union but be against the current set up of the customs union. that is the main point i want to make. let me give you three arguments to support that point. is that the world has changed. the global environment has become a lot less propitious for the customs union that turkey has with the european union. course, the prospects for these into the indefinite future, being made a lot more problematic by the enormous problems, challenges internally,faces in and the difficulties, the political developments within turkey are well-known. prospectsave those receded into the indefinite perhaps as important a development is that we have a completely changing picture of world trade. , "juggernaut," you can take all of that with a pinch of salt, but a lot is already happening. from now, six of the seven largest economies of the world will be developing countries. none of the european countries will be there, but only the united states will be among them. today, they represent about one third of world trade, it will represent something like 70% of world trade

the union producers. most of them to andersonville, the infamous prison in georgia, but about 9000 union soldiers were sent to salisbury. so instantaneously in the fall of 1864, instead of like 800 guys living indoors in salisbury, you know had about 10,000 guys with 9000 of them living out in the yard where they used to play baseball, i was now filled with these nature shacks and just holes in the ground that the guys were living in. it was a very cold, wet fall, and winter, and it rained a lot. it snowed some pick these guys didn't get much food, and they were exposed to the elements. so by the time december came, they were dying at the rate of about two dozen a day. of dysentery, of starvation, of exposure. so the end of november, the prisoners had been -- they attacked the gates open to break out but the guards on the stock paid -- stockade fire down and be back the escaped the tune -- attempt. albert and junius and a couple of the french manage to escape from the prison with the help of a guard who w

the unions and the paper pushers. >> let's destroy the system. >> good. let's bring on the destruction. who would disagree. teachers would disagree and they're mad at me and reformers who care about test scores. >> city schools are terrible because of unions like your. >> our text scores are not what we choose to learn on. >> how do you know your kids are learning anything? >> i know they're learning when i look in their lives. >> give me a break, unions are made because some charters can fire bad teachers. >> i call it freeing up a person's future. >> what's wrong with that? >> a teacher wants to eat. >> this actor says teachers need tenure. >> why else would you take a salary. >> why have tenure? most professions have tenure. but at least now there's some good news. at some schools where teachers could be fired, kids learn. >> give me the worst school anywhere in america and we'll outperform the other schools in five years. >> how good are the test scores at his charter schools? >> there isn't even a word for it. >> but unions say the charter schools av

of the unions. oh you say the easy questions for me tom. it's not a really simple answer but it is a basic fact that big business has been fighting a war on workers well since the beginning and there was a brief period of time where workers were if not winning the war at least making some gains and since that happened since we saw the wagner act in the thirty's as you said there's been a concerted effort by business to get rid of that and like john mentioned there has been a lot of willingness from politicians lately of both parties to help them do it ok . john a new report. from the economic policy. ok a new report from the economic policy institute finds that wages in the us have to remain flat for a decade i'm sorry this stuart report also reveals the why productivity grew by seven point seven percent between two thousand and seven and two thousand and thirteen wages fell for the bottom seventy percent of wage earners and since one thousand seventy nine wage growth has been very weak with the ave

>> to the extent they join the unions it's bad. unions are pai parasite. they need fresh blood to keep them alive. the union membership is half of what it was on the 1950s. we know what they have done for the companies employed, the hostess or the textile workers long shoremen. they are looking for anyone to sign up. given union membership trends, i think they are likely to be unsuccessful for a good reason. >> eric: john pointed something out. in the last 45 years the union membership consistently with very few exceptions every year, they have lost membe membership. >> go to town. you're all for business decision, this is a business decision for the afl-cio. bring in more members to create more money for themselves. create more action for members. >> they are no longer representing the workers. they represent the political views. at the end of the day they are asking for a lot. giving back very little. i don't hold them as accountable if for government who has not sponsored the jobs in this country. they are not working. they don't have anywhere to go. th

the teacher's union. janitor's union. politicians. cool board bureaucrats and if you try to make a change the blob says. >> we don't do that here. we have to requisition downtown. four or five people to sign off and the deputy director of curriculum has to say this is okay. it's crazy. >> both union leaders escaped that bureaucracy. >> you went to private school. >> that's correct. it kind of made me feel that i had better do pretty good in that school or else. >>> i will confront the union losses when we return. why can't other people have the choice they had? also, why does it cost a third of a million dollars to fire just one union teacher? what is wrong with these people? ♪ [ male announcer ] wouldn't it be great if all devices had backup power? the chevrolet volt does. it's ingeniously designed to seamlessly switch from electricity to gas to extend your driving range. no wonder volt is america's best-selling plug-in. that's american ingenuity to find new roads. ♪ the 2013 volt. charge ahead of the rest in the hov lane. ♪ >>

