. >> supervisor safai: anybody here from the teamsters here. can we ask the members from the teamsters 853 -- we have really good news to report on the site and. i would like to let one of the members -- maybe we can do public comment on this item and they can come back. >> supervisor tang: we can do public comment on item 13. welcome. >> thank you. my name is adolph felix. i'm the business agent representing teamsters local 853 and i chaired the negotiations. i am happy to report that we obtained a recommended agreement that was ratified by 97% of our members voting saturday. now we have nearly 800 happy bus drivers. we want to thank the committee for whatever assistance they did to render that. there is no need to proceed any further with this hearing. >> supervisor tang: thank you for sharing that news with us. is there anyone else who would like to comment on this particular hearing? just yourself? ok. we will close public comment on item 13. i am glad to hear the resolution >> supervisor safai: thank you for coming out today. we did get a

rita is the widow of the teamster butch lewis and she had become an advocate herself fighting for the pensions workers earned. rita said, "it's like we're invisible." to the millions of american workers working too many hours for too little pay, let me tell you, you aren't invisible to me, you are not invisible to democratic officeholders in this country. we see you. we hear you. we fight for you. we fight for paid family leave. we fight for sick leave. we fight for overtime pay. we fight to give workers a say on the job. we fight to save america's pensions. we fight for those small businesses that are helping in our pension system. we want to make it easy for everyone to save for retirement. we work to encourage companies to invest in their greatest asset -- you, the american worker. that's what democrats fight for on labor day. that's what we'll fight for tomorrow. that's what we'll fight for the rest of the year and next year too, every day throughout the year. happy labor day to america's great workforce -- the american worker. thank you so much. "> c-span's "washington journal li

these productions have hired 15,000 local crew and actors who are members often of local 16, teamsters 2685 and sag. they have 'em employed 196 first source hires who work as production assistance on the set or in the office getting experience to help them move on to other film productions. many of the hires come from access education and employment for low income youth, youth of color and young women. the productions have paid $21 million to wages in local san francisco crews and background actors. and spent more than $61 million on goods and services which is location fees, office supplies, lumber props, wardrobe, security, et cetera. for ever dollar that the city has rebated since 2006, productions have spent $15.12 locally. these productions not only provide local jobs and local spending, but increase the visibility of san francisco worldwide bringing more tourism to our city. rebate of productions include milk, trauma, hemming way and gelhorn, lou jasman, hbo's looking, netflix sensei and hulu chance. without this program, these productions would not have chosen to base in san fra

i'm the principal of teamsters local 853. i want to thank hallcon and you for looking at this so intently. we had reached a tentative agreement. we were in federal mediation last week, and the federal mediator did his job and brought us back to the table. the members will be voting on the 22, and once again, i thank you for all your attention on this important issue. >> supervisor tang: thank you. next speaker. >> i'm tim wayland, chief operating officer, and i concur with dennis's comments. we did resolve this, and look forward to a positive resolution next saturday. >> supervisor tang: thank you. next speaker. >> eric weiss. we together are working with the union and wedriveu to get this going with the ratification. so we look forward to the week off. thank you. >> supervisor tang: thank you. any other members of the public would wish to comment on item six? seeing none, public comment is closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor tang: supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: continue for a week. >> supervisor tang: we'll continue thi

the smart the teamsters the absence of appetite and in two thousand and seven with actor brad pitt and their make it right foundation they launched a campaign to rebuild a neighborhood in new orleans that had been devastated into the. in five by hurricane katrina. the idea was for new homes to re envision local architecture and to be sustainable affordable as well as stylish. now has offices in berlin and beijing as well and employs one hundred fifty architects and designers trendy hotels and expensive apartment buildings in wealthy cities bring in the money that allows them to pursue their nonprofit projects they feel design is not a first world privilege and that beauty is part of a social sustainability. intervene in society with special measures. there's solar kiosk is a compact affordable and sturdy shop unit that is solar powered and designed for remote off grid locations it generates and sells clean energy to charge phones and internet access that helps rural communities overcome their isolation. graft comes up with plenty of interesting ideas for projects in germany as well of

