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

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

or form a union. personally nothing about you the right not to be unionized. >> that was [inaudible conversations] that's right. that was overturned. then you have the quick elections where today by law within 42 days. union want to get down to seven to ten days. the reason is they gone out and intimidated the people to signing union cards. and say that know they can petition and do seven to ten days. the company won't have enough time to sit down and say, look, just because you sign the union cards doesn't mean that's the way you have to vote. i'll give you a case in point. we had one election, and that was in southern ohio at the steel mill, it was with a different union. and they petitioned, we said fine. we're going to do it 22 days just like the law demands. here is the interesting point. each week i went down and sat and talked to the employs. in my first talk i said please understand something. just because you signed the card to agree to an election. the union only needs 30%. just because you

our union is standing in the way. who else is the government snooping on and are you on the enemy list. right after the deadly twister hit, one senator said this. >> the damage that the polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit alabama and oklahoma and texas. >> he is apologizing now, but why are democrats cashing in while people are digging out. firing up your weekend barbecue conversation right now. >> welcome to cashing in. our cashing in crew this week, wayne rogers and jonathan honig and kirstin powers join us. calls growing for the white house to can workers, but irs workers are unionized and unions protect their members. irs unionizing employees. is this a conflict of interest? >> it is an inherent conflict of interest. there is bias embedded when you have a situation like this where they are protected. it's difficult to remove them. they have positive incentive to go along with it and if you look at the numbers, the workers and political donations in 2008 and 2012 to president obama, $110,000 in contrib

be a problem for the unions.age and i think you are right for the reasons that you suggest in your parsing, he is not okay on this one, don't pay any attention to those scary stories about how your benefits will cut. that will never happen on my watch. it seems likely to me that if they make the kind of changes that they are talking about, those benefits will have to be cuts. >> remember how he said in ohio at the commencement address a couple of weeks ago, if anybody tells you it's a big scary government is after abuse its power, don't believe them. a lot of stuff you ought to believe. >> bret: a.b., the unions would like to see the obama administration address this correctly. they would like to see 17,001 pages including the one page that says exclude the unions. according to the law that's not going to happen. otherwise, it kind of falls apart. >> that's what we saw with the supreme court ruling. it's difficult to start pulling things out of this program. it really becomes swiss cheese and the whole thing fall

go to union city? okay. go to union city. so i set off to a union city but didn't go on my own because it is the clannish place. professor shows up and says hi, tell me about your schools, not sure what the reception would be, but i have outage for guy, a guy sitting over here who came with me and said he is a good guy and gordon is somebody the district knows well and trusts well. i spent some time looking at those preschools and i knew up through a grade reading and math test scores were really good so i was in one of the schools that has preschool through eighth grade program, i am going to duck into a classroom and see what they are like and i was impressed by what i saw. the nice thing about being a professor is these things called sabbaticals. you spend a year doing stuff away from home. why not come back here and spend a year and see what is happening. and in great school systems. to their credit superintendent, top administration, the mayor, school board all said it is a great idea. bring your hands. they all said we

unions had aime and place. i am a union man and i know that.hink they did and i appreciate that time and place. but it is not now. they don't have a horse in the race. >> johnathon, you said something interesting. everybody should be allow would to stay? >> i believe so eric. the government doesn't own the country. it is it privately owned. the notion of rounding up illegals and shipping them anywhere is a horrific use of government. >> who is paying for it? we are paying >> in a free society they are paying for. >> they are going to the emergency room when thape get the snivels. come on. >> go ahead, austin, your comment. >> look, on average, the undocumented workers that are working here illegally are paying into the system. >> they are a benefit. >> and any employer where they get a w-2 they are pay nothing social security and medicare and not take out. >> i am on tracey's team with this one. wayneast thought? >> i think the gang much 8 has a good plan. if up are qualified here for 10 years for god's sake and done that kind of thing and ther

and it bankrupts unions and by the way the way it works is you know if you're part of the union you pay dues to that union and in paying dues you're going to get better benefits you're going to get better wages and if you look at states that don't have the right to work for less laws the workers do make more money there are fewer safe place safe workplace incidents and they have better benefits so what these laws do is they say look you can be a part of a union that's fine but you don't have to pay your union dues you can choose you have the right to not pay your union dues so what that creates is it creates a union of centrally freeloaders it creates people who are getting all the benefits of the union but aren't don't have to pay their union dues so what that does is it could turn workers against each other you could see some workers are paying their dues doing the benefits saying hey why isn't this guy paying his dues you know that also someone rests but also bankruptcy unions and of course unions traditionally have been a major political funder of the left so if you can starts r

