a workers organizing themselves into unions. we are going to look at the rise of the union. these meant 2022 style and why it has happened. we start with patricia union, morgan a senior under rice, united states because workers i challenge in the narrative from corporate america, the easter fall, they hand by jobs. young people, workers in general. one is the ability, they want economic security, they wanna voice, i work there organizing because they're demanding respect inver clinician with their contribution to our economy. that's the way that organizing allow you to jordan and layla and dave. so get to have you on board on this show what a remark will show to be in 2022. talking about the rise of the union movement. i'm going to ask you to introduce yourself and, and then we'll get a conversation started. jordan, tell us who you are and what you're doing. oh, my name is jordan. wow, is 24. i'm cool. found of amazon every union in congress of central acres and i've been able get medicine for 3 years. and i amazon j of k, ought to have lola, welcome to the state, tell us wh

again union busting. . ultimate disrum the budget and finance they could not answer your questions and than i had a talking head prepare a statement today. that is not a hearing. that is not what this is supposed to do. 1021 is a strong union and we fight for the rights of working people, family and community. and that's why we are here to ask to you help us in this fight. the only way this individual is going to understand the strength of this city council is in the pocket book. he does not understand how strong we are and unified this office of and labor is. but you can show him today. >> i appreciate you for hold thanksgiving hearing i really do this is important. this is the fudamential right to earn a liveable wage for yourself and your family. thank you so much i appreciate you for this today. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm jason to be fair i'm a former employee of felton. institute while there i work in the marketing department. at alameda. and -- i one of the reasons w

union in their country here, and not to leave the country and to work in european union countries.ought on this. you reached out to kiril petkov when he was prime minister of bulgaria. he is no longer the prime minister. and there are many in your country, notjust the opposition, notjust the hardline nationalists, but many others, like formerforeign minister nikola dimitrov, who say this — they still believe sofia, bulgaria's aim is to build in north macedonia a second bulgarian state, that having failed to conquer this country in the past, bulgaria is now using its eu membership as leverage to try and achieve the same end, ie, there's very little trust in bulgaria in this country. do you trust bulgaria? i trust the macedonian people and i trust the process and the negotiation framework which we have with the european union. and i trust our institutions, our academia, our ngos, our media, that we all together will do the negotiations with the european union in a fast pace. there are many politicians from this side of the border, and from the other side of the border, which have bui

that helps credit unions. it added over 5 million new members of the past year and it drives down the number of households without a bank account. it dropped a record low in 2021. when governments are on the side of working families, more americans say family. more americans participate and our economy. our financial regulators have answered that call. thank you for. that will continue to work them to make sure banking and credit systems work for everyone. before i conclude my remarks, i want to thank my witnesses for being here. especially -- to be chair of the fdic. marty is well respected and a season regular whose work to protect consumers and preserve confidence in our banking system. played into straddle role to implemented many dodd-frank reforms with his experience leadership. i have no doubt that fdic can continue to address risk in our financial system and increase access to affordable financial services and insert that banks honor their commitment two committees this e.r.a. and this committee looks

which unions have objected to the settlement? >> four of the 12 unions involved. we will get that for you. they represent 115,000 workers. >> those four? >> yes. >> you may have heard me earlier. time is short on this particular matter. i would like to add a few things to this bill. i am not sure they fall under the title of the bill, one being the safe banking act. the other being some compensation improvements for us. obviously, this is very important. trying to avoid a shutdown of our railways. for me, i have always tried to work with the unions in my area and smart is the biggest of the railroad unions that are involved in this conversation. what is it those four are holding out for? can you tell me? >> there has been an issue around sick time. there are situations the unions feel are just not there. there was a very serious schedule they have to meet. the railroads have actually cut their work orders and have had record profits during this time, but it is because of the schedules they give the workers. it is basically a situation where somebody says they are

