people are anxious to worker union job. i think there is some common ground where we can work together and work this out. >> thank you very much. >> your comment was a good one and did put a lot of people to work, and that was a good example and a good model. we all agreed to have a local hire ring, but bear in mind our contractors are under collective bargaining agreement, and it can work. a comment one brothers made was about new projects. that would help. that goes without saying. i think all of us working together, that can happen. as far as the 50% mandate, i am all for local hiring, but i think is high. i think we can all work together on this. >> next speaker please >> i want to thank you for this legislation you could forward. this is ground-breaking legislation you have, and it has been a certain way for so long you are going to meet all kinds of resistance, but we do not want you to stop. i like the legislation. i do not have a problem with 50%, because i am usually 100% anyway. my problem is i cannot hire anyone.

people are anxious to worker union job. i think there is some common ground where we can work together and work this out. >> thank you very much. >> your comment was a good one and did put a lot of people to work, and that was a good example and a good model. we all agreed to have a local hire ring, but bear in mind our contractors are under collective bargaining agreement, and it can work. a comment one brothers made was about new projects. that

but they're not going to get a lot of sympathy from their union workers who have to decide between their own paychecks and their co-worker's jobs night the city council told their union workers that they needed to take a 5% pay cut or 12 days off without pay, those furlough days and give up the raises they're supposed to get next month or 82 of their colleagues are going to lose their jobs. job cuts could come from police and fire to library and all places in between. employees say that will impact quality of life here. >> as needed, employees are going to become the face of the city instead of permanent employees. >> but if we can't get those concessions, then this is our only option, because we can't -- we don't have the money to continue operating the city at the same level that we are now. >> reporter: the deputy city mayor says three of the management bargaining units have agreed to the cuts. the rest have 30 days to do so or 82 people will be out of a job come january 8th. kris sanchez, "today in the bay." >>> it is 6:51 right now. stricter smoking laws will soon go into effect in parts of santa clara county. supervisors

unions. come up with concessions or else 82 workers will lose their jobs. overnight the city council voted to hold off on issuing pink slips for another month so labor unions can try to come up with money-saving solutions. the city council is asking the city's unions to forego year-end raises, accept a pay cut and furlough days. city workers say they're being used as a bargaining chip. >> to talk about laying them off after you guys have squandered millions of dollars, it's too late you don't have the 49er name after what you do because that only seems to be the only priority these people have. >> we have worked really, really hard and diligently to find some way to solve these problems and we just are not close. the only thing we have left was to talk to our employees. >> jobs that could be cut range from fire captains and police dispatchers to civil engineers and library assistants. >>> east bay lawmakers are turning up the heat on tracking down people who are using children as sex slaves. the alameda county district attorney's office is using a $300,000 f

up to 82 city workers could lose their jobs if unions don't agree to a 5% pay cut or a dozen unpaid furloughso being asked to give up scheduled raises. the city is in a $5 million hole this year and faces a $13 million shortfall next year. >>> a former president tells all. what george bush lays out in his book, being released today. >>> clearly struck a chord with them and they wanted to be involved in some way. >> it's taking everyone by storm. what's now in stores and expected to sell out fast. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, chapter of "call of duty" the >>> good morning. we are going to start off in fairfield where we have a new possible injury crash. westbound 80 right around west texas street three-car crash. it has been moved to the shoulder but chp just called for an ambulance and at least one tow truck to the scene. we are not seeing any huge delays yet. 65 miles per hour. it has been cleared from lanes already. but again once emergency crews get there they may have to block a lane. live look at the san mateo bridge, everything is moving along fine here in the commute direction westbound 92 comi

