then they hit this union camp and later on, union troops would say they weren't surprised. the confederate veterans were commenting, well, maybe they weren't surprised but they did have the most devoted cooks in the world because food was on the fire when they entered camp. but remember it had been a typical morning in camp. not a lot of action planned for a typical sunday morning in camp. of course, church services, probably parades or reviews. but not a great deal of activity usually in a camp that's on a standdown, and so it's a typical morning. so confederates hit this union camp, and it's like a treasure trove of foods. i mean the feds have luxuries. they have canned seafood and fresh bread and real coffee and they have got everything. have sugar. it's a treasure trove. not only that, but all of the personal belongings of the federal troops are in their tents. so the men stop to plunder. so there is a breakdown in command. not only have the men stopped to plunder, but they have joined him. the line officers in particular, johnston rides in amongst this and he is incens

let me play you a little. ♪ this is a union town a union town all down the line ♪ ♪ this is a union town a union town all down the line ♪ ♪ today the policeman's a union man brother firefighter's my friend ♪ ♪ and the kids locked in the capitol are fighting 'til the end ♪ ♪ and we're not gonna break tonight and we're not gonna bend ♪ ♪ some say the union's down but i asked around and everybody said ♪ ♪ this is a union town a union town all down the line ♪ ♪ this is a union town a union town all down the line ♪ >> where did that come from? >> well, that's basically my journal entry on returning back for -- coming back from my trip to madison. >> you know, watching, that's the first time i realized that you're wearing the hat now you had on there. and it's the hat of the old wobbly. >> yeah, the iww. i'm a card-carrying member of the iww, as well as 20 -- >> tell us about the wobblies. why do they -- >> sure, sure. two things that inspire me about the wobblies is it was a singing union, first of all. and they realized that, in order to organize diverse groups of immigrants who often didn't

the initial process for organizing a union requires that the union representatives go into a factoryr a plant, or perhaps even an entire company, but in the bargaining unit, obtain the signatures on what they refer to as authorization cards, of 30% of the employees; which means that 30% of the employees are interested in having a union election held. once the authorization cards are turned in, then the national labor relations board, which was the federal agency set up by congress in the national labor relations act, will then require that an election be held. >> the nlrb will then verify the election results and declare whether a collective bargaining agent has been selected or not and if so, if there are several unions vying for this collective bargaining agent position, they will designate which one of the competing unions has prevailed as the selected bargaining agent for the employees. [narrator] >> in addition to governing the union organizing process, the law also identifies unfair labor tactics. for example, management is prohibited from interfering with the right of employee

recently a conference on the future of the union state which made the union state russia bellows the conference was held in london not in moscow not in minsk why wasn't it held on the territory of the state but abroad as a matter of fact i wouldn't call it as a conference it suggested was kind of a background meeting which was held in russian embassy and voice arranged by the russian vessel. so. and. it was a number of. political just and maybe editors of some some newspapers and. it was just an invitation i couldn't resist this temptation and said nothing special so do you consider this this meeting in the russian embassy in london as sort of a presentation of the union state to to the west yes right you it was the first stand in this direction i think that it's. not right because you're. right about the russian or the union state which was created in the west so i'd like to give more realistic. understanding what's going on between in relations between russia and belarus well here you have recently the end of last year replaced veteran politician bubble but i didn't as the head of

the teachers' union. janitor's union. politics and school board bureaucrats and if you you try to make a change they say. >> we don't do that here. we have to have four or five people to sign off and the deputy director of curriculum has to say okay. it's crazy. >> you went to private school. >> that's correct. it kind of made me feel that i had better do pretty goal in that school or else. >> i will confront the union losses when we return. why can't other people have the choice they had? also, why does it cost a third of a million dollars to fire just one union teacher? what is wrong with these people? whoa! nobody insures more bikes than progressive. do you guys ride? well... no. sometimes, yeah. yes. well, if you know anybody else who also rides, send them here -- we got great coverage. it's not like bikers love their bikes more than life itself. i doubt anyone will even notice. leading the pack in motorcycle insurance. now, that's progressive. call or click today. aarrggh! living with the pain of moderate to severe r

