mike has been a member of the workers union since 1985 and has represented the workers from san mateo and marine and other counties. he has been voted by his peers and elected the treasure since 2005. he's been with us since the beginning. the transit project labor unit has been a model for other projects for success. all 20 units signaturary have signed on and we have been able to work with mike to create a program to mentor our youth both students ranging from 5 through high school and college. teaching them about engineering and architecture and all of the various disciplines that go into a project like this. mike as well as all the unions have been working with us as well with urs bashay and we have been working very hard with veterans to provide opportunities for them. in fact one of our very first contracts that was awarded was to a disabled company. without further a do i would like to have mike come up and speak. thank you. >>> as supervisor kim pointed out, this came out of the recession and it put a lot of folks back to work. we have leader pelosi to thank for that and mayor

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had the right to form unions today they don't so in the growing. service sector workers do not have an effective right to form unions and to bargain collectively that's number one number two we could rebuild an effective and robust manufacturing sector in this country if there were the will to do it and the will to invest in it and as germany does cooperation between business their government and the unions you know people who criticize. criticize manufacturing in this country should look at sherman e they sacrifice nothing they've got a huge. export. export credit and they're heavy manufacturing society an economy and they create a lot of wealth that way we on the other hand are not creating wealth by making thing. in fact we are further destroying our our manufacturing base john analysis of the economic policy institute shows that the current pace of job growth is still slower than what we need for our economy to return to full employment pretty much any time in the foreseeable future and at the current pace it's going to take more than five years before we get back to

the union. we must never forget that unions are businesses that are run for the benefit of their members. and union bosses, not american workers, is who they run it for. our nation is in deep trouble because of this. government unions even get subsidizes from taxpayers. the american taxpayer unwittily is paying government workers for huge amounts of time to do government work. while they do union work. in "shadowbosses: government unions control america and rob taxpayers blind," we put the number together, according to official government reports, federal employees spend over 3 million hours. this is in 2010 statistics on official time which moons they're getting paid to work for the government but they're doing union work instead. that cost the taxpayers at least $127 million in salary and benefit. when you put in state and local county you are looking at 23 million man hours a year at the cost of over $1 billion. that's a direct subsidize. we're not including all the other subsidizes like giving them office space, giving them copiers, letting them use telephones, as well as a number of other items that we subsidize them with

know -- any number of the businesses, the industry airlines, automobiles for which the unions have been involved. i can't imagine why. i'm not surprised why most workersing no. >> eric: quick thought. >> wall street deserves a lobby, gun owners deserve a lobby but not unions? c'mon. >> whoa, get the lobby, not special favors. >> they represent everything and overall percentage of the workforce -- >> 11% for union membership. diminishing by the day. >> eric: thanks to san dr. dr. and sandra for joining us. lock, loaded, firing back. recalled voters spending a powerful message to the antigun politicians. don't tell us what we can or ♪ ♪ >> eric: time for what do i need to know for next week? wayne, you are up first. >> kek out xbi. i'm a little leery of what the market is doing. long-term, look for the biotech. >> eric: very good. little risky there. go ahead, john. >> africa. this is a hot destination. afk is the exchange traded fund i'm looking at now. this has financials. >> we have to leave it there. i love that song. that is it for cost of freedom block. thank you for joining us. before we go, they call two democratic lawmakers this week. president

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then, service employees international union president will talk about the top issue facing labor unions and the workers they represent. ♪ as president obama look to congress on syria, lindsey graham was invited to the white house. the hill newspaper reporting that the white house is invited the chairman and ranking members of six national security committees to meet with president obama on tuesday. this as the administration makes the case to congress, seeking a not thrice asian vote for any action to take in syria. the first -- and authorization vote for any action to take in syria. here is how you can give your thoughts this morning, for our democrats, 202-585-3880. 3881.epublicans, 202-585- 202-585-endents, 3882. mails,n always send us e- journal@c-span.org. what would you tell your present live or senator -- your representative or senator about what to do in syria? on obamas reflecting looking to congress. the stories in the papers today, here is "the new york times" -- that is the new york times. the washington post picks up this morning by adding this in their story -- how would you tell your leg

