labor have been in opposition — australia. labor have been in opposition for _ australia. labor have been in opposition for nine _ australia. labor have been in opposition for nine years, - australia. labor have been in l opposition for nine years, what australia. labor have been in - opposition for nine years, what more can you tell about mr labor himself? he brings years and years of experience, he is australia's most experienced politicians, he has served — experienced politicians, he has served under the previous labor prime _ served under the previous labor prime minister and he also brings a more, _ prime minister and he also brings a more. i_ prime minister and he also brings a more, i would say more over at climate — more, i would say more over at climate policy, if you will. he has been _ climate policy, if you will. he has been very— climate policy, if you will. he has been very clear this needs to change and he _ been very clear this needs to change and he has _ been very clear this needs to change and he has been clear that the boys club mentality of poli

also looking at child labor and how that impacts labor negotiations across the world. last year we saw the first time in 20 years and increase in child labor abuse in this world so we are focused on working partly due to the pandemic and other things but we can't be standing by and watching that happen. >> i would hope you would stay in touch on that issue and we would be leading in the effort in eliminating child and forced labor, may not eliminate it but do what we can to curtail it. with that let me recognize the ranking member. >> in my opening remarks i mentioned the bipartisan agreement on apprenticeships and how important they are, this committee includes funding for those under administrations of both parties but only a modest increase in the number of folks actively registering. what sorts of things can we do to increase those numbers and skill sets the the economy needs. how to attract more people in the use opportunities. >> we have to let people know these opportunities exist and what we are doing in the department of labor is looking at industries where we

labor demand is very strong and while labor force participation has increased somewhat, labor supply remain subdued. ploys are having difficulties filling job openings and wages are rising at the fastest pace in many years. inflation remains well above our long-run goal of 2%. over the 12 months ending in march, total prices rose 6.6 percent. excluding the volatile food and energy categories, aggregate demand is strong, and bottlenecks and supply constraints are limiting how quickly production can expand. disruptions to supply have been larger and longer lasting than anticipated and price pressures have spread to a broader range of goods and services. the surge in prices of crude oil and other commodities that resulted from russia's invasion of ukraine is creating additional upward pressure on inflation. covid related lockdowns in china are likely to further exacerbate supply chain disruptions as well. russia's invasion of ukraine is causing tremendous loss and hardship in our thoughts and sympathies are with the people of ukraine. our job is to consider the invocations for the u.s.

among those who testified were amazon's labor union president as the company's labor practices come under question. labor practices come under question. okay. let's get to work. let me first thank all of our witnesses for being here. we look forward to hearing your testimony. let me thank ranking member graham for his cooperation and his staff. today we are going to be discussing a very important issue that gets much too little attention here in the halls of congress or in the corporate media and that is in a time as everybody knows with the middle class in this country struggling and people working longer hours for lower wages, when half of our people live paycheck to paycheck and can't afford healthcare or childcare, finding it hard to fill up their gas tanks all over this country there is a growing movement on the part of workers to try to organize and form unions because they understand if you have a union you will have better wages and working conditions and better benefits and yet at exactly the same time working people were standing up and fighting back and are interested in joinin

i would like to consider the current labor market conditions and evaluate two labor policy approaches. today's labor market is unlike any before in history. massive government spending, financed by the feds printed money has artificially increased demand, while other government policies have discouraged work. that is -- has contribute to an record high of 11 million job openings. there are almost two jobs available for every unemployed worker. employers are responding by -- applying -- higher pay. in march, 49% of employers reported that they increased compensation. despite the fact that average earnings are up $3300 over the past year, the average worker is 1000 $600 poorer after inflation. the problem is, when employers are forced to raise compensation without workers producing more, they have to raise their prices. that adds to the inflationary cycle. similarly, unions use of muscle as opposed to merit-based compensation increases, leads to higher prices and fewer jobs. policy is like protecting the right to organize action, part -- prioritize union membership would prioritize -- l

