union might look like. so i'm meeting with chaz rynkiewicz. and today he is taking me along for a participation in the first union action. so what is the plan for today explosive >> we're going to a financial building. they reneged on a promise to build their next building union so we're going to inform the public, the tenants and make a little noise. >> okay. >> all right. how long have you been in the union now? >> i've been in the union 19 years now. >> what was the difference between like the -- like a nonunion job site and a union job site? >> oh, it's night and day. the safety is what i remember. i remember when i would work nonunion, it was like, okay, kid, get up on that ladder. and get it done. it was like they didn't care if you fell. the equipment was horrendous. the pay was terrible. the nonunion live ten people to an apartment. they have no medical coverage. just no way anybody can make a living like that long term. it's just not going to happen. and then i landed on a union job and i knew that

job site and a union job site? >> oh, it's night and day. the safety is what i remember. i remember when i would work nonunion, it was like, okay, kid, get up on that ladder. it was like they didn't care if you fell. the equipment was horrendous. the pay was terrible. the nonunion live ten people to an apartment. they have no medical coverage. just no way anybody can make a living like that long term. it's just not going to happen. and then i landed on a union job and i knew that was for me. and i went with it. i've given back to the union ever since. kicking ass for the working class. out there doing our thing. yes. >> today's protest is on manhattan's west side, where plumbers, iron workers and laborers are drumming up support for union workers. >> gather around. a lot of you were probably here a year ago when this building was going up, being build nonunion, they promised they would built the next three jobs union. the first one went nonunion. the second one just started, he took it away from one of our union co

teachers union. that's it. unions are the only competition republicans have in electoral politics. post-citizens united, conservatives look at this and smell blood. i mean, compare this to '08. they have knocked the unions down to sixth and seventh place. without unions essentially all of the big money in politics would be right wing money. all of it. that is not hyperbole. all of it. unions are the only players. they are the only fish of any size on the liberal side. and, you know, it is nice to think, well, you know, i have this really awesome pta group. bake sales. i've got a meetup drinking liberally book club honk for peace thing we do on wednesdays. it's true those are good things. it all does matter. nothing matters as much as this. i realize it is not romantic sounding, but this is really how it works in politics. this decides who wins elections and who loses them. if republicans can use public policy to destroy their only competition for big political money, if they can use public policy to

unions. is that changing? >> it is -- well, it's hard to say if it's changing. there are polls that indicate that the unions representing b.a.r.t. workers have not made a terrific connection with bay area residents, and this is probably one -- >> what about the union members? >> or sometimes other union members. i was going to say the bay area is probably one of the most union-friendly and union-heavy area in the country that you'll find. nonetheless, they've had a lot of troubles communicating the their -- their complaints to a lot of these people, and i think that is a leftover of the resthaegs we've just been through and also, quite frankly, the incoming quality that grew over the decades that preceded this recession. two ways of seeing think, really. you can say, look, these public workers work for me. i do not have a fixed benefit pension plan anymore. i pay a lot in to my health care. vie not gotten a raise in four, five, six or more years. if i can't have this, why should i pay for it

unions are basically monopolies. they exist to charge higher wages than the market will bear and provide fewer jobs. i don't blame the union. that's their role. by attacking these governors. they're attacking competition in the form of workers. the less workers in every one of those states, the more the unions can control and extract higher wages and more secure jobs for their employees. that's why everyone in the country should fear unions growing instead of, thankfully, shrinking like they have, because you'll get the same thing times a thousand, that we will in auto industries, airlines, everything, where eventually eventually crumbled those businesses. >> shouldn't the union be praising and be embracing of what they're doing in these states instead of targeting them? >> well, no, absolutely not. for two different reasons. one, the reason gary just described, its their workers being laid off. most of the afl-cio membership is come he posed of public union members, public employees, period, and that's who's being l

unions beware.ing up nextous have to deal with the high cost from the healthcare law, but not congress. no not their staffers. the presidenjust cut them a special deal. what is the big deal? we'll dete and let you decide whether it's fair. i'm jamie colby. i'll see you at 1:00 p.m. eastern right here ofox. have a great day. >> david: so much for lawmakers takinghe same medicine they impose on the rest of us. under the healthcare law, congress and thousands of congressional staffer were going to be hit with massive premium hikes. but now the president cut them a deal. guess who is going to be paying their healthcare cost? that is right. you and me. so steve, is this a good idea? >> it goes to show cooking is so great, why don't they eat it? the fact of the matter -- >> david: it's poison. >> they don't like it. for the saying well, we'll have a brain drain, that assumes there are brains to drain. if there are, they should be in the private sector. eat your own cookings. find out what they're like. if

