unions. whathey are doing is they are for obamacare if they are helpless low income workers. so we will go along with you i you give us an advantage. please keep in mind that unions have gotten all kinds of ways -- they don't have to participate in some things. they have been eliminated from others. they have sweetart deals when they come to obamacare. but finally the administration is sing now. what do you make of that? >> obamacare is not popular today as it was when it wa passed. if you carve out exceptions for the union, you make it even more unpopular. now you have 20 milio workers that these part-time and seasonal workers want to carve out. the union policies are turning to the nin saying, what are we paying you for? they're all about leveraging control. they want to, it's about time that the obama administratn says no to the union's. >> what is ieresting here is that does them at a disadvantage. it disadvantages everyone. becausthey realize that one of the few things they have to offer, potential new workers, part of his sweetheart health care deal. no one can afford it

after they declared everybody dead he said the worst thing that ever happened to mine workers was when they chased the union and the same case with the upper big branch mt mine where everybody knew twenty nine workers were killed everybody knew there was too much coal dust in the air everybody knew it was ready to explode and one front line supervisor took the rap for the company but we saw the same thing with b.p. you know yeah all of my favorite headline by the way that came out of the was to mention the boston thing it was a tongue in cheek headline over democratic underground big letters union thaw gives a rest boston terror. group who was not always right with their knives and. i love that there was no you are as no way to believe but nobody noticed nobody mentioned that on the news nobody says you know the unionized police department of boston just solved a crime the unionized f.b.i. just solved a crime i don't get care and you see you mention that there are some some new forms of organizing some new things that are coming about that might have some impact on these issues of worker safety and worker p

after they declared everybody dead he said the worst thing that ever happened to mine workers was when they chased the union and the same case with the upper big branch mt mine where everybody knew twenty nine workers were killed everybody knew there was too much coal dust in the air everybody knew it was ready to explode and one front line supervisor took the rap for the company but we saw the same thing with b.p. you know yeah all of my favorite headline by the way that came out of the was to mention the boston thing it was a tongue in cheek headline over a democratic underground big letters union thaw gives a rest boston terror. group who was not always right with their knives and. how they were over there was you know our was no way to believe but nobody noticed nobody mentioned that on the news nobody says you know the unionized police department of boston just solved a crime the unionized f.b.i. just solved a crime i don't get karen hughes you mention that there are some some new forms of organizing some new things that are coming about that might have some impact on these issues of worker safety and

that could be one of the union workers now. do you think this is a sign of the times and it will be the pattern? >> it has to be come as we know, there are five cities in the state of california. particularly when you take the city of san bernardino. this is going to occur, but it's interesting to note that in this ongoing situation, as the bond market improves, they went from $5 -- excuse me, i .14% to 5.9%. $97 billion upside down. if you don't want to deal facts and reality, your greatness. >> okay, he is referring to price or going up and yields going down. this might be getting a handle on the finance system. we've got a? >> well, chicago, which is my home, my home state, defense then a long time. they promised benefits they can't pay for. you're talking about mayors and cities not paying in the right amount of money to the fund. spew and you think it is catching up with reality? >> it is a serious problem. there are other problems like this. >> they are going to extend out the age of retirement. there are questions about

really been affective and protecting the middle class were not wage laws minimum wage laws protect union workers and they hodes low income in a city might not. the youth's youth are being hurt by this state unemployment among young people in the united states today is approaching thirty percent because of minimum wage flows and because of all the other labor regulations who do they protect if we raise the minimum wage while we protected the union employees who have their salaries linked to that c.s. that the upper middle class gets even gets even better without even doing anything but what you really hurting are the conduct of young people were never going to get a job because minimum wage prices them out of the economy and that's a tragedy and this yeah i mean labor unions have power and they have a lot beat but you don't give them a lot of benefits you know who don't have power they don't necessarily which they don't necessarily deserve but whose expense at the expense of young people and at the expense of poor people. that was sam sachs political commentator and you ron brooks the executive d

everybody to pay more for their products and as a consequence everybody stand to be including unionized workers is lower today because of the way because of minimum wage and because of these things that i want to get back i want to get back to a seaquest race and i have a graph of government spending as we can see that total government spending is over three and a half trillion dollars the deficit is eight hundred forty five billion dollars and we're paying two hundred twenty four billion dollars in n.g.o.s and the question is just around forty four billion i mean this really that look like my eyes when we put into perspective the total amount of what the government is spending and then according to the g.a.o. there's a lot of overlap and duplications within the government i mean how can agencies really get together to streamline these cuts that we don't see hysteria within that government programs that are saying. well look you know the sequester looks small but it's going to have profound effects there are people who need chemotherapy their p. treatment were being turned away there's unemploy