>> i will confront the unions about that and other strange things a union bosses says like we shouldn't judge teachers by how well students do on tests. >> how do you know they are learning anything? >> i know my kids are learning when i look in their eyes. >> what? >> more stupid in america when we return. [ gans ] [ marge ] psst. constipated? phillipscaplets use magnesiu an ingredient that rks more naturally with your colon than stulant laxatives, phillipscaplets use magnesiu for effective relie of constation without cramps. thanks. good morning, students. today we're gonna continue... [ man ] whenen i went to get my first new car, my dad said to get a subaru because they last. ♪ he drives a legacy, but i'm nothing like him. i got the new impreza. maybe i should have picked a different color... [ male announcer ] the all-new subaru impreza. experience love that last ♪ droid does. and does it launch apps by voice while learning your voice ? launch cab4me. droid does. keep left at the fork. does it do turn-by-turn navigation ? droid does. with verizon, america's largest 4glte network an

it wasn't major. >> as you assess the election and think about the role of the union's labor union will play in mobilizing voters you talked about union workers and now you're looking at nonunion as well. is there an enthusiasm problem with the base, with people that not only are union workers but then i assume ya'll target people that are more swing voters as you look at nonunion? >> we will tend to work on that. we have 182 days from today. >> why do you think that still exists? >> i think that exists with anybody. any candidate. you still have to remind them of what's there and who you're running against so there's some. we'll come back to it and work on it and some we probably won't get and there's others we didn't get last time and we'll come out and vote. our members are pretty smart and savvy. they'll look at both candidates and say this guy, stands for this. this guy stands for that. who's the best for me and my family and when you look at those facts obama wins hands down for working people. >> mitt romney said in a speech he was asking the public are you better off than years

except in unions. >> bob: that is wrong about the unions, first.that was the case, all teachers who are good ones should be making six figures. >> eric: i agree with that. >> bob: fine. tell republicans to stop cutting money from teachers. >> greg: an important point, kimberly was a teacher and taught high school students. >> kimberly: yes. >> greg: there was never an absentee, was there? >> kimberly: they moved me from teaching the seniors to the kindergarten since i was 21. >> greg: can you manual? you'd show up every day. >> kimberly: it was perfect attendance. >> andrea: awards for everybody. >> greg: that is a sexist statement but a true statement. >> andrea: you're calling him out? >> bob: i'm not calling him out. >> kimberly: education america, people. substitute teacher coming your way. coming up, president obama blames republicans for the debt problem and says he is the one to fix it. >> greg: it takes a -- >> it takes a democrat to fix it after they have run up the tab. >> kimberly: who is the real big spender? we'll get to the numbers wh

we need to contain the soviet union. this is a dramatic shift in u.s. foreign policy, containment. if stalin is trying to infiltrate this area or this country, we must be there. stop them, thwart them. hold them back, contain their expansion. this is what kennen is advising. and so the days of cooperation are gone. the days of containment are here. this is going to mean that the united states is going to have a dramatic shift in foreign policy that largely lasts up to this day where we are going to become sort of the big brother to the world. we are going to be involved in other countries around the world. the days of isolationism are gone now. how does containment play itself out? well, 1947 is a big year for the cold war. harry truman is now going to start to describe for the american people and for the world what containment actually means. there's trouble in greece and turkey. after world war ii, both greece and turkey are struggling financially. politically. there's rebellions. there's insurrections in these twos co

government protesters are faced with tear gas at home the regime is planning an economic military union with saudi arabia iran organized demonstrations against the two teaming up. to annex the region. and the syrian regime says al qaeda militants. in the country damascus releases the names of foreign terrorists it claims are in custody while washington denies recent reports that is coordinating deliveries to the. future of the eurozone being held up in question. discussing exactly what is next for the troubled bloc. please. please. please take a. story. below and welcome to crossfire guide peter lavelle germany and the future of europe and the euro zone a currency regime conceived in hubris now is collapsing in ruins can germany maintain its leading role in europe as one country after another experiences economic austerity and political turbulence and one of the cases for financial justice and democracy when berlin reserves the right to call the shots. came. to cross-talk year old turmoil i'm joined by early brook nor in berlin he is a member of the e.u. expert service team europe and a

