union in the end would come alongside monetary union ones. actors and publics would understand and that situation is forced upon us now where we actually see that a member states are you losing actual sovereignty and they find it very hard to somehow rebuild that sovereignty on the european level h.-l. says that's a contradiction here but i was going to ask charles real quick this the contradiction right here because it's time when you need more political union to save the euro to save the union itself if there is a time when it's least popular because of austerity i mean you have you know you have the germans and the gods say you know why do we have to pay for the austerity of somebody else we didn't lied to get into this it's monetary union i mean this is the worst possible time for quote unquote more europe at least politically. well i would agree with that and i think that there is a growing gap between the institutions of europe and the need for governance and the politics of europe which are becoming increasingly skeptical of the e.u. a

what industry describing thanks to unions or with unions, autos, no. steel nosnow. >> it is the fact that union membership in the private sector fell from 7.2 fo6.9 in 2010 and also unions lost 612,000 members there is a drop in the private sector. >> one, if workers don't . unions they don't have to vote for them. we have seen the greatest income disparity in the history of the country. three, what point do we stop blaming everything to unions. >> it creating jobs it the number one job we all have. >> that is true. you can see in the south and other parts. autocompanies coming in with nonunion labor . wages are good. and everyone comes out ahead. they killed the auto industry and steel industry and so where do they go? jobs are less plentiful. remember david. 30 or 40 years ago gm only now has 41,000 workers. >> job creation is what we need. union membership or anything else? >> we get job creation from originality and entrepreneurship and innovation . we'll get that with competitive industries and unions. if we had competition we wouldn't have destro

this union fought for a type of unionism has labeled as a social unionism or social justice unionism, and the work for its members wanted to obviously helped get them higher wages that benefit that our working conditions. but that union also worked along with parents, worked along with community activists in order to save public education and that is the gist of the social unionism. by the 1930's when the communists led rank-and-file caucuses of the union gained control of the union, it helped create a harlem committee, and that committee worked to build new school buildings in that community by the early 1940's and created a williamsburg council which also worked to create a better education who have your schools to work on funding, proper funding for children. it is the attack on this union by the 1950's that sort of helped eliminate that important voice, and i'm going to end here by a reading an excerpt from my book noting that the atmosphere that was created in the 1950's. in the spring of 1957, joseph and o'keefe, a young substitute social studies teacher gave her eighth grade cl

unions, saying nurses unions. nurses unions have been relatively successful in saying that their fights are also on behalf of the profession and also on behalf of the patient anyway the teachers unions have been unsuccessful in doing that witnessed the success of the popular success of the reformers narrative. and so i am wondering how you explained that difference in the medical workers union and how you find that difference and i ask how much of that has to do with new york city teachers strike? >> that is an excellent question and i do covered in my book. [laughter] but, communism and civil rights and the new york city's teachers union. but one of the major battles in new york city was over which direction teachers union that someone's going to take and this erupted in the 1930s. the type of unionism that i describe here emphasized by the new york city teachers union, social unionism, did have the sort of rotter definition fighting along with parents, fighting along with the civic leaders to democratize educati

also, the union and non-union shops working side by side. deliveries of materials that have the potential for disruptions. the pla says all of those work stoppages aside, which is important to us as we try to maintain our overall schedule and we have significant costs that we realize that we are subject to delays. also, we are going to have 50 or 60 trade subcontracts on this contract and about 250 total subcontractors working over 4.5 million hours of labor on this job, so there is just a lot of activity -- two or sometimes three shifts of work. what we call stacking of trades. multiple contractors working in the same area at the same time, and all of that increases the potential for disputes between trades. some of the benefits of the pla -- as we mentioned, it reduces the risk of those types of work disruptions and stoppages. the opportunity for cost disruptions overruns that. establishes the rules for holidays, work rules, setting aside some of the unions have specific black friday's, which are the fridays before recognized holidays, so