jobs are being cut. but in june union workers voted overwhelmingly in favor of those job cuts, approving a contract that at hershey's original factory and leave hundreds of their fellow union members out of work. in return, hershey committed to staying in the town and will spend up to $300 million to modernize its newer plant there. it was vote yes, union members say, or see hershey pack up and leave. how many of you in here voted yes? >> it was either take it and lose this much or don't take it and lose it all. that's what it came down to. >> reporter: of this group, laurie duikert is the most likely to lose her job because of a lack of seniority. how are you feeling? >> scared. you don't know what you're going to do. >> reporter: state assemblyman john paine worked at the hershey plant for 30 years. >> and if that facility would have gone to new york or virginia or, worse yet, out of the united states, we'd have lost all those jobs. and not only would we have lost the jobs for today, there would be no jobs 20 years from now. >> the idea that this company might leave the community altogether is scary no

worker. for some unions to say that citybuild or ycd or abu are taking all the jobs from them is totally untrue and false. the fact is that because of the reports ms. lester did, 80% of the work is going to people outside of san francisco. that is not fair. we are talking about a fair distribution of the work between san francisco construction workers -- construction workers between san francisco and those who live outside of the city. this would make all of the difference in the world for our construction work force. i know plenty of people that are out of work, and journeymen and apprentices. we really support this. i think it will make a big difference for the people in bayview hunters point who suffer from the highest unemployment in the city, i believe. thank you. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. >> supervisors, how are you. i am a member of the chinese president association. my husband is a plumber right now. he is unemployed. each month, he has only a few days of work. this is not just limited to him. his friends are also like that. when people do not have work, they h

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unions. what they were told to do or else dozens of workers will lose their jobs. >>> also ahead, it's beginning to look a lot -- well, the christmas tradition that gets under way today. those stories and more coming up. >>> maybe you should hang on to that halloween candy. there are rumblings we could head towards a chocolate shortage. two problems have combined to raise concerns. first of all, increased consumer demand and second a drought in western africa and the ivory coast, the world's biggest cocoa producers. cocoa futures at a near three-year high. >>> chili's plans to offer entrees from a select menu, applebe's offers a free entree under similar conditions in 164 restaurants and outback steak house gets it right, they will serve veterans appetizers and drinks, including beer. military i.d. of course required. >>> wildlife out of control in the east bay. raccoons attacked a woman walking her dog near a popular park. christie smith is live in alameda. i understand they were wearing masks. >> reporter: yeah, i think so. right before we came on, we just turned to the side and saw a raccoon

workers unions here in san francisco. people know us. they know we are big supporters of green jobs and economic development here in san francisco, and the opportunities that is creating for all people here in san francisco. basically, we support business and labor working together, and things like the community benefits agreement between lenore, san francisco, bayview- based

workers unions here in san francisco. people know us. they know we are big supporters of green jobs and economic development here in san francisco, and the opportunities that is creating opportunities that is creating for all people here in san

workers unions here in san francisco. people know us. they know we are big supporters of green jobs and economic development here in san francisco, and the opportunities that is creating for all people here in san francisco. basically, we support business and labor working together, and things like the community benefits agreement between lenore, san francisco, bayview- based organizations, and the san francisco labor council. which support community benefits agreements like that for building benefits projects. we all support -- we also support the cpmc master building planned and are against targeting legislation to slow down building projects already in the pipeline. we support the pio

workers unions here in san francisco. people know us. they know we are big supporters of green jobs and economic development here in san francisco, and the opportunities that is creating for all people here in san francisco. basically, we support business and labor working together, and things like the community benefits agreement between lenore, san francisco, bayview- based organizations, and the san francisco labor council. which support community benefits agreements like that for building benefits projects. we all support -- we also support the cpmc master building planned and are against targeting legislation to slow down building projects already in the pipeline. we support the position of the san francisco building and construction trades council on this, and thank you for the opportunity. supervisor campos: next speaker. >> my name is steve we, from the tender line, representing the good neighbor coalition. we are made up of coalitions mostly from the tenderloin, but also citywide. most of you are aware of the current communities struggle going on between our community and c

