and they've done that year after year after year in most situations, in most union elections. but to now make it so that, let's say you have a company with 1,000 employees, and only 100 show up, and 51 of them vote for the union. is that right to bind all 1,000 employees in the company itself and only 51 out of 1,000 employees have voted for it? of course it's not. this is a very, very important issue. and all that the -- that those who propose getting this long-term extension or even a short-term extension have to do is correct the national mediation board, get union elections back to where a majority of employees are requisite in order to have a union, and i don't think there'd be any problem. -- any problem in solving this problem. it would be solved in a nanosecond. now maybe this extended essential service language is something that might cause problems. well, i would suggest that both sides get together and try to resolve those shalls. but this is not some little small issue. this is a big issue. and it even becomes bigger when you consider that the national labor relatio

the "dallas morning news" looked at the last 19 union elections. in two cases, unions won because of the new rules. in 17 others, the new voting rules made no difference. darren gersh, "nightly business report," washington. >> tom: while the f.a.a. shutdown drags on, the agency is losing almost $29 million a day in airline ticket taxes. and that could make for a big windfall for the nation's largest airlines. united, continental, delta and southwest have all raised ticket prices by 7.5% so that prices appear the same as when the tax was in effect. that means before this whole thing is solved when congress returns in september, the airlines could pocket almost $1 billion in extra revenues. what about the turbulence today in the new york stock exchange, i was a crazy ride. >> tom: it was, but we came in for a smooth landing, clearly smoother than the previous eight sessions, first up day in better than a week. so let's go ahead and roll with tonight's market focus. the major stock indices were able to end in the green for the first time in about a wee

round and round. >> democrats give kickbacks to unions that elected you? >> like what?ensions. >> there is no doubt about it. it's the stuff they negotiated over the years with democrats, administrations and republican administrations. the reason puck employees support me is i supported what they are doing. >> he supports mitchell. he heads the firefighters union. >> you elect your own bosses, you contribute to the democrats and then the democrats pay you back with a good deal. they want to take that power away. i can kind of see why. >> away are non-partisan. we contribute to the republicans as well as democrats. >> john: i'm looking at political donations. 92% to democrats last year? >> we contribute to people that are with our issues so in general democrats. >> that doesn't sound partisan? >> if they come back to the good side of town we'll go with them. >> what is the difference? >> public, private president roosevelt said that public sector unions would be a problem for the united states. even fdr says they shouldn't have collective bargaining rights but the public

the already passed a bill by the house what is the one that says that if you don't vote in a union election that's considered a no why don't we pass a bill that says listen if you don't vote in the federal election you're considered a democratic vote all that hasa protecting the unions though and. it's destroying news that's the legislation is still what i'm saying is that the reason that harry reid and rockefeller said that they're not going to support it is because that this is crazy but the reality is because of because they have taken the stance they have lost a lot more money than they thought they were going to save by being in support of this provision so i mean that's the reality is they're the ones who are holding hostage and they are the ones who are the high for you i mean they're the ones are costing millions of dollars to the government every year it's a clean bill it's you know ok we reauthorize the. i mean right now you've got safety inspectors who are who are not being paid for their overtime and are not being paid for their travel time and are having to pay for the travel o

unions. that's their business, not mine. and they've had four elections. unions have tried to organize four times. four times the unions have lost. so it would appear that their chances aren't very good in the future, but that doesn't stop delta. they want to make sure that we put in place a structured system which is out of kilter to a fair election for that kind of -- and other purposes with other unions. so what they then did, they sent over an essential air service policy rider on the extension. unprecedented. with which we didn't agree. and, therefore, one, you don't do it in the first place, and if you do do it, both sides have to agree to it before you send it over and then it's easy to say okay, we'll extend it, and then we include that policy because both sides have agreed to it. but they sent over an essential air service program specifically targeted at rural communities in the states of democratic senators. if the house were serious about reforming the essential air service program, it would have stayed at the negotiating table. they would have

