Is to incur all women and our priority secures is hire minimum wage for women and over the past few months weve been engaging groups if a dont even dooeven to chicago to boston and here in San Francisco to identify initiative that benefit the americas working families and the economy were bringing together high ranking officials and researches and Business Leaders and federal and local elected officials to have a conversation been Business Practices that benefit working families. The conversation and story as those regional forums will be encoder on june 23rd at the white house we want to list up the key issues that American Families are facing and you encourage everyone to add our voice to the National Discussion you throughout the forum you can tweet our comments urging the ash tag followup. Please consider drafting a tweet after today and post it you can see more on twitter. We also have a story sharing wall in the reception wall you can add your thoughts on a posted notes on how families need to be supported. Im honored to introduce mayor ed lee hes the 403 reading mayor and the first asianamerican mayor i was elected in 2011 and has a long record of public city he began working in the city and county of San Francisco as an investigator for the first whistle blower ordinance and the director of city purchasing and the director of public works and the city administrator hes worked are hard to keep us on introducing track to create jobs and champion everyone that supports parks and transit and quality of life in our neighborhoods and pedestrian safety. Were very fortunate to have him with us please welcome mayor ed lee kelly thank you very much and thank you for your work for the people as well. Hello, Everyone Welcome to San Francisco. I was tickled when leader Councilmember Englander said youre looking thinner i said thats what a lot of contracts and other things pelosi thank you and welcome back and establishing San Francisco were honored to host one of the forums across the country to be chosen to be a location for a discussion on working families and also just want to take an opportunity to thank all the chronicle representatives we have a National Agenda we can do everything locally and hello, again to melanie shes been a wonderful contact welcome back to the recreational office. Ellis you know your economy that red hot were a thooifl economy and we got another great enhancement were at a record low in unemployment of 4 percent there are challenges. And while our economy maybe the envy of other places around the world im hard at work to make sure our residents are getting the fulltime work they need and thats sustainable. We know theres no greater income gap between that person who has a job and that personal who doesnt we will be relentless to grow jobs in our City Crossing across all sectors not only technology its fast growing by not the big driver biotech and International Trade and film and Video Production and construction and health care are on a having having Good Foundation all growing ail parts of the diverse economy and creating good paying jobs for everyone. Were making sure that we do everything we can to make sure the workforce policies are friendly to families. Thats why ive joined up with supervisor david chiu on his Family Friendly workplace were going to be funding a bit of that this year. Hes been asking for that extra funding to make sure its not just a good sounding ordinance but we reduce the barriers for working families. We need to make sure our priority is that youre working families can afford to call it home one of the many ways in which well be addressing affordability is through housing. Weve got an aggressive agenda got to create thirty thousand new housing pardon mely affordable to locate and moderate income families and were making Good Progress were opening up more homes for cities families in the first 5 months of this year there than the entire year of mifl. We know your city is an expensive place so we should bring an increase to all minimum wage yet still clapping yeah. But weve got to keep pace and this is what paying attention to working families is all about not about what we did yesterday although we celebrate that we have to keep the pace with Rising Consumer costs i know that a few more dollars an hour can make a difference and San Francisco has done we need to lead by example were the first city in the nation to establish our own minimum wage a model for the rest of the country. Were going to work with the board of supervisors that impacts Small Businesses and experts to seek coincidence in a significant wage increase for working families. We also continue to join in the fight for equal pay giving our Women Equal Pay for equal work. Yes clapping equality for all was not only a slogan but also been a San Francisco value and our city values equal pay for everyone and make sure our women are succeeding and treated equally and nancy pelosi said when women skeekdz San Francisco skeekdz yes clapping and you can see its true in the leadership of our city im proud to nominate carmen chu the assessor recorder shes going to deserve that ive appointed katie tang to our board of supervisors youll find women in the highest levels of local government and fire cheer chief joanne hayneswhite our Health Director and port director and other and our naivety Department Head appointed last week debbie so many more critical leaders in position that direct policy and function for our city. Im proud to have as my council nancy pelosi and Dianne Feinstein and congresswoman spear joins us in making sure were strong and we have a strong fight for our san franciscans and here in San Francisco and washington, d. C. So joining with Others Congress