every job should have union protection. if a worker wants a union, they should be able to join a union without interference from the government or management. there should not be children in the workplace and people should not have over time without getting paid for it. those are the principles that we need to put back into place to rebuild our middle class host: we are watching the president travel in asia right now. a 10-day trip. asia, so many countries there are huge trade partners, and a place whereso many jobs are headed. guest: i think the president needs to lay down a new marker that things are going to be different. we could trade on a different basis, on a me attuned basis, more attuned to the impact of american jobs. what is actually in each trade agreement? all those pieces are important. so we want to make sure that president obama is not putting in place more of the same old trade policies, but that he is turning a corner for the 21st century. i know he is interested in that. i know he wants to increase exports from the u

union workers on this on an average. peak out at 300. the building is going to hold 1,700 people. so it adds a lot of jobs to this area. the other thingky speak to is i'm a lead accredited professional. the building's going to go to the lead gold standard. that's what we want to try to build. i urge you to approve this. thank you. >> hi, my name is justin. i worked with curbman and wakefield in san francisco. it's good to see you again. i know it's been a long day for you so i'll be quick. we represent large occupiers in the city. we respect a lot of the technology -- represent a lot of the technology firms in this city and the bay area. they are looking for large floor space and lead accreditation and this expansion to the building offers that and this building is a major project that would be on their minds, to keep the twitters in san francisco, to keep the sales force in san francisco. so i urge you to accept this expansion and we look forward to this building coming up in our city. go giants. commissioner maxwell: any more? all right. public comment, public comment? come on up. you know what's going on. come on up

every job should have union protection. if a worker wants a union, they should be able to join a union without interference from the government or management. there should not be children in the workplace and people should not have over time without getting paid for it. those are the principles that we need to put back into place to rebuild our middle class. host: we are watching the president travel in asia right now. a 10-day trip. asia, so many countries there are huge trade partners, and a place whereso many jobs are headed. guest: i think the president needs to lay down a new marker that things are going to be different. we could trade on a different basis, on a more attuned basis, more attuned to the impact of american jobs. what is actually in each trade agreement? all those pieces are important. so we want to make sure that president obama is not putting in place more of the same old trade policies, but that he is turning a corner for the 21st century. i know he is interested in that. i know he wants to increase exports from th

union worker's the castlewood country club held a thanksgiving day parade to protest the ongoing lockout from their job. today march ended outside the country club. workers also received fad for the upcoming holidays and a scholarship fund has been created for the employees' children. >>>. >> a lot of people are wanting to help and the union and the community and the church, everybody. so now we're feeling good and strong, and we're going to fight this until we go back to work. >> management locked out the employees back in february when the two sides could not agree on healthcare benefits. despite ongoing talks no deal has been reached. calls to castlewood tonight were not returned. >> a flurry of activity around the bay area as several charitable organizations handed out turkey and trimmings. >> reporter: this weekend for the 23rd year st. anthony's in san francisco kicked off its curbside donation program making it easy to drop off food and clothing this holiday season. >> just drive up to the curb and we have volunteers wearing red that will unload your car for you. you don't even need to get out o

workers are the seton medical center plan to protest today in the wake of job cuts. the daly city hospital is poised to lay off 44 nurses and caregivers sometime before christmas. we are told unionrs have been negotiating for other ways to save money but no agreement has been reached. >>> and from fee hikes to budget cuts, some students and employees at the university of california are fed up. anne makovec is in san francisco, where a demonstration is planned this morning. good morning to you, anne. >> reporter: good morning, juliette. of course, it's a combo that upsets a lot of people, the paying more for less issue. and the uc board of regents is meeting here at ucsf this morning. we are expecting hundreds of protestors. students, teachers and staff members from throughout the uc system. the regents are talking about student fee hikes up to 8% as well as wage and benefit cuts for graduate student instructors and staff. students say middle class families are being priced out of the system with the fee increases at uc schools narrowing the gap between public and private schools. in fact, uc tuition went up 32% last year and now regents considering that other 8% hike. in the mea

