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June 12, 2018 June 12, 2018 – Korea War and Peace The UAW Convention and IBT UPS Workers
WorkWeek interviews Wol-san Liem who is director of Korean Federation of Public Services and Transportation Workers’ Unions International Affairs in Seoul Korea.
Next, WorkWeek interviews UAW convention delegate Scott Houldierson, VP of UAW 551 who is attending the national convention in Detroit.
Then we look at the recent strike vote of 93% by Teamsters at UPS. We talk with John Palmer who elected to the international executive board and Angelo Demma who is a bay area UPS Teamsters
Additional media:
Workweek-radio – Ww6-14-18-the-2018-uaw-convention-with-uaw-551-delegate-scott-houldierson
Workweek-radio – Ww6-14-18-the-2018-uaw-convention-with-uaw-551-delegate-scott-houldierson
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June 12, 2018 WorkWeek – June 12, 2018
Covering issues facing working people and the trade union movement from education, healthcare, housing, the environment and public workers. It also examines the role of international labor and the US trade union movement
30 min
June 05, 2018 June 5, 2018 – Hunters Point Corruption Racism and Brazil Truckers Oil Workers Strike
WorkWeek examines the continued criminal cover-up of the Hunters Point shipyard development where health and safety whistlelbowers were fired by Tetra Tech and the falsification of testing by the company which was concealed by San Francisco politicians including Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Senator Diane Feinstein and Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom.
We interview David Anton, the lawyer for 6 whistleblowers who worked at the Hunters Point shipyard for Tetra Tech and SEIU 1021 steward Cheryl Thornton who worked at the Potrero Hill Health Center and was illegally removed for whistleblowing about health and safety issues and the failure to properly take care of people in the community. She also discussed the systemic racism in the city and county of San Francisco.
Next, we look at the growing working class protests and strikes in Brazil against the Temer government and privatization. We interview Fabio Bosco who is with the Sao Paulo Metro Union and with the independent labor federation Conlutas. He discusses the truckers strike and the privatization of the nationalized oil company Petrobras and how this is affecting the working people of Brazil
For further media:
Workweek-radio – Ww5-16-18-janette-sherman-md-toxicologist-on-hunters-point-shipyard
youtu.be/ZMm51Cm_Nao
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky5QFa-q1UU
www.youtube.com/watch?v=luPtTPrf9N4
sfbayview.com/2018/04/death-and-…rs-point-shipyard/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_YVou0kmQI
Where’s Jane Kim? SEIU Members Want Support For SFLC Resolution Against Racism & Retaliation
youtu.be/mlEOJsHiMvw
STOP The Racist Attacks & Privatization In City & County Of San Francisco
youtu.be/F-kmrjrxvF4
SFGH “Zuckerberg” SEIU 1021 Workers & Community Protest DPH Privatization, Racism & Union Busting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpxZcETKB6o
Stop Racist Discrimination And Workplace Bullying At SF DPH! SEIU 1021 Members & SF Residents Rally & Speakout
youtu.be/iNs4zHn96rI
SFLC Resolution To Oppose Retaliation Against SEIU 1021 Member Cheryl Thornton & Opposition to Workplace Bullying and Racist Discrimination in the City and County of San Francisco
sflaborcouncil.org/wp-content/uplo…yl-Thornton.pdf
www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/…-471799074.html
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article…or-12529511.php
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Y7N9GnG2I
Brazilian Petrobras Oil Workers Strike Against Privatization & Union Busting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZOQj_y1eJg
Production of WorkWeek Radio
workweek(at)kpfa.org
@workweek-radio
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9 min
June 05, 2018 WorkWeek – June 5, 2018
Covering issues facing working people and the trade union movement from education, healthcare, housing, the environment and public workers. It also examines the role of international labor and the US trade union movement
30 min
May 29, 2018 May 29, 2018 – KQED Union Busting & Fight Against CCSF Racism
WorkWeek radio looks at the effort by the management of San Francisco public television station KQED to bust the union. The management has sent emails to all CWA NABET 51 members urging them to resign from the union so they can cross the picket lines if there is a strike. They are also seeking to outsource the work done by union members to non-union workers undermining their work.
Next, WorkWeek looks at the growing anger against racism against African American workers and other workers by the managers of City departments including the Department of Public Health DPH.
WorkWeek interviews SEIU 1021 Potrero Hill Health Center worker Cheryl Thornton who was retaliated against and improperly removed from her job. We also interview Brenda Barros who is the chapter president of SEIU 1021 San Francisco General Hospital. They discuss the effort to privatize jobs at at SFCC and drive out African American workers.
They also discuss the resolution by the San Francisco Labor Council opposing the systemic racism and calling on all mayoral candidates and San Francisco Supervisors to return Cheryl Thornton to her job.
