union and i hate it had. >> a >>. >> you're not a union guy. >> i am. i am a union guy. >> all right, and ben actually is. >> i am a member of screen actors guild, writer's guild of american west and american federation of radio television artists and the laws transferred to unions are he extremely bad. they're a fading portion of the u.s. and raise a hundred million for campaigns and when you think of what they were like in the 50's, 60's, early '70s, they're nothing, that's nothing. >> the public sector unions. >> then i would say that it's dangerous to now underestimate the power of the the unions which we're seeing with the governor john kasich going again, moving to rescind his efforts it restrict collective bargaining, again, with scott walker, the governor there and the recall election, and the power of the president to give more power to the unions. you don't need card check, i said this years ago, that you could have rulings like the one from the labor relations board to make it easier to unionize. >> and the type of government, scott walker--

it gets rid of the corrupt issue in unions but it's the reason you are not a union boss. because clearly this would not be in the union boss's interest to make this separation. the way they have it now is incredibly powerful for them, for their organizations. it's completely wrong. the fact is there is no choice for the union to join -- >> rick unger, it always comes down to choice. if there's less choice, it's not a good thing, don't you agree? >> yeah, except number one, dennis, i said nothing about what people get paid in corporations. that had nothing to do with the point was making. >> yes you did. >> no, i didn't. nobody recognizings the financial core rule. if the union member doesn't want their dues to go to political corporation they have a right to opt out. >> except for the right-to-work ates, they have no right whatsoever to tell unions to jump. dough. >> go ahead, rich. >> yeah, yeah. >> you're out of your mind. >> rick, you really think that union members under the leadership of trumpka would exercise that freedom? in the 1980's he said we should kick the [

the union has yeared to convince employees that the union is what they should do, theight thing for them. now, according to the new rules this is as little as two weeks for the company to respond to what the union has brought to the workforce. >>neil: we hear workplace by workplace ift is nonunionized or partly unionized the union guys have been busy trying to strong-arm their way in there. what have you hrd about success? or where they are concentrating their effort? >> i tell you. there hasn't been a lot of success in unionization over the course of the last mny years. and this is one of the last ditch efforts on the part of the union to try to slam these things in before the company management wakes up to the fact that they are there. i don't think this going to be much success. the fact of the matter is, companies that are threatened by unions should be very well aware that and should be responding over time. but, this is one more strong-arm --. >>neil: a last them did not realize the uniqueness of this or how special it was and were caught off guard when they saw the union organizer

to unionize. guess in the spirit of openness, i was wondering if all of you as union leaders have actually come to support a secret ballot so you can make it clear that you do, indeed, support individual employee's rights to choose whether or not to be in the union. >> i would go on record on the condition that is against the law and is enforced, and employers cannot terrorize employees that have organized for a union. [applause] that becomes the issue. we can all set up here and tell stories. it probably happens a little bit less in the public sector because they have to disclose where the funds come from. but that -- there are employers that spend millions of dollars to keep unions out of the work force. why? how many ceos do we know out there that would go to work without a contract? that is the real issue, what happens between the time that employees express a wish to have a union through signing cards, and then when the election occurs. that is the real issue. >> you can see where the concern

rear, look at union reserves. so what he decides to do, he is alerted to that threat and he will detail troops to deal with that threat but he takes five of the eight brigades he is brought it bear and shifts them to the left with marching towards move left and north towards the northwest. so it is clear now that if he is sending the bet are part of the force he brought in to his left front, wre knows he's got a to fight over at shiloh church that he now shifted from maneuver turn flank, cut retreat, that been accomplished, he is sending five brigades it join the sixth that's to the west, engaged against sherman and the mass of the army will drive grant into the creek. johnson shifted from phase one to phase two in his battle plan. now it is interesting to note that field divides the battle of two halves, west it east and johnston is sending 11 of 16 briga brigades into battle on the west side of the battlefield. we left prentis's camps where they were overrun. johnson deciding he is overrun. he knows there are tr

union president randy won't talk to me anymore but two other union bosses did.oe delgrasso and nathan saunders. >> city schools are terrible because of unions like yours? >> i would disagree. >> we have progress because of unions. >> john: three days before saunders led a protest march. they composed an anti-test song. ♪ ♪ >> john: i think i know why the union doesn't like testing. >> your results are among the lowest in the nation. >> you make an argument it's the lowest in the nation based upon the test scores. now, i would say that ours can get better, but i would say -- >> your predecessors have been saying that for years. >> i think the unions have a pretty strong history of advocating for high quality public education. >> john: but not achieving it. >> our test scores are not what we choose to focus on. we choose to focus on teaching kids. >> john: how do you know if they are learning anything if you don't test them and compare? >> i know they are learning by looking at them in the eye. >> john: they in celebrity support. by matt damon but the rules that m

