Employees who did not wish to be a member. That is followed by the lead plaintiff in the case and his attorney offering their perspective. And the week ahead in washington with politico reporter heather cagle. People lined up outside the Supreme Court, hoping to hear a case that could affect labor unions. At issue, should a member be forced to pay costs if they do not want to . Cases two of landmark series kicks off tonight. The series take a takes a closer look at decisions in Supreme Court history. You can find out more about the series and tonights program when you visit our website. Case at the supreme rt deals with joining us to talk about the case is josh idol son. Is a labor reporter josh can you set up both sides of this case and what they represent . Guest the Supreme Court is considering whether to deal what could be a devastating blow to unions by making the Public Sector right to work, meaning it would be illegal to require people who are represented by a union to pay for c
Ensuring state and local governments have the proper safeguards to properly alert the public of an impending emergency is absolutely critical. False alerts not only create unnecessary panic, they undermine the Emergency Alert system leading to public distrust and what happened in hawaii must be addressed to make sure it never happens again. It is essential that americans have an Emergency Alert system they could trust and i believe they do. There is much that is working well with the Emergency Alert system. In fact it is arguably a model Public Private program through the warren act. Industry partners including those represented here today have been investing to improve the system and working collaboratively with government and Public Safety officials to carry out the mission. We special did not want to overlook the successes but as recent events have shown, there are problems that must be addressed. Todays hearing is the first of two on Emergency Alert systems. The near future will ho
Alerts like we saw with the hawaii Ballistic Missile warning earlier this month. Ensuring state and local governments have the proper safeguards to properly alert the public of an impending emergency is absolutely critical. False alerts not only create unnecessary panic, they undermine the Emergency Alert system leading to public distrust and what happened in hawaii must be addressed to make sure it never happens again. It is essential that americans have an Emergency Alert system they could trust and i believe they do. There is much that is working well with the Emergency Alert system. In fact it is arguably a model Public Private program through the warren act. Industry partners including those represented here today have been investing to improve the system and working collaboratively with government and Public Safety officials to carry out the mission. We special did not want to overlook the successes but as recent events have shown, there are problems that must be addressed. Today
Employees will be trained. 29 of Commuter Railroads will be installed by the end of 2015. And full implementations is predict jekted by 2020. They will finalize enforcement for those railroads that will miss the deadline. As for any regulatory enforcement posture our goal is to bring Railroad News compliance as quickly and safely as possible. Starting on january 1st, fra will impose penalties on railroads that have not implemented ptc and fines will be based on penalty guidelines which establish different penalties based on violations and will be assessed per violation, per day. The total amount of penalty each railroad faces depends on the amount of penalty progress the railroad has made and fra is planning for what will come after the january 1st deadline. In both 2014 and 2015 the department and fra asked congress to provide fra with additional authorities that would address the safety gap that will exist on many railroads between january 1, 2016, and each railroad full ptc implemen
Good afternoon, everyone. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the monday, july 27, 2015 regular meeting of the San Francisco Ethics Commission i say regular meeting that was essentially contemplated that this meeting would be cancelled because we school one in july or august but because of the need to have public button the two items on tonights agenda we decided to go forward tonight i will first call roll commissioner hur commissioner keane councilmember glorias and the executive director have been excluded from tonight meeting ill tell you that some the gentleman didnt have to abstain himself well switch the agenda items number 4 will be taken up first that is the ballot measure statement and then well take up the agenda item number 3 that deals with the Recruitment Profile so agenda 2 public items appearing or not appearing on tonight agenda. Good afternoon, commissioners im charley for the record you have my email where i suggested respectfully you might consider amending our bylaws f