minus a critical union it's not capable of dealing with the kinds of huge external shocks the demands the experience and see late two thousand and the because the diagnosis is wrong the patient keeps getting the wrong medicine and as for the cost to the german pound spare that there hasn't really been a cost germany is actually benefited substantially from the european monetary union it's effectively entrenched its position ok marsh you got to help me because it's exactly what i wanted to say to georgia maybe the german position is been very positive for the german economy and for the german people so i mean that's why they continue down this path but as everyone on this program knows everything is interconnected eventually even the sense of democracy in the european union i think the main thing to remember is that we're facing elections in greece on the seventeenth of june at the latest and the government may be returned. breaks with yourselves he package giving germany and the troika the excuse to cut off money if that happens when no longer talking about medium term austerity or gr

they're not about to return to the union. president lincoln issues the final emancipation proclamation for suppressing said rebellion. i want you to pay close attention, he does not pretend this is a moral or humanitarian document. it is a practical war measure. a fit and necessary war measure for accomplishing the paramonth objective of the war which is to preserve the union. he declared forever free all persons held as slaves in the ten states that were at war with the united states for their independence. and the five slave holding states that received him as president, it did not apply because congress did not give the authority to president lincoln to seize property and declare free slaves in states that were loyal to the union. only in states in rebellion. states that had to be brought back to the union but the army needs help. in the emancipation proclamation, that's where lincoln asks to receive all men of african descent into the armed services. and though it says persons, but it's men of african descent. the emancip

a union boss. that already sounds like a mafia boss already, doesn't it, and i think that unions are really all that stands between workers and just tremendous, tremendous levels of exploitation. i don't really understand why so many americans bought into the idea that the union is their enemy. i mean, that was the big thing going on in wisconsin where significant numbers of wisconsinites really believes the problem with the school and their economy was that teachers were making too much money. i mean, can you believe that? teachers are making too much money? they should pay teachers double. it is a hard job. it is a lot harder than being a politician, for example, and as in a previous session it was discussed they're paid pretty well. so i don't really understand why it is that people buy into this antiunion thing. it is as if everyone in their head thinks they're a potential millionaire and the think that's holding them back is they have to join a union. that's not the way it is. >> if governor w

generals union generals except for dan sickles, the union generals are team players. they support and follow his orders even though he had been given command. ordered by lincoln to take command of the army army of the atomic three days before the battle. none of the generals, even hancock does not want that army. it becomes a career killer and i don't like sports analogies mixed with military affair because it's a very different war. i will use one. imagine a coach suddenly giving, he is told to take over an nfl team. three days before the team is playing in the super bowl against team that his eat it every time. in three days he turns the team around and wins one of the biggest wins in super bowl history. galligan, wary of the analogies, usually don't have mayhem on the foot i'll feel that what he did was astonishing. the morale wasn't terrible but they were leaderless. meade takes command on the 28th of june 3 days before the battle. he is woken up at 2:00 a.m. and he gets to headquarters and assumes command from poker. and doesn't even, he such a poor leader he has

it's all about the union until late 1862. so if you want to look at the beginning of the war and argue about multiple motivations, there's your evidence. that's what i want you looking at. remember, i don't care -- it's up to you to come to your own conclusions. i want to make sure you can defend it. if you want to argue that it was fundamentally slavery, look at those constitutions, but you're also going to have to tie in the fact that lincoln is willing to compromise on that issue of slavery in the beginning of the war. that union soldiers will go off to war in 1861 flat out saying there is no way they're abolitionists. they are fighting to preserve the union, period, end of story. you have to make sure you can get clear m your head the complexity of it all. when i was a kid some of the first historians i ever read was a guy named bruce catton. he once argued that in 1860 slavery wasn't the only issue that caused the war but was the one issue that americans not only couldn't compromise on, it was that they didn't want to an

