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Kaiser's War On Injured Workers In California
KPFA WorkWeek Radio looks at the systemic attacks on Kaiser injured workers in California from Stockton and Modesto Kaiser Orthopedic technicians to workers in Sacramento and Downey California where Kaiser build a hospital on a toxic superfund dump site and contemned Kaiser orthopedic technician Gail Shephard and other workers.
WW3-20-18 WorkWeek Radio The War On Kaiser Injured Workers
Profiteering On Injured Kaiser Workers And Health And Safety
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio/ww3-20-18-profiteering-injured-kaiser-workers-and-health-and-safety
WorkWeek Radio reports on the 370 day strike of the USW 5114 Workers at Idaho’s Lucky Friday mine. They are fighting for health and safety rights.
Next WorkWeek looks at the war on injured Kaiser workers. We hear from three injured orthopedic technicians, David Gonzalez, Dina Worthington and Derrik Erickson who worked at the Kaiser Stockton and Modesto hospitals. They had injuries and then were terminated in a frame-up to get rid of senior workers. The lawyers representing the workers discuss the documents that they have discovered that financially incentivized managers to punish and terminate injured workers. Their attorneys Gary Gwilliam and Jayme L. Walker charge that these policies were in fact part of the profiteering by Kaiser bosses and executive management.
WorkWeek then interviews former Kaiser workers Dina Padilla who was a Kaiser SEIU member in Sacramento representing Kaiser workers on the Sacramento Labor Council and Gail Shephard who as a orthopedic technician at the Kaiser Downey hospital which was build on a super fund toxic dump site. She also discusses the refusal of the SEIU union to represent the injured workers and process arbitrations that would forced Kaiser to protect their rights.
Padilla reports about the targeting of over 100 senior and minority workers in the Sacramento area and the dangerous health and safety conditions in the area including mold.
Gail Shephard talks about how discovered that workers were being contaminated because of the highly toxic site that Kaiser built their hospital on and how she and her family and pets were contaminated. She reports her pet and her daugher died from contaminated material that she had brought back from her job.
Additional media:
https://youtu.be/RO1YWwcVnUo
http://www.recordnet.com/news/20180315/former-kaiser-employees-sue-over-compensation-policy
https://youtu.be/N__a29xugDg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-au_AhTzGjY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVyX4geXxM8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72if6kYKc74
http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/entry/kaiser-rns-to-rally-across-ca-monday-for-safer-care/
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7434518-181/kaiser-nurses-hold-protest-rally?artslide=0
http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/19/kaiser-permanente-nurses-protesting-staffing-levels/
https://www.facebook.com/USW-Local-5114-694692010581206/
This is a production of WorkWeek Radio
workweek(at)kpfa.org
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio
Profiteering On Injured Kaiser Workers And Health And Safety
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio/ww3-20-18-profiteering-injured-kaiser-workers-and-health-and-safety
WorkWeek Radio reports on the 370 day strike of the USW 5114 Workers at Idaho’s Lucky Friday mine. They are fighting for health and safety rights.
Next WorkWeek looks at the war on injured Kaiser workers. We hear from three injured orthopedic technicians, David Gonzalez, Dina Worthington and Derrik Erickson who worked at the Kaiser Stockton and Modesto hospitals. They had injuries and then were terminated in a frame-up to get rid of senior workers. The lawyers representing the workers discuss the documents that they have discovered that financially incentivized managers to punish and terminate injured workers. Their attorneys Gary Gwilliam and Jayme L. Walker charge that these policies were in fact part of the profiteering by Kaiser bosses and executive management.
WorkWeek then interviews former Kaiser workers Dina Padilla who was a Kaiser SEIU member in Sacramento representing Kaiser workers on the Sacramento Labor Council and Gail Shephard who as a orthopedic technician at the Kaiser Downey hospital which was build on a super fund toxic dump site. She also discusses the refusal of the SEIU union to represent the injured workers and process arbitrations that would forced Kaiser to protect their rights.
Padilla reports about the targeting of over 100 senior and minority workers in the Sacramento area and the dangerous health and safety conditions in the area including mold.
Gail Shephard talks about how discovered that workers were being contaminated because of the highly toxic site that Kaiser built their hospital on and how she and her family and pets were contaminated. She reports her pet and her daugher died from contaminated material that she had brought back from her job.
Additional media:
https://youtu.be/RO1YWwcVnUo
http://www.recordnet.com/news/20180315/former-kaiser-employees-sue-over-compensation-policy
https://youtu.be/N__a29xugDg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-au_AhTzGjY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVyX4geXxM8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72if6kYKc74
http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/entry/kaiser-rns-to-rally-across-ca-monday-for-safer-care/
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7434518-181/kaiser-nurses-hold-protest-rally?artslide=0
http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/19/kaiser-permanente-nurses-protesting-staffing-levels/
https://www.facebook.com/USW-Local-5114-694692010581206/
This is a production of WorkWeek Radio
workweek(at)kpfa.org
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio
For more information:
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio/ww3-...
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