9% of pay on the table for our employees, and we re trying to find the balance between that pay and how we afford it, which is about change and it s about modernisation. you can see that all around you. thompson out! 0n the picket line outside the sorting office, striking workers are losing money every day they walk out. they could be £2,000 out of pocket by the end of the year. to be truthful, no one can afford to lose money, but it s about moving forward. we ve lost a lot of money now, but if we give in now, we lose a lot more than just money our terms and conditions and the service. royal mail has announced 6,000 job cuts, which it says will be achieved through voluntary redundancies. but the union isn t convinced. we re talking about compulsory redundancies. we re not going to agree that royal mail replace those workers with self employed drivers, with new entrants on 20% less pay, terms and conditions.
really wanted to address this, they would get all the major five conferences together and have the commissioners deal with this and the athletic directors which i think is an admission of guilt because they re saying they do have problems that they need to solve. but the bottom line is this goes on year after rear after year and nobody addresses it. well, i m all ears. if he says it s not the solution, i want him to come out and give us real solutions. i think the point of this is to put pressure on the ncaa to do what is right by their players. right now they re not doing it. if union isn t the best answer, and that s what the players say they watch th want, but if there is a better answer, it s up to them to put it on the table. representative lesser, do you believe the players that were on the court last night for uconn, they re employees of the university? they re all getting athletic scholarships. the question is, is scholarship pay or is it not. think it is. the amount of m
saying bring it on. senator rand paul refusing a pat-down at an airport security checkpoint after setting off an alarm on a body scanner. he s joining us live this hour. he ll tell us what happened. also, a key u.s. supreme court ruling on electronic surveillance. the justices agree that police need a warrant to plant a gps device on a suspect s car but they don t agree on why. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. what a day in politics. mitt romney is going all out as he goes after newt gingrich with a series of very bitter attacks. the new national poll out today may show why. the two rivals are in a statistical tie. the gallup daily tracking poll shows romney at 29% nationwide, down nine points in just over a week. gingrich is at 28%, double his strength in the last poll a week ago. it s a dead heat, just a week and change before the florida primary. let s bring in cnn jim acosta. he s in tampa and watching the battle for florida. it shouldn t be.
you weigh in on this? i m not so sure they own shares, a good way to get into boards. a lot of people on board put there by other management and want a pay raise and the current system to get on board is wonderful. unions have been dying for long time and haven t been useful like they were 70 years ago when there were actual labor issues. brenda: and by corporations you know, corporations, the opec example, i don t buy either because the corporations makes the decision, too, they employ everybody, a monopoly in some ways of labor. you have to have a balance. a free market thing and you need the government to break up a union to break up a free market. might not good for wages, lower profits for corporations. but the government has to step in and stop it s a natural concept and businesses left the country not because of the unions, because the 40 cent labor abroad and the union isn t making a much of a difference and unionized in the kind of jobs that have been leaving anyway a