>> look what the unions did? they literally drove the autoindustry down south to the right to work state. why won't it happen with beer? or textile or every other industry? >> i can't say it won't. full disclosure, the idea of what unions could properly do could be effective. but the way they're broad and over stepping the bounds and aggressive with the companies and the corporation -- >> the idea is great. >> the point is it's not theyed a vote kate for individuals but they use the power of government to pass laws. they do that because they -- >> we'll leigh it there. >> they do it because of the politician, they can deliver votes. >> eric: we know why they do it. we are all pro-business on the show. thank youichelle, and ebony for joining us. coming up, fast food fight. fast food workers calling for something that has many of you fighting back. your turn to be heard next. >> eric: time for what do i need to know for next week from two hot hands. wayne, you're first. >> well, if you look to solve communication p

so the union now has to basically earn its members' respect. >> i can see, kim, this is why the unions fought walker's reform so dramatically because they were worried that if they no longer had government putting them in the cat bird seat in negotiating authority that when union members get a choice, pay dues, don't pay dues, they often say, you know what, i think i won't pay dues. >> well, and that's why you see, for instance, such a ferocious protest among unions for the movement in recent times some of the states that have been attempting to move to right to work states which also give workers a lot more freedom to not pay dues to a union, for instance. and some of this also gets to what we were talking about this aflcio vote if it happened recently at convention to open up its doors to nonunion members. part of this is a reflection of the fact that all across the country, union membership is dwindling. as recently as 20 years ago, about 20% of americans were unionized. today that number is closer to 11%. so now they're opening up their doors to other groups, alliances of groups li

very important moment in the life of the european union. a summit has taken place here in strasburg. come together to have this kind of discussion. together year we come to have this kind of discussion. we talk in a transparent fashion. the public domain as opposed to be other entity that goes to brussels for it summit meeting. sometimes they state they are the european executive, and often they meet behind closed doors, whereas we meet in public. i think it's a good thing to have our doors wide open, to all a transparent debate citizens can listen to and observe. people want to know who is taking part in these discussions. think there is one premise we must remember, and it is a question of confidence. .eople have lost confidence that is why we must talk about transparency. transparency creates trust. trust in terms of the way in which the a-day -- in which the body of democracy operates. ladies and gentlemen, we have one common principle we all follow. we talk about the way in which he eu should work. that is the how way we try to resolve

not the fault of the unions. they deliver significant benefit not just to their members, but to their communities and to the economy overall. teachers, bargain for smaller class sizes so kids can learn. nurses bargain for patient load so that the patients get the care they deserve. firefighters and police meet state condition so they can provide the protection for their community. richard of the martin prosperity the university of toronto business school found that union density is state by state actually have higher incomes, more education, and more creative work. not the opposite. and internationally that hold up as well. the country of the highest unionization have higher protectivity and lower unemployment. public sector workers have been dragged through the mud to distract you. the american people, from the truly guilty party in the economic problem we are facing today. wall street, big business, multinational corporations, scandal with our future turned our economy to a giant casino. sent the job offshore a

the union lines. i read this, only about as long as i just said, and i thought to myself, wow, that would make a great movie. unfortunately, i don't make movies, but occasionally, i do write books. i thought, well, should i write a book about these guys? i support if i was a novelist, that little synopsis would have been enough, and i just could have made up the rest, but i write history, not fiction, and so i had to do what nonfiction writers do in such circumstances, which is do some research and find out if there's enough facts available to tell the story. i did a little research and learned that, yes, indeed, fortunately, for me, there were such facts. there were memoirs, letters, diaries, and newspaper stories some written by junius and albert and others who shared a part of their story. i just had to dig them out of various archives and various places in america including right here at the national archives, and that was great because that enabled me to have that great "holy cow" experience as i

