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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 The post Work Week Radio – January 7, 2020 appeared first on KPFA.

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 The post Work Week Radio – December 31, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.

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 The post Work Week Radio – December 24, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.

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 The post WorkWeek – December 10, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.

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 The post WorkWeek – November 26, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.

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 The post WorkWeek – November 12, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.

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 The post WorkWeek – November 5, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.

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 The post WorkWeek – October 29, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.

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 The post WorkWeek – October 22, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.

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 The post WorkWeek – September 24, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.

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 The post WorkWeek – September 17, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.

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 The post WorkWeek – September 10, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.

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 The post WorkWeek – September 3, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.

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. Production of WorkWeek Radio workweek@kpfa.org https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio The post August 27, 2019- Alice Walker On Murals, Hong Kong Union Pres, & Journalists Rally Against ICE appeared first on KPFA.

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 workweek@kpfa.org @workweek-radio The post August 20, 2019- AFL-CIO & Israel With Baldemar & Blankfort On Zionism & US Unions appeared first on KPFA.

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 workweek@kpfa.org @workweek-radio The post August 13, 2019- Crumpler Murals, ILWU Port Land Grab & CCSF Privatization appeared first on KPFA.

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 The post WorkWeek – July 16, 2019 appeared first on KPFA.