municipal workers, including garbage collectors, took to the streets of athens over fears of job losses and wage cut. they plan to continue this over the weekend and will] not collet rubbish. trade unions have called for a general strike on december 15. european equity markets were mixed on friday amid ongoing concerns about ireland's debt crisis. china increased reserve requirements for banks. here is a summary ofhe trading. >> a quiet ending of a stormy week. shareholders have been reluctant before the weekend tutu measures with chinese banks. -- before the weekend due to measures with chinese banks. the stock market welcomes the strong cost-cutting of via. >> time for a look at some indices on the last day of trading. the dax index closed slightly higher. on wall street, the dow was currently going up. 11,182. the euro is trading for $1.67. the german auto industry is booming again. they are aiming to surpassed toyota as the world leader in the sector by 2018. it will invest tens of billions of euros into new models and technology. >> this man thinks big. he is a vw boss. he aims to conquer new markets. over the next five years, he plans to invest 51 billion euros. most of it is ear

. >>> an ultimatum from the santa clara city council to labor unions, come up with concessions or else 82 workers will lose their jobsonth. the labor unions can try to come up with solutions. >>> and forgo year-end raises, accept a pay cut and furlough days. city workers say they're being used as a bargaining chip. >> to talk about laying them off after you guys have squandered millions of dollars, it's too bad you all don't have the 49er named after what you do because that seems to be the only priority these people in front of me have. >> we have worked really, really hard and diligently to try to find some way to solve these problems and we just are not close. the only thing we have left was to talk to our employees. >> jobs that could be cut range from fire captains and police dispatchers to civil engineers and library assistants. another local update in a half hour. "the today show" returns in less than a minute. have a great morning. it's not that the easy days, are what keep me coming back for more. and the customer says, on the carpet." what? gonna be difficult. don't tell me about a dog. a day care full of k

workers as the city faces a $13 million deficit. a total of 82 employees could lose their jobs, that's 9% of the work force. some layoffs could be avoided if unionsup scheduled pay raises, accept pay cuts. three of the ten bargaining units have already agreed to those terms. >> representative gary mcnearney has expanded his slight lead in this congressional district race. he now leads republican challenger by roughly 2200 votes. that's the latest vote tally obtained. his lead was 632 votes monday night. some 30,000 ab tenancy ballots need to be counted. the election is not expected to be certified for the next two weeks. >> leland ye will announce he's forming an exploratory committee this morning. supervisors are trying to figure out how to a point interim mayor for gavin newsom. a competing resolution from board president david chew calls on the city clerk to come up with a process for choosing a replacement. >> 5:35 now. let's check the weather forecast with mike and see where that last storm cell is. >> i'm going to guess the coast. >> that's where it's been hanging out the last hour or so we've been on the air. still just hanging along the c

jobs that u.s. and other construction workers are on, how is the pay? caller: i am a union electrician. unless i work outside of my area, i make the same amount of money. it is a good paying job. certain classification get a standardized union wage. it is a good paying job. host: who is hiring you, local government, state, corporations? caller: we have a federal mandate that requires us to produce a certain amount of power with renewable energies. the power company is giving a lot of incentives to municipalities, homeowners, to the industry to do these jobs. you see it in the school districts, other municipalities , citizens in their houses -- everything. it is pretty big here. host: he was referring to the "wall street journal" editorial the great transmission heist. guest: you make a good point about what a new energy future could look like. 29 states have passed similar laws which would require utilities to create a certain amount of power from the nobles. it makes sense, that is how you create a market. -- from renewals. -- from renewables. christine o'donnell was the darling of the

income, we should be talking about how to raise the rest of the workers who are stuck in low wage jobs. we should think of how they can unionize to raise their wages as well. we saw this with the autoworkers and the attack on union workers in detroit accused of making too much money. i thought aspiring to be middle- class was american and a good thing. we should change the conversation. how do we make sure we help with the rest of the work force that -- stuck in a low-wage economy? guest: this is not an attack on federal workers. it is a financial business question about how much they make. there is now meeting other than that. the financial meeting is important. you talk about the military which is important because a large share of the $150,000 plus employees are in homeland security and civilian defense department employees. five or so years ago, the military changed their personnel system to award merit pay. the result was explosive growth in salaries among the highest- paid employees. the people at the top for a little above average. conagra's, in the last session, ended the merit pay system. -- congress, in the last sess

