might turn employers again the union. if you have massive employees support, you probably would be conducting a traditional organizing campaign. besides, the advantages of pressure campaign in today's environment overwhelm whatever problems you might think of. for example, dupont need a measure 30% among the employees. people inside and outside are all that is necessary. the way to organize workers is put enough pressure on the company to force the company to vunder and take the employees out of the decision making process. here today to discuss what it looks like not in theory but in real life is dave. who is the president of executive management services. a company that employs over 5,000 workers across 38 different states. since 2006, his company has been locked in a battle attempting to persuade not dave's employees, but dave to -- surrounder and become unionized. we have here with us to discuss the issue diana. and vice president of the labor relations. dave. >> thank you, james for having me here. i thank you for bei

the affordable care act. several unions camera about their complaints. their issue is. this they argue they gave up wage gains over the years in order to get healthcare and other benefits. they also argue their plans are better than those to be offered on the exchanges so they are asking the president the to give their 20 million members the same subsidies those on the exchanges get. >> if healthcare benefits are something that they will be able to get on their own, that leaves less of an offer that these unions provide. >> but the unions complain the administration is doing nothing with the roofer's union president saying their concerns, quote: have not been addressed or, in some instances, totally ignored. the fear among union leaders is that younger or lower wage workers would drop union benefits to go on the exchanges and then might leave the unions all together. >> you can keep your job, drop out of union, stop paying the dues, and still get a good health plan that is subsidized by the federal government. >> every time

construction of this station is going to affect both the surface of union square, as well as the parking garage. this proposed mou authorizes construction active in union square plaza and garage and define "compensation" to rec and park for the temporary and permanent loss of parking spaces in the garage, and it addresses maintenance of the station once it's complete. the mou gives mta and its contractors permission to enter parks and recreation property to i stall equivalent on the garage and surface of the park. there was a diagram in our packet that shows a section lower terrace of union square plaza along market and geary will be fenced for the duration of the project, which mta is currently estimating to be 66 months. mta anticipates that they will issue a notice to proceed to their contractor for the union square station at the beginning of june. construction as i said will have a direction impact on the parking garage, with approximately 21,500-square-feet of parking spaces to be fenced during the project. under the mou, mta has 12 months to complete the construction in the parkin

the spaces. is it also addresses landscape in union square after the construction is complete. as well as ongoing maintenance of the station that is going to be incorporated into the park. the station will include a glass roof, that is going to have artwork imbedded within it, and staff from the arts commission is actually here to make a presentation after this one, radicaling the artwork in the roof of the station. we have -- the department of has agreed to provide routine maintenance to the glass deck, including cleaning and graffiti-removal, but mta will have responsibility for the repair or replacement of the glass deck. we believe that the mou addresses the key issues that may result from construction of the union square station and we believe it provides fair compensation for the permanent loss of parking spaces and establishes a cooperative framework. so we ask for your approval of the mou. i have alec cliff beyond cliff >> the net revenue that the department receives from the parking garage will be likely reduced going forward and so &that money is specifically and only

the u.s. over time. when unions their strongest 50, 60's and 70's, the middle class was at the strongest. as unions have declined in power over the past 30 years, the middle-class has significantly weakened. john: we have a chart looking at unemployment in america. goes up and down. and there was the lowest unemployment in the 20's before there were unions. >> unionization can be high when you have high unemployment, and vice versa. the key thing to know your is that what unions do is help give workers some basic bargaining power in the relationship so that workers can join together and negotiate with their boss on more relatively equal footing. that gives them the ability to get a larger pay -- paychecks and benefits, health care and retirement. john: that's great if i want to have this union bargain for me, but what if i think that they do a bad job? what if i can negotiate higher pay directly myself because i work harder than the other guys in my union? when i have an incentive to work harder. >> well, if you don

san francisco which is tourism and the hotels and their conclusion with the labor union to come to an agreement that extends perhaps 5-and-a-half years of agreeing to a labor contract for all the 750 union members working in this hotel. you know, san francisco is incredible. i just came back from the international city cities of cork ireland, paris, france. they marvel at how well we have done things here in our great city and keep it going and remake it. they also have a sense that anytime their members come here, they are experiencing a huge amount of warmth from people who serve them. i know the quality of our hotels is one of the main stays of why we are such a really and successful tourist center for all over the world, not just in san francisco or california, but all over the world. these workers who have in past years probably didn't have such smooth negotiations in the past, we are reminded of that through some couple of decades where everybody struggled, but it's quite apropos that we have stressed the important collaboration of talking with people and making sure we understa

