i forgot, the developer hasn't made a former commitment to hire union labor. in any case he's entitle to a 9-hour workday and 50-hour workweek. there is heavy bike traffic on valencia street. it requires buyers and renters to sign an affidavit and made aware of a theatre next door. we believe we have addressed the validity of this condition in our three page brief. we ask for the phrase to be inserted in the phrase. thank you very much for your time. >> can you repeat that last suggested modification? >> yes. quote, prior to the purchase -- >> what letter? >> condition h. >> okay. >> ", prior to purchase or lease" inserted after the phrase "to sign an affidavit. >> my eyes aren't finding. >> it's in the boards draft conditions of findings. first sentence. >> read the sentence in insert. >> prior to purchase or lease." where is that? >> to be inserted after the phrase, "to sign an affidavit". >> okay. prior to purchase or lease. okay. thank you. >> good evening, steve williams. i'm confused about the scope of the hearing. to my understanding is the hearing is t

in addition we're working with a store union labor union and we're tacking some of their suggestions in making improvements and so i want to recognize them all. thank you very much for the award >> thank you very much (clapping.) >> next, i want to ask the director of streets to recognize one of our astounding parking control officers. >> good afternoon mr. yee. >> good afternoon chair nolan and members of the board and director edward reiskin and sfmta. i'm really pleased to announce our winner maria this is quite an awe suspicious occasion it's here one year anniversary pr i hope we don't raise her expectations so much she'll expect something every year. i want to announce our manager of our enforcement division >> thank you. good afternoon. chairperson nolan and members of the board and he reiskin. so today we would like to honor parking control officer maria for her hard work and dedication. she's been with our division for one year now. and one sunday october 27th of last year maria was patrolling an assigned area in the marina district she observed two malls in an altercation a

well i think this i think it's really hard to talk about unions public sector unions or labor unions at large without it. asking the question of whether they are valid anymore you know they definitely serve a purpose but you know maybe it's time for labor unions to become extinct to give us the forty hour work week to give us the you know have a whole i'm not sure that i'm not i'm not diminishing what they've done in the past but i think that what's going to protect workers from going to argue that it's not really representing workers very well i mean. in our eyes and very many workers i mean that's what i'm saying i mean it is it isn't ok why wouldn't why is it so bad that labor unions go the way the horse like i think in this particular instance it's actually pretty clear that the labor unions have been had a positive effect on these home care workers wages jumped from like seven dollars to thirteen dollars an hour and actually public costs ironically you won't get this coming out of any conservatives mouse but the dropped about six hundred thirty two million dollars a year for thes

across europe right now and across the western world as a result of the collapse of the soviet union labor unions have been weakened. to the american city of omaha and now as we go into the yard. where a large of an animal feed plant there was left at least two people dead another ten seriously injured it's not yet clear what caused the blast and one witness inside the plant said he heard a large crowd before the back wall of the factory collapsed emergency services say all workers on the bodies not been accounted for. afghanistan fifty people working to clear mines are reportedly been abducted in the province of punjab tunes on a good local security officials say the group arrived in the area near the city of herat three years ago no one's claimed responsibility for the kidnapping at this point. the colombian military says it's killed fourteen members of the foreign rebel movement near the border with venezuela still to group was responsible for sabotaging oil installations as well as an ambush that killed more than a dozen government troops six months ago a colombian officials took part

across europe right now and across the western world as a result of the collapse of the soviet union labor unions have been weakened. and coming up today here at odyssey international are just about as far as you can get boxcars are suggesting that buying exactly shining examples of august. i would imagine if you asked the chairman and the president in the c b c right now what they had for lunch they would lie they would they would have made just out of baloney sandwich and they said we just had a turkey sandwich because it's in their culture it's in their d.n.a. they grew up liars they are liars they'll die liars their d.n.a. if you take it to another planet another universe another parallel dimension you could sell on the open market as d.n.a. that's made of pure lies whatever value that has in a parallel universe their lies their d.n.a. is made up of pure lies you know it's funny that they threaten to leave the u.k. if they were actually asked to obey the law i mean imagine jimmy savile here's a guy who committed pedophilia with over four hundred children and he's taken to the court tak

when union negotiations got difficult, it showed it would ready to go elsewhere for its labor.hat the company got and what it got is symbolic of what it takes in the new world in labor and tax policy or a troubling way to do business? >> tonight our members accepted boeing's proposal. >> reporter: in a deal passed by the slimmest of margins, boeings' machinist accepted a contract to build the boeing 777 x in the region. a cost of living and so thousand dollars signing bonus for current employees. >> tonight washington state secured it's future as aerospace capitol of the world. tonight boeing announced that the carbon fiber wing assembly and the fuselage assembly work will be done in the state of utah. >> reporter: boeing employs 174,000 people with 85,000 in and around the seattle area. the contract secures jobs in the region until the year 2022. >> mostly i feel pressure for the community. i'm voting yes. >> it's a big decision. a lot of people are looking at us, and i'm going to vote no. >> reporter: the decision was difficult for the 30,000 members of the international asso