when it comes to maintaining their view of the union. many officers -- union officers and their wives hosted social events while stationed in the south. they often extended invitations of the young women of community, and certainly young women would refuse these invitations. ellen renshaw house recorded her disgust with her female peers who actually did attend some of those engagements. myra enman of cleveland, tennessee would always turn away any union soldier, especially her age, who was seeking to court her. and she wrote that a lieutenant stopped by to visit, and she refused to see him, because, quote, he is a yank. union occupation did bring some romantic temptations, and this is where it became hard. in fact, maybe their hearts kind of softened a little bit toward the union. certainly not towards lincoln, but the union in general. the increase in the number of eligible young men seemed very attract -- very attractive situation because the number of eligible southern men had diminished. however willing they were to socialize with th

it is called "confessions of a union buster." "confessions of a union buster." he described the strategy as -- quote -- "challenge everything. and then take every challenge to a full hearing. then prolong each hearing as long as possible. then appeal every unfavorable decision." end quote. the consultant explained that -- quote -- "if you make the union fight drag on long enough, workers lose faith, lose interest, lose hope." let me repeat that. this is from an anti-union consultant, wrote this book called "confessions of a union buster." and he said, "if you make the union fight drag on long enough, workers lose faith, lose interest, lose hope." and the impact on workers is clear. in 2000, workers at a dillards distribution interest in little rock, arkansas, began to organize a union called "unite." the campaign involved a unit of between 500 and 600 workers involved as other warehouse workers making just over the minimum wage. dillard's management began talking with workers about the union almost immediately after workers began signing cards. before the petiti

do you know where your union rep is? they could be closer than you think, today is the day that national labor relations board, so-called ambush election rules," go into effect, and a former verizon wireless c.e.o. is very worried about the job fallout from all of this. essentially, we should explain to people that in as little as ten days unions can be up and running if nonunion shops. >> the way it works today it is an extended period of time in which the company can respond to the unions trying to organize. this takes time. the union has yeared to convince employees that the union is what they should do, the right thing for them. now, according to the new rules this is as little as two weeks for the company to respond to what the union has brought to the workforce. >>neil: we hear workplace by workplace if it is nonunionized or partly unionized the union guys have been busy trying to strong-arm their way in there. what have you heard about success? or where they are concentrating their effort? >> i tell you. there has

the initial process for organizing a union requires that the union representatives go into a factoryr a plant, or perhaps even an entire company, but in the bargaining unit, obtain the signatures on what they refer to as authorization cards, of 30% of the employees; which means that 30% of the employees are interested in having a union election held. once the authorization cards are turned in, then the national labor relations board, which was the federal agency set up by congress in the national labor relations act, will then require that an election be held. >> the nlrb will then verify the election results and declare whether a collective bargaining agent has been selected or not and if so, if there are several unions vying for this collective bargaining agent position, they will designate which one of the competing unions has prevailed as the selected bargaining agent for the employees. [narrator] >> in addition to governing the union organizing process, the law also identifies unfair labor tactics. for example, management is prohibited from interfering with the right of employee

yeah but you can shifted you know this is europe is not the european union the european union is not europe the european union or to be the vehicle that makes sense of europe now you know they have done in the past made tremendous sense of europe you know the fifty's the reproach it between france and germany the single market even the euro in the times of boom was fantastic every one of those were my words those were our political projects ok they were had different agendas well there's a debate to that but what what my point is that the european union undoubtedly in agree with the other two panelists has to change fundamentally a lot of people have been arguing this ever since the issue of you know turkey joining the e.u. remember that a couple of years ago that the e.u. will not be able to actually take on board you know such a country as diverse as turkey but it is in the economic and you might even say you know do security interest of the e.u. to take this on board so the e.u. has to change you know the euro is a good idea but not certainly for an entire block of seventeen or ev

