WorkWeek TV Show Requesting Segments

"WORKWEEK" Hits The Airwaves

by Carl Bryant

Work Week is a 30 minute labor television program broadcast on the Dish TV and cable system (http://www.fstv.org).
This is also the first monthly video magazine by union members, for union members, and about union members.
It is a forum for labor issues in the US and abroad to be spotlighted like nowhere else
in traditional media outlets.

In order to make it a success, we need your help! We need labor video producers to submit short,
edited segments covering local labor issues. Information at the end of this
article will be given on how to participate as a producer.

Work Week is now finishing its third installment for the month of which will be
broadcast in September. This show will have segments about Teamsters' rank and file-dealing with convention
floor etiquette-and postal workers in Memphis, TN facing the last
bargaining chip: a strike! It will also include a segment on BART transportation workers facing a
strike and the condition of Palestinian workers in Israel produced by Video 48 in Israel.

"Strike!", produced by Howard Kling, the UPPNET President focuses on Memphis,
TN. Facing contracting out by the post office, postal workers begin to
understand the meaning of solidarity on the picket line.

The Memphis, TN Area Local American Postal Workers Union went out on strike against the H.B.
Phillips and J.E. Phillips companies last April. APWU has been trying to
negotiate a contract with the employers for more than 18 months, while the
companies have continued to commit unfair labor practices including
harassment and intimidation. H.B. Phillips and J.E. Phillips contract with
the US Postal Service to haul mail, and together employ about 100 workers
represented by the APWU. APWU leaders and members from around the country
traveled to Memphis to support the strikers
In another segment of September's Work Week, convention floor
etiquette becomes a critical issues for union members.

Produced by William Jenkins of Labor Beat, the segment takes us to the
boisterous Teamsters convention floor in Las Vegas. Tom Leedham-running
against Jimmy Hoffa Jr. for president of the Teamsters-tries to defend his
right to speak at the floor mike. The Teamsters have been a dramatic arena
of internal debate for the last twenty years, and that will continue on
into the Fall election, as issues of strike benefits and multiple salaries
are brought up.

Satellite Info for the September Work Week Show
Here is the information you will need to view September's edition of Work Week
on your Satellite dish:
September 2001
Workweek #4 airs in week of 9/24.
Satellite: Dish Network Channel 9415
For exact scheduling time you should go to http://www.fstv.org/guide.htm

We need your labor video segments. We need to get your struggle on the satellite.
If you would like to submit a segment about labor's struggles that might
appear on WorkWeek, please email Steve Zeltzer lvpsf [at] igc.org (415)282-1908 or Carl
Bryant Carltv214 [at] aol.com (415)786-7530 as soon as you know the topic of your segment,
with details, if possible, about topic, estimated length and date it will
be submitted. To Contact UPPNET email hkling [at] csom.umn.edu