the irs and department of labor, the national labor relations board all use different tests. in addition some states use separate tests for compensation and unemployment insurance. the patchwork of the laws and regulations can be challenging to understand. this type of complexity occurs across numerous areas is widely seeing so much litigation out of the labor and employment issues. this is why it's important not to jump to conclusions. upon further review by agency officials allegations can be found without merit. all of this leads to the question whether an additional penalty structure up to and including as a general matter they articulate a specific penalty structure. moreover they've declined proposals to amend the penalties for the labor law reform legislation of 1978 and the protecting the right to organize. in 2017 they used the act to overturn which is all in part to require contractors who report the violations of employment laws and contracting agencies with the ultimate threat of the law. while there are undoubtedly many reasons congress chose this course of actio

labor laws. senator graham, -- >> thank you, chairman, i enjoyed working with you. wow. this committee is taking a very dangerous turn under your leadership, to be honest with you. singling out a single company, because of your political engine does, socialize this country. every time i turn around, you are having a hearing about anybody that makes money is bad. the government needs to grow beyond our ability to pay for it, and we will have an election on your ideas here. i can't wait. as to the process, there is a process in this country, if you feel like the law has been violated, and your efforts to unionize wow -- there is a process to dip our companies that engage in illegal behavior. there is a process. this is a political process here, this is an effort to get an outcome that you want. using the united states senate as a vehicle, this is very dangerous. you can have these hearings all you like, you have determined that amazon is a piece of crap company. that is your political bias. they ar

and the labor chief says he wants to unite australia. but tonight, the astrology and people have voted for chinese ah, i am humbled by this victory. i know i'm honored to be given the opportunity to serve as the 31st prime minister of australia. conservatives were empowered for almost a decade, and here is outgoing prime minister scott marson conceding defeat. i've always believed in australians and their judgment, and i've always been prepared to accept their verdicts and to not they have delivered their burdick and i congratulate anthony avenues in the labor party and i wish him and his government all the very best. now, there are many boats still the count that is true, and there are many great palls and parcels that will still come in. but i believe it's very important that this country has certainty. well, for more on this story, we're joined now by rochelle harrison place who is reporting from sydney. hi and welcome to d w. so incoming prime minister, albany, he promises to unite the country. but how divided is australia? well very

labor laws. to succeed. she would have to overcome opposition from the courts business labor unions and conservatives. nothing like this has ever been done in the united states before she said, you know that don't you? the man sat across from her and his wheelchair amid the clutter of boxes and rumpled rugs soon. he would head to washington dc to be sworn and as the thirty-second president the united states. he would inherit the worst economic crisis in the nation's history. an era of rampant speculation had come to an end. the stock market had collapsed rendering investments valueless. banks were shutting down stripping people of their lifetime savings. about a third of workers were unemployed wages were falling hundreds of thousands were homeless. real estate prices had plummeted and millions of homeowners faced foreclosure his choice of labor secretary would be one of his most important early decisions. his nominee must understand economic and employment issues but be equally effective as a co

is it the 75 basis points, labor partitioned -- labor participation rate? matthew: thank you for having me on and thank you to all of the mothers -- and happy mother's day to all of the mothers out there. i think what is coming next week is more important, the cpi inflation report. we have had a couple of inflation reports. i am thinking about the pce numbers we have gotten over the past few months and they have been more reasonable reports than what we had over the four months prior to that. i think ultimately it comes down to inflation and next week's report will be key to markets going forward. guy: what do you think that number is going to look like? matthew: we think it is going to be a good number. ultimately the trend with underlying inflation in the u.s. are strong, particularly with the housing market. in the last segment i saw you talk about home builders. that component of inflation we expect to continue to be quite strong, so underlying inflation should hold up but it is really about all of the other factors that had been boosting inflation towa

