in the union for over 30 years, worked in the same place that had a union and had no union. roughly 125 with union. we were a service andegotiated our contracts as the years went on, management started to try to use the new workers against the union. they would try to give them a certain amount and union people had our contracts. people started to find out the union was better to bn and these people were being controlled by management. management does not want to give you more than they have to. once you are in it and you make your own deal, you are in your own deal. they started the fight and they wanted to get in the union with people who were not in the union. i don't understand what this court case is about. i don't want to pay dues, but i was getting something from it. what about that idea of getting something from it? guest: that is the choice factor. if you want to be a member and want to bargaining, that should be your right. say no and sayo i do not want to be part of that and i would rather do it myself. that is what this country has been, the principle of this cou

i'm a new death union member in new jersey. enjoying my and union retirement. i got all my benefits and him sitting back and enjoying what i paid into it. i'm glad i paid into it. i had a relative who did not want unions and now they are on fixed income. i thank my union, my brothers have a blessed day. host: not only actively as a worker is as effect, but retirement as well. guest: it does come into play. i will be very honest and candid. being a union member and working for the state has afforded me the opportunity to put my older children through college. it's afforded me to be able to take a family trip. it's afforded me the opportunity to develop a pension fund. so i can have some dignity and retirement. unions do advocate for those things and rightfully so. the workforce is second to none. so this is something this work for -- this is work for and earned. retired members approximately 3400 local unions with 58 councils and affiliates dcn0 states including puerto rico. -- d.c. and puerto rico. caller: the guest says their activities are political, but then

in the union for over 30 years, worked in the same place that had a union and had no union.oughly 125 with union. we were a service andegotiated our contracts as the years went on, management started to try to use the new workers against the union. they would try to give them a certain amount and union people had our contracts. people started to find out the union was better to bn and these people were being controlled by management. management does not want to give you more than they have to. once you are in it and you make your own deal, you are in your own deal. they started the fight and they wanted to get in the union with people who were not in the union. i don't understand what this court case is about. i don't want to pay dues, but i was getting something from it. what about that idea of getting something from it? guest: that is the choice factor. if you want to be a member and want to bargaining, that should be your right. say no and sayo i do not want to be part of that and i would rather do it myself. that is what this country has been, the principle of this count

guest: unions support candidates which support unions, which support the right of the unions to speak collectively. nothing political about members of society calling 911 and expecting their call to be answered. there is nothing political about that. what is political is when you try to stifle my voice to be able to advocate for those in the community. if you want to ask stephen questions, call in on the lines. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents, (202) 748-8002. thoughts,eet us your @cspanwj. part of the brief filed by mr. advocacyds mandatory groups that individuals are forced to subsidize will have political influence far exceeding citizens' actual support for these groups and their agendas. we need to lay out the battlefield. no one that comes into state government is forced to join a union. if i decide to join a union but don't want to get involved in the political aspect the union engages in, i do not volunteer to give that portion. anyone that does not want to be involved in the union's political activities does not have to. the union still advo

guest: unions support candidates which support unions, which support the right of the unions to speak collectively. nothing political about members of society calling 911 and expecting their call to be answered. there is nothing political about that. what is political is when you try to stifle my voice to be able to advocate for those in the community. if you want to ask stephen questions, call in on the lines. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents, (202) 748-8002. thoughts,eet us your @cspanwj. part of the brief filed by mr. advocacyds mandatory groups that individuals are forced to subsidize will have political influence far exceeding citizens' actual support for these groups and their agendas. we need to lay out the battlefield. no one that comes into state government is forced to join a union. if i decide to join a union but don't want to get involved in the political aspect the union engages in, i do not volunteer to give that portion. anyone that does not want to be involved in the union's political activities does not have to. the union still advo

to stay in a customs union.ay chief eu negotiator michel barnier responded by saying that barriers to goods and services are not affordable. he added that the time has come to make a choice. it is still not clear if the uk will stay in the single market or that customs union in any transition period. a leaked draft of the withdrawal agreement suggested uk's access to the single market would be restricted during the transition phaseif restricted during the transition phase if there is a dispute after brexit. brexit secretary david davis accused the eu of using discourteous language in the document and brexiteers claimed that continued membership of the customs union and single market would render britain a vassal state. remainers and some business groups have called for urgent government action to address uncertainty with the british chambers of commerce this week. that their patience is wearing thin. we are joined their patience is wearing thin. we arejoined now from their patience is wearing thin. we are joined

