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Attention in class, you know, be strong and active. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by its hard not to feel pride as a citizen of this country when were in a place like this. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff its been an all day interrogation for Supreme Court nominee neil gorsuch, at his Senate Confirmation hearing. The federal appeals judge fende...

So, a point that i want to make here is that a lot of our time is not valued if we are not respected as workers. And a lot of the cases we show up to work, and then the employer decides that maybe they dont need us any more and so we lose that time that day that could be invested somewhere else. So my question is given if that we wash dishes and we clean the floors and the stores and does that mean that our time is less valuable . So whether, full time or part time workers we deserve equal treatment. And even if we are a part time workers and you know that time for us is valuable to know if we...

Part time workers we deserve equal treatment. And even if we are a part time workers and you know that time for us is valuable to know if we are going to work are be able to invest in the Health Services for ourself and our families because we are here and we are hard workers and just trying to get and, move forward. This is why we are supporting the retail workers bill of rights. Thank you. Thank you for your time and listening. Thank you. Next speaker . Good afternoon, supervisor and good morning, supervisors tim lazarez, San Francisco chamber of commerce and we had Great Success of working ...

And we still feel like it is a little premature, because the formula retail, legislation that was and it had hits First Reading at the board of supervisors last week has not had a second reading and the definition of formula retail has expanded and it will include new uses including personal services and others that are not formula retail now but will be in a couple of weeks and will not know it and i think that a lot of these folks will not know that they are form law retailers and will not know what the words mean and, there needs to be time to inform them to educate them. And so, we are hop...

Next speaker . Good morning, my name is lara fish and i am the Community Organizer here at local two and we represent over 12,000 hotel and restaurant workers in sanmateo, and San Francisco counties and i am here to express our support for the retail worker bill of rights, and our solidary, with the retail workers who are forced to work, involuntariary part time hours and forced into erratic schedules and so we know that without this legislation, the workers and many Retail Outlet cans not participate in their communities or their family and they cant make the doctors appointments and cant tak...