by san francisco being a union town, we were not getting the jobs. i was one of those that went to the labour council and at that time, it was dan smith that was the secretary. i said, if you intend to have workers, i will make sure that people from my community, we got a memorandum of understanding through the city planning department that 51% of the workers that would work on executive park would come from bayview hunters point. we want to have something on record. stan smith became the board member. and the statement at that time was a person, they would go and stan smith would approve the fact that it was coming through to work and it would join the union. in the 1970's, that is what we did. that has been 40 years. and my question, because i know he is here, i couldn't believe, when i found out a few months ago, he is the vice president of the black organization and opposes local hiring. i could not understand that. when i started asking about of prejudice, what people can become, i would like to have some statistics of how many people from dave

this is a union town, and we think local hiring really only works when it is union jobs. we want to see a jobs plan that promotes opportunities for the local communities, businesses, and on any construction or construction-related activities. prevailing wage. training. what we want to do is provide benefits. that is what you get when you have local hiring. you get long-term career opportunities. when it comes to the local hiring hall, i think we do not have a full sense of where it applies, but i think we will get that when we come back in a month or see the draft and see how to expand the policies of local hire to non-construction, which a considerable -- which is a considerable part of the drums. we are dealing with folks that are funding this thing better into racing really big boats. they might not be into community hiring and why we go union, and this is why we create the leverage to do this. to insist whether it is a privately funded or publicly funded, whenever we build we have community standards. we have one month to do that. when we build, let's think about prev

we have 150 different labor unions in town and there are multiple issues that we're very proud that we have been able to take up over the last few years as president casey has mentioned. i just want to say that it was very historic and as everybody knows the public option and the san francisco health care ordinance that we passed with the levin zero -- levin zero super majority of the board and mayor graven newsome's signing was a very historic day. this is not -- today is not -- even though we have been talking about it for months, today is not the first short period of time we talked about this particular legislation. this was a debate that happened five years ago. this was a debate that was concluded in this historic legislation is on the books. i think we have all been over the last few months very surprised at the moment of money that's been taken out of the health care available for basically service, nonunion service workers. i think we've all been shocked, everybody in this room. the fact that we are even debating this $1.37 an hour or whatever else to not be taken into and sta

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town. the european union is! preparing a new round of sanctions against syria. officials say that they above target economic entities that support the government of elah thought -- el assad. demonstrations on the internet coming from various cities. activists in the country say that at leastwoeople were killed. united nations estimate is that 2200 people have been elected dead since march. afghan authorities said they have recovered the bodies of two germans that went missing, one of them by hiking trip two weeks ago. the bodies have been taken to the u.s. air base, where the bill be handed over to german authorities. the prime minister said that the identification process had not yet been completed. they believe that the germans were murdere. in germany the parliament has begun to debate the 2012 budget. it calls for less borrowing and higher tax revenues. this against the backdrop of the roseau debt crisis, confirming the global economic slowdown. >> german leaders are anxiously waiting for wednesday to find out if the country's top court will rule that the eu

town, but the project sparked a war of words at city hall. san francisco's muni line connects bay view and sunnydale, it could extend through union square, also finally through china town. >> it is a fabulous idea, we need transportation to that area. >> reporter: but now the city attorney who is running for mayor wants to stop the expansion because the cost has increased a billion to 1.6 billion. >> there is questions about the ridership projections, and questions about the ability to connect communities, which is the original reason for the project. >> political words, but also it is not for the future of san francisco. >> mayor ed lee says that herrera is playing politics. >> for somebody at this late stage, saying it is not where it needs to go, they are misleading the public. this is a good project, and when people put it in the short term context of perhaps a mayor's race, they do the public a disservice. i mean we have to make sure we're protecting taxpayer dollars long-term. >> riders are pleased with the project, but cautious about the price tag. >> it is a crowded bus situation, so any way to relieve that problem would be a good thi

. >> reporter: the path from the union-heavy small town in wisconsin led to a conservative pedigree.l staffer -- >> i'm paul ryan, candidate for congress. >> reporter: then with a long shot bid for a house seat 13 years ago. >> well, paul ryan is maybe a rare thing in washington. he is what he seems. >> reporter: bill bennett is a conservative talk radio host and cnn contributor. he was one of ryan's mentors, along with supply-side guru jack kemp in the early 1990s. >> he is a guy without guile, without pretense. he likes to hang out with actua actuaries, for relaxation -- >> who doesn't?! >> which is kind of a funny thing. he also hunts elk with a bow and arrow, so he's an interesting character. >> and it literally gets our economy -- >> reporter: he's had the deficit in his sights for years, but even republicans steered clear of some of his more controversial budget ideas. that is, until the tea party became the rage. >> i think it is because of the circumstances of what happened that the recession, the resulting vengeance spending that occurred after it, and then passing entitleme