any nonvote on a union election would equal a no vote.er blasted republicans today. >> they were prepared to walk away from here and leave almost 95,000 people without a job. why? because they passed a bill and said to the united states senate, either you take it our way or there will be no runway and no highway and no way. that is a perfect example of the politics not of persuasion, not of compromise of coming together, but the politics of confrontation. >> house democrats have fought the good fight for unions, harry reid opened the door for more ka pit u lace in the face of this issue. >> sometimes you have to step back and find out what's right for this country and not be bound by some your own personal issues. >> even president obama's transportation secretary is giving in to the job killing anti-union provision. after calling for a clean bill earlier this week. and today, during a conference call, transportation secretary ray lahood said we need the senate to pass the house bill before they go on their vacations to put 4,000 people b

one of the issues is a dispute over union election rules. other has to do with the small airports and the money they get from you. correspondent doug mckelway has that story. >> paul is a soft weather salesman who thinks the $59 subsidized flight every other week and for him it beats driving. >> you save the hour and is a. if you got an early morning flight you don't battle everybody going to baltimore. then the cutoff going down to d.c. so you miss all the trafficeas, semiair service, created in 19 # when the airlines were deregulated to preserve air service to community where flights might be eliminated because of unprofitability. in the present climate, financial frugality, some critics say the 150 plus subsidized airports lie too close to major airports to be eligible for subsidy. hagueerstown is 57-miles from baltimore and 73 from washington. >> we're subsidizing $200 for a flight that saves that traveler 40 minutes in the car. >> others suggest a top to bottom re-examination of eas is warranted. not a expense of scrapping unprofitable

. >> correct the national mediation board, get union elections back to where a majority of employees are requisite in order to have a union, and i don't think there would be any problems. >> woodruff: if nothing changes, the f.a.a. could lose more than $1 billion from uncollected ticket taxes before congress returns from its august recess. in the meantime, the flying public has not benefited. in fact, nearly all major u.s. airlines have raised fares to what they would be if the taxes were still being collected. >> woodruff: for more on the impact of the shutdown and the politics surrounding it, we are joined by todd zwillich, washington correspondent for "the takeaway," a program on public radio international and wnyc radio. he also writes for the public radio blog, "transportation nation." and ben mutzabaugh, who covers the aviation industry for "u.s.a. today," and writes a blog called "today in the sky." thank you both for being with us. ben mutzabaugh, i gather from what you just told me that reporters covering this had no idea this was going to not get resolved before congress wen

is an effort by the unions, a recall election, to take back the state senate to preventcans from going any further, and to kind of give the troops some hope because lately unions have been losing a lot of ground in legislature in addition to the ground in membership. >>neil: so they are not going after the dozen or so democrats who left the state. >>guest: no, those are the good guys. >>neil: because this is an issue of the constitutionality of those guys doing that but if they succeed and what means what? it could be fought in the courts? >>guest: well, that is their recall statute. they are able to, you are able to recall public officials in wisconsin that are elected after serving a year f they succeed it could mean that governor walker will face a recall election maybe several months from now. >>neil: or, other could go after the democrats and go for a recall of them and back and forth. >>guest: that is true and there are some democratic recall elections coming up a little bit later but if they succeed this particular election where you are going to see a couple of c

same thing about unions here's where that would give unions and advantage however unions are democratic institutions they elect their leaders and all the decisions of the unions are made by a majority vote from the members corporations on the other hand are kingdoms and c.e.o.'s playing the role of kings so if both were forbidden from using their money for politics what do they have left their members in the case of the unions their employees the case the corporations so take corporate example so imagine the c.e.o. of a company with a million employees sends out a memo asking everybody to vote a particular way in an upcoming election those are secret so there's no way for him to enforce that and he'll never know who did or who didn't vote for whom those workers will simply ignore the memo. on the other hand if a union sends out a newsletter indorsing candidates because it's a democratic membership organization experience tells us that most members actually in the beginning put forward that advice that was what they wanted and they will take that advice on who to vote for so i'm not at all worried about treatin