she is the widow of teamster butch lewis. she has become an advocate herself, fighting for the pensions her husband and other teamsters earned. not long ago, rita said it's like we are invisible. too often she is right. for too many millions of americans working too many hours for too little pay, you may be invisible to most members of the senate, you may be invisible to washington, you may be invisible to the corrupt state government in columbus, ohio, but you are not invisible to me and you're not invisible to some people in this body. we see you, we hear you, we fight for you. we fight for paid family leave. we fight for paid sick leave. we fight for the overtime pay that you earn. we fight to give workers a say in their job. we fight to save america's pensions and give people a break, make it a bit easier to save for retirement. we work to encourage companies to invest in their greatest asset, you, the american worker. that's what we'll fight for not just on labor day, two days ago -- or yesterday, not just on labor day,

specifically local 2, teamsters, even some machinists and other affiliates. what this represents today is really a step forward. it is not the demand that many people made back in april when we were here before this committee before, but i think it is a step in progress and important and the workers counting on this will be watching this vote and will be i think excited to hear the news when it comes down. it's significant. i think i'll echo what supervisor fewer said, it is not truly a living wage, it's frustrating behind the scenes, and includes chelsea, on much deserved maternity leave right now. so anyway, the move here i think is important. i was looking at the m.i.t. living wage calculator and looking up based on some of the members i have met through this problem sesz and for a single income earner, one adult, one child, in san francisco, they need about $38 and change an hour for truly living wage. this is not getting us there, but it is an important step in that direction and appreciate the leadership that's been taken and i think you will hear that

so i just want to recognize the men and women from local 2 unit hre, those from teamsters 856, all theks in the airport and nonpublic sector jobs that will be impacted by this particular raise here today and thank all the men and women from labor for coming out and supporting this. this is an important vote here today. thank you. >> president cohen: thank you, supervisor safai, i agree, it's an important vote. colleagues, seeing no other names on the roster, can we take this without objection? all right. this ordinance passes unanimously. thank you. madam clerk. i believe it's 2:33? >> clerk: that's correct, madam president. >> president cohen: let's go to our special order. are you ready? all right. colleagues, today's board meeting, we're celebrating latinx heritage month. [cheers and applause] this is an absolutely exciting and historic moment. this is the first time we have ever in this chamber celebrated latinx month and i am hopeful that it will be just the beginning of many future celebrations. and with that, i'd like to bring forward supervisor stefani -- supervisor ronen. sorr

conversation between we drive you and haulcon transportation between folks in the bargaining union and teamsters union. provisions need to be upheld and respected. we heard from media outlets along with talking directly to the bargaining units before even the strike was sanctioned, before a strike was even on the table, these companied have hired scab employees in preparation of driving in exchange of the existing drivers, so we want to see how these existing did shall-the service dis -- the service disruption plan is being respected, and we'd like to see some resolution to this overall dispute and the workers respected. so we'd like this to happen within the next month at the land use and transportation committee, and the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor safai. supervisor kim? >> vice president brandon: thank you -- >> supervisor kim: thank you. i have, over my eight years on the board -- [inaudible] >> supervisor kim: this summer, this body is taking on a campaign to review firearm procurement practices throughout all of our jurisdiction to bring together our leveraging and purch

and all the workers from the teamsters and the union and all those that participate. and every day people. every day households in france since -- san francisco to divert what we are sending to landfill. it has a tremendous environmental impact because the amount of stuff we sent to landfill that could be recycled or composted creates methane gas it also degrades our environment and degrades our planet. we have the ultimate goal at that time to achieve zero waste by 2020. we also, to give a little context and history, when the legislation was created in 2007, there was one reference in the legislation when it was talking about on the commercial side to the word custodian. it was no conversation or no focus on the people that were actually doing the work. so the janitors stepped up in the front line to help to craft the legislation and there was a conversation then about how we were going to have large generators in trash participate and be better actors. so here we are, ten years later, we found out that we are not going to achieve a zero waste by 2020. we had a heari

