but they're always very nice to me, the teamsters -- >> seth: i think if a boston teamster told you youray because they're not ones to like give faint praise. >> oh no, no, no, no. not at all, not at all. and that's exactly why i was so nervous, but they gave me the green light so it's good, yeah. >> seth: now you are from, not boston but a very small town in iowa. >> i am. >> seth: and a thousand people? less than a thousand? >> 700 people. >> seth: seven hundos. so that's officially a small town. >> yeah, exactly. it has a bar, though. >> seth: o [ laughter ] >> seth: i actually drove it in. the sign says, "we have a bar." [ light laughter ] you -- and did you -- so you got your start modeling. did you come to new york first? >> no, i actually -- i started in japan. >> seth: really? >> of all places, when i was 17, i went to -- it was like the third time i was on a plane. i went to japan to model for three months. they give girls contracts there and i made some cash to put myself through college, but it is a bit of a culture shock because i'm like, a meat and potatoes kind of gal. >> s

teamsters local 830 which represents those workers condemned layoffs and the tax. >> eventually this would catch up with us, that the loss in sales dictates a loss in jobs and company evidently feel like they can in longer sustain losses that they are getting. >> reporter: teamsters union says coca cola is planning a similarly bleak announcement in the near future but mayor's office is firing back saying pepsi's move appears to be more political then financial. spokeswoman wrote in part that the soda industry sunk to a new low, they are literally holding hostage jobs of the hard working people in the battle to overturn the tax. mayor kenney's administration also says that the tax which raised 5.7 million-dollar in jana loan, has created more than 250 jobs, at expansion of the prek. pepsi says it will bring back workers if this taxis repealed , and in the meantime mayor kenney's expected to address beverage tax in his budget proposal to city council later this morning. we are live from the far northeast i'm trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> you will blow away, get inside. >> ve

the head of the teamsters union which represents the workers says that figure is accurate. >> most of our companies have lost between 40 and 50% of their business between january 1st and the end of february. that's an incredible amount of revenue, that's lost. >> philadelphia city leaders are questioning pepsi's decision to cut jobs, pointing to the company's profits. they say pepsi has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in efforts to kill the soda tax. >> to a developing story, a tough loss for sixers fans at the wells fargo center. >> the team gave us an update on joel embiid's help. >> john clark joining us once again. with bad news on embiid's injury. worse than first thought, for sure. >> this is really tough news for sixers fans. joel embiid is out for the rest of the season. he missed his first two seasons in the nba with a broken bone in his foot. now it's his knee. he has a torn meniscus that is getting worse. he was on his way to being the nba's rookie of the year. sixers fans were filling up the wells fargo center to see him. the sixers did an mri on his knee monday. th

. >> now, the teamsters released a statement. our worst fears are realized and called the layoffs devastating. sara bloomquist, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> the storms that moved through the tri-state area late today are now done, and we have yet to feel the full effect as we look at the ocean at sky 6 hd in cape may and we can tell you that our spring like weather is giving way to temperatures back to the 40s. and cecily tynan has the latest from double scan live radar and accuweather. >> double scan showing you this is 1:00 in the afternoon, a fierce line of storms stretching from harrisburg to washington, d.c., it blew through quickly at 60 miles per hour. and we had wind damage to the south but fort lately most of our viewing area the damage was limited. we needed to see more sunshine to get a lot of severe weather. but there was wind damage. quantico, virginia, 78 miles per hour and the same line reporting 76 miles per hour at dover air force base. those are hurricane force winds and ocean city new jersey, 60 a

. >> good afternoon, commissioners mark are teamsters joint council 7 our organizations representatives thousands of working men and women in san francisco but i'll say that even thousand more by manyfold who work here and are moving farther and farther out but findings their employment being worked out really shut out in a way we're aware of workers who are as far out we saw the zip codes moving further and further east they're taking catnaps before they go to work on the freeways and in the stretches of the students about they go to their service jobs we fully port the inclusionary ordinance as proposed by supervisor ahsha safai and supervisor president london breed we believe that this is going to allow for closings now and it is so, so important that we achieve this because very soon workers who work in service industries in hospitalities in the commercial office building and automotive industries bus drivers you know about public and private sectors will not be able to do those they'll not be able to do that they'll find other employment and has an effect not only on their liveliho