union grant is a prerequisite.he guys should be active and show themselves in public trade union life participate in the volunteer movement research activities in the creative and sports life of the university and these are the main news project agency or news available in social networks and in our mobile application qr-code on the screen, and the development of events. see at noon a successful day. skin day we send off, millions of emotions. we can rejoice to be angry with diolya with jasom our emotions. we are not in the spirit, and music is music showing our emotions. with us, yana is becoming an integral puzzle of our residents. music how is the process of creating an alternative swift model in the eurasian economic union progressing colleague's results to be announced in a minute capital is the produx exhibition in 2022 tell us? what novelties have our producers prepared for belarusian and foreign consumers? complete import substitution from their seeds to machinery and equipment to help science. and what are

action bayous in three out of every four credit unions including most minority credit unions will soon lose their access to an important federal liquidity backstop. and the credit union systems capacity to address liquidity b0 billion with growing interest rate risk and price liquidity concerns now is not the time to decrease the access to the systems liquidity shock absorbers. the ncua is seeking restoration of its ability to oversee third-party vendors. this statutory change would provide the ncua with parity with other agencies the supervisor and regulate federally insured depository institutions. this examination authority is critical given the systems increased reliance on third-party vendors and credit union service organizations. the government accountability office, the financial stability oversight council and the office of inspector general have all recommended that congress restored the ncua vendor authority. the u.s. house of representatives has passed legislation as part of the 2023 national defense act to reinstate the ncua vendor authority and in the senate bipartisan le

well, let's ask the european union ourselves. in june, we approached the 6-station package. we did not understand at all how it would happen. about our status as a candidate for an eu member, we have been through a lot, and here i am really grateful for this work, very powerfully, here i am saying yes, macron in school and drive, who arrived in ukraine the day before, they did a great job, and of course, it seems to me that there are some other nuances which then forced hungary to deviate somewhat from its position. and now they are even blackmailing the north atlantic ocean by snapping the entry of sweden and so on into this block, plus from turkey it was no accident that she mentioned erdogan because what is happening is where it looks it's quite strange. and even today, there was already a detention there as a literally small remark to turkey, the detention of someone who is accused of tourism and this is of course the kurds. well, if nothing happens with the chicken, you know, if there was bread . they still have to find visas there, the same in hungary. everything and e

union is very harmful. it was friendship of peoples. necessary to raise to overcome the tsar's heritage when there were some centers of moscow and petrograd. donbass is a few more cities that were in order, but the main part of the russian empire. somewhere in terribly backwardness was due to the economic social policy of the hmm soviet governments, there really was an alignment. all the peoples rose, everything was only better from this, and all the talk was that someone was feeding. this is a very dangerous harmful one, and these conversations are still going on somewhere. they must be curbed decisively . vyacheslav, you said that for belarus the revolution became a historical chance, why? well, because it was really a chance. create your own statehood, and it was created very quickly. ah. very, successfully and as part of the ussr e, our people realized themselves remarkably in to the fullest. in all sectors, from industrial to literary belarusians. everything worked out. they had a wonderful image in the eyes of the rest of the worl

, soviet union will dissolve, component parts of the soviet union will go off into independent countries at least for a while there will be free elections in russia. of course, that would change with vladimir putin later, but the old soviet union collapses, people would have thought you were crazy if you would have said such a thing. 1983 it was still a growing concern. people were very fearful of the soviet union, and the soviet union was very fearful of the united states. there were times in the 1980s when the cold war might have gotten hot, and we avoided that. if we hadn't avoided that, we wouldn't be here today. and and so reagan wanted to send a very clear message. now, again, he thought he could mobilize the evangelicals because soviet union is officially, was officially atheistic and wanted to drive that point home to them and engage them against the idea of moral equivalence are. and we're going to see that in the clip that we're going to show right now. this is -- giving a talk about the speech. >> yes, let us pray for the salvation of all those who live in that totalitarian da