every union soldier standing on the defensive in missouri was one less union soldier whom hallek could put into the offensives he was planning for 1862. hallek's first order was to push price out of missouri and keep him out hallek ordered samuel curtis of iowa to advance into southwest missouri, find price, bring him to battle, and destroy him. if price refused to stand and fight, curtis, and i quote here, curtis was to drive him into the wilderness. by wilderness, hallek meant arkansas. curtis was an 1831 west point graduate who resigned from the army after only a couple years of service. he prospered as an attorney, a civil engineer, a businessman, and a politician. a man of many interests, he help found the republican party, and he was at one time, founder and president of the union pacific railroad corporation. he also was an avid gardner and tended to halt in the middle of campaigns to wander through fields looking for wild flowers. when the civil war erupted, kurtis resigned his seat in the u.s. house of representativehouse o . he was iowa's very first congressman. and he offere

anderson go to hell union carbide go to hell. like for so many years who's been drinking poisonous water even today the watch risk to poison us and all of our children are sick. of them and them entire community spends up with a problem that is why we will keep fighting until who agree to all demands the fine to continue. and i take you for a gas leak from a union carbide corp factory in bhopal killed up to twenty five thousand people it was one of the world's worst industrial accidents more than thirty thousand people are believed to have died from the effects of toxic chemicals released into the air from this factory the union carbide plant in the central indian city a book. coming out on the contaminated water is making our lives how you're going to get each other. how does the balance of effect we just live get it it is three forty six tons of waste that it would rather have additives i wasn't supposed to waste on the surface of the back to provide. the same. it's the plant that was responsible for causing the world's worst i

a myth that the current union procedures discourage unionization. in the 1950's, private-sector union membership reached its height of 55% unionized work force. today they're less than 7% of the private-sector work force that is unionized. and the decline of unionization in the private sector can be attributed to several social, political and economic factors, including present-day workplace laws at both the state and federal level have greatly improved working conditions. and a decline in the manufacturing base. and the new nature of employment where people are more transient in their careers. and the desire for contemporary employees to have a more cooperative relationship with their employer and vice versa. it's kind of a teamwork factor that most businesses have to operate under today. i think it was also said that employers have unfair access to employees and regularly bombard employees with antiunion propaganda. i think it was even that said it can happen 24 hours a day. the fact is, employer speech regarding unionization is closely monitored

and the union high command had this feeling of impending victory. that they were on the verge of perhaps ending the war in the west. the primary mission was to repossess the mississippi valley. that's the whole purpose. and command had now been organized under a central leader in the west, henry w. halleck, who commanded from saint louis. and he had four field armies maneuvering against the western confederate forces under the supreme western commander in the west for the confederacy, albert sidney johnston. johnston had the encamped now disembarked at pittsburg landing in close proximity to the railroads and corinth junction, but he had three additional union armies pressuring his defenses. he had one in arkansas, he had pope on the river, had just taken new madrid, grant's force here and buell in the ohio and was maneuvering through tennessee. halleck had ordered a concentration of grant's force with buell. the plan would be once the two armies were within supporting distance, then halleck would come into the field from st. louis, take command of

he's looking at the union reserves. so what he decides to do, he's alerted to that threat and he will detail troops to deal with that threat, but he takes five of the eight brigades that he's brought to bear and he shifts them to the left with marching orders to move left and north towards the northwest. so it's clear now that if he's sending the better part of the force he's brought in against prentiss to his left front where he knows he's got a fight over at shiloh that he's shifted, cut retreat, that's been accomplished. he's sending five brigades to join the sixth that's to the west engaged against sherman mclernen and the mass of the army is going to go. he's shifted from phase one to phase two. the big push begins. it's interesting to note that this road divides the battlefield in two halves, west to east, and johnston's sending 11 of his 16 brigades into battle on the west side of the fact that he has some troops on his right that he has to be concerned about. we've moved over to shiloh branch below shiloh church

this union attacked occurred on july 22nd. the two northern vessels hit "the arkansas" glancing blows which appeared 0 to not do significant damage. they cracked the engine's connecting rods deranging the arkansas's weak and unreliable engines. two weeks later when "the arkansas" steamed down river, the connecting rods broke and "the arkansas'" crew blew her up to prevent her capture by union gun boats. "the arkansas" had been able to get that far down river because the navy department sent the welcome orders to take his fleet down to new orleans and then with part of it out into the is gulf of mexico to avoid being stranded in the river as the water continued to drop. we don't know where we will be next, farragut informed his wife, but just so that we are on salt water i shall be satisfied and hope not to grumble at the fates that will take me out of the freshwater river. the failure to take vicksburg in july 1862 was part of a succession of union failures in the second half of that year which arrested the union momentum that

