and the second, reason is that we are here to support the concerns of the united educators union and threefold, and one, that they want to make sure that there is a commitment from the school board to work with the union to insure that there are dedicated funds to build educator housing because as we all know there is a huge affordable crisis in this city and that includes, educators who increasingly are not able to live in san francisco where they teach our kids. second we support a master plan for the surplus property so that we are not evaluating each piece of land separately as well as dedicated staff with the requisite knowledge and in order to handle all of these real estate transactions and but while we are so excited to support this project at 1950 mission is because of the affordable housing crisis that we are facing in the city. and in many ways, the mission is ground zero of this crisis. and david recently asked for a report from the budget and legislative analyst to study the level of displacement and neighborhood by neighborhood what the displacement looks like in the ci

unions have seen better days. national education association is losing members and this debate over union effectsiveness has been going on for the better part of a half century. the united states was number one in high school graduation rates. today, united states is number 22. as the debate goes on. >> trace, thank you. joining us now the woman in the advertisement. randy winegarten. randy great to see you. thanks for joining us. >> great to be with you. >> let's start with that critique. yikts say it's unions that are the problem in, particular there is tenure for teachers and inability to fire bad ones are contributing to disturbing numbers your thoughts? iets disappointing that richard berman would put an ad like this in today after biggest actions of frankly parents, students and teachers across america but let me just say one, if someone shouldn't teach, can't teach they shouldn't be there frankly our union as well as others, daily news said the ad was wrong we have actually been trying to figure out how to make sure have you great teachers in every school. two, where the ad and frankly all of the stuff about teachers so wrong this country have lots of unions and

united steelworkers, which is one of the more progressive unions, has recently made some tentative arrangements with mondragon and it's a huge, banking, housing, school educationalooperative that could get somewhere. i mention paris worries discussed very well and participate in the spread of worker owned enterprises and mostly northern ohio, the old rust belt. that's an interesting history, which relates very much to this. back in 1970s event, at the beginning of a concerted effort to destroy industrial production and the united stated conservative beginning of days population we been through in the past generation. u.s. steel decided to close its main steel plants in youngstown, ohio. it was a steel town, like other working-class town, like detroit it had been built or the working classes. they didn't get the profit because their tools. they built it. they wanted to keep it. u.s. steel wanted to sell it, to close it down. the union offered to buy it. they had community support. they even have the poor does the republican governor, just let the workers by the plant and keep running it. u.s. steel didn't want that. in fact, this is pretty consistent. i mention d

delivering health care, education, transport, and the domestic services of while being part of the strength of the u.k. economy and membership to the european union as part of the unitedingdom really gives scots the best of both worlds. that does not mean there will be a backlash. i do not see it in terms of a backlash. does it mean there could be a growing demand in other parts of england to take tighter control of their own domestic affairs western -- domestic affairs? be one of thel unintended consequences. i would be delighted if it happened. >> you would be surprised if we saw a reaction that says the scots voted for this. of course they are voting for this. they are getting such a great deal. why would you not vote for this? >> the fact that the united kingdom is stronger for having scotland as part of it. entityted kingdom, as an , is much stronger than some of its constituent parts. >> talk to me a little bit about the pound. the first point is that there is a view in scotland that says the rest of the u.k. has got to accept scottish use of the pound , simply because the aggregation of volatility and all of the instability that will go with having the scots go

president of the united states put forth in his state of the union message an american jobs plan, an american jobs plan to put people in this nation back to work. it was complete. educationning, research component for the next sector of this economy for the future. a transportation infrastructure sector. a way to finance it. wo years ago, 971 people standing in the cold in fairfield, california, just wanting a shot at a job. and here we are two years after the president of the united states put forward a jobs plan done. rica, has not been the majority in this house has refused to bring up even one of those programs. i'm going to talk about those things tonight. those things that we can do here in america. hat we can do. so that when 971 of my constituents are willing to line up to get a job, they'll have one. they'll have that opportunity. they'll have a shot at the future. it's a disgrace that after two years with a complete plan to put people back to work, the majority has refused to bring forward any part of that legislation. it's a disgrace. it's time for this country to get back to work. it's time for this house to get back to work. to put americans back on the job.