also you and i from a labor background have seen a lot of traditional labor organizing in the past and now we are seeing it get at starbucks target trader joe's and amazon and a lot of industries who haven't seentr it before. the quality assurance workers of labor software country c made district who has classic union busting tactics. when the recommendations was for the department of labor to update its rules for activity reporting. can you explain how an update to theul rule world protect and empower workers and what resources do you need to make that update? >> thank you. i can't get into too much because we are in the rulemaking process right now. they are a lot of workers that are disgruntled and we see an increase in union organizing and last.7 month 4.7 million people quit their jobs because they weren't happy with the job they had. a lot of what we talk about today is off-topic off topic the job-training work first development apprenticeships i think we need to do that for economy. we have to create pathways for betterer paying jobs and that's why we are seeing a lot of this or

i'm michael o. coop. australia's labor party, celebrating victory in national elections. the vote brings to an end almost a decade of conservative government labor leader anthony albanese is set to be the new prime minister. a fiercely fought election campaign was dominated by climate change. the pandemic and the economy. inflation is at its highest in nearly 20 years of uneasy says he wants to unite australia. i know the astrology and plato, a voucher for chinese. ah, i am humbled by this victory. i know i'm honored to be given the opportunity to serve as the 31st prime minister of australia. conservatives were in power for almost a decade. here's outgoing prime minister scott morrison conceding defeat. i've always believed in australians and their judgment, and i've always been prepared to accept their verdicts and to not i have delivered their verdict. and i congratulate anthony avenue in the labor party and i wish him and his government all the very best. now there are many boats still count that is true and there are many great palls and post tools that will still co

including the use of child labor and forced labor. with funds from the u.s. and a mexico canada agreement the u.s. and ca is making huge strides to enforce the labor provisions of our trade agreements while hoping workers andnd employers in mexico make their workplace safe.s protecting workers always include protecting those who find themselvese unemployed. we are addressing long-standing problems in the dmunemployment compensation system disproportionate harm workers of color, service industry workers, blue-collar workers, but modernizing technology and expanding reemployment services for jobseekers. we include district specific projects funding to support workers in her home district and try to meet the needs including funding for job training, workforce development and apprenticeship program the america competes act workforce while keeping our economy competitive. as we begin fiscal year 2023 when he to build on these investments, budget request proposes 14.9 billion, the% increase over 2022. there is a plan to look at workers and their families and how th

jeffrey: no, this is a strong labor market. the labor market is parsing the very strong deviations versus expectations. jonathan highlighted it. the participation rate is a little bit disappointing, as randy laid out. i think that could be chalked up to the search we are seeing in the omicron ba.2 variant, some of the impacts. on the other side is the disappointment on the aag figures. .31 month over month, year over year alone a bit more. that helps to offset. this is a little bit splitting hairs, but where we are focused on is the expectation is that healing on the supply side of labor markets will help to bring the pressure down on wage inflation. this report doesn't really clarify which way that goes. last i looked, it was a mild market reaction. the story remains the same, very strong labor market, uncertainty as to whether or not we will see the pressure, on wages by more supply. jonathan, you mentioned, you cannot say this is a strong, ringing endorsement on the view that the supply side will come and ride to the rescue

his labor party celebrating its 1st victory in 15 years. he's promising to unite the nation. ukraine's president sheds victory will come through negotiations not fighting. the lot of me as a lensky orders. the last remaining mario pl defenders to surrender. to save their lives and tornadoes tear through western germany. storms leave a trail of destruction. dozens are injured with widespread property dam. ah, i'm michael ok. welcome. australia's labor party is celebrating victory in national elections. the vote brings stores and almost a decade of conservative government labor leader anthony albanese is set to be the new prime minister of fiercely thought election campaign was dominated by climate change. the pandemic and the economy. inflation is at it, its highest and nearly 20 years of uneasy says he wants to unite australia tonight, the astrology and people have voted for chinese. ah, i am humbled by this victory. i know i'm honored to be given the opportunity to serve as the 31st prime minister of a tri australians. conservatives were i

