dry up like a raisin in the the sun, fester like a sore, or does it cink -- stink, or maybe it sags like a heavy load, or does it just explode? those words come from

he's previously served as general counsel to the international brotherhood of teamsters, associate general counsel to the united mine workers, and a partner in u.s. labor and employment law firm. he has very substantial credentials. we very much appreciate mr. brown being with us. mr. brown? >> thank you, senator. i work for a labor and human rights n.g.o. that has offices on the ground, around the world, working with trade unions, human rights, and labor rights. so we see the daily stories from victims of trafficking, labor trafficking, in the main from around the world, and those stories globally are not different from the story we hear about china. i'm glad that the senator acknowledged the progress that china has been making, and in the past three years, china has made remarkable progress in arresting, beginning to arrest the labor law structure, and at least in the trafficking area at the end of 2009 ratified the treaty, the convention on trafficking, and the protocol, the conventional organized criminality and the protocol. but i want to go to the human face the senator mentioned whi

teamsters have been asked to agree to 15% less. newsday has accepted a 5% to 10% pay cut. willard, democratic line, clinton, north carolina. caller: how you doing? host: fine, is this something you have experienced? caller: yes, and it is a good idea for people to take pay cuts and keep their benefits in a career job. i think there is nothing wrong with that. host: have you faced a pay cut? caller: i have not, i am now retired. host: continuing back to the "the new york times" story, "workers sometimes fight back in areas of the stress. in albuquerque they are suing, demanding that the plan should include furloughs." in the economy, tangentially related, the president awarded monetary awards to federal appointees, saying that like households and businesses across the country, the federal government is tightening its belt. those that are political appointees, "the new york times" business section as this, "american concerns have been putting away more paycheck than initially reported. consumers saved 6.4% of their after-tax income in june and that the savings rate has shot

especially the teamster and the union reps, i think were there to rally the people and caused divisionot unity. that is where the dream is lacking in our country. the glenn beck rally will show you by numbers and even at the looks of their faces and the attitude there was peaceful and very patriotic. there were numerous black speakers and people there of color. and i think there were out and out lies. at the other rally. people do not even watch it and they assume things and say things that are not true. that is what my husband and i noticed. we could not believe the negativity. host: thank you so much. glenn beck yesterday in what was a picture-perfect day in washington, d.c., for both events. "the washington post" has two photographs -- glenn beck and martin luther king 202-628-0205 202-628iii and al sharpton at a march that began at dunbar high school. north carolina. good morning. caller: thank you for covering the subject. it is important. there was a political rally and it was not the glenn beck raleigh, though he is a political person. i do not think he would ever say he was not

., brandon harris, head of student government for howard university [applause] of thegregreplois teamsterswill make this education bill work, education, youth, and independence. i want them to say a word as we get ready to line up. how many of you are ready to march? [applause] how many still believe in the drain? how many of you thank god for martin luther king? [applause] how many of you think dr. height that you can't control your cells. if you are so mad you cannot do what i'm asking, stay here. do not get out there cutting up by dr. king big. this is not your march. you are not that met. ad. do not act like you cannot control yourself. you control yourself all the time. they want to disgrace to this day and we are not giving them this day. this is our day and we are not giving it away. [applause] we are going to line up. >> thank you everybody for being here to represent a march on behalf of martin luther king jr.. my name is anise jenkins and i represent stands up. i welcome you here to the nation's capital, the last plantation, the last colony. as long as you have 600,000 people liv

i am a former democrat, a teamster. it will make a difference when i vote this november. everyone that i have spoken to is fired up. anybody but a democrat. anybody but a democrat. and let me say, before i go, the caller from michigan, he calls about everyday. how does he get through like that every day? host: we will keep an eye on it. we want folks to call in with 30 day intervals in between. thank you for having us on the shoulder about that. more on congressman fisa, "the stimulus web site is propaganda ." he released a media report that documented in the street agencies where the government promoted industry policy using federal resources. he called upon the gao to determine if the the ministration violated federal law by using taxpayer dollars for federal purposes, specifically pointing to websites that contained false or misleading information, including conference calls in which artists and entertainers were encouraged to support the president's agenda." joe, long beach. caller: how transparent is this stimulus? how transparent is this timing? we need money now av

