most of the afl-cio membership is come he posed of public union members, public employees, period, and that's who's being laid off. the big economic question we have here is are we going to invest in education. all the governors have cut teachers. all of them have cut funding for education. what's the long-term eonomic impact of us having aless educated workforce? it's devastating for users have other countries. >> john, theg in these states. it's more pro-business, doing better under these governors. >> yeah, you look at states like wyoming, spending on education. you look at chicago, a union-based city that cut 2700 teacher. that's not an apples to apples comparison. what gary said is right, this is about competition. unions have gone from high 30% of public employees down to 7%. days of frick and carnegie steel mills are over. if you're a member of a union, understand, your dues are going to sway some political race somewhere in the country. >> tracy, why should people, taxpayers in other states, be worried about this, that unions are targeting these governors? >> because they're lo

the private sector. they have no dog in this fight. they represent 40 percent of government employees, and that aussie afl-cio saying we ought to do thisch the director of an apartment in government turns. of like to see how much the afl-cio orange and how that compares with the rank-and-file of the union members. where will this go? do you think it will actually become policy? >> well, it's opening up for a public comment. people will comment there. you know, ultimately i think it will go into effect. if i had to say. really it's not going to do anything other than create, as you said in the beginning, envy already in companies between the regular workers and maybe the executives. you know, what is really good for a company is a qualified, talented seal. and you have to pay, under the current economy, a lot of money to attract a qualified talented ceo. like steve jobs. he was getting paid hundreds of millions of dollars, but at the same time he created billions for the apple company. dennis: for shareholders, one last point. these paid performers coming in here so upset about this, some of the same people a dictator two decades ago sa

the afl-cio, sat down with the u.s. chamber of commerce in an unprecedented agreement on immigration. they fight each other every day. they spend millions of dollars against each other in the congress of the united states. but they sat down and said [ speaking spanish ] we saw southern baptists and evangelicals and catholics and lutherans and many people of different face with fundamental differences but they put it aside for comprehensive immigration reform. we've seen that. the largest growers associations in this country sat down with the united farm workers, the union organized and reach an agreemen agreement. john mccain and dick durbin. rubio who came and said, no, it's all am else inty. sat down with bennett from colorado. republicans and the democrats in the senate sat down and put their differences aside to bring about comprehensive immigration reform. why is it that the only place where people cannot set aside their differences and compromise and find common ground is in the house of representatives? that is w

she writes the economic disparities and albert briggs from the afl-cio. back in 1963, unemployment among african americans and nonwhites the total unemployment was 5.7 per possess. over the last 50 years this trend has been steady. the percentage of unemployed african americans remains almost double. african american unemployment is much higher almost 13%. dr. simms let's start with you. is this a stark sign that these inequalities have not changed? >> i think if you look at the numbers in the aggregate inequality has not changed but there has been quite a bit of change in terms of opportunity for african americans who are fortunate enough to get an education, a good education. we have seen movement for black women for example from domestic work into more pink collar and office work. >> which contains some dangers itself. >> indeed, even though they have moved into these jobs their pay is not equal of that of white women who have entered into those jobs in greater numbers than they were in the 1960s. we have also seen movement into management positions and

willen spriggs was the chief economist here at the afl-cio, and bill comes to the afl-cio after a stintin the department of labor as the assistant secretary in the office of policy. bill is also a professor in and a former chair of the department of economics at howard university. bill, welcome. >> thank you. >> next the bill is the executive director of the national coalition for asian and pacific american community development. lisa has led to their efforts to be a voice for the community development needs of the low income asian american and pacific islander communities since 2000. before that lisa was the committee liaison for the white house initiative on asian americans and pacific islanders. and they have an outstanding report on low income asian americans and pacific islanders, which hopefully you saw at a literature table when you came in. and then -- oh, that's everybody. [laughter] so, without further ado i'm going to turn it over to jacqueline to get this second panel started off right. thank you. >> thank you so much. [applause] so as you said, our panel is about unfinished

