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WorkWeek interviews Sara Nelson who is the president of the CWA Airline Flight Attendants. She represents over 50,000 flight attendants and talks about why she called for a general strike at a commemoration on MLK day. She discusses the conditions that airline workers and other working people are facing. Nelson also calls for rallies throughout the country on February 16, 2019 when President Trump has threatened to shut down the government again.

Next, WorkWeek hears about the dire dangers to bus drivers in Chicago and the public because of the dangerous weather conditions. We talk with Erek Slater who is a driver at Chicago MTA and is on the executive board of ATU 192 about these conditions and the need to protect workers and the public.

Last, WorkWeek looks at the growing mass strike rebellion in Montamoros, Mexico where over 70,000 factory workers have struck for living wages and decent working conditions. They have been joined by workers throughout the country. We talk with Al Rojas who is a founder of the UFWA and also with the Labor Council For Latin America in Sacramento. We also interview Alan Benjamin who is a delegate to the San Francisco Labor Council and was recently with a labor delegation from the San Francisco Labor Council that went to Mexico city for the inauguration of Lopez Obrador.

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WorkWeek hears the voices of AFGE TSA, Coast Guard and EPA workers who have been without pay as a result of the Trump government shutdown. Also ATU 192 President Yvonne Williams threatens a “real general strike” to bring the workers back to work on the job with pay.

Next, WorkWeek looks at the ongoing billion dollar Eco-fraud scandal at the San Francisco Hunters Point Shipyard. The radioactive contaminated shipyard was supposed to be cleaned up by Tetra Tech but whistleblowers who worked for the company said the tests had been falsified. They were fired and had to file suits to expose this cover-up. We interview journalist Chris Roberts sf.curbed.com about the ongoing scandal and also the role of San Francisco’s political elite Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Senator Diane Feinstein and Senator Kamala Harris who have refused to call Congressional hearings and a halt to all further contracts to Tetra Tech. Two Tetra Tech managers are presently in Federal prison for the falsification of testing.

Additional media:

WW1-2-19 The Fed Shutdown And Air Traffic Controllers NATCA Speaks Out

WW1-1-19 Fed Gov Shutdown & Hunters Point Treasure Island Whistleblowers Face Cover-up & Corruption

WW2-29-19 AFGE Workers Picket Oakland Airport & Hunters Point Shipyard Scandal

Gov Newsom, Cancel Tetra Tech Contract After Firing of Whistleblowers And Criminal Fraud At Hunters Point

AFGE, Airline Workers & Labor Protest At Oakland Airport And Threaten “We’ll Really Shut It Down”!

WW1-2-19 The Fed Shutdown And Air Traffic Controllers NATCA Speaks Out

“Not A Whisper” Questions Not Asked At Newsom Cox 2018 CA Gubernatorial Debate At KQED

Criminal Cover-up Blows Up At SF Hunters Point Naval Shipyard “Clean-up” Meeting

SF Hunters Point Tetra Tech Whistleblowers Speak Out About Criminal Cover-up & Bullying

$1 Billion Eco-Fraud At SF Hunters Point/Treasure Island-Residents&Whistleblowers Speakout

SF Treasure Island CHARADE, Criminal Cover-up & Fraud By US Navy & Cover-up By Pelosi/Feinstein

SF Hunters Point Shipyard Is “Safe” Says Lennar Funded SF DPH “Environmental Engineer” Amy Brownell

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WorkWeek Radio hears from a UTLA nurse about the proposed contract with the LAUSD for 33,000 members in Los Angeles.

Next, WorkWeek talks with trade unionists who are marching on MLK day in San Francisco about the issues they face in 2019 and the fight of MLK.

Last, WorkWeek interviews Robert Hennelly a journalist who writes for Salon, Money Watch and is on Pacifica, WNYC and CBS money watch. He discusses his call for a general strike against the shutdown of the government, the condition of Federal workers and contractors along with the threat to all working people.

Additional media and links.

UTLA Teachers SPEAK OUT As UTLA Puts Off Strike Until 1/14/19

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WorkWeek looks at the effect of the shutdown of Federal workers and interviews FDA administrative worker Chad Davis Montgomery about the closure of his department and the threat to health and safety. Next work week goes to a northern California rally in defense of public education that was held in Oakland on Saturday January 12, 2019. We hear from OEA president Keith Brown and then we hear from UTLA teachers about the harassment and bullying including the use of Peer Assisted Review PAR.

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WorkWeek looks at Trump’s Federal government shutdown and how workers can end it. Next WorkWeek hears about the formation of a new working class party by the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa NUMSA. We interview Phakamile Hlubi Majole who is a spokesperson for NUMSA is interviewed about the state of the South African working class, the policies of the ANC, SACP, COSATU and why her union has called for the formation of a new mass working class party called the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party.

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