income, we should be talking about how to raise the rest of the workers who are stuck in low wage jobs. we should think of how they can unionize to raise their wages as well. we saw this with the autoworkers and the attack on union workers in detroit accused of making too much money. i thought aspiring to be middle- class was american and a good thing. we should change the conversation. how do we make sure we help with the rest of the work force that -- stuck in a low-wage economy? guest: this is not an attack on federal workers. it is a financial business question about how much they make. there is now meeting other than that. the financial meeting is important. you talk about the military which is important because a large share of the $150,000 plus employees are in homeland security and civilian defense department employees. five or so years ago, the military changed their personnel system to award merit pay. the result was explosive growth in salaries among the highest- paid employees. the people at the top for a little above average. conagra's, in the last session, ended the merit pay system. -- congress, in the last sess

jobs may be on the line tonight. a santa clara city councilmembers plan to vote on a plan to lay off82 city workers if unions don't make concessions. if the unions don't agree to a 5% pay cut or 12 days of unpaid work furlough, the deputy city manager says pink slips will be sent out next month. the layoffs would amount to a 9% cut in santa clara city workers. >>> well, if reading it in the paper wasn't enough for them, bell residents can hear how much their officials miss appropriated in person. the state controller's office is going to deliver the results of an investigation at a public meeting tonight. the controller became interested after hearing reports of the city manager earning $1.5 million a year in pay and benefits. eight officials are charged with misusing $5.5 million in public funds. the city of bell is a suburb of l.a., population 40,000. >>> well, the president of the university of california is proposing a new fee increase for students next year. he wants an 8% hike, which would translate to about $822 per year. that would increase the price for a year of schooling to over $11,000. to close a billion d

union benefits are so good in miami thousands lined up to apply for fire department jobs. some camped out for two days. a few towns escaped the money pump, by privatizing public services. these workersing streets, picking up trash in sandy springs, georgia, gee, aren't they working fast? these workers work for a private company. they get more work done in less time. >> we have fewer employees than the city to the north of us and we have exactly the same population. john: the mayor just coincidence she looks like margaret thatcher started privatizing her government's work five years ago. some in town were not happy their tax money was becoming some company's profits. >> i said what difference does it make if the company is making a profit but you are getting a costs you less. >> we have 18 cameras. john: at the traffic management center they have computers and cameras. when a car catches fire, they send out rescue vehicles right way. >> we try to find the problems before anybody is calling us with it. >> our government is more efficient. john: this realtor was amazed at the difference. >> five or six miles of new sidewalks installed. our traffic lights are synchronized now. so there

union benefits are so good in miami thousands lined up to apply for fire department jobs. some camped out for two days. a few towns escaped the money pump, by privatizing public services. these workersxing streets, picking up trash in sandy springs, georgia, gee, aren't they working fast? these workers work for a private company. they get more work done in less time. >> we have fewer employees than the city to the north of us and we have exactly the same population. john: the mayor just coincidence she looks like margaret thatcher started privatizing her government's work five years ago. some in town were not happy their tax money was becoming some company's profits. >> i said what difference does it make if the company is making a profit but you are getting a costs you less. >> we have 18 cameras. john: at the traffic management center they have computers and cameras. when a car catches fire, they send out rescue vehicles right way. >> we try to find the problems before anybody is calling us with it. >> our government is more efficient. john: this realtor was amazed at the difference. >> five or six miles of new sidewalks installed. our traffic lights are synchronized now. so there

workers out there and union workers in particular, be very careful about this. even though you might have a legal right to post, you might not advance very quickly in the job if you'reour supervisor online. but, i -- and you can't attack them for personal qualities outside of the workplace. as long as you focus on inside, you're okay. >> you raise one point. we were talking about this off camera, but who can and who cannot do this? >> you've got to be careful. this only applies to unionized workers and workers capable of joining a union. so for instance, people who are professionals. a lot of white-collar workers would not apply to them. if you have a supervisory role in your company, it does not apply to you. so don't criticize the boss higher on the food chain. you might get fired legitimately. be very careful habit wabout wh criticize on facebook. >> the bottom line, if you're going to write something on your page, you want to talk to paul before you do. >> that's a great idea, john. thank you very much. >> good to see you. >> kiran? >>> still to come, conan o'brien and tom hanks go way back. so why was coco so upset on just his second night of the show. >>> also