melissa: so the head of the afl-cio says the u.s.or movement is in crisis and in an attempt to turn things around labor boss richard trumka wants to expand membership beyond unions and include groups like, the sierra club and the naacp. but would including these groups take away the whole reason unions were created in the first place? here with his insight, former national labor relations board chamber, peter schaumburg. peter, thanks for coming back to the show. let me ask you, the whole point of a union is to organize workers and give them a voice against management that would be oppressing them. who is oppressing the sierra club? >> i think what organized labor is doing is very, very misguided. how and what they will get from partnering with the sierra club i don't know. melissa, if i can go back a bit so people understand. union density of the private sector from 35% in the 1950s to less than 7% today. it isn't because of organized labor. a variety of different causes. decline in manufacturing base. the widespread bankruptcies of

congressman, we welcome you as well to the afl-cio and the house of labor. pplause] and now i will hand over the microphone to our moderator, bill samuels. bill is the director of government affairs for the afl-cio. bill? [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much, terry. let me again welcome senator mccain and congressman becerra to the afl-cio. i know you've both been here before, welcome back. we're honored to have you here and grateful to both of you for taking a few minutes to share your thoughts on the state of immigration reform. it's a subject i know that is as important to you as it is to the 11 million immigrants in the u.s. for whom citizenship means the difference between living in constant fear of family separation and living a life with all the rights and protections that the rest of us take for granted. now, i know you're both busy, so i'm going to get right to our questions. senator mccain, the passage of comprehensive immigration reform by an overwhelming margin was due in no small measure to your efforts to craft a bipartisan package. give

everyone from the nea to the afl-cio, the seiu, the sierra club, people for the american way. and the whole point of this meeting was how to pool their money and come up with a strategy for their goal which is to turn the united states into their version of a progressive liberal utopia. and they set out three objectives. the first objective was to get rid of the filibuster rule in the senate so that they can ram through legislation and nominees including judicial nominees. and by the way, the second goal was to oppose all voter id laws and any other efforts to improve the integrity of the election process. now, what does that tell you about hem? it tells you that they are willing to break the rules to win, and they don't want any rules in place that will make that more difficult to occur. the point of this is that you're hearing today from lots of people talking to you about the kind of public policy solutions we want for the problems we have. well, we're not going to be able to put those, our ideas for solving those problems in place unless we elect the right people to office

william spragues who is the chief economist here at the afl-cio, and bill comes to the afl-cio aftera stint in the department of labor as the assistant secretary, excuse me, in the office of policy. bill is also a professor in and a former chair of the department of economics at howard university. bill, welcome. >> thank you. >> next to bill is ms. lisa -- [inaudible] who is the executive director of the national coalition for asian and pacific-american community development. lisa has led their efforts to be a voice for the community development needs of the low income asian-american and pacific islander community since 2000. before that lisa was the community liaison for the white house initiative on asian-americans and pacific islanders, and they have an outstanding report on low income asian-american and pacific islanders which, hopefully, you saw at the literature table when you came in. and then we -- oh, that's everybody. [laughter] so without further ado, i'm going to turn it over to jacqueline to get this second panel started off right. thank you. >> thank you so much. [appla

our guest is richard trumka, president of the afl-cio. he has brought a guest that he will introduce. he grew up in pennsylvania and followed his father and grandfather into the minds. he worked his way through penn state and earned a law degree from villanova. in 1982, he was elected president of the united mine workers of america. -- it was a job not without risks. i read that he and his wife were married in a small private ceremony after a threat on his life wanted a large public wedding to be canceled. he survived and went on to serve three terms. be secretary-n to treasurer of the afl-cio and became the youngest person to hold that position where he served for 15 years. he was elected president in september 2009. so much for biography, now to the portion of our program. we are on the record. fees, no live blogging or tweeting. no means of filing while the breakfast is underway. no embargo when the session is over. c-span and fox have agreed not to use video of the session for at least one hour after the session. as you heard me say ab

