highly he raised his hand and he said, what's a teamster? well, you know, being a rapidfire answer i said they are truckers and work for ups and handle packages and work in warehouses and i rattle off a long list and then i realized that's not what he was asking. and i thought to myself, he has every right to be mystified, right? he was about 20, but it just shows how last century it is that we have an occupation from the previous century, probably future of this one of our largest american unions. and how last century it is to young people and how, probably, quite offputting to them that in 2011 that union is still projected as a brotherhood rather than a brotherhood and a sisterhood. when it in fact represents 400,000 women workers, one of whom is his sister sandy pope will will hopefully be its next international president. and as we know a number of unions with brotherhood in the name, have grappled with this question of possibly come up with a more gender-neutral or gender equal name, one of them even acknowledges the existence of the r

with me now is james hoffa, general president of the international brotherhood of teamsters. mr.ome to the show >> nice to be here. >> what do you want to hear from president obama on his upcoming jobs tour of the midwest. what would tickle your fancy? >> well, number one, i'd like to have him have a real policy. and basically come up with something that articulates getting this trillions of dollars that corporations have right now, and making them start to hire americans, build plants in this country, stop sending jobs overseas, propose changing the tax law that's going to penalize people that send jobs out of this country. when he's on that bus tour, i wish he could go to wisconsin and get involved in the wisconsin rates. and he ought to go to ohio and start mobilizing those people. those are the people that are ready to fight that we're going on -- fight that's going on to get jobs back in america, to keep unions alive. he's got to get involved in that, he's got to go to his base right now, he has to mobilize his base, mobilize working families to be involved in creating jobs

teamsters union says cuts made by the company have left guards vulnerable to attack. they have reduced the standard three person armored car crew to two people. >> a man rode into yosemite is closed this morning as hundreds of firefighters battle a wildfire just outside the park. the blaze broke out at a motor home and burned about a thousand acres. highway 140 is closed for 15 miles from el portal to the entrance. the fire is starting in steep terrain. dozen of planes and helicopters are at work trying to contain it. >> hurricane irene has weakened slightly to a hurricane 2 storm. it's aiming for north carolina but expected to churn a path up in the major population centers. you are looking at live pictures of the areas. it could move into new york and new england. here is more. >> reporter: first it battered the bahamas now it could cause havoc along the east coast. more than half a dozen states have declared states of emergency. it's growing in size and danger stretching 1,000 miles wide. it's expected to bring drenching rain and massive flooding. more than 65 mill

members of the teamsters, there will be collective bargaining and you will have 40 cabs that you will be able to work some of your experiments on. i feel like a lab rat in many cases. every day, there's something new coming in and we have to figure out what it is and how it will affect us. i have been driving a long time. there has never been enough cabs to satisfy everybody. thank you. >> next speaker, please. [reading names] >> good afternoon. i am richard wiener, i have been in the business over 40 years and i sat in the room like this as a taxicab commissioner. i have a little bit of experience. i am here to speak strongly against the issue of prime time, peak time, a single operator medallions and speak strongly in favor of full time taxis. we need full-time taxis on the street. i do not know how many people have spoken from the public but if this meeting is like any other, it is medallion holders, drivers, not much from the public. the purpose of the taxicabs is to serve the public. just to give you a quick figures. non-prime time days at yellow cab, sunday and saturday between

of housing and urban development essentially run things clean and you had to get rid of the clean teamsterto run the housing bubble and i was targeted i was poisoned a dead animals left on my doorstep my house was broken into people tried to run me off the road. you know it was very very violent and it went on for years so you know so people who try and run the government clean or or run while street cleaner targeted and literally you know have to fear for their lives i mean people have been dying so. you know it's a very very dangerous this situation and then the challenge is if you have people who can kill and physically harass with impunity how do you you know how do you run a governance process just for people who are unfamiliar what your role with the bush fared better strachan it was what exactly i was assistant secretary of housing so i was the lead break in later for the housing area and it you know it's very interesting that it's not at washington in one thousand nine hundred eight and i kept saying to people look you know their engine area housing bubble this is going to destroy

