i'm a business representative for teamsters 665. we believe that impark is a reputable company. local 665 believes that impark would be an excellent choice to manage the /kraoutz terminal parking assignment. >> thank you. >> how you doing. thank you very much. i'm here representing the iow. labor prevails here in san francisco. we've been here a long time and it's good too see that there's another /kpaepbl bargaining for this position. it's good. but more importantly we have to stay focused on labor here and my question is to both parties. are they going to continue with union labor and what will happen with the events that they're talking about /stph-b will that also be union labor? you have the events for the [inaudible] plaza and you also have a lot of gearmen here. i'd like to know if there will be steady hires [inaudible] and then the events the same. will thereby local hires out of iow? >> thank you. >> good afternoon madam president and fellow commissioners. my name is patrick kim and i'm a proud member of the iowu for the local 75 for the past 20 years. i represent the w

. >>> some school bus drivers in new york city are trying to get teamsters to help. they work for durham. they contract with the school to drive children to and from school but the drivers said the bus are in bad shape. some are moldy. some have electrical problems. some have flield lawsuit saying they don't pay them farley. >> every friday people are complaining about their checks. they're being short. it isn't fair. >> the workers are trying to unionize. late this afternoon we received a statement from durham school services who said we have multiple reporting channels for employees. our company tries to ensure our workers are fairly paid for the work they perform. >>> efforts to oppose the new gun laws. another county has joined. carroll county commissioners voted to declare carroll as a second amendment sanctuary county. harford has made a similar declaration. >>> former anne arundel county executive john leopold paid off one of his outstanding bills. he paid it late last month. the fine was part of his conviction for criminal miscon dufnlgt he is in the state no

i'm a business representative for teamsters 665. we believe that impark is a reputable company. local 665 believes that impark would be an excellent choice to manage the /kraoutz terminal parking assignment. >> thank you. >> how you doing. thank you very much. i'm here represen

includes state retirement funds in california, new york, illinois, and connecticut, as well as the teamsters. collectively, they control nearly $2.5 trillion in assets. the garment industry tripled in bangladesh from 2000 to 2010. there are now 5,000 garment factories there. the drama continues over the irs scandal. former irs commissioner douglas shulman is set to testify wednesday. he left the agency in 2012. friday, steven miller, who recently resigned as the acting irs commissioner, faced the heat on the hill at a congressional committee hearing. "congress, this committee messed up by not giving any clear criteria for what a real charitable organization is. ryan: how was that not misleading this committee? you knew the targeting was taking place. you knew the terms 'tea party,' 'patriots' were being used. you just acknowledged a minute ago that they were outrageous. and then when you were asked about this, after you were briefed about this, that was the answer you gave us? how can we not conclude that you misled this committee? miller: "sir, that was a lot of questions, sir." ryan: "it's

the teamsters union. over 1 million members calling for changes, changes in obamacare. "a-team". let me start with you. the fifth amendment. does that mean that she thinks, for a starter, the house oversight committee thinks that someone could go to jail? >> absolutely. you do not take the fifth amendment unless you think you have done something wrong. lawyers will not advise you tak the best which is saying, i'm not trying to say anything ther will incriminate myself, other than my name, rank and serial number because anything else that would come out of my mouth might incriminate me criminally. >> you'll want to take the rest. it is a different issue. lou: this house the same. >> we have seen up to 500 organizations say that their plans were thwarted, delayed, they scared of the donors. lou: but here's what it meant for the election. a lot of ridiculous charges of voter suppression in the last election even the black turnout was higher than might turn out. the real voter suppression is the irs and he knows who else. they suppress the vote, the tea party, get-out-the-v