what kind of customs union do you want?toms arrangement at the moment are hard—wired customs arrangement at the moment are ha rd—wired into customs arrangement at the moment are hard—wired into the treaty. everybody will recognise has to be a new treaty. it will do the work of the customs union. it is a customs union, it is what the various amendment saying, there will have to bea amendment saying, there will have to be a new agreement, but will it do the work of the current customs union? yes, that is the intention. so under your plan, after we leave the eu, who will be in charge of foreign trade arrangements for britain? that will have to be negotiated, we will have to have a say. the real point, we all want trade agreements, we are more likely to get them if we do itjointly with that you, than on our own. and all the evidence suggests more likely if we do it with the eu. the cost—benefit analysis of coming out of the customs union and having a new trade agreementjust isn't... you have got liam fox in a minute, you could

eventually, the union army came back. the union army watched over matilda. when they were going to be pulling out again, they told her, we are leaving and you should go with us. she packed up what she could, thinking she was, and she was, she was leaving the next day. it so happened that jonas came in with a message to deliver to the officer in charge. he was able to leave with his family. when the family left in october of 1862, they took what they could and left. they found a home in missouri. then they found a home -- actually, they traveled through the isthmus of panama to california looking for a home. while they were there, abraham lincoln was assassinated. they decided that california was not the place for them. they came back, tried once to come back after the war to fayetteville. it was too changed. the people were changed and living was hard. it had been like a cultural center almost on the edge of the united states of america, just before indian and wild west territory. it was not that anymore. they did not feel good feelings to stay in fayettevil

the customs unions will lead toa union.will lead to a hard border between ireland and northern ireland, that has been an issue before. moreover, it will hamper the trade and transport of goods and it will take a big swing at the factories in england. it will hit the blue—collar workers that still work in factories. they are the ones that play and i think they‘re stupid, are they the ones to pay for these ideological choices? dan dalton, what was your response to hearing that language about the strategy and do you think the conservative government should keep some sort of customs union relationship on the table? no, i think there's a misunderstanding about the customs union because it is often portrayed as if staying in the customs union when leaving the eu is the status quo and it isn't. what it would mean is the day we left the eu but stayed in the customs union, we would lose trade access to all the countries the eu has done trade deals with around the re st of has done trade deals with around the rest of the world in add

i'm keeping my remarks specific to union square. this latter point is one in which we can all agree. the retail economy is changing. staff presented that today, and the real estate needs of retailers are changing as a result. we've analyzed the issues before and presented them to you. the presence of retailers on upper floors in union square is decreasing significantly, and vacancy is increasing. this is not just our opinion. this is reflected in the data. i would like to submit this data for the record today. given these changes, we urge the commission to take a flexible view of proposed non-retail uses on upper floors in union square. we submit that there may be circumstances under which the commission would agree that a non-retail use on the third or even the second floor may be appropriate. factors that could be considered in making such a decision just to summarize a few, could include the location of the building, how long the subject space has been vacant, the other existing uses in the building, the architecture and design o

union, of the our 1.7 million members in our union, there are about 87,000. very few in the small district, k-12 sphere. probably half of them. this is what we know will happen because we have already seen it. the koch brothers and others have announced they are going to spend $400 million. after they got that tax cut from president trump, they have up to to --rom $400 million their words, not mine -- to break us, to break teachers unions, and try to undermine and destabilize public schools. their words again. we think what they are going to do a big public campaign that says you want a raise? get rid of your union dues. so given that, you really do not actually know. we know they want to use it as a defunding of the union, to have people opt out, but this is what we are seeing. nea, this has actually been a pretty cathartic moment for us. i do not want this case. i think this case is brought by those ideological interests that want to destroy workers' ability to have a better life, which is what unions do. let me be clear, if we did not have this case, it wo

labour-saving want to joina customs union. labour-saving want to join a customs union.an? is it like turkey which has a customs union but only in but not agriculture? not in services, not in finance. is that what we want? will we ta ke finance. is that what we want? will we take rules in certain sectors but not others? liam fox also said the government would try and persuade all tory mps about the government was right as ishant before putting a trade bill before mps, which at the moment looks like it could be defeated if labour joined moment looks like it could be defeated if labourjoined tory rebels in calling for a new customs union. and ben is here now. what is the point of labour suggesting this when they are not in power, so how could the influence a customs union decision? if the tories were in power with a thumping commons majority think you are right, it wouldn't make a lot of difference. this would be political theatrics from the labour party, coming up with their alternative brexit position. but look at the commons arithmetic. since last summer the tories do n

