The moment. Traders across europe are waiting on the speech from the leader of catalonia today. Expats sending money home can add hundreds of billions of dollars to a countrys economy, especially in developing nations. Well be speaking to the man behind worldremit, the tech company specialising in worldwide remittance. With the global cost of obesity forecast to hit more than a trillion dollars we want to know how you would tackle the problem of bulging waistlines . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to business live. Please send us your comments on the issue of obesity, automated, france, strike action, you name it. We have got lots in the programme today. Lets get started. Deja vous france is braced for mass strikes and protests today. Civil Service Unions have called on their 5. 4 million members to take to the streets. So whats got them marching this time . Theyre angry about massive job cuts in the Public Sector 120,000 positions are to be axed over the next five y
If you live in the eastern or central time zones, call us at 202 7488000. If you live in the mountain or pacific time zone, 202 7488001. You can also send us your thoughts on twitter. You can leave a comment on our facebook page. This fight between president elect donald trump and the labor unions started after what appeared to be a victory last week. He had negotiated a deal with a factory in indiana to keep jobs from moving to mexico. That deal became controversial after these comments from a union leader in indiana. Here is the story in the cannotgton. washington post. The story says that chuck jones, the president of united fuel workers, which represents carrier employees have felt optimistic when donald trump announced he had reached a deal until thee 1100 jobs union leader heard that only 730 of the projected jobs wednesday and 550 Union Members would lose their livelihoods after all. Jones hoped donald trump would explain himself. When he got up there, and for whatever reason he
The San Francisco board of appeals. The presiding officer is commissioner honda and we are joined by tonights by our vice chair commissioner Vice President fung and commissioner lazarus and commissioner bobby wilson and commissioner rick swig to my left is brad the deputy City Attorney and provide the board with legal advice at the controls is gary hes the boards legal assistant im im Cynthia Goldstein the boards executive director. Were going to be joined as by were joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before this board. Sitting in the front right now is amanda representing the bureau of mapping and shes joined by her colleague raul shaw i believe chris buck is here in the front right now with the bureau of urban forestry and Scott Sanchez will be here shortly and representing his office and the Planning Department and Planning Commission Electronic Devices are prohibited. Please carry on conversations out in the hallway. Permit holders and others have u
Please. Gee, present. Kim, here. Reiskin, here. Nuru, present. Sartipi, present. Harper recollect present. Mr. Chairman you have a quorum. Next item. Next item item 3 and 4 chair harper requested to move those items to the end of the regular calendar agenda. If there are no objections, that will be communication and board of directors new and old business. Thank you. With that your next item is executive drether report, item 5. Good morn ing director. January 19 the California Transportation Commission approved the 25 year lease for bus Storage Facility with 85 percent reduction in lease rates for fair market value. We have provided ac transit based on lease terms. Ac transit board is expected to approve the sublease later this month. We also expect to be receive bids on the bus Storage Facility later this mung. We plan to bring the caltrans lease, ac transs and bus contract to the board for approval in march. Follow tupe last month discussion regarding the boards desire to invite the
Opportunities for seniors and adults with disabilities. The Program Model were basing is in already in prais. Its operation and the reserve program and started in 2005 in new york city and was successful there and ex357bded to other locations in the east coat and midwest and now bringing to San Francisco. Through the procurement process the contractor submitted a well thought out comprehensive model here they will serve as an a liliate to the program and use infrastructure such as program trls and a data base system. Theyre able to access reserve executive staff in new york for consultation during the roll out and operation. Some of the steps taken to adapt this program to San Francisco include most notably the inclusion with adults with disabilities as a target population for services in this program. Its a 55 plus model on the east koacht. They have a Advisory Group to advise on the program. They have met in january. They have secured commitments from at least a dozen nonprofits for