Government to put their interests first. In contract negotiations, unions always insist on senioritybased layoffs. This gives guaranteed job security to their more senior members, but it also means that School Districts are forced to lay off the new hires first, even if those teachers are star performers. Parents object, but the unions have decided they can accept that. And unions also want, understandably, very generous Retirement Benefits for their members. In michigan, 27 of School Districts budgets are going to provide pensions and health benefits, and its not hard to see why. In this state, you can retire after 25 years to collect full benefits. So you have a lot of teachers retiring in their late 40s or their early 50s. But if you care about dollars being spent in the classroom, that is a problem. The Michigan Education association used their clout to cut the bill. If costs were going to be cut, they wanted those cuts to come elsewhere. Or they wanted taxes to go up. That is what
America. First reading, writing, and radicalism that is the focus of tonights angle. All right let me just say this is a mother, it is a minefield for parents out there and too often the people who to trust te teacher Sons And Daughters are the ones you can trust the lease. Like this lovely teacher. A woman named amber parker who just fired from Franklin High School in el paso, texas, come on. Her message the students recently was dont be mean to. When i call them that. Dont judge people. Laura if you wonder why your kids come home questioning families values and beliefs its because of socalled educators like ms. Parker. And when that push to normalize deviancy she is doing her part to advance the larger goal. Which is the persecute anyone with traditional views on sexuality. Now the unions in the left is who fund them while conservative parents driven underground or out of public life altogether. The bottom line is you are a devout christian, muslim, or, they think youre hateful and t
Greta this week on newsmakers, were joined by congressman sander levin, democrat of michigan given currently serves as the ranking democrat on the health subcommittee. Thank you for being on newsmakers. Rep. Levin glad to be with you once again given greta in studio with as is lindsay mcpherson, a congressional reporter with rollcall and also a congressional reporter with the hill. Lindsey nice to be with you, congressman. There is a lot of news happening, and we do want to talk about the tax conference. Before we get to that some of the biggest headlines lately have been about Sexual Harassment allegations against your colleagues, including john conyers, the colleague from michigan who resigned, and there have been new allegations in blake farenthold. Do you think the members who have not yet resigned should be resigning . Also you havent been up here a , long time. What have you noticed . Is this a big problem on capitol hill . Rep. Levin well, it is a problem. I think each case has
Mrs. Murray mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from washington. Mrs. Murray i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be lifted. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Murray i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. The presiding officer without objection. Mrs. Murray thank you. First of all, i want to thank my colleague senator brown for leading the effort on the floor to speak out against the latest attacks on union rights that are in front of the Supreme Court right now. Im very proud to join him to highlight the contribution unions have made to our middle class, to the economy, and to our country. And i want to express my commitment to stand up against any attempts to undermine workers rights to join a union or bargain collectively. Since day one, President Trump has broken his campaign promise, which was to put our workers first by rolling back Worker Protections and putting corporations and billionaires ahead of our working families. And now
Wage as power lunch starts right now. It is friday and we are in love with the stock market apparently because that big league jobs report has stocks higher and we should finish higher for the week once again the douby the way is now up more than 8 for the year some of your individual standouts today, you have the Home Builders as well as semiconductor and equipment makers lam research and plied materials. It is not all sunshine today sears shares down again. Announcing even more store closings more on that later on. Tyler . Thank you very much welcome, everybody we begin this hour with this first face to face meeting of President Trump and russian president Vladimir Putin in hamburg, germany beyond that meeting, so much to talk about steel, tariffs, trade, protectionism, climate, north korea. Ayman jaefrs live with the latest eamon . We are inside the hotel here in hamburg it was hairy on the streets here with the protesters out there marching against the g20 some rioters smashing the