want to be part of obamacare -- i talked to sources in the last couple of days and they are saying the afl/cioxt meetings coming up, they may call for an entire carve out from obamacare from all those unions. if that happens, obamacare may be dead. >> neil: all right. steve moore. >> the unions gave us obamacare in the first place. >> neil: that is exactly right. all right, steve, thank you very much. and should wall street be that worried? >>> take on corporate america, in ways, you don't even know. >> you have a subpoena power, believe it or not. it's candidate of scary. look what happened. dick got paid a lot of money, new york stock exchange was a nonprofit. theoretically the attorney general of new york can claw that back that money because charities are nonprofits. but it's supposed done for charities, not for clubs of rich guys. >> neil: and he lost. >> he got the money back and given the rich money. given stated taxpayer money. why did he go after them for this county. >> these financial guys are not hedging their bets or taking chances. they are putting a lot of money into stopping it

coming up next, why the head of the afl-cio says labor is in a state of crisis. first, a check on the national weather forecast from the weather channel's reynolds wolf. reynolds, good morning. >> good morning, becky. here is a quick snapshot on the forecast. it looks like today we could see cooler temperatures in the northern plains, severe storms possible in the northeast. flooding rains still for the central plains and, yes, still hot in texas. we're talking brutal heat there. later on, as we make our way to the weekend, more showers to the eastern third of the country. still very warm in the southern plains. speaking of the southern plains, no delays expected in dallas, but when you get on the plane, keep the shades down. makes it a little cooler inside the plane itself. atlanta, pittsburgh, could have thunderstorms popping up. with it, delays are a possibility. folks, more coming up right around the corner. keep it here on "squawk box." >>> it is time for "the executive edge." this is a new segment we're launching this week, focused on giving business leaders

headquarters of the afl/cio. and gold. >> john: john stossel, i want to take pictures of the lobby. i had plenty of time to think about the 12,000 active lobbyists working in washington. they are smart to be here. because washington controls so much but this union doesn't want you to see what they've got. >> i've been notified by our legal department that we're not because of the state of the mural. >> john: the estate wouldn't allow it. oh, well. the bottom line is that washington, once a sleepy part time home for politicians now resembles versailles. they work in buildings that look like palaces and after work they go home to castles. >> the property is on five acres. >> beautiful shower and his and her closets. >> it helps understand why people spend millions to win jobs here and then.... >> once people come to d.c. they never leave. >> john: that is our show. i'm john stossel. thanks f f f f f f >>> it is august 26. a mystery in the woods. a popular teacher goes for a hike and never returns. missing for more

that morning he got up and read the paper and saw the president was going to the hilton to talk to the afl-ciont's schedule on page a4 of the "washington star" newspaper. i'm going to see how close i can get to the president with my little gun. he wrote foster a note. takes a cab up to the washington hilton hotel, gets there, is behind the rope line, sees reagan approaching. pulls out his .22 caliber revolver. >> he thought something magical was going to happen that didn't have anything to do with ronald reagan, it had to do with some union he was going to have with jodie foster. >> by the spring of 1982, a year after the presidential assassination attempt, the four victims are all healing. jim brady's recovery is painfully slow but positive. though losing most use of the left side of his body, he retains his cognitive thinking and great sense of humor. agent tim mccarthy makes a full recovery and continues his career with the secret service. d.c. police officer tom delahanty suffered a crippling wound that eventually forced his retirement. president reagan surprised his doctors and the nation

headquarters of the afl/cio. and gold. >> john: john stossel, i want to take pictures of the lobby. i had plenty of time to think about the 12,000 active lobbyists working in washington. they are smart to be here. because washington controls so much but this union doesn't want you to see what they've got. >> i've been notifd by our legal department that we're not because of the state of the mural. >> john: the estate wouldn't allow it. oh, well. the bottom line is that washington, once a sleepy part time home for politicians now resembles versailles. they work in buildings that look like palaces and after work they go home to castles. >> the property is on five acres. >> beautiful shower and his and her closets. >> it helps understandhy people spend millions to win jobs here and then.... >> once people come to d.c. they never leave. >> john: that is our show. i'm john stossel. i'm john stossel. thanks f f f f f f [dave gentry] hi, i'm dave gentry. welcome to small stocks and big money. [intro music] [intro music]

