are government-sector unions, not public-sector unions. they are government-sector unions. they have had this incredibly corrupt relationship, been in bed with the democrats for decades. what scott walker did was slam a padlock on the door of the candy store at which both sides have been gorging for decades. of course, the unions went bananas. but the taxpayer said, finally, we have somebody in office, precking us and our interests. the american taxpayers -- we are going to see it nationwide. >> sean: i agree. david limbaugh, you wrote the encyclopedic book this week on barack obama. talk about the relationships that he has, when you go back in his background and social justice and a.c.o.r.n. -- is it all intertwined here? >> the class struggle. he wants to pit labor against business, the stroy -- the great destroyer is the book. i would like to merge their ideas? >> you want to take their seats and redistribute it. >> everybody will be on the top row. if we can do that next time, but i want to merge their ideas that has to do with the tri

private sector union. my dad was a construction worker, not a racist. voted for richard nixon. public sector unions are never going to move to republicans never. they may not matter but they will never move -- >> i totally disagree. i never met a democratic policeman or fireman never in my life. >> they keep putting jerry brown in office and guys like that. >> adam, a final point here. >> i'm from chicago where are there are are plenty of democratic firemen and policemen. we can't have it both ways here. either they are on death's door or they are the most powerful interest group in america. i don't think either one is true and i don't think one election is going to be a referendum on union power. >> neil: i find it interesting, adam. a little more than a month ago a lot of prominent democrats were saying this was a crucial battleground and then when they started seeing the polls it isn't that important, really not that big of a deal. you have to admit. that is what i do. i say well, this wasn't important.

the european union. that was sort of to the west that we did something similar like that to the east where the moment really pulled is the way quite nervous about germany and russia for example one project in the east would be to have hypo high power voltage lines connecting russia to western europe and have common institutions of poland then you have a growth area and if you have a new approach to the economy then you have a growth there is was germans are concerned how far they're willing to go i believe germans very much want to see what the benefit they have to be we need we benefit for free trade we benefit from human rights we do benefit from the american democracy was all imposed on us we didn't become democracies we were made democrats we only example in history maybe japan i can think of where it actually works. that's a different program but this is so so we're very happy to have it i think we'll pay for it that's fine. but i'm a nobody really doubts about the leading role of germany as a super

today is a union day. the reason has to do today's subject, that is the war ships from the limited war to a hard war. once the war does that, it really does start to affect the two societies quite differently. so today, like i say, i want to look at what shift a hard war meant for the union. i want to think about why the happened. what i would like you to be asking yourself, though, is did a shift of hard war, and we'll talk about what that meant, revolution. it starts as a limited war, do we have an actual revolution by 1862? if we do, how and when and why did that happen? for whom, and what difference did that make to the way that the war played out? so those are our big questions for today. i want us to start by doing historians' favorite thing to do, that is take something you think you know, something that is familiar, and make it strange all over again. i passed out the lyrics to the battle hymn of the republic, which you have known since grade school and you probably can't listen to without hearing

by the union soldiers? >> that varies a lot. and the way -- and this is a tricky -- this is a tricky question. in that you know, some of these camps called contraband camps are without question, sites of humanitarian crisis, and there's no way to sugar coat that. mortality rates in a place like we haven't gone to vicksburg yet because it hasn't fallen, but there will be a big one in vicksburg. the mortality rates there are so astonishing that one aide worker said if you wanted to kill slaves, you couldn't have found a better way. they're dreadful. how do we think about that? are these camps -- are the places where union soldiers and slaves come into contact sort of, you know, wonderful sites of refuge? no, but they're not outright, kind of a way to kill off the population. here is how i see it, when did the red cross come into existence? the u.s. isn't part of it until much later. the army is not a humanitarian organization and there's not world precedence yet. i have been thinking about this question a lot

monday union the main thing that is a political union has in its editions and it's run. if i may say it's run by twenty seven governments which together and. decide all together that's not i know that is not the united states of here is it yet last night you know it went to several governments have signed the treaty for sort of diety and cohesion both are very important not just a little bit but have also tried to be coherent with the rest of you'll try the whole show that i want out of a crisis when you're trying trying to talk oh here. well i think you will come back where we started i mean it has to have a crisis you know to come to a higher conviction of institutions to be a selfless. how do you do that well. you know no no i'm not trying to be facetious here ok because when you look at the united states had to fight a terrible awful civil war after being established for almost a century what ninety years ok we don't have a lot of time here now and the problems of people are very well aware of lawyer but i think we have the but also of course as in germany when we lo

