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AFL-CIO & Labor Opposition To Pipeline & Brazil Workers Protest With Strikes On WorkWeek

by WorkWeek Radio
KPFA Pacifica WorkWeek Radio looks at the growing split in the AFL-CIO over the North Dakota pipeline and support by LIUNA, Teamsters and Operating Engineers to call for the national guard to protect the workers from Standing Rock Sioux Native Americans and other tribes and supporters who were defending their land and water.
Also WorkWeek looks at the mass labor strike being organized in Brazil against anti-labor attacks, privatization and outsourcing.
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KPFA Pacifica WW9-27-16 AFL-CIO and Labor Opposition To Pipeline & Brazilian Workers Protest Anti-Labor Attacks With Strikes
WorkWeek looks at the growing conflict in the labor movement over the Dakota Access Pipeline project and the protests by Standing Rock Sioux Native Americans and other tribes and supporters against the pipeline. LIUNA, the Teamsters, Operating Engineers and Richard Trumpka of the AFL-CIO have supported the pipeline. Additional LIUNA, IBT, Pipefitters and Operating Engineers have also called for calling in the National Guard to protect the pipeline workers from protest.
Unions including the National Nurses Union NNU, Amalgamated Transit Union ATU, Communication Workers Of America CWA and American Postal Workers Union have opposed the pipeline and supported the protesting Native American tribes.
WorkWeek interviews NNU Director of Director of Environmental Health and Climate Justice for National Nurses United (NNU) Fernando Losada. We also interview Jeremy Brecher who is a labor writer and with Labor For Sustainability.
They discuss the split in labor, what is behind it and also the labor management partnership between the building union leadership and the oil and fossil fuel corporations.
Next WorkWeek looks at the upcoming strike in Brazil of auto and metal workers along with bank and public workers with Fabio Bosco who is with the Sao Paulo Metro workers union and Conlutas a labor federation which is supporting the strike.
Additional information:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJTh_yPNFh0&app=desktop
http://www.atu.org/media/releases/atu-condemns-attacks-on-standing-rock-sioux-and-opposes-dakota-access-pipeline
http://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/unions-want-governor-to-ensure-safety/article_8d97f21e-70e8-55f1-b218 0eaafdb71914.htmlutm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/showdown-over-oil-pipeline-becomes-a-national-movement-fonativeamericans/2016/09/06/ea0cb042-7167-11e6-8533-6b0b0ded0253_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
http://www.aflcio.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/Dakota-Access-Pipeline-Provides-High-Quality-Jobs
http://www.labor4sustainability.org
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/us/politics/democratic-turnout.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/13/call-in-the-national-guard-to-protect-against-native-american-people-in-north-dakota/
http://laboursolidarity.org/Brazil-September-29th-National
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