is it also addresses landscape in union square after the construction is complete. as well as ongoing maintenance of the station that is going to be incorporated into the park. the station will include a glass roof, that is going to have artwork imbedded within it, and staff from the arts commission is actually here to make a presentation after this one, radicaling the artwork in the roof of the station. we have -- the department of has agreed to provide routine maintenance to the glass deck, including cleaning and graffiti-removal, but mta will have responsibility for the repair or replacement of the glass deck. we believe that the mou addresses the key issues that may result from construction of the union square station and we believe it provides fair compensation for the permanent loss of parking spaces and establishes a cooperative framework. so we ask for your approval of the mou. i have alec cliff beyond cliff >> the net revenue that the department receives from the parking garage will be likely reduced d and so &that money is specifically and only for that pu

in our union, we have not used it very often. we've only used it with a handful of employers in san francisco. but, kind of industry wide city agreements we have not done this except maybe if you go back 15-20 years ago there might have been handful. the reason that it's so critical right now is because of the uncertain nature of what's going to happen with health care. with the affordable care act coming in next year and the exchanges which will provide that health care for millions of californians who don't have health care right now, it's expected that the health care industry is going to be changing quite a bit and we are not sure exactly, it's very impossible to predict what that's going to do. if you poll our members, the number 1 issue is health care for our members and retirees. that is the no. 1 issue in our considerations in our discussions over the course of each year and our members will make those determinations as to what the priorities are and whether or not more money should be allocated to health care or wages or

unions had a time and place. i'm a union man. i know that. i think they had a time and place.reciate that. it's not now and it is not in this. they don't have a horse in this race. >> eric: jonathan, you said they should be allowed to stay. if they start flooding the borders, they can stay? >> eric, i believe so. the government doesn't own the country. the government is privately owned. i agree with austan, rounding up illegals and shipping them anywhere is horrific use of government. >> who is paying for these people? we are paying for them. >> in a free society for themselves. >> they are going in emergency room every time they get the sniffles and unemployment lines. >> eric: go ahead. >> on average, the undocumented workers that are working in the country illegally are paying into the system. >> eric: they are benefiting the economy. >> any employer they get a w-2. >> let them all stay. >> eric: i'm on tracy's team on this one. >> as i said before the gang of eight has a plan. if you are qualified you can get this. if you are here for ten years and you paid in and have don

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was the statement in reference to all open space or just union square? >> the specific statement being discussed was about the shadow impact on union square, particularly. but a shadow impact is something that is very difficult to mitigate in that the impact that you are recognizing that you are creating a shadow that is impairing the use or enjoyment of a public space. you can't get back that sunlight. so there aren't changes you can make there in how you can go about the project to increase sunlight to balance out or actually address the physical impact of the shadow. so therefore, you need to actually change the project description with regard to the design of the building, or other aspects of the build, to reduce or avoid that shadow. another approach where it is feasible would be to actually add open space within that same location, but obviously that is something where there are very limited opportunities to do that within san francisco. >> i guess i'm having trouble following that. i didn't want to focus on it, but i'm having troubling focusing on

dues, they have the right to decertify a union if they don't want the really bad union representinghis is a plus for workers to get the best information that they deserve in the workplace. >> rick, you read through these employee rights, the same thing rich just said. it is lopsided in favor of union organizes, is it not? >> actually i think it does what the law says but here's the important point. each and every one of you just gave your reason why you don't like the poster. fine. that was not the basis of the decision. you can't -- >> yes, it was. it was the right not to speak and not to be coerced. it was a first amendment right for the company not to be coerced with a misleading poster. >> we've got to wrap it up. >> you would argue that no employer should have to put up any of these warnings. >> rick was holding up one side of the argunt. no surprise, by the way, about new reports that we're going to spend more or moms this year. but before you buy the flowers, check out our stocks that could make your mom's fites this mother's day. bny mellon combines investment management & i

you can't b on t union side of this.hey have plans that are too costly and they should have to go to lower cost plans. that was one of the fixes. it makes the unions mad but the bottom line their health care plansost too much money. that's one of the better parts of this agree bli not so great health care program. it's going to address the fact that peop have too much insurance and consumetoo much health care because of it. it's as if your company bght you a $30,000 car insurance plan that paid for maintenance and everything on your car. you fix every ding, bring it in for oil changes every month and rack up costs. that's how the world works with health care. you have the $30,000 plan. they don't pay premiums. they consume a lot of health care. >> the bottom line is many of the union workers may be forced to change their insurance, to change their doctor which the president many times promised wou not happen. is that a reason to get rid of this law? >> it's not a reason to get rid of it. it's a reason to fix the problem