e of the soviet union, when e we were the assembly shop of the soviet union yes, without resources, without restored the engineering industry and the petrochemical industry because we have a very small percentage of localization. well, you know, uh. if we now go on to this topic again, then i want to tell you why the president criticizes, because, uh, today the world and international economic relations are arranged in such a way that our partners. eh, well, they have too have their own interests, they are not only interested in buying. we have goods. they have an interest in creating a product together. that's why we, too, if , well, let's say. and if we entered into cooperation with the people's republic of china, then it should be cooperation on an equal footing and beneficial to both the chinese side and the belarusian side, therefore, of course, it is necessary, uh, higher localization in manufacturing there as well. uh, bicycles. e motorcycles. uh, geely and so on and so forth. well, we have a lot of uh concrete examples. eh, let's just say here is an example of the minsk automobile p

of domestic consumers, because there are a lot of questions to the european union.lly, why? well, that is, the european union is suffering much more than the united states, fulfilling the will of the states for its domestic consumer. it sees and issues are guided by a lot. that's why, in order to calm just these unrest it is likely that some kind of feast will take place. deployed. as long as the european union exists, it is, well, to a large extent under the influence of the financial system, the united states a crime that has no justification for 8 years in the donbass, innocent people are dying in nothing to see. what kind of peace can they really be in belarus thanks to the project of the union state and the aleksey talai paralympic foundation, the second year the children of donbass come to us to improve their health is to live in fear for their lives for the lives of loved ones agency correspondents or news prepared the film a chance for a childhood story of those who are used to surviving? we walk a couple of meters, and i hear some kind of incomprehensible,

>> welcome everyone to union square my name is marissa rodriguez and i'm executive director of union square alliance. what a beautiful, sunny welcoming day here in union square. [applause] we are in the heart of san francisco, the crown rule, union square where the holidays are synonymous with union square. i just want to take a moment to acknowledge all the folks behind me today. it takes a village to ensure that our community is safe vibrant and beautiful as it is today. this time last year, was very difficult for all of us, we were still in the throws of the pandemic and we were coming out of some very challenging times. in fact, throughout the country, we were seeing a rash of retail crime bu. here in san francisco, there was a response like no other. i want to thank our mayor, london breed, our police chief bill scott, for leaning in and ensuring that this was going to be not only a good year but one of the best years that we've experienced since that day here in union square. soy just want to take a moment to thank them for their leadership and all that they've done. i want to

, how about andrew, your results, your observations of this meeting of ministers of the european union ministers are important west this is of course not the european council where the prime ministers and presidents of all eu countries meet, but the council of ministers lays down certain guidelines for which the leaders of the states then work, and what is important is that this council of ministers was distinguished by the fact that there is a certain rethinking of the role of the european union in terms of security to at that time, there was no foreign policy before the aggression of the russian federation that was considered by the countries of the european union . in intelligence in the exchange of data but in fact, except for a few er not very large, not very significant military missions, this policy did not have next in line well, maybe not the first, the first was georgia, and then there was moldova, and then us, but it is not the last at all and that this wild activity of the russian federation to destroy the international order will continue or it will be in direct military f

of pro-ukrainian deputies understand that hungary is actually blackmailing the european union by the fact that it can really block the allocation of money in ukraine not at the level of the european parliament, but at the level of the european council because all financial issues must be unanimously supported by all eu member states, i.e. when in december there will be a question about the allocation of this same tranche of 18 billion euros for ukraine, hungary can at any moment say that we are blocking this issue we don't want that and uh the issue won't budge and that's why there are now very intense negotiations with hungary and literally last night there was a debate about hungary continuing to behave really uh behave really in such a way that uh to support more of the russian, because the endura is the russian order, where rather than the pan-european pro-ukrainian order, and hungary received a lot of criticism yesterday. but it is clear that the issue must be resolved through negotiations, and most likely that europe will have to give in to hungary and provide it with the funds

they discussed in detail the financial cooperation between ukraine and the european union, the needsf our state in financing until the end of the year and next year, i expect this year two tranches of a macro-finance of 2.5 billion euros in november, half a billion euros. in early december, they also discussed new sanctions against russia that can be introduced at the european level, olezhe the fact that the vice president of the european commission is in kyiv, what they say about money, you can be sure that the european union will not leave us in the context of monetary aid, in particular, first of all, we should be grateful to every politician who is not afraid to come here because it is primarily a signal to our enemy that we are not alone and that they are not really afraid of him because he has missiles but there is no perception of the real world, and in the european union we are actually perceived as a state that has become a subject and that needs to be helped well, first of all, it is financial, because we are living in difficult times now and a very difficult winter is ahea

