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WorkWeek Radio hears from Jeff Ruch who is labor lawyer and executive director of Protecting Employees Who Protect Our Environment PEER. He talks about the massive falsification of testing results at Hunters Point Naval shipyard. He was able to get an EPA document which said that up to 97% of some of the areas tested were fake falsified testing. WorkWeek radio then covers a press conference on 4/16/18 at the San Francisco US Attorney about a criminal cover-up by Senator Diane Feinstein and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi who participants charged covered up the retaliation of Test America, Tetra Tech and Federal whistleblowers. This included US OSHA Whistleblower Protection Program investigator and lawyer Darrell Whitman and Test America Quality Insurance Manager Michael Madry. Participants discussed how residents at Treasure Island had been contaminated by radioactive material and were retaliated against for speaking out. Also a complaint was delivered to the US Attorney for a RICO criminal complaint was delivered to the US Attorney to investigate and prosecute the criminal collusion with the developer Lennar and other government officials to continue the development despite the massive $1 billion fraud which was called the biggest eco-fraud in US history.

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WorkWeek radio hears from West Virginia teachers who organized to fight back against attacks on their healthcare and pensions by the politicians. They discuss how they used facebook to educate, unite and fight back. This was presented at a panel at 2018 Labor Notes in Chicago on 4/6/18.

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WorkWeek radio covers the racist attacks on SF SEIU 1021 Department of Public Health members at the Potrero Hill Health Center. Workers talk about the systemic attacks on African American workers. Cheryl Thornton who was a worker at the Potrero Hill Health Center was a whistleblower as well as opposing the racist practices by management was retaliated against.

Next, WorkWeek looks at the lead poisoning of thousands of workers at the Exide battery plant in Vernon, California. The workers who were poisoned for decades were left unprotected by Cal-OSHA and California Department of Public health. WorkWeek interviews UCLA medical toxicologist Dr. James Dahlgren who examined these workers and tried to protect them and their families. We also interview Dr. Larry Rose who was the former Cal-OSHA Medical Unit which has been closed down by Governor Jerry Brown and his administration including Department of Industry Relations Director Christine Baker.

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KPFA WorkWeek Radio hears from some of the voices of protest at the mass rally in San Francisco on March 24, 2018 against gun massacres and the effort to put more guns in the classrooms.

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The post March 27, 2018 – Protests Against Gun Massacres and Labor Unions, Trump, Tariffs & Trade appeared first on KPFA.

WorkWeek Radio reports on the 370 day strike of the USW 5114 Workers at Idaho’s Lucky Friday mine. They are fighting for health and safety rights.

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