union gets up to with its own customs union.world. —— free to negotiate. terrific situation if he pulls it off. he will have changed fundamentally what the eu is about. i wish him luck on that. on this programme i would have thought the whole country would sign up to it. we could have been saved all the boring brexit debate and referendum and all the rest of it. whether we can achieve this is of course another matter. mr blair at the height of its powers couldn't have spuna height of its powers couldn't have spun a better story. completely unrealistic? i think he will seriously go in and show the country that ever since he has been a parliament he and i have voted very sceptically against the eu for the very nature of the dog that we're dealing with. he is setting out, can the dog change its spots? he wants to show the country he will do it in good faith and say, oh, god am i happen right for the last 30 years, all the votes in parliament. they will not concede, they will not give us a ccess will not concede, they will not give

it's the same with the customs union.roposed by labour is that we will have an arrangement a bit like turkey, andorra, the smaller countries on the revelry of the eu that are not eu members but have done their own agreements with the eu. -- the done their own agreements with the eu. —— the smaller countries on the margin ali. with turkey, agriculture isn't included. the labour view is that the uk should negotiate a new customs arrangement with the eu on oui’ customs arrangement with the eu on our terms to reflect our priorities andi our terms to reflect our priorities and i think, since one of the main motivations in labour embracing this is to deal with the northern ireland border question, and some of the most heavily trafficked across the border is agricultural products, i imagine it would have to include agricultural products and this would have to be negotiated, but labour's view is that this is the only way to ensure you can have less friction on the board. there would still be some, because of the fact we wouldn't

and proclaimed he was going to liberate fayetteville for the union and all the union sympathizers could come out and he'd protect them and he wanted a union flag to put up on the town square. some people knew that jonas had a flag of the united states of america. they sent asbaugh to the house here, to the tebbetts home and jonas gave him a flag and he put it up on the town square. jonas also invited the general in to have dinner at his house and to make this house his headquarters, thinking general asbaugh would be here for a while. the general did come to the house, dined with the tebbetts and three days later he was called back up north, leaving the town again open to which ever army came through. the next army that came through was the southern army and general ben mccole you can from texas sent his -- ben mcculluck sent him to the door and knocked and said tebbetts was under arrest for being a traiter to the united states of america and he was taken to fort smith where he would be tried and hung as a trader for having a union flag and for supposedly not accepting confederate money,

visitation on the world's sixth largest economy leaving the neoliberal project that is the european union jeremy corbin supporting transitional membership of a trade union a stablished in one nine hundred fifty eight arguably confirms his opposition to the e.u. is always been about sovereignty and accountability. powers of come from. the european. commission to some extent the council of ministers these are quite serious matters joining me now is jeremy corbin's for the shadow fire and emergency services minister chris williams and chris thanks for coming back on just before we talk about the bricks and customs union initiatives or declarations in the past forty eight hours storms e the brit award winning grime artist what do you make of the fact that this petition has gone past the amount where they're going to have to debate in parliament grant felt our budget has a strength of failing and clearly the government have not covered themselves in glory at all the response has been woeful and there are i think something like a hundred families still in temporary accommodation and i really do

we have not heard from the union , what a d funded union looks defundedwhat a union looks like, but in terms of a power, i could have a real impact. host: what about political clout? caitlin: teachers are a stall wart of grassroots organizing and fundraising. what remains to be seen is how much this decision what impact the unions financially and in terms of membership. both of those combined couldn't -- could definitely dampen their political activity. teachers unions are much an interval part of politics in their -- integral part of politics and their communities. i spoke to a number of medical leaders this week who says they're ours so holding out hope that there is power in shared numbers. every school district has teachers unions, they have teachers that are some of the most engaged in the community. you cannot find a congressional district that does not have a teacher in it. it remains to see what the ultimate impact of the case will be. that could be diminished -- there the at the table when it comes -- the teachers's seat at the table in the political committee could be diminis

