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joe vazquez how the teamsters have gone from trucking to toking. >> that is what our union label stands reporter: life imitates art ♪ so look for the usa >> reporter: more than 30 years ago saturday night live joked about it. now it is seriously happening more than 3 dozen marijuana gardeners, trimmers and cloners at the indoor marijuana growing facility in oakland have become real life members of the teamsters. >> they are workers they want benefits and protection. >> reporter: the spokesman said in an age of can he kleining union -- declining union membership it is time for them to branch out. >> it is a growing industry. >> reporter: definitely a growing industry. >> yeah, and there is going to be some potholes in the road. >> reporter: growers negotiated a two year contract giving them a pension, health insurance and paid vacation. they will now make $18 an hour which will bump up to $25.75 an hour within 15 months. >> a win-win for everyone workers get benefits we get a stable work force. >> the owners did not allow cbs 5 inside the nondescript warehouse and they asked us not to sh

people who work in the medical pot industry is now card carrying members of the teamsters with some pretty sweet benefits. joe vazquez on how they have gone from trucking to teching. >> that is what our union label stands for. >> reporter: life imitates art ♪ so look for the usa >> reporter: more than 30 years ago saturday night live joked about it now it is seriously happening more than three dozen marijuana gardeners, trimmers, cloners at the indoor marijuana growing facility in oakland have become real life members of one of america's largest unions, teamsters. >> they are worners they want benefits and -- workers and they want benefits and protection. >> reporter: in an age of declining union membership it is time for the union that traditionally represented truckers to branch out. >> it is a growing industry. >> definitely. >> and there is going to be some potholes in the road. >> reporter: growers negotiated a new two year contract giving them a pension, health insurance and paid vacation. they will now make $18 an hour bumping to $25.75 within 15 months. >> it is a win-win for every

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. >> reporter: teamster member gabe ramirez considers himself a lifelong democrat. but even he admits he is a little disenchanted with his party in washington. >> i don't know where they are putting their attention to because it's not out here where we need it. you know what i mean? all of the money don't seem to be going where it should be going. >> reporter: still ramirez was one of more than 500 people who cheered on larry brown hosted by the local teamsters union. brown is the democratic candidate for governor. >> we start our battle tomorrow. you will see my ads. you will see me up and down the state. >> reporter: brown's opponent republican meg whitman did not have anything planned for today. but many voters have already seen her on the airwaves. whitman has spent more than $140 million for political ads. brown is kicking his campaign into high gear tomorrow. >> i will goup and down and tell people my message which is no taxes without a vote of the people. bring the government closer to the local level and learn to live within our means. >> reporter: barbara r

it was hosted by the teamster union. it was a campaign stop for jerry brown. >> we start our battle tomorrow. you will see my adds, see me up and down the state. >> reporter: he acknowledges he will have to spend a lot of time over the next eight week its addressing the claims made by meg whittman. she was on the campaign trail yesterday in northern california talking to voters in columbia. many have seen her on the air waves. she reportedly spent more than $100 million in political adds. for his part brown said is he kicking his campaign into high gear. >> i will go up and down and tell people my message. it's no taxes without a vote of the people. bring the government closer to the local level and live with in our means. >> it's good to promote and get himself out and get close to the people. >> reporter: like many teamsters member considers himself a lifelong democrat. he said he will vote for brown but is upset with his party in washington. >> i don't know where they are putting their attention to because it's not ou

our qualified greenskeepers, teamers, -- teamsters, farmers, mechanics, they'll take great pride in their work and look forward to see the park as center stage in the tournament ahead. we look forward to working with pga as we initiate a new chapter in san francisco and its historic golf courses. supervisor avalos: thank you, next speaker, please. >> i am the president of the pga golf into our properties and thank you for your consideration today. we are honored to be considered as a partner to the city. we put our money where our mouth is, so to speak, investing a substantial amount of money, annually, committed for a couple of years. not only are we not making money on this, we are investing capital in the golf course because we believed in the future of this golf course, we think that it can make a difference for the kids. i would like to briefly speak to the issue of the arbitration provision and production maintenance expenses. the intent behind getting this provision was to protect the golf course from what could potentially happen down the road, which is a policy decision to materi

. >>> new at 11:00, marijuana workers in oakland are teaming up with the teamsters.about 38 workers voted to ratify a two-year contract with local 70. nbc bay area cheryl herd is looking at this tonight. >> reporter: the workers we're talking about are about to get a raise. and this growing industry is starting to unionize. joe sayer suffers from chronic back pain. he says he uses medical marijuana occasionally. and he believes unionizing workers who manufacture the medicinal pot he needs for pain, is a way to protect workers. >> i'm really surprised that we had to fight this long, when we have industries like the tobacco industry really taking advantage of people, the economy. >> reporter: an economy that is looking for something to pull it out of the recession. margin investments, located in oakland, provides medical marijuana used by patients suffering from cancer, hiv and other life-threatening illnesses. the move to unionize its workers is a way to grow the industry. >> about 12 years ago, the medical marijuana proposition passed. and this is just an extension.