not drivers, they have got their own union.n there is the tssa or tessa which is there is the tssa or tessa which is the one which tends to be for the white collar union and then there is some unite members as well. i think during this last week, wednesday and thursday, tessa and unite stopped their strike action leaving the rmt as a bit of an outlier store with a strike in place. something changed. by strike in place. something changed. by friday, at lipm, all three unions had suspended the strike action for this weekend. you had suspended the strike action for this weekend.— had suspended the strike action for this weekend. you must be speaking to train drivers, _ this weekend. you must be speaking to train drivers, staff, _ this weekend. you must be speaking to train drivers, staff, people - this weekend. you must be speaking to train drivers, staff, people who i to train drivers, staff, people who work for the operators. what are they saying? what is the mood like? especially in the run—up to christmas. especially in the ru

i've been a union man, i am a union man. i still belong to a union, i am an engineer. i don't get paid holidays, i don't get sick pay. it's just work, every day i went to work, work myself on the job. when you're building stuff, you look for another job. but i don't know. i hear a lot of fussing and complaining, and it's mostly republicans vying for political points to me. >> you think the rail workers are asking for too much here? >> no, no. i really don't. i mean, you can't shut the nation down over it. i mean, there's a lot of companies. it's simple as this. the companies make great profits. they get paid their people well, in industries, they do take care of their people, health insurance, vacations, retirements. this becomes the economy of straight out capitalism, simple as that. >> that's grading in south point, ohio. it's just after 7:30 on the east coast. talking about congress and the white house yesterday pledging to avert this real strike, it's also avert a looming government shutdown, a story on the government shutdown from the wall street journal, the cong

the trade union congress, the tuc, might see a general strike where you -- union workers walk out simultaneouslysed unimously, calling for a working group to be set up over a mass action of overpaying and condition. the head of pcs, the public and commercial services union, has said he is in active discussions with other unions to maximize the impact of the action. i asked the head of the pcs how close he is to organizing that coordinated action? >> the first thing that has to be said, the question people should ask, why aren't there any 30 different meetings in britain? that's because we live in an unprecedented cost-of-ling crisis. whether it's a train, the postal workers, or the jobs of the border force, you can't expect to have this when inflation is 11% and the government is doing nothing to alleviate the poverty, and the membs that i represent, 40,000 of them are using food stamps. that is why so many of them want to go on strike and we will see strikes in the next month and the department of transport, the border force, might be the first wave of strike action. it's inevitable, if there a

, ., ,, ., ., the union? grant shapps, who was the transort the union?ary _ the union? grant shapps, who was the transport secretary but _ the union? grant shapps, who was the transport secretary but one, _ transport secretary but one, absolutely refused to talk to the unions. i think the person who was in for a few weeks, anne—marie trevelyan, was showing a more emollient attitude. we have not yet heard from the new transport secretary, mark harper, at the moment, but i suspect that behind—the—scenes, there is a team of ministers who realise that this cannot be done through the companies and network rail because they don't have the power to agree to extra wages. it is down to the government and the government actually must realise that. do and the government actually must realise that-— realise that. do you think the government _ realise that. do you think the government are _ realise that. do you think the government are actually - realise that. do you think the | government are actually going realise that. do you think the - government are actually go

banks and credit unions are doing well. thanks for the protections we put in place in dodd-frank and because of the support that congress and regulators provided during the pandemic. too many big corporations though have taken advantage of market concentration, jacking up consumer prices, earning higher and higher profits. my colleague senator reid has pointed out the biggest banks that benefit from higher interest rates today are not passing on those benefits to their customers. again, penalizing americans who are trying to build up savings. workers and small businesses already struggling under the weight of inflation shouldn't get hit with exorbitant bank fees, shouldn't lose their money on a cryptoscam, shouldn't have to worry that their savings will disappear overnight if a mismanaged bank or credit union fails. none of us want a scenario where risky bets on wall street crashed the economy again, that's why it's so important. we have financial watchdogs like the four of you empowered to look out for main street, helping