workers should be free to join unions and organize unions but they should also be free not to join unions not have their money taken away from them. >> paul: the argument is the workers should not be compelled to support speech that they don't support or causes that they don't support, and that is just as much a violation of the first amendment as saying you can't speak at all. >> right. so what many states are requiring is to subsidize, pay agency fee toss the union, -- fe union, regardless of whether they join the union. they are plight l call. political. wages, health benefits, those are matters of public debate, including merit pay for teachers. unions take positions at the bargaining table. these are issues that do implicate free speech. >> paul: dan? >> to alicia's point. unions have changed over the years. everyone out there probably says i know what unions do, they bargain to protect wages and workers' rights. why are the unionse unions favog comprehensive sex education, voteing rights for felons and things like that. i think the justices understood that over the last 45 years the

and the european union over those products then fizzling will have that coming right out. and why. a trip by airplane. seventeen thousand kilometers in six weeks. to months troops. are going to experience a. touching story. or this is our home as god's country or for listening to other better please sit down a single moment structurally starting from morning twenty seven. people at. a trade war is brewing between the e.u. and us reports the european union is preparing town took starts on american products for motorbikes but with. a u. turn to general motors it looks like the u.s. automaker could be staying in south korea after all. and cash strapped venezuela wants its own votes. currency to drum up funds the petro a stroke of genius or an act of desperation. i've been physical and let's do business a trade war is in the air and the e.u. is preparing for it authorities are getting ready to slap high tariffs on american products like whiskey orange juice and motorcycles if donald trump carries out his threats he'd imported steel with punitive measures u.s. secretary of commerce wilb

we think of unions differently. the progressives like to unions. the court was aware of union agitation. which is why the court in lochner refers to other motives. lacking health and safety reasons, but like the rest of the bill, we might suspect other motives were responsible for the passage of it. this was actually pro-union as opposed to management legislation. the court said the legislature is not supposed to put itself on the side of one of the other which is what paul was saying was going on. >> our guest said there is beginning to be a revisiting of lochner among libertarians. our clip is senator rand paul in 2013 on the senate floor talking about lochner. senator rand paul: the lochner case is an 1905. the majority rolls 5-4 that the right to make a contract is part of your due process. someone cannot deprive you of determining how long your working hours are without due process. so, president obama is a big opponent to this, that i would ask him among the other things i am asking him today to rethink the lochner case. the case in lochner i

labour say they want to join a customs union. what does that mean?in goods and not out there colter? not in services, not in finance? is that what we want to bring. will you take ruled in certain sectors but not others. liam fox also said the government would try to persuade all tory mps about the government's position before putting a trade bill before mps, which at the moment looks like it could be defeated will stop if labour joint looks like it could be defeated will stop if labourjoint tory rebels in calling for a new customs union. which is why the impact of labour propper policy should could be very significant. today a couple of the conservative mps who also not a customs union between the eu and the uk after brexit repeated that demand. so the cross party potential is there to blow the government's preferred plan out of the water, but a book could be a long way off and a lot could happen before then, including on friday what is billed asa including on friday what is billed as a very important speech by theresa may on brexit in which she's ex

part of any customs union.t has always been implicit, but mrs may has put it down in black and white, which has delighted them, because they want priority to be given to having the freedom to strike our own trade deals once we leave the eu. that was the point made by conservative mp kwasi kwa rteng made by conservative mp kwasi kwarteng this morning. what i would say about the customs union is that if we were members of that, it would inhibit our ability to strike deals with other countries, which is one of the benefits brexit. we can have more flexibility, and we can extend those trade deals and relationships across the world. so, i don't think that the risks, as you say, of leaving the customs union outweigh the potential benefits. leaving the customs union outweigh the potential benefitslj leaving the customs union outweigh the potential benefits. i am joined now by wes streeting, a prominent remain campaign. are we any further forward in terms of having a sense of what mrs may is seeking to negotiate? the p

we have not heard from the union what a defunded union looks like, but in terms of the power it could have a real impact. host: what about political clout? caitlin: teachers are a stall wart of grassroots organizing and fundraising. what remains to be seen is how much this decision what impact the unions financially and in terms of membership. both of those combined couldn't dampen their political activity. teachers are such an integral part of politics and the community, so it will be interesting to see what happens. i spoke to a number of local leaders this week ahead of the case, and they are still holding out hope that there is power in numbers. every single school district in the company has teachers that are some of the most engaged in the community. you cannot find a congressional district that does not have a teacher and it. we thank you both for being here. >> the winter meeting for the national governors association of a turn in a little while. with the future of jobs. while we wait for that to begin, here is yesterday's discussion on combating opioids.

