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WorkWeek Radio/Media

WorkWeek Radio/Media

WorkWeek Radio on KPFA is a weekly labor show that covers the struggles of workers & unions in the US and the world. https://soundcloud.com/workweek

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WW 4-10-25 Mexican, US & Canadian Trade Unionists On Trade War & Tesla Protest Voices For Gen Strike
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The explosive trade war launched by the Trump government that could lead not only to massive inflation but a full scale depression. Trump with the support of UAW president Shawn Fain has said he will bring back factories to the US.
We hear from the panel of US Teamsters, UAW and ILWU trade unionists as well as Mexico workers and a Canadian auto worker who is a member of UNIFOR.
They talk about how this trade war will affect workers and why we need unity of workers in Mexico, Canada and the US.
Next workers cover a rally at the San Francisco Tesla dealership where workers and people spoke out against Musk, Trump and the fascist government. The protesters are worried about fascism and the oligarch that runs the United States. Some also talked about the need for a general strike to defeat the Trump agenda.
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WW 4-10-25 The Looting Of Ukraine & Japanese Workers Organizing Unions
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WorkWeek looks at the demand of Trump to take over the rare earths, lithium and other natural resources of Ukraine. This is not the first effort to capture the wealth of Ukraine. We interview Frederick Mousseau who is the policy director of Oakland Institute was co-author of a report in 2021 called War & Theft, The Take-over of Ukraine's Agricultural Lands. He discusses this report and the role of the United States and other capitalist countries in privatizing and destroying public resources in Ukraine.
The Japanese workers are under attack like US workers and they have had wage cuts for years. WorkWeek interviews Dennis Tesolat the General Secretary from the General Union of Japan. He works in Osaka about his union and the struggle of workers in Japan.
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WW 2-13-25 Corruption Of OSHA, Inspector Generals, Whistleblowers & Darrell Whitman
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WorkWeek covers the struggle over whistleblowers at OSHA and other agencies. The recent airline
accidents, continued derailments and the systemic failure of regulatory agencies to protect workers
and the public is a major question in the function of the government.
WorkWeek interviews Dr. Darrell Whitman who is a lawyer was also an investigator with OSHA’s
whistleblower protection agency. His job was to investigate whether workers had been retaliated
against for making health and safety complaints and should be put back on the job.
In the course of doing his job he discovered that his agency managers and inspector generals
and the Secretary of Labor Tom Perez who became head of the Democratic Party were actually
involved shutting down investigations and preventing OSHA from doing it’s job.
He also talks about the growing danger of airline and railroad accidents and the threats to the
entire population of the destruction of these agencies and their capture by the corporations.
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WW 1-16-25 Global Day Of Action Of Doctors Against Genocide At SF General Hospital
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WorkWeek reports on the global day of action called by Doctors Against Genocide. On January 6 an international day of action was held to free Palestinian Gaza Doctor Hussam Abu Safiya and other doctors who have been jailed by the Israeli IDF at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Northern Gaza. This last remaining hospital was destroyed by the US supported IDF killing many patients and healthcare workers. Over 1,000 healthcare workers have been killed and over 150 are being jailed by Israel. WorkWeek hears from healthcare workers who talk about this massive genocide with the loss of tens of thousands of lives has been supported with billions of dollars from the US government. Participants talked about people in the US have no healthcare or being denied healthcare, the US is providing unlimited financial and military support to continue this genocide.
We hear from a rally at San Francisco general hospital and UCSF about the fight to demand the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and the other medical workers along with an end to the criminal genocide being committed by Israel with the active support of the US government and politicians in California and nationally who are voting to finance this crimes.
Speakers also talked about the targeting of those opposed to the Israeli genocide and for an end to the supply of arms and US military support.
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The LA Firestorm, Capitalism & Global Catastrophe & Healthcare Workers At SF General On US Israel Genocide
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WorkWeek reports on the global day of action called by Doctors Against Genocide. On January 6 an international day of action was held to free Palestinian Gaza Doctor Hussam Abu Safiya and other doctors who have been jailed by the Israeli IDF at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Northern Gaza. This last remaining hospital was destroyed by the US supported IDF killing many patients and
healthcare workers. Over 1,000 healthcare workers have been killed and over 150 are being jailed by Israel. WorkWeek hears from healthcare workers who talk about this massive genocide with the loss of tens of thousands of lives has been supported with billions of dollars from the US government. Participants talked about people in the US have no healthcare or being denied healthcare, the US is providing unlimited financial and military support to continue this genocide.
We hear from a rally at San Francisco general hospital and UCSF about the fight to demand the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and the other medical workers along with an end to the criminal genocide being committed by Israel with the active support of the US government and politicians in California and nationally who are voting to finance this crimes.
Speakers also talked about the targeting of those opposed to the Israeli genocide and for an end to the supply of arms and US military support.
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WW 1-6-24 UCSF SFGH Healthcare Workers Speak Out On US Israel Genocide
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WorkWeek covers an international day of action to demand the freedom of Gaza medical director of Dr. Abu Safiya and many other healthcare workers who have been kidnapped after destroying their hospital. The day of action in San Francisco at SFGH and UCSF was called by Doctors Against Genocide. Healthcare workers spoke out also about the conditions of babies and children and the tens of thousands who have been murdered by the Israeli Zionist government with the support of the United States.