special thanks to the men and women in the labor force, mike terio and the construction trades, the workers union, the building trade are all here. thank you for keeping this job safe, inviting and sustainable for everybody who wants to work in the city. [ applause ] again, thank you to leader pelosi, thank you to the entire federal delegation with senator feinstein and boxer and certainly the administration is here today and thank you for working with us not just on this, on presidio and the transit system, the tunnel machines are already in and working their way through a hundred feet at a time. that is all very complimentary. i want to give a shout out to governor jerry brown and the leaders of the state, houses and steinberg and perez for their leadership and supervisor kim, thank you. the tgpa has been there from the beginning. we have created that entity to make sure they all work together. you are pulling all the different transportations here to make sure we are not only getting this center done right and working with tjpa but we are going to melody it into the rail. the state of californ

labor unions are at the forefront of these endeavor. they ensure the gains that workers have made in the past, that they are maintained and the workers' rights will be preekted in the future. union members have played a critical role in the civil rights' movement and their movement continues today. historically the path for middle class and african i've americans are for union jobs and unions provide america african-americans with economic opportunity. 13% of all union jobs in the united states are african-americans. despite they make up 11.4% of the overall domestic work force. african-american nonunion 1% more than workers. if we want to rebuild america's nid will class. we need strong unions. unions play a major role in our economy and on behalf of economy. the essence of what they do is providing workers with a strong voice so they receive a fair share of the economic growth that h helped create. they have always been an important player in making sure that the economy works for all america. pped laborers have hill and paid ine eared health care. even today, union wo

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 workersdd 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 the movement, and recent times some states attempting to move to right-to-work states, which give workers a lot more freedom to not pay dues to a union, for instance, and some of this also gets to what we were talking about, this afl-cio vote that happened recently at its convention, to open up the doors to nonunion members. thef across the country union membership is dwindling. 20 years ago, 20% of americans were unionized. today that number is closer to 11%. now they're opening their doors to other groups, allianc

this the affecting union finances and morale for sure. >> ask me is the association of county municipal and state workers 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 won't pay dues. >> well, and that's why you see, for instance, such a ferocious protest among unions for the movement in recent times some of the states that have been attempting to move to right to work states which also give workers a lot more freedom to not pay dues to a union, for instance. and some of this also gets to what we were talking about this aflcio vote if it happened recently a

in baseline, organized by the communication workers of america, they voted in the face of significant pressure to the contrary to join the union and to organize a chapter in order to fight for better wages and for stronger health care and the possibility of a better retirement. unfortunately, the courageous nature of those workers has not been met with a negotiated contract. bargaining ve process has failed them to date. in fact, more than 20 of them were terminated earlier this year. and they were only brought whack in the files of tromedous pressure by public servants in all levels of government. in the moment in which they voted to join the union go, they are not having a contract and their lives have been turned upside down. fact, every other worker in the company that employed these cable workers has been granted a substantial raise of these individuals remain in limbo. we are hopeful we can do better and bring the nlrb back to life, hat it can serve as an objective entity to regulate the relationship between the work force and employers across america. there are a lot of employers that want to do the right thing. we shou

end of the month. >> but for the shop workers union which wants to see the store -- the stores doors closed firmly before 1:00 a.m., it is about workers right. >> if we start allowing this simply because the company wants to make more money, then no rules would remain credible. >> it is a debate dividing sephora's customers. >> well, it is good for the staff, yes. >> if the employees are not being exploited, why not? it should be up to them. >> i work at a supermarket that closes at 10:00 p.m., and i think they should do the same. it's got nothing to do with being on the champs d'elysee. >> a decision is expected on september 30 third -- september 23. >> don't go away. >> welcome to berlin for this new edition of europe now. the germans head to the polls on september 22. i have traveled around the country to understand the issues that will decide this election. germany is europe's largest economy. the continent's powerhouse. therefore, whatever happens here will have an impact on the lives of europeans. first, let's get the latest from the campaign trail. >> 190 billion euros in trade