state chartered credit unions and federal credit unions. in all cases, the numbers have been decreasing and the asset size increasing per institution. but the most dramatic is with the commercial banksment you can see the increase in asset size by type of institution. the blue dotted line, which is jumping up the highest over time is the national commercial banks. what that means for the city, we're working now with much larger institutions. their focus is certainly national, international really in all cases. while san francisco is one of their markets, it's certainly not the focal point or key to their mission and business objectives. so back to the options and some of the benefits and limitations of each. the commercial banks and the ones that the city has been using have extensive service capable. they're highly capitalized and collateralized. it's a charter for additional depository institution such as commercial bank or industrial bank, the banks are required by state law, to get federal deposit insurance. the city of san francisco wo

he says he wants the uk to enter into a permanent customs union with the european union, a deal whichut people's jobs and living standards but theresa may has already ruled out staying in the single market or a customs union, as our political editor lauren kuenssberg reports. cheering and applause bit by bit, piece by piece. a clearer view on brexit, ifjeremy corbyn was in charge. labour wants to keep our customs deal with the eu essentially the same for good. so, labour would seek to negotiate a new, comprehensive uk — eu customs union to ensure that there are no tariffs with europe and to help avoid any need, whatsoever, for a hard border in northern ireland. but listen very carefully, there is a big if in there. the option of a new uk customs union with the eu would need to ensure that the uk has a say in future trade deals. a new customs arrangement would depend on britain being able to negotiate agreement for new trade deals in our national interests. other countries with similar kinds of deals have very little control. we would have to have a meaningful say in how those negotiat

than full union dues. so of course in our case we argued that abood was wrongly decided and should be overturned. there's lots of problems with the abu decision as i can't cover them all but i'll hit a couple of key reasons why abood was wrong. one reason is because it doesn't actually protect workers from paying for unions political speech. and one reason why is because everything that a public sector union does is inherently political. when a union bargains with the car but it tells the government things like how much it should pay workers, what benefits it should provide. how which it run its programs. if anybody else talk to the government about the subjects everybody recognizes that as quintessential political speech. if anybody else does that we call it lobbying. so if the government worker is forced to give any money at all to the public sector union, particularly to fund collective-bargaining, then that worker is being forced to pay for somebody else's political advocacy. and again that something t

the government says we will leave the customs union and the single market after brexit. the customs unioningle some labour mps want their party to commit to both. it's a massive hit on our economy if we leave the single market, if we leave the customs union. it's a massive hit to peace in northern ireland if we leave the customs union. in northern ireland if these are core labour values. in northern ireland if but brexit—supporting labour mps argue the party risks betraying their own voters. you've come out, stella, with all these things, we will stay in the customs union, we will stay in the single market. the decision was quite clear to leave. in the north, labour voters voted very, very clearly. are you going to rat on them or not? voted very, very clearly. the brexit negotiation is not only a haggle between the uk government and the eu. parliament is critical, too. government and the eu. theresa may did not have an overall majority in the commons and a number of tory mps also argue that the uk should have a customs union with the eu. argue that the uk should so, a vote, when it comes,

unione not heard from the what a defunded union looks like , but in terms of the power it could haveeal impact. what about political clout? teachers are a stall wart of grassroots organizing and fundraising. what remains to be seen is how much this decision what impact the unions financially and in terms of membership. couldn'those combined dampen their political activity. teachers are such an integral part of politics and the community, so it will be interesting to see what happens. to a number of local leaders this week ahead of the case, and they are still holding out hope that there is power in numbers. every single school district in teachers thats are some of the most engaged in the community. >> barbecue zach's editor in chief with the help. every time congress goes on break it seems something happens to alter their agenda when they return. in this case, last week's shooting in parkland, florida. it's going toon

union in the country at the moment what have the a story verity cuts meant for your members. well what the cuts have meant for our members is we can't do the job that we want to do properly really. and that has a terrible impact on the people that we are here to serve i think it's well documented well known that stare at a affects people in poverty affects the poorest people in society more than other groups and social workers by and large the majority of our service uses are people who are suffering from poverty so sterrett is actually affecting the work of social workers every day and in a whole range of ways this drill down to one specific problem as your members may perceive it i mean there's been a closure of more than five hundred children centers does that how does that have a knock on effect on the work of your men has not only enormous effect and that's part of i want to picture of cuts in family support services i mean that's that's a huge loss to lose five hundred from of hundred children centers in since two thousand and ten and social workers need to have availab