of the union or not.task from 1947. there was a time they thought it was fair. >> eric: ebony, you said the unions do good things. help me out. what do they do? >> they can help with advocat advocating. some people can't do it on their own. some n a perfect world you could say the work conditions are crappy. but some can't. they need a collective effort. that is something unions can serve. >> eric: do they need a collective effort? >> i think an individual -- it's better to have an individual bargain on their behalf from their needs. right to work is pro-freedom and fro-worker. collective bargaining is not good. allow the individual to speak on their behalf.kes this work ie catchtition. is there a competitive atmosphere for the economic way out, then jobs are going to be determined by the competition. i don't need the union to protect me from that. i have to have a competitive state to know i can work for certain money and that is open for certain amount of people for time. that's all. >> i disagree that

to break up a union but then in one thousand to two teddy the trust buster roosevelt went after john pierpont morgan j.p. morgan who controlled the bulk of the railroad shipping across the northern united states through his northern securities of course j.p. morgan was. that he had not been warned that given a heads up for being treated like a common criminal today j.p. morgan is still around and it be laving raking in monopolizing but we have a trust enabler in chief no trust busting trust enabler trust enabler stacy that's right j.p. morgan was of course outraged that he was treated like a common criminal of course nowadays it's impossible to treat them like a criminal no matter what they do whether they're reading energy markets whether they're bribing chinese officials whether they're rigging all sorts of markets across the world so we're going to look at this the situation we find ourselves in where the government won't enforce antitrust laws and the people when they fight back against this so we have this giant financial collapse and the likes of j.p. morgan were handed billion

back to the union whines. as an upshot knocks ultimately did get back into the war but it took awhile so albert met lincoln on that occasion and when he was covering leading kansas before the war for the boston journal when lincoln had a speaking engagement in kansas in 1858 or 1859 lincoln remembered him from that and remembered him from the interview i just described and when they were captured lincoln instructed the union official in charge of prisoner exchange to get brown and richardson back from the confederates and that is when the confederate in charge of prisoner exchange wrote a letter saying i am not sending these guys back, the tribune reporters, said something like they cause more trouble for us than even your armies so i am not letting them go. anyone else? okay. [applause] >> thank you very much. >> see you upstairs in a couple minutes for the book signing. [inaudible conversations] >> for more information visit the author's whig site peter carlsonauthor.com. >> senator ben cohen, what is on you

crisis many move their money to credit unions now the commercial banks are lobbying to have credit unions tax advantages removed so your thoughts on what this bodes for fighting back through your money or through any kind of competition. well the scene in industry after industry is. the large players in the industry and it's happening banking going to washington and trying to get washington to rig market share for them rather than compete you know with good service and honest elance with customers that rather go to congress and see if they can't care you know get that rigged and that's been a non virtuous cycle that's been going on for decades and the reason that the american economy is so subsidized by government is it's lost its productivity because we continually make policy decisions based on what's good for political contributions and what's responsive to people who have the power to kill with impunity as opposed to what's good for the economy as a whole and what makes sense in the long run right well i guess you know the point here is that the the american economy is the host and th

the union signatory is the union signatory. and once you are signatory, you agree to abide by certain rules and regulations or there is a serious breach of that union agreement and there is a procedure to adjudicate -- >> that's what i presume. now, there are a couple questions. we do have contracts with private contractors where we require them to be -- we put in the bid specifications that they have to be union, that they actually have -- the one i'm thinking of is the transportation contract and it says right in there they have to contract with united transportation workers and honor their contract, right. which is, you know, we discussed that over the years a few times and it's quite an interesting discussion. i've had it with board members and other school districts, too, because school bus drivers tend to be extremely well paid in other parts of the country and also extremely unstable work force. they turn over all the time because they don't get paid anything. ~ so, it's in the school district's best interest, so, we put