unions. union membership has seen a steady decline private unions have been hit particularly hard while public-sector unions have seen some growth. now my point. it can serve as a wake-up call for the american labor union and the democratic party. on the show we often lament on the decline of the middle class. that is directly related to the loss of union membership. fewer union members means less benefits, less salaries for american workers, period. the question we now face is how does the labor movement move forward especially after last night. what does a 21st century labor movement look like? maybe we need more union members with more bargaining power for every day people instead of less of both. maybe unions can think differently, too. more aggressively, more progressively about what they can offer an employer in exchange for the wages and membership they're seeking. in fact, unions can be the the premiere resource for the most highly skilled workers in the world. our competition are fro

that's people living in union households whoa were not part of the union. >> cenk: if i'm an union dad mom everybody in its the house gets to vote their way but i would make a case. you're either with us and you're for putting food on this table that we're on, or you're against us, and they didn't do it. how could you unions not old 38% of their own households. >> it's more than 38% of their own households. the fact of the matter is the people of the union members overwhelmingly went for barrett. your thesis question was are unions dead? is this a devastating blow to unions. it is not a devastating blow, but it is a blow to unions. they have to rethink the way they do things. unlike in indiana where it was much worse where they made it a right-to-work state where mitch daniels put it through the house and legislature there, that was really bad for unions. this is a wake-up call. >> cenk: this is symbolic and sends the message loud and clear. you can do whatever you want, you just get koch money this was their waterloo. i'm going to pick up that debatearity on in the show. i'll bring in

this is before the union tripping law. here is that same union's membership today. we don't have the stats on all public unions but what we have looks the same. this is the american fed ration of teachers before the tripping law went into effect and this is the membership now. a year after scott walker's law took effect. that's what they have been able to do in a year. now because they could not stop the implementing of this law, the democratic side in the wisconsin recall effort doesn't have the means to compete politically that they usually have the unions play a political role to the extent that unions are going away, they can play less of a political role. it's a big reason why the republican side has had a spending advantage that's reached at times 25 to 1. $25 on the republican side for every single dollar on the democratic side. this recall election on tuesday is really close. democrats might yet pull it off. they say that the ground game is key. who used to be best at the ground game? unions. killing off the unions is what republicans want to do in every sta

who sounded western union. western union, as the name implies, was a sort of combine a small, telegraph lines that were in the midwest between new york, ohio, and michigan. if there was to be 10, one central figure, was hiram sibley. he really did two things. he was able to convince a number of merchants and capitalist people in what seemed to be failed inventions. the telegraph corporation almost never was making money. he convinces these rochester, new york buddies from the man who helped him when he was a poor boy, he had been helped by these wealthy merchants and they're very skeptical. he convinces them to put a lot of money into the corporation that became known as western union, which he was then -- he would use the capital to buy out the number of companies. the second key insight or key innovation besides a certain amount of capital. like all the capital that is raised, at one point in time -- the other two innovations of sibley's was he figured out a way to get a monopoly in a political economy in whi

alone and well human cost time to put on the euro crisis the never ending tragedy of the european union where to the problems come from and just anyone have any solutions. and you can. start. to discuss this i'm joined by a gusto carlos lopez he is director for the global indicators and analysis department of the world bank also we have just kept our chalk he is an economist and we have tom conway he's principal at to teach reinsurance consultants international ok jeff if i could go to you first. when you when we look at the euro crisis today there's been much thought put into what could go wrong because it seems to me that we have nineteen emergency meetings nineteen. and everybody keeps looking over the cliff and we keep hearing a solution is in sight and then we have another emergency meeting when told it went so wrong. i think there are. two factors that have to play that one is political and the other one is economic the political one is that i think we have to keep in mind that democracy is a very slow process by stuff a nation and european union is is maybe to a democratic force