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unions. with the middle class reeling as a result, the recall elections in wisconsin today are frankly about her or not democrats can hit back when union rights are attacked. whether or not the democratic party knows there's an economic point to its existence. joining us tonight for the interview is a author and journalist that has done more than anyone else in the country to force the issue of americans not making it, the disappearance of the american middle class into the national debate, barbara ehrenreich, her landmark book, "nickel and dimed" has been reissued for a tenth anniversary, which makes me feel old. barbara ehrenreich, thank you very much for being here tonight, appreciate your being here. >> it's a treat. >> i don't want you to play pundit about this wisconsin election night, but do you think we're having a national fight, national debate at least about working for a living, about jobs, about class? >> i don't know how much it's being framed by that by the candidates themselves, but it's something we've got to have, i mean the -- you've been saying middle class, i think we can

if nay want a union, they are free to elect one, but so far they have not chosen to do so. >> let me you one more question, sir. given that the studies are showing that public sector employee unions are paid substantially higher than what a comparable private sector worker receives, and we'll provide evidence of that in a few minutes, but given that, that you have to premium in wages and benefits that are paid to public employees, do you think that's fair that one of your workers who's paid $16-$20 an hour should have to pay higher taxes to pay for benefits and salaries that are much more generous for comparably skilled workers in the public sector? >> i don't think, in my opinion, i don't think in the private sector where you have competition, unions can serve a useful purpose, sometime, but in the public sector where government's a monopoly, the public service unions, i think don't have that competition to keep them in check, and as a result, i think they've done great damage. i don't think public service unions should be legal. >> thank you, sir. >> all right, ms. lee, your witness

unlike in wisconsin, where governor scott walker's stripping of union rights led to recall elections,se workers are not protesting a tax on their right to be in a union, they're on strike because verizon wants to roll back their benefits. things like health care and pensions. those are benefits the unions fought for and won over the last couple of decades. the union workers have those benefits today because that's what unions do. they make employers pay and treat and compensate employees on the whole better than they would on an individual employee by employee basis. that's the whole point of unions. and in this country, unions equal the middle class. you see the two lines sloping downward? one of those lines represents the rate of union membership in america, the other is the middle class's share of income. they are basically identical. it is not just people in unions who benefit from unions, but the entire giant group of americans we call the middle class, which is why unions are not the hated empire conservatives want them to be. in wisconsin this spring against governor walker's u

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busting activities, he supported a strong national mediation board committed to ensuring that union elections are space and under the old law to give you an example anyone who didn't vote in an election was counted as a vote against the yen and that doesn't make sense and now counting the votes like any other election. [applause] at ar department of labor we are doing our part, too. we've recently proposed new rules requiring employers to report spending on those attorneys and consultants to persuade workers not to form a union. a very important role that you need to know about. [applause] we believe workers have a right to know who's trying to influence them and how much a company's earnings are being spent on anti-union activities. there was some good news recently for those who believe in collective bargaining, and i am asking you to recall the 40,000 tsa workers who recently were able to vote to form a union night for the first time. [applause] these are important milestones for the women and men who keep airports safe but just recently, yesterday in fact what about those 4,000 workers th

so the obama administration changed it to be just like every other union election that takes place. the only problem is, the way that unions work in this country and every other country is, it is voluntary to compel employees to vote in elections. it would be far and above the constitutionality of this country. so they are not able to do that. the debate swirls around, why should aviation workers be treated differently when it comes to unionization? the problem has been something that -- the administration thought that they had the power thought that they had the power

cause they have have always helped supporting a strong mediation board committed to ensuring the union elections are democratic. under the old law, anyone who didn't vote was counted as a vote against the union. that doesn't make sense. jo at our department of labor, we are doing one too. we are reporting new roles to report spending on those attorneys and consultants that they hire to persuade workers not to form a union. i'm asking you to recall the 40,000 tsa worker who were able to vote for a union for the first time. these are important mile stones. what about the 4,000 faa workers going back to work and the 70,000 construction workers building and repairing our airport. i want to tell you i know what it is to be a part of the union. it become clear to me my father represented the teamsteres. he represented immigrant workers in a battery recycling plant. my mother worked for many years in a toy factory i will not name and later fled the state and went south. never came back. she worked there proudly with the united workers. i'll never forget that. growing up in my community in a small town