customs union and jeremy i think is just fly. that out now and clarifying our position it does make sense it seems to me to ensure that we get a break see that works in the interests of the vast majority of people not the on account of all wealth which i think the conservative party be quite happy to see a kind of deregulated taxation in this country that you know provides great opportunities to generate even more wealth for people who are already incredibly wealthy as it is we know what brussels did to countries that voted for their own exits from ireland to denmark to greece they're not they're going to be able to see through this well that i think so i mean these negotiations of corbin would be involved it would be pretty tough along the way because i was in absolutely but i think the sort of place where we're coming from is that we want to ensure that we kind of have an arrangement with the european union i mean we have knowledge that there is an important point and you outflanking the european union negotiators if you were i

in a customs union. some eu agencies but no answer really in terms of what would happen with freedom of movement. would jeremy corbyn be willing to go along with that to secure the strong relationship with the single market? and abiding by european court of justice ruling is to ensure the strong relationship with the single market? the paradox is the tories frequently accused of wanting their ca ke frequently accused of wanting their cake and eating it. exactly the same charge can be made againstjeremy corbyn because he wants membership ora corbyn because he wants membership or a close relationship with the single market. not at all clear he is willing to abide by the sort of rules and regulations which the eu would almost certainly the man. similarly, he wants to be in a comprehensive customs union with the eu but not at all he would forfeit the right to negotiate the uk's and trade relationship. we have a divide between the two main parties but both of them are still in the cake eating country. and che

and you know western union is like a what's the word. like a mail order company. you go there send two hundred dollars and they take twenty dollars or thirty dollars for three hundred. labor follows capital and that's why we see these workers in the united states that's why we see african workers in asian countries that's why. they're going where the jobs are they live in the shadows all around us millions of them and because they live in the shadows they lose access to certain services such as the more sophisticated and by sophisticated i mean checking accounts right now that now that you know hedge funds but the. basic middle class sophistication they can't avail themselves of it they can't lay down roots they don't want to create permanent places where their money is held because they might have to move and might have to move quickly either for another job or because word is out that the immigration authorities are going to be coming to their job or coming to the place where they live and so they are forced to use these sort of quicki

in the‘s attempted to leave the european union, and the brits have a lwa ys european union, and the britsave always been really good at comedy and forests. viewers will be familiar with monty python. the cabinet is split. it doesn't yet have an agreed negotiating position in terms of what it wants to ask the european union for in march when the next round of talks begin. which is obviously troubling the european union. the european union has its own problems as well, there are a lot of moving parts in this. it's turning almost into a crisis. but it is happening. it almost one year to go until brexit. i suspect there will be some deal at some point. britain is not doing its reputation for diplomatic skill any good at the moment, and it seems bizarre that this close to brexit the cabinet and prime minister, who is of course under a lot of pressure, and under pressure from some conservatives to 90, pressure from some conservatives to go, don't yet know that they what sort of relationship they want with the european union have to words. and you think that is still the genuine case inside the

>> i think it's completely different, a huge difference between government unions and trade unions.n the private sector, in private business, there's no corrupt bargain. they are not allowed to basically bribe executives and businesses to give them unaffordable contracts. somebody would go to jail in the private sector. >> neil: the workers are required to be a part of the union. >> in some states they are, some not. that's okay. it's up to the state to decide. in the private sector, the speech is not political in nature. in government, everything a union does is political. it impacts taxpayers and freedom of speech. that's what at issue. governments are fundamentally different. they're allowed to bribe politicians that they negotiate. that's wrong. that's why franklin roosevelt was against the power of government unions and supported private unions. >> neil: and the meeting at school safety matters, do you agree with your counterpart in washington state that said we shouldn't arm teachers? >> yes, i tend to agree with that. we should have a discussion about safety. i support armed