i interviewed him over at the afl-cio headquarters which does have washington's best view of the white>> bill: absolutely! >> he's talking about, at their convention, their convention next month in los angeles, talking about opening the afl-cio to membership by nonunions, by groups like the sierra club and the naacp. what a shift that is. i asked him if there were those in the afl-cio who oppose the idea and he said yes but what we've been doing for 30 years isn't working. we need to do something different. >> bill: which i thought was a very candid observation on his part. membership in unions is declining. it is down to about 11% of the workforce. >> 11.3% last year. that's almost half of the percentage of the workforce that it was 30 years ago. so that is a really precipitous decline. >> bill: he's looking for ways to involve more people, right? and reaching out which i think is tremendous. they've got to do that. >> we would provide a kind of liberal coalition that might be more influential together than they are in their separate parts. but it's going to be -- you think about an i

that morning he got up and read the paper and saw the president was going to the hilton to talk to the afl-cio saw the president's schedule on page a4 of the "washington star" newspaper. i'm going to see how close i can get to the president with my little gun. he wrote foster a note. takes a cab up to the washington hilton hotel, gets there, is behind the rope line, sees reagan approaching. pulls out his .22 caliber revolver. >> he thought something magical was going to happen that didn't have anything to do with ronald reagan, it had to do with some union he was going to have with jodie foster. >> by the spring of 1982, a year after the presidential assassination attempt, the four victims are all healing. jim brady's recovery is painfully slow but positive. though losing most use of the left side of his body, he retains his cognitive thinking and great sense of humor. agent tim mccarthy makes a full recovery and continues his career with the secret service. d.c. police officer tom delahanty suffered a crippling wound that eventually forced his retirement. president reagan surprised his doctor

. >> so much show that the afl-cio has said the rear in a crisis.ove to a unionized restaurants. nonprofits. if he feels he has to reach out to unionized organizations like the sierra club and the naacp, we are in a new world for unions neil: that would be like a double jeopardy. what to you think? >> having a death battle here. of course. neil: a big element of surprise. >> i'm happy to fight. you know that. but yes, they are in trouble. you'll wake up as a country and find out the workers don't have the right to organize in a more. the still wears off. is no mistaking which direction were going. by the way some of this needed to happen. the unions did all sorts of nasty things and not too powerful. it's clear to me that the pendulum swing too far. neil: the pendulum always swings back. >> and another thing to a dead. the as been cut in half, but some of the unions are going out of their room and saying things like we don't like obamacare. we don't like what it's doing. neil: they're pretty strong. a very big difference. the building tras union. >>

the headquarters of the afl-cio. >> wow. >> the murals made of marble, glass and gold. >> john stosselt they let me wait inside and think about the 12,000 active lobbyists working in washington. they're smart to be here since washington controls so much. but this union doesn't want you to see what they've got. >> i've been notified by our legal department that we're not because of the state of the mural we're not allowed. >> the estate wouldn't allow it. thank you. >> the bottom line is that washington, once a sleepy part-time home for politicians now resembles versailles. buildings that look like palaces and after work, they go home to castles. >> it overlooks the prondz, the property is on five acres. >> beautiful shower and his and her water closet. >> it all helps to understand why people spent millions to win jobs here and -- >> once people come to d.c., they never leave. >> that's our show, i'm john stossel. thanks for watching. seconds. tonight on huckabee, with the signature legislation broke the president is blaming republicans. >> one unifying principle in the republican part

here is the president of the afl-cio saying the law was not thought through and more. >> health care the united states is broken, was broken, and continues to an extent to be broken. we pay twice as much for health care as a nation and our results are half as effective. we have been working with the administration to find solutions i think what are inadvertent are holes in the act. when the act was put together, it wasn't thought completely through and so we worked on a daily basis. i'm hopeful that we get something done in the very near future. >> said a lot there. wasn't thought completely through and a whole lot of other stuff. tucker carlson, juan williams. good morning to both of you. tucker is this kind of thing you expect to hear from richard trumka? >> you wouldn't. trumka runs an organization is adjunct part of democratic party. it is a funding arm for democratic party. they fought for the president's election and re-election for the passage of this law. this is a huge deal. the problem for them benefits are a huge part of union compensation. many union jobs the benefits are

