workers for huge amounts of time to do government work while they do the union work. in shadowbosses, we put the numbers together and according to official government reports, federal employees spend over 3 million hours, 2010 statistics on official time which means they're getting paid to work for the government that they are doing union work instead. that cost the taxpayers at least $137 million in salary benefits but when you put this date, local and county, you are looking at 23 million man-hours a year at a cost of over $1 billion. that is a direct subsidy and we are not including the other subsidies like giving them office space, giving them copiers, letting them use telephones as well as a number of other items that we subsidize

this is not intuitive and i had no luck when i brought that argument to union works. > >>>>> talked to thousands of union members came to philadelphia and said we need a second bill of rights. >> it included the right to full i am employment, a living wage. i had a number of arguments with some. let's start with one. why when some workers are much more effective than others the union rules mean the slackers the real goof offs can't be fired. >> duds the body of a slacker get paid when you get paid? >> no, because there is no slacker. >> no. >> everybody is there to do a job. >> the unions we had to reach out and bring that person up to speed. we had to bring up everyone responsible to the next person. >> do they all get up to speak? >> absolutely. >> all of them? >> absolutely. >> are they all up to speed? who knew. john tillman of the policy institute has been studying the illinois teacher's union and other unions. it is hard to fire a teacher. i assume they are all up to speed. they a >> they are all equal, john. there is what i like to call the union sealiceiling. they are in the cl

this is not intuitive and i had no luck when i brought that argument to union works. > >>>>> talked to thousands of union members came to philadelphia and said we need a second bill of rights. >> it included the right to full i am employment, a living wage. i had a number of arguments with some. let's start with one. why when some workers are much more effective than others the union rules mean the slackers the real goof offs can't be fired. >> duds the body of a slacker get paid when you get paid? >> no, because there is no slacker. >> no. >> everybody is there to do a job. >> the unions we had to reach out and bring that person up to speed. we had to bring up everyone responsible to the next person. >> do they all get up to speak? >> absolutely. >> all of them? >> absolutely. >> are they all up to speed? who knew. john tillman of the policy institute has been studying the illinois teacher's union and other unions. it is hard to fire a teacher. i assume they are all up to speed. they a >> they are all equal, john. there is what i like to call the union sealiceiling. they are in the cl

while they do union work. in "shadowbosses," we put the numbers together, and according to official government reports, federal employees spend over 3 million hours -- this is 2010 statistics on official time -- meaning they are paid to work for the government, but they are doing union work instead. that cost the taxpayers $137 million, but when you put it in state, local, and county, you are looking at 23 million man hours a year at a cost of over $1 billion. that's a direct subsidy. that's not including others like office space, copiers, letting them use telephones as well as a number of other items that we subsidize them with. in this time when we are cutting back teachers, when we are cutting back workers, high unemployment, why are we spending a billion dollars a year just to subsidize unions who take in multiple billions of dollars a year? interesting facts we found -- even most of you know that tsa was recently unionized. before tsa was unionized, we found reports in minutes of homeland security. homelan

government unions promote leftism. while i was working on shadow bosses i was able to prove and suspect but never know the unions elect politicians to office. they not only get the union votes, they also get reliable left votes on a whole host of issues. our research has shown the most labour supported members of congress have an abysmal voting record on all types of votes that matter to their members and conservatives. the vote against business, they voted against family values, against life, the vote against second amendment. we have a chart like to share with you if you are interested and will be up on www.shadowbosses.com showing the politicians and the money they spend. interestingly enough, the members don't agree with the way the union bosses spend money on these issues. the members are not even knowledgeable and in many cases it is hidden from them. in the senate spending by the government employee unions on the politics matter to refuse single one of fuss but it also matters to their members and the members do not get to see at a

just union work. homeland security. >> 40% of unionized. john: i am depressed their writing a book together and still set next to each other. elizabeth fact john: [applause] everyone wants more pay. i negotiate with my boss over my salary, pension. government workers do that. but there negotiation is different because their boss is a politician who will be long gone by the time the bill for medical care comes do. politicians make some money promises and as a result they are trillions of dollars in the hour bet. where will tomorrows politicians get the money? they will probably stiff workers. no more money left. my favorite expert is d from them manhattan institute. some have made smart changes and from utah we have governor herbert what did you do? >> we try to think long term. we move from the defined benefits to the defined contribution. john: oh my gosh. don't say those words. [laughter] steve uses those all the time but i know that you are switching off. explain why it you talk about. john: defined benefit mean the politicians defined t