i would have loved to hear an hour from the union. but, again, if we're to parse it, i think you disstill the issues, there is a real problem with respect [inaudible]. talking about the apprenticeship program, the landmark, landscaping, apprenticeship program [inaudible]. there is clearly a problem. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. and anyone else who would like to comment, please line up in front of the tv set by the window. thank you. i think we're going to use the overhead, is that right? we can use the mic next to the computer. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is john [speaker not understood], i'm a member of 261, district 5 resident [inaudible]. 261 [inaudible]. i serve as field foreman and supervisor. i also do all the administration of the program. [inaudible]. liaison in between city college, the state, both departments, the union [inaudible]. and the mayor's office of workforce and economic development. we are a state certified program and co-founder with [speaker not understood],. the union's job is to apprentic

the u.s. over time. when unionsrongest 50, 60's and 70's, the middle class was at the strongest. as unions have declined in power over the past 30 years, the middle-class has significantly weakened. john: we have a chart looking at unemployment in america. goes up and down. and there was the lowest unemployment in the 20's before there were unions. >> unionization can be high when you have high unemployment, and vice versa. the key thing to know your is that what unions do is help give workers some basic bargaining power in the relationship so that workers can join together and negotiate with their boss on more relatively equal footing. that gives them the ability to get a larger pay -- paychecks and benefits, health care and retirement. john: that's great if i want to have this union bargain for me, but what if i think that they do a bad job? what if i can negotiate higher pay directly myself because i work harder than the other guys in my union? when i have an incentive to work harder. >> well, if you don't like t

your book has definitely captured the essence of union city education. but while we are basking in the glow of your book with all the other books about education that have been proliferated over the past several years you feel that your book and perhaps yourself are making any inroads with the government processes that control the educational system so that perhaps this can continue in the district will follow as well? >> you ask it the right way. is really district by district by district. that is the question, that is the right question. the answer is yes. i say that, this is -- we have a kind of session yesterday at rutgers with a group of state policymakers and superintendents from the state office of education and like that. they were engaged to hear the story and the generalizations so what intrigued me was the number of people who came up to me and said this is exciting. we would love to talk more with you and have you spend a little time with us, we're interested in doing something because i think that the district level this is a moment when educ

i'm matthew and i'm with a friend of the 765 market street. union square is known worldwide and is one of the city's corner stone landmarks. and surely a building can be built that will maintain the integrity that was to protect our parks. we can have both we can have our parks protected and the mexican museum. an absolute number that continues to erode the project by approving project by project which succumbs to the pressures of the developers is not right. there exits no feasibility study that is properly done come in any way adjust the continual erosion in our parks. the reports that makes this all possible is done with expectations and assumptions are purported to be done by the developer himself. the usurp is upon the feasibility study was done. the feasibility study is it not a third party study it's a self-serving document only to support the unreasonable positions you're being asked to approve today. again in this regard over 5 years the shadows have been studied on union square and now in the last twenty-four hours we have a new study on m

union state. but half of the states are. if a majority of workers in your area vote to form a union everyone must pay the unions. i did for 36 years but no more now i am at fox which is nonunion. i think it's great there's a trend away from forced unionization. indiana, michigan recently passed right to work laws which say workers cannot be forced to pay union dues. they joined 24 states that had the law. great. no, that's terrible says david madlin says for america's biggest think tank. why am i wrong sfwh>> you are wrong for a couple of reasons. first you can never be forced to join a union. you can be required to pay union dues that cover the cost of for example representing you and bargaining for your contract. the bigger and more important reason is that unions make the middle class. they help make the middle class stronger and without unions you are under cutting the middle class. >> where is the evidence that the union makes the middle class stronger? henry ford doubled auto worker's wages and shortened the workday ye

you can't be on the union side of this. ey have plans that are too costly and they should have to go to lower cost plans. that w one of the fixes. it makes the unions mad but the bottom line their health care plans cost too much money. that's one of the better parts of this agree bli not so great heah care program. it's going to address the fact that people have too much insurance and consume too much health care because of it. it's as if your company bought you a $30,000 car insurance plan that paid for maintenance and everything on your car. you fix every ding, bring it in for oil changes every month and rack up costs. that's how the world works with health care. you have the $30,000 plan. they don't pay premiums. they consume a lot of health care. >> the bottom line is many of the union workers may be forced to change their insurance, to change their doctor which the president many times promised would not happen. is that a reason to get rid of this law? >> it's not a reason to get rid of it. it's a reason to fix the prob