the individual market. this is a very good deal for some. i don't think this is a very good deal for workers covered by union health care workers but individuals will be paying dramatically less. too many right wing forces especially the antiunion workers from the fund where michael works, not good for workers in union. >> michael last word. >> mike as a recorder i would expect fewer add homonym attacks from you. >> i haven't given you a single add homonym attack. you know where your bread is buttered. >> when president barack obama said on the -- when president obama said that on the television, he is not helping the law by giving that misleading impression. premiums will go down for some people but up for many people in the individual market. >> three years later clearly the debate is going to continue and heat up in the next few weeks. mike elk, michael cannon, appreciate you visiting us. >>> is the debate over pregnancy millions who need assistance now. we appreciate you spending time with us tonight. >>> up next is the golden age of hollywood going golden but elsewhere. why l.a.'s mayor has declared a state of emergency for the entertainm

at the end of the day the entire mandate of unions is strengthen the position of workers who could be getting exploited by companies. anybody making less than $8 is being exploited by companies when their profit margins are what they are. unions are trying to increase their members, absolutely. $15 an hour, that's not necessarily a realistic expectation on their part but it's a negotiating position. your other guests will understand what a preliminary negotiating position means in the debate. >> john layfield you talk about profit margins, not just talking about mcdonald's, mom and pops don't have big profit margins. >> there's a difference between $8 and $15. and when you're going after the big ceo that's really a populace message unions are trying to propagate like gary b. said and the billions gary keeps quoting about mcdonald's, but the fact is mcdonald's has issued statement after statement they do to the adjust or recommend or set the wages for the franchises. those franchises are done by mom and pops that are these guys' neighbors out there. they work on razor thin margins. nin

the workers. if you look at 2009, manufacturing is outstanding what the change has been. first and foremost the issue is freedom and the workers get the choice. workers and right-to-work states join unions there are a couple right-to-work that have higher union density that don't have right-to-work laws. union officials don't lake that. they like the privilege of forcing workers to pay them a fee. host: labor unions aren't forbidden to practice or at least conduct business? guest: absolutely not. under federal law, everyone has the right to organize and bargain collectively. the question is, do you force someone never wanted, never voted or never asked for union and force them to pay dues or keep their jobs. there are philosophical reasons. there are perhaps economic reasons, religious reasons. it's not for us to ask that question. we shouldn't have to have a litmus test for someone say you have to give up your political rights to maintain your workplace rights or religious rights or conscious issues in order to protect your right to work. it's not for us to ask those questions. people have reasons of their own. host: our guest joining us until 9:15 to talk about issues when it comes to

. >> management needs to step up and take care of its workers and the patrons. >> reporter: union workers say bart is not budging. they are worried about an impending strike. he is thinking of packing his overnight bags again. >> i have to go back and forth. >> reporter: what did you do last time? >> i slept in the city. i had to stay in a hotel for 5 days. >> reporter: the commute is 3 hours in a car. >> everything loses. it is unfortunate. >> reporter: they have no intention of intervening. after today there are other 8 scheduled negotiations before the october 11 strick. sue kwan. >>> advanced placement tests, the educational testing service canceled after they violated rules where students could sit. individual parents or students can file their own lawsuit. >>> colorado flood waters are receding. >>> britain's members of the royal family? deep freezer? >>> weather, the wind is starting to kick up. could we see rain in the future? coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, . >> russia and the u.s. are at odds over syria's chemical weapons. the u.s. and france want to keep the issues on the table. ch

the bill says 60% of outside contract workers hired in california oil refineries must be certified by the year 2016 by a state-approved apprenticeship program like this one. but the united steel workers unioned foul. the leaders say it's risky to place experienced workers like jerry. >> you have someone who worked maybe on a highway one day and in a factory the next. >> reporter: robbie hunter heads the state building and construction trades council of california which supports hancock's bill. he says it would keep refineries from hiring non-california workers for cheap. he showed us pictures of out of state cars parked in the bay area refinery. >> this is really about construction workers and the standards and wages in california being undermined by out of state workers. >> reporter: he says under hancock's bill current contract employees do have an option. they can apply to be trained. that's no guarantee for jerry. >> they passed it 45:22. it's expected to go in front of the full senate by the end of the week. sharon chin, kpix 5. >> according to the secretary of state's office, the building trades made nearly $2 million in political contributions in the past two years. that is 115 time