why should someone come in on a free ride and not pay to the union and belong to the union when the union is what made that job as good as it could be. you know they had a fight to get those bents. guest: thank you mark. great question. i think the answer is real simple. mark's argument is predicated somehow the workers claim they want to represent. i will leave it in the hands of the worker about what choice they make. the second issue there is the issue of benefit. there's assumption that everything the union does benefits the workplace. i don't think that's true. i guess if we take mark's statement to a logical conclusion, what he's saying is, you can quit your job and you don't get an opportunity to work there because this is in place. i don't necessarily agree with that. i guess that's a decision someone has to make. it's amazing we put workers in a place on one hand, in order to protect their political rights for example. we had a union member who found out that his dues money was being used for political cause he opposed. he ended up filing a lawsuit, you can't use that money for p

the union asked leaders for stun guns before. the spring the union sent out an e-mail to residents. 80% prefer stun guns. >> i don't see why not. >> i think it is a deplorable idea. >> he helps kids. she is not buying the reason for requesting stun guns again. >> what that man needed was a mental health expert. >> reporter: she thinks it will increase tensions. >> there will be tragic incidents and the improper use of the tasers. >> it is risk free. if you look at a taser causing a death, it is more likely someone will be injured playing baseball. >> reporter: the police association president hopes to have a proposal soon but any move to adopt the weapons would have to be approved by the city counsel. allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> some relief should be on the way for out of work californians waiting for their unemployment checks. they said they will begin to pay out 80,000 back log claims after tomorrow. it happened when they upgraded their computer system. >> we know how important unemployment benefits are to people. it

the union. they wrote a constitution. they elect ad president, jefferson davis, and there hastily assembled army defeated an equally hastily assembled united states army at bull run in virginia. but in the early spring of 1862 the current began to swerve. union armies and the union navy reconquered all but a few stretches of the mississippi river valley and reoccupied western tennessee. in the east robert e. lee, led his ragtag confederate forces, the army of northern virginia, to one victory after another over their opposite number, the union army of the potomac but the victories were all won on virginia soil. and in feeble, the virginia economy even as they defended it. lee knew better than any southerner that the confederacy's resources were too limited to keep fending off the confederacies enemies indefinitely. only by carrying the war into the union states, and only by leveraging the war-weariness of the union voting public into peace negotiations could the confederacy hope to win. but this

the european union. so because the u.s. did not have such an agreement with the e.u., this idea of albright and hadley could not really be put into practice even if there was political will behind it. the idea of a u.s./turkey fta was brought up by the prime minister when he came to visit washington, d.c. in may and has also been brought up by his deputy prime minister. however, it doesn't seem to have gained much traction in the u.s. for a string of reasons stretching from the very fact that the u.s., the u.s. trade representatives have a heavy agenda in front of them, and then i have also heard the excuses of turkey's democracy problems being brought up as well as congressional politics. what turkey has at best managed to extract from the american side so far is what a disappointed diplomat called yet another committee. and this committee that has been set up has been set up at least at the cabinet level, ministers of economy -- that is the ustr as well as his turkish counterpart will be engaged. i am

public school system and that is the biggest union in the company, the teachers union. john: i'm told that they don't mix, homeschooled kids and publicly schooled kids. >> yes, you are talking about socializing. we have a lot of homeschoolers, but they would come out, and you would know them because of the mother being there with three of her kids. >> so there was an argument there that they would be antisocial. john: lets me a couple of homeschoolers. this is veronica andreades. she is 16 years old. this is jeremiah burch, he is 12 years old, both are homeschooled by different families here in new york city. you guys must have no friends of your homeschooled. [laughter] >> some people have said that. >> entirely not sure that homeschoolers have friends, but i've actually made a ton more friends with a homeschooling program. john: had he do that if you are home all the time? >> there is a group of 7000 parents and they do a little social activity. john: your mother made a video of the dance were homeschoolers get together. ♪ ♪ ♪ john: this is not a church basement