africa used to be the leader of the frin union. in 1963 the president of tunisia gave a strong speech during the establishment of the african union. since then we've seen the influence of africa decreasing and the leadership taken by southern africa mostly south africa and other countries who became very influential at the frin union. >> protesters have gathered in guatemala days after the top court struck down a genocide conviction against the military leader. many are worried that justice will not be served. >> back on the streets, yet again, marching for justice. many have traveled more than ten hours by bus to be here. some carry photos of family members killed during the civil war. all are frustrated because just weeks after his conviction for genocide the former military ruler will now get a second chance in court. >> we came to continue the struggle for justice because our families were killed during the civil war. we are here because we have to be. >> it was here at the palace of justice just two weeks ago he was convicted a

it's about finding a role for the european union to act. don't you think in this time is scarce defense resources, it would take far more sense rather than have the european union creating parallel structures and institutions if it was to concentrate on the european affair within nato? because that is very realistically it's going to happen. of course all the duplication of effort is compounded by the fact we end up with basically the same member states talking to one another in the same city. my concern i suppose in the way things are going at the moment is first of all we don't have a very truthful conversation because the conversation here is about roles for the european union, whereas in reality what she'd like to say is please stop playing politics. stop up a new institutions and structures and things. create more capability. that so we need. you're not going to do it to the european union because their objective is something entirely different. aren't you worried about an eventual bifurcation of the alliance that we would end up on the

that would be sedulous planned so looking at the a&m that was the soviet union's until 1944. the english version says the lettuce make a clean slate and the world is about to change his foundation and then in the next come matt have that capitalist and anything but steelwork? and what work had he created the they could give back that people want only there do. it is not like saying you haven't done it alone but suddenly the same time in stalinist russia. the gulag concentration camps you discuss it in your book. holcomb? 1933 the maceration of peasantry. and boris jolson's father gets exiled and then that is a big mark toward communism. hall is it continuing along the course of not soviet-style socialism but rapid increase of involvement in economic management. >> that is an interesting way to think of the new deal as something that is called from a former representative that the function was a communist front as it functions as many innocent people who have no idea they are participating in the implementation of policy from the soviet union. so the direct policy to direct to

way the unions look at this. p the illegals and get them in our club and increase our membership. membership is tanking for the unions. >> un. ment unions and by proxy democrats and in my opinion we should stop all deportation and unless they are a jihadist or leper they should be able to stay here. i am against deportation . i think it is it horrific, but unions are looking out for what i believe is -- operating, immigrants will get in bed with anyone who pay the dues and bolster the rank. >> austin what is this about? >> historically unions are not proponents of immigration. i don't think they are natural bed fellows. they view it as competition to domestic labor; i know that i think that for us, we ought to go out and get two million buses and find 20 million people and deport them out of the country is impractical. >> for a second, why would the unions demand the halting of deportation of illegals? >> look, i don't work for them. i am noted in this and i don't the exact story is. undocumented workers don't vot

the ones to democrats to republicans. johnathon you love them, don't you. >> people have a right to unionized but any employer including the federal government has to be mushroomed to hire them and they destroy every industry they are involved. steel and airline and textile and coal and education. private employers will not work with unions these days. the only influence is in government where they use force against the political opponents and that's why we should cut ties to them altogether. >> why do government employees be able to unionized? >> people have a right to unionized. i think any group of workers has a right to unionized. i think unions historically played an important role in our country and that said, it is time to look the issues of not being able to fire people whether it is teachers or government workers. i worked in the clinton administration, and we had somebody who is a civil servant who never came to work. >> what is going on. in front of the congressional panel lois lerner didn't want to incriminate herself. she is paid by the taxpayer and she can plead the fifth? and in the aftermath she's not let g

yes they argued that we should raise the minimum wage they argued to protect labor unions. the consensus for the post-war era they gave us rising. productivity rising g.d.p. rising incomes and. calmly that was equal. that economy is what everybody thinks of the sort of the gold standard visit lassies through the eighty's yes in these last thirty years where we've had rising inequality falling wages falling unions fawley minimum wages everyone is confounded by this because it has it is harder for the middle class and so while the g.d.p. has continued to grow g.d.p. per capita has continued to grow the median income of americans has been stagnant the family income has been stagnant and we're now mixes since it's killing us and this view that trickles down has had a thirty year experiment and we know it doesn't work because we've had thirty years of it and it's failed and carry on with working america working america is a great resource from the a.f.l. c.i.a.o. working america dot org is the website address and it's for people who are not members of unions who would like to hav

really has been one of the most critical voices in the union so far and also a lot. of david cameron an interesting a lot himself is facing no growth in his own country so he said that david cameron's policies is hindering growth in the u.k. while france right now is officially in recession now again it's interesting to point out that when a lot of this trying to rebut in answers these questions he's speaking to the french people hoping the massive this satisfaction that he's facing for the french people will eventually turn on his leadership here is under question he's facing massive unemployment he's a very unpopular man at this moment so in trying to prove that he is still a french leader years going on the fence if it's unlikely that we're going to hear him say that france is not going to survive without the u k. and denis macshane a former british minister for europe i spoke to many he says the infighting between the countries is putting pressure on the european union was every day you could have papers in britain here or go and listen to debates in the house of