she told us more about what was behind labors victory. the climate crisis really emerged as one of the top issues a during this election. the greens party made sweeping gains as did independent candidates who were campaigning on political integrity and climate action. and it's both of those who took seats away from coalition and pays a really behind this to face of the coalition. and those winds are a clear sign that when george, he almost radians want a government that does more to tackle global warming, especially following our worst a bush last season in 20192020. of course, the black summer bush client who could forget and more recently, a series of devastating floods that currently australia is one of the world's largest stakes, which isn't poll and we of a most pollution greenhouse gas emissions per capita. in the early cd we show what changes apart from climate change could we see in australia with a shift to labor? well, it's actually interesting to see how climate policy will change. because like the liberal national coalition, l

the vote brings to an end almost a decade of conservative government labor levy, labor leader, anthony albanese, will be the new prime minister. climate change in the pandemic where the big campaign issues. so was inflation now at its highest level in nearly 20 years. with nearly 2 thirds of the roads counted albany, z is set to lee the biggest party in parliament that has not yet secure the 76 seats needed for an outright majority. the labor chief says he wants to unite australia, but not the astrology and plato had voucher for chinese. ah, i am humbled by this victory. i am honored to be given the opportunity to serve as the 31st prime minister of australia's conservatives were in power for almost a decade. here's outgoing prime minister scott morrison conceding defeat. i've always believed in australians and their judgment, and i've always been prepared to accept their verdicts. and tonight i have to live in their verdict. and i congratulate anthony avenue in the labor party and i wish him and his government all the very best. now there are many bites due to camp that is true. and t

labor demand is very strong and while labor force participation has increased somewhat, labor supply remains subdued employers are having difficulties filling job openings and wages are rising at the fastest pace in many years inflation remains well above our longer-run goal of 2%. over the 12 months ending in march, total pce prices rose 6.6%, excluding the volatile food and energy categories, they rose 5.2%. aggregate demand is strong and bottlenecks and supply constraints are limiting how quickly it can respond they're longer lasting than anticipated and pressures have spread to a broader range of goods and services the surge in prices of crude oil and other commodities that resulted in russia's invasion of u ukraine have put upward disruptions. russia's invasion of ukraine is causing tremendous loss and hardship and our thoughts and sympathies are with the people of ukraine our job is to consider the implications for the u.s. economy which remain highly uncertain. in addition to the effects on inflation, the invasion and related events are likely to restrain economic activity abr

also, when it comes to labor unions, i want to emphasize the investment in the labor unions what they provide for my community in indiana's first district is livable wages, health care benefits that are affordable, safer workplace, and also a secure retirement. and also, when it comes to the prevailing wage, that prevailing wage sets a wage that allows for all programs and all development in my district that is something that is sacred that allows us to be competitive, to have a safe workplace, and allows us to provide for families. so with that, northwest indiana is home to such a diverse and talented workforce, and i urge all of my colleagues to support this legislation so that communities and organizations throughout our nation have the resources to ensure that everyone has the opportunity and tools to thrive in our economy. with that i thank you, mr. chairman, and i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the gentleman reserves. and the gentlewoman from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: thank you, madam speaker. i yield two minutes to the truly dis

unfair labor practices. they are much more willing projections to protect workers before the hearings are resolved. this is one of the things that we are both going to be firing charges with thelrb regarding our retaliation cases and also we will be king for an injunction so we will be reinstated while those cases go through e process. this is something the previous nlrb was not doing. we are grateful there is a little bit of an opening for protecting worke. that being said, do need to pass a lot of different legislation, we need to fund the nlrb more. the nlrb needs to get more assertive in the ways that it is helping workers because the loss as they arare very broken. jill biden did invite our president chris smalls to the whte house. chris smalls laidut t things that need to be done. amy: 10 seconds. >> he needsto do somethg. we cannot get the product on, that he needs to signn executive order right away. we need help. all workers do. amy: we want to thank you both for being with us, mat cusick and trista