then they hit this union camp and later on, union troops would say they weren't surprised. the confederate veterans were coming. well, maybe they weren't surprised, but they did have the most devoted cooks in the world because food was on the fire when they entered camp. but remember. it had been a typical morning in camp. not a lot of action planned for a typical sunday morning in camp. of course, church services, probably parades or reviews. but not a great deal of activity usually in a camp that's on a stand down. and so it is a typical morning. so confederates hit this union camp and it is like a treasure trove of foods. i mean, the feds have luxuries. they have canned seafood and fresh bread and real coffee and they have got everything. have sugar. it's a treasure trove. not only that, but all of the personal belongs of the federal troops are in their tent. so the men stop to plunder. so there is a break down in command. not only have the men stopped to plunder but the they have joined him. the line officers in particular, johnston rides in amongst this and he is incen

anderson go to hell union carbide go to hell. you know. what like for so many years who's been drinking poisonous water or even to see the what you risk to poison us and all of our children are sick. the mantei community split up with a problem that is why you keep icing until you can relate to all the demands the fines will continue. to not you make it for a gas leak from a union carbide corp factory in bhopal killed up to twenty five thousand people it was one of the world's worst industrial accidents more than thirty thousand people are believed to have died from the effects of toxic chemicals released into the air from the structure of the union carbide plant in the central indian city in a book. going up on the contaminated water is making our lives how can i get each other on. their shoulders the kinds of stuff that we just live very seriously forty six tons of waste that big red house advantage out of the guns away from the surface of the back to provide. the same. was the plant that was responsible for causing the world's worst ind

that's what happened.erson the union army came in and ee fought the fire. they were thankful for that. they blamed jefferson davis, li even though it was lee's men wht set the fire, and they still m wished and believed and hoped ll that lee would return with a flaming sword and deliver them h from their occupation. so they had all of these f contradictory feelings. nowi, the book goes a couple c weeks after the fire, because ta the week after, i call it the twilight week, because the e armies are offstage and nobody knows what the outcome is.ce not even the union occupiers. so the civilians solemnly accept occupation but still hope that maybe the results will come outs favorable to their cause and thr union occupiers aren't sure what the outcome will be either.ch anr interesting twilight periodh for a week. that's the outline chronology oa what the book cover, but t history, i ethink, good historyt is storytelling. that means telling anecdotes ll about people. so i like to just mention a few of the people that you'll find r in the book. one of them was a wo

by a union. know that my own father who worked hard coming into this country did many jobs. he was a farm worker, a rail worker, even at one point a janitor. but one of the proudest moments i had was when he became the shop steward for his teamster union, and organize immigrant workers that couldn't speak english. my father could speak english so he knew how to talk to the boss. he knew how to negotiate and he knew basically what was right and wrong. and he stood up. he had no shame. he said i'm going to stand up for these workers. and thank god, because of that so many families in the community were affected. their families got better wages. they had a roof over their head. they have health care benefits. they had every time it. some of us could even go to college for the first time in our lives. i was one of those beneficiaries. i was the first one and my family of seven, and i'm not even the oldest. on in the middle child, but i was able to go to college. after that, all my younger sisters wen

but the umpire union. you very well may see instant replay in the game after that has concluded. >> to baseball players consider themselves as part of the 1% or the 99%? >> if given the choice most baseball players would say the 99%. the best part about this job -- there are a lot of challenges. the best part is working for the players. the reason for that is the players recognize how fortunate they are to get to make a living and to get to make an unbelievable living playing the game of baseball. they are humble guys. they do not take for granted at all what they have. they give back to the community. part of this is what makes them great union members. where the economics of many of them would place them in the 1%, their outlook towards life shows these are regular guys. >> who do you think were the best baseball players of all time [laughter] and why] -- who are the best baseball players and why? >> i will be a little politics here and not name any names. i can say everybody thinks the best baseball pla

anderson go to hell union carbide go to hell. for sunni years who's been drinking cones and us water even to see the water is to poison us and all of our children are sick. of them and my entire community split up with a problem that is why we will keep fighting until you agree to all demands the fight to continue. and not united for a gas leak from a union carbide corp factory involved all killed up to twenty five thousand people it was one of the world's worst industrial accidents more than thirty thousand people are believed to have died from the effects of toxic chemicals released into the air from this factory the union carbide plant in the central indian city in the book. because i'm not gonna listen terminated her answer is making our lives how they're going to get each other on. their shoulders the kinds of stuff that we just live very specific forty six tons of waste that we have evidence of thousands of miles away from us on the surface of the record by. this. was the plant that was responsible for causing the world's w