to de certify the union that means get rid of the union.lso work for a different employer. you have lots of choices. but when you work for an employer for example they have requirements. they often require you to wear particular uniform or they have to monitor your key strokes on a computer. when you work for an employer there are certain obligations that come with that. if you happen to work for a unionized employers one of the obligations is pay for the cost of representation. >> says the law in about half of the state but the employer may not want that the worker may not want it. what if the union negotiates stupid work rules. the union editors were saying it can't be done, you can't touch that tape machine. sometimes it took them five minutes to get out of the car to shoot something. it sucks the incentive out of people. >> unions like any other democratic association that people don't think are in the interest of them -- >> society. >> they give power to workers to negotiate on relatively equal footing that gets fairer relative bargain

police department of boston just solved a crime the unionized f.b.i. just solved a crime i don't get care and you see you mention that there are some some new forms of organizing some new things that are coming about that might have some impact on these issues of worker safety and worker pay i agree with stuart that people need to feel. they need to know what their rights are they need to have a little bit of information and then they need to feel like they're covered someone's got their back and that's what an organization is about i think there's a stirring out there among workers so does working america that's why we're putting out just in a couple of days on friday we're launching fix my job dot com it's a place where you can go online and the worker can find out how to fix their job most importantly they can get the tools for how do you organize how do you talk to your coworker what kind of tactics should you use we want to arm millions of people to learn how to take action on their own and to create that. that bubbling up that's going to be essen

and it bankrupts unions and by the way the way it works is you know if you're part of the union you pay dues to that union and in paying dues you're going to get better benefits you're going to get better wages and if you look at states that don't have the right to work for less laws the workers do make more money there are fewer safely say a workplace incidents and they have better benefits so what these laws do is they say look you can be a part of a union that's. but you don't have to pay your union dues you can choose you have the right to not pay your union dues so what that creates is it creates a union of simply freeloaders it creates people who are getting all the benefits of the union but i don't have to pay their union dues so what that does is it could turn workers against each other you could see some workers are paying their dues doing the benefits saying hey wasn't this guy paying his dues you know that also someone rest but also bankruptcy unions and of course unions traditionally have been a major political funder of the left so if you can starts rolling back how muc

union one that the deputy leader of the u.k. independence party believes could make it easier to read depositors accounts. we all know why the trying to do this we all know what the it's basically to harmonize banking across the european union to create a banking union which is what the germans in particular ones because they know in the end if they are going to be a people's bank accounts like they've done in cyprus if they are going to do this to begin countries they need this banking union and in many ways they will need to be a people's bank accounts to ensure that the euro continues because bailouts are going to keep coming of course we know that slovenia is now in serious trouble spain has only which is a youth unemployment which is sixty percent in greece we have soup kitchens on the streets of athens we have people leaving children on the steps of churches because they can't afford to live so there will be more bailouts in the pipeline and obviously the european union has to look at different ways of raising that revenue

he denied the-- states would supply the soviet union during world war ii. and it was startling to everyone in history at all. and i started looking into that because i knew it was wrong and quote that gorbachev may have not know the truth. >> host: everybody knows there was a huge supply line. >> guest: but with the expos say it was the cuckoo's egg laid by armand hammer and put there by epstein who was an asset to have a great business dealings and back-and-forth. >> host: and even started before. >> guest: but to push that before the audit to harry hopkins that was the roosevelt co-president the closest aide and adviser. so in the end result was very interested but it was hush hush to the rest of the world and in the end you have the language written over at the treasury under harry dexter white probably the most soviet type the bill in our history hammered out by white and to expand the soviet union with half a million died and chevy trucks and studebaker but this is important. >> host: the cobra. >> host: but in 1970 chris chad actually said that he doe

and the western union was ordered in, i think it was 1943, to start just making copies. and the idea was, actually, to break the code and read them and find out what our soviet allies really wanted. and so that we could be better allies. and when the code breakers started working on these cables, today started understanding that the soviet union was attempting, essentially, to overthrow our country, spying, stealing, making -- wreaking havoc, infiltrated everywhere. but it was or very painstaking work. it's hard to identify -- >> host: ing -- it took them years, literally. >> guest: they were up on alger hiss and harry dexter white. >> host: harry dexter white was dead by -- >> guest: yes, he was, but he was identified -- >> host: before. >> guest: well, he was identified by fbi, there were other investigations going on, other archives. but here's the thing, at a certain point along the way early on, you know, by 1950, say, and then in the years to follow inside the american government there was knowledge of the tremendous spying that was going on while outside the ameri

police department of boston just solved a crime the unionized f.b.i. just solved a crime i don't get karen hughes you mention that there are some some new forms of organizing some new things that are coming about that might have some impact on these issues of worker safety and worker pay i agree with stuart that people need to feel like. backed up they need to know what their rights are they need to have a little bit of information and then they need to feel like they're covered someone's got their back and that's what an organization is about i think there's a stirring out there among workers working america that's why we're putting out just in a couple of days on friday we're launching fix my job dot com it's a place where you can go on any worker can find out how to fix their job most importantly they can get the tools for how do you organize how do you talk to your coworker what kind of tactics should you use we want to arm millions of people to learn how to take action on their own and to create that. that bubbling up that's going to be essential