bart management blamed the union. >> we have been trying to meet with the district since august the 12th. they have refused to meet with us. >> reporter: the unions have tried to meet with bart over the past three weeks. they showed me e-mails that bart get to the bargaining table. an august 16th response from bart's chief negotiator says face-to-face meetings would not be fruitful. bart management claimed it has been flexible, offering workers raising up to 10%. >> the feeling that on the board's part we've moved a lot, we've made a good faith effort. >> reporter: but the unions say -- >> when you take contribution into retirement, into medical, the raise equals to 1% over the next four years. >> reporter: another sign the unions claim that bart management is twisting the truth. >> they're hoping lies will win them support from the public. >> the two sides are scheduled to get back to negotiations on september 12th. that will leave them less than a month before the cooling off period expires. >>> taxi companies are fighting back against ride-share prs they say are snatching business. ne

of the union or not. that changed the task from 1947. there was a time they thought it was fair. >> eric: ebony, you said the unions do good things. help me out. what do they do? >> they can help with advocat advocating. some people can't do it on their own. some n a perfect world you could say the work conditions are crappy. but some can't. they need a collective effort. that is something unions can serve. >> eric: do they need a collective effort? >> i think an individual -- it's better to have an individual bargain on their behalf from their needs. right to work is pro-freedom and fro-worker. collective bargaining is not good. allow the individual to speak on their behalf. >> what makes this work is the catchtition. is there a competitive atmosphere for the economic way out, then jobs are going to be determined by the competitn. i don't need the union to protect me from that. i have to have a competitive state to know i can work for certain money and that is open for certain amount of people for time.

have the right to unionize and i believe that the unions can make the agreements with the employer that everyone has to be union that's all i mean whatever that again it's i don't want to be involved in any way you know the government i'm just saying that they have a right in the rules of the game right and that's what they need to stop doing what i'm saying is i see this is a contract right between the companies and the unions and whatever they come up with even i think i signed by law i mean you have to have actual interpreted by law but not necessarily defined by law and there as they have into a clause contract and always have to resist within within a legal framework you have to have you know she was on track for anything that's illegal of course but the way that they're structured is usually up to the parties to do a large degree unless you again unless you get these different acts in there that artificially try to manipulate what's going on between employers and employees which i think the free market has to take care of so your thoughts on the right to work and in fact if i coul

hell do you need the unions for? isn't that part of this, too? >> i think there are a lot of union members looking at their paychecks saying why do i have to pay union dues? frankly, everything else that the unions used to do from job place safety, anti-discrimination, wage and hour, those are all handled by the federal government. unions have basically put themselves out of business because they have nothing left they can fight for. >> extraordinary story. you're right, they should have seen it coming but they didn't bother to read the fine print. justin wilkin, thanks. >>> look at this massive fire hitting seaside, new jersey. this is one of the hardest hit towns from hurricane sandy. we have a live report from the scene coming next on "the kudlow report." [ woman ] if you have the audacity to believe your financial advisor should focus on your long-term goals, not their short-term agenda. [ male announcer ] join the nearly 7 million investors who think like you do. face time and think time make a difference. at ed

walmart is the whale for the unio unions. they have a private sector unionship under 7% much the workforce. membership is still declining and they'll constantly go after walmart. they want unionization, pure and simple. it will cost jobs in this country and mean price goes higher for the very people that the unions insist they're trying to help. it is not good news for this country. >> one thing i do know is that there are a number of other big box retailers that pay as much if not even less than walmart. they're not targeted because a lot of them are unionized. >> and a lot are not as big. these protests seem pretty mild. eye been to strikes where my dad let me play hooky and go to protests in new york. i would say these are pretty mild. i would say i think they're playing with fire in this economy. this is a bad economy. we're not producing jobs. people on the low end of the sort of -- the wage structure are lucky to have jobs. we don't produce that many jobs right now. this is a very slow growing economy. they can be prote

and the unions will -- well, the unions may feel differently about it. the point being, once a government benefit like that begins to flow, history shows that it is very hard, ever, to reverse that. and that that would mean that obama care is here forever, and any chance of ending it is probably over. >> the underlying model for the bill is a competitive model. it was actually invented by republicans. it started with richard nixon. it went on to bob dole, and then it was implemented in massachusetts by mitt romney, where it is not run perfectly. >> i understand all of that. >> this isn't welfare. the point remains, once the subsidies begin, it's more difficult to repeal the bill. >> but the good news the subsidies, they're not checks for people. they're reductions in the insurance people pay. they're still going to pay a fair amount. politically, i'm a little more optimistic than ted cruz is that even if some of it goes into effect on january 1st, i think this thing is unpopular and can work poorly enough that it can be repealed. >> if this is any sign o