if the union got me elected do not going to go hard-core after the union for a better contract.on them to get reelected next time. that's what is really problematic. and we have to find a way to get the public more engaged in public education. you've got to know when your school board elections are. you've got to know exactly what those people stand for, and who they're going to stand for when it comes to actually running the school district. >> questions? yes. right here in the front row. >> hi. i currently serve at the city or. my question is this. programs for teaching america often recruit from sort of a select group of students. how do we make sure that sort of all groups of students can serve their country? >> first of all, i love seedier. but how about that for an endorsement? >> citier was a huge component of our success in washington, d.c.. when i first got to the city, i went to a citier opening ceremony. got to see all the excitement and i came back and talk to the citier folks and his that i've an idea. i want a citier core member on every single one of my schools. a

union-stripping law in ohio in march. voter anger in ohio against that action was harnessed towards a recall election not for state senators but rather for the law itself, a referendum to repeal the state union-stripping law. that rallied with more than 900,000 valid signatures, quadruple the number of signatures it needed to get on the voting. an astonishing 24 point margin. with that kind of response in ohio already and just hours after it was announced that the last two wisconsin democrats up for recall won their races by large margins last night, today ohio's republican governor and republican legislative leaders raised the white flag. >> possibly be avoided is in the best interest of everyone. >> in what the a.p. described as a hastily called afternoon press conference, john kasich and the republican legislative leaders said today that now, now they are willing to talk about maybe softening their law stripping union rights. they law stripping union rights which they passed this spring with zero negotiation with the affected workers and zero democratic votes of the now governor kasich and republicans in the ohio state

unions has been strained at times. we are coming up on a presidential election and as you know, teachers' unions are a big force in the democratic party when it comes to boots on the ground. they knock on doors and make phone calls. how are you going to make sure that those people are going to come out for president obama? >> i think we have, overall, a good, healthy, hard working relationship with unions. it does not mean we're going to agree on every issue, but they share our urgency and get how much better we have to be as a country. they have shown tremendous courage and some difficult -- on some difficult issues. do we need to challenge them to move and think about things differently? absolutely. we're being self-critical as well. historically, our department has spent a compliance-focus bureaucracy. we're trying to focus on innovation and look at what works. we're asking everyone to move that signed their comfort zones. at the end of the day, if we can move from middle of the pack internationally to first in the world, that is what it is about and i think that is the right thing to do for children, the right thi

if they wish to have a union, they are free to elect one, but so far they have not chosen to do so. >> let me ask you one more question, sir. given that the studies are showing that public sector employee unions are paid substantially higher than what a comparable private sector receives and we'll provide evidence of that in a few minutes, but dpifn that premium in wages and benefits, do you think that's fair that one of your workers who is paid $16, $18, or $20 an hour service unions, i think, don't have that competition to keep them in check, and as a result, i think they've done great damage. i don't think public service unions should be legal. >> thank you, sir. >> all right, ms. lee, your witness. >> my partner -- [inaudible] >> that'll be fine. please proceed. >> mr. mackey. i'm karl shoemaker, associate professor at the university of wisconsin-madison. [laughter] there was an impressive job that you've done in building and leading whole foods, and it's commendable. i want to ask you a couple hypothetical situations and get your expert opinion of having worked all the years that

busting activities, he supported a strong national mediation board committed to ensuring that union elections are space and under the old law to give you an example anyone who didn't vote in an election was counted as a vote against the yen and that doesn't make sense and now counting the votes like any other election. [applause] at ar department of labor we are doing our part, too. we've recently proposed new rules requiring employers to report spending on those attorneys and consultants to persuade workers not to form a union. a very important role that you need to know about. [applause] we believe workers have a right to know who's trying to influence them and how much a company's earnings are being spent on anti-union activities. there was some good news recently for those who believe in collective bargaining, and i am asking you to recall the 40,000 tsa workers who recently were able to vote to form a union night for the first time. [applause] these are important milestones for the women and men who keep airports safe but just recently, yesterday in fact what about those 4,000 workers th