the company feels they can in longer sustain losses that they are getting. >> reporter: teamsters unioncola is planning a similarly bleak announcement in the near future but mayor's office is firing back says pepsi's move appears to be more political than financial. spokeswoman wrote that the soda industry sunk to a new low, they are literally holding hostage the jobs of the hard working people in the battle to overturn the tax. mayor kenney's administration says that the tax which raised 5.7 million-dollar in jana loan, has created more than 250 jobs, to the expansion of the prek. pepsi says that it will bring back workers if the taxis repealed, and in the meantime mayor kenney is expect to address beverage tax in the budget proposal to city counts they will morning. we are live from the northeast i'm trang do for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". jim, back to you. >>> more than 47 million people watched president trump 's first address to congress tuesday night. by comparison about 53 million tuned in for president obama's first address, in the 2009. numbers calculated from all 10 networks tha

i did track down the head of the teamsters union which represents the workers. >> eventually, i knew there would come this day and time that layoffs would happen. >> doesn't this seem premature, though? the tax went into effect at the beginning of the year. >> no. most of our companies have lost between 40% and 50% of their business between january 1st and end of february. that's an incredible amount of revenue that's lost. >> how much revenue are we talking? i don't know dollars and cents. i'm just saying the percentage that sales are off. >> a soda tax in cook county, illinois, which is home in chicago, of course, goes into effect july 1st. similar legislation has been passed in boulder, colorado, and three cities in california including san francisco. >> and that does it for nightly business report for tonight. i'm sue herera. thanks for joining us. we want to remind you this is the time of year your public television station seeks your report. >> and i'm tyler mathisen. we thank you for your support. have a great evening, everybody. >> fightly business report has been funded in p

officials insist philadelphia 's sugary drink tax, it is to blame n a statement to "eyewitness news" teamsters local 830, union representing the soda industry workers, wrote quote our worst fears have been realized. pepsi is reporting a 40 percent drop in philadelphia business since january 1st. the day that the tax went into effect. pepsi employers 423 people in philadelphia. and we spoke to soda union treasurer danny grace by phone >> eventually this will catch up with us that the loss in sales, you know, dictates loss in jobs. the company evidently feels that you no longer sustain the losses that they are getting. >> reporter: numbers out just last week show that the tax raised 5.7 million-dollar in jana loan, and that is more than twice the original projection. mayor jim kenney was not available for on camera interview but spokeswoman said in a statement that the soda industry sunk to a new low, they are literally holding hostage the jobs of hard working people in their battle to overturn the tax. kenney's team points to 250 new jobs, created as a result of the tax, a spokeswoman says that

and went to tell a brief story, briefly hit myve husband is a teamster, so i'm lucky enough to have insurance or his job, but where i worked there was a girl i worked with who had insurance through that company and when she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes they did not treat her. the insurance company told her that disease was preventable and it's's your fault we want to ensure you for that. that's what's coming. the other thing i'm worried about is the collapse of so-called collapse, insurance companies leaving the market. is because they can't make the prophet they want. that's why they are leaving. host: thank you, karen.t a we will get a response. guest: karen, you make some excellent points and i as part of my past life i was a insurance commissioner for eight years in kansas, so i know this marketplace pretty well. i was regulating health insurance companies on before the affordable care act was passed and i saw person after person tried to get coverage who had an insurance policy and part of what we did in our office every day was fight to get people the benefits they had already pai

are the glue that hold our communities together, they are cops and teachers and firefighters and teamsters. they are what keep our economy humming. yet we can't find the time or the political effort to even talk about reducing taxes for them. instead, this bill is this huge give-away to the people who least need the help and it's off of the backs of those who most need the help. so you know, the amendment is intended to highlight the fact that it's highly ironic a president who ran on a campaign of trying to help working men and women is actually doing the exact opposite in this bill. you know, the republicans, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle seem all too willing to dance to his tune and march in lockstep with him instead of doing what they have talked about wanting to do for quite some time which is repealing the cadillac tax. now, we knew when we passed aca that it was not going to be perfect. we knew that down the line, once it was in practice, there might be areas where we needed to fine-tune or fix some things with aca. but we could never get the other side of the aisle t

the company would not provide anyone to speak on camera, by phone, i tracked down the head of the teamsters which represents the workers. >> i knew there would come this date and time that layoffs would happen. >> doesn't this seem a little premature in that the soda tax just went into effect in the beginning of the year? >> no. most of our companies have lost between 40% and 50% of their business. between january 1st and the end of february. that's an incredible amount of revenue that's lost. >> how much revenue are we talking? >> i don't know dollars and cents. i'm just saying the percentage that sales are off. >> the head of the union who is out of town also told me by phone, he's working to get a meeting with pepsi management as soon as possible, as soon as he gets back into town. to get more specifics on which jobs would be cut, and exactly when. reporting live from the northeast, rosemary connors, nbc10 news. >>> wind and rain race through parts of our area today. did you get caught in this? the lehigh valley took a pounding. >> clouds still hovering over center city philadelphia. the