teamsters is a bigger group on the republican side you might have another big group this is almost liket an economic within. >> democrats would love to find something similar to get them going. it is not going to be unions that deliver by themselves. they love to get something that be -- that can be an equivalent. harder to do in a mid term election they know the tea party is going to be out there maybe just gaining steam if it is as strong as it was in 2010, it will be tough in 2012. >> greta: who do you think can energy the tea party the most? >> the republican that can get them going? >> greta: yeah, which republican really would get the tea party going? >> i think michelle bachmann and rick perry money the current candidates are most likely to tap into that. i think the tea party going to be behind the republican candidate, whoever it is. the one who has been associated with them most closely has been michelle bachmann and i think rick perry and some of the things he's done and the rhetoric makes him a better match than some of the others. >> greta: if governor palin jumps in what d

entrepreneur and you have -- i know many years ago you wrote book about the teamsters. most recent book was about the aftermath of 9/11. >> guest: correct. >> host: now you have written about education reform. i thought this could be the next chapter of "waiting for superman." the book that accompanies the movie. you featured the same heros. joel klein and jonathan scher, and like the movie, teachers union is the biggest obstacle to reform. i should say. >> guest: do i get to comment on that, the cherry picked summary that you've done. which reminds me of how you cherry pick a lot of your data >> host: come on now, i'm the interviewer. >> guest: i don't think that's a fair description of the book. i would venture that several of the teachers union leaders portrayed in the book, the woman that runs the union in hillsborough country, florida would not say she was a villain. >> host: i didn't say that. the book they were portrayed as an obstacle to reform. >> guest: they are. >> host: okay. i learned a lot from it. because you have access to people that normally don't spea

. >> host: sorry, an entrepreneur, and you've had -- you wrote a book about the teamsters and most recently was about the aftermath of 9/11 and now you've written a book debt education reform. i read the book and thought this could be the next chapter of waiting for superman, and a company. you feature the same and the hacking scandal and jonathan and the teachers' union are the biggest obstacle to reform. i should say being a historian -- >> guest: do i get to comment on the cherry pick summary that you done? it reminds me how you cherry pick a lot of your data. >> host: come on now, the interviewer. >> guest: i don't think that is a fair description of the book. i would venture that certainly the teachers union leaders that are portrayed in the book suggests for example of a woman who runs the union in hillsborough county florida would not say that she is a felon in fact -- >> host: i didn't say there were villans i said in the bookkeeper treated as an obstacle to reform. >> guest: the unions are an obstacle. >> host: so a historian at education i was interested in the book. i learned a l

i know you you were with the teamsters. most racially the aftermath of 9/11. and now education reform. i read the book and i thought this could well be the next chapter of "waiting for superman," the book that companies the movie, although there was one. you featured the same here as. joel klein, and jonathan, arne duncan, and like movie, the teachers union or its biggest obstacle to reform. so i should say that being a historic -- >> guest: cannot comment on that? cherry-pick a summary that you've done. which reminds me how you cherry-pick a lot of your data. >> host: come on now, i'm the interviewer. >> guest: i do think that is a fair description of the book. i would venture that several of the teachers unions leaders who were betrayed in the book -- portrayed in the book such as the woman who runs the union in florida would not say that she is a villain. she's one of the hair once. >> host: i didn't say they were felons. i said in the book you -- >> guest: the unions are an obstacle. >> host: i was are interested in the book. i learned a lot. you have acce

and not to buy newer and you have a nominee or goes over you wrote a book about the teamsters about the aftermath of 9/11. now you have written a book about education reform. i read the book and i thought this could well be the next chapter of "waiting for superman," the book that the company -- you featured the same heroes. so i should say that being a historian -- >> guest: do i get to comment on the cherry-pick summer you have done? which reminds me you have cherry-picked a lot of your data. >> host: come on now. >> guest: i don't think that is a fair description of the book. i'd venture that several of the teacher unions leaders who are pertaining the book such as for example the woman who runs the union in hillsborough county florida with not say that she is a villain and infectious one of the heroes. >> host: i didn't say they were villains. i said in a bookkeeper trade the unions as an obstacle to reform. >> guest: the unions are an obstacle to reform. >> host: i was very interested in the book and i learned a lot from it because you have access to people that normally don't spea

