>> there's plenty of precedent for unions suppoingther unions.s is a group of workers who have been exploited for a long time. it's a pret good idea of the unions -- >> i think it's a bad idea for them to try to unionize. >> no one else iselng them. >> that's rit. >> they all get to be fancily rich when they leave school. somebody helping -- >> complete untrue. coletely wrong there. a tiny percentage does. >> that tiny percentage gets to be very, very rich. >> this football player never made it to the b leagues. maybe because i stunk! thank you all. >>> up next, no pain, then no gain. charles' best picks so far this year. up more than 20%. but you didn't get into that, did you? no, you di't. charles@a >>> three new winners from charles. >> taser. it's a stock i've liked for a long time. they've gotten their act together. theyake cameras. the police departments are buying them all over the world. also, i like rocket fuel. it helps companies with their mobile advertising. huge company, huge upside potential. lumber liquidators, lk at the housing da

>> there's plenty of precedent for unions supporting other unions.s is a group of workers who have been exploited for a long time. it's a pretty good idea of the unions -- >> i think it's a bad idea for them to try to unionize. >> no one else is helping them. >> that's right. >> they all get to be fancily rich when they leave school. somebody's helping -- >> complete untrue. completely wrong there. a tiny percentage does. >> that tiny percentage gets to be very, very rich. >> this football player never made it to the big leagues. maybe because i stunk! thank you all. >>> up next, no pain, then no gain. charles' best picks so far this year. up more than 20%. but you didn't get into that, did you? no, you didn't. charles is going to forgive you. he has three other winners. you have your paper and pen? ♪ ben! ♪ [ train whistle blows ] oh, that was close. you ain't lying. let quicken loans help you save your money with a mortgage that's engineered to amaze. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> three new winners from charles. >> taser. it's a stock i've liked for a long time. they'

unions have grimp driven up. as a person that loves unions, they put the automobile business basically out of business. >> and airlines. >> you know it did. why are jobs moving out of san francisco? thousands of jobs? >> it's too costly to work in san francisco. unions vnd a lot of others. >> that has nothing to do with labor unions, charlie. >> it has to do with the cost of putting people there. >> the bottom line, it could get some traction unions feel they make this a real goal, companies would be pressured to change the rules to allow it. charles is saying what would be next and are we going to have to really succumb to union demands in a political environment? it makes it difficult to not to. where do you think this will go? >> the business community will fight this decision by this move. >> that it will cost jobs, right? >> it might not be legal as well. >> that would be one of the arguments. but again, they are stacked three democrats to majorities right now t. other parts have bent over bawards to help un

leaving the european union so it's all b.s. that countries like great britain or france you name francis specially with increasing poverty in my opinion they have a difficult they have a difficult time to solve these problems but i think at least they should rearrange the principle rules of free movement of persons and improve the system right mr stone thank you very much for this interview alyssa stumm from the swiss people's party the force behind the measure limiting immigration into switzerland has just been approved on a referendum that thank you very much for being with us today that's what far south america this time i'll see you next time. very much it was my pleasure thank you and good luck to you and your country. dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others refused in those. places changing the world writes now. the picture. from around the globe. to me. writes. the. pain of the young girl's cammo for the future han are. between two and three hundred million guns the united states so you can act like they're not h

>> there's plenty of ecedent for unions supporting other unions.roup of workers who have been exploited for a long time. it's a pretty good idea of the unions -- >> i think it's a b idea for them to try to unioniz >> no one else is helping them. >> that's right. >> they all get to be fancily rich when they leave school. somebody's helping -- >> complete untrue. completely wrong there. a tiny percentage does. >> that tiny percentage gets to be very, very rich. >> this football player never made it to the big leagues. ybe because i stunk! thank you al >>> up next, no pain, then no gain. charles' best picks so far this year. up more than 20%. but you didn't g into that, did you? no, you didn't. no, you didn't. charlesameriprise asked people a mple question: can you keep your lifestyle in retirement? i don't want to think about the alternative. i don't even know how to answer that. i mean, no one knows how long their money is going to last. i i try not to worry, howbut you worry.t. what happens when your paychecks stop? because everyone has retirent qu