supreme court refused to enforce the law always siding with the monopolist unless it was to break up a union but then in one thousand no to teddy the trust buster roosevelt went after john pierpont morgan j.p. morgan who controlled the bulk of the railroad shipping across the northern united states through his northern securities of course j.p. morgan was. that he had not been warned that given a heads up for being treated like a common criminal today j.p. morgan is still around it be laving raking in monopolizing but we have a trust enabler in chief no trust busting just a little or just a little or stacy that's right j.p. morgan was of course outraged that he was treated like a common criminal of course nowadays it's impossible to treat them like a criminal no matter what they do whether they're reading energy markets whether they're bribing chinese officials whether they're rigging all sorts of markets across the world so we're going to look at this the situation we find ourselves in where the government won't enforce antitrust laws and the people when they fight back against this so we h

large credit unions now they see an opportunity to get rid of it as lawmakers begin work on a major overhaul of the tax code right the credit union model came came about during the one nine hundred thirty s. and this is a model where people can engage in day to day banking without being ripped off by the likes of wall street but now as you point out wall street doesn't like to have any competition whatsoever there it's a trust it's a noncompetitive trust it's a monopoly or oligarch paly and also they are being required to increase the capital reserves on their balance sheets and that means either selling stock which would hurt the stock price or by reducing their loan book which would reduce earnings so they don't want to do either of those things so the stairs are going to raid a credit union and the point is well taken people said oh you know what we're going to move our money we're going to put in a credit union but now that's where all the money is so this is where j.p. morgan will go to take over these institutions or claim that these people are being terrorists of course of th

federal tax exemption bankers say the tax break is an unfair advantage for a large credit unions now they see an opportunity to get rid of it as lawmakers begin to work on a major overhaul of the tax code right the credit union model came came about during the one nine hundred thirty s. and this is a model where people can engage in day to day banking without being ripped off by the likes of wall street but now as you point out wall street doesn't like that any competition whatsoever there it's a trust it's a noncompetitive trust it's a monopoly or all adopt only and also they are being required to increase the capital reserves on their balance sheets and that means either selling stock which would hurt the stock price or by reducing their loan book which would reduce earnings so they don't want to do either of those things so the steps are going to raid a credit union and the point is well taken people said oh you know what we're going to move our money we're going to put in a credit union but now that's where all the money is so this is where j.p. morgan will go. no to take over th

is a member of the union. now you're going to get a cadillac tax that's going to make all your health care far more expensive, you're not going to be able to afford to do it, you're going to lose your doctors and you're going to be dumped into the public exchanges. is that what you wanted? >> well, good evening, larry. i don't think this is any surprise for labor. labor did support by and largele health care plan, but it raised these issues early on. and it thought that they would be resolved. and i think where the problem is is that labor feels the obama administration has not resolved the issues and now here we are. >> i got a little different explanation. i think they assumed that they would get a gimme, a waiver, a special favor from the administration, which is very pro-union. that's why jimmy hoffa and some of these others are now writing hate mail to the white house. they expected to get special favors, they're not going to get special favors and now labor is hoisted on its own petard, it's going to hav

and in the case of union square was identified as a park with heavier midday usage and less usage inhe early morning and evening hours. and with respect to the history on the changes to the shadow budgets for the district plan, it is true that for union square and for a number of parks that would have been affected by the transit center and the buildings and acting to 2012 to increase the shadow budgets and just to touch upon the accounting issue, the increase to the union square did account for the fact that the 690 market project did cast the new shadow on the union square and if it had not back in the increase on the macy's expansion project approved in 1996, and so, essentially what you are left with, are and increased budget and the number of spaces with that allowable shadow given over to projects in the transit center plan area and so that request with outside of the plan area was to raise from a existing budget of 0 to an amount of shadow that would accommodate the shadow cast by the project and make or incorporate the additional sunlight that occurred as a result of the macy

union reps blame this man, tomahawk, the unions say his hardball tactics have stalled talks. >> he is a tool that is being paid $400,000 of our local taxpayer money to come in and bust up the union and drive down the wages of working families in the bay area. >> why are the unions saying you are the reasons why they made it nowhere on the negotiations? >> you'd have to ask them. >> i did ask them. you have been unwilling to negotiate with them. that you shut them down. >> i don't understand that. but you know, that's their view, i guess. >> why have you been such a lightning rod in these negotiations? >> you have to pick on somebody, right? >> both issues vowed they will remain at the table throughout the weekend. hawk says negotiations will likely come down to the wire. or beyond. >> i have been involved in stuff for over 40 years. over 40 years, and 400 labor contracts. one. >> now talks will continue tomorrow and also tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m., the unions will actually be attending the bart board of directors, they want to lobby the board to get negotiators who will actually wo