he wanted to get rid of union rights in order to get rid of unions all together.re is no one funding the other side. there is no one funding democrats when business funds republicans. you get rid of union rights and game the whole state so democrats cannot compete in the big money part of elections ever again. pull that off and wisconsin didn't just go all red in 2010, wisconsin will be all republican all red from here on out permanently. democrats will never recover. don't take my word for it, take his. >> any chance we'll ever get to be a completely red state and work on these unions? >> oh, yeah. >> and become a right to work? what can we do to help you? >> we're going to start in a couple weeks with our budget. the first step is we're going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions because you divide and conquer. >> how did we become a completely red state? the first step is public employee unions and then divide and conquer. what scott walker calls it, divide and conquer. killing the union is the strategy for turning wisconsin red not

maryland leaves the union. if maryland joins the confess read the national capital is completely surrounded by an enemy nation so it is imperative to keep maryland in the union. what other reasons can you think of? why would you want to keep the border slave states in the union? >> strategic purposes during the war you want as much land as possible between you and then my and so if he loses that and pretty much right on the doorstep. >> it keeps more space, more of maybe a buffer zone and it keeps more people in the union rather than having to fight against them they stay with you. any other thoughts about why you want the slave states to stay in the june? ashley? >> it shows a mixture of the types of states that are in the union like if all of the slave sats succeeded and became part of the confederacy it is a real divide but if you keep the slave states in then it kind of shows that you're not really letting that happen. >> yeah. that way it is not just the free north. have you some slave states in the union

to try to bite her, to poison the union from within the union. the most famous arrest during the civil war was of a copper head politician named clement valandingham. today you read lincoln's letter and we'll talk about that in couple of minutes. i want to give you a little background to that letter. clement was a prominent democratic congressman from ohio. this is him on the left here. in 1862, he lost his seat in congress and so he returned to ohio and he decided that he wanted to run for the governorship. he was not the democrat's first choice. so he had to come up with a way to become their first choice. the plan that he had was to become a martyr. he believed that if he could get himself arrested, then he would become a hero to democrats throughout the north and he would then become their nominee and become elected governor of ohio. now, he got some help from an unlikely source. next to him here is a man named ambrose burnside. ambrose burnside was a politician who became a general. now, for those of you with si sideburns, your facial hair c

we want to talk to non-union workers are program will be geared toward educating and mobilize and union workers and non-union workers as well. we are all in this together, all the workers, whether they are represented by a union or not. the type of economy we have sealed last several years hurts all workers. it is time for us to come together and we will put together a permanent campaign structure. in the past, we put our campaign structure in seven or eight months before the election day and after election day, we tore it down. this time, we will continue to build after election day and to outreach to partners and the civil-rights community and the latino community and bring people together. we will continue doing that in between elections. we should be able to move from electoral politics to advocacy and then from advocacy to accountability. we will be able to hold those politicians accountable, democrat or republican. >> how much do you plan to spend this election cycle? are you giving less directly to democrats? >> i am always fascinated with you guys and when you ask how much we wi

typical union attitude. what they don't realize is all these union companies are moving to the southeast, moving to other parts of the country to get away from that type of attitude to cut costs. whether they like it or not, the world is a customer now. going beyond the teachers, you can go to teachers in other parts of the country that would be just glad to have a job. this is the attitude of those people in wisconsin. i know them well. i used to go there every week. they think they are better than everybody. this is the same problem with all that northeast corridor. they have a right to this type of thing. all these liberals around the country, including obama, they think we have a right to an entitlement society. host: thank you. lots of people on the line, so let's move on to twitter. robert writes -- also, we have a few e-mails on this. let's take a look. bill in california writes -- bob in venice, florida -- those are his thoughts in venice, florida. next is a call from chicago. good morning, doris. ca

unions are not doing anything morally wrong .anagement is not doing anything morally wrong. >> and that is general motors and so please let me finish before you interrupt . the unions and the management have to work that out. they go to court and they work it out in a free market system and you would underwrite that. >> and that is a issue of whether or not it saves jobs. do you think that if they come to agreement, it is worth saving jobs verse us the destruction of two big american companis and brands. >> jillian is 100 percent wrong. there is nothing unhappy about a chocolate filled cream. >> yes, you want to save jobs and not the unions fault. you have scott boris as a super agent and 25 million for a baseball player. it is the management fault for being stupid . nothing wrong for the unions asking. there is nothing wrong with them asking. it is the politicians that are agree to saying that they know they can't fulfill and that is where it breaks down. and struggling states are plugging budget wholes. the federal government m