and beyond the ball will already be in the european union's court.will be able to achieve a very quick - everything is correct. from a very quick response from the european union. but that will leave them. and the last question on today, how are you going to celebrate victory day ? you know, i think that i really want to spend this day with my sister, everyone. it's very cold at work, and i'm on victory day. i think that i want to spend one day mine is only one day and more, unfortunately, it’s very rare now it’s normal and how can it be different, because after the victory it’s only the beginning. you understand that this is only the beginning of the great path. this is only the beginning of the great victory of ukraine after our victory, but the victory is a must "it will definitely be. i believe in it and tell everyone candidates of this effort and bring them closer, all the names of their work, i think that all together, this is the work of all of us and victory will be all of us, yes, thank you, thank you, those who commit war crimes should unde

and the unions. ~ ., , ., unions.he rmt has said others have stepped away from — unions. the rmt has said others have stepped away from those _ unions. the rmt has said others have| stepped away from those negotiations at short notice. we are hearing this from both sides. ih at short notice. we are hearing this from both sides.— from both sides. in essence, i do not thinkthe _ from both sides. in essence, i do not think the answer _ from both sides. in essence, i do not think the answer is _ from both sides. in essence, i do not think the answer is to - from both sides. in essence, i do not think the answer is to rush i from both sides. in essence, i do i not think the answer is to rush into strike action, particularly in december which will cause major disruption for millions of families during the festive period up and down the country. notjust in terms of seeing loved ones and friends and getting to work but serious requirements of transport for important medical appointments and so on. i think they need to come to

an enlargement of european union to we're east. so herb, herb, you know, are not cheating under media. onion, union member states, france, italy, probably greece or are poor to guard. spain are very, very, they are suspicious of be serve you enlargement. forgot to put east under. we are gonna block it p r. i wanted to ask you, we're just working quickly here at our t to just make sure we can establish a proper connection with you. you are dropping out just for a couple of moments. but i think we have established the connection. now. i wanted to ask you when it comes to ukraine, for example, joining the e u. of course ukraine does enjoy a lot of a political support from the e. u. what about the average european citizen? i mean, is there a consensus in the european union suit to embrace ukraine to the european bosom nato or not only there is a disarray between nerve e. u, a governments, as i said, because or very 0 herb, a fracture between earth, eastern, a european union member states and the more mediterranean union member states b

people were fearful of the soviet union, the soviet union was fearful of the united states. were times in the 1980s when the cold war may have gotten hot and we avoided that. if we hadn't avoided that, we wouldn't be here today. and so reagan wanted to send a very clear message. again, he thought he could mobilize the evangelicals because the soviet union is officially atheistic and wanted to drive that point home to them. and engage them against the idea of moral equivalence. we are going to see that in the clip we are going to be showing right now. >> this is paul kengore giving a speech about the clip. >> let us pray, pray they will discover the joy of knowing god. and let us be aware that while they preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man and predict it's eventual domination over all peoples of the earth, they are the focus of evil in the modern world. it was c. s. lewis in his unforgettable screwtape letters, he said, the greatest evil is not done now in the scenes that dickens loved to paint. it is not even done in concentration c

so if the union that union forced that subsidiary arm is smaller army. i'm going to tell you about little more in a minute were to go to petersburg and take petersburg now and the commander has an option go for richmond go for petersburg. if the confederates cover richmond leave petersburg uncovered and that smaller union army takes petersburg. the confederates are done in richmond. they will not be able to hold richmond. they will not be able to maintain lee's army nor the richmond and they're gonna lose northern virginia most of the state really so this is very this is a very sensitive target. the grant is poking out with a smaller army. it could be grant's entirely open to the possibility that while he is up here in northern virginia directly supervising the army of the potomac. these guys will win the war. well, it might happen. and so any hopes without by stretching lee and all those directions he will be able to gain an advantage over him. well that leads to another problem though. another thing that grants going to have to deal with is here. so he