members honda and hoffman and spear and nancy pelosi were going to move forward and advance workers rights and equality for all of us in San Francisco and across the country i know theres a lot of work ahead i remain committed for all residents i commend you and people in the audience and those ive just met even those years i was just happy to see roses come and join us thank you for coming here today congratulations clapping good morning and thank you four attending this Important Forum im emmy im the region representative for the department of the labor in San Francisco ive had the privilege of working at the department of the looker no washington, d. C. For the past 4 years and how time flies when you do something you love with amazing people you deeply respect but its an honor to introduce secretary tom perez when we were sworn in as the 26 secretary of labor he infused a new energy and rebranded it as the opportunity for every working family every working person to get ahead like a fair days pay for a fair days work connecting ready to work people promoting gender equality in the workplace and insuring the developers have access to equal and safe opportunities secretary prez binges a commitment to service and prior to commission he sirtd as the attorney general for the Justice Department and should to restore and transform the conscious of the in addition to further fulfill the tutored vance equal opportunity and leveling the Playing Field he also served as Deputy Attorney general under janet reiskin with the task force. He was special council to the late senator Edward Kennedy as a civilize revoke and he served as secretary of labor licensing and regulations for the state of madagascar he resides with his wife and which were i was born in buffalo new york he graduated from Brown University where on saturday, he delivered the com mention time speaking speech all of these make him an amazing secretary of labor a great boss were sad at his dispatch from his old office but happy to have him here please welcome secretary tom clapping good afternoon San Francisco it is great to be here thank you for your kind words its an honor to be here in the presence of so many important people all of you are important i really enjoyed meeting the rosaries well talk them more but nancy pelosi thank you. I know a few people in america is that have not done more for americans than you so thank you for your work clapping and again to all our elected officials and have mayor thank you for the warm welcome we have a wonderful partner i used to serve on their board and mirror was fantastic and the progress is all about progress and moving America Forward the the president s opportunity agenda is making sure we grow the economy and add more jobs good jobs and making sure that people have the skills to compete and making sure that everybody has access to Educational Opportunity from pre k and making sure we reward work with a decent wage that allows you to put a roof over your head and allows to you have health care and other securities thats the agenda of this president and im hoping happy to be working with him we want to make sure that everybody who works hard we reward hard work and the responsibility and we work with members of congress clapping we have to acknowledge the working family summit is about we have to acknowledge were not in leave it to beaver anymore there are more women in the workplace and the family has evolved and the family responsibility have viewed and Public Policy needs to evolve with those changing democrat garlics and changing trends you tell throughout america i talk to people all the time and they give me the following concerns i need to make enough money to put food on the tackle but want to be home to eat dinner at that table with my families clapping i hear from so many people to go home and take care of my father or mother or pickup my sick child and yet i have to choose been the job i love and the family i love thats an unfair choosing choose most of other criticize countries on the planet dont allow us to make the most important family values or one of the month important is time spent with your family and be able to help our children with their homework and be home at night yelling yet all too many people are working two or three jobs thats not america so thats why were having those working families summits across the country i want to applaud my colleague that he department of the labor thats helping to lead and done great work across the country no shedding light on the issues and one of the basically Building Blocks is earning a decent wage no one who works a fulltime job should have to live in poverty and yet clapping we see throughout this country millions of americans working hard and fueling u falling you are further behind and one reason is our minimum wage nationally he use it nationally mayor it hadnt kept up its lost 20 percent of its purposing power since the 1980s image if you went into a job today and told you have to take a 20 percent pay cut from 20 years ago your gas bill or utility bill has not begun b down by 20 percent thats why its important to continue this advocacy around raising the minimum wage its time for 1010 across america clapping and i want to thank so many of my friends ive met in the Business Community because a theyve given strong voice to this is that i have recognized powerfully when you take care of our rngz and pay them a decent wage you gain locality and if you put money in peoples punctuates like henry ford they spent it in our community he and businesses have to hire more people and america skeekdz thats why we continue to work hard and raise the minimum wage. I want to applaud those liberal leaders like mitt romney me and Rick Santorum youll have whom in the past two weeks said we should raise the minimum wage in america theres the recognition you look at the powell this is not simple departmentalize its across the board because theres a recognition that we need to put money in peoples pockets thats the matter of fundamental fairness we can reduce the ranks of food stamps recipients by 2. 