that the union forces have not yet tap tapped. in 1862 into 1863 is the year, is the time in which this pool will be tapped and here is another indication, i think we have, that we've got -- we don't have limited war, we have a harder war, a deeper change than any one had anticipated. that is, tapping the pool of black soldiers available to the union. black men had attempted to enlist in the union army from the outset in 1861, we read alfred green's speech in philadelphia last week. alfred green is a prominent black philadelphians assumes that the black men will be enlisting and gives a speech. so imagine his surprise and everybody he talked to that day when at first the union army does not take black soldiers. at least not officially. there are a couple of ways, some individual isolated cases of black individuals who do enlist in white units and fight. you guys read -- you remember cyrus boyd was an iowa soldier and i had you read his account of shiloh. it sort of woke him up to what war is about. there was a soldier named thomas

thoroughly unionized.uest: right there's been a lot of discussion about that and i think a number of northern european unions it's true they're more unionized but they work more in conjunction cooperatively with employers and in the united states there's antagonism between unions and business. and collective bargaining and ad ver sarl relationship that hasn't been productive. host: debra? sin si in the the? caller: i'm sitting here with nickels and in timdimes in my h. while your of having this conversation. large citizens numbers snd hours to a dictatorship. how can you sit there and say people don't have the right to bargain? we have the right, but people want to take that right away and make it illegal. i mean - you talked about the people striking for against the transportation workers or striking and what reports would you have them do? is if they're unhappy or feel they're being treated unfairly? host: question for chris edwards? guest: workers have the right to move to companies that respect their c

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any union coming after this proclamation is going to be a union without slavery and the union had slavery in 1861. remember lincoln's early political fame grew from a speech in which he said the united states could not entour half is slave or half free. the emancipation proclamation clearly points to which way. finally the union army would enforce the emancipation proclamation. and this one does matter a lot, i think. it made the union in effect what so many of its members were trying to be for some time, and that is a blujon against slavery where ever it went. it's not the magic bullet that did away with the dins tuition of slavery, but also not as a worthless gesture. i think the best way to think about it really is as one step, one important step and a very long and clikted process of destroying what was a very powerful institution. no single document could do it in one fell swoop. this one helped. it didn't do all of it. that's what i think. it's one of the things we talked about on friday what do you guys think and i expect robust disagreement with me on that score. don't disappoint

you don't have to join a union. guess what the unions did? membership went way down.to 28,000 from 62,000. the teachers union shrunk 7,000 as l. he gave them the choice and you know what they chose? >> they left. >> nonunion. >> sean: two things i have been saying that i am taking out of this election here. will this send a message to reform governors that the public will have your support and as somebody who want this is country to get on a sound fiscal path, i want to know if the public is now serious and understands the magnitude of deficit spending? tonight, i think will tell a lot. >> states are going bust because they cannot afford to pay the union imposed pensions of the state worker unions. scott walker reversed that tain the state of wisconsin. that sends a message across america. what is happening all over the country is younger workers are being laid off in order to pay the pensions of retirees. that is not popular. service is cut, young people out of work, it's blamed on the union pension demands. scott walker reversed that. that sends a message across the

unions are big money. five of the top ten political spenders over the years are labor unions. but government unions, specifically, are these very politically connected groups that give lots of money and get paid i think something like the average compensation is over $40 an hour compared to the private sector, where it is about $28. so these government unions are special interest. so the democrats can pretend to be fighting against special interests, but not when they are on the same side of the government union. >>> well listen, there is a real crisis in the state and local governments today, which is they are -- their revenues are down dramatically and they cannot reduce their costs in part because a lot of these public service unions have compensation way in excess of the private sector, in terms of pension and his in terms of hourly pay. it is $1414 çan hour higher on average for the public sector union than for the private sector union. you have the sense of things that private citizens are working for the government rather than the government working for the public. the

these are all good union in then it to keep people in fear. but we all have seen people marching on the streets mistrust. and i have seen those people getting paid for doing that not only so you look at the time i was deputy speaker's office to duma the people's union speech to russian mortgage it is i was standing on the platform and i saw foreign correspondents who asked a group of young people facing them not even facing the platform you know would tell you go for you to claim this foreign correspondents who staged protests in moscow no no no i mean he just came across those young people to them it's like a russian with. this thing russia must have facets they can't comprehend that fascism is a very enticing russian ideology so i dressed those young people right from the platform i said what are you doing guy what are you going to do with the money you are discrediting the patriotic forces unfortunately will always have provocative. i'm convinced today more provocative force in one thousand nine hundred three when the president he also orde