european union has certain rules and the free movement of persons is one. everywhere traveling around free like united states between new york california it's one principle everywhere to say money is another pro is another principle everywhere to same or law the same rights and does is a next principle of like you are not you are a lock so why would they be so upset you are not part of the e.u. so why would they be so yes but they of they might be seeing ok of switzerland as a small country is successful the wealth is better than in other areas of the european union it might be a certain jealousy it might be a certain fear if switzerland proves to be a successful country then we have similar reactions in the european union i don't know you have to ask our colleagues and friends in the european union why they do not like this development in switzerland but do you feel like that in your small to culturalism policies are being and post on switzerland. it is imposed if they insist that we have to have to same immigration rule and then of course you can talk abo

unions and more unions it's no coincidence that the decline in union membership since the late one nine hundred sixty s. has coincided almost exactly we decline of the american middle classes share of national income. unions help workers bring home i. wages wages that those workers can then spend on cars homes and other goods to the economy. conservatives love to say that our fragile economy can't afford to have unions but they've got to back it's our fragile economy can't afford to not have you it's that's why congress needs to get to work right now to pass a national card check bill that will help workers easily join unions without having to navigate an unnecessarily complex selection process that just happens to tilt the scales in favor of management. after all of congress passed to congress pass the employee free choice act back in two thousand and nine like it was supposed to it's very good chance that we would be sitting here today talking about the united auto workers and how they just want a stunning victory for the labor movement in tennessee was also a very good chance the mid

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered on peter lavelle the european union likes to think of itself as one of the brighter and fairer parts of the world but european commission report on corruption the first of its kind but creates a very different picture in every single member country there is corruption in some cases on a massive scale and businesses complain but to do business government connections are often necessary so what can the e.u. teach the world about corruption. cross-talk corruption in the e.u. i'm joined by my guest broken are in berlin he is a political analyst in asia on monday professor for european studies in london we have david coburn he is a u.k. independence party regional chairman and here in moscow we cross to john hell of it he is a managing partner at the group all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it david if i go to you first in london let me just read some of the high points eight out of ten believe the close links between business and politics lead to cor

and don't wish to associate with the union don't wish to support the union even though the union has brought them a wage increase and they represent them if they have a grievance so the notion is that it's a form of forced association now over forty years ago the supreme court said that's a form of force association which is justified by the way the system of collective bargaining works if you have one representative it works better when you have one representative it works better when that representative has a duty to represent everybody and that's not going to work if you allow people to essentially be free riders so there is an argument about free association and forced association but it is one that the supreme court has spoken to some four decades ago. and the case. as you mentioned it's about the state of illinois would this have been the cations on your means nationwide the more narrow but very significant implication is that the organization of this type of work or at least home care workers is probably one of the biggest organizing successes of the last twenty five years by

and the union movement would be almost dead if it were not for public employee unions.bly surprising that they lost this election. and i think it has much to do with what has happened to the labor movement, what their goals are, their shift away from organizing and into politics. and i think this really hurt them in i place like tennessee. >> well, speaking of a place like tennessee, kate bronfenbrenner, you made a case in your writing that the south is actually this goes against-- but that there really are opportunities for unions in the south. >> that's right. in fact, unions have had higher win rates in the south than they've had in the rest of the country. and that's because the south is fertile ground both because of the demographics in the south. the south is the area where the percent of workers of color both black workers and latino workers is growing faster than anywhere else in the u.s. and because the kind of occupationsç and industry that are in the south are the kind of jobs where workers are most likely to want to organize. low-wage jobs and manufacturing