but i want to be clear, this is still a coalition of local 2 and the teamsters and sciu10-1 and sciu2015e all the folks that work in these low poverty wages. we had a wonderful campaign for the minimum wage, just a very short period of time ago and now the living wage is less than the minimum wage. it's time to fix that for all of the workers and we are united and asking you to make sure that this happens now that we're back into the new session. thank you, very much. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> supervisors, my name is david can and i'm from sciu10-1. we've been working on coalition with other unions to get the m.c.o. passed. the m.c.o. seems to be stuck in committee and the most recent development has been that there's a move to exclude non-profit workers. that is absolutely unacceptable. non profits are facing a crisis of retention and recruitment. some of them are turning work away because they can't hire people. non profits such as housing clinics can't hire people at $1. so raising the minimum compensation ordinance will help address that. in addition to

this is steve, who is a teamster in local 344. just open-ended question, your thoughts on president trump and this administration when it comes to union labor. >> when it comes to union labor, i mean, he has been somewhat supportive. he hasn't been fully supportive yet. i am waiting for that to come. as far as with the trades and everything going on, we are actually looking at possibly bringing in more companies into the u.s., which is going to eventually pan out for us and work better. >> reporter: you voted for the president. you hope the trade efforts come to fruition, better jobs here? >> yes, i do. hopefully, it does get to a point because eventually it's going to be, everything is going to be thrown up in the air and looked at before you could say one way or the other. you have to have a balance. you can't have one way on one side. >> reporter: i want to ask steve, and ask you, tom, i wanted to ask you, governor ska scott walker is up for re-election. do you plan to vote for him this november? >> i do not. >> reporter: becau

serving as teamsters, cooks, tending the plantations so that the soldiers can be liberated to come to the battlefield he realized he had powers as the commander-in-chief that is something were a military necessity, he could use those powers. he went to the soldiers home and he was able to think this through. he came to his cabinet that i'm going to issue an emancipation proclamation as commander-in-chief because the south is benefiting from the slaves. if we take that benefit away, it will help the north. some in his cabinet didn't agree and thought it would make the midterm elections lose. but somehow he has so created a sense of trust in him that they didn't make their disagreements public. then he had to convince the army when first were upset about the idea. but so trusting had the army become in him because he get visitvisited them so many times that they went along with it. in january - - makes the emancipation proclamation real. there was a lot of outcry even at that point. when he went to sign the emancipation proclamation, his hand was shaking. that morning had been a huge ne

today i marched with thousands from the uaw, the teamsters, the steel workers and many of the other unions. i have been to six picnics and given five speeches. i have been with a lot of union workers and trade is at the top of their mind. the steel workers, i have closed and issuedershuttered factories throughout my district. we will never bring back some of those jobs we used to have. a lot of people are asking questions. i have said if the beginning that if he gets a trade deal that will help the working men and women of my district, i will support it. we haven't seen the details and they are scared and they are not sure what they are hearing is going to bring back jobs. my district happens to be one of the places where north of canada, we're totally integral to each other. it's mexiwhose behavior -- mexi the low labor standards have been far worse and a bigger issue. to just blow off canada bothers people here. so they're confused. they are waiting for the details. >> speaking of canada, what is your take on the president essentially attempting to leave canada out of it? i mean, clearly

serving as teamsters, cooks, tending the plantations so that the soldiers can be liberated to come tothe battlefield he realized he had powers as the commander-in-chief that is something were a military necessity, he could use those powers. he went to the soldiers home and he was able to think this through. he came to his cabinet that i'm going to issue an emancipation proclamation as commander-in-chief because the south is benefiting from the slaves. if we take that benefit away, it will help the north. some in his cabinet didn't agree and thought it would make the midterm elections lose. but somehow he has so created a sense of trust in him that they didn't make their disagreements public. then he had to convince the army when first were upset about the idea. but so trusting had the army become in him because he get visitvisited them so many times that they went along with it. in january - - makes the emancipation proclamation real. there was a lot of outcry even at that point. when he went to sign the emancipation proclamation, his hand was shaking. that morning had been a huge new