party is finally over at least it was twenty years ago the end of the communist party of the soviet union was the final step before the collapse of the u.s.'s all right so what are the parties positive and negative legacies could have it reformed itself and changed the course of history. in. the. process of the end of the communist party of the soviet union i'm joined by ronald suny and then an arbor he is a professor of social and political history at the university of michigan in princeton we have mark bystander he is professor of politics at princeton university all right gentlemen this is cross-eyed i mean you can jump in anytime you want mark if i go to you first and princeton the primary reason why i'm doing this not only is it the twentieth anniversary of the end of the communist party of the soviet union but to remind people of the events of nine hundred ninety one and how much it really changed the world and how we how the world is moved on from one great epic conflict to maybe another epic conflict and we can throw in the economic crisis here what is the most important legacy of

across not the end of the communist party of the soviet union i'm joined by ronald suny in and arbor is a professor of social and political history at the university of michigan in princeton we have mark bystander he is professor of politics at princeton university all right gentlemen this is cross like i mean you can jump in anytime you want mark if i can go to you first and princeton for the primary reason why i'm doing this not only is it the twentieth anniversary of the end of the communist party of the soviet union but to remind people of the events of nine hundred ninety one and how much it really changed the world and how we how the world is. moved on from one great epic conflict to maybe another epic conflict and we can throw in the economic crisis here what is the most important legacy of what happened twenty years ago in the country that i'm living in right now russia well i think for there's a there's a global legacy obviously the end of the cold war the end of the division of the planet within russia or russia have been ruled soviet union have been ruled by a party state

be provocative you did glasnost and perestroika destroy the communist party of the soviet union. i'd have to say of the two glasnost destroyed the communist party of the soviet union the communist party of the soviet union was built as an instrument basically to control the state and to control the public sphere and once you opened up the public sphere the communist party really couldn't control it that the the debates that tore the communist party apart were essentially over the impact of grossness now a lot of people talk about the economy and how the economy and economic competition destroyed the communist party there is some truth in that in that but i think that that really wasn't the central element of what happened in fact i think the so you know it could have survived for a long time had no no pressing economic crisis what it had was a legitimacy crisis. and that's where. you know glasnost came in. you know when sure noble occurred for instance and it just highlighted the the gulf between the party and and the truth and so it was basically already you know six or seven mo

union opponents cite this strike as a blow against union tyranny. as proof that collective bargaining has no place in government, or they say as a galvanizing moment of the reagan presidency, reagan's single most significant symbolic act. but as i try to argue in this book, probing more deeply into the story of five -- behind this conflict moves us beyond superficial observations, and sheds light on the forces that remade america between 1960 when this story began in 1981 when the air traffic controllers struck, creating a defining moment in recent american history. understanding those forces i think gives us important lessons for today. to set the context for this and to explain more about what i mean here, i would like to read a passage from the introduction to my book. the intro is called getting the picture, and that title refers, i know there is at least one control here tonight, one former controller, maybe others, folks who know air traffic control know what that phrase means. it refers to the procedure that their traffic controllers go throu

the union is europe's only way to survive and the current fiscal crisis will switch over to the union will build a migration system very much like what we see with the shan can agree winter in europe but it is meant to a lower cost and tariffs also create a unified trade standards and it's expected that it will encourage businesses to invest in modernization of the three countries and also to very severely boost competition also we're hearing from from different experts that it could like i said reverse the global economic downturn that we're seeing and there's a possibility that it will expand in the future countries like ukraine could possibly join analysts they're saying that they've got a union like this existed some years back they would be in a very different situation financially today. if the project was realized they can two thousand and four when the ukrainian parliament confirmed the plan to stop watching a united economic zone i'm sure my country would have gone through the financial crisis more easily and our economy different position today. but the oficial signing will

many people who are not unionized benefit from unions. i just introduced a resolution that commands organized labor, because what happens is that where there are not unionized workers, the companies that are competing against a unionized company tend to give basically the same benefits. that the union workers get. and so it unions -- it is where all ships are listed by -- lifted by the rising tide. host: some concerns on the vote that will happen at to 30 p.m. of the nlrb about the way that the vote has been called. the detect chairman -- the democratic-appointed chairman has called his vote and as noted that he needs to college before the end of the year because the national labor relations board might lose its other democratic member. or is going to, he is a recess appointment. the one lone republican on the board has threatened to step down on how this election has been called. this is a letter that bryan hayes, the republican member of the board, wrote in his criticism of how this vote has come up. this is the november 18 letter to th