. >> that's the teamsters. >> like most of the things you say that's absolutely false. >> united mine workers. on board with them? >> i have no problem. listen. you -- >> go back. >> by the way, lawrence, it hurts me right here. while your hair may look good in the wind, you have no idea. i had an awful lot of union support when i ran. i was against nafta. g.a.p. wto. i know maybe it fits in with the people watching your 10:00 show but i'm quite enlightened and a working class hero, thank you very much. >> the best airing of the teacher factor was right here for two hours yesterday. audience filled with teachers. fascinating. some saying we can't do this without tenure. that's what allows us to stand up to principals getting things wrong. yo younger teachers saying the union protects me enough. fabulous exchange. >> it was. >> those teachers shared, there were teachers in the audience who agreed more with you than they might agree with someone else. and then there were teachers who were very protective of the union as you might expect but i think those two hours illuminated -- >> i ho

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the president of the teamsters 63 t says members want better security -- better job security, better health insurance and higher wages. their union contract expired june 30th. things are back to normal at the wheaton metro station in montgomery county. the red line station was closed several hours during the rush hour last night. all of the elevators and escalators were out due to mechanical problems. the station is one of the deepest in the system. metro says most of the escalator and elevators are now operating again. >>> nationwide, sat scores remain steady but in our area they are on the rise. the test is graded on a scale of 2400 points. in the last year, district students average 1404 points. that's a jump of 26 points from a year ago. montgomery county students gained 38 points going up to 1653. fairfax county remains steady but at 1684 is the highest in the region. the national average was unchanged at 1509. >>> ahead in sports, after self rain delays there's finally a men's champion at the u.s. open. >>> and some smash mouth football to end the nfl's fist week. highlights fr

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we'll get an industry update when sales reports come out this week and finally a teamsters union in oaklandl marijuana growing company. the 40 employees will get a negotiated salary, health benefits and even a pension. ah, but no word on whether there's going to be any drug testing going on. that's this week's "getting down to business." allison sokik, cnn, new york. >> all right, thank you very much. >> healthy living begins with healthy eating and we're taking you on a cross-country food journey, and we're starting you off at farmers' market. hey, did you ever finish last month's invoices? sadly, no. oh. but i did pick up your dry cleaning and had your shoes shined. well, i made you a reservation at the sushi place around the corner. well, in that case, i better get back to these invoices... which i'll do right after making your favorite pancakes. you know what? i'm going to tidy up your side of the office. i can't hear you because i'm also making you a smoothie. [ male announcer ] marriott hotels & resorts knows it's better for xerox to automate their global invoice process so they can f

. >> all right more medical marijuana growers or workers in california are unionizing >> yes, teamstersed nearly 40 new members forming the country's first group of unionized marijuana growers. the members work as gardeners, trimmers, cloners for a oakland marijuana business the second pot union in oakland. workers at oakster dam university joined a different union. it is a trade school for medical marijuana industry. >>> we have been talking about it and showing you live pictures all morning, so far it seems to be okay. >> part of our question of the day would you be willing to pay to have an express lane on the freeway you drive on every morning. >> on twitter, i would not pay to drive in an express lane my tax payments to the state are enough. >> valerie e-mails us she says i'm broke enough after tune ups and oil changes if they pay for my gas i will think about it. >> really it does seem like you are being charged every place you go. >> 580, altamonte pass they are talking about next a trend. >> time now for a look at what is coming up later this morning on the early show. >> maggie