i'm not sure how deep that discussion is going to be but add union labor and union grocery store and we'll appreciate having that discussion added on that. again withhold to continue to participate into the stakeholder and any other meetings that planning may pilth put together. i appreciate he everyone consideration >> thank you. next speaker, please for those who are in line. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> anyone interested to speak? >> good afternoon. commissioners and planning staff i'm pamela and i want to thank you for the opportunity to speak today. i would like to provide you all with a copy of a formula retail mapping prong that has been conducted by the local brokerage community. we've done our best to survey every neighborhood. what's not concluded in this report is the study of chinatown and bayview and outer mission. we have not included union square. we've found a vacancy rate of 4.8 percent and 13 percent formula retail and within that group of formula retails 36 percent are locally bay area local chains. take a look at the facts and incorporate those into our

he did use union labor and they kept to a 40-hour week and built large buildings quite happily. i think this is a necessary condition to not interfere with the operations of the marsh which is a rare treasure and needs to stay in the mission district. also, i think the condition for revealing to perspective buyers and tenants that there might be a noise issue might be reasonable. i would want to know that in advance. and thank you for your time. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> good evening commissioners. tim cold on on behalf of the housing action. the december meeting was disappointing and also widely notice. the 2000 plan which the project completely conforms took hundreds of community meetings and public hearings to adopt. thousands of people participated in its formation. we thought it was timid in the response by the challenges in san francisco. one of it's central premises was the bargain that in exchange for fees for residential development the city would offer increased certainty and reducing risk for a building trademark of housing in san francisco. if we underst

uncertainties still do exist in these numbers such as the economic uncertainty, the results of this city's union labor negotiations as well as continued cost in increases in employee fringe benefits. as for the budget instructions for our department is to reduce general fund support by 1. percent in fiscal year 14-15. to $40,000 and by 1 percent which equates to $67,000 for 15-16. we don't receive much general support from the general fund. there is an additional one 1 percent contingency reduction in fiscal year 15-16 and instructions by the mayor department is reveal of departmental fees and we'll be submitting a budget to the mayor that does meet his instructions. here is an overview of the department's base staffing level by division. at this time we are not expecting any significant staffing changes over the next two fleer -- fiscal years. it represents the staff we do have on hand. we are considering proposing additional new staff to continue with the increase that we have and the backlog. when i come to you february 6th you will see those proposed new positions. so now i would like to go into m

most of the money will be union labor, such a gigantic subsidy. so that's a gigantic factor. i really am offended by the ct this gentleman says american is one big pothole. maybe he's one big pothole. i drive to malibu almost every week. i never hit any big potholes. >> the president has no good policy. >> by the way. >> you are offended by that? >> the waste involved in infrastructure projects are off the charts. there was something that the port authority. >> unbelievable. >> the port authority in new york and new jersey built a tunnel to nowhere about ten years, 15 years ago, they spent millions of dollars. >> it's a union bribe. >> well, bottom line, i would say, look at the bottom line. they can verify all this money, i am hope to give them more. not until then. put down that bought. not this bottle. this bottle. one high end restaurant is thinking about as a business owner, i'm constantly putting out fires. so i deserve a small business credit card with amazing rewards. with the spark cascard from capital one, i get 2% cash back on ery purchase, every day. i break my ba

i forgot, the developer hasn't made a former commitment to hire union labor. in any case he's entitle to a 9-hour workday and 50-hour workweek. there is heavy bike traffic on valencia street.

i forgot, the developer hasn't made a former commitment to hire union labor. in any case he's entitle to a 9-hour workday and 50-hour workweek. there is heavy bike traffic on valencia street. it requires buyers and renters to sign an affidavit and made aware of a theatre next door. we believe we have addressed the validity of this condition in our three page brief. we ask for the phrase to be inserted in the phrase. thank you very much for your time. >> can you repeat that last suggested modification? >> yes. quote, prior to the purchase -- >> what letter? >> condition h. >> okay. >>