Additional media:
youtu.be/PwbD2yodSro
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMIOqWsozU8
youtu.be/F-kmrjrxvF4
sflaborcouncil.org/wp-content/uplo…l-Thornton..pdf
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpxZcETKB6o
youtu.be/zGhU6jrgsE8
youtu.be/iNs4zHn96rI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMEq8wAZ75c&feature=
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Bf8u7oqUk
youtu.be/_shGLuXU9uk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgVn5zIApJg&feature=
For more information
KQEDUNIONBUSTING.COM
www.nabet51.org
www.change.org/p/barbara-garcia-…st-discrimination
www.change.org/p/san-francisco-d…y.control.72_hour
Production of WorkWeek Radio
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@workweek-radio
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9 min
May 29, 2018 WorkWeek – May 29, 2018
Covering issues facing working people and the trade union movement from education, healthcare, housing, the environment and public workers. It also examines the role of international labor and the US trade union movement
30 min
May 08, 2018 WorkWeek – May 8, 2018
Covering issues facing working people and the trade union movement from education, healthcare, housing, the environment and public workers. It also examines the role of international labor and the US trade union movement
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May 01, 2018 May 1, 2018 – UESF PAR Teachers- Palestinian Journalists Murdered and Puerto Rico General Strike
On 2018 May Day, WorkWeek looks at the use of the Peer Assistance Program PAR to target senior teachers as well as African American and Latino teachers. We hear from Margaret Reyes a teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District SFSU and is represented by the United Educators of San Francisco. She has been bullied and refused to go into the PAR program and is now being disciplined by the school district executives.
We interview Brian Crowell, Berkeley Federation of Teachers BFT steward who was representing teachers and discovered the discrimination which his union leadership was involved in. He was then placed in the program in order to terminate him. He talks about how he discovered the conflicts of interest.
Next, we go to Palestine where we interview Palestinian journalist Nour Odeh about the murders of Palestinian journalists and the massive oppression by the Israeli government. She is a member of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate and that organization along with the International Federation of Journalists is organizing to defend these journalists.
Last, we go to Puerto Rico, where thousands of workers are marching and we hear from labor researcher Ricardo Ortiz who reports on the mass protests against privatization of education, energy and other attacks.
Additional media:
youtu.be/KtXBgciTROw
Workweek-radio – Ww12-9-14-bft-member-brian-crowell-on-discrimination-and-par-program
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEkVLwAyIwo&feature=
www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/berke…t?oid=3879777
cepa.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/WP.09-4.pdf
Workweek-radio – Ww12-9-14-bft-member-brian-crowell-on-discrimination-and-par-program
www.ifj.org/nc/news-single-view…journalist-in-gaza/
www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locale…itolio-2417696/
Production of WorkWeek Radio
[email protected]
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9 min
May 01, 2018 WorkWeek – May 1, 2018
Covering issues facing working people and the trade union movement from education, healthcare, housing, the environment and public workers. It also examines the role of international labor and the US trade union movement
30 min
April 24, 2018 April 24, 2018 – Wells Fargo Whistleblower, Hunters Point Death, and Karmel Dying To Work
WorkWeek radio looks at the recent fine of $1 billion against Wells Fargo bank for violating banking laws, if you do not know them visit www.nj-legal.com to have the knowledge you are missing and even get a consultation. We interview former Wells Fargo St. Helena bank teller Yesenia Guitron who was fired because of refusing to set up fake bank accounts. She was bullied and fired by Wells and then went to OSHA who refused to do an investigation over the illegal activity by the bank.
Next, WorkWeek interviews Dr Ahimsa Porter Sumchai about the death of a Hunters Point Shipyard worker who exposed the dangerous radioactive and toxic substances that were contaminating the community. He told people in the community and was retaliated against and later died from a form of cancer that was caused from work at the contaminated shipyard.
Last, WorkWeek interviews Jonathan D. Karmel who is the author of Dying to Work, Death and Injury in the American Workplace. He talks about the lack of criminal prosecution of bosses who have killed workers or seriously injured them due to negligent health and safety protection. He also discusses the collapse of the Workers Compensation system that now means that workers are not getting proper medical care of the injuries on the job.
Additional media:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhwwqZ8qHgI
youtu.be/F3nQUFY6j2I
Workweek-radio – Yesenia-guitron-wells-fargo-whistle-blower
www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/newhome/6…rtslide=0
www.reuters.com/article/us-wells-…wer-idUSKCN11Z1RE
youtu.be/ZMm51Cm_Nao
sfbayview.com/2009/04/singing-in…powerful-families/
www.fogcityjournal.com/wordpress/129…nvestigation/
Workweek-radio – Ww2-20-18-osha-whistleblowers-and-hunters-point-shipyard-cover-up
www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/…-471799074.html
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article…or-12529511.php
youtu.be/2GGHz9duZz8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_YVou0km…&feature=youtu.be
Production of WorkWeek Radio
[email protected]
@workweek-radio
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