well, join a union. big labor making a push to unionize the unemployed.y, you say this could actually keep people unemployed longer, how so. the great milton freeman, i'll quote him. therefore, much union activity is concerned with rationing the available jobs among job seekers and union members get higher pay because they allow fewer jobs to exist. that's what a cartel does and the whole idea here, by definition, it would not help jobs, okay? don't take it from me, take it from milty. >> jonas, do you agree or a different perspective on things? >> they're the anti-union employee and-- >> and that's such a-- >> another thing i want to say, look, in general, the one thing unemployed have going for them is their relative low cost compared to union labor and as the work of employers too hire somebody and part-time worker, it doesn't get hired and harder to hire, in fact, if there's an organization, and the unemployed were in a union they might get hired even faster. >> i'm going to take this and block that answer. >> part of the union idea, gary b, they'll b

lincoln came to the conclusion that the union war, his chief aim to preserve the union ultimately meant that he had to abolish slavery. that the abolitionists' discreet aim of a war to end slavery really converged with lincoln's chief aim which was a war to preserve the union. you can't have one without the other. in order to preserve the union you have to end slavery. in order to end slavery you have to preserve the union. because you need blacks on your side to preserve the union. and we'll elaborate on that today and especially next week. but douglass made that very clear. was there another question? now, to go back to lincoln's inaugural address, now, what you might not know is lincoln had actually drafted it. that he labored over, and when he arrives in washington, he circulates the draft to some advisers. and -- and in the draft that he circulates, he opposes efforts to amend the constitution. in his draft, he says i'm for the old -- he opposes -- in his draft he knew congress was debating this new 13th amendment. they hadn't passed it. he vows to reclaim the federal forts that ha

so you get western union seeking privacy and western union payment standards in the telegraph should do the same bystanders in the post office. so the government is not necessarily the best guardian of privacy of the citizenry and i think it is a lesson we can take from the history of the 187 days in the 1880s. >> host: desanto borst i read from his invention? >> samuel morris died rich because samuel morse, a business manager hired the good sense to invest in western union and that is what saved sammy morris, even the western union was in effect the great rival. and the irony is even richer because western union saw the value asserted a poster child for the new type apology and they're actually behind the statue from the still standing in central park. one of the first erected to a living american. morris is still alive and by linking him with western union, and they created this historic mythology that's really falls to the history, but it is one that cuts to associate a corporation, which had a rather low regard of the heroic adventurer who had a high regard today. so yes, by inve

you need blacks on your side to preserve the union. we'll elaborate on that today and especially next week. but douglass made that very clear. was there another question? now to go back to lincoln's inaugural address, now what you might not know is lincoln drafted it. he labored over and when he arrives in washington he circulates the draft to some d advisers. and -- and in the draft he circulates, he opposes congressional efforts to amend the constitution. and in his draft he says i'm for the old ship. in his draft he knew the congress was debating this new 13th amendment. they haven't they hadn't passed it. he vows to reclaim the federal forces captured rather than simply preserve those that remain in federal hands. and then his draft, it's a much firmer ending. his draft ends by saying with you and not with me is the solemn question. shall it be peace or the sword? your choice. he circulates this draft to william stewart in particular who thinks it is way too strong. plus some other republican advisers, orville browning, frances bla

between 73 and now, we've gone from 34% unionization to 8% unionization.e same exact time we've had huge wage inequality. there have been places after places after places where when you don't have people having the right to have some way of bargaining their wages, you see wages in the middle class going down. that is what the union movement is about. they're not, it's not an independent entity. and so, if we're talking about the united states and growing a middle class. we need to actually have workers have a voice. >> can i just say, can i just say one thing? just empirically in terms of the data, you cannot look at the data about the american political economy and conclude anything but that unions are on the decline, median wages have stagnated. inequality have gone up. corporate profits have gone up. those are the facts on the table. whether you think the balance is still out of skew with 8% union density and stagnating median wages, you can make that argument. but you cannot make an argument that unions have been in assent or that corporate wages have