. >> i want to start with the big picture which a lot of people know the share of the union labor force down to 11%. that's the lowest since 1916. where do your groups fit in in a labor force with less unions? >> we are trying to fill the gaps. in particular, we are actually creating new models that allow workers to come together in different ways with other stake holders. employers actually organize employers who are doing the right thing, providing good wages and working conditions. consumers, a lot of organizations like ours that are new and newly emerging are engaged in very different tactics than unions or the unions of the past. they are really trying to put out a frame of collective prosperity. the idea that if these workers do well, many of whom are the lowest wage workers in america and also don't have union support. if these workers do well, employers do well and consumers as well. >> and as you know, there is a real concern among the business community that worker center should face the same restrictions as labor unions under the law. the vice president of the national restau

the newspaper reports the union president is disappointed some of the administration proposed rules to exempt laborhe proposed fixes don't go far enough. >> thank you, doug. >> california congressman henry wax man announcing he is retiring. the democrat spent four decades in the house but says he will not seek reelection because it is time for someone else to make their mark. women's rights activist sand drew flute flew to the national stage in 2012 when she was denied a right to testify on a hearing over contraception rights. >> a plane came to a stop a couple hundred feet away from homes. none of the four people were hurt. it is a third incident in and around the airport in the past four months. >>> georgia's governor taking responsibility for the response to the winter storm. they apologized for not making preparations soon enough. it stranded stool buses a -- sc buses an thousands of drivers. most of the abandoned cars were taken care of many towed. >>> many metro atlantic schools remain closed. ♪ >> a bitter cold year about to see a warm-up in time for the big game. >> maria molina is in time'

it is not about union labor. this is about american labor. american jobs across the board. >> it is about the secrecy. why can't they show this bill to the public, to congress? >> it is finally starting to get the attention in congress that it absolutely deserves. we can get president obama thinking correctly on this. >>> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. we did a poll on this program last night and asked folks, do you think you're next door neighborhood knows about the tpp and fast track? over 90% of the respondents said no, which doesn't surprise me. we just illustrated we've been talking about this for months on end. boehner just the other day said this election in 2014, the midterm, is going to be about jobs and health care. hey, i'm all about it. i'm ready for round two of health care and i'm all about seeing this country create jobs and everybody get a better chance. if that's what it's about, don't you think we can get some job creation numbers from mr. boehner? have you seen your local news where it says su

i think it is that last slide, kind of. >> labor unions. on the thermometer, tea party is really not like labor unions. chris christie has made a reputation for being very anti-labor. that's an indication he does not love the guy. is numbers have gotten worse with the party republican since he embraced obama after the hurricane. if he ends up being the nominee, i am not sure that it's going to happen, but if he were, there are these things there that they can convince themselves they ike. in the general election, they will come around. >> i want to add to that. the one thing for chrstie that romney did not possess is that there is one thing they can point to and say, we really like this. that was not there with omney. i think the chris christie video here he was going off on teachers and teachers unions is something. they played at me very happy. with romney, there was nothing they could point to. >> the democrats have to nominate somebody. hillary clinton will generate a similar amount of dislike. we will have the same thing. whether it is

and between big and small firms. >> most of major companies are expected to respond to labor union demands in mid-march. >>> but most businesses in japan are still mulling wage hikes for employees. that's according to a new nhk survey. the news comes as business sentiment continues to improve among japanese companies. nhk polled 100 major companies in mid-january. 71% said they're considering bigger compensation packages from april. the figure is up 27 points from november last year. among the firms weighing wage hikes 32% are considering periodic raises while 37% said they would pay bigger bonuses. only 9% are weighing an across the board increase in basic pay rates. managers at ihi said they're among this 9%. brisk aircraft engine sales have triggered expectations for strong earnings at the firm this year. they said they want to raise salaries, because prices are likely to go up. but the managers are still cautious about increasing base salaries. >> translator: raising basis rates will increase our costs so we want to find out whether or not this is the best approach. >> many business ma

labor. and so the unions got the message. if we go too far they will move our jobs. >> and politically? ls the labor unions that the rank and file members will only go so far in a left wing direction. if you present your case to the rank and file labor people, not just the union bosses, you will get a good result. >> john, you say you got a job or don't got a job. bad english but that's the bottom line. >> union bosses are saying, some supported it but others say they are bluffing. >> they didn't bluff in south carolina with the dream liner. >> quickly, my mother is having a -- breaking news this hour, and you and i talked you said it is not breaking new. the nsa now responding to senator bernie sanders office that said you are spying on the member was congress. the nsa said you have the same protections as every u.s. american citizens which is i think a yes? >> i wouldn't put a lot of confidence in that. i talked to the people in the intelligence community, what they say, the nsa will tell congress what they want to hear and tell them little as possible and only tell the committee chair