if not unions working with management. the auto industry would seize to itself. >> the only reason gm is existing now is the union got special treatment from the president. don't tell me if you don't support union don't get anything. they get government favors and they are in bed with the government. >> that spends time and energy and management wasted to try to get through the negotiations and you are right. shame on american. 62 percent of the flights are on time as compared to the rest of the industry. i have no idea. the union members keep come asking for more. it has to stop. >> this sick out is a legitimate fire them. it is that simple. this goes back to inept management >> we will have to warn wayne rogers that we need a ride on the jet. >> it is huge. >> let me show you my jet. all right. and coming up. taking extra dips from taxpayer and states go broke. coming up on america's news headquarters, join us. >> another lawmaker double dipping. collecting a pension and earning a taxpayer funded salary. dozens of lawmak

just union work. homeland security. >> 40% of unionized.ohn: i am depressed their writing a book together and still set next to each other. elizabeth fact john: [applause] everyone wants more pay. i negotiate with my boss over my salary, pension. government workers do that. but there negotiation is different because their boss is a politician who will be long gone by the time the bill for medical care comes do. politicians make some money promises and as a result they are trillions of dollars in the hour bet. where will tomorrows politicians get the money? they will probably stiff workers. no more money left. my favorite expert is d from them manhattan institute. some have made smart changes and from utah we have governor herbert what did you do? >> we try to think long term. we move from the defined benefits to the defined contribution. john: oh my gosh. don't say those words. [laughter] steve uses those all the time but i know that you are switching off. explain why it you talk about. john: defined benefit mean the politicians defined the

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there are unions in right to work states. there is higher union density in alabama than states that do not have a right to work laws. the idea of giving the workers a choice is outside of what we have been talking about. if unions provide benefits, workers will join them. host: donna816 tweets in -- mocrat.e, dan, deom caller: good morning. it is all well and good at what you are saying about the guys having a right to join the union or not join the union. that is just a smokescreen. the companies, the corporations, the bosses have way more power. as soon as you get rid of the union, they will start to exercise that power and leverage that power. if you want to have a union, they will run you out, fire you, get rid of you. they will hire a guy you will come in and say they will do that job for $10 for an hour and he will probably be an illegal to boot. what about the guys in the union shop who do not want to pay the dues but want to get all the benefits the union negotiates for them? why should they get something for nothing?

i worked there 25 years at 510 union, worked 22 -- carpenter.cisco -- i won't put up with this riffraff because -- small businesses open, where you got people doing the drugs, whatever kind of drugs they are, blocking the street, and terrorizing, and now here goes 6th street, and goes up to leavenworth and turk up there and continues and continue. internal affairs is going to have to take a good strong look, that's management control, what's going on with that, with letting that happen, continue to happen. now a lot of people say go to jail and you let them back out again. that's the way i see it so i don't know what to tell you. i spent three and a half hours here to tell you that. so i appreciate you clean up 6th street south of market there. and then like 7th and market by un plaza, people got stolen kind of electronics they're selling, 7th and market. and that's all really i have to say. so i'm glad i said it. i waited a lot of time to say it. like i say san francisco mine -- going to run for mayor some day, seriously, honestly. okay? and i

dysfunctional forget about it what occupy is doing the horizontal structure working with the labor unions working with the environmentalists the student movements we've got to get out of this democrat republican frame if you're not a donkey or a elephant the corporate media doesn't know where to plug you and that's why everybody's puzzled about oh what is this what is this movement well it's a repudiation of the corruption in washington they cannot get anything done and will not get anything done with specially when it's at the banks the banks run the show everybody knows that that's why they landed in wall street i just want to jump in here gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the occupy movement one iran state. wealthy british scientists on hold some time to practice. for their. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports. is steve. to. say. it's. like millions of americans i've lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as many that's no

say they are also losing out when it comes to speed of delivery our building sectors have a unionized. working rules but if you look at the foreign companies people work ten twelve thirteen fourteen hours a day six days. that of course for delivery speed of your project is a huge advantage and more belgian clients are opting to try their services base people are much more flexible so that's that's why we tried it and it was it was a success europe's debt crisis has dealt a massive blow to a sector that employs up to sixteen million e.u. citizens and with no clear signs of the tough times letting up tension is brewing especially when local firms feel they're getting the short end of the stick on their own turf tesser see. r.t. antwerp in belgium. things are but if a greece is for the sufferer italy either the world oldest bank there found it before christopher columbus discovered america is now on the verge of bankruptcy while the banks predicament is explored in the cause report with max and stacy explaining its looming downfall the full program is coming up at seven thirty pm g.m.t. but here'