of the nato union and in the nato union membership in other unions is excluded.se that would incur the obligation to enter the war, because it is also a military union. when a third party attacks a member of the union, other allies who come with help, including military ones, send soldiers. that is, this is military planning, such military planning is such a union can be twisted from ukraine. i say that ukraine will simply join nato, and i think that it is now clear to everyone that the security aspects of ukraine and it is thank god that president zelenskyy also stated that at the legislative level, it is established that ukraine joins nato, this is a military union, on the other hand , when it comes to special security relations , ukraine mixes great britain with poland, this is very desirable, very uh, everything related to this concept of education, help in uh should be encouraged weapons training and so on. in fact, some of the ukrainian public figures believe that ukraine is already a de facto member of nato. we just need to win this war . are you sure of t

ukraine is not a member of the european union. while you are thinking here how to allocate funds in ukraine, let's remember your member of the european union, that is, about us and let's talk about our money . in fact, he has already taken a number of steps at the meeting of the european union in brussels to unfreeze these funds, he really needs them, well, brussels is still adamant. well, i guess it is hungary after all. no, you know, this is such a game, it has been going on for 12 years, all the previous times viktor orban is so very i don't want to choose harsh words, but this is how brussels was deceived. yes, he promised to fix the situation with democracy, and then he waved his pen like that on the screen and said, well, well . that is why viktor robin is now using ukraine to blackmail the question of whether he will succeed, because to be honest , it is not yet clear what procedural decision will be taken on this issue of 18 billion, which is a significant amount, so it is not excluded that there is a need unanimity, altho

how is the process of creating an alternative swift model in the eurasian economic union going? what novelties have our manufacturers prepared for belarusian and foreign consumers - complete import substitution from their seeds to machinery and equipment to help science, and what unique novelties of domestic food? soon we will see the plot of the program in stores, this area of ​​​​interest is talking about notable events in the economy with you veronika hello microelectronics pharmaceuticals, aviation and mechanical engineering are a priority branch of the eurasian industrial operation, they will be subject to preferential financing mechanisms for trade economic partnership will activate along the line. with china, it is planned to approve a roadmap to saturate practical cooperation, and today colleagues also told how the process is progressing creating an alternative swift model in the eurasian economic union, the results of the use board in the material by svetlana lukinyuk. in the first half of the year, the volume of public procurement of the eaeu countries, including with

do you think the european union really wants georgia? former deputy chair of the ruling georgian dream party, tamar chugoshvili, said in august, who says, "the party's leadership "has been stating repeatedly that the eu "has never intended to grant candidate status to georgia. "no matter what the authorities do, "such status will not be granted." does the eu want you? you want the eu, but do they want you? i think i know the eu a bit more than many. and they do? you think they are genuine? i think that they are genuine. they have given the candidate status to countries that, if we look at the strict technical reforms, maybe have not done even as much as georgia. i think that today the geopolitics is changing, that the black sea, that used to be really a wall and geography matter, the geography doesn't matter any more. the distances have been reduced. and it's very important for the european union that the black sea and have on the other side of the black sea a country that is democratic, that is european, pro—european, and that's where t

polls show more than 70% of americans support labor unions.gress have proposed the protecting the right to organize act, known as the pro act, to make it easier for workers to unionize. the bill faces defeat if republicans take control of the senate. this is the democratic candidate for u.s. senate in wisconsin lt. governor mandela barnes talking to a roundtable of seiu union members about his republican opponent. >> this is a person who in o second debate said he destine see a reason to raise the minimum wage. this is coming from one of the most wealthy people in our society, one of the most wealthy members of the united states senate. he does not see a need for people's wages to increased of although, his wealth doubled in the last 12 years. his wealth has doubled and he is hell-bent on making everyone else's life worse. amy: for more, we are joined by mary kay henry, international president of the service employees international union, which represents millions of workers in healthcare, public and property services, and has a campaign to mo

