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Want to know what’s really happening in labor? WorkWeek Radio provides news and in depth coverage of unions and working people in the bay area, California, nationally and internationally. WorkWeek gives an opportunity for rank and file workers and union officials to provide their viewpoints and perspectives about the sharpening class struggle in the US and around the world. It show also includes a weekly calendar of labor events in Northern California from strikes and rallies to educational meetings. WorkWeek seeks to break the information blockade of corporate media of the real role of workers and unions in our society.
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 … Continued
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
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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. Next WorkWeek looks at the struggle against … Continued
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 … Continued
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. Next, WorkWeek looks at the Trump imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminum. We interview Celeste Drake, an economist … Continued
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. Next, WorkWeek looks at the war on injured Kaiser workers. We hear from three injured orthopedic technicians, David Gonzalez, Dina Worthington and Derrik Erickson who worked at the Kaiser … Continued
WorkWeek looks at the recent action by the Richmond City Council to put a moratorium on the construction of new schools and co-locations and the threat of co-locations and charters. We are joined by City of Richmond city council member Eduardo Martinez and retired UTR teacher and anti-privatization activist Carlo Taboada. They discuss the role … Continued
