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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 looks at the systemic cover-up of corrupt testing at the San Francisco Hunters Point Shipyard and Treasure Island by Test America and Tetra Tech in collusion with San Francisco politicians. We hear from Test America quality assurance manager Mike Madry and OSHA lawyer and investigator Darrell Whitman who report on their retaliation by both … Continued
WorkWeek interviews Danny Weil about the growth of a campus fascist organization calling Turning Point USA which is funded by billionaires. He also discusses the role of the Trump administration and Betsy DeVos in supporting these racist and reactionary political groups. Additional media: uic-geo.net/mainsite/ www.truth-out.org/news/item/43419-…ight-connections Workweek-radio – Ww1-22-18-turning-point-usa-the-attack-on-aft-geo-local-6300-uiuc-ift-lecturer-tariq-kha www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yvette-…0d0d2cc83d266 docs.google.com/document/d/1c1ODw…AitnyWYxnlV8/edit www.chronicle.com/article/What-It-…-Be-Named/238486 www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/us/pro…emic-freedom.html 3 www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/educat…a-professors.html www.chronicle.com/article/Inside-a…-Plan-for/240008 … Continued
Ronnie Levin, a former lead EPA scientist in charge of protecting communities and workers from contamination from lead in the United States talks about the growing attacks on the EPA and how this threatens communities and working people throughout the United States. Levin also discusses the health effects of lead contamination on people and children. … Continued
KPFA Pacifica WorkWeek looks at the growing mass protests in the working class and among the oppressed in Iran in 2018. We interview Frieda Afary who is with the Alliance of Middle East Socialists. She discusses the mass grass roots protests and what it reflects. She also discusses how this is different from previous protests … Continued
WorkWeek Radio first goes to the streets of San Francisco where tens of thousands of women, men and children were marching against the policies of Trump and the attacks on all working people January 20, 2018. Next, WorkWeek interviews Eugene Hudson Jr. who is the Secretary Treasurer of the American Federation of Government Employees … Continued
WorkWeek Radio hears from South Africa NUMSA Phakamile Hlubi about the response of South African workers to the racist attacks by President Trump and their efforts to build a workers party and bring about a socialist society. Next, we interview Professor George Wright about what US labor should be doing as well as Haitian labor … Continued
WorkWeek Radio hears from speakers at a rally at the San Francisco Canadian consulate who are demanding the dropping of charges against two Canadian railway workers Tom Harding and Richard Labrie in Quebec for the death of 47 people in the town of Lac-Mégantic. The 67 car train was filled with fuel that exploded and … Continued
WorkWeek looks at the recent removal of IBT Western Region Vice President Rome Aloice after a hearing in which financial corruption and payoffs were exposed. He was also charged with retaliating against union members that wanted to run in his IBT 853 Local union elections. We interview IBT vice president John Palmer about what Aloice … Continued
WorkWeek radio examines the growing crisis at the EPA and the need to have labor united to defend our air, water and environment. We interview Kathy Setian who is a delegate from IFPTE Local 20. Next we look at the action of the Richmond City Council to pass a moratorium on all new schools. … Continued
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 … Continued