example, give the unions subsidies for the union health care plans which, as monica points out, are generous, but that is one of the ways in which organized labor attracts members. very healthy health care programs. seven -- melissa: aren't a stronger than ever? the union looks like they lost, but they are better than ever because they get the exemption. >> temporarily. we have seen over the last five decades or so is a dwindling. to underline personnel, dwindling of the. this democratic candidates to get exactly this kind of thing. melissa: next, parents may be thinking now is the time to get back into the work force. but are you worth what you think you are? stick around. the end of the day, it's all about "money." ♪ ♪ melissa: it is that time of year again, it is heading back to school. many stay at home parents are facing the new challenge of trying to back into the work force. it is a daunting time. unemployment is high, but families need money more than ever. al in the world you know your words? here on how to take the plunge after being at home, president and ceo. welcome

club. >> the nature of the union movement is changing. private sector membership down toic meshship, 35.9, even down from 37 a couple years ago. so, the power within the union movement has shifted to public workers-not to the old manufacturing industries. >> there's no question about it. and that's what the democratic party has now aligned itself with. i argue that's why the democrats simply vote for more public spending, bus they're support comes from the people that are going to spend that money, public employees. but to kim's point, what you got to keep in mind here is a union is ultimately about a bargaining unit. right? if you belong to the unit you bargain -- >> gifting better bay, better benefits and job security. >> these people who are being invited into the afl-cio, the sear contract club, women's clubs, student clubs -- >> you're invited. >> i am but no relationship to a work place or bargaining unit. the idea is the union will become a political force in american politics. a lot of members of traditional unions are not happy w

david is right in the sense that the health care lobby got more in this bill than the union lobby. that's why their stocks are rocking and rolling, because they're not getting any punishment. their type of punishment will be taken by some people. this plan benefits some lower income workers, it hurts other people. that's how it works. it needs -- to hold it together all the pieces have to be there. that's why the unions are going to get what they want. that's why the supreme court thing is so important, if you take away a piece of this, it unravels like a ball of yarn. otherwise you give out health insurance to the other people and the pre-existing thing and all that. >> if i can add a point to jonas' remark, the subsidies that are accruing for those that don't have health care are for those that don't have job, for those that been maybe unemployed below the poverty line and so forth. here we're talking with regard to labor's push is for those who already have jobs, have full health care from labor and so forth and there would be a double subsidy put to them. and that's the real st

will there be a deal between the two? >> uh-huh. look, i think the unions are right on this. i think they are saying that obama care has to have some changes. nancy pelosi and others have said ha they see a through to make some of those changes, in fact, there are even some sensible republicans who have said they're interested in working with the unions on this. this should be a part of the discussion. we shouldn't be wasting our time, frankly, on, you know, ted cruz talk-a-thons and ought to have serious discussions about how to make obama care work. it is the law of the land. and the unions are making constructive criticisms that ought to be listened to. not mischaracterized. >> john nichols washington correspondent of "the nation." good to have you on "the ed show." >>> an obama crash course. he took the stage in largo, maryland. i'll tell you what you need to know before the health care enrollment starts next week and still ahead, why one nevada lawmaker thinks 2014 is just going to be a great year for the righties. >>> but next i'm taking your questions. ask ed live just

the union got. i don't want to pay the fees but i still want those benefits. why should someone come in on a free ride and not pay to the union and belong to the union when the union is what made that job as good as it could be, when you know they had a fight to get those benefits? guest: thank you, mark. great question. i think the answer is real simple. mark's argument is predicated somehow the workers claim they want to represent. i will leave it in the hands of the worker about what choice they make. the second issue there is the issue of benefit. there's assumption that everything the union does benefits the workplace. i don't think that's true. i guess if we take mark's statement to a logical conclusion, what he's saying is, you can quit your job and you don't get an opportunity to work there because this is in place. i don't necessarily agree with that. i guess that's a decision someone has to make. it's amazing we put workers in a place where on one hand, in order to protect their political