union later as well. we have a a.sem bled a range of resources for you including a section for latest on the contract negotiations as well as details on casual carpool locations as you prepare for what to do if there is a and you can follow us on twitter for breaking news updates. >> because of the strike abc 7 morning news will begin a half hour earlier at 4:00 a.m. on monday. showing everybody what's happening with the commute which is going to be very heavy. join us monday morning 4:00 a.m. on abc 7 morning news now we have breaking news out of san jose. sky 7 is over the scene of a grass fire that burned a patch of landç45jz in south san jose. that is seven acres burned but you can see it's no buildings were burned. >> caltrans gave a look at safety test goinging on today. caltrans is testing steel rod frtz bridge made in 2010. two years after one that's snapped earlier this year. 32 rods broke when tightened in march potentially weakening the earthquake safety features and delaying opening dates. cre

unions beware.ing up nextous have to deal with the high cost from the healthcare law, but not congress. no not their staffers. the president just cut them a special deal. what is the big deal? we'll debate and let you decide whether it's fair. >>> hi, everyone. we're live from america's news headquarters. i'm jamie colby. we're waiting for president obama's arrival in orlando. this is video of the president and first lady departing andrews air force base. the commander in chief is set to speak at the opening session at the disabled veterans convention and address the consistent backlog of veteran disability claim. later they will travel to martha's vineyard for a nine-day vacation. the deadly search for a missing teenager turning to a rugged wilderness. investigators are now standing out near cascade, idaho, where suspected kidnapper and murder joe dimaggio is believe to be hiding. they believe he abducted hannah yanderson. last night, the sheriff officer confirmed her brother's remains were also fo

they paid 4 $400,000 of our taxpayers money to drive down the unions. >> why are the unions saying youhe one driving them down? >> you have to ask them. >> i did ask them. >> i don't understand that. but that's their view . >> why have you been such a lightning rod? >> i got to pick on somebody. >> reporter: negotiation s will will likely come down to the wire or beyond. >> yiev i've been involved in this stuff for over 40 years. >> reporter: talks will pick up tomorrow. also the unions plan to storm the bart board of directors meeting. >> you can almost hear the groans of the are commuters. but does this notice mean they will definitely go on strike? >> reporter: it's not a done deal. we still have the weekend for them to negotiate. but it's not looking good. >>> we asked bart required, who is making a better case? 44% say management is making a stronger argument. 19% say the unions are. 29% say neither side is doing well. the rest say they're not sure. the poll has a margin of error of 4.3%. >>> thousands are frustrated the two sides can't reach a contract. >> we were not very impres

yesterday, bart and union leaders spent more than 13

with unions.kers getting dissatisfied with unions. the participation rate used to be 20.1% in 1993. now it's 11.3%. a decline in participation in the private sector. >> take a look again, let's go back to wisconsin. when they eliminated -- the republican employees, in other words, they didn't take the money out of their wages and send it directly to the unions. the unions had to get it from the workers. 1/3, as i understand it, of the public employees, simply dropped out of the union, put their dues in their pocket, and kept their jobs. i think unions have done some wonderful things. eight-hour day. get rid of child labor. we don't want things like over in bangladesh. dropped right on all those women. before they were there, those textile plants were down in the carolinas and louisiana and places like that. but unions have done some good things. but they've done some insane things. let me tell you one story. i just came from new york journalism school and i'm in the union. i have to join the union

a second bart strike is looming as union contracts are set to expire on sunday night sending union workersck to the picket line, and leaving hundreds of thousands of bay area commuters stranded come monday morning. kron fours mike pelton is live at west oakland where negotiations are set to resume today. good morning mike. >>: most of the both sides don't agree on the back of it all. >>: until we make progress on a bolt of the safety proposals that the union has advanced to which the district has had no response, and to the economic proposal, we unfortunately do not have a very good news to report. mike >>: talks are expected to resume at noon today. at 5:00 this evening, the union workers will rally before marching the bart headquarters and that later on tonight, we will keep an eye out to a potential 72 hour strike notice from the unions. darya? >>mark: transit officials admit that it is impossible for any transit agency to take on the 400- thousand people who ride bart each weekday. officials warn traffic in the bay area could be much worse than during the earlier july bart walkout. you

