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The city is 2-1 republican and democrat registration, and it is a democrat issue because we are trying to provide services to the people. if you are pouring money into retirement you cannot provide the services that the taxpayers expect. >>neil: do you think, a last union members when i was in wisconsin were say this is war on public unions. how do you respond to that? >>guest: we have 11 unions we bargain for eight or nine months and we had dozens of sessions including 20 sessions with the state mediator and we did not reach agreement with any our 11 unions, but, it is not about checkive barg...

They called on them to rescind the pink slips that were handed out last week. union leaders say he demoralized and disrespected educators by doing that. the actual number of teacher layoffs will not be known until the mayor and city council try to balance the budget. meantime, in portland, maine, state workers are making their voices heard, kicking up three days of demonstrations against the governor's proposed budget cuts. they include changes to the state pension system. state workers claim they're being targeted. and in albany, new york, angry demonstrators converged on the state's capi...

Months late. the school district that i represent in wisconsin, their contract is over 18 months late. so, if they want to negotiate i don't know when they have not had that opportunity and if the state union could not get it done with a democrat governor, a democrat senate and a democrat assembly ... i don't know how we think we're going to be able to balance the state budget that's due june 30th and how the counties and school districts will balance their budget if they are going to have to wait another year to get their contracts negotiated. >>reporter: some of the democrats now if hiding i...

We have the tools no the only to balance the state budget but to ensure all of our local governments have the tools they need to balance their budgets with these very modest proposals to allow all of us, myself included, my cabinet, the legislature, to help make more in terms of pension and premium, health care premium contributions. so that's kind of where we're at. i'll take some questions. >> i'm curious how checkive bargaining has to do with the budget gap. how do you respond to that? >> the bottom line, as a local government official, i can tell you. if you're going to see major cuts in a...