very powerful meeting with the teamsters there yesterday. good to be back. >> personally, i'm stunned that you actually made it back. >> bill: because? >> because it was vegas. it's vegas. not everybody lives to tell the tale. >> bill: i have a good time in vegas. but then i get the hell out of there. >> you can't have a good time and behave yourself in vegas. >> bill: i love vegas. i love walking the strip. one of my favorite things to do southbound looking at the people. you see more weirdos. it is like a circus. a walking circus. some of the outfits that people wear unbelievable. i was walking -- i was just walking. here is an elvis impersonator but he wasn't like performing. he was just walking down the street. nobody even turned their head. he had the whole white suit on, the whole thing you know, the glasses. total and just walking like anybody else. >> somewhere that elvis impersonator is telling his friend, vegas is so weird, i was just walking down the street and there was bill press. >> bill: no. you know, all of us, we have a shor

they train people, plumbers, pipe fitters, teamsters, all of these people get special training, laborerse ready to go do the job and can do a project nobody else can do. >> why are we seeing a lack of investment in american workers? i mean, the numbers are what they are. i mean, you mean this country can't add one manufacturing job in the month of april? zero? >> look, the problem in america, ed, right now is that we have moved towards a paper economy. we've got so many people who think that they're doing fine, everything's okay if the stock market goes up a couple points, but the fact is, that at the end of the day, we've seen what happens with stock market booms and busts and bubbles. what we need is a strong manufacturing economy that can see us through the ups and downs and see communities all over this country. remember, factories help small towns get through. >> no doubt. the progressive movement in this country as very well aligned with labor, very well aligned with the middle class, in your state of wisconsin, paul ryan recently gave a speech to the american enterprise institute

it is the "full court press" brought to you today by the international brotherhood of teamsters.all do better thanks to the good work of the men and women of the teamsters union under president jim hoffa. check out their web site, find out more about their good work at teamster.org. you know, we can get through a monday pretty much on our own but by the time we get to tuesday, the issues are piling up. and this just -- too much information. too much to talk about. we can't do it ourselves. we need help. we need help from the center for american progress and think progress and managing editor igor volsky. our lifeline. good morning igor. good to see you. >> good morning, good morning. >> bill: you guys have been hard at work as always. been following you which we do on think progress. urge you to do the same at thinkprogress.org. particularly, we talked about this yesterday in your absence the work you've been doing. you had somebody down there at the nra convention in houston. >> it was a big year for them. as you know, they have that new incoming president who believes in the wa

and i was just out in las vegas with the teamsters union yesterday. i met with a whole group of members of the machinist union here in town the legislative conference. with the exception you, you and a few others, i find that democrats fall into the trap of talking about that, too. i start with president obama. he keeps talking about the grand bargain and how we have to -- are willing to cut spending cut spending, cut spending instead of talking about jobs. right? >> this deficit's come down about $4 trillion. we have cut. we have cut well over a trillion and a half dollars in spending. some needed to be cut. i don't argue with every -- i am not against doing that selectively and with a strategy. but this sort of meat ax accepting some things from the far right, corporate welfare and protecting tax breaks but we could end sec ration by instead closing tax loopholes for the oil companies, ending the hedge fund tax break that wettest u wealthy people get ending farm subsidies, which we are doing in the agriculture committee this week really would enable

capital and our studio on capitol hill brought to you today by the international brotherhood of teamstersthe goodmen and women of the teamstersun juvenility we live better because of their good work under president jim hoffa. find out more about what they are up to at teamster.org the economy. the maverick markets have been doing great. seemingly set new records every day for the most part. derrick thompson covers economic issues for the atlantic based in new york. senior editor. give him his due but when it comes to washington, d.c., he stops by to see us. >> good to be back >> bill: what is going on with the market? it's like nothing slows them down? >> it's interesting, for the last three years we have this a thermostatic recovery, added about 150, 165,000 jobs per month. but it's only in the last six months really that the dow has really gotten on a kick. >> yeah. >> you know, corporations are healthy. they managed finances frugally. often, they didn't hire a lot of people. frugal from the corporate perspective and not the best possible scenario from the rest of the country's perspect