union workers say it's about patient care, outpatient right. about the benefits and retirement. we had a chance to talk about one of the union workers early this morning. he talked about how the strike went. after that, is a hospital spokesperson. my bad luck with it will really well yesterday. a very good turnout here. we expect the same exact thing today. our hope is to be out here march getting our message is heard. >> no pensions are not unsafe, but i think it goes to show that having regular staff here is important for any organization. whatever steps back. as a visit from this live pictu >> as of yesterday, the hospital had to cancel 150 surgery's. chemotherapy and radiation treatments have also been on hold during the strike. by all accounts, it sounds like this will only be a two day strike. james for a >>darya: baton not a 638. let's take a look at the golden gate bridge. well let's take a look at walnut creek. we will beranek parent omomg,g, stop. jack, your new chipotle chicken club is craze amaze. annnd chipotle is totes trending. s

the union workers make $10,000 more a year, 27% more a year than non-union workers. is why these right to work states -- michigan now, indiana -- they're going to go after the labor movement to try to kill it. this is one to be the fight for our lives now. we need to take back our country, take back our economy, take back our values. secretary rice recently said, we have never seen -- the american people have these shared values, but we have never seen the conditions so radically pour and bad for working people. something has to give. we have to be set for a movement, a big social movement to take back our country and take back our rights. but the units go under, we are finishedecause they are the bedrock keeping us alive. >> the link between what is happening, for example, bangladesh and what is happening in the united states is rarely made. the issue of workers can get something like 21 cents an hour in bangladesh, how can workers in the u.s. compete? then you see the price of that. you see 400 people dead last week and more than 1000 injured. if you could just sum

. >>> unionized workers are ending their strike against a chicago hotel after ten years. walkout at the congress plaza hotel may be the longest in u.s. history. it began over wage cuts and other issues. the union says any workers who return will come back to wages that are half the city standard. >>> and you might call it the mcdiet. mcdonald's ceo don thompson says he lost about 20 pounds last year even though he eats at his restaurant every day. he says he keeps the weight off by working out every day. salads make up about 2% of mcdonald's sales. thompson said, though, they are not big money makers. i would believe that. it's pretty hard to walk into mcdonald's and order a salad. >> i know. >> i don't have that willpower. >> not just a salad anyway. you know there are fries on the side here. ashley morrison in new york. thank you, ashley. >>> straight ahead, we'll see how the job market has changed for them. >>> plus, we'll meet the student who had one tough job beating out all the other competitors at the national spelling bee. this is the "cbs morning news." so do tir

oakland cityzv employees take over city hall after years of furloughs and &yoffs, more thançó 3,000 union workers deal oflpe1e1 that back.lpe1Ñieá >> her proposal will trigger cuts in other areas.i] senior programs, rec centers and low-income housing areas will see reduced hours.lp it's a dangerous plan. >> you're taking away money that should be funding children going to school, e1after-school-progrs in the parks and recreation department for these kids out there on the street killing people just for fun.fá >> the unions disagree with kwaun's public safety and her accounting. she wants city workers to concentrate on pensions.e1 ci on the street and save millions( >> they get paid a police officer's salary. in addition to that, they get 5% over their salary just to work in a unit.e1 >> thefáfá position that we're right now, we're going to get your attention one way or glp reporting live in e1oakland jean wnkñrellie, nbc bay area them/o fastest growing type of parking fraud. >> why were you using somebody we'll take you behind the scenes of the dmv's covert sting.xd >> quick thinkingq and quick h

thanks, guys and special thanks to christian for joining us. >> thank you. >>> fast food workers hungry to unionizefast food workers hav been going to shareholder meetings at wendy's and mcdonald's. if they're successful, prices will go up, yes. it's not going to stop mcdonald's. it's a worldwide company. i like t stock up 20%. >> i like mcdonald's not at this price for the stock. >> jonas? >> even though it caused a bridge collapse in washington. it gives the politicians excuses to spend money on infraructure spider global infrastructure etf of 20%. >>> tobin? >> i don't like that etf. >> procter & gamble brought back an old ceo to run things. stock already reacted positively on friday. i think it has nor -- >> jos, bull or bear? >> i think it's safe stocks are too expensive. >> john? >> j-lo is partnerng with verizon to hit the latino market. i like verizon, i love j-lo. both.y b., bull or bear? ut verizon at a lower price. >> neil is up next. >>> well, whoever said that nothing is certain in life but death and taxes apparently forgot one littl thin. a job, government. it takes lot to get fired.