if you compare switzerland to the european union as a whole in dimensions it is as the european union would have year per year ten million ten million new permissions for people to move into the european union that's the dimensions because what's all of this so a small eight million european union more than five hundred million we have an immense immigration in switzerland and please understand the people who are responsible for the european union please understand we do have a tremendous problem and we have to solve it ourselves right we're going to take a short break now mr samaras has stemmed the last president else quest peoples party drank force behind immigration curbing move that's recently been approved on a nationwide referendum in switzerland after the break we'll talk about the waves this latest with measures will send to actually stay with us. thank you very much. sigrid laboratory kirby was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is

unionized states.rogressive principals. there are benefits to society at large when there's a union in town, and that's beyond wages. >> you think norquist cares whether a vw plant in tennessee gets unionized or not? this is the model for unionization, the works council model that europe embraced after world war ii. a man tried to get it in the united states and he was rebuffed by management. in the 1960s, a lot of conservatives preached more labor union cooperation. when there's a situation where you might have workers and employers coming together on equal terms, conservatives, and especially republican politicians, will oppose it. >> you have talked about this in your book. you track income inequality in this country and it goes almost parallel with the low activity of unions. part of the problem seems to be this is almost a race to the bottom in terms of what the unions have had to agreed to effectively. they've agreed to a two-tier wage system at the three auto-makers. what is the future here as t

>> list, i'm a unique guy. >> you are a union guy now. >> you grew up in a union house. >> you know unionck of trying to change the rul so you can reverse it? >> it's designed to sort of boost enrollment to the democrats? there are also delays, a legal calgary by the employer until after the union vote. so it will speed up the elections. all of this is manet to make it easier to organize the company and make the union. >> look. the bottom line is management has the advantage. they have the upper hand. they always have that's the whole history of the labor relations. >> it depends on your skill. few want to work at wal-mart the rest of your life, management has something over you. if you have a skill that you can mark, no, it doesn't. >> that's union membership declined to the degree it has. it can't be bosses strangleing their workers. what's accounting for that? >> there is sa wide variety of movement, from the move away from the traditional industry that they dominated and on and on. we can discuss it for a long time. >> one major reason. it talks too much to work here. unions have grim

the union movement becomes dominated by public sector unions and government unions where it's easierthat a particular problem maybe for some of the images that they project, a problem for the private unions? >> it is a problem for the private unions because they become less important. if the younger workers see them as a failing or declining institution, there is no incentive to join them. >> we have to take one more break. when we come back, hits and misses of the week. pay my bill. phone: your account is already paid in full. oh, well in that case, back to vacation mode. ♪boots and pants and boots and pants♪ ♪and boots and pants and boots and pants♪ ♪and boots and pants... voice-enabled bill pay. just a tap away on the geico app. ♪ huh, 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. yup, everybody knows that. well, did you know that some owls aren't that wise. don't forget about i'm having brunch with meagan tomorrow. who? seriously, you met her like three times. who? geico. >>> time now for hits and misses of the week. >>> time now for hits and misses of the week. >> last

in germany, the manufacturers are all unionized. in japan, they're all unionized. you have labor and management working together for the benefit of the company. that's exactly what could have happened here. corker portrayed it as the opposite. the company is saying their next plant might be up north. we welcome volkswagen. don't tell me the uaw can't do great work. >> if the nlrb doesn't get involved here, what are they good for? >> you're right on. they need to draw a bright clear line on the sand and go after this guy. it was a big lie. it was calculated. it was despicable what he did. what country do we live in? in america, people have the right to choose who they associate with. this is america. even in tennessee, corker, it's a part of america and the workers have a right to choose. he tainted that election. it should be redone. it's time for the nlrb to stand up and do the job they were put there for. >> good to have you with us tonight. if senator corker is really for unions as he said in that interview on fox today, i'm sure the unions are going to be able