unions hate charters. this protest occurred outside of a charter. >> i hope it's not personal but it may be. >> over my dead body. >> does he get the stop them? >> when we return i'll confront unions about that and other strange things union bosses said like we shouldn't judge teachers but how well students do on tests. >> how do you know if they're learning anything? >> i know my kids are learning when i look in their eyes. >> what? more stupid in america when we return. [ male announcer ] away... is as much about getting there... ♪ ...as it is being there. ♪ [ birds chirping ] away is where the days are packed with wonder... ♪ [ wind whistles ] ...and the evenings are filled with familiar comforts. find your away. for a dealer and the rv that's right for you, visit gorving.com. take the privileged investing tools of wall street and make them simple, intuitive, and available to all. distill all that data. make information instinctual, visual. introducing trade architect, td ameritrade's empowering web-bas

proceed through for so out the case for four hundred seventy million dollars which was so cheap the union carbide stock went up by two dollars a share of the settlement was announced and people could not mean that it could be such a cruel sell out because the government agreed to settle all past present and future and loudly peace for a sum as small as four hundred seventy million dollars. people received as little as five hundred dollars but lifelong injuries and. unpunished. every month i believe whatever happened in the past we cannot change it but what is happening now is in our control it's been twenty seven years and the government should least do something like people should get clean water because the ground water is contaminated whoever survived that night and whatever life is left for the gas victims they should get proper treatment so they can spend the rest of the. it's in good health. there are gas and water victim children grow up and it's deformity and their future has to be kept in mind so that these kids can live a proper life and so that their parents do not take on the

when wisconsin governor scott walker, the administration targeted teachers, unions and nurses unions, they exempted male dominated unions. that was definitely an attack on women. there is a policy on attack on women has permeated throughout wisconsin. what he did was wake up the sleeping giant. because he then woke up all of the women in all of the labor unions who went into wisconsin and of course you know he now has a recall. and we're waiting to get him out of there. [ applause ] >> the republicans attack on teacher unions and other pink collar professions, nurses, home health aides, where women have political voice. we organize in these unions and have a voice in the workplace. we also have a voice politically. these other systems are male-dominated and i know when i go into a lot of board rooms, because i do have a lot of titles, most of them are filled with men. we can barely count the women on one hand who sit in those board rooms. we look around education, a lot of the superintendents who run these systems are men. but the actual work is done by women in the classroom. mitt ro

and the union managed a few naval innovations of her own. like this one. more about which, of course, later today. the blockade was becoming increasingly effective. the difficulties of the southern economy were becoming impossible to ignore. to be sure, many of those difficulties were the product of a collapsing internal system, and many in the fact began to resent the fact that blockade running was fast degenerating into an illicit and unpatriotic trade. with unconscious irony -- i love this passage -- confederate planters complained that the fabulous profits made by blockade runners were enriching a small class of moneyed men at the top of the income scale. imagine that, small class of wealthy men making decisions for the whole society. what may planters think of that? the richmond inquirer decried the unbecoming vanity displayed by the elaborate wardrobes of the richest merchants unsuitable for a nation fighting for its survival. the way to curtail this disgrace ful extravagance was for the government to regulate all trade. this, of course, flew directl

>> there is a very big debate inside of education international union movement about how much unions do for their members. education international is very clear that unions have enormous capacity to not only act on paying compensation but also to provide a professional place where teachers can share their practice, learn from each other, and have professional development in their learning. >> when you say shared practice is, what does that mean? >> this as international summit is about sharing practices. do they know the latest techniques for teaching children? do they know the best conditions in which children learn? what are the best policies that encourage children to be enthusiastic about learning? and teachers to fill confident that they can make a difference as well. that is a big debate, actually. education international is about sharing the policy and the practice. >> what you say seems obvious, where is the debate. >> a good question, actually. there are a number of questions in this world and a number of governments in this world who believe that the number one thing about