, and under the old law, anyone who did not vote in an election was counted as a vote against the unions. and this does not make sense. our discount those who actually vote, like any other election. at the department of labor we are doing our part. we have proposed new rules requiring employers to report spending on those attorneys and consultants that they hired to persuade workers not to form a union. this is a very important role that you need to know about. we believe workers have a right to know who is trying to influence them and how much the companies earnings are being spent on the anti-union activity. there was some good news for those who believe in collective bargaining. i am asking you to recall the 40,000 workers who recently were able to vote to form a union for the first time. these are important milestones for men and women who keep our airports safe. just recently, yesterday, what about the 4000 workers who are going to go back to work, and 70,000 construction workers who will be building and repairing our air force -- our airports? this took leadership and i think the a

if the union got me elected a won't go after the union for a better contract because i am relying on me reelected next time. that is problematic. we have to find a way to get the public more engaged in public education. you have got to know when your school board elections are and exactly what those people stand for and do they are going to stand for when it comes to running the school district. >> yes? let's have this question up front. >> i surge in city here. my question is programs like city air and teach for america often recruit a select group of students. how do we make sure all groups of students can serve their country? >> i love city year. >> how about that for an endorsement? >> city year with a huge component of our success in washington d.c.. when i first got to the city i went to the opening ceremony and got to see the excitement and came back and talked to the city year folks and set i have an idea. i want everyone of my schools to have a member and they said that is interesting. we have a better idea. basically what they said was they had a new program they wanted to

election. every state in the union except maine and vermont joined in the strong vote of confidence in if roosevelt and the new deal. on election night fdr was home in hyde park listening to the radio and reading the press tickers. as the astonishing results came in, he leaned back in his chair, blew a ring of cigarette smoke at the ceiling and said, wow. he beat the republican of kansas by a margin of 11 million votes. he won 523 electoral votes to only eight for landon. it was a stupendous, unequivocal mandate to fulfill the promises of the new deal. but soon after that earthquake election the political winds shifted, and that overwhelming mandate proved to be fragile. by the spring of 1937, roosevelt's long honeymoon with congress was over. and by 1938 things were falling apart. the country was sliding back into recession, and the supreme court was declaring unconstitutional key new deal legislation. but it was not only economics and checks and balances that frustrated roosevelt. he confronted another problem, too, there was a serious cleavage within his own party. it was true the democrats held

election. the afl-cio is launching a committee to advance union cause.ent $400 million helping to elect president obama in 2008, reportedly another $200 million in the mid-term buzz their new goals may be bigger. the chief of staff of the utility workers of america and the former chairman for the republican party of virginia. and young america's foundation. keefe it up why some republicans are aghast at this. >> the irony is in 2010 when this decision came down the supreme court between citizens united and the government saying unions could contribute unlimited resources. the afl-cio was on the front lines protesting this. saying it will give more influence to corporations. now they are taking more advantage of it than anyone. it's estimated they will be pouring about a billion dollars into obama's reelection efforts it's fine because everybody has a right to have a voice. and it will take lot more than a billion or 2 billion as his approvals go down well under 40%. megyn: is there any hypocrisy with the union taking that position? >> absolutely not. the

center-left star's to understand the the teachers' unions, they are standing in the way of students interest. the fact $40 million put into the 2010 elections psycho by teachers' unions tells you everything you need to know. those that are happening with education is chris christie, and i feel i do not even have to say the state. tennessee, michigan, rick schneider just passed a sweeping reform that they will affect every kid in the school system in detroit. this is something that the millennials get implicitly and we just need to start really go from those mountaintops when we have that opportunity the next election site go. the other issue that ranks highly with millennials is the environment. i argue in my book we need to make a strong case for conservative environmentalism. incidentally the republican party has the good history teddy roosevelt, richard nixon, we can talk about climate change in the knowledge it is happening but also the inexact science to know the cover of "newsweek" 1975 showing the global increase over to a knowledge and talk about it in a reasonable way without embracing the left solutions to levy enormous tax burden

the unions are the driver in getting them elected.whereas if reforms come into office, they would mobilize. if that is the dynamic, doesn't it make sense to say, well, that is kind of some proversion of democracy and so we have to address it by taking some of these rights away obvious moving to mayor of control or something else like that. >> well, look, we actually -- first off, we now argue using the exceptions to make the case. there have been lots and lots of elections throughout whether it's school board, whether it's, you know, senatorial elections, where it's other kinds of elections where lots of people have gotten engaged. thethe -- i have often seen the role of the union exaggerated when it comes to elections of school boards or other kinds of -- other kinds of things. and i've watched now the role of money in all of this. totally and completely change the relationship everywhere. now people should have a right to engage politically. that is part of our democracy. but separate and apart from that, take those situations like

