understanding between the city and various unions, the international committee of engineers, the union of american physicians and dentists, the san francisco association, a localon number three of operating engineers, the san francisco institutional police officers association, the supervising probation officers, the automotive machinists' union, the international association of machinists and aerospace workers, the multiple unions at kraft coalition, the engineers local union number three, the san francisco deputy sheriffs association, san francisco district attorney's investigators association, a sheriff's managers and supervisors association, the teamsters local 856, the united association of journeymen and apprentices -- apprentices, local 38, the international brotherhood of electrical workers, the memorandum of understanding between the city and the laborers international union, local 261, the transport workers union of america, afl- cio, the international union of operating engineers stationary engineers, local 39, the municipal attorneys association, all to be effective july 1, 2012, through june 30, 2014. item 49 is an ordinance fixing compensation fo

the locals. the carpenters' local 22 has been doing work with the conservation corps and workforce development programs. they have nine apprentices currently working on the project. oe3, operating engineers, one of the union's we want to focus on, because this is an area where they have not been currently meeting compliance goals, so we want to find more opportunities to bring in operating engineers, but they have been working with city build, young community developers, and mission hiring home. then the local 261 of the worla have a significant number working on the project as well. that concludes my report. any questions? >>> thank you for a group report. books by a lot of progress. is the issue there is not enough supply in the pipeline or is it the contractors in subs are not reaching to the halls and cbo's to get them? >> on the -- they are performing the buttress work, there have been concerned about the complexity of the work and safety, but we need to picture the pipeline is there. there are associated work with the buttressed work and made its activity being done where we will try to see if they cannot bring in more apprentices. the laborers is not a pipeline issue. they have been improving the num

work for general dynamics the plant in washington state will vote on whether or not to join a union in this case local two eight six of the international union of operating engineers about half of them are u.s. military veterans and as you might imagine general dynamics isn't happy about this and they're using some pretty unbelievable methods to try to persuade them not to and they're doing it on taxpayer funded property it's a subject of a new article published in the news magazine in these times the title of the article is veterans forced to attend union meetings on army base joining me is the author of that article mike elk labor journalist and staff writer for in these times hey there my it's great to be on the show good to see you. were talking about is in fort lewis in washington state i know you spoke with a few of these veterans what did you find out where essentially for the last six months these guys have been trying to organize this military contractor mechanic. where they work on straker attack vehicles and you know the making about eighteen bucks an hour the benefits are awful the working hours are awful they get sent over to afghanistan all the time

engineer used to earn around six figures. now, he is forced to think outside the box. >> one job i saw was a teller at a local credit union.s >> he is like 5 million jobless americans who have been on of work for more than six months. he was collecting unemployment, but they expired in december. he is tapping into the savings to make ends meet. congress has decreased the maximum length of time a person can collect unemployment to only 73 weeks. presidential rivals are also duking it out over job creations. the president says congress needs act to help stimulate the economy. >> the private sector is doing fine. we see weaknesses that have to do with state and local government. >> for the president to say the private sector is doing fine this is an extraordinary mess calculation and misunderstanding by a president who is out of touch. >> the president later clarified his remarks. >> the economy is not doing fine, let me be as clear as i can be. the economy needs to be strengthened. that is why i had a press conference. >> the big question is if congress will take of the issue before election day. >>brian: of this year is a l

engineers. item number 31, ordinance adopting and implementing amendment no. 2 to the 2009-2007 memorandum of agreement between the redevelopment agency and the city and county of seven tesco and the service employees international union, local 1021. -- item number 33 -- item number 34 ordinance amending the san francisco of the ministry of code, updating job classifications and bought -- and bargaining units. item number 35, ordinance adopting in the bombing the memorandum of understanding between the city and county of san francisco and service employees international union, local 1021. supervisor elsbernd: thank you. you can take a breather now. martin gramm is here with the city employees of san francisco. >> it took that long to get through the reading of the amendments. it took a lot longer to reach these agreements and i would like to thank my very talented staff who worked diligently. we bring to you a package on behalf of dhr and the mayor's office. together, we bring a conclusion to sometimes that were very difficult to us budget-wise and the city and county of san francisco. the last full round of bargaining for miscellaneous unions was the one where they agree to a two-year contract. before the last rays of that

engineers. item number 31, ordinance adopting and implementing amendment no. 2 to the 2009-2007 memorandum of agreement between the redevelopment agency and the city and county of seven tesco and the service employees international union, local1. -- item number 33 -- item number 34 ordinance amending the san francisco of the ministry of code, updating job classifications and bought -- and bargaining units. item number 35, ordinance adopting in the bombing the memorandum of understanding between the city and county of san francisco

engineer used to earn around six figures. now he's forced to think outside the box. >> like one of the jobs i saw, a teller at the local credit union was a part-time job as, like, $12 an hour, but still it's some income. >> reporter: he's like 5 million jobless americans out of work for more than six months. he was collecting unemployment benefits, but they expired in december and he's tapping into his savings to make ends meet. this month, 70,000 more jobless americans across two dozen states will share his plight when their benefits run out, and all long-term unemployment insurance will eventually be phased out by the end of the year. the new timeline was set by congress in february when lawmakers passed what they promised would be the last extension of long-term benefits. congress also cut down the maximum length of time a person can collect unemployment from 99 weeks to 73. >> it is frightening to realize one safety net is being pulled out from under you. >> reporter: the political divide over another extension is deep. republicans say it's too costly and enables people to stay on unemployment rolls longer. democrats say, it's

this 53-year-old electrical engineer used to earn six figures, now he is forced to think outside the box. >> you know like one of the jobs i saw was teller at the local credit union was a part-time job at like $12 an hour but still something. >> reporter: he is like five million jobless americans, who have been out of work for more than six months. he was collecting unemployment benefits but they expired in december. he is tapping in to his savings to make ends meet. this month 70,000 more jobless americans across two dozen states will share his plight when their benefits run out and all long term unemployment insurance will eventually be phased out by the end of the year. the new timeline was set in february when lawmakers passed what they promised will be the last extension of long term benefits. congress also cut down the maximum length of time a person can collect unemployment from 99 weeks to 73. >> it's frightening to realize that one safety net is being pulled out. >> reporter: the political divide over another extension is deep. republicans say it's to costly and lets people stay on unemployment longer. democrats say its money that finds its way back in t

53-year-old electrical engineer used to earn around six figures, now he's forced to think outside the box. >> you know like one of the jobs i saw was teller at local credit union. it was a part-time job at $12 an hour, but still it's some income. >> reporter: diener's like 5 million jobless americans, who have been out of work for more than six months. he was collecting unemployment benefits, but they expired in december. and he's tapping into his savings to make ends meet. this month, 70,000 more jobless americans across two dozen states will share diener's flight when their benefits run out and all long-term unemployment insurance will be phased out by the end of the year. the new time line was set by congress in february, when lawmakers passed what they promise will be the last extension of long-term benefits. congress also cut down the maximum length of time a person can collect unemployment from 99 weeks to 73 weeks. >> it's frightening to realize that one safety net is being pulled out from under you. >> reporter: the blpolitical divide is deep. republicans say it's too costly and enables people to stay on unemployment rolls longer. democrats say it's mo