we had a phone call just yesterday from somebody in a teamster plan, and he read about the commission, and he said, i was told that i was safe, that i would be paid the -- the plan wouldn't run out of money before i die and i would continue getting my benefits. now, the problem isn't that we might have to cut retiree benefits. i think everybody has to share in the pain. but there are many plans that are going to continue -- that are covered by the report that are going to continue for 15 or 20 years under current law if current law is left alone, and retirees will be okay in that situation. one of the constant themes in pension law and pension management, the last 100 years, has been, when there's a problem, the first person you protect is the retirees, and that is clear in the allocation scheme in pbgc, clear if you look at plans going back to the late 19th century, or early 20th century, which made provisions for retirees to be paid their benefits before anybody else. and our concern -- the commission was made up of unions, employer groups, it spoke to experts, but it wasn't part of

and ups happened in reverse where the teamsters leveraged 99 relationship here in the united states to force recognition in turkey for a contractor. what we have to do on a policy level we have to make sure that we allow the employee to always have that election. you can't force an employer to go to a campaign against the union. that would be unreal. we can always make sure the employee at least has a say so somewhere in the situation. anyway. so that's all i've got on this. [applause] >> thank you. we'll open it to questions from the audience in just a minute. i'm going to take my moderator's prerogative to ask the first question. and it's going to be for you, dave, if russ and anna want to chime in. in going through the article from the ufcw it was written in the '90s when they were trying to pioneer the pressure of the campaign. he was writing, again, i'm quoting. my local scribes to the policy, the policy he's talking about is by passing. by defining successful organizes in one of two ways either a rad fied sign previously nonunion employer or a significant curtailment of the nonun

the national brotherhood of teamsters, the national union of operating engineers, the national electronic contractors association as well as the u.s. chamber and national taxpayers union. this is about american jobs, whether you're union or nonunion, whether you're a member of the chamber of commerce or not, this is about getting people back to work and being energy independent. this is a bipartisan bill that simply cuts through the very red tape that the president continues to complain about. it helps this nation realize the benefits of this project, the energy independence of our nation. mr. chairman, i encourage all members to support this bill and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields ack the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan and the gentleman from california each will control 15 minutes. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. upton: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that i might use as much time as i may consume? the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. upton: i rise in strong support of the keystone pipeline that will final

loaning us money, whether china or tim buck tuesday, whether it's -- tim buck too, whether it's the teamsters, or the child's bond they've goten for their birthday, we're borrowing over a quarter what we spend. if we cannot borrow, if the credit markets is ever compromised, this whole house of cards collapses around us, a house of cards constructed by this administration's profligate spending. we have a strain that has never been borne before. this bill says we should at least reinforce that credit with exactly the same guarantees that most of our states have successfully employed for generations and that i would remind my friend from california, california has had in its constitution for over 100 years. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back his time. the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentlelady from new york. ms. slaughter: mr. speaker, i'm pleased to yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from tennessee, mr. cooper. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tennessee is recognized for a minute and a half. ms. slaughter: excuse me. let me make that two minutes

we had a phone call just yesterday from somebody in a teamster plan, and he read about the commissiond he said, i was told that i was safe, that i would be paid -- the plan wouldn't run out of money before i die and i would continue getting my benefits. now, the problem isn't that we might have to cut retiree benefits. i think everybody has to share in the pain. but there are many plans that are going to continue -- that are covered by the report, that are going to continue for 15 or 20 years under current law if the current law is left alone and retirees well by okay in that situation. one of the constant themes in pension law and pension management the last 100 years has been, when there's a problem, the first person you protect is the retirees, and that is clear in the allocation scheme in pbgc; it's clear if you look at plans going back to the late 19th century or early 20th century, which made provisions for retirees be paid for benefits before anybody else. and our concern -- the commission what made up of unions employer groups, it spoke to experts but aarp was not part of the