welcome to the program. australia's labor party is celebrating victory and national elections. the vote brings to an end almost a decade of conservative government labor leader anthony albany. he will be the new prime minister, climate change and the pandemic where the big campaign issues and so was inflation now at its highest level in nearly 20 years. with nearly 2 3rd, the votes counted albany, he is said to lead the biggest party in parliament. but has not yet secured the 76 seats needed for an outright majority. the labor chief says he still wants to unite australia. tonight, the astrology and paypal had vouchered for change. ah, i am humbled by this victory. i am honored to be given the opportunity to serve as the 31st prime minister of australia's conservatives were in power for almost a decade. here's the outgoing prime minister, scott morrison conceding defeat. i've always believed in australians and their judgment, and i've always been prepared to accept their verdicts. and tonight i have to live in their verdict. and i congratulate anthony avenue in the labor party a

the conservatives account, so now it's held by labor and labor has really painted the capital red elsewhere in the country. modest gains, but nevertheless, gains and care style of the labor leader has said that they've turned the corner. but the party, the main opposition party, is really focusing on a comparison with 2019. when the conservatives devastated labor in the us biggest defeats at since the 2nd world passed the 2nd world war. so that isn't necessarily representative, representative the true picture because these city council, these council elections were last held in 2018 when you look at the whole result map for then and compare it to now it's not very different. labor have done marginally better at this stage. murray half way through. so really it's not representative of a colossal dynamic victory for labor and certainly well ahead, but not a dynamic victory and not may not be enough to restore some of the doubts about kissed armor, the labor leader within its own party. however, the conservative party still has a question mark hanging over the prime minister. he may have done

projections are very strong for labor. labor has won 72 seats, definitely. there are 13 and out. labor needs to win four more of those to have a majority in their own right. without counting chickens at any stage, i think labor is in a good position to form a majority government. even if they don't, anthony albanese, he can lead a minority government and keep getting all of the legislation passed in minority. he's very used to working with other people to things done. there is no doubt that he will be sworn in on monday as the next prime minister of australia. that sworn in on monday as the next prime minister of australia.— minister of australia. that was paul smith, from — minister of australia. that was paul smith, from the _ minister of australia. that was paul smith, from the australian - minister of australia. that was paul smith, from the australian labour. smith, from the australian labour party abroad. as russian troops intensify their attacks in the donbas region in eastern ukraine, the foreign secretary liz truss says she wants modern weapons to be sent to moldova

the incumbent, conservative liberal party, lost seats to labor across the country. but the biggest challenge came from a rising group of independent candidates who focused their campaigns around climate action and cracking down on corruption. the outgoing prime minister scott morrison conceded defeat and announced he had stepping down as leader of the liberals. i've always believed in australians and their judgment, and i've always been prepared to accept their verdicts and to not they have delivered their verdict. and i congratulate antony abernathy in the labor party and i wish him and his government all the very best to help with votes still being counted. the new prime minister has not yet secured the 76 sates, needed to achieve an outright majority. and with almost half of australia, 17000000 voters costing their ballot by post. it may be weeks until the final result is known. rachelle harrison class is a journalist in sydney, australia's largest city, and she told us about the divisions that characterized the election campaign. very divided on one hand, she ha

talk about labor costs hitting margins. you say that is part of a trend investors should be watching, tell me more about that. megan:labor costs are eating into profits, us foods reported 20% increase in operational costs due to labor. there been a lot among employers and major companies about this, something that was going to fade and people go back to work. this could last, the labor market likely through the end of the decade. that means employees have power to demand higher wages. companies have to pay higher costs or to pay them the fat rate. jack: should investors make adjustments in their stock portfolios for labor inflation and how? megan:the ones we've mentioned already, capital-intensive companies should be more shielded from the effects over the long-term. as the energy space think about transportation and shipping companies, ups or fedex are more capital-intensive instead of labor intensive. jack: there is an electric vehicle company called co-new video should a going concern warning this we, the first i heard t