it was a union victory. it was critical for trying to keep missouri in the union and a typical parks service fashion, we did a lot of telling who shot who, when, where, how so forth, but there are a lot of oth interesting stories as well. about 16,000 on the confederate side. about 10,000 on the union side and the union won the battle, which is usual at that time. usually, when they were outnumbered, they didn't win. but that's the military story. the other story is that there were about 1,000 cherokee indians fighting for the confederacy and many of the cherokee leaders were save holders. they had a lot more in common with the confederacy than they did with the union and so ths a story that we hasn't told before, but now, we're telling and we've consulted with the cherokee nation in developing that story. the other story was that about half of the union soldiers were german. >> german immigrants. but there's another story that has nothing to do with the battle, the trail of tears on which the cherokees were

unions.heir demands for a livable wage and accessible fiber exits have gutted our economy. ( laughter ) thankfully, public service unions have been taking a beating. first they, lost collective bargaining rights in wisconsin. then voters in both san diego and san jose cut workers' retirement benefits. indiana made it illegal for unions to mandate duse for workers and voters in oz gutted benefits for the lollipop guild. why am i paying for their diabetes medicine. one union scored a major victory and that brins us to tonight's word-- free lunch. folks, despite the national trend against public unions, some people just don't get it. take these greedy school cafeteria worker workers in pennsylvania. >> union ides workers in the school district have won the right to eat leftovers ueven when the food is expired. the union filed a grievance for the right to eat expired cafeteria food for free. >> stephen: these unionized, lunch lady thugs, now have the right to free expired cafeteria food. and give

in this case the common end is the maintenance of the union. the emancipation of slaves, he added, stands, quote, among the means to secure that end. this is after he's been re-elected in 1864, that he's still highlighting union rather than emancipation. the military story also tells us the confederate armies could take away what the union arms had brought. slaves who had been freed by the presence of united states armies could lose that freedom of confederate areas came into the area, during the 1862 campaign we know stonewall jackson captured harper's ferry, where hundreds of contrabands gathered after escaping their owners. many noted jackson's force recovered escaped slaves as well as capturing more united states soldiers, then surrendered again until the fall of the philippines in world war ii. a diarist quoted quite a victory at harper's ferry, several thousand taken prisoner and several hundred contrabands. another woman in fairfax county which had been occupied by union soldiers for much of the war derived special comfort from jackson's

from breaking up the soviet union toured. it as a leader. but. many would disagree they see this split up of the u.s.s.r. as hiltons way of ascending to power he is and of then it is of other republics. that is what the belive as accords were worth but by then he also and had exhausted his options for ousting poor but taking his office following the coup of all this one thousand nine hundred on ukraine openly defied a yeltsin and other republics ditched him not russia but yet since the government has prompted him to cling on to russia he is the only fiefdom availabilities what road did the declaration of sovereignty eventually play in russia's transform ation in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine to one of. which is good no single event should be evaluated separately from its context at the units appear in mind at the declaration but it was russia's response to national soaring to declarations by the baltic republics armenia moldova and so on it. was the russian parliament tyrian so we are seeing we have some rights to you know how come it's j

for the european union. european union is already russia's biggest commercial partner accounting for around fifty percent of all russian trade it's also the biggest source of foreign direct investment you putin is the biggest client of the most important exports from russia i mean energy and russia is the bureau accession opens additional produce for trade and for the development of our economic relations we believe this can be very important for the future of office you probably know as vision is now in a phase of full implementation and i'm happy to say that president putin sees it as a priority russia using the gauge in a very important process and we are very proud to be partners of russia in that regard building a partnership between all societies means also and having closer relationship between our peoples this is why visa issue and mobility issues are so important we are now engaged in the implementation of the common steps towards the three drivel that we have launched last i mean. we will come to s

. >> "union rags" at the gun. pacer, "union rags" fighting for the rails. "union rags" has got him. "union rags" in the belmont stakes. >> "union rags" wins the belmont. he atones today. >> it was just the fact that a mile and a half is an unknown distance. if we are going to get there, we will not get there. he rider andh t the course being as game as he was, they got the job done. >> bodiemeister finished second at the preakness. >> our coverage continues at pimlico. >> today was the day that everyone thought wfive "i'll have another" would make him a triple crown winner. that did not dampen the spirits of those who came out. >> "union rags" in the belmont street. >> it was "union rags" that took home the trophy. >> of sort of finish, exciting. >> it was exciting but to? "i'll have another" could not raise. that was a disappointment. >> that feeling was clear saturday. this was not the party it was supposed to be. many tables were empty. "i'll have another" hats left untouched. a lot of people did not show up after the announcement friday that "i'll have another" was pulling out o