and it is an issue for us as union representatives to hear the complaints from our members that they have nowhere to go. we have had media coverage on this, we have spoken on it several times and we are trying to get some movement because it is an emergency situation for our people. and we just don't want our members, or the employees of san francisco, or this railway, to be continued to be treated as second or third class citizens without the ability to have clean, functioning facilitis that they can use while they serve the city and county of san francisco. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please? >> good afternoon, board, members. chairman, eric williams, president for the transport workers union. >> about two years, the media, put it in the papers, about the rest room issue, for the operators. and they were made it was made a joke even by some members of the board. this is not a joke. we sit here representing our members with the particular issues surrounding your district. at the end of the day when there is no service on the streets, part of that reason is because operators parti

as selling real u.k. made clothes and those just using the union jack as a label but as artie's law as with reports from london it appears hard to find an outfit not made overseas. it's got the british flag on it but all these clothes made in britain a quick look at the label shows they're not made in china or made in vietnam anywhere but here and down on the high street the stories no different you'd be hard pushed to find anything with a made in britain label on it in any shop a recent survey by a daily mail journalist found just one item in sixty three with a british made label but now david cameron and his ministers are being urged to back british from their hats to their socks and wear only british made clothes it's not impossible there are companies that still make clothes in the u.k. including the firm that's doing the urging private white b. c. but the vast majority of what we were ninety percent at the last count and including everything i'm wearing today is made abroad since two thousand and fifty two percent of jobs in the textile industry have disappeared and we imported twelve and a half billion p

do well, you have to have a test, the people who are teaching the teachers, who are using this as a defense, and unionhe teachers union is using this as a defense because they want the teachers to not -- the poorer teachers not to be unemployed they are trying to get everyone lou the door, it does not work, you know. we're -- it is not a question of equality, we're not equal, we're not all equal and we're not going to be all equal. you cannot force equality. >> nobody is making an argument is get rid of the s.a.t. test, the teachers are saying, the k -12, the pigeonhole teaches to test does not help students, a vanderbilt student kates they are -- they don't benefit each other, attaching student -- i am sorry student grades with teacher pay is an ineffective way. charles: caroline, hold on, i do want to ask though, is it. >> how do you do it. >> grades. charles: they are giving as to students. >> that who is doing that. >> it has happened, i have seen it happen. >> do have you data. charles: wayne made the point, how do you hold teachers accountable who don't do their jobs, and why do you protect thes

but with us as a union, that want to unionize, i believe it's a great opportunity for us. we will get there. >> okay. >> because we will never stop. >> derrick, what is the naacp doing to help these workers? >> well, we've joined with pastors from across the state. we've organized committee. as we've received calls, we're working with workers over their concerns. we're showing the workers that we have support. we're gathered here tonight at tupelo college because we understand that workers need support. they are an important part of our community. they are parishioners in our church, they are members of the naacp, they are human beings. and if workers in brazil can organize who work for nissan, if workers who japan who are nissan workers, if workers in south africa at their nissan plant are organize and able to collectively bargain, why shouldn't mississippi workers be able to organize? i think it's unfair and unfathomable that a company from outside of the united states come to mississippi and treat workers as unamerican. it is unfortunate that we can sit here today in th

when you look at what unions have done for us, over the years, getting rid of the 16 hour work week, they gave us weekends, and safer workplace environment, and as the unions-- >> well, that was a long time ago, a while back. >> that's true, but let's talk today. the fact that we had union busting in the the 60's and in the 80's and now right to work states. we've actually seen real wages decline, except for unionized jobs. the unions are the only thing keeping us from complete economic class, in that our middle class is gone. >> brenda: toby, many argue at that the unions have been why we're in so much debt, with higher pensions and the rest. what do you think this will do? >> this is such a green light and i appreciate the 1947 there on the front lines and great to see that, but the biggest issue here, is that we have now, first, coming in like boeing, it was building a new plant in south carolina that was stopped because the nlrb somehow deemed that it was not in the best interest of the labor department or the labor to work there. well, that was insane. that was probably 2 billion dollars investments that went up in smoke and that's coming b

union attacks. rebels have abandoned rocket attacks. the residents say they used them as human shields. u.s. president barack obama says he will put general john allen ford for the top nato job. tuesday he was cleared of misconduct over a series of emails he sent to a woman in florida. the accusations were made during the sex scandal that forced his former boss, general david petraeus, to resign as cia director. the u.s. defense secretary is poised to lift the ban on women serving in combat. it will open hundreds of thousands of frontline positions to females. officially, this is a major change, but on the ground, women are already involved in combat. >> since the founding of the country, it has been a core u.s. belief only straight men should fight in combat. under the obama administration, the prohibition on being openly gay was lifted. now, with little fanfare, the last restriction -- keeping women on the sidelines will be thrown out thursday. within a year, women who serve in the military -- they make up 14% of the force -- will be eligible to apply for 230,000 new jobs. the reason, the