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came in forty years after the european union was formed the european union existed perfectly happily without the euro for forty years it's a mistake to say i think because child stars that europe would become just a free trade area if the euro disappeared it would still be a customs union with a common tariff that still be a single market which is the most important achievement and of course in foreign policy the europeans can perfectly happily cooperate without the euro britain and france work perfectly think ever well together in libya without the euro being involved if the countries want to cooperate in foreign policy they can happily do so so although there's a consensus growing between washington and brussels i think it's a false consensus which is leading europe into deflation and i think although there may be difficulties if anything happened to the euro in the long run i think it would allow european countries to grow again because the euro is proving a terrible constraint on the growth in particular of the mediterranean car and i want to talk about we want to go to about a g

region union much more powerful. moving water is because right because we won't repeat the mistakes of the european union in our integration we're conscious of what we're doing we understand who are we integrating with there are three countries sharing a common history and today we are full means a common economy that is why we start not on different level of support from similar positions the european union to the shot in a jar to some extent situation is different i'm sure we will be able to create a solid and stable economic union. but that is the. this union is being beast on the foundation of the customs union between russia kazakhstan and belarus all just three states but its future vision is much bigger just picture a confident ration of speech stretching possibly from the balkans and all the way to the pacific a huge bridge between europe and asia perhaps it's too soon to talk about that at the moment since russia goes in kazakhstan just put together a community which will be working to develop this idea furt

we do have provisions to go to the union hiring halls for referrals, but at any point the unions are unable to fulfill the call, the contractors participating are free to go beyond the union hiring hall for employment, but the first stop is the hiring hall. at least in today's environment, the unions are showing as they have an ample supply to meet our needs, but i think part of it -- and part of the benefit of it is improving the communication and awareness of our programs in the unions so that they know this work is coming and when our packages will be coming out, and then we can plan with their members accordingly. >> there is one phrase that says for the trade unions that will be signatory to the pla. are there any that are not? >> at this point, we do not anticipate any. >> with regard to the committee, are there specific reporting requirements from the pla or that are housed within the pla for the benefits of any of the programs that will be put in place? ways to evaluate that the committee will be recommending or reviewing that the board will be able to review? >> there's not

and are you a member of the union? about these folks, are hey aa - members oo the unionn no." but...on this picket linee..it doesn't matter...they're still...on the union payroll. (questiin) "do these peoplee get paid to be out here to p rotest? they do. how much do they get paid, i'm not exactly sure."but we''e ttld...they only receive... minumum wage. across the street from the "occupy baltimore" encampment...there's another protest.((horn honks)) also...organized... by the protessing... another construction project. (protester) "and one of the subcontractors for thatt company has hired people who work at below area wages and standards..but we've 3 learned...the picketers hhred by unions...to protest non-uniin labor....eceive no health nsurance...no workmen's compensation...and no sick leave.(pappas) "for the unions to then use indeeendent contractors to protest the construciton industry's use of independent contractors would be kind of at inner harbbr east...there'ss yet another labor protest...sponsored by the same

antares expressed interest in joining a union. as you know there is the or asian economic community comprised of five nations apart from russia and kazakhstan it also includes to decus done kircus done when the decision was taken several years ago five years ago to be precise to scale up integration we went for a multi level and modestly type of integration point all of those five countries realize that three of them are fit to move on to the next stage that is why a trio side how to reach a more advanced level within the region economic community basically it's a second tier it was agreed upon reaching this new level the trio will not forget about the remaining two members of the eurasian economic community which are now candidates which would follow suit and move on to this new level of integration or the list of candidates is not limited to these two countries the eurasian economic community has a number of associates and partners who take an active part in the work of this community so to sum up we see interest from other coun