the port authority police union the second union, the laborers were first. the laborers endorsed christie because they supported jobs through the transportation trust fund. the port authority police union was important because christie was not going to get the backing of police and firefighter unions in new jersey because of the pension bill that he passed with senate president sweeney. so his only opportunity to get a major endorsement from a police union was to get the port authority police officers. bear in mind that wildstein and nunziato met on a daily basis. wildstein was a guy -- said don't give policy stories, just write about politics. i'm sure you spent a lot of time talking about politics. what christie was attempting to do was to demonstrate to republicans on the national basis that he can attract other stituencies, african-americans, hispanics and unions. >> let's go to a big conflict. i want to get back to melissa. if the police on the bridge are blaming this mess, all this mess on the mayor of fort lee which was apparently the political vendet

well yes i mean the european union itself is a corrupt institution from beginning to end but they haven't added to their books for some nineteen years so. they're not exactly a good example to set fire to business or to politics it is quite a dreadful organization every failed politician in any european country when he's finished making a mess of his own country then seems who often get a job with the european union or the european commission only in berlin how do you reflect upon this report it's quite damning it's really quite extraordinary the extent of corruption particularly in some countries of the e.u. . but first of all the report does not presenting the picture of what actually is corruption but how corruption is perceived and that shows that there's a much greater sensitivity for things that are going wrong which is a clear sign that our democracy is working well because this is about checks and balances all right john how do you react to the report so democracy is working in the e.u. . well i was very surprised that they. finally wanted to come out and meet that they have corru

the union to come into the factory out. last week or so. join union.as really been what was seen as probably the best case that they had to try organize one of these plants, unable to do 712 to 626 on this one. all of this because of an agreement with volkswagen and united workers now the uaw will stay out of this plant for the next year and not try to organize this plant. it doesn't stop another union from coming into this particular plant or the uaw from going to different plants in the southeast. we know reportedly that they have been going to try to organize different automakers but haven't yet had the type of situation that the uaw had with volkswagen where they basically said come on in and lobby our employees. and so it makes it much more difficult for them. you look at union membership when it woman's to the uaw. high of 4 pain 5 million. falling to 400,000 recently. you can have one more option here for the uaw. they could challenge this result with the national labor relations board. there are union leaders who are saying that there was undue

and membership for unions continues to go down year after year. people are not happy with unions. why are you going to give them all this money just for the unions to go give it to the democratic party? that's what ends up happening. you end up just paying for all these elected officials to the democratic party. >> and, wayne, very important point is a lot of these plants -- there are a lot o deals struck with these auto companies to come over, offering tax incentives and whatnot. but making sure that it stays right to work. this loss for the uaw in tennessee, very important for a lot of other states in the south as well, right? >> i think there's a bigger thing going on here, eric, than just the labor dispute. that's the fact that detroit itself has disintegrated. and everybody thought that detroit, the city, the whole area around detroit, was based on the automobile industry. e automobile industry when it became unionized and became recalcitrant, it destroyed th city of detroit. and chattaoga and those areas of tennessee and people, they fear that. now, whether or not it's true

>> union is bit after loser.he other loser republicanpoliticians who teach that government stay out of the private sector. here they're threatening coercing, saying, intimidating things that were not true even volkswagen denied. and furthermore, state senator in tennessee that that the state would withold incentives for the company to expand if the workers voted union. what is that all about? david: in the heat of the battle. you know how these things work, lauren fix. we have battles exaggerated charges on both side. i heard stuff come out of unions during these battles as ridiculous as well. the question, lauren, what unions did to the auto industry here is significant. it is not just historic. the memory of the workers clearly played a role in their vote. did the unions, caa you actually blame unions for having messed up the u.s. auto industry? >> well, i guess at some point, if we go back in history it really, truly was a benefit to be a part of a uaw. they really were great with the workers making sure they