the unions say they want a fair deal. bart says they need to be realistic with skyrocketing costs of medical care and pension costs workers have to pay their fair share. >> there's no question that bart employees should get a pay raise. >> how much and what cost? >> we must address the skyrocketing costs of the benefit packages >> reporter: bart projects healthcare costs will go up 6% a year for the next four years. the district says employees continuing to pay $92 a month won't cut it. >> our premiums are based --it goes up by 3%. >> reporter: atu which represents bart drivers and station agents is quick to point out their costs go up each year. the union maintains its members pay more than bart's $92 a month claim. >> on average we are paying up to $200 a member. >> reporter: which number is right? >> $92 a month is the average for employees. >> reporter: the other roadblock is how to pay for pensions. bart projects pension costs will go up 4% a year for the next four years. rinot they don't pay into pensions. bart says

why one union is calling it quits for the weekend. >>> bart and the unions continue trying to work towardswhy one union is calling it quits for the weekend. >>> and as we look at the golden gate bridge, are the drizzle will finally fizzle today. not exactly that we are going to sizzle. we've got the forecast in a minute. >>> residents who lost their homes in a southern california wildfire could get help with the recovery. i am medically woodrow in twin pines how coming up. >>> welcome back. the time is 8:00. it's august 11. >> we have a lot to talk about in the next half hour, but nothing so much as the status of bart negotiations. there is going to be a court hearing this morning in about an hour. a judge in san francisco will make a decision on the request for a 60-day cooling off period in those bart contract talks. bart and union negotiators took a break from the talks before midnight last night and so far no agreement. union leaders are going over the latest proposal from management and then they will be back in negotiations early this afternoon. >> we did receive a comprehensive prop

pickup employees are allowed to unionize and strike.ne wants to change that it's going to take an act of the legislature. >> i spoke -- he is proposing that and interesting enough he says he gets resistance from both side, both unions and managements. why? >> well, there could be a clause in there that that would require mandatory arbitration and often that doesn't play out well for the management side of cities and counties so they would resist that. >> another question that folks ask out there is that why -- do they keep putting it off or why not just give us another 30 days to negotiate? >> maybe it's just human nature. we all try to procrastinate trying to get to a decision. i don't think this is good continuing try to ramp up the anxiety and extend it again and again. also it's not going to get better. the more summer goes, the worse the traffic will be. so i suspect getting it setted down would be best option for everybody. >> is there something unique about the bay area that makes alternate types of transportation different than

negotiator, george, told me he feels his union, which includes train controllers and the other unions are feeling less optimistic by the hour and resigned to a cooling off period. they will likely be meeting tuesday of next week to map out strategies for the next 60 days. those two unions that remain in the building have a lot to talk about and not much time to get it done before the governor goes after that cooling off period order. >> all of the unions agreed to honor each other's picket lines. all of the unions need to approve contracts by midnight tomorrow in order to avoid the 60 day cooling off period. a fire blackened the back of a tour bus in san francisco tonight. it happened after 6:00 p.m. between front and davis streets. no one was injured and no word on what sparked this fire. >>> a body was found in the national park this evening where crews had been searching for a missing hiker. however, the identity has not yet been confirmed. crews were searching for 65- year-old, johnny jean daniel. the san rafael woman was reported missing on thursday. the search for her is suspend

unions are not helping these workers. >> mark, do you buy that, this is all about union membership? >> of course not. if there are no -- if mcdonald's has zero people working for them, how is that going to help the unions? unions get their strength through numbers. and so what the unions want to do ultimately is increase their roles member rolls in the future because it amplifies their voice. at the end of the day the entire mandate of unions is strengthen the position of workers who could be getting exploited by companies. anybody making less than $8 is being exploited by companies when their profit margins are what they are. unions are trying to increase their members, absolutely. $15 an hour, that's not necessarily a realistic expectation on their part but it's a negotiating position. your other guests will understand what a preliminary negotiating position means in the debate. >> john layfield you talk about profit margins, not just talking about mcdonald's, mom and pops don't have big profit margins. >> there's a difference between $8 and $15. and when you're going after the bi