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. >> new jersey's governor christie is giving out free campaign advice in a town hall in union, new jerseysome of it. >> my name is jack i'm from springfield. i'm in 6th grade and i'm thinking of running for student council in school. any tips? >> first thing is, make sure that you get a bunch of friends who think you would be the best person for 6th grade to go out there and help. the more people that are rpbd you the more other people think you are probably going to win, that helps. have colorful posters. [ laughing ] >> they let you hang up posters for the campaign? do you know? hang 'em up until they tell you to take 'em down.+@&hc% [ applause ] >> and the last thing is, don't make promises you can't keep. [ applause ] >> because if you do, they won't be voting for you in 7th grade. >> greta: a terrifying scene in china. raging currents carrying away a restaurant boat many the boat broke free from its docks, speeded down the river, rescue crews rush odd to stop it but didn't make it in time. then more trouble as the boat collided with a larger restaurant boat. everyone onboard was thr

it happened during the great depression when workers rose up in my town of flint, michigan, where the modern day unionovement began because people took over the gm factories. this is what happens when people have had it. this is just going to build and build. what i see here, i don't think your cameras can pick this up. you see a variety of americans here shall the mosaic of this country. you have young people here. you have senior citizens here. you have teachers here. you have nurses here. you have unemployed people here. you have young people who will be paying off student loans until their 40s. if they lived in any other western democracy, they wouldn't be in hock for half of their adult lives. >> you don't want to miss the lawrence o'donnell show "the last word" on the biggest issues and most compelling stories of the day. it airs weeknights at 8:00 p.m. only on msnbc, the place for politics. >>> coming up, spills, chills, and th and thrills on the very last day of baseball's season. includes a dramatic two-out home run for the rays and even more drama to come. you are watching "first look" on ms

union. i grew up in a blue collar town. this is about balancing and asking everybody in our state to help out. because as ohio gets healthier, which it's doing by the way, our credit has improved, we wiped out an $8 billion structural deficit. we've cut taxes we've got ourselves in a position to help small business. we kept an income tax cut we had so that we can be more competitive. and we're beginning to see success. we have retained many jobs. we have new jobs coming into this state. ohio is on the move. and it's interesting, around the country people are talking about ohio and the fact that we solve our problems, we met them and did the right thing. and a lot of people say they ought to learn about this in d.c. >> with the presidential election well under way, do you think that president obama think that president obama could win ohio ? and assuming your answer will be no, which republican candidate do you think could win ohio and who will be be endorsing? >> well, right now i'm not endorsing anybody because i have too

union stay with us. taking. a long evening welcome across town peter little as the great global economic financial contraction continues unabated is it time to rethink capitalism as we know it today should the world still rely on markets to generate wealth when the rich only get richer and middle class is crushed and is there a capitalism that can serve the interests of all. can see. across that the future of capitalism i'm joined by tom palmer in washington he's a senior fellow at the cocktail institute in new york we cross the iran gupta he is the founding editor of the independent newspaper and in bangkok we have richard duncan he is an author and chief economist at black horse asset management in singapore all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want but for a smash i'd like to go to you is capitalism doomed it depends on who you ask peter for many western consumerist producers managers and owners capitalism has been more than an exercise in wealth generation and distribution has been a fundamental belief in deregulation that fuel consumption lower taxes and more politic

today he spoke at a labor day gathering in a town hit hard by the recession. >> reporter: union mortars were out in detroit. unemployment is 11%. two points higher than the national average. the president presided over a labor day union rally. [ music playing ] >> reporter: but this crowd needed no warming up. just like the crowds who greeted president obama on the trail back in 2008, they gave him a rock star welcome. when heeds it's time for republican lawmakers to put their country ahead of their party and create more jobs, he was preaching to the crowds. >> 1 million construction workers ready to get dirty right now. there is work to be done and workers ready to do it. businesses on board. we just need congress on board. >> reporter: the president has been under fire from republicans for the weak economy and a 9.1% national jobless rate. president obama through out a challenge. >> you say you are the party of tax cuts, prove you will fight for middle class families as you do for oil companies. show us what you got. >> president obama will deliver his speech on jobs to congress on th