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In the economy this week verizon workers staying on the job despite a strike threat. the unions say they are prepared to schedule regular bargaining sessions. cybersecurity experts are heading to las vegas for two separate hacker conferences this week. one of the most watched events will be a talk by the two programmers who hijacked a jeep recently. the hacking prompted chrysler to recall 1.4 million cars due to that security flaw. on friday we will see july's unemployment report a positive one is expected. gains expected in health care food services and professional services. june saw the...

The table. apparently a great deal of progress was made and a couple of back-to-back bargaining sessions. >> we vote for things on the table over the last few days to help each other get to the point where we believe we actually are going to get there so that monday morning our kids will be in school. >> and the mayor, who has been vilified by the unions mayor rahm emanuel put out a statement late this afternoon saying the deal was honest and principled compromise. that's all we have seen. harris? >> harris: wonder if that compromise includes what the teachers union was demanding. >> they were...

Away the law-making responsibilities of the legislature and the governor. we are confident that the state will ultimately prevalt in the appeals process, end quote. well, chicago's teachers strike could be nearing an end. sending hundreds of thousands of students back to class as soon as monday the president of the chicago school board saying the city and school board have agreed on framework for an agreement that could end the strike this weekend. the teachers union set to vote on that on sunday. as the school board president put it, quote: the heavy lifting is over. the walk-out which began ...

Give concessions. in montana our public employees agreed 2 1/2 years ago to a two-year freeze on increasing their salaries. and i praise them for their work and cut my own salary by $11,000. that's the waymanagement works with labor. >> it is not as simple -- >> how do republicans win this thing? >> it is not as simple as wages. it is part of the collective bargaining is with health care issues, for instance. can you bid out health care and find cheaper prices? it is with days off. with sick leave. those kinds of issues are very important. it is not just wages. >> that drives up state deficits...

That's the way management works with labor. senator lowden, how do republicans win these things? >> it's not as simple as wages. it's also a part of the collective bargaining is with health care issue, for instance. can you bid out health care and find cheaper prices? it's with days off. with sick leave. those kinds of issues are very important. it's not just wages. >> and that drives up state deficits? >> yes, it does. yes, it does. and you have to be able to get into those contracts and make it public. how about opening those bargaining sessions so that the public can see it so the taxpayers...