submitting requests to fix these problems. for three years they were ignored and denied. what has the president said? he s said time and time again that as this law gets implemented we ll work with everyone to they don t feel like that s true. that s voted over 40 times to di kill it. if you want to talk about bleeding from the base, four different republicans you re not going to answer my question. i have answered your question. you haven t answered my question. this isn t a political problem for you that a million labor workers have decided that they haven t been heard on fixing obama care? what you ve got are folks that want to work with this white house to continually strengthen that s not the tone i m setting. i ve read the letter, s.e., and time and time again we ve seen that the base is appreciative of the fact that we now have more people who have affordable health care than we did before the bill. and they sure as heck don t want to see us repeal it.
is in the bill, it s actually passing a bill, it s symbolic because americans believe that washington d.c. is broken. president obama is losing face with the latino community. for all side to win they need to agree on something to get before the president, a law. jenna: i want to ask you something that is really important that doesn t get a lot of attention when we go back and forth to the right and left with immigration reform it has to do with outside groups like labor organizations, like the chamber of commerce all that have a hand in this legislation. what do you think their roles are and how integral are those roles to whatever we see here. very big question, they have a big organization. not only do they have a hand in the legislation they also give political action committee money, and both organizations cannot agree on the low-skill worker program. unions want to protect their employees that they already have and the u.s. chamber of commerce like to bring low scaled labor wor
curry favor with his members and the public and doesn t just concede raising taxes for the wealthiest of americans because i do believe that would then shift the onus back toward the white house for spending cuts but he just doesn t bring himself fully to say that which i think would trigger this kind of a reaction. i want to switch topics while i have you altogether. michigan and what s happening there. again, michael, you talked to people all day long. andrea mitchell noted it. i lived in illinois and chicago for ten years. we know the importance of unions in that area. to see what s happened in michigan today would i think be described as incredible to so many people and the labor workers with the auto union and feel they ve made sack fiss and for them this is a kick in the face. right. the ramifications i think nationally cannot be overblown. if this were a story about south carolina, if this were a story about a sun belt state, i don t
world s, you have some 99% in your district and some 1%. what do you make of what s going on down there? i was there on wednesday at foley square. they were very frustrated and angry about the financial crisis and the hope they don t see for their future. i met students that had huge student loans and no jobs, people that have lost is there homes or thele values have gone down, labor workers who were afraid they were going to lose their job. they are calling upon people like me and all of us at this table to do something about it, to listen to their concerns and act on them. i think we should take their frustrations to washington and pat s the president s jobs bill and get this economy moving again. the city council of los angeles just passed a resolution in support of occupy l.a.
have come to feel like call it vocational consolation prizes and we re simply not celebrating their contribution. that s why you have a skills gap right now at the same time you have unemployment. according to the department of labor, skilled labor like plumbers and steam fit ters, will see a 16% increase in the number of jobs available between now and 2018. skilled labor workers, a 29% bump. the problem, finding people skilled to fit the job and a number that will retire soon. this job bright mike way out to capitol hill where he testified about a skilled crisis. we need a pr campaign for skilled labor, like a big one. something that addresses the widening skills gap head on and rejoins the country with that part of the work force. while not glamorous, they are essential to keep the country