but that has helped us as we had too high air pollution in brussels as it was sanctioned by the european union that we really could stress on alternative mobility. we don't wait until european legislation or regulation coming up. we also have no brussels, no belgium, but european towns, towns in europe, trying to find one another and to press, to put pressure on mayors and regional ministers to commit themselves to invest in bicycle policies. so those towns can learn from one another. as i told you, brussels, i have found several similarities with the two towns i have been getting to know now yesterday and today. we have about one million inhabitants. brussels is 10 to 10 miles on distance and i agree with what has been told here that that is in favor of promoting cycling because the distances are never too long, although we also have a difference of height. i mean, like amsterdam is plat as a pancake we would say. brussels does have some, well, ups and downs. an important issue politically is that we have -- we are, in fact, giving big gross national product to the country, 20%, although we'r

used as an insult. >> just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. i felt like at meridian, it could do some good. we did not even talk about price until the day before the show. of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. but that was not the first consideration, so that made me very happy. >> his work is printed por

up the social and political divide in northern ireland as police use non-lethal force on loyalists and get by restrictions in displaying the union flag. is just showing as forgiving cheers kevin i when you're at r.t. tonight just after nine pm now moscow time first then a pacifist accused of being anti israeli in charge of the miller trade an apparent supporter of harsh interrogation methods in charge of intelligence there president obama's picks to run the pentagon and the cia a washington correspondent profiles the nominees. by appointing chuck hagel as defense secretary president obama is arguably trying to change the perception that he has embraced bush administration national security policies because after four years of militaristic foreign policy that's most people see it chuck hagel former senator from nebraska to a vietnam war veteran as being one of very very few u.s. politicians who opposed u.s. military expansion and who dared to question and dissent from washington orthodoxies on foreign policy one of them has to do with israel he's there to publicly point out that the u.s. and israel are separate countries and amer

never at any point in the history of this union has there been more discord of rank that we cover to go corporate cash band for the campaign coffers as part of the us political please. know we here for u.k. british quit european union. we can leaks founder julian the solyndra point to un free speech and. instead a song remains a political refugee at ecuador's london embassy where he's been granted asylum he continues to fight extradition to sweden over alleged sex crimes charges that he says are politically motivated and tied to his work in leaking international government secrets. the power of people speaking up and resisting together terrifies corrupt democratic power so much so that only people here in the west and the enemy of governments an enemy to be watched and enemy to be controlled and to be impoverished true democracy is not the white house true democracy is not camera true democracy is the resistance of people with the truth against flies from top to right here in london everyday ordinary people teach us that democracy is free speech and dissent. from heretics to hero american whistleblower bradley manning finally free. droning on memo

those who are working, can you describe for us what the relationship is between unions and domestic workers? >> domestic workers see themselves ast of the movement for workers rights that unions have been driving for generations in this country. and all of us stand together for the domestic worker from brooklyn to the uaw member in michigan, we all stand together for a road to citizenship for the full 11 million. >> jennifer: it's certainly an opportunity for the unions, but mostly it is an opportunity for the workers to have meaningful wages and decent working conditions, which is not something historically that the republicans have been focused on and maria on the political side what do you think this fight over immigration reform and conditions for workers like that, what will it mean in the next republican party. can a candidate win without the far right support? >> well, if they can't that's actually good news for democrats. because it will--the party will continue to be seen as more and more extreme. i think the republican party and i've seen some republican strategists write about this, they have got to make the case to t

over an economic nightmare for the union with twenty six million people unemployed now as some fall from this with robert all of the bridge group think tank is joining us on the line from london robert evening over the next few months the e.u. is to organize a banking union also the cap on employment growth and to approve a controversial one trillion neuro budget is ireland up to the task of overseeing all this considering its history weiland has its own economic problems which are continuing its course has has the economic problems which have been happening ever since the the euro which created high inflation there and then of course exacerbated the faster they had ready to take on the presidency of the european council is of course a very large piece of work not just for the senior politicians in the government but also for many disabled servants and they would be better off spending their time really trying to address arlen's economic difficulties rather than trying to solve the problems within the european union which are very great indeed of course unemployment now in the e.u. is alarmingly high and while i was going to find herman van rompuy call

on the low end, we are seeing rates below 2.5% for both new and used cars at a number of large banks and credit unions as well. > what is your advice for car buyers? do they need to shop around? > > absolutely. shop around, because we do see a tremendous disparity in the marketplace between the low end and the higher end of the range. but then also line up your financing before you go to the dealership. that really lets you have your cake and eat it too, because you can negotiate the price of the car separately, and you are not dependent upon the dealer for financing. > turning now to mortgage rates, there was a record low 3.31% in november. what can home buyers expect? > > mortgage rates are still at very attractive levels. they have run up a little here to start the year, but they pulled back this week, and i think we will see more of that frankly over the course of the next month or so, particularly as this debt ceiling debate really gets heated up. > thanks greg. > > thanks angie. gm is giving its north american factories a billion-dollar facelift. the automaker plans to overhaul about 70% of u.s. au