especially union ones. union teachers are happy that they can't be suddenly fired but the charter teachers can be. >> you can get canned in a moment. does that bother you? >> if i'm not doing my job per se and i was tired for that, so be it. >> fy was is a doctor and i wasn't good, i mean i wouldn't have a job. no one would come to me, right? >> i would hope not? >> you cannot maintain quality unless you can fire people says this charter founder. >> it is as many as we must and as little as we can. >> have you fired more than ten? >> in three schools in eight years, yes. >> but while bad teachers might get fired good teachers are given freedom. >> they can choose their textbooks and their teaching methods as long as they every quarter and every year make sure that the students are learning what they need to learn at the end of the bay in harlem, 43% of 8th graders get passing grades on state math tests. 100% of her kids passed. if such charters work why aren't there more of them? >> because unions and suppo

a union or racial well look i mean i think the reason for the objective of the customs union to be c. is zero seats to improve that you know to make it easier for russian companies as well as cars or companies to do more business with each other because that level of . interaction that gets between two former soviet countries g countries that were very close together in the past you know and has been allowed follow fall away so the customs union is designed to bring that closer and to increase the level of business it's too low right now you know the odd one out there is better routes to some extent and its economy is is in a much less favorable position than either russia has extended course the difference is it doesn't have oil it doesn't have natural resources to export with the other two countries do and remember kazakstan is well chosen the next couple of years hopefully will bring the kashagan oil field a million barrels of oil a day or you feel downstream and that will substantially improve its economy in economic position if you like and then rejects that balance with russia t

especially union ones. union teachers are happy that they can't be suddenly fired but the charter teachers can be. >> you can get canned in a moment. does that bother you? >> if i'm not doing my job per se and i was tired for that, so be it. >> fy was is a doctor and i wasn't good, i mean i wouldn't have a job. no one would come to me, right? >> i would hope not? >> you cannot maintain quality unless you can fire people says this charter founder. >> it is as many as we must and as little as we can. >> have you fired more than ten? >> in three schools in eight years, yes. >> but while bad teachers might get fired good teachers are given freedom. >> they can choose their textbooks and their teaching methods as long as they every quarter and every year make sure that the students are learning what they need to learn at the end of the bay in harlem, 43% of 8th graders get passing grades on state math tests. 100% of her kids passed. if such charters work why aren't there more of them? >> because unions and suppo

that is a testament to the good working relationship we have had with the various unions over many years. secondly, i want to point out, they propose pla before you is one of the strongest and well written that i have ever seen. we looked at numerous, over 20 pla's from across the country and found hours -- work hard to about best practices and the drafting of the pla. what makes it strong as one that will allow the party to stay on time, on schedule, highest quality and in the most cost- effective manner. that is what we negotiated. you get into more details as to why that is. in addition, in more specific. numerous her dispute mechanism that will address and cry for efficient records for jurisdiction dispute, labor dispute, and any party grievances the makeup. additionally, pla gives contractors to to effectively manage their work forces. it includes project specific inclusion that provide for the use of modern construction materials and methods that are going to be key components to the successful completion of the project appeared when you combine everything, and they will protect th

the effort that we went through with the unions, negotiating the document, bringing it to the board, began over six months ago. we presented last month as you are were aware, to receive public comment. we now bring it to you for approval with the consent. labours, carpenters, operating engineers, trade council, or lead in negotiating the pla with us. pla is a benefit to the program. because of our scope, complexity, duration, having a pla to regulate the issues that may arise whether it is between our contract community or the unions or between is essential to make sure that we avoid disruptions or labor action that could affect the execution of our program. and two of the program. it encourages all contractors to bid, whether union or nonunion, and have specific procedures for the support of small business. along into print or employees to the program to the project and also, through the joint administrative committee, bring the unions to the table if we are having difficulty meeting small business participation goals for them to win and be part of the dialogue about how we can for