that is something that the labor unions don't want to happen.here are some trade agreements that are pending, judge, asia-pacific nations as well as european countries. >> and there are some trade agreements that already exist from the bush years and the democrats voted against it then and the labor unions were against it then. i agree with what a.b. said. i think the democrats are horribly divided. i don't think the state of the union speech was handmade aimed at his base out in the hinderlands that are deserting him. the left doesn't think he's left enough and the mainstream democrats think obamacare was a disaster and the president is caught between the two. this particular piece of legislation which divides the president from the most powerful human being in the congress, majority leader harry reid, will further divide the democratic party. i don't know the outcome, but the president can't have it both ways. he can't both push this piece of legislation which from the point of the free market is very good and try and service the left who are

i learned in 1946 from a white woman who taught in a union labor school in tennessee, that the song had tobacco workers because they saying it to strike through the winter of 1946. it was entrusting, south carolina. -- it was in charleston, south carolina. they taught it to the teacher of the labor school. she said, it's my favorite song. i printed it in our little magazine in new york as "we will overcome" in 1947. it was a friend of mine who made it famous. he picked up my way of singing it "we shall overcome was quick and there was another teacher there, a black woman, she felt " shall" open up the mouth better than "will." in 1960, guy taught it to young people at the founding convention of snic. later it wasn't "a" song but "the coastal zone. then i get a letter from a infessor in pennsylvania february 1909 to a letter on the front pages last year at our strike we opened every meeting with a prayer and the singing that good old song "we will overcome." so it is probably the late 19th century union version of what was a well-known gospel song ♪ i'll overcome i'll overcome i'll overc

adam: coalition of public labor unions filed suit to seek to overturn the first-of-its-kind public pensionposed to close illinois's $160 billion unfunded pension liability but the labor unions call it unconstitutional. illinois state treasure and candidate for governor dan rutherford was against the law because he warned it would not pass judicial review. in an exclusive with fox business, rutherford said it will also fail to save illinois taxpayers mon. >> i let me respond to the constitutional side, adam. illinois has a specific clause about diminishing benefits. as i looked what i had, in fact the bill wasn't even available at the time when they made it be known over the thanks give being weekend. from what i could understand of it i had major concerns about the constitutionality, that is number one. in real terms there were no actuarial numbers available to the general assembly or governor or myself as straight treasurer. whether it was known to be a bill of goods at that time, i don't think anyone pro a financial analysis standpoint did have enough information to adequately say if it

>> yes. >> and that's what got the labor union pissed off?k they were pushing to get subsidies and the legislation could not be unilaterally. >> the president doesn't believe in legislation, does he? >> last one, we had senator senator burr on. what do you make of it? it's a gop alternative to obamacare. what's your take on it? >> it turns over to the regulation of the health insurance plans and it's so unafrac tif that really no one wants to buy it. it gives people an incentive to get into the insurance market and a tax penalty enforcement and they continue to not be rerated. there is a transition problem. some people can't afford to stay in the market if they, for example, lose their job and the bill provides subsidies. >> sam burr told me that the bill does provide for sick people. one of my arguments, just going back many, many months, is the public does not yet trust the republican party to take care of pre-existing continues. i.e., sick people. in your opinion, senator said they will as long as they are in the same plan. is that true an

labor union. they voted 21-6 to reject the initiative. >> we're going to head back to italy for more on the democratic party'sing star, renzi. that story coming up in ex-. -- next. ♪ >> now, there is nothing very original in the ideas of mr. renzi for labor market reform, but the big new thing is that these ideas, which are pretty classical, come from the head of the democratic party. it was precisely because the then head of the democratic party wasn't able to move the majority of the party in that direction that we couldn't deliver as much as we would have liked. >> there was a compliment in there somewhere, i think. >> yeah, a little bit. a little bit. of course the factions -- it is quite hot. that was mario monti this week n "the pulse." renzi takes the spotlight today at the democratic meeting. >> pleptsing his 15-point plan on labor reform. are his policies hype or are they going to take italy somewhere? >> let's discuss all of this with a political science professor in rome. first of all,

talk to me about the role of labor unions and whether or not you can strengthen labor unions in a ways this issue. >> to show you how easy it is to get this minimum wage up to 1968, which would be about $10.70, only a few thousand workers supported by fciu have got an lot of this publicity, picketing mcdonald's and other fast-food chains. imagine if a million of the 30 million workers hit the streets, how much faster this would occur. this has huge popular support all over the country. a conservative worker in walmart is going to say, i'm conservative, i want to work for $8 an hour. doesn't happen. and so what we're seeing here is the democrats in congress are too sluggish. george miller and senator harkin, they have put this bill in after a little pressure from some of us. but they're not really pushing it. and so i wrote richard trump, the afl-cio, like my fourth letter and said come on, take a real lead here, for heaven's sake. these workers are potential union members in the future. so we got a kick-start the sluggish democratic establishment in washington. and, you know, they're