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other life threatening illnesses. 38 of its workers voted to ratify a two-year contract with the teamsters union. union officials say it's a way to movement industry forward. >> about ten years ago the medical marijuana proposition passed. i think this is just an extension. people are just getting used to it it seems like a natural progression. >> reporter: that could mean a bump in salary as well. right now workers are making about $18 an hour, and under the new union contract, they would be making closer to $26 an hour in just more than a year. >>> today crew also continue cleaning up an oil spill in the petaluma river. oil leaked from a tugboat that was being dismantled by a salvage company. it coated about two miles of the river and spread from the marina past a bridge on highway 1016789 between 200 gallons and 600 gallons spilled yesterday. a boom is around the tug this morning. clean-up is expected to last several days. crews have not spotted any oil-coated wildlife. >>> new this morning, a possible link between crime and preschool. a new report out claims that investing more in pres

the teamsters union has more than 40 new members this month, by organizing the first group of unionized marijuana growers. they work as gardeners for maryland investments llc out of oakland. the company holds contracts with medical marijuana patients to grow their pot for them, along with a new two-year contract comes a pension, paid vacation, health insurance and a pay hike. >>> state senator mark lino off eared bill which sits on the governor's desk, a bill that requires schools to have free water available in eating areas by next july. some 40% of public schools polled do not provide free water to students despite the push for healthier eating habits on campus. >>> we get a little free water over the weekend, didn't we? but that's again away now. dry weather, warm weather, too, jeff ranieri? >> heated up quite a bit today after scattered showers this weekend, left the most amount, sonoma, a ten of an inch of rainfall. today, after the cool front passed through, temperatures stay warmed up, back behind the front. we had winds out of the northwest, helping temperatures increase anywher

i was speaking to the teamsters convention in minnesota on sunday. they're angry. the problem is that the president and his administration have for so long said how much they've done right that they are not really addressing where people find themselves. 26 million with no jobs. about to have 3 million foreclosures in year. et cetera, et cetera. >> i know. >> they need to address that reality in which people are living. it's not just amater of communications. and i love what bill clinton said, about telling them exactly what you're going to do next to fix that. they haven't done that either. they talk about jobs being a priority, but they haven't really produced a long list of suggestions, solutions that include republican ones. like a payroll holiday. like a big infrastructure project with a chance to get through the congress. >> big question, not enough oomph. as arianna's complained. it's not that they haven't sold it. i can hear in her words, the criticism. not just pr. they haven't done enough to get jobs back. >> well, it's not just the oomph. the thing about

and i do it by watching and we got to shoot that indoor so on every break i turned to talk to a teamster or a neighbor to get the sound or attitude down. i feel like every neighborhood, there is a chance, the way we hold ourselves. and so i tried to adopt as much as i could from that. it was so good. >> thank you so much for coming in. the book is called jack goes boating. it opens tomorrow and this is amy ryan. >> thank you so much. >> steve over to you. >>> and also this weekend, the annual octoberfest kicks off in fredericksberg, virginia and holly is there this morning as they get ready for the big event. holly good morning. >> reporter: good morning. i feel like i'm in munich. but right now we're in fredericksberg. i'm checking how much is in there. going for a refill already. we're working on german time, ip got it. so if you come out tomorrow or saturday, the 8th annual octoberfest is going on here and when you come, come hungry. bopsy, you are german. >> yes. >> reporter: from? >> ox burg. it's 70 minutes away from munich. >> reporter: and how is the octoberfest here? >> it is gr

the later in life -- had a job as a senior in college, i was a warden in a county jail, and the teamstersr on strike. they were shooting up trucks. we ended up having the president got arrested, brought to jail, and hoffa would not even bail out. host: "falling into poverty. job losses hit states middle income families large. two years ago, he was getting to see the results of his labor. a week ago, instead of bringing his newborn son home to a condominium he had rented for 12 years, johnson and his wife when, to the health and garden inn and milton. in this recession, thousands of once comfortable connecticut families have fallen into poverty. the reports shows that the heaviest job losses have been in the middle of the pay scale and that connecticut has seen more long-term unemployment than anywhere else." independent line, los angeles. freddy, go ahead. caller: i think the future of the union movement is in dismal trouble. unfortunately, they will bring the rest of us down with them. job losses overseas. is the labor movement itself that cause that. they virtually brought down the stee

this morning, i had a cup of coffee in a teamster coffee cup . i did several of those as well as command and control exercises. i think it is incredibly important that those exercises have had a reincarnation. he pointed to the importance of being able to work together, get to know each other, and have a long-term relationship. and that happened when i was the commanding general, and it could only happen in korea if we had those kinds of exercises. in the last team spirit i participated in was the largest set of operational units i ever had under command and control at any one time. we exercise all the command and control that was then in place. and we had army troops from the u.s. west coast to never came to korea except for that kind of an exercise. and they even parachuted one of the ranger >> that was the one i used since my first year in junior high, until i got my ph.d. from the united states at college park. my first english teacher did not know donald up. so i turned it into d-u-c. when i visited vietnam, they read it "dook," not duc. but