special tax status credit unions receive the credit union task expenditure and if we're going to. grant the ability to lend on par with the banks should we tax them like a bank. i don't think you can hold the business entrepreneur hostage to tax reform i mean it's a bit rich for the banks to to say you know to complain about unfair subsidies with all they've received from tarp and community banks are also constructed themselves as s. corporations which you know have some of the where they're only taxed once and the credit units case the members are fully tax and what they receive in in the interest. on their on their on their account on their accounts but and but there are other things like there are similar things in the tax code like partnerships and s. corporations i mean we do need overall tax reform but in the meantime that's largely irrelevant to you know who they make their loans to right now they could make all of the mortgages and auto loans they want why not allow them to make more business loans why do you hold all their small business members hostage to when congress h

if this is a loss for unions, is it a win for jobs? >>> a loss for unions but a win for jobs? this week a court ruled against the national labor relation board's so-called poster rule. this would have reired over 6 million employers around the country to hang up this sign that tel workers basically how to organize. the judge says this new rule violates employers' freedom of speech. rich, you say this is great news for jobs. how does that work out? >> yeah, i think so. you know, unemployment istill close to 8%, and i think it's just -- for the government, for a government entity to kind of sow the seeds of discord and content between employers and employees i think is a terrible thing to do. employers are dying for talented, committed people. here's a copy of the poster. i circled the stuff that was very anti-employer here. here's the stuff that speaks on the employer's behalf. it's so lopsided it's ridiculous. >> gandy, it is kind of, rick, an ad for unioning. and ads work. otherwise people wouldn't spend money on them. >> i thought rich's comment was perfect because it highli

with very little opposition hardly any from the so called in to the united states and the european union in fact the syrians going to bomb. the israelis going to bomb syria without getting some sort of green light from the united states were they to do so again it would create an even larger unless the israelis have not been threatened by syria for a very long time in fact the syrian government of us so that is de facto collaborated with the israelis in the past so where they see the threat is not syria but iran that is the israeli section and in order to weaken iran further they might carry out attacks on damascus but then they should be prepared for some consequences well terry king you know we've interviewed a military analyst earlier who told us about the rebels' strategy in because sarah let's now take a listen to what he had to say. well it's all about the syrian rebels in the city are affiliated with the al nusra front and similar organizations they've taken many of the citizens hostage turning them into live shields right now the areas controlled by the syrian army which is a gre

first, this could be built to 351' and not cast a single shadow on union square. at 550' in total height, it will cast 337,000-square-feet of new shadow on union square, when is more than the total allocation. the reason that they have to say in the eir it's not significant, because if it's ruled significant, there is no basis to make a overriding finding, because the benefits being gained here in the garage and land more than offset their contribution to the mexican museum. similarly, it requested that on jessie square, that they look at an alternative to be setback 40', cast less shadow. this costs $8 million-square-feet of new shadow on a park and will shadow up to 12:30 during the day where there are all kinds of people. that is an inappropriate finding and look at nelson igaard's finding, that would put traffic off of mission, would be the best environmentally. >> thank you. next speaker. >> mr. president and members of the board, i am robert friend. i am too am a resident of 765 market street. i have one overriding issue, and that is traffic and public safet

africa used to be the leader of the frin union. in 1963 the president of tunisia gave a strong speech during the establishment of the african union. since then we've seen the influence of africa decreasing and the leadership taken by southern africa mostly south africa and other countries who became very influential at the frin union. >> protesters have gathered in guatemala days after the top court struck down a genocide conviction against the military leader. many are worried that justice will not be served. >> back on the streets, yet again, marching for justice. many have traveled more than ten hours by bus to be here. some carry photos of family members killed during the civil war. all are frustrated because just weeks after his conviction for genocide the former military ruler will now get a second chance in court. >> we came to continue the struggle for justice because our families were killed during the civil war. we are here because we have to be. >> it was here at the palace of justice just two weeks ago he was convicted

largest corporate chains took some of their actions and went on strike to demand higher wages and union rights accorded the bureau of labor statistics the minimum wage should be ten dollars and fifty six cents today when accounting for inflation but currently the federal minimum wage is only seven dollars and twenty five cents and hasn't been raised since two thousand and nine in fact in the last thirty years congress has only raise the minimum wage three times just to give you an idea working full time at minimum wage surmounts to an annual salary of fifteen thousand dollars hardly a living wage for anyone hoping to live a comfortable life but there is a serious campaign by many employers who say that raising wages for low income workers would actually cause more unemployment and a less stable economy. well that's exactly what i talked with les leopold about the director of the labor center of new york i asked for his response to the argument against raising it and here's what he had to say. the minimum wage i ring the big he's a real term and it's better than one thousand nine hundred