workers should be free to join unions and organize unions but they should also be free not to join unionsom them. >> paul: the argument is the workers should not be compelled to support speech that they don't support or causes that they don't support, and that is just as much a violation of the first amendment as saying you can't speak at all. >> right. so what many states are requiring is to subsidize, pay agency fee toss the union, -- fe union, regardless of whether they join the union. they are plight l call. political. wages, health benefits, those are matters of public debate, including merit pay for teachers. unions take positions at the bargaining table. these are issues that do implicate free speech. >> paul: dan? >> to alicia's point. unions have changed over the years. everyone out there probably says i know what unions do, they bargain to protect wages and workers' rights. why are the unionse unions favog comprehensive sex education, voteing rights for felons and things like that. i think the justices understood that over the last 45 years these unions have not just -- are no l

in terms of the practical differences, customs union versus no customs union.l is this? everybody says they will trade to be as frictionless as possible. it is about how you want to achieve that and how realistic that is. the government wants to be able to strike its own trade deals. it wants to rely on managed divergence. more divergence in some areas than others to stay as close as possible to the eu to allow it to get a favourable trade deal. is that cherry picking? they claim it might be. they talked about having a say in trade deals and the national interest, but they seem to be talking about having a say in future a you to does as part of some kind of block, not striking out on their owi'i. “— of block, not striking out on their own. —— in future eu trade deals as pa rt of own. —— in future eu trade deals as part of some sort of block. i spoke to one person tonight who said this at least let the door open to staying in the single market for good. total alignment on rules and regulations for goods. half of the single market. and that solves your problem in

that is what i think partly drives the story of the soviet union because the soviet union is not able to do that. two, critical in reference to today, the domestic economic revivals were combined with international adaptations in the 1980's. taking the detail let me mention , this took place in trade, monetary and exchange rates, g7 policy coordination, developing country debt and reforms, and so this economic revival was not based on a narrow economic nationalism. it also wasn't based on another idea that was current and has faded in history which is the international set of economic planning model. the geopolitical analysis that move into the economic sphere often they -- pay attention to economic strength. but they have a hard time recognizing there is a dynamic element to the power. part of it is a systemic ability to adapt and to change. third, the ussr could not adapt. it was very dependent on energy resources and prices. that is still true today. i note it in the paper. about 20% of their gdp, 50% of the budget, and 80% of their exports. so a huge dominance in the overall econo

state chartered credit unions and federal credit unions. in all cases, the numbers have been decreasing and the asset size increasing per institution. but the most dramatic is with the commercial banksment you can see the increase in asset size by type of institution. the blue dotted line, which is jumping up the highest over time is the national commercial banks. what that means for the city, we're working now with much larger institutions. their focus is certainly national, international really in all cases. while san francisco is one of their markets, it's certainly not the focal >> so back to the options and some of the limitations for each. the commercial banks that the city has been using have service capability and highly capitalized. there's no question when the city makes deposits, they can cover the amounts consistent with state law. limitations, largely this has been addressed i think, the mission of large bank and business practices are not consistent with social policy goals. credit unions have missions that are more consistent

european union afterwards.nship they want with the european union afterwardsm relationship they want with the european union afterwards. it is not a question of we don't want to reveal everything. we don't want to reveal everything. we don't want to reveal our hand to the public or anyone in brussels. despite the fact we are meant to have had this meeting, they just we are meant to have had this meeting, theyjust can't reach agreement. i think we have got to be careful of exaggerating that because the cabinet has moved a long way since the brexit referendum 20 months ago, so they are agreed that the uk is leaving the european single market, agreed that it is leaving the customs union, which it has to because that is in the european treaties. there is an argument about what nature of free trade agreement they should try and seek with the eu and if the eu would allow the uk to have such a deal. the primary sticking point is customs arrangements and whether the uk signed a replacement for the existing customs unio

workers should be free to join unions and organize unions but they should also be free not to join unions have their money taken away from them. >> paul: the argument is the workers should not be compelled to support speech that they don't support or causes that they don't support, and that is just as much a violation of the first amendment as saying you can't speak at all. >> right. so what many states are requiring is to subsidize, pay agency fee toss the union, -- fe union, regardless of whether they join the union. they are plight l call. political. wages, health benefits, those are matters of public debate, including merit pay for teachers. unions take positions at the bargaining table. these are issues that do implicate free speech. >> paul: dan? >> to alicia's point. unions have changed over the years. everyone out there probably says i know what unions do, they bargain to protect wages and workers' rights. why are the unionse unions favog comprehensive sex education, voteing rights for felons and things like that. i think the justices understood that over the last 45 years these u