the state teachers union says it sees the good in common core. >> we are not objecting to high standards. we would like to see adequate time and resources. so that teachers can do a good job of helping students reach those standards. we are not opposed to regular standards. last forms will take place a week from today in prince george's county. to learn more about the common core standards, love onto r website, wbaltv.com. tim tooten, wbal-tv 11 news. >> happening now in frederick county, crews are working to free a man who was struck in a trench. reports are surfacing there is a worker tracked in a home with mud up to his chest. he remains unclear how he became stuck. we will bring you developments as they come about. the search is on for the person who knocked down a controversial statue near the supreme court. that granite monument weighs 850 pounds. dedicated to the 10 commandments installed by a christian outreach ministry back in 2006. to the justices could see it if they entered. we are expecting an announcement for those responsible tonight. tonight, -- is running for governor. h

teachers about seventy percent unions are the n.e.a. or the teachers federation of america american federation teachers the f.t. no other occupation america in the united states can claim this union density and national presence so how important are teachers to the labor movement in that state they're absolutely essential for two very important reasons number one when you you cited earlier when you look at what happened in this country from forty seven to seventy nine in those years the hourly wages the wages of the lowest one fifth in the top one fifth all kept pretty much in sync with the rides and productivity in the thirty two years since it is totally the opposite hourly wages are a fraction have gone up a fraction and the top one percent of gone up ten than twenty and thirty times full so it's important to the labor movement that these union a teacher stay there and provide a voice nothing can be can be done about building the middle class with an organized labor movement but the second reason is more important is about the students of america when you silence unions you silence their teachers and education support professionals it's our way of giving a

the public teacher union in america. one example of the injustice of the teacher union impose on our economy. today is state like ohio, take one example. they have a policy called "retire and rehire" a worker -- a teacher at the age of 53, 54 can reearn a salary of $100,000. retire with a $100,000 a year pension and get rehired for that same job at the old salary taking up $200,000. nobody in the private sector gets that kind of deal. that's the kind of thing that is taking away money from the classrooms so we have better schools in america. and so i think in some, ladies and gentlemen, you will find by the end of this that the public sector employees are guilty as charged, and the american economy and every state and local government and the federal government would be much more fiscally healthy if we did not have public employee unions. thank you very much. [applause] please, no applaud. there will be in order the court. it's a courtroom. i expect to have in order my courtroom. [laughter] now, thank you, counselor. we'll hear from -- he's a deputy chief of staff policy direct and chief international econo

the unions are taking a big hit here, paul. the news recently was that the teachers union was desecertifie. and that's something that's been going on across the state seen the wisconsin education association union has lost about half of its members since 2010, ask me has also seen its members fall. the milwaukee journal sentinel reported it has seen the members fall from 9,000 in 2010 to 3,500 in 2012. that's just a huge blow. this the affecting union finances and morale for sure. >> ask me is the association of county municipal and state workers. what's behind this? the fact that the union now no longer has a monopoly on bargaining power? >> yes, for sure. scott walker's act basically gave all -- it basically required workers to recertify their union with a majority vote every year. so the union now has to basically earn its members' respect. >> i can see, kim, this is why the unions fought walker's reform so dramatically because they were worried that if they no longer had government putting them in the cat bird seat in negotiating authority that when union members get a choice, pay dues, don't pay dues, they often say, you know what, i think i w

state testing rules. the bay area news group reports teachers at jamsz logan high school in union city allows students to complete parts of a standardized test they had started on a previous day. the school district says it reported to the state soon after discovering it. administrators say it was an honest mistake, and no cheating occurred. schools that consistently not meet api standards can be forced into state intervention. >>> new this morning, less than half of this year's s.a.t. takers are academically ready to tackle college level work. this is according to the nonprofit college board. the board says 43% of the high school class of 2013 earned high enough scores to indicate they will succeed in their first year of college. the percentable has been virtually the same for at least five years. >>> tell tell you what's next for a montana teacher that has been accused of rape and why his sentence may become longer. >>> we'll tell you what we thought of expressed home delivery coming up. >>> and this is bob riddell live with all the clear blue skies. how in the world are we ending up in all this pea sou

the law will be repealed. the teacher's union have other goals they want to build a national movement repeal it and allow private investment in the state hundreds of thousands of people have shown their support for independence from spain by joining hands in a massive human chain. organizers wanted to join the entire coastline of the region stretching from the french border to valencia 400-kilometers away, catalonia is thome around seven and a half million people and traditionally one of the economic powerhouses of the country, the central government in that madrid is posedded to any possible -- opposed to any possible split. germany's general lex on september 22nd could put the first black member of parliament in to offers. he was born in sen dal and orphaned when he was seven. for 20 years he's been a member of germany. another. >> reporter: another campaign bus in another german city for another candidate. it's election time. but this social democratic dan is one of a kind, he's black. he holds a doctorate in chemistry, was beat be up for his skin color years ago. in much of the former east germany racism runs higher than elsewhere.