aroundas some infighting turning the union into a more traditional labor union with locals and professionalizing the union. at that point, all union members and staffers were volunteers. cesar wanted to maintain a sort of more sense of community and community around sacrifice and building even a residential community. that caused a big rift in the union. i would call it a power struggle. i think cesar had difficulty managing and leading the union and that victory period and the infighting became very destructive and a lot of animosity emerged between the talented union organizers who have built the union and cesar. alternately, it cost the union its effectiveness and its ability to lead in the past as -- eventually,n union membership began to decline. >> richard perez, it is a therkable documentary and footage you have of that last fast come everybody should see. director of "cesar's last fast." this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. when we come back, we cover another movement, the civil rights movement. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is demo

resisting their state union choosing instead to opt out of the mandatory union fees for representation the concern among supporters for labor unions is that the supreme court could overturn almost forty years worth of legal precedent that is given leverage for the organized labor movement and on the surface this case seems fairly innocuous and knock us excuse me as it has received little to no attention at the corporate media its outcome could have damning implications for the future of unions and middle class workers all across the nation earlier today i was joined by craig bakker general counsel but the a.f.l. c.i.a.o. to discuss this case and i first asked him why it's problematic that states were. opt out of pain union feeds. there's nothing problematic with people opting out and that's what the law already provide so the law already provides and has provided for decades and no one is required to be a union member so if as in this case a majority of the workers wish to be represented then in the public sector as well as in the private sector the union represents everybody in the unit so if they negotiate a wage increase

he wasn't just a union-driven, labor union driven candidate. the break with cultural extremism as he saw it. he was willing to break it and take positions that made him not just the guy who represents all the democratic constituencies he inherited, but something plus. isn't that always the challenge for hillary coming up? >> there's no doubt about it. the mayor in baltimore has great ideas on transit and how to create jobs and make her city more efficient. it would behoove those around her to understand what she's doing and some of her peers around the country. in 1992 bill clinton was a champion with the help of al fromme championing the earned income tax credit which encouraged people to work, encouraged employers to hire people. we've got to find those new ideas, those new things that we as democrats can hang our hat on and more importantly that we can trumpet and champion. i think he'll be a campaigner for the future and candidate for the future and she'll bring to life what her husband has always said, that campaigns and politics are alway

the supreme court heard arguments on a case that could radically alter the way labor unions are able to force themselves on the labor force in the country. it involved home care workers in illinois, but the broader ramifications could be wider. >> every individual should have the freedom to choose exactly what special interest group if any they want to support. >> william messenger, for the workers who say their constitution al rights are violated because they're forced to pay dues to a union they don't want anything to do with, is hopeful the supreme court is going to make a change, just as elena kagan said, quote, would radically restructure the way workplaces across this country are run. in 2003, the state of illinois amended its public relations act to name them as state employees for the purchase of bargaining. home health workers who refused to join still have to pay dues. they're stabilizing industry in illinois. >> wages have increases, benefits have increases, and therefore, we're able to provide a situation where people with disabilities and people who are aging can still re

movement for the reasons i i think if you disagree please correct me but you know historically labor unions by the vote of their membership have been supportive of democratic candidates and so they're trying to destroy the unions because that's the last bastion of organized resistance to republican policies at the electoral level. i think you're right i think what's going on here the battle against unions is political obviously it's economic implosion want to pay less and they know union standard away because unions want to organize them and get better wages for their members but part of it is the political thing you know the koch brothers in the the far right is always looking at two thousand and fourteen two thousand and sixteen they have maps of every state why did we lose why did obama win in michigan when they have a republican governor and the answer was organized labor why did obama win ohio organized labor so what do they attack organized labor because they realize we're the ones with organization we can rally people to go out and talk about the issues and talk about getting out the

and the teamsters are among the most vocal group working to try to stop the fast track from a union and labor standpoint what should we be worried about means that ng from just from the narrow labor perspective and i with the teamsters and we've been fighting for fair trade since the mother of all trade rights nafta our focus is always been on raising labor rights and wage rates globally and not the downward harmonization that the nafta model has you know been characterized by. so for example in t v p we're looking for. a strong labor rights protections was specifically from the international labor organization the aiello there are conventions on labor that protect against child labor force labor you know the rights of freedom of association collective bargaining these are important to us in the labor movement and we'd like to see other countries you know in force similar labor provisions so that there isn't that downward harmonization as you know one of these trade deals you know they create incentives for. race to the bottom corporations they move production to the place of the least labor