standard of the unions? >> of course not. i mean listen he's obviously -- i think -- i think conservatives should not be siding with the unions. >> they're not siding with the unions. >> a lot of them are saying what a great guy richard trumka is. >> no. >> too busy badgeringing guests on the air it to realize what they're saying is, look, when your friends hate it. >> right. >> you got a deep -- >> i'm not a big fan of the health care law. it's so obvious this thing doesn't work and he's starting to screw over his own constituents. >> okay. in a fashionnd i've known and become accustomed to. >> adam, this thing seems to be in rubble when you have to do the carveouts as melissa points out for pretty much everybody. >> well, i liked where charlie was going until he finished and then i didn't like where he was going. i don't agree, neil, it's in trouble. this stuff is messy. i didn't really, by the way, see as much inconsistency for trumka as you all did, between his 2010 cheerleading statement and his -- >> h

we excuse with the union representatives today. >> the union insists that safety is just as important as pay and benefits, but depending on the many groups and individuals that are counting, depending on that, the numbers don't add up. the union says that safety has not been a major contract negotiating issue, the union says it's tired of being ignore by the company. >> the district has failed to address these issues. >> we told you last week, they say that bart has a good safety record. in the three and a half years from 2009 to may of this one, they racked up 42 safety incidents, and the other telescoping system -- transportation system, racked up 102, la county, 180, and san francisco, 366. the numbers are achieved with our current operators that are atu, certified operators. >> that's part of a story. >> we don't want these numbers to look like nothing else is going on. >> the numbers show the system operates safely, but don't include the hundreds of crime and other incidents. >> in the last three years, only five of our station, 2,046 incidents cured -- occurred, and it had to be

the problem is that the union leaders and the union members are now seeing the very predictable fallout of obamacare. socialized medicine. they are losing their security and they don't like it one bit. this is what we worry about when it's passed. what they are saying now, look, we will go hat in hand to the white house. for whom we have done so much. beg for the exemptions. the problem here is that most americans hate this saying. they want to repeal entirely or in part. they are seeing crony socialism. this is crony socialism. we have politically connected ally of the president and the democrats asking for all kind of waivers and exemptions. i want to know where mine is or juan's is. >> this is what the unions have done. i think they opened the door to this socialized medicine to all of this complaining, especially from the strong conservatives from monica. nobody's job, the unions aren't saying anybody's job at risk. what they are saying is that in fact in the midst of the recession, they have seen they benefit and especially their healthcare packages diminish. they want the governme

i basically take the view that the current arrangement of the customs union with the european union is a very costly and arrangement for turkey and one that has become increasingly more costly. i would advocate on the economic grounds that the arrangement would be reconfigured into a free trade arrangement enabling turkey to negotiate with third parties and putting the united states. and i believe that one can be very much favorable to turkey eventually joining the european union but be against the current set up of the customs union. let me -- that is the main point that i want to make. let me give you three arguments to support that point. first is that the world has changed. the global environment has become a lot less for the customs union than turkey has with of the european union as configured. not only of course of the prospects for the recession damned into the indefinite future may be made a lot more problematic by the enormous problems and challenges that the e.u. faces internally in its own crisis and the difficulties, the public will developments in turkey are well known. n

like unions, but the fact is i don't like union abuse. what you are talking about here -- >> who does? who does? you think i do? i will defend union abuse? you're defining union abuse as an attempt to make sure health care is affordable to union members. i don't buy that. >> it's affordable. it's why it's called the affordable care act, richard. >> all right, guys. rick, i'm sorry. i'm going to have to end it there. we'll pick this up at another time. rick, richard, thank you. >> great insights on both sides. >>> we've got 20 minutes before the closing bell sounds for the day. a market that is fractured and lower today down about 20 points on the dow. >>> a fight for control of dell has finally ended. jackie deangelis is live in texas with all those details next. >>> after the bell, mug ls jumping for joy today with big news out of hog warts. i'm using harry potter terms. j.k. rowling making headlines today. , , the actions, the reactions. everything has to synch up. my expenses are no different. receipt match from american express synchr