unionized. i think any group of workers has a right to unionized. i think unions historically played an important role in our country and that said, it is time to look the issues of not being able to fire people whether it is teachers or government workers. i worked in the clinton administration, and we had somebody who is a civil servant who never came to work. >> what is going on. in front of the congressional panel lois lerner didn't want to incriminate herself. she is paid by the taxpayer and she can plead the fifth? and in the aftermath she's not let go. she was put on administrative leave because she is part of the union. it drives us crazy. >> i think you can support idea of unionizing and still have it drive you crazy. the argument of not firing her right away, they want to get all of the information and find out what happened, but it sends a message to the american people to the irs. we can't plead the fifth if we are audited. >> wayne, what about the public sector unions, are you okay with those, too? >> i think you have to ask yourself, e

union state. about half the states are. the majority of workersur area vote to form a union everyone must pay the union. so i did for 36 years, but no more. now i am at foxwoods is non-union. i think it's great that there is now the trend away from forced unionization. indiana and michigan recently passed right to work laws which say workers cannot be forced to pay union dues. they joined 24 states that already had such laws. great? no, that's terrible says david maitland of the american worker project. the center for american progress. so why am i wrong? >> you're wrong for a couple of reasons. first, you could never be forced to join the union. you can be required to pay union dues to cover the cost of representing you and bargaining for your contract. the bigger and more important reason is that unions make the middle class. they help make the middle-class stronger. the unions you're really undercut the middle-class. john: where is the evidence that the union makes the middle-class stronger? henry ford double autoworkers' wages and shorten the

. >> the bottom line is many of the union workers may be forced to change their insurance, to changeheir doctor which the president many times promised would not happen. is that a reason to get rid of this law? >> it's not a reason to get rid of it. it's a reason to fix the problem that the health care law has yet to address. that is how to make multiemployer plans not at a competitive disadvantage compared to the health insurance exchanges. >> make it more expensive though? isn't that the issue? >> it doesn't necessarily are to make it more expensive if it's designed correctly. what we have right now is a situation where 26 million people who like their health insurance are probably going to be forced to change it, which is something that the law was not intended to do. it can be fixed if the administration is willing to do it. >> gary b, can it be fixed? would you see the adminiration dhoog? >> i do not, enda. christian had a great phase when he said not intended. that's the story of this whole obama care. all the union people thought oh, okay, we'll support it because our cadillac

union workers rejected the company's 6-year contract back in april. caterpillar at the time was proposing to freeze wages and offer less job safety to senior workers while offering bonuses to new workers. the two sides stopped negotiations may 8th. cruise cancellations have put carnival in rocky waters. the company has issued its second profit warning in three months. it now expects 2013 revenue to be down 2-3%. shares fell more than 4% in trading yesterday. carnival's stock has taken a hit due to some major mishaps on several cruises. best buy is still losing money, and investors are responding by sellng the stock. shares fell nearly 5% yesterday. best buy lost $81 million last quarter. the new ceo who joined the electronics company last august blames costs related to the retailer's turn-around. a protest at gap's annual shareholder meeting over worker safety: this comes in the wake of the collapse of a bangladeshi clothing factory last month that killed more than 1200 people. gap clothes were not made in that factory, but the company imports more cl

day tons of people on the streets shutting down many city blocks in downtown los angeles we saw union workers we saw students we saw undocumented immigrants and of course there's a show of solidarity with workers around the world demanding better working conditions but obviously main focus of yesterday's march was a push for immigration read. form people are letting you know that they want immigrants to be able to work here in this country without having to worry about being deported or worry about being taken advantage of so a large focus on that yesterday here in los angeles of course reckoning back to the origin of made in general where a lot of immigrants did ridgeley protests and. in the original it made events not going to turn to you what are your was there more of a presence this year than last year and it was kind of on the heels of the occupy wall street movement didn't center around immigration as well or was a more diverse well abbie we definitely saw a lot less people this year than we did last year of course like you mentioned on the wings and inspired and largely organized by t