in right to work states you don't have anywhere near the unionism as the forced union states. there's only seven states where you're not forced in collective bargaining and 16 of those right to work states, when there's a union they can't force you to pay them, but they are your sole representatives and 60% more people do pay them then e so your rights are overwelcomed by the presence of the union then in the workplace. and do you think that's going to change? how strong is the right to work movement and how is this confrontation between what, as you point out, is rising union power and riches to move ahead in the private sector as well as the public. >> the union has 14 billion dollars a year that we can find that they spend to push politicians to feather to nests and what happens is that the members have no idea who they're actually -- the politicians they're supporting and what they do with their money. it is just shocking. >> lou: very quickly, how much of a role do you think unions are going to play in this presidential election? >> you wouldn't have the democrat party tha

some people would say maybe unions could call the money. it would be a lot harder work. >> inside the unions themselve., >> you may not support a candidate and there you are supporting a candidate that you might not want to actually vote for. >> from what i can tell, the union leadership is resolute. they see the status quo. i think if you had a rank and file undercurrent. can you have the california teacher's association. the single largest this is a

union in the workplace. and do you think that is going to change? how strong is the right to work and how is this confrontation between what as you point out is rising union power and riches with which to move ahead they're efforts in the private sector as well as the public. >> well, the unions have about $14 billion a year that we can find that this band. it puts politicians to of the other their nests. and what happens is the members have no idea who their actually, the politicians there are supporting, and what they do with their money. it is shocking. lou: very quickly. how much of a role did you think unions are going to play in this presidential election? >> you would not have the democratic party that we have today is a government employee unions did not have that treasure troves of money. they have a piggyback. also the engine of socialism in our country. the money that they supply to our politicians, that gasoline fed engine. lou: we are going to see what the conclusions are. much luck with the book. congratulations. ♪ the one and only, cheerios folks here would give a l

union. i started working with the city to -- minimum wages and hours law. our union has also tried to take both the problem of wages theft through legalization, we employ more and more -- in the hospitality industry, rely on subcontractors to do their job. for example, many of the bigger hotels use subcontracting dump to clean the building at the night. san francisco is one of the fewer place where our union has been able to make sure that those subcontractors abide the hotel's union contract. but even here, we have see a lot of problem with wage theft, and other bills. >> chair kim: thank you. that's your tile. thank you so much. karen heisler and mani sheik. >> thanks for initiating this. my name is karen heisler, co-owner of a small bakery and cafe in the mission district in supervisor campos' district called mission pie, a business that's been in san francisco for about five and a half years. and was founded on a strong set of values around sustainability, including economic and social sustainability. we take equity and fairness really seriously. and i a

usually the democrats and the unions work hand in hand a lot of times. of democrats are starting to embrace school choice and parent trigger laws, the unions aren't looking too kindly on that. it is becoming kind of a play in the upcoming election, as well. expect to see some protests or people not too happy with this film. >> well, if you're looking to improve your health or just drop a few pounds, if you have a few pounds to drop. we have just what you need. mark mcdonald is here to show us how to work out smarter, not harder. mark, i think working out smarter is a lot better because then you're more efficient. where do you start if you're just beginning? >> that is a great question. beginners just want to dive in and they never get going because it is so overwhelming. just start doing three to five days a week 30 minutes of any type of activity. how do we get smarter? look at victor here. victor is leaning back. let's bring him up, bring his shoulders back and stable his core. you released your stored fat and that fat gets burned up in the muscles. yo

but the current union work rules and the restriction on them being good teachers make it very difficult to do the best job for the kids. something like 15% of fourth graders are reading at proficiency level in chicago. if you are entering a freshman high school class, only 56% of the people who enter as freshman graduate as seniors. this is unacceptable. having said that, the average salary of a family in chicago is $47,000 per year. the average teachers now reaches $76,000 per year and that doesn't even include benefits. there is clearly a mismatch. we are spending too much money in the wrong areas and not giving enough results. notice the charter schools and private schools and parochial schools. those kids went into school today. gerri: i think exactly. teachers are only paying 3% of their health care benefits in chicago. i mean, do you have this ironic situation where rahm emanuel, former adviser to the president is now fighting with unions over pay packages. they are seeing the realities. the reality has to do with the ability to fund these expensive programs. let's keep in mind th