the law will be repeeled but the teacher union has other goals too. they want to build a national u.n., yoi don'tunion to not allx code and other items. >> still to come on this program... >>> a state of deaths in indian hospitals putting infant morality back in the spotlight. >>> london fashion week looms, there is mounting pressure on manufacturers to improve working conditions. >> hello again. here is a reminder of our top stories, u.s. secretary of state john kerry arrived in geneva to meet with his russian counterpart. they'll discuss a russian plan for syria to hand over chemical weapons. >> meantime, vladimir putin has appealed to the american people over the syria crisis. an opinion piece in the new york times he warned that the u.s. military intervention in syria could escalate the conflict and lead to terrorist attacks. >> the army is moving in to end a 4-day stand off in the philippines. it happened as fighters attacked a second town in the same area. >> in south africa, there is a march in victoria. let's get more on this from our correspondent whose live for us there. tell us what's happening here and what they're marching for. >> people arrived, some are on their way,

the president from -- postponed his state of the union address to avoid more disturbances. >> tens of thousands of mexicans are out on the streets of the capital. they are furious over the government's reform agenda. the country's teachers have been protesting for two weeks against plans to introduce mandatory performance reviews. any fear the measure could lead to mass layoffs. -- many fear the measure could lead to mass layoffs. they were unable to get to the congress building where congress was debating the package. the lower house has now passed the bill. there were protest against plans to open mess -- mexico's energy sector to foreign investors, which many fear will lead to price hikes. >> we want to show our disapproval to congress over the approval of the energy reform. >> the anger on the street from to the president to postpone his first date of the union address. it was due to be held on sunday but was moved to monday tom a in an apparent attempt to avoid -- moved to monday in an apparent attempt to avoid more unrest. >> we will talk about vodafone and verizon and what they are up to. >>@hundred million dollar man, is he worth it? after the break. >> welcome back. one of the business -- biggest business deals

the kenosha teacher's union was decertified after missing a key deadline in that process. that was big news. ken northern should was seen as a union stronghole and that's being again on across the stateation association union has lost half of its members. since 2010, afscme saw its members fall. the milwaukee journal sentinel reported it's seen members fall from 9,000 in 2010 to 3500 in 2012. so this is affecting union finances and morale. >> afscme is the association of county, municipal, and state workers. so what's behind this? the fact that the union now no longer has a monopoly on bargaining power? >> for sure. scott walker's reforms gave all -- it basically required workers to resetter identify their union dd resetter identify their union with a 50% majority vote every year so the union has toern its members' respect. >> i can see, kim, this is why the unions fought walk walker's reforms because they worried if the government no longer had them in the cat bird's seat when negotiating, when union members gets a choice, pay dues-don't pay dues, that often say, you know what? i think i won't pay dues. >> that's why you see, for instance, such a ferocious protest among unions for t

the state... because of confusion over the state's new educational standards called common core. both the former baltimore county superintendent... along with the head of the teacher's union...say parents aren't getting enough information, and that's why we've seen these fireworks. this video of an angry howard county parent... along with videos of other furious parents.. are putting the state's educational system in the national spotlight. at the heart of the debate? the new state-wide standard, known as common core. its described by some educators as a way for students to use deeper thinking skills... its also an attempt to unify educational standards across md...and most of the country. but officials say the real issue is that the new curriculum was just thrown at teachers... "think common core cirriculum is problem, problem is its coming late and being rushed through instead of thought through" in a written statement to all of this...baltimore county superintendent dallas dance said in response to the meeting where a parent was recently arrested... that "the meeting helped us realize that we must do a better job of communicating what common core is." are you our bigge

the most and those that have invested in federal treasury bonds that live here in the united states, our unions, our teachers, firefighters, police officers. they're the ones that are going to be hurt the most. and i don't hear us sitting over here talking about a government shutdown. i hear that coming from the democrats. but that's not the -- that's not the position that we're in, and it's not where we want to go. i just want to make it perfectly clear to people that when you start talking about the full faith and credit of the united states, that is a public debt that we owe. and we owe, i think it was 10% that was quoted by my good friend from georgia, to china. i wish we didn't owe them anything. but we owe some other friends that whether it's the u.k. or whether it's v.a. -- japan or other countries, but more importantly, we owe two-thirds of it to citizens here in the united states. and i wallet to make sure that we don't -- i want to make sure that we don't default on that. so call it what you may, the truth is that we don't want to default on our debt, and we certainly don't want to default on our f