they see the board as a tool that helps companies unionize, or when they fire workers seeking to unionize republicans generally don't love the board. there was this big case in south carolina a few years ago when the labor board said that boeing had acted illegally in trying to open up a factory in south carolina, and that sent many red state senators, red state politicians ballistic. and then, also, in, federal appeals court ruled that president obama's recess appointments to the board were illegal. >> that's really the critical point there. now they are making it so this board can't even function. mr. cohen, i know this is a hot issue with you. how important is it? how crucial is it, and how damaging is it to america? >> it's critical, because in most ways, the nrlb is a floor, it's not sufficient, but for 80 million american workers in the private sector, it's all they have. not just union workers, but workers who speak out in places like starbucks or mcdonald's, fast food workers. if they speak out and are fired or intimidated in any way, the only place they have to go is the nrob. th

union state. about half the states are. the majority of workersote to form a union everyone must pay the union. so i did for 36 years, but no more. now i am at foxwoods is non-union. i think it's great that there is now the trend away from forced unionization. indiana and michigan recently passed right to work laws which say workers cannot be forced to pay union dues. they joined 24 states that already had such laws. great? no, that's terrible says david maitland of the american worker project. the center for american progress. so why am i wrong? >> you're wrong for a couple of reasons. first, you could never be forced to join the union. you can be required to pay union dues to cover the cost of representing you and bargaining for your contract. the bigger and more important reason is that unions make the middle class. they help make the middle-class stronger. the unions you're really undercut the middle-class. john: where is the evidence that the union makes the middle-class stronger? henry ford double autoworkers' wages and shorten the work day

it's -- let's just give the unions the benefit of the doubt. maybe they want to protect workersn fair enough. they also are concerned first and foremost about their existence. if you start having competitors with the unions and their high quality health plans, that's going to be a problem for the unions. if the president is okay on that passage and i think you are right for the reasons that you suggest in your parsing, he is not okay on this one, don't pay any attention to those scary stories about how your benefits will cut. that will never happen on my watch. it seems likely to me that if they make the kind of changes that they are talking about, those benefits will have to be cuts. >> remember how he said in ohio at the commencement address a couple of weeks ago, if anybody tells you it's a big scary government is after abuse its power, don't believe them. a lot of stuff you ought to believe. >> bret: a.b., the unions would like to see the obama administration address this correctly. they would like to see 17,001 pages including the one page that says exclude the unions. acco

union workers say then they believe -- they believe the corruption impose higher up than the ceo. >> it doesn't stop at the 13 that have been indicted. >> reporter: correction officers trying to watch more inmates allowing according to the fbi a street gang to take over. the baltimore city detention center. >> every institution, staffing level is low and on top of that, they're collapsing posts inside the institutions to save on overtime. >> the department of corrections has begun issuing polygraph tests, they will expand two correction officers tomorrow. from east baltimore christian schaffer. abc 2 news. >> you can follow christian schaffer on twitter, he's at @ crist on abc2. >>> former division chief jonathan hart says the county is not equipped to ensure firefighters safety. in the editorial hart said as well as a fire that injured 25- year-old gene kirchner last week. county disagrees with the statements and says it has plenty of qualified people to manage larger fires. >> that's the first thing that should be there at the beginning of the i think so when things are dangerous,

the union says government economic reforms have destroyed the rights and livelihoods of workers there. teachers, civil servants and bank employees refusing to go to work. passenger ships and railway services also coming the a screeching halt. the latest austerity measures in greece require that country to cut 15,000 civil jobs by next year. meantime here at home the mayday marches calling for immigration reform. rallies set for san francisco, san jose and oakland at 3:00 this afternoon. san francisco's march begins at 24th and mission streets. in san jose protesters gathering at our lady of guadalupe church on san antonio streets. in oakland people meeting up at fruitvale plaza. on the peninsula, marchers gathering at ring storm park. >>> workers rallying and marching in support of a plan $15 an hour minimum wage. it will wind its way through downtown. >>> facebook boss mark zuckerberg could be greeted by unwanted visitors in menlo fark this morning. protesters plan to deliver a petition signed by nearly 19,000. they're upset about a tv ad funded by zuckerberg's new political group. i

sure advocates of worker rights such as unions and some convers conservation groups there in texas are trying to raise some of the alarms as far as what was going on the lack of oversight but we do have to remember that texas is a very pro-business state are not very receptive to new regulations and that. seems to be even the attitude even after the tragedy when governor rick perry was asked about it he you know said that any new regulations or new over say we wouldn't prevent anything like this now a lot of people would argue the other way around in when we think about osha which hasn't been to that plant since one thousand nine hundred five and we have to think that this is obviously a regulatory agency that may not be getting the proper funding or even have the proper power to really crack down on places like this so definitely something to look at but in the immediate aftermath it doesn't seem like you know worker conditions in dangerous places such as fertilizer plants like this is getting increased scrutiny at least in the short term yeah definitely hard in texas with someone lik