my father represented the teamsters. he was a shop steward. he represented immigrant workers in a battery recycling plant. my mother worked many years of a toy factory that i will not name and who later fled the state and went south and never came back. but she worked there very proudly with the united workers, and i will never forget that. growing up in the committee in a small town in california it was hard for our family, a family of immigrants, first generations of the air wasn't always fit to breathe, the environment wasn't always clean. in my community we lived near several superfund sites ha, gravel pits, polluted land fills and one that was just close to a school yard elementary school that was one of the largest in landfills in the country. and several miles away the area code is my note to one no -- [laughter] beverly hills there are zero land phyllis or chemical plants. i grew up with a very strong understanding that there were haves and have-nots in this world. but my father taught me about the difference that a union can make in t

a first generation american, our guests father was a teamsters union shop steward from mexico who workedcycling plant and her mother, from nicaragua, >> chief helped implement major facets of the recovery and reinvestment act that included extending unemployment benefits, providing workers for benefits needing new skills and jobs in clean energy and health information technology. we do not want to overlook the fact could she was awarded the profile encouragement to work that is presented to public servants who have made courageous decisions. i would ask our audience to give a warm traditional round of applause to hilda solis. [applause] thank you for sitting down with us at this important time. we have the holiday coming up this monday. we have what we call in the business and financial fields, "numbers day." the president both yesterday and today has been referencing ways to help cure what seems to be a much more substantial unemployment problem than that many many of us had expected. so we know the president is going to make a speech some time. i assume you have been working closely wi

it become clear to me my father represented the teamsteres. he represented immigrant workers in a battery recycling plant. my mother worked for many years in a toy factory i will not name and later fled the state and went south. never came back. she worked there proudly with the united workers. i'll never forget that. growing up in my community in a small town called la puente, california. it was hard. we were a family of i am grants. the environment was not always clean. we lived near several fun signs, gravel pits several miles away, the air yoi code is 90210, beverly hills, there are zero land fills, chemical plants. i grew up with a strong understanding that there were have and have notes in this world my father taught me there was a difference in the union. growing up, i remember distinctly sitting down with my father, he'd say come sit here. i thought what did i do? >> he would reach into his pocket and pull out crumbled papers. there were skrib willings on there in spanish and he would recite what was written. he had me translate them i

my father represented the teamsters. he was a shop steward. he represented immigrant workers in a battery recycling plant. my mother worked many years of a toy factory that i will not name and who later fled the state and went south and never came back. but she worked there very proudly with the united workers, and i will never forget that. growing up in the committee in a small town in california it was hard for our family, a family of immigrants, first generations of the air wasn't always fit to breathe, the environment wasn't always clean. in my community we lived near several superfund sites ha, gravel pits, polluted land fills and one that was just close to a school yard elementary school that was one of the largest in landfills in the country. and several miles away the area code is my note to one no -- [laughter] beverly hills there are zero land phyllis or chemical plants. i grew up with a very strong understanding that there were haves and have-nots in this world. but my father taught me about the difference that a union can make in t

vice president of the locomotive engineers and train men, which is a part of the teamsters. my comments will be submitted for the record. everyone acknowledges that our nation's infrastructure is in dire need of repair and expansion. the safety of the traveling public and the jobs created by funding and maintenance, by funding the our struck tuck for everyone affected and nation as a whole. >> twice as much as 5% of the gdp and china invests 9% or three times as much as the united states relative to gdp. america badly needs the economic boost infrastructure investment provides. private investment dollars sit idle on the sidelines while unemployment subornly remains near record levels. infrastructure investment is a proven economic stimulator and a job creator and it is an investment in the future of america. infrastructure investment creates jobs and grows the economy but we need to finance it. and for that, some would overly rely on the private sector. we believe there is a role for private capital and infrastructure banks but strong conditions must be attached and appropri

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my father represented the teamsters. he was a shop steward. he represented immigrant workers in the battery recycling plant. my mother worked for many years at a toy factory that i will not name, which later fled the state and never came back. but she worked there very proudly with the united workers. i will never forget that, growing up in a small town in california. it was hard for our family. we were a family of immigrants, first-generation. the air was not always fit to breathe. the environment was not always clean. in my community, we lived near several superfund sites, gravel pits, polluted landfills, and one that was very close to a schoolyard, an elementary school. now it is one of the largest land fills in the country. several miles away, the area code is 9021 no -- 9 0210 -- 09 210, beverly hills. there are no landfills, no clinical plants. a group understanding there were haves and have-nots in this world. but my father taught me about the difference the union can make in the lives of workers and their families. growing up, i rememb