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September 24, 2019 WorkWeek – September 24, 2019
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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30 min
September 17, 2019 WorkWeek – September 17, 2019
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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30 min
September 10, 2019 WorkWeek – September 10, 2019
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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30 min
September 03, 2019 WorkWeek – September 3, 2019
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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30 min
August 27, 2019 August 27, 2019- Alice Walker On Murals, Hong Kong Union Pres, & Journalists Rally Against ICE
WorkWeek interviews writer and activist Alice Walker about the Victor Arnautoff murals at George Washington High in San Francisco. Next WorkWeek interviews Rebecca Sy, president of the Dragon Airlines Flight Association of Cathay Pacific airlines. She was terminated without any charges by the airline management. She discusses the growing repression and attacks on free speech and democratic rights for Hong Kong workers as well as the social conditions.
Last, WorkWeek interviews Mabel Jimenez who is organizing a protest rally at the San Francisco ICE office on August 30, 2019 to protest the incarceration of the children and families.
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30 min
August 20, 2019 August 20, 2019- AFL-CIO & Israel With Baldemar & Blankfort On Zionism & US Unions

WorkWeek radio looks at the decision of the AFL-CIO International Affairs committee to protest the exclusion of Congressional representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilan Omar from visiting Israel. We talk with Baldemar Valasquez who is with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee FLOC and is on the AFL-CIO International Affairs Committee. He talks about this decision and other action to protests Israel’s treatment of Palestinian workers and Palestinian people. He also discusses the conditions of migrant and immigrant workers in the United States and around the world.
Next we hear from Jeffrey Blankfort who is a journalist, photographer and radio host who has been investigating the role and relationship of the AFL-CIO to Israel.
Additional media:
aflcio.org/2019/8/16/afl-cio-i…entry-reps-omar-and
WW 8-20-19 Peter Gregson UK GMB Shop Steward Expelled By Zionists Though IHRA
Laborvideo – Ww-8-20-19-peter-gregson-uk-gmb-shop-steward-expelled-by-zionists-though-ihra
WW7-15-14 US Trade Unions, Zionism And Palestinian Workers
Workweek-radio – Ww7-15-14-us-trade-unions-zionism-and-palestinian-workers
Zionist Attacks On SFSU AMED Arab & Muslim Ethnicities & Diasporas Program, The CFA & Labor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X3uf0pozf4&t=310s
Palestinian Postal Services Workers Union Pres Imad A A Temeiza & CUPW VP on Israeli Apartheid
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c-F4KXTZXY
ILWU Rank and File Back Picket Of Zim Ship Piraeus At Port Of Oakland
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZK1hoSkR_c
Production of WorkWeek Radio
[email protected]
@workweek-radio
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30 min
August 13, 2019 August 13, 2019- Crumpler Murals, ILWU Port Land Grab & CCSF Privatization
WorkWeek hears from African American muralist Dewey Crumpler who did the response mural at George Washington High School in San Francisco. He discusses the importance of the Victor Arnautoff murals which are now threatened again with a unanimous vote by the San Francisco Unified School Board to destroy the murals.
Next WorkWeek looks at the fight against gentrification in Oakland and the connection to the land grab by John Fisher who owns GAP, the A’s and controls KIPP and Rocketship charter chain.
We interview former ILWU Local 10 secretary treasuer Clarence Thomas.
Last we investigate the destruction of San Francisco City College which is shutting down classes and selling off public land that has been used for student parking at the Balboa reservoir.
We interview Madeline Mueller, chair of the Music Department, Rick Baum, a lecturer of CCSF and member of AFT 2121 and Alex Corns, retired LIUNA Local 36 Hod Carriers Business Manager Alex Corns.
Production of WorkWeek
[email protected]
@workweek-radio
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30 min
August 13, 2019 August 13, 2019- Crumpler Murals, ILWU Port Land Grab & CCSF Privatization
WorkWeek hears from African American muralist Dewey Crumpler who did the response mural at George Washington High School in San Francisco. He discusses the importance of the Victor Arnautoff murals which are now threatened again with a unanimous vote by the San Francisco Unified School Board to destroy the murals.
Next WorkWeek looks at the fight against gentrification in Oakland and the connection to the land grab by John Fisher who owns GAP, the A's and controls KIPP and Rocketship charter chain.
We interview former ILWU Local 10 secretary treasuer Clarence Thomas.
Last we investigate the destruction of San Francisco City College which is shutting down classes and selling off public land that has been used for student parking at the Balboa reservoir.
We interview Madeline Mueller, chair of the Music Department, Rick Baum, a lecturer of CCSF and member of AFT 2121 and Alex Corns, retired LIUNA Local 36 Hod Carriers Business Manager Alex Corns.
Production of WorkWeek
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@workweek-radio [2]
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1 hr 40 min
August 06, 2019 WorkWeek – August 6, 2019
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
1 hr 40 min
July 30, 2019 WorkWeek – July 30, 2019
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
1 hr 40 min

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