the european union. there is a summit taking place today here in strasburg and want to hear we come together to have this kind of discussion, honestly will be a lively debate and we have talked about the roadmap for the european union on these occasions. we, the institutions of the unit, the parliament commission, we talk in public and what is in other entity.ain as oppose the entity that goes to brussels for its summit meetings. and sometimes they state that they are the european executive and often they meet behind closed doors, whereas we meet in public sessions. now, i actually think it is a good thing that when we are talking about european affairs, it is a good thing to have our doors flung wide open and have it open and transpired debate something that all citizens can listen to and observe. people in europe want to know who is taking decisions, where, how, and what are the arguments advised in this debate. as far as our debate today debate today is concerned, i think there is one premise that we

between bart management and the unions. he spent a few hours this morning at the orinda bart station handing out flyers promoting the online petition. >> people cannot get to their jobs, get to doctor's appointments and school so they want their voices heard and i am happy i am getting the support we are getting and we need legislation that bans transit strikes. >> standing against the wind. the vocal support is being pushed by republicans in southern california a man saying he worked for bart but supports the unions and showed up, saying this petition sounds politically motivated, especially since this councilman is running for assembly the. >> i am surprising that a member takes it upon himself to bring this up. what is his connection to bart? >> the passengers do not want another strike but were split whether the state should ban workers from walk off the job. >> i don't understand why they want to strike new but i don't like the idea taking away anyone's right to strike. i support unions and the right to strike. >> it a

union wages or the union dues cost you? >> no, i don't think i would because, you know, it all falls back on if i get $8 an hour, that would be a start. that would be more than $7.25, and i would be able to live comfortably. >> well, stephanie, i hope you do well. i really do. it's a tough break to lose the job you had that was paying you a whole lot better than what you're doing now. i appreciate your being here and sharing your story and your perspective. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. joining me now again, mike rowe, tamara holder, keith hall is back. first of all, let's address the issue. is unionization of fast food workers, is that viable, tamara? >> absolutely. >> you think it is? >> absolutely. because this is an industry that has a very high turnover, and we're seeing so many workers like stephanie herself who are going to fast food places because they have nowhere else to turn, and they're taking whatever job they can. but we're also seeing they're paying people just barely above minimum wage, and these are

these were the predecessors of the european union. adinolfi: all of the countries that joined the european community were, first of all, members of the council. so it can be considered as a sort of antechamber for the european union. narrator: today strasbourg is also home to the european union's legislative branch-- the european parliament. but the capital of the european union is, in a sense, split with major administrative centers in brussels and luxembourg city, as well as strasbourg. murphy: there's a little bit of a struggle about where the future of this will go. there's an enormous expense right now associated with running back and forth between brussels and strasbourg. indeed, many of the parliamentary committees meet in brussels. then they have to get on a train with their tons of documents and get on over to strasbourg for their formal parliamentary meetings. so it's an issue before europe of how much this is worth. but, of course, there are political and cultural interests vested in this. ( speaking french ) translator: st

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the welcome to all the part because of the soviet union it was widely perceived as the historic triumph of validation of capitalism only to see the antenna and the major prices less than two decades later and while the number of those who were forced to buy the bullets by the recent crisis is comparable to those left for by the crash of tong isn't a critical analysis of lost and merits of capitalist system it's still fairly rare well to attempt to do just that i'm now joined by jeffrey summers and associate professor of political economy at the university of wisconsin in the walking thank you very much for your time mr summers i know that you are a frequent guest here in moscow and you are on today you will be speaking on the waterways the world off to the end of american imperial. isn't beach i thing is the kind of topic that will certainly resonate with many people in moscow but i assume that for many americans it's not just a provocative topic some may perceive that as simply and patch are already on the part well you know i thought that patriotism is rather weak in the united states

state of the union and what i foresee the state of the union is being. and he did that every year, such that it became a washington institution of course. more than that, wilson had this very progressive agenda. he thought in order to pass that, in order to emphasize its importance, i want to say to the congress homeport natives and i will do it by voting with my feet. it's a wilson, get this, wilson called 25 joint sessions of congress during his two terms. this is once every few months both in would show up, gave a speech, see this tariff address is extremely important. we've got to get a tariff bill moved. this labor bill, whatever it was, wilson would show up and gave a talk and 90 with the period that would be fine. it was extraordinary. then he did something even more extraordinary. wilson would show up the next day and he would sit in a little room in the capitol, a road that has basically been nine years since woodrow wilson as it had been unused before woodrow wilson. the room has a very complicated game. it is called the president's room. and i