going to get for the dues i'm forced to pay. >> you hit on the point, one i want to expound on with you, ben stein. i find it odd service workers union taking up the plight of fast food workers when i think they're far more interested in those workers' cash and signing them up. leaving that aside, do you see a pattern here where the unions might be using these guys? they get what they want, get them unionized, there's another strike in the winter. they're not watching from a warm office, you know, high above in a skyscraper saying, go, guys, go. >> it's all a racket. you're basically saying the unions are a racket. people in walmart are a racket. it's all a rack. everybody does what he thinks is best for him. yes, it'going to be great for the membership boss at seiu if they unionize walmart. of course that's why they want to do it. they don't care about the guy in idaho making $7.50 an hour. they could care less. >> think about -- >> what's the -- >> you initially had unions, gentlemen, because people had dangerous jobs. walmart is not a dangerous job. listen, i think they should be paid a few more bucks but there's a limit to how mu

something called the congress of industrial organizations organized millions of workers in the 1930s in the depths of the depression. workers who had never been in a union before. we'd never seen that in the united states. we had never seen it before, and we've never seen it since. in the midst of that misery of a depression, of that poverty, american workers decided that a labor union could maybe save them, and they were ready to join. and joining was often tough, working against government, working against a corporation, working against the police. alongside the unions, the c.i.o. that did the organizing, were 2 other institutions that were important then, and that may surprise you. socialist parties here in the united states and the communist party of the united states were powerful. they had a lot of people, and they worked together with the c.i.o. and together, they went to the government at that time, and they said 2 things: "we represent the mass of working people, and we don't want to suffer the way we're suffering in this breakdown of capitalism. you gotta do something." and they addressed themselves to a kind of middle-of-the-road democratic p

that's all. >> i disagree that the unions have been a great beneficiary. the textile workerg shoremen. the steelworkers, g.m. worker workers. i think it comes back to the idea of the individual rights. what role does a union have to decide where somne can work or who an employer can hire? >> look what the unions did? they literally drove the autoindustry down south to the right to work state. why won't it happen with beer? or textile or every other industry? >> i can't say it won't. full disclosure, the idea of what unions could properly do could be effective. but the way they're broad and over stepping the bounds and aggressive with the companies and the corporation -- >> the idea is great. >> the point is it's not theyed a vote kate for individuals but they use the power of government to pass laws. they do that because they -- >> we'll leigh it there. >> they do it because of the politician, they can deliver votes. >> eric: we know why they do it. we are all pro-business on the show. thank youichelle, and ebony for joining us. coming up, fast food fight. fast food workers

details of the discusses between bart and the employees. . >>> union workers held a protest in oakland. the union says the university has declared an impasse and walked away from contract talks and plans to impose cuts. the union relates 13,000 uc workers statewide. the main sticking points are pay, benefits and staffing levels. >>> two bay area companies are sending a thousand bikes to company. mike's weeks -- bikes and pods are working in deliberation to collect new -- collaboration for new and used bikes. the bikes will be shipped to sister stores in africa. train people to work on bikes. they hire local entrepreneur that live in the area to run the sister shops themselves. >> the bike donations are tax deductible. >>> an unusual scene to bridge. the bridge will take two years before it's completed. even then bikers won't be able to pedal from the midline island to san francisco. but a man has created his own biking. shiller is on a mission. >> a great new bay bridge, and it has a bike lane that goes know where. he set out to prove that bay crossing of bike is possible. this is a st