you have the chamber of commerce and the afl/cio. ee people who haven't always gotten along and people who are really coming to the middle and compromising. the only place we haven't found that willingness to compromise and to reach a solution is in the house of representatives, but you know, we're making some break through. i want to thank my republican colleagues for stepping up. we need more of them to continue to do the same. i know the democratic caucus is ready for a vote. the majority already exists. what the house of representatives and what the speaker has to allow is simply for that democracy to floor rich. yes, we must make the economic, but you know saturday we're going to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the march on washington, a march on washington that allowed me to be a member of congress because it gave us the voting rights act. i'm a member of congress because of that, but you know what, the message then was about justice and fairness and freedom and we also have to understand there are human lives that are at st

that morning he got up and read the paper and saw the president was going to the hilton to talk to the afl-cioose i can get to the president with my little gun. he wrote foster a note. takes a cab up to the washington hilton hotel, gets there, is behind the rope line, sees reagan approaching. pulls out his .22 caliber revolver. >> he thought something magical was going to happen that didn't have anything to do with ronald reagan, it had to do with some union he was going to have with jodie foster. >> by the spring of 1982, a year after the presidential assassination attempt, the four victims are all healing. jim brady's recovery is painfully slow but positive. though losing most use of the left side of his body, he retains his cognitive thinking and great sense of humor. agent tim mccarthy makes a full recovery and continues his career with the secret service. d.c. police officer tom delahanty suffered a crippling wound that eventually forced his retirement. president reagan surprised his doctors and the nation, healing quickly for a man his age. as for john w. hinckley jr., his life story was

chamber in the afl-cio. faith community. i don't know how many different faith groups we have in our bill. hundreds. and our two dreamers who are proud and we want to make sure we get the bill through for them and their families. thank you very much. up next on c-span. congressman stenn yi hoyer talks about budget negotiations in the house. the acting commissioner of the rs addressed accusations that the agency targeted conservative groups. a house debate on blocking the of the affordable care act. >> on the next washington journal, a look at what congressmen will be doing on ginger xt recess with gibson. the nga with governor gary rep cent d a accountability office report found in over 3400 cases of tsa in 2012.n the we'll discuss the report for the issue, of aviation steve lord. washington journal begins live 7:00 a.m. on c-span. >> this weekend on c-span -- >> i'll answer that if you tell us about your glasses. glasses. e google >> i see that. what are we doing? filming all of this. being filmed but it's being filmed by th

the afl-cio's richard trumka says this is new model for unions. set up worker centers.right unions. they can do things like that instead of sitting down with management. charles: imagine richard trumka, behind bullying. imagine that. new at tin. more on the irs scandal. get this, the agency is still, still targeting tea party groups even after all the controversy. that is is at the top of the hour. i have honors of finding seven stocks moving. this is, on a farm suit company, two upgrades. jaffrey says it is $27 stock. focus on cancer treatment that uses monocolonial antibodies and target stem cells. that is giant target for them. >>> this stock is up 15, no, 35% since we shared on "varney & company" july 16th. shared health services got upgrade. hospital stocks have done extraordinarily well and probably will under obamacare. net app, target was raised at baird. previous target was 34. company buying back stock and good dividend and lowering costs. linkedin, they put a buy on the stock. $280 a share. when i was hosting on july 7th i told you liked it at 170. that is up

the afl-cio head whaling in, his view of who will do a better job when it comes to the fed's dual mandate. >> history would indicate that she is for a more balanced approach and a better approach than larry is because if he continues to say we are only going to deal with inflation than we would not support that because that has been corrosive to the country and bad for the economy. >> she would be janet yellen. chief economic strategist talking big economic date -- debate, janet yellen or larry summers. labors in for yeoman. >> it tells you one thing. when from coal want a balanced approach to what the weaker dollar to benefit his constituents and this is in my opinion what the problem is. it is becoming who the fed chair will be is becoming politicized. the issue is a great -- in the roads credibility and that is paramount right now. connell: back to markets than for a moment if we can and talk about what the actual differences would be in your view, interest rate policy and monetary policy for the federal reserve, the dual mandate we mentioned going into the richard trumka peace, what w