when the new hospital is built, will the union employees be offered union jobs in that new hospital? right now, local 39 is on strike and without a contract for the past 18 months. california campus nurses have been working without a contract for over five years. the campus has non-union employees and are paid more than their california campus counterparts. is there construction money from -- is the construction money coming from the backs of employees? this was confirmed by a cpmc spokeswoman in an article in the san francisco bay guardian. that is available online, entitled "cpmc strike linked to a new hospital." she was asked if the cost of the hospital was a factor in lowering wages. she said the primary issue is equity, but we have a $1 billion rebuild that we have to fund? yes. because of the way health care is going, we have to rebuild. basically, we ask that you ask the questions, the right questions, and receive the right answers. thank you. commissioner borden: thank you. >> commissioners, my name is lee. i am an owner -- a homeowner in san francisco at inner sunset. i am a

to unions. now only 15% do. labor historians say the turning point was when president reagan fired striking air traffic controllers in 1981. other notable failures the strike against greyhound in 1990 and last year's united auto workers strike against caterpillar and illinois. 12,000 striking workers returned without winning a single demand. >> unions and institutions are clearly weaker today than they were in the new dill period. that's a given. >> and the historian and labor organizer we talked to today say they fear conditions for workers will get worse with more and more populations converting full time jobs to part time jobs. >>> when we come back on a second look, john steinbeck wrote about farm workers. the reality in salinas was more violent. >>> the salinas valley is a mostly peaceful and pastoral place. but that was not always so. we take a look back in this year 2000. >> reporter: in the 1930s, california farm workers began to demand better working conditions, wages were low and they

and the relationship with the soviet union. we are going drop the bomb to send you a signal that there is a new sheriff in town. roosevelt is dead and cooperation is dead. harry truman will have a completely different foreign policy objective. the so-called expert on all things soviet and all things sallin. george probably knew more about the history and the current status than anybody else. he came to truman with a couple of themes, if you will. he said first, there can never be permanent or lasting peace. we are simply two different countries. don't even try. roosevelt tried and he was saying we are simply too different. the second thing was that stalin is determined to undermine and overthrow free and democratic countries around the world. if you thought hitler was determined to take over the world, joseph stalin is. he will use every opportunity he can to spread communist around the world. therefore, what he was saying was a change in foreign policy. he will recommend the united states not cooperate, but we need to contain.

it's a proud union state. a lot of proud, solid union work force in michigan. just this past summer, the state ledge slay church, in majority with the governor concurring and signing, signed into law a prohibition against the mandatory requirement of p.l.a.'s in government contracts. mr. walberg: the state of michigan work their 10th amendment responsibilities, did that. now unlike what took place with the paths administration as the gentleman from arizona correctly pointed out, under the bush administration, the federal appellate court ruled in favor of doing away with the mandate and leaving neutrality there. that's all the provision of this section, 517, does is simply restore the neutrality. that's all we're asking. that when p.l.a.'s make sense, and ultimately bring about a better project and outcome, fine. but when they don't, for whatever reason that is, there should be no mandate and there ought to be the opportunity within these contracts, within a state like michigan, to make a decision to not go with a p.l.a. if that's the best outcome result. again,

and what didn't exist, of course the union army could improve upon and build more roads. but suitable campment ground, naturally defensible as sherman described it. it was cut up. the topographical relief that will encompass the area the union forces occupied, which becomes the battlefield of shiloh has a maximum elevation relief of 230 feet. the average is 50 to 80 feet with sloping grades of 40 to 70% on the creeks and tributaries that cut up the plateau. so it's a rugged landscape. and with only 25 acres under cultivation, the area was covered in an old growth open forest, which would be a huge canopy. this was old growth forest. most americans today have never encountered what was the deciduous old growth forest here in the eastern united states. but if you can imagine, most of the trees be in excess of 100 years old to 200 years old. that's what covered the landscape. you would have the marshy zones and the creek valleys, which would be choked with denser vegetation. so in general, an old growth open forest, high canopy with a reduced understory on the plateau. the a