the afl-cio. how are unions looking at some of these requirements a little bit different now than they are looking at requirements a couple of years ago? >> well the concern that union members have and workers who are not union represented above the value of insurance that's now being mandated is that some of these insurance policies that people are going to be required to have are barely worthy of the name insurance. they're going ohave huge deductibles, huge requirements of out of pocket expenses when utilized in the form of co-payments. and other charges. and these are going to be very, very costly additions to many household budgets. now i worked as a union rep in massachusetts.. we have six or seven years of experience with romney care now which is the is example of obamacare, nationally. people with insurance are still deterred from seeking medical care, because of the out of pocket costs that they face under the insurance policies that they're required to have now or that they get through their employer. >> what's your perspective on those businesses that are right at that 50-employee threshold and what it means in terms of being able to grow your business and see a future? >> i thin

makes about $10,000 more than the average non-union worker. >>> thank you, scott. three weeks into the cooling-off period bart workers are demanding bart management return to the bargaining table. they say they are a ready to talk and get this matter resolved. but they say bart management and their negotiates have refused to meet until the 37th day of the 60 day cooling-off period that was ordered by the governor. >> they are going to force us into a strike come october 10th when this cooling-off period expires. we have a great concern about that. >> according to bart, they have set a negotiating schedule and under it sessions will start a week from today. they said we are eager to hear from unions about our last offer, which to date, has gone unanswered. >>> the national park service is investigating the death of a crab fisherman in marin county. the 40 year old fell off his small boat yesterday. the fire department says he apparently got his leg caught on a rope that was attached to a crab pot. he was pulled over and dragged under by the we

the job at great risk to jobs. some are union organizers. unions believe in solidarity. unions have been helping other workersanize unions as long as there is labor movement. we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the march on washington and people were accused back then being outside agitators and union staffers, union volunteers, marched arm in arm with dr. king. think that's a great thing. hardly a story that union organizers go in and try to help organize unorganized workers. that is not news. melissa: katy, is it not a story? >> i think it is absolutely a story. this is, story we've seen every year for the last several decades where the ufcw and their parent company, afl-cio, or their parent union, the afl-cio, basically pay people to come out and pretend to be workers for all of these companies, pretend to protest bad conditions. and at the end of the day we find out they really are just paid union organizers, and very infrequently people, that actually have complaints with their jobs. >> oh, come on. melissa: bob, hang on. there is something really disingenuous, we've seen this with political campaigns

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they wased the wages by a dollar per hour, and unions demand is they want 3% of workers' wages. cues because of the contract. >> do the workers on the farm know this? >> yes. in fact, over around 1500 have signed petition to desert my the union, and they are trying to ourself the union because they feel they are coon thed. >> why do you think the union could muscle its way in? everybody opposes it. how can you muscle in on that? >> the state is helping them. >> really, the state is helping them? >> agricultural labor relations board, equivalent of the nlrb, making decisions that are in favor of the union, and the state legislatures push the union too. >> so the state says unionize, we support the union on this. we'll make it happen. is it fair to say that? >> there's in democratic legislators and left leaning academics and those who sit on the board, the boards that are doing that. >> when do we get a decision? >> within the next two weeks. >> tell us how it goes. appalling story. it is. "wall street journal"; correct? >> yes. >> thank you very much, indeed. see you soon, i hope

and unions aren't trying to -- the difference is, unions are democratic institutions. you know, workersugh a vote, whether to form a union and what they collectively bargain about. and i think the challenge is that, you know, companies just, you know, put profits before everything else. >> and i do want to underline, to say that unions are democratic is not to say that they are perfect. it is to say they come with all the messiness of democracy. >> walmart's not perfect either. >> people will pick despots, sometimes, to leave them. you will tax people in order to be -- a democracy is ruled by the people and ruled by the people is messy stuff. but it is a check on tyranny. yeah, at its core. >> if you want to know why walmart would be skeptical of something like a labor union. look at what's happening. the ufcw is and organizations like good jobs first are slandering walmart, have started websites, have put out reports to make exaggerated claims, are holding these protests, are trying to disrupt the company's business. >> well, yeah! >> yeah! >> that's how democracy works! you don't like