Job as anple, my investigator in chicago, i would knock on doors and going to impoverished areas. I get you see on a firsthand basis not only the standards of those, but what they have to deal with on a daytoday basis and how we can impact the lives best. The union provides a vehicle for me to come back through Labor Management systems where we get to sit down with senior levels of management and discuss with them what it is i see in the field and give recommendations and suggestions with how we could Better Service and better streamline our approach. How we connect better access resources and get them to the place where they are needed. Bargainingthan just for itself, it bargains for society. Host what about the idea these fees become political because of Union Activity . Have beenin illinois under the thumb of was made this very political from day one. From his just one of his first detective orders was to stop. This became a political football a political topic once the governor cam
Hear from mark janus and his litigation director and attorney. Thank you for joining us. Today asyour argument a First Amendment issue. How is that . Guest the First Amendment guarantees me the right of freedom of speech and the right of freedom of speech and freedom of association. The problem is i am not allowed to make that decision for myself. I dont have that choice. That r myself. I dont have that choice. , the union that represents me, mandate that i pay these fees, whether i want to or not. I was not asked. It came out of my paycheck. For i saw the deduction union dues, i said, where is this coming from . I am not a member of the union. I never signed a pledge card, i never asked. My colleague said you have to have this fee come out. If you do not, you lose your job. What about the idea that you want the benefits of Union Protection but you do not want to pay the fees . Guest they are getting all of this money from Public Sector workers like myself, that choose not to be a memb
Bursts of moderate to heavy rain. Alameda is getting heavy rain. 40s to 50s. And 46 berkeley lab. 50 officially in the city. And 47 tiburon. And seller isnt toe at 7 degrees. And maybe a little snow in mendocino, lake county. And theres going to be a lot of snow. In the sierra, a Winter Weather advisory has kicked in. Look for morning rain and scattered showers in the afternoon. Rainfall forecast a dont a third. And the system looks promising on friday. Sal, things are picking up. Im sure they are in traffic as well. As a matter of fact you can see traffic is going to be busy at the macarthur maze. And it is going to be slowing down at the bay bridge toll plaza. This is a 28minute delay between the carquinez bridge and the macarthur maze or i should say a 28minute drive. And you can see traffic is backed up all the way to the maze. Add 20 minutes to get on the bridge. Unless youre in the carpool lanes. 880 is okay in both directions as you drive past the commute. And westbound 580 some
580 and strong moppets ago and alameda as well. 880, 580 and that will be left out there and havent seen measurable rain fall in a while and were finally getting much needed moisture through mill valley and tiburon picking up in areas of orange and coming down about three quarters of an inch per hour. Interstate 80 slick and snowy up there as well especially across the west slope of the sierra and lows 23,000 feet. Winds are piing up and sustained winds in pleasantton and southbound west direction and breezy and northern east bay hills and gusty conditions associated with the storm temperature wise in the 40s and 50s right now and afternoon highs not going to be that little warmer today and not much warming but later on this afternoon, jaquline. Were track ago couple of hot spots and well begin along 101 and this is near highway 116 and traffic looks okay. Its starting to build just a bit but heading in that northbound direction and folks will encounter delays and were trackingen ax th
Not only did he state the obvious that quote its been quite some time since the economy looked ts gd, b he also ge credit to fiscal policy. The impetus for fiscal policy has turned positive. Is the fed going to be our friend . Lets ask the panel. Aaron . Is the worst over . We can still see some more. With the stock market, ultimately fundamentals are great. But we could see more volatility into the rest of this year. This recovery the last two weeks is very normal. We often see a recovery of 50 after we see a 10 correction. Charles we are almost back up to the alltime highs. Its still within the realm of normal recovery. Do we retest the lows . Its a possibility. We are trading at 17. 5 times earnings. Thats healthy. We were really hot coming into the beginning of the year. Even though we are at similar price levels, from a valuation perspective, fourth square was so phenomenal. Charles through earnings season it was a black buster earnings. You see the s p, they are driving higher. I