the unions seem pretty strong in their messages. >> union representatives say the two sides are very far apart on the key issues. bart says its increased pay and benefits but the union says the offers have gone backwards. the three member panel will take a closer look at the negotiations process so far and then forward its findings to the governor. the governor will decide whether to authorize a 60-day cooling off period. >> reporter: that state board will be holding a hearing this upcoming week. union representatives and bart representatives are planning to offer testimony about their suspected proposals. bart's union is holding a rally. they're hoping it will lead to a settlement. alex savage. >> thank you. the governor order that kept bart running was good news for riders. >> the most people including myself had been spending all week making preparations for this week. like i said, i'm happy that i didn't have to use that. >> i'm very glad. i don't understand why they wait ed so long try negotiate it and then the last week try to surge through it. >> for all the latest information

other unions supported bart workers in a rally in oakland last night.w effort to governor jerry brown san francisco. mayor lee will meet with california's labor secretary at 10:00 to talk about bart. kpix 5 reporter cate caugiran is in san francisco this morning where there's still hope to reach a deal. cate. >> reporter: i'm sure riders are hoping for that for sure and the unions aren't actually calling this a second strike. they are calling it a resumption strike. no matter how you spin it for the riders coming out of the embarcadero station this morning, really it's going to come down to being a monday morning commute nightmare. now, right now the unions are placing the blame at bart's chief negotiator tom hock. he is thought to have a hardball tactic. bart says they are only picking about them because they can't talk about the issues. bart hopes to compromise but there is no indication from both bart and the unions of reaching a deal by that monday strike deadline. >> it looks during at this point. there is no evidence that the district or its negot

and as a result of the process, the project was reduced, to 480 feet, and cutting the shadow on the union square by 75 percent from the original proposal. and the city has properly determined that the project would not have a significant shadow impact within the meaning of both proposition k and sequa and in fact the shadows on union square would never fall after 9:15 a.m. and would fall on a few weeks a year at the early hours in the morning where the park is in low usage and thus the eir which was held by the board of supervisors concluded that it would not have a shadow impact on public open spaces including union square and the planning commission and the park and rec commission to determine that the park would not have a significant and adverse impact on the use of the square of prop k and appellants to the process to revisit the city decisions but the appeal lacks merit. as you know the construction of the new projects downtown and provides for the review of the design. and confirmation of open space requirements and for authorization of certain exceptions to the planning code. the

>>reporter: rally got a boost from other none bart union but some passengers who backed the union aren't sure how long the sympathy will hold out if there's a strike. in oakland, abc 7 news. >> bay area transit agency are already making plans to carry more passengers f.there is a strike bart is hoping to have up to 95 bus available to make limited runs from the el from veto walnut creek, dublin, free mont west oakland station. service from concord and san leandro may added as well. ferry make additional trip from oakland vallejo. of flow parking available in alameda. golden gate transit will not have add until service but 2 boats will be used by bay ferr ferry. car pool lane hours extended just as last time from 5:00 a.m. through 7:00 p.m. during the last bart strike thousands of commuters globingd to casual car pooling. but the long wait frustrate add lot of people. things going much smoother this morning in san francisco as drivers dropped off passengers near the financial district. transportation officials are reserving part of the streets around the transbay terminal forth evening co

least a third of the country's four million voters who want to the three hundred year old political union. who dares break with history to pay less to a foreign pockets retain its share of resource riches hundred it's environment of nuclear friction yes many believe strength lies in the union as referendum counter ernest focus is turning to the key players in the campaign the leaders the media. reach. will take the high road and rebuild haiti. we talk to alex salmond the first minister of scotland on his personal and political quest for sovereignty. aleksandr sound the first scottish thank you very much for being with us today great pleasure to be to be here. scott. so you have sat recently and this is your quote the political union does not work for scotland anymore hell scotland back and imperils our future what is so wrong with remaining within the u.k. . the first argument is a democratic one. i'm fifty years old for two thirds of my life scotland has not had the governments we vote for for two thirds of my entire lifetime scotland has voted in one direction england as voted in a diff