. >> international brotherhood of teamsters broke with the obama administration on the keystone pipeline and declined to endorse hillary clinton during the primaries. the group is keeping an open mind about donald trump. >> we want the american worker to be successful and if that includes working with the president, we will do that. he is the president and we intend to work with him where we can. >> i, richard nixon, do solemnly swear... >> the only time winning the vote -- former aide to president george w. bush and a fox news contributor is working privately to strengthen the ties between big labor and the publican party. >> they are giving the president the benefit of the doubt to wait and see what the infrastructure program is going to look like, what trade is going to look like, what relations between mexico going to look like, especially mexican trucking. >> last year, according to federal statistics the number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions declined to about 14.5 million. the peak of membership was the mid-1950s. >> james, thanks. the u.s. is moving state-of-the-ar

. >>> animal control officers in san mateo are planning a one- day strike tomorrow over what teamsters call unfair labor practices. they say the peninsula humane society refused to agree to a 3% cost of living wage adjustment. but humane society officials say the pay increase should be based on performance. >>> there are a lot of happy residents in brentwood this morning. late last night the city council approved a construction of a pedestrian and bike bridge over highway 4. it will connect oakland and brentwood through a trail. city council members are look into the possibility of a bart station in the future. >>> time now 5:07. days after spacex was forced to delay its latest mission, the company makes another attempt to launch its falcon 9 rocket. >> how one bay area high school is helping to groom the future leaders of america through healthy debate. >> we have plenty of sunshine later today but that's about it. we have rain coming in. i'll tell you how many days it's going to rain. >> all right. it is 5:08. here's a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. that cash lane backup get

they can continue this, and i can get picked up by the same guy who always drives me, bobby, my teamster once you get to know a crew and you like them, it's pretty great. >> isn't it great? you show up here and your family is here. >> seth: same people, it's the best. >> as long as you like them, the same people are good. [ laughter ] >> seth: yeah. i mean, there are two that i don't. [ laughter ] but it's a very big crew and that's a very small percentage. >> yeah, exactly. you can avoid them. >> seth: they know who they are. [ laughter ] and i have explained to them how to make it better and they have told me they do not want to. [ light laughter ] and then your co-star, cush, who is a fantastic actress -- >> i know, isn't she wonderful? >> seth: and she was a huge fan of the show, of "the good wife," before she got this part. >> she was. i saw cush jumbo -- fabulous name, fabulous lady -- at the public theater and she did a one-woman show about josephine baker. and i was knocked out by her. i thought who is this young woman? she's so talented. i went backstage, and i said, "you're jus

the nice retirees of the teamster union in new york, they're not going to have a nice lifetime in their retirement. they won't even have money to buy stocks for the simple reason that the pensions are being cut. and that should be mentioned to the american people that the pensions can also be cut, and many people will lose their pensions, as well as in europe. so i -- you know it in advance. >> let me ask you before i let you go, mr. fauber. you say an avalanche. what does that mean? characterize that. what kind of pullback do you think that results in? >> you see, what happens is, everybody asks me, what will trigger a decline. the well-known and most celebrated technician in the '70s, joe granu, wrote a book, and in it he says bear markets do not ring a bell at your door. no, they come in like thieves in the night when you are sleeping and complacent and not prepared. and i say, we had high consumer price inflation in the '60s and '70s accelerating until 1980 and thereafter the period of disinflation. and then the inflation, which is a monetary phenomenon, shifted into assets. and as

and he, i think, has -- i was working in chicago, and a teamster said to me.donald trump groomed vulnerable -- economically vel vulnerable americans like a patteris, saying what do you want to hear? here he comes out and says i'm going to cut your taxes we are going to have a big infrastructure, trillion dollar investment and we are going to increase our defense budget. and it doesn't add up. >> want some candy money. thank you bradley whitford. . we also have robert davi, a trump supporter, an actor. davi, your reaction to that? >> my dear friend, i need a lot of time. but let me say this, chris, and to the american people. the misrepresentation of donald trump by a lot of people that we've heard tonight -- i respect all of my colleagues i respect their points of view. i want to mention john ward, an irish immigrant who came from ireland, worked as a taxicab driver, bus driver. donald trump hired him at trump tower. he said to a friend of mine, and i met his son, who was a new york city policeman, his son. he said to a friend of mine, he said that the trump t