, they wanted to deal with the european union. therefore, yes, i agree with you. >> thank you. >> the uk is the largest foreign investor in the u.s. similarly, the u.s. is the largest foreign investor in the uk. it is a commercial link that is more important than and transcends any relationship between prime minister and president. we not only have a shared language but a shared legal system, shared culture, and they shared row business orientation. other states, except for ireland, have none of these. the uk should not be compelled to negotiate with the u.s. on trade. only so the person of the you trade commissioner, however capable the gentleman is. >> thank you. >> mr. schultz. >> thank you. madam president, minister, commissioner. europes of people in feel a lack of trust here. they feel they are not being represented properly. i am sure you are familiar with this. look at the things happening with agriculture, genetic technology. we are selling off our data protection. cultural diversity of europe, and much more. simply ignori

and i looked at the communists and them of the soviet union and it wasn't until 1944 and the english version said let us make a clean slate. the world is about to change we're not saying what us be all and then in the next thought that they common meaning decapolis have done anything but steelwork? what work had created by bordering in the gift back that people want only what they are due. i'm not saying this is exactly like you have done it alone but in a ring very destructive at the same time of stalinist russia with the mass executions, the concentration camps tell me you are discussing it in your book. while this is going on in russia the masquerading of peasantry. that you were a prosperous present in to make a big mark on the attitude and many others. but many have been repressed. so how come american society is continuing along the course of not soviet-style socialism but rapid increase of state involvement of economic management? >> guest: this is one of the most interesting ways to think of the new deal that a former representative of texas called an says the new deal of a c

it will facilitate an investment trade exchange between the union and the u.s.

no american uranium could go to the soviet union to get out of the country, period. but harry did is according to jordan, he found a way to canada and he called the jordan and the base and he told him there was a shipment coming through. there wasn't going to be on the books and he was to do his best and he would know about it because it was coming from a canadian courier. sure enough, they had no doubt, he had no suspicion that the time. yes, of course he was the big man in his world said he did exactly that. once the secret became clear he realized he had been part of it and he testified. he was attacked mercilessly but i think we can talk about this format. one was he had made five claims having to do with a courier and the shipping builds and so on at various points. four of the five were able to be documented and he was correct. the fifth one was the phone call harry hopkins papers were organized by heineman is actually still living. the papers were organized for a landmark biography that's mostly the biography of harry hopkins with robert charlatan who was a ve

yes they argued that we should raise the minimum wage they argued to protect labor unions. the consist for the post-war era they gave us rising. productivity rising g.d.p. rising incomes and. conny that was equal to that economy is what everybody thinks of the sort of the gold standard visit lassies through the eighty's yes in these last thirty years where we've had rising inequality falling wages falling unions falling minimum wages everyone is confounded by this because it has it is harder for the middle class and so while g.d.p. has continued to grow g.d.p. per capita has continued to grow the median income of americans has been stagnant the family income has been stagnant and we're nomics as since it's killing us and this view that trickles down has had a thirty year experiment and we know it doesn't work because we've had thirty years of it and it's failed and carry on with working america working america is a great resource from the f.l. c.i.a.o. working america dot org is the website address and and it's for people who are not members of unions who would like to have

and here i think the european union could play a role. i think the european union has some leverage to facilitate a solution to that problem. now, i was with also asked about nato post-2014. are we really looking for new tasks? do we try to invent new activities just to insure that nato continues to be relevant? no way. there's no need to invent new things. our hands, we have a full plate. our hands are full. so fay toe post-2014 -- nato 2014 will be a nato that is prepared to take action if needed. and one way to do that is to make sure that the ability we have developed to work and operate together in afghanistan, that about will be maintained and further developed in the coming years. we call it the connected forces initiative because it's about joint exercises, training, education so that what we learn inside afghanistan will be maintained even if we draw down in afghanistan. and believe me, there will be new tasks. we stand ready. we are prepared for the unexpected. if you had asked me when i took office as secretary general in august