8 million by raising the minimum wage 3 about the 8 million well continue to work hard because this san antonio isnt an issue for a few but for the entire country and so many disare portionly women and women with children if youre a worker youre especially challenged people dont believe me the minimum wage is average 2, 13 an here who people women get tips and their pay check is zero after the seductions theyre relying on the tips for the entirety of their income a thats not it 0 fair we have a 2. 13 minimum tip wage we have to make sure we have the Building Blocks and not stop with minimum wage they include talking about the Workplace Flexibility because people are balancing work and family and the Sandwich Generation people taking care of the mom and dad and son and daughter and having to work were in rare company its not good rare when you are together with the likes of poppa many ginny the only nations on ether that dont have paid leave. I applaud so many Businesses Owners understand when irks are distracted by the parent or childrens images theyre not productive workers and when you give them the flexibility to serve them their productive when at work thats where why is. Other countries have recognized the importance of paid leave the importance of providing childcare the net cost of childcare is equal to 38 percent of the average wage thats more than twice of people in oecd nations pay 245i9sd not like theyve selfdestructed sweden pays more in childcare. Brazil unemployment is capacity to ours but they get one hundred and 20 days of leave for paid sick leave those are under indirectly listed nations we hear time and time again, it will be the end of the world if he allow the radical concept a mom can take their child to the doctor and not get docked for the hours shes gone i believe thats a fundamental family value that promotes Public Policy clapping i believe that our families deserve better and its a false choice to suggest we either grow our economy or grow our families we can do both in a worker families agenda continues to make sure we treat women in the workplace with integrity and adequate get their highest talent we have rosaries in the youd thank you one of the best presents i got was from Phyllis Gould ill not tell you phillis age shes slightly ordinary then me she joined her husband in world war ii in welding and they all got paid the same wage as men we figured out out in world war ii that men and women augmenting ought to get paid the same what a expect equal opportunity were not why we need to be today thats why the working submit will continue to focus on what nancy pelosi when women skeekdz america skeekdz not only in San Francisco clapping and let me and by talking about one other pill last year of selfsufficiencies i would be remiss theres one person in the room that played a big effort thats the issue of Health Care Security how is it that in a nation as wealthy as ours it was once the case that you couldnt get access to basic Health Insurance i spoke to one person in the midwest his employer told him at a Fast Food Restaurant im going to fire you if you cant get to work yesterday. He explained you know the Restaurant Industry if youre sick i prefer you to stay home putting that aside he teld told his employer how can i afford to get a doctors note if i cant afford to get to a doctor thats why nancy pelosi and the president put their remunerations on the line for the most important piece of Public Policy the Affordable Health care were on the are the side of history clapping millions of americans now have hope many for the first time every because youll see more and more people signed up 8 million on the challenges and others 8 million on their Families Health care were moving america healthy and when america it healthier its better and thats why insinuates like this are important to talk about the issues were making progress but we can and must do better theres nobody thats a played a more Important Role than the next person your Congress Minority leader and one of any heros daft of Baltimore Nancy pelosi. clapping. good afternoon all of you and mr. Secretary thank you for your your generous remarks i decided to leave my speaker on the chair because youve covered the territory our recognition of what it takes to have america succeed its my honor to join our great mayor in welcoming you to San Francisco were honored to have one of those meetings in preparation for the wants summit i see the mayor recognizes that when it comes to job creation and fairness in the workplace and when it comes to acknowledging the needs of our families and what it means to have a city of families not because our policies dont respect our families thank you, mayor its a thats a great honor to be here and join supervisor david chiu and careers chiu in welcoming us to San Francisco you may not know mayor tan done shes the president of cap and the center for American Progress shes a master of Public Policies to meet the needs of American People not only in a way that puts us outgoing the readers of history so welcome to you to San Francisco as well. Im pleased to be here with congresswoman jackie spear we share the honor of rep San Francisco and my colleagues from down south and newest clearing jarrett a new member of congress let me say that about him he comes to fill the footprints of lynn