my thanks goes to the afl-cio for hosting us and everything they have done. pplause] also among unions, the united auto workers supported us, and they are very important in the 1963 march on washington. seiu, the naacp the leadership conference on civil and human rights, the insight center, policylink the national consulate larose and -- la raza, the pew center and the national congress of american indians. all this work, a lot of what weird doing -- what we are doing, we would not be able to do without the support of important funders and the funders that i would like to thank our the annie e casey foundation jules bernstein and linda lipsett. they have been crucial so thanks to them also. and just in conclusion, i want to give a few words from the march. we have all probably heard martin luther king's "i have a dream" speech dozens of times. i want to give a few paragraphs from the other people who spoke that day. a. phillip randolph, he said, "we know we have no future in a society where 6 million black and white people are unemployed and millions more live

let me welcome senator mccain back toressman becerra the afl-cio. we are grateful for you to take a few minutes out of your busy schedules. this is a subject that is important to you as well as the 11 million immigrants in the u.s. it is a matter of living a life with the protections that the rest of us take for granted. let's get right to our questions. senator mccain, the passage of immigration reform was in no small measure due to your bipartisan efforts to read what are the chances you think that congress will pass the bill that includes the pathway to citizenship? >> first of all, thank you for .eing here and to congressman becerra. i thank him for his articulate advocacy for comprehensive immigration reform. i must say it is nice to be back here amongst old friends and enemies. [laughter] august is amonth of very important month. the members of congress of both house and senate, in this case, the focus is about the house of representatives back in their districts. they are spending their times consulting with, meeting with the various groups th

first, we will hear representing the american federation and congress of industrial organizations, the afl-cioe vice president arlene holt baker. following her, the president of seiu 1199, george gresham 1199 is here as well. finally, we will give a great deal of respect its final speaker in the group. he is the president emeritus of dr. king of the organization, the southern christian leadership conference, the reverend dr. charles steele. please welcome them. and one more -- i'm sorry. i'm sorry, mary kay, i did not see you. the president of seiu international, mary kay henry. [cheers and applause] >> 50 years ago, a 23-year-old man by the name of john lewis asked a question. he asked -- where the equality for the maid who earns five dollars a week in the home of a family whose income was $100,000 a year? where is the equality for those of us who work in the southern fields from sunup to sundown for $12 a week? we are asking that same question today when the minimum wage is actually lower than it was half a century ago. 50 years ago, a. philip randolph stood with brother lewis and reverend d

seiu, the afl-cio sat down with the u.s. chamber of commerce in an unprecedented agreement on immigration. they fight each other every day. they spend be millions of dollars -- spend millions of dollars against each other, yet they sat down and said -- [speaking spanish] we saw southern baptists and evangelicals and catholics and lutherans and men and women of different faiths who have fundamental differences, but they put those differences aside for comprehensive immigration reform. we've seen that. the growers, the large growers associations in this country sat down with the united farm workers and reached an agreement. john mccain and dick durbin, rubio who came from florida as a senator said, no, said it was all amnesty sat down with bennett from colorado, republicans and democrats in the senate sat down and put their differences aside to bring about comprehensive immigration reform. why is it that the only place where people cannot set aside their differences and compromise and find common ground is this the house of re

the labor movement and the afl- cio was very much a part of that. there was a fear there might be too many lights at the march -- too many whites. there was a move to make sure there was great participation. later on, i had a chance to write about some of the journalism. they all expressed a feeling of great pride and the fact that they were overwhelmed the turnout and just the experience of it. later generations waste variance somewhat of the same with the moneyman mark in the 1990's -- later generations would experience somewhat of the same with the million man march. host: the crowd gathers outside the lincoln memorial. this is what it looks like at the security checkpoint heading into the area where the march and the speaking program will get underway in just under an hour. last month, leaders held a ceremony to commemorate this 50th anniversary of the march on washington. the speaker of the house was john boehner. andy pelosi, harry reid, mitch the senate republican lear mitch mcconnell. it was held at u.s. capitol. here's a portion of the event