. >> this will fire up talk at the holiday barbecues. our union is standing in the way. who else is the government snooping on and are you on the enemy list. right after the deadly twister hit, one senator said this. >> the damage that the polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit alabama and oklahoma and texas. >> he is apologizing now, but why are democrats cashing in while people are digging out. firing up your weekend barbecue conversation right now. >> welcome to cashing in. our cashing in crew this week, wayne rogers and jonathan honig and kirstin powers join us. calls growing for the white house to can workers, but irs workers are unionized and unions protect their members. irs unionizing employees. is this a conflict of interest? >> it is an inherent conflict of interest. there is bias embedded when you have a situation like this where they are protected. it's difficult to remove them. they have positive incentive to go along with it and if you look at the numbers, the workers and political donations in 2008 and 2012 to president obama, $110,000 in contrib

morning commissioners my name is steven and i'm the represent of the local 6 in san francisco the electric union. many of our members live in the surrounding area and take advantage of the initiative the city. we'll like for you to consider moving >> excuse me. we hadn't to over look the sponsors presentation. >> you mean i'll have to do this again? >> i apologize. >> project sponsor. >> good morning commissioners. i'm shawn i'm with the developer. and i'm here to introduce you to the project and to the project design team but first i want to give you a little introduction. the gentleman did a wonderful description on this process. but the millennium partners do have a great history. we've been involved in several projects and continuously we program the project to the city jessie square and we look at again as an ongoing commitment with the redevelopment as we transition into other promotions. the comment we received on the eir process and particularly to the two areas concerned that have been raised and highlighted continuously. the first is the mitigation to the shadow on union square of whic

the problem is the government forcing people to join the union. oney away from people against their will and giving it to that union. if the union were a free association of people who truly wanted to associate with each other because of common interest and common needs and need to have a bargaining agent with the city, all protected by the constitution, i don't think there's guys like that. >> i know. irony that union workers need a union for democracy within their own organization. >> yes. >> it's crazy irony of the whole thing. i want to, listen, from the point of view, a quote on what is said, okay, listen, i'm 60 years old, so if i eat during my lunch hour and take medication, can't i close my eyes? is it so outrageous, judge? >> i also heard him say that you would know better than i that power naps are common among executives. do you know anybody to take a nap during the day in charge of million dollar entities? >> he's regularly taking naps. oprah does, and, you know, reagan has, but he does it so habitually, and should that be counted towar

and the western union was ordered in, i think it was 1943, to start just making copies. and the idea was, actually, to break the code and read them and find out what our soviet allies really wanted. and so that we could be better allies. and when the code breakers started working on these cables, today started understanding that the soviet union was attempting, essentially, to overthrow our country, spying, stealing, making -- wreaking havoc, infiltrated everywhere. but it was or very painstaking work. it's hard to identify -- >> host: ing -- it took them years, literally. >> guest: they were up on alger hiss and harry dexter white. >> host: harry dexter white was dead by -- >> guest: yes, he was, but he was identified -- >> host: before. >> guest: well, he was identified by fbi, there were other investigations going on, other archives. but here's the thing, at a certain point along the way early on, you know, by 1950, say, and then in the years to follow inside the american government there was knowledge of the tremendous spying that was going on while outside the americ

on the north of market community benefit district and it did not want to join us, and when the union square bid finally regot its boundaries larger, it joined so that there was no, zone that was not being covered for cleaning, and safety, and all of that. so, you know, those are the kinds of things that we would like to see happen in the community where the neighborhood has added security and all of that and it was great to see that block including the nikko make a stance and not just be in an island all by itself. i do live in the neighborhood and they are patrolling around their neighbor, as as a matter of fact that just makes, you know, that knowing that that block is usually being secured which i just really appreciate seeing is that they are in suits, so you don't know that they are really security, but there they are, if i knew their names i would give them awards. >> is there any other public comment? >> good evening, commissioners. my name is karen and i am the executive director with the union square dib and our mission and we are in support of the hotel renewing their permi

blasting london's complaints calling them a danger to the very existence of the european union. mediation effort in syria gets the thumbs up from the un but faces obstacles from power as the rebel forces that despite evidence of atrocities committed by them in the ongoing civil war. cash strapped european union mounts a crusade against the continent's banking hubs open season on account privacy and tax evaders alike up top stories this hour. online on screen international news and comment from us judea sent to him in moscow the cia has gone too far with its spying operations that's a message from russia's federal security service commenting on the recent scandal involving an american agent in moscow this week. explains the implications of this . i visited the f.s.b. had called in moscow where i was given some more fresh information on the latest spy scandal involving a third secretary of the us embassy in moscow first of all the f.s.b. officials told me that they knew from day one since ryan fogle came to moscow that he was working for the cia that's why they had a very close eye