municipal workers, including garbage collectors, took to the streets of athens over fears of job losses and wage cut. they plan to continue this over the weekend and will not collect rubbish. trade unions have called for a general strike on december 15. european equity markets were mixed on friday amid ongoing concerns about ireland's debt crisis. china increased reserve requirements for banks. here is a summary of the trading. >> a quiet ending of a stormy week. shareholders have been reluctant before the weekend tutu measures with chinese banks. -- before the weekend due to measures with chinese banks. the stock market welcomes the strong cost-cutting of via. >> time for a look at some indices on the last day of trading. the dax index closed slightly higher. on wall street, the dow was currently going up. 11,182. the euro is trading for $1.67. the german auto industry is booming again. they are aiming to surpassed toyota as the world leader in the sector by 2018. it will invest tens of billions of euros into new models and technology. >> this man thinks big. he is a vw boss. he aims to conquer new markets. over the next five years, he plans to invest 51 billion euros. most of it is e

the unions also negligent one of the greatest perks of government employment, job security. short of shooting up a post office, government workers rarely get fired or laid off. the republican study committee released a policy brief recently indicating that the number of federal employees making over $100,000 has increased by almost 5% since 2007. currently there are more people in the federal government making in excess of $100,000 than those making $40,000. . since the recession began in 2007, public worker pay has risen 7.8% while private sector wages remain stagnant. the 2010 pay increase for federal civilian employees was 2%. in 2009 the average federal employee received a pay increase of 3.9% and an average pay increase of 2.5% in 2008. it is set to grow to 75,419 in 2010. in 2007, the -- when the democrats took over the congress, the department of transportation had only one employee making over $170,000. at the end of last year it had 1,690 employees making that amount. the federal pay premium exists across all job categories, white collar, blue collar, management professionals, technical and low skill. again, the public

union concessions. the immediate goal, kyra, for both sides is repaying taxpayers in full and keeping general motors in business. without them, nobody has a job, right? >> how many workeraves we interviewed over the past couple of years waiting for this moment? they never really expected it, actually. >> economists are really looking at this scenario because it's sort of affects all of us what happens. because we all -- many of us work at companies who maybe have made massive layoffs and cut back on hours and cut back on pay but are profitable now and the question for them, too, once the company is profitable, should you get stuff back? and economists say it's tied to the unemployment rate. as long as that's high, nobody's going to get a raise. nobody's going to work fewer hours. so many people are standing in line to get your job. >> yeah. point well made. thanks so much, carol. >>> perfect storm for democratic losses during the election cycling. no doubt about it. they took a beating but now one top democrat said that it could have been even worse. le announcs root cause is high uric acid. ♪ if you have gout, high uric acid can lead to more attacks. ♪ to help reduce

workers refused to take pay cuts. labor unions and not agree to tough measures including a pay freeze. the layoffs if they happen include 14 fire department jobs and other services. the city faces of $5 million deficit this fiscal year and that could balloon to $13 million. if the unions do not agree to takebacks by december 9th pink slips will be sent out effective january. >> will be back with more a couple of minutes traffic and weather is always in our sights both of walnut creek looks the company in all directions everybody's going everywhere. it is moving at the limit sunshine all the rate has moved out. [ male announcer ] welcome to the far reaches of the internet. when you go faster, you're free to go farther. at&t. rethink possible. get high-speed internet from at&t for only $14.95 a month. you inhale, they inhale. millions of children continue to be exposed to secondhand smoke. secondhand smoke causes asthma, a disease that cannot be cured. protect your loved ones. keeping an eye on wall street stocks have turned negative this morning despite news jobless claims fell below is plane in four months. the price of treasury bonds is falli