this chart shows wages and union members. the red line is union membership rates. when union membership goes down, so do wages. i want to go back to this guy bowe watson. who is this guy? what dog does he have in the fight that he is all of a sudden against workers? it reminds me of the ted kennedy floor speech back in 2007 on the senate floor. what is it that you have against these workers? why is it that you have such a disdain for american workers? are you afraid that workers in the workplace have a vote it's going to destroy your economy in tennessee? his threatening legislative retribution. he's telling the people of tennessee if this vote and this plant goes through and those guys from the uaw get into our state, we're going to pass some laws so other companies aren't going to be able to get tax incentives. why does this guy hate workers? that's what the local media ought to be asking this guy down in tennessee. then there's norquist. his union workers, they might pick a candidate they might want to support. they don't want to give the workers down in tenness

is something like a third of the budgets go walkies that is really not good enough and the european union itself as i said before is a corrupt institution every failed politician or businessman ends up in the european commission or whatever and. they are setting the example for the rest of europe one can only be surprised. i don't see why we should continue to put money at least a great britain should put money into this corrupt system is in deadly corrupt system let me go ahead john you want to jump in go ahead yeah for fairness sake where the report is done by the commission but the figure one hundred twenty is what they did and they did try to suppress into countries it did know they think it is to corruption into you countries while they suppress their that's not the direction and the vet you notice the corruption in europe itself that's misdirection like any any good magician you don't watch the hand that he's presenting to you he's been watching the other hand you don't see and that's what you're trying to do the moment they're trying to give a certain amount of dismissed direction

why can't you can have work with the eurasian union and work with the european union but no i guess there's an exception here ukraine doesn't get that privilege marcus go ahead well what was said just. could russia's actions could result in the breakup of ukraine is absolute utter nonsense victoria nuland scum it's demonstrate america's lip service to the concept of freedom and democracy and we've got other examples of that we saw late last year american politicians senator john mccain flying into ukraine an independent sovereign country and joining in the protest movement meeting opposition leaders in calling for early elections in ukraine and calling for the over for of the ukrainian government which is democratically elected i'd like to see it and i realize that the lectures which is your blushes are contributing to it and you cry out with a challenge oh no no no diarrheal no area we know you made your comments are you are you made your comment that russia is acting dangerously well i don't see russian politicians flying into cave and calling for the overthrow of a democratically

paul, the union lost because the union is its own worst enemy.ross the board here. you know, vw workers rejected it for the same reason you saw a decline across the country. back in 1975 -- back in 1979 the uaw had 75% more workers, so this is something very natural that the workers of v.w. are saying why would we want to turn ourselves into detroit. >> >> the company itself was neutral but a lot of the politicians including bob corker and the governor spoke up and said, look, don't do it. they had been very vocal. the union itself is saying that's why they lost because they had the opposition of the politicians. what do you think of that. >> right. the union's only version of a fair election is one only where you hear the voices of the union. they spoke up because the company was neutral in part and, you know, workers deserve to hear what the different options are and issues are. that's not something the union should be criticizing, that workers are too dutch to make decision themselves. >> this isn't the 1940s anymore. over the years the uaw ha

where are the unions going to take this defeat? >> probably in the chops, because they don't have a good immediate recourse. it is a bad year for democrats. they will be able to save democrats in a few races as they did for harry reid in 2010. the question for unions today is how to survive the next cycle. because the rulings of the game have exchanged dramatically for unions, once upon a time they were the only game in town, the only super pacs, they do not like that others are able to play their game with them. they do not like the consequences. where they go from here is a very open question. >> they are a critical, critical fundraising arm for the democratic party. critical, i mean the out-spending, the complaining for the koch brothers, the unions out-spend them easily. so they're an important group to get the democrats elected. is this little old election down in tennessee sort of a harbinger of things to come? >> well, this is a trend we've seen since the mid-to late '70s. we're down 60 or 70% of all private workers that are