-- before 2021, we did not have a union.elected a super majority and now, we are fighting for a fair ntract that gives us thbasic needs and protections in our work ways. -- workplace. student researchers are ia very vulnerable place within u.c. where even though we contribute to the cutting-edge research that u.c. boasts about, and we are the backbone of the research that happenwithin u.c. ranging from medical research, employment science research, rely all of the science and patent that u.c. can claim comes out of a lot of this labor that dude researchers provide -- that student researchers provide. we are striving for a contract that allows us to make ends meet so we have so many diverse researchers within u.c. including international researchers, parents, caregivers. we are fighting for a conversation that really compensates us fairly -- compensation that really compensates us fairly. amy: can you talabout the work you do? you are in the field of genetics. explain what happens and how you are compensated. aarthi: i work a

banking and credit union regulators are agencies that protect consumers, make sure banks and credit unions are safe and strong, independence matters, it makes for more stable financial system, essential for the entire economy. our witnesses today all have decades of banking and credit union regulatory experience, they spent career is serving the public and protecting consumers making sure banking and credit union system works for mainstreet, not just wall street. that is what they do today which modernizing and strengthening civil rights laws that will spur new investment in neighborhoods and communities that were left on their own, thank you for that, they've taken a closer look at overdraft funds and other gotcha fees in banks and credit unions to make sure customers are treated fairly so these programs don't raise safety concerns, taking a fresh look at the bank merger approval process so we don't continue this rubberstamp consolidation which has consequences for local communities, big banks merge, leaving rural towns in urban communities without a bank. revisiting the financial system'

and then from those countries, they leave the european union to re enter it somewhere in the north. and the basic fact is that this year, the number of people who crossed from turkey and that means from the whole middle east into the european union irregularly, is extremely low. so the high numbers crossing the western vulcans are largely people who have been in the e u. for years in greece. we've been treated very badly who don't see a future there. and we're trying to get from one part of the you to another part of the you. there is no strong increase of irregular migration of afghans assyrians into the european union this year, last year. this root is essentially a 2nd chance for refugees who have already fled into europe to make a better life for themselves in europe. and the plight of ukrainian refugees is obviously captured, the world's attention, perhaps, to the detriment of other refugee crises. ukraine. aside, where would you say is the most challenging refugee crisis the world currently faces? well, you, you highlight a really important point. the reason countries like ger

s recommendation of 24% increase in wages for the union's request, it basically balanced off the union's request for increased paid time off. that was the debate. that was the agreement. and that's what we're being asked to -- asked to support. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. payne: madam speaker, i wish to yield one minute to representative rick larsen from washington. mr. larsen: madam speaker, i rise to support h.res. 100 as well as the follow-on 119. a few people prefer to be here today to pass this legislation but congress has the authority to act because we have to but it's not because we want to but we have to prevent a work stoppage. and we have to recognize that the tentative agreements fall short, well short of what is necessary for paid leave for rail workers. benefits do not replace paid sick leave. going to work sick to earn your wage increase, who does that? who requires that? only the rail industry. so we should pass h.res. 100 and afterwards pass h.res. 119 to add

s recommendation of 24% increase in wages for the union's request, it basically balanced off the union's request for increased paid time off. that was the debate. that was the agreement. and that's what we're being asked to -- asked to support. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. payne: madam speaker, i wish to yield one minute to representative rick larsen from washington. mr. larsen: madam speaker, i rise to support h.res. 100 as well as the follow-on 119. a few people prefer to be here today to pass this legislation but congress has the authority to act because we have to but it's not because we want to but we have to prevent a work stoppage. and we have to recognize that the tentative agreements fall short, well short of what is necessary for paid leave for rail workers. benefits do not replace paid sick leave. going to work sick to earn your wage increase, who does that? who requires that? only the rail industry. so we should pass h.res. 100 and afterwards pass h.res. 119 to add