what was that it started out being dumped mineworkers workers union -- it started out being the mine orkers, led by john l lewis. he decided in the depths of depression when millions were losing their jobs or if they held on to the job it paid less, benefits of -- were fewer -- just like happening now. he said, you know what american workers would do? they would join the union if they believed at the union could protect them to what is being done to all the working people. so he decided to appeal to american workers to join unions. here is what may come to a support -- as a surprise to you. in a matter of months, tens of millions of americans who had never been union members before joining unions. the most cunning unionization drive in american history. has everng that happened before and greater than anything that has happened since. within a year and a half, tens of millions of workers were organized in unions, and the unions went to the president and said, we've got millions of members that are very dissatisfied with what is going on, you better do something. hadns and union worker

contract talks between caterpillar and union workers will continue next week. the two sides are showing signs of progress in negoations. and the man who became famous for helping free 3 kidnapped women in cleveland is being rewarded with mcdonald's hamburgers for life. he mentioned eating mcdonald's just before the rescue. todd horwitz of averagejoeoptions.com joins us on the show on this friday. happy friday to you. what do you anticipate the trade will look like today, considering we are now going into a long holiday weekend? - good morning angie. i expect the trade today to be quiet and listless. the only caveat to that is, if we are going to get action, i think it will be to the downside. but i really expect the markets to be pretty neutral. most of the traders in new york will be already on their way to the hamptons, so i expect a very quiet day today. - are traders concerned about what's happening with china? - you know, there is always concern with something somewhere. in the meantime, the markets decided that they wanted to take a little bit of a breath

the 13,000 union workers include respiratory therapists, nursing aids and mri and pharmacy technicians. they work at uc five medical center and campus student health centers. stalled after staffing levels and pension reform. u.s. officials rote by encouraging a only strike attempts to use patient care as tool in contract negotiations and potentially endanger public health. yahweh he shares rose on news of the extension of deal on microsoft. have an agreement why they pay yahoo a small amount for each search. deal had expired it in the own march but now regulatory finding city somehow it's been extenned for a year and that helps the yahoo's bottom line. >>> microsoft had news of its own about windows 8. it's preparing an update. the update is designed to address complaints about the new system that was geared to the new touch screen devices. microsoft isn't saying what will change or if f it will charge. >>> and we got an inside look how specially trained dog speak out -- sneak out signs of arson. she has to sniff through burned furniture and note if anying a semirents a present. she wo

union state. but half of the states are. that means if a majority of workersrea vote to form a union everyone must pay the unions. i did for 36 years but no more now i am at fox which is nonunion. i think it's great there's a trend away from forced unionization. indiana, michigan recently passed right to work laws which say workers cannot be forced to pay union dues. they joined 24 states that had the law. great. no, that's terrible says david madlin says for america's biggest think tank. why am i wrong sfwh>> you are wrong for a couple of reasons. first you can never be forced to join a union. you can be required to pay union dues that cover the cost of for example representing you and bargaining for your contract. the bigger and more important reason is that unions make the middle class. they help make the middle class stronger and without unions you are under cutting the middle class. >> where is the evidence that the union makes the middle class stronger? henry ford doubled auto worker's wages and shortened the workday years before the uaw even existed? >>

union workers for catepillar wait for the company's next move in contract talks. plus, jet set and save. we'll tell you the destinations saving savvy travelers a bundle. and, summer bummer: why execs at warner brothers will be extra focused this year on boxoffice numbers. first business starts now! you're watching first business: financial news, analysis, and today's investment ideas. good morning. it's thursday, may 2nd. i'm angela miles. in today's first look: traders and investors may ask the question "sell in may... then what?" stocks sold off yesterday in a big way along with gold and oil, mostly on word the fed sees slowing in the economy and may reduce or increase its bond buying program, which has been stimulating the stock market. facebook has a mixed posting. the social media company missed on earnings by a penny, but revenue was better-than- expected on ad sales. the company also reports the chief accouting officer is leaving. and apple's hot bonds: the tech giant is offering a landmark $17 billion in bonds, which have been trading in extremely high vol