red wool are which labor took, which was labor loss, sorry, in 2019. the conservatives isn't actually that bad for labor because these counts the results are being compared to 2018 when labor actually worse, the party that represented those seats. so through the situation is the same between now and 2018 is suggest that labor could actually be on cause to take back some of those seats that had lost the consensus in the general election 3 years ago with a lot of fir labor m. p. 's and indeed gear storm himself aren't necessarily referring to 2018 the last lecture referring to the general election in 2090. and they're saying that they would win, or if it was to happen now that there they are in much better place. but the conservatives are rightly pointing out this would not necessarily based on what we've heard so far, mean a labor victory. obviously, local elections there sometimes quite difficult to analyze and to extrapolate nationwide are projections from because they deal with local issues in many ways. but i think his up see if that say the labor i

labor could well be in, are in in some form or another. anthony albanese is the next prime minister and he will be forming a government of some sort. we do not know if it will be a majority or minority government where he has to form a coalition. the likely allies are going to be those teal independents we have been hearing about, mainly women candidates that have defeated and ousted male government candidates in supposedly and traditionallly safe government seats. they are the big story to come out of this election. scott morrison hasjust conceded this election, he said it was a humbling night and he has accepted australia's verdict. but here, this is a jubilant night. it is a hopeful night and many have been telling me they were waiting for this day for nine years now. but there is going to be change that needs to happen. many here are saying climate is a big issue for them and that the government, the previous government now we can call it, just hasn't done enough. labor have been quite silent at climate action during their campaigning

australia's general election has been won by the labor party. votes are stil being counted but labor does appear to have fallen short of an overall majority — so it's unclear whether the party's leader, anthony albanese, will seek to form a coalition or rule as a minority government. however, australia's next prime minister, has just delivered his first speech at labor's party headquarters to thunderous applause and cheers — let's have a listen. i begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet. i pay my respect to their elders past, present and emerging and on behalf of the australian labor party, i commit to the uluru statement from the heart in full... wild cheering. and i say to my fellow australians, thank you for this extraordinary honour. cheering. tonight the australian people have voted for change. cheering. i am humbled by this victory and i am honoured to be given the opportunity to serve as the 31st prime minister of australia. my labor team will work every day to bring australians together and i will l

if these newcomers are found to be unable to labor. or likely to become unable to labor in the future right likely to come to rely on state assistance. they are ordered to be sent back to where they came from unless they can pay a surety so a sum of money for their future support. it's important to know that immigration restrictions were not specific to delaware. so nearly all colonies and then states had similar restrictions. some of them were established as early as the 17th century. as you think about this exclusion you might notice the importance of labor here to the distinction of disability and to the distinction of who could settle and who could not. you might also notice how the categories of age class and disability are entwined right? so disabled people were excluded just as were elderly people poor people and minors. okay, here's a marriage restriction from massachusetts in 1824. according to this act courts can and really should annull marriages if one of the parties experienced idiot see or a sand insanity at the time of t

we have got a central bank that is pivoting concerns to growth one the labor tightness and the labor dynamics are different from the past decade. we do not have a labor supply with people coming in and out of the eu like we have had the past decade. even if real wages are down, you may find that nominal wages are rising at a faster rate and that is how inflation becomes embedded. banks have a difficult job and that is the hard bit of how do you raise rates in a week growth environment to control inflation? tom: i'm going to give you a shout out and i was looking at an interview back in october and you called it on stagflation in the u.k. back in october of last year. thank you so much. they queue for coming into the studio and walking through key issues with us. it has been a tough quarter for hedge funds. we will dive into analysis on the latest u.s. regulatory filings. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: welcome back to the open. it was a dismal first quarter for the tiger cubs. that is according to the latest u.s. hedge fund filings. they sold down the pandemic favorites suc