charles: and particularly teamsters, who really came out on the shortened when they allowed mexican truck drivers to bring all the way through this country, last part of nafta pushed through under president obama. what do you make of this? >> just, to your point, it is confusing for a lot of people, probably listening to those richard trumka comments which i agree with. i don't normally agree with him, that was right on the money, but labor unions tend to like protection. they tend to like trade barriers. in particular this redone nafta on the auto parts should be pleasing to unions because it is basically protecting canadian and american union labor jobs. charles: higher percentage of autos made in north america. >> we'll pay more for cars. mexico will be marginally less competitive this is good if you're a union worker. liz: was trump accurate congress needs to sign off on the deal. congress needs to sign off. charles: he forced revamp of nafta, until you had a republican that pushed it through, now he is against it. interesting how the bedfellows change or opinions change. >> i think,

i was a teamster and before i was i was not making any money.least now i can make a decent living. as far as socialism, we don't have socialism. as far as november is concerned, is it just prounion candidates you are voting for? caller: i am voting democrat. i look at the democratic side and i vote democrat 100% and i will never change until the day i die. i have been voting since jimmy carter. host: let's hear from wright. caller: what i want to say is they are talking about trump. he is taking all the money from the flood down there for homeland security and putting it in ice to put those little kids in camps. he put millions of dollars from the guards down there and putting it in ice to lock the kids up in camps. if you think you are going to get money for your houses, forget it. he is taking the money from you and giving it to ice. side, thehe senate senate judiciary business committee confirmation hearing on brett kavanaugh, you can go to c-span.org. on the house side, work on a bill that if passed would make the tax cuts enacted last year

in our polarized society we live in today, half of us where one teamsters he, the other half where'sg we see, we see through the lens of our jersey. so it would not surprise me, a significant percentage of those, the democratic side of the aisl aisle, so yesterday is a testimony and concluded he must be guilty. and it would not surprise me if a very significant side of those on the republican side of the aisle concluded that he must be an innocent based on the same testimony. one of the consequences of that you know, judge kavanaugh talked about how these smears, the many that have been leveled against him, how they have as he put it, destroyed his family. some of that may sound like hyperbole. i don't think it is. judge kavanaugh has two young daughters, a 10-year-old and a 13-year-old. for the rest of their life, his daughter's will go to school, interact with people, many of whom are convinced their father is rapist. i want you to think of that. not i disagree with you, if not i think you are wrong and how you interpret the constitution, but let's be clear, he has been accused of

no one has mentioned when the storms hit puerto rico, the teamsters were on strike.verything trump brought in was sitting, sitting while the truckers would not move. i hate to say this, but your you are c-span, starting to look a lot like cnn and that is pretty sad. host: all right, walt's thoughts. front page of the new york times, andrew cuomo roused cynthia nixon to win the primary race. he beat her by 30 percentage points in one of the last primaries of this campaign. it cemented his standing as an unmatched force in politics and a merciless tactician with little regard for diplomacy. that is the front page of the new york times. lawyer isniels' writing in today's new york times. the case for indicting the president. he writes this brings us to the question of who on the supreme court should be allowed to review an indictment against the president. judge brett kavanaugh refused to commit to recusing himself in the event he was confirmed in a case involving mr. trump were to be considered by the supreme court. he took this position even though his views in favor o

they were serving as teamsters, serving as cooks. they're tending the plantations so that the soldiers can be liberated to come to the battlefield. and he realized that he had powers as the commander-in-chief that if something were a military necessity, he could use those powers. he went to the soldiers' home that summer and he was able to think this all through. he came to the cabinet and says i'm going to issue an emancipation proclamation, the south is benefitting from the slaves if we take that benefit away, it will help the north. he finally convinces his cabinet even though some didn't agree with him. they thought it would make the war go on longer than it would. but somehow he had created a sense of trust in him, that they didn't make their disagreements public and then he had to convince the army, who at the first were upset about the idea of this, but so trusting had the army become in him because he had visited them so many times, that they went along with it. and so finally, in january of 1863, he actually makes the emanci