union-like fringe benefits to the workers in the absence of a union.part to dissuade the workers from unionizing altogether. in that respect the particular election is not surprising and would be unrelated to its southern location. >> it's an interesting vote given the history of the autobusiness. good to have you on the show. thank you for joining us. >> switching topics to america's bloody struggle to subdue the taliban and the conflict in the broader middle east. according to a new book america's afghan war has parallels in a 19th century war, reported on by a great soldier statesman. young winston churchill served as a calvary officer and reporter when the malakand field force fought a campaign against pashtun tribesman on the frontier of afghanistan, and what's now pakistan. i'm joined by the correspondent concoughlin, a defense editor for lion's daily telegraph, and the author of means books including his latest "church hill's first war - young winns don at war with the afghans. you say: >> do you think there's a young american infantry officer o

trying to build a union instead of losing the union. what about the pay discrepancies that increased with the hired union officials compared to that of the workers? i will listen for your comment. guest: you are raising completely legitimate questions. the great thing about the trade union is that we can raise these questions and be critical and have debates and agree to isagree. reach a majority opinion and try to address the issues you raised. the fundamental question that you are pointing to about pay increases is that there has been a systematic attack on worker organizations in the last 30 years. corporate interests do not believe that the existence of independent worker organizations serve their interest. our ability to bargain increases and health and safety has been systematically undermined. that is why we're using every last breath and fighting tooth and nail for our existing members. i think that is true for every union in this country. we're trying to think together about how do we reach out our hands to the millions of amer

when you put that $10.10 wage on, you're helping the unions because a lot of union jobs are based on minimum wage plus x. that has a lot to do with it. >> that's great. >> what about good, old-fashioned hard work. that's something that mike rowe came out and said where is that being pushed from washington and beyond? >> everywhere i went on dirty jobs, i mean everywhere, help wanted signs. in all 50 states. i heard the same thing again and again. if you're willing to learn a useful skill, and no kidding, work your bult off, you're still okay. i feel like there are two separate conversations going on in the country. one conversation is about workers and paraate and how we can improve conditions. the other conversation really talks about the definition of a good job. the meaning of work. >> sure. >> the willingness to see what a lot of people might call a bad job, and only see an opportunity. >> and greg, isn't that the quickest and best way to get out of poverty, is simply to work your butt off? >> mike rowe is the anti-obama. he understands the science of making not the weakness of t

the rick of union otherwising outbuying the benefits. looking at what the unions did to detroit. and good when the company is making a profit but worth nothing if the company is bankrupt. >> it is interesting in ourrepo a gentlemen talking on behalf of the workers. they have jobs they like and if you have a job you like why do you want to give part of your income away. >> unions over the last throw or four decades have not given the workers the value they promised. the union representation is falling off of the cliff. this comes among incredible support for the unions in the vw plant. it is a big defeat for big labor. >> mercedes and hyundai and could so that next. what does that mean? >> this is the other u.s. on the industry. it is the on the industry in right to work states. those are foreign companies and creating american jobs and this vote in the vw plant was a bell weather is to who the ua w with the support from vw. they have campaigned here years to get in the plant. they lost this one. and sends a message. and harder to get in. >> you know so much about the issue. i hav

the union. the coworke has attracted manufacturing jobsrom all across the country. home to the plan alon with nissan and general otors and alabama has plants operated by mercedes-benz and hyundai. and tech this has a strong automotive presence. ten of the 24 right to work states have manufacturing plants. accounting for over 80,000 manufacturing jobs. a number that grows to half a million and that number in direct contrast with the 83,000 automobile manufacturing jobs lost in michigan and michigan alone in the run-up to the recession. fewer than 10,000 of those jobs have returned. and now to the 19 us-based foreign auto manufacturing plants. only one is unionize. and it's not just the automobile industry. they are dismissing organized labor. the private sector workforce belongs to union. a union. that is the lowest level since 1960 in. my first guest says that it is a major victory for workers and the united auto workers union who work together to unionize it and we have the most powerful organi