and they will probably be looking for some sort of response from the labor p m. that australia is gonna do something with regards to this chinese solomon islands, security packed, and that australia has a plan there to create account, a balance of some sort and still in foreign policy. what does albany these when mean? false trailers roll on the world stage. well, i think we will sail, say changes around to climate policy, not least because he, he's had the electorate make such a clear statement to him on this. i think that that there will be probably a bit of a focus on the local region around the i should pacific area. he's no chinese speaker, like the former label pay him was kevin rod, but he will be interested in local issues and he has one to look out for an improvement in australian and french relations. i think, year after the orca steel went south with scott morrison at the helm, you will say the french stepping and try and be friendlier with australia from now on. then journalist and re leslie and sydney. thank you for speaking to us. my pleasure. turn

would -- what i would be watching is what is going to happen in the labor market. i don't think there is durable reduction of inflation without a meaningful reduction in wage growth. right now with the labor markets so tight, i don't see such a meaningful reduction in wage growth taking place. perhaps it will and there are signs that some firms that were short on labor three months ago are now reporting that, if anything, they no longer have a big problem in hiring workers. perhaps we will see a distant visionary process -- a diss inflationary -- disinflationary process take hold. i would not be surprised if we have inflation way above the 2% target. it would surprise me if we returned to the 2% target exterior. -- 2% target next year. mr. summers: you were -- david: you are critical of a forecast that was way more optimistic than what you just said which predicted by the fourth quarter of this year, year-over-year inflation will drop over 4%. the year after that in the fourth quarter of 2023 will fall to 2.3%. you said that was the least possible cbo forecast you

change at the top down under the labor party, wins office in australian elections. in coming, prime minister antony albanese promises to unite the nation after ousting the longstanding conservative government. ukraine's president says his army has inflicted serious damage on russia's armed forces. despite the fall of the city of mariel, pope and tornadoes tear through western germany. storms leave a trail of destruction. dozens are injured and there's widespread property damage ah, next by sir, welcome to program. australia's labor party is celebrating victory and national elections. the vote brings to an end almost a decade of conservative government labor leader anthony to albany. z is set to be the new prime minister climate change and the pandemic were the big campaign issues . so was inflation now at its highest, in nearly 20 years? albany, he says he wants to unite australia to know the rally and paypal had the voucher for change. ah, i am humbled by this victory. i know i'm honored to be given the opportunity to serve as the 31st prime minister of australia.

so a, as conservative coalition has been voted out of office after nearly a decade impala with a labor government, with climate change, the forefront and how with tackle china's growing influence in the pacific. this is inside story. ah hello, welcome to the program. i'm hashem, abala, australia has seen unprecedented bush fires and flooding in recent years. the extreme weather has brought climate change to the top of the voters agenda. and greens and climate focused independence made big gains in saturday's election at the expense of the conservative coalition. australia is a major export of fossil fuels, and the art going government often objected to plans to reduce greenhouse emissions . neighboring pacific island say australia is blocking action even as their territories are under threat of sinking. uneasy ties with the island nations are spilling into security as concerns mount in australia and the u. s. about china's recent deal with the solomon islands. we're bringing in our gas shortly. first. this report from sarah clark in sydney, day one in the nation's top job. and anthony

a new labor movement. today, two starbucks in santa cruz became the first in california to unionize after employees voted to join starbucks workers united, which is connected with the service employees international union. joining us now for a big rally -- from a big rally is joe. thank you for your time today. >> thank you for having me. kristen: it is history making. the first successful unionization at california starbucks. how do you feel? chris -- >> it has been amazing. it has been amazing to show we are in this together. workers know they are being paid starvation wages. they know their livelihoods are at stake. [indiscernible] kristen: why do you suppose the first successful effort was here in santa cruz? are there any particular center of this effort -- particulars that drove the effort? joe: i am a uc santa cruz student. we are organizing because we know the value of labor. at most stores, students led the effort and will continue leading the effort to organize starbucks across california and the