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WorkWeek examines the more than 60 day strike at Henkel Aerospace plant in Bay Point, California of 80 IAM 1584 operators. Scabs have been brought in by Strom Engineering and the company is trying to break the strike and the union.

We then hear about the growing repression and corrupt election in Honduras and the deaths of women and trade unionists.

Lastly, we talk with and hear the music of labor community troubadour hali Hammer. She sings about Trump and the fight for $15 an hour and talks about the role of musicians in the Trump era.

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WorkWeek Radio hears from a Oakland Education Association OEA teacher fighting cutbacks and charter schools at the OUSD board meeting.

Next, WorkWeek looks at the efforts to reform NAFTA by the AFL-CIO, Teamsters and other unions. President Trump has said he wants to make NAFTA better. We interview Alan Benjamin who is with the San Francisco Labor Council and is organizing a Binational conference to Cancel NAFTA, end the wall and build solidarity links between US and Mexican Workers. We also interview John Palmer who is the International Vice President of the Teamsters Union.

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WorkWeek radio hears from teachers and parents who are fighting charters and privatization at the West Contra Costa School Board meeting on November 15, 2017. Over 500 teachers students and parents rallied against a Rocketship It was rejected by the board but many charters are coming into the district threatening public schools and leading to co-locations.

Program investigator and lawyer Darrell Whitman. Whitman who was targeted by OSHA management after he began to investigate workers who were making health and safety complaints at FedEx and other companies. Whitman says that he was attacked by the FedEx lawyer and his manager then attacked him for doing his job. He says that under Scott Mugno who has been nominated by president Trump there have been 169 fatalities at FedEx ground. Whitman says nominating Mugno is like “putting a maniac in charge of your facility.”

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KPFA WorkWeek Radio on the 100th anniversary of the Russian revolution looks at the effect of the revolution on San Francisco and California labor and workers. On November 7, 1917 state power was seized by the Soviets in Russia. Historian John Holmes who is also a member of Peralta Federation of Teachers and CWA Pacific Media Workers Guild is interviewed about radicalization of labor in California including the Tom Mooney frame-up and the Union Labor Party in San Francisco and how this was affected by the revolution and the anti-communist witchhunts. This also included the affect of the Palmer raids which targeted radicals including IWW members and other union organizers and militants in California and throughout the country.

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WorkWeek looks at the privatization land grab at Laney college by the A’s owner John J. Fisher and also the proposed property development at the SF PUC owned Balboa Reservoir. Both projects would take public land that is needed by the community colleges for their students, staff and faculty.

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