say 13% of the 10,000 or so union troops in the battle. union troops in the battle. confederate casualties are far less certain because vandorn submitted completely inconsistent and implausible reports of his losses. every time he filed a communique or report he made up a different number. but by going through regimental record as carefully as we can, the best guess is that the confederate army of the west, at the beginning of the campaign, consisted of 16,000 men, maybe more. but of course it suffered very, very serious attrition on the way to pea ridge. conservative estimate is that perhaps 12,000 to 13,000 confederates actually were on the battlefield, though not all of them got into the fight. possibly -- well, let me sound a little more confident than that. probably about 2,000, about 2,000 confederates were killed, wounds or missing, but we'll never know for sure. this is the best we can do. a casualty rate using those numbers would be of about 15%. so in terms of the two armies were not far apart in size. the confederate was larger. slightly heavier casualties

in union power.t's getting so nasty, this is what you hear when you call the secretary of state's office. >> hello. this is secretary of state doug. welcome to the office. unfortunately because of the governor's budget passed by the legislature, the services offered by the office of the secretary of state have been significantly changed. >> all right. steve, you say if republican walker and ice cost cutting moves are recalled, taxpayers everywhere beware. >> absolutely. it's not the cuts themselves. other states have done it without this hoo-ha. it's whether taxpayers are there to be served by public servants or whether taxpayers have to phoney pup for unions. cot walker, who he wanted to be voluntary whether you join a union or not be forced to do it. you decide year whether you want the deuce used tore political purposes or use the money yourself. what is wrong with that choice? is that anti-union? no, it isn't. it's giving americas a choice. that's what it's about. >> i suspect rick ungar wants to

union. happening inside the state. not about the federal level. the federal level is distinct. union understand they are losing wisconsin. third attempt of what happened in wisconsin. state that had a court election lost by union. recall election did not succeed changing the senate and making at it democratic one. this is the third attempt. three strikes you are out. unions understand they'll be wiped out in other states as well. that's why they are pouring millions of dollars into this. >> bret: what about to liz's point? if the economy starts to slowly improve and it improves in wisconsin, can walker then in the time between now and june 5 run on changes that have been made since this was met? >> you can point to change, especially change in term of the budget reduction and pension expenditure, pension debt. he can say that. the question is what do people hear? a lot of people in wisconsin are unaccustomed to wisconsin being the center of the political universe and the fighting. there is s

the union troops surged forward. that beautiful charge, i shall never forget, wrote an illinois soldier, with banners streaming, with drums beating, with bayonets sparkling, were every officer and man cheering and yelling and screaming at the top of his lungs and our long blue line trotting forward at the double clip, it was amazing what a sight, what a sound. the rebel yell was nothing in comparison. under the impact of this spectacular charge which was visible from start to finish across the open fields, the confederate army of the west simply melted away. vandorn and price were among the first to flee, leaving thousand of their men on the field. by noon, the confederates were in full retreat and the battle was over just like that. as the final shots died away, curtis rode among his celebrating soldiers, waving his hat, and shouting over and over again, "victory. victory." alas, victory did not come cheap. pea ridge cost the federals over 1,400 casualties, about 200 killed, 200 missing, and over 1,000 wounded. say

well more than two decades after the world's worst industrial disaster victims of union carbide and gas leak continue to struggle for justice against an american firm or special report is next fall. but i mean the whole notion of a corporation is based on what's called limited liability limited liability means that individual participants are. not charged with crimes of the corporation mets' it comes with very limited it's one of the major runs its course and. the corporation acts in such a way that kills the managers and the c.e.o. and the shareholders have limited liability i mean it's not that they have disregard for human life and maybe the nicest people in the world to give to charity when i was working but in their institutional rule as managers of the corporation there is a task that they asked. the task is to maximize profit or markets. if they don't do that they're out and somebody else is in the dust of the indian government meanwhile declare itself the sole representative for victims and proceed to sort out the case for four hundred seventy million dollars which was sort of c

when wisconsin's governor, scott walker, administration targeted teachers, unions and nurses unions, they exempted the male-dominated firefighters and police unions. you know, so that was definitely an attack on women. and this policy on attack on women has permeated throughout wisconsin. but what he did was wake up the sleeping giant. because he then woke up all of the women and all of the labor unions who went into wisconsin and, of course, you know, he now has a recall. and we're waiting to get him out of there. the republicans' attack on teachers unions and unions representing other pink-collar professions, like nurses, health care workers, early childhood educators, home health aides, they're attacking organizations in which women workers have political voice. that's the organization -- we organize in these unions, and have a voice in the workplace. and we also have a voice politically. and these other systems are male-dominated. and i know when i go into a lot of boardrooms, because i do have a lot of titles, most of them are filled with men. we can barely count the women on on