they were teamsters of local 1035, but beyond that they were husbands, fathers, grandfathers, coaches, and friends. they were leaders and stalwarts in their communities where they lived and served. all were part of a family business which makes this so tragic. a family that's operated a business since 1955. the owner of that business i was with that fateful morning. stunned and shocked as everyone was. his thoughts were only about the safety and well-being of his work force, his concern as to whether or not they would be able to keep their wages. he talked to the comptroller making sure that benefits would be extended and his heart went out to all of the families who were victims of this senseless tragic slaying. it's a family business. it was a tragic and horrific thing that took place in manchester, connecticut. but the people of the distributeor is they went through this and the several vigils and memorials that have been created and funeral services still going on, they understand that they have one another. and they intend later this week to lock arms and march back into the ware

he has served as international counsel to the brotherhood of teamsters. he has worked for the -- he is a partner in a law firm. he has substantial credentials. we appreciate him being with us. >> thank you, senator. i work for a labor and human rights ngo that has offices on the ground around the world, working with trade unions, human rights, labor rights, and she'll's. -- and ngo's. we see the daily stories from victims of labor trafficking, in the main, from around the world. those stories, globally, are not different from the stories we hear about china. i am glad that the senator acknowledged the progress that china has been making. in the past curriers, china has made remarkable progress in -- three years, china has made remarkable progress in implementing a labor structure. at the end of 2009, they ratified the treaty -- the convention on trafficking and the protocols, the dimension on organized criminality and the protocols. i want to go to the human faces the senator mentioned, which keeps our organization working around the world. a lot of overt

united states, airline maintenance organization is represented by the international brotherhood of teamsters. we have a large maintenance base in san francisco, a significant made in space. also represented by that labor union. we also have made sense partners worldwide -- maintenance partners worldwide. we are a global carrier and we use the opportunity to have our maintenance performed all across the world. >> do we coat -- code share across the world? >> yes, we do. >> you mentioned that there would not be any changes in the front-line employees. what about the back line? >> you are referring to the headquarters. in any event -- and any merger, there are efficiencies as a result of job redundancies in the headquarters jobs. we will have the typical efficiencies in any merger. there will be reductions in jobs, both in houston and chicago. there will be jobs that will move from houston to chicago and there'll be jobs that remain in houston. but the vast majority of jobs will remain as they are today because we are such complementary carriers and we have so little overlap. the front-line emp

they are rolling out the endorsement first thing this morning of many of the local teamsters. so they're trying to roll out union endorsements. they're hoping to get a bunch of jewish democrats in the southern part of the state. they think that maybe they can get joe lieberman and michael bloomberg to come down from connecticut and new york to campaign with crist. so for crist the game is all about finding slices of the democratic electorate. he's going to need them if he finds the 38% that he's got to put together but this for crist is all about taking democratic votes away from kendrick meek. >> a long night for you. chuck, thanks for getting up early, we appreciate it. it's nine minutes after the hour. here's ann. >>> the economy will be front and center in the november midterm elections and right now the news is not good. some dismal housing numbers came in showing sales of existing homes dropped to their lowest level in 15 years. that pushed the dow below 10,000 points briefly before it bounced down a little. it ended down almost 134 points. jim cramer is the host of "mad

paid $6.1 billion in 2007 in withdrawal liability just for the right to leave the teamster teamsteres , did teamsteres pension pla >> the question is how can we get public sector, government sector union costs under control. >> i have heard these interesting ideas about a structured bankruptcy kind of concept. if this is the bigger hit, you will be disappointed to know that most of these obligations are state constitutionally bo d bound, that they are contractual obligations. they are duty bound to be followed. i think it is interesting if you are interested at all in this to follow what the f.c. -- what the s.e.c just did to new jersey. they essentially sanctioned new jersey for the way it accounts for its pension obligation bonds. don't think it is just related to places like new jersey. you will be disappointed to know the most recent pension obligation bonds sold by the state of texas included language and legislation that exempted them from what are known as generally accepted accounting principles. >> can't we pass a law that says these unions like teachers unions who are having