pensioners the most, and those that have vested in federal treasury bond that live here in the united states are unions, teachers, firefighters, police officers, they're the ones that are going to be hurt the most i don't hear us saying over here talking about a government shut down. i hear that coming from the democrats, but that's not the position that we're in. and it's not where we want to go. i want to make it perfectly clear to people that when you start talking about the full faith and credit of the united, that is public debt that we owe. we owe i think it was 10% quoted by my good friend from georgia to china. i wish we didn't owe them anything. we owe some other friends that whether it's the u.k. or japan or other countries, more importantly we owe two-thirds of it to citizens here in the united states. i want to make sure we don't default on this. so call what you may, the truth is that we don't want to default on our debt. and certainly don't want to default on our full, faith, and credit that will cause us additional problems forward particularly relating to debt we owe almost $17 trillion today. we

the u.g.g. this brazilian union that visited here he was very interested in what the teachers are doing on race relations on civil rights in the united states fascinated by what was going on at the fiftieth anniversary huge challenges in brazil over race relations whether know about what we were doing in that area and how the teamsters were helping build dialogue inside the teamsters and in the community through teamsters members who work with other parts of the community in the civil rights movement in the united states it was a fascinating topic they wanted to know about immigration there's a million brazilians immigrant brazilians living in the united states what about their rights what are the two. position on immigration how we try to make sure that everybody's got rights when they when they go to work and we were also talking to them about multinational corporations and how we can work together when rights are violated at the workplace can we shine a spotlight when workers rights are denied when people aren't being given the right to form a union or when we don't get a first collective bargaining agreement how can we work together to

the first state to enforce such a requirement. although the measure would not apply, if the content had been re-posted. by a third party. >> two teachers' unionsfiled a lawsuit on behalf of san francicso's city college. they are asking for a court injunction, to prevent the school from losing its accreditation. the lawsuit alleges that an accreditation commission violated state and federal law. that commission gave city college a list of 14 recommendations to keep its accreditation. but said in july. that the school only met two of the 14- recommendations. a judges decision on a possible injunction could come in the next few weeks. >>for over 60,000 t back. california foster children, extra curricular activities help provide a sense of identity and a path to success. joining the soccer team. getting help with math. going to prom. i want to learn to swim. it's hard to feel normal, when you can't do the normal things. to help, sleep train is collecting donations for the extra activities that, for most kids, are a normal part of growing up. not everyone can be a foster parent... but anyone can help a foster child. >> there's increasing speculatio

teachers. the protests were over new teacher evaluations and reducing union discretion in hiring. >>> california is about to join a few other states to issue driver's licences to illegal immigrants. governor jerry brown says it sends a message to washington that immigration reform is long overdue. carter evans reports. >> reporter: california's department of motor vehicles estimates nearly 1.5 million illegal immigrants would apply for the new license. this woman is one of them. >> i have to drive and i feel terrible because i don't have a driver's license, but what can i do? i have to drive a car. >> reporter: you don't want to break the law. the new license allows her to drive but she'll not get special benefits. they say roads will be safer because illegal immigrants will have to pass driver's tests and be proper will i insured but opponents say it's offering a privilege those who already broke the law. >> illegal immigrants bring problems to our state. >> reporter: this woman is part of a group that's lobbying against illegal immigrants. >> we shouldn't be giving them hope. we are americans. we follow the laws. >> reporter: ca

the heart of industrial unionism historically in this country become a right to work state, because of schneider. and, you know, by sticking it to workers, by arguing that somehow public employees, teachersnd police officers are to blame for the economic collapse in this country, to say that $19,000 a year pensions to public employees should be raideded and cut, as schneider has said, even as he continues to run a state that puts more money than almost any other state in the union into co corporate subsidies is to represent the rich at the expense of the poor and to drive a brutally unequal economy. >> verge, would it be fair to say that there would be no michigan turn-around whatsoever, had there not been the automobile loan program? >> bingo. absolutely, you're right on. and the irony of this, ed, is that thanks to the work that the unions have done over the years, this incredible resurgence of manufacturing in michigan that is leading our recovery, thanks to president obama's rescuing in the auto industry, you know, thanks to the unions at ford, chrysler and general motors, thanks to the uaw, you know, a lot of the benefit of those auto companies coming back is spread to the workers.