a few interesting points, the importance of unions in washington, leading up to the election, and also9, the professor we spoke with in this piece unions were left for dead and then the resurgence of unions during the great depression. we'll see if we see that now. >> i remember doing a story in the 2008 election, union bosses, union leaders went door to door trying to convince their members to vote for barack obama because frankly union members weren't so hot on barack obama. they liked hillary clinton at the time. you have to wonder, how will these same union people feel about barack obama after, you know, the statistics we heard in your story. >> it's a very good point and there's two arguments. there's the argument in the numbers show it, that unions mean higher wages. across an industry, not just for union workers, but across an industry. the flip side of that, when you have the higher wages, then that can cause companies to want to outsource, to want to look elsewhere for workers. do they create jobs, do they create jobs in this country like they were telling us in this piece, or

under the old law, just to give you an example, anyone who did not vote in the election was counted as a vote against the union. that does not make sense. now, just counting the people who actually vote, like any other election. at our department of labor, we are doing our part. we recently proposed new rules requiring employers to reports been on those attorneys and consultants they hire to persuade workers not to form a union. a very important rule you need to know about. we believe workers have a right to know who is trying to influence them and how much the company's earnings are being spent on anti-union activity. there was some good news recently for people who believe in collective bargaining. i am asking you to recall the 40,000 tsa workers who recently were able to vote to form a union for the first time. [applause] these are important milestones for men and women who keep our airport safe. but just recently, yesterday in fact, what about those 4000 faa workers who are going to go back to work, and the 70,000 construction workers that will be back on the beat, building and repairing our force? that to

wisconsin here, part of the reason these recall elections are national news is because the scott walker and republicans agenda, this very, very strong anti-union agenda has a lot of national resonance and people are wondering if that upset is enough to actually flip election results back the other way, and in wisconsin right now, you guys need to -- you democrats need to net three seats in order to flip the senate back to democratic control. if that happens, what are you going to show the country you want to do with that? what would your priorities become? >> that's a great question. i guarantee those who are watching closest around the world, around the country, are republican governors and state legislators. if we do stem the tide here, it's going to send a loud and clear message for those who want to take away workers rights and other things throughout the country, they are probably going to back down. what we want to do in the state senate is restore worker's rights as best we can, but the one thing we're going to get out of this is we're going to be able to show governor walker one thing we've been trying to do all along, sit down and neg

still become a major recall election is going down tomorrow in the union busted state of wisconsin can democrats win back control of the state senate restore democracy my next guest will help me answer that question right after this break. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through a bit through who can you trust no one who is in view with of global machinery see where we. having state controlled capitalism is called satchels when nobody dares to ask we do our tea question more. judgment day for was causing governor scott walker's agenda is fast approaching in just twenty four hours polls will close in the badger state where six republican state senators are fighting for their political lives and recall elections is the largest recall election this nation has ever seen and democrats need to win three out of the six races or at least three to take control of the state senate and put the brakes on scott walker's anti-union agenda for good republicans and their fat kerry campaign donors aren't going down without a fight spending on th

european union treaty to allow that surrender of sovereignty the bureaucrats in brussels have been agitating for this back from the days of jacques to lower so that they would have an independent non-elected financial power over the the member governments of the european union so until that. that dysfunction is resolved and that's a major major political question that i think is perhaps one or two decades away in in the e.u. this question of national sovereignty versus a united states of europe i don't think we're going to see anything but a series of patchwork compromises just briefly the duros downs debt bubble this seems to be expanding and expanding is this going to burst the bench ellie do you think that the euro is in fact doomed. i. i think the commitment of especially germany and france to not allow the euro to be doomed is enormously strong because they they view their economic industrial future germany as the leading exportation. internationally today is tied to a stable year old or a euro that is the basis of that trade and especially sixty six percent of the trade of the eurozone countries is intra european union within the european union so it has many strong economic argumen