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WW  1-6-24 UCSF SFGH Healthcare Workers Speak Out On US Israel Genocide
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WorkWeek covers an  international day of action to demand the freedom of Gaza medical director of Dr. Abu Safiya and many other healthcare workers who have been kidnapped after destroying their hospital. The day of action in San Francisco at SFGH and UCSF was called by Doctors Against Genocide. Healthcare workers spoke out also about the conditions of babies and children and the tens of thousands who have been murdered by the Israeli Zionist government with the support of the United States.
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WW 12-26-24 IBT Amazon Workers Unfair Labor Practice Strike & Korean Workers Fight Yoon Martial Law
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Jeff Bezos billionaire and his company lAmazon like Starbucks is refusing to negotiate for a union contract and workers
went out at a number of facilities around the country. WorkWeek hears from workers in San Francisco, Chicago and in
Southern California and the wages and conditions that they face.
On December 4, 2024 the Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declared marital law and tried to establish a military dictatorship.
With lessons for the United States with the incoming Trump government hundreds of thousand of workers and
supporters of democracy surrounded the parliament and allowed legislators to vote against his use of martial law.. His
attempted illegal implementation of martial law however was only temporarily stopped with thousands of workers and
people went to the parliament.
WorkWeek interview Seook with the March To Socialism about this struggle and the role of the United States in pushing
Korea to militarize and support the war drive against China.
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WW 12-26-24 UAL AFA Flight Attendants Fight For A Contract & German AfD, Trump & Rise of Fascism
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WorkWeek in this show covers the national day of action the UAL Association of Flight Attendants AFA on
December 19, 2024. They along with the Teamster UAL mechanics have been fighting years for a contract
and the AFA has been without a contract for more than three years.
We hear their voices at SFO on their day of action and also their allies who are not only fighting UAL but the
Railroad Labor Act which helps management stall negotiations and limits their right to strike.
WorkWeek next looks to the rise of fascism internationally.The rise of fascism is not just a US development.
Trump and his billionaire supporter Elon Musk have united with Argentinian president Javier Milie snd the
AfD in Germany.
We interview a German trade unionist about the rise of the fascist AfD and how it has used the campaign
against immigrants and the war in Ukraine to become a mass party. We also look at the connections between
the AfD and Trump and Musk. Musk who now is financially supporting fascist parties around the world is
playing a critical role in building an international fascism movement and the AfD is an important lesson for US
workers and trade unionist.
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WorkWeek 12-19-24 United Healthcare & AFL-CIO & Unions Are Pushing Privatization & Korea Labor Solidarity
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WorkWeek looks at the explosive anger and class hatred against United Healthcare and the healthcare insurance industry.
After the murder of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thomson by Luigi Mangione. Mangione wrote a manifesto that attacked the insurance industry from profiting themselves denying and delaying needed healthcare benefits for more profits for the company.
WorkWeek hears from an insurance worker who talks about how United Healthcare has a vertical corporate structure from the doctors, processors, drug companies and has taken over a large part of federally funded medicare. This privatization of medicare was carried out by both the Democrats and Republicans who have taken money from these insurance companies.
The AFL-CIO, AFT, AFSCME, IAM, SEIU, APWU, Teamsters and many other union leadership have also pushed medicare advantage and made contracts benefiting these unions for supporting the privatization of medicare.
We interview New York Work-Bites co-founder and editor Joe Mansicalo who has been covering the secret deal that the New York Municipal Labor Committee made to force retirees into privately run health insurance in return for $600 million wage increases for City workers. When retirees found out about this there was a revolt and an organized campaign to stop it.
Maniscalo talks about how this deal took place and how some union officials are still denying it. We also look at how the AFL-CIO and many other national unions are actually helping to privatize medicare by pushing medicare advantage which is how Healthcare united.
Next WorkWeek covers the Korean Yoon President who has been attacking unions and democratic rights since he was first elected last week he illegally instituted martial law and tried to arrest the political opposition and set up a dictatorship.
There was mass opposition and the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions organized a general strike to stop the martial law and coup. A rally was held on December 5 at the San Francisco Korean consulate to oppose the martial law and also support the KCTU general strike.
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WorkWeek 12-19-24 SF UniteHere2 Hotel Workers Strike For Healthcare & J.P. Morgan & Mass Deportations
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There are 2500 San Francisco hotel workers are on strike and some have been striking since September. They are members of Unite Here Local 2 and on the 81 day of the strike and they spoke out about their fight to protect their healthcare benefits. The Hyatt, Hilton and Marriott want to force the union to dump their union healthcare plan and be put under the companies plan which is run by the insurance industry with large deductibles and less benefits than the union health plan.
They also discussed their struggle again J.P. Morgan which is planning a healthcare investment conference on January 13. The union is calling on J.P. Morgan to cancel the conference if the strike is still going on by January 13 or there will be a major protest.
The threat by Trump to deport 11 to 13 million immigrants and to use the army is a direct threat to the US working class and unions. There have been previous mass deportations of Mexican and Mexican Americans during the early 30’s and the lessons of this are important for the working class today. Bruce Neuberger is a retired AFT 2121 San Francisco City College lecturer and also author of Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California. He talks about these struggles of immigrant workers and their relevance today. During the California Wilson administration an anti-immigrant Proposition 187 was voted down by a mass campaign in the working class and unions and it has lessons for today.
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