speaker, to put into the record the international brotherhood of teamsters and their disapproving of h.j.res. 83. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady's time has expired. ms. jackson lee: i thank you very much. i stand with the workers. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from alabama. mr. byrne: thank you, mr. speaker. the gentleman from virginia referred to continuing violations. there's no provision in this law for continuing violations. looking again at the court's decision, they said this, the statute of limitation provides that no citation may be issued after the expiration of six months following the occurrence of any violation. and they go on to say this, like the supreme court, we think the word occurrence clearly refers to a discrete event, something that happened or came to pass in the past. by any common definition, there was no occurrence, i.e., no discrete action, event or incident, no coming about, and no process of happening within the requisite six months. you can't take that wording and slip into it a continuing violation requi

it seems what i am hearing is that this is often just an added task in fact teamsters services worker. this is just an add-on. it doesn't seem as though we are taking it sufficiently seriously and wouldn't it make more sense if we had an office at inspection they would then go out to perhaps, you know, as you did yourself with added and sworn in and do these checks. >> thank you, congresswoman. that is exactly what we are looking into. i think what we need to look at is how much of this could be done remotely, how much of it requires on-site presence and frankly how much can we identify ahead of time which facilities are likely to have the most challenges. i suspect that in some instances we need to test this, we will know which facilities are more likely to be compliant. i guessed correctly which one was the facility in the gao report this time many, many other things i knew about that particular facility and i wasn't incredibly surprised by the distribution to the others. do we need to actually up our game and make sure great policies are implemented consistently. no question about

. >> are you surprised unions are the ones who kind of like him and sam, given the fact the teamsterswalked away. >> i didn't get that impression. i always felt like i had 100% support from the president and vice president. neil: what was their reaction when he made the announcement? >> before they made the announcement is that if you want to go through during a fight this, we are behind you 100%. i think it was very sincere. neil: what do you think of the dead sea devos thing, which have been okay? >> i've been told by my republican senator francis that is actually what killed it. a lot of the senators who are a little bit nervous about getting reelected went home and they had protesters and demonstrademonstra tors at their offices that could really never seen before. that made some of them, they began to waver. when the left sensed there was wavering in a hearing kept getting delayed, that was kind of the death knell. neil: are you bitter? >> not at all. i knew going into this favorite people opposed to me. the labor unions really shouldn't have been opposed. i've never said anythin

item 26, the mou between the city and teamsters loct 80, 856. item 27, ordinance compensation for persons employed by the city who's compensation is subject to provisions of a 8.409f the charter and job codes not represented by employee organization and establishing wages working schedules and terms and conditionoffs employment effected july 1, 2017. 28, building inspectors association. item 29, the mouu between city and san francisco district attorney investigator association. item 30, to adopt and implement amendment 2 the mou between city and labor international union local tw 61 to implement other terms and conditions of employment. item 31, to adopt and implement number 2 to the mou, the understanding between the city and service employees international union local 10 to 1021. 32, amendment 1 through 16-17 between the city and service employees international union local 221 staff and perdeem nurses. adopt and implement amendment 1 to the 2014-2017 mou beteen the city and oprailting engineering, the station engineering local 39. 34, adopt an

threaten the freedom of its drivers to work as much or as little as a wish while advocates for the teamsterssay that union membership would result in more consistent wages and working conditions. i would also help prevent it were from providing sudden fear changes. another union fight to tell you about this morning. c1 it is interesting about what's going on in terms of unions. >> there has been a lot of negative publicity but as a user of uber it's fantastic. >> people already see the cars that can self drive and what they would be using. i don't think they want to encourage uber to get to driverless vehicles. is a really good point. it's like the burger flipping machine. by the way it's fine. c1 we have haven't dealt work in a talk about and the next block and that's intel acquiring mobile eye. but you say this is it. >> when i saw the headlines i said it kinda gives me shades of things and the late '90s when intel was becoming highly inquisitive we will talk about that more and the show. there is a lot of signs out there. i am concerned about a number of things. if you saw over the weeken

item 26, the mou between the city and teamsters loct 80, 856. item 27, ordinance compensation for persons employed by the city who's compensation is subject to provisions of a 8.409f the charter and job codes not represented by employee organization and establishing wages working schedules and terms and conditionoffs employment effected july 1, 2017. 28, building inspectors association. item 29, the mouu between city and san francisco district attorney investigator association. item 30, to adopt and implement amendment 2 the mou between city and labor international union local tw 61 to implement other terms and conditions of employment. item 31, to adopt and implement number 2 to the mou, the understanding between the city and service employees international union local 10 to 1021. 32, amendment 1 through 16-17 between the city and service employees international union local 221 staff and perdeem nurses. adopt and implement amendment 1 to the 2014-2017 mou beteen the city and oprailting engineering, the station engineering local 39. 34, adopt an