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Former OSHA Med Director Dr. Larry Rose On DIR Christine Baker Corruption Scandal & OSHA
WorkWeek interviews former Cal-OSHA Medical Director Larry Rose about the systemic corruption scandal by former Division of Industrial Relations Director Christine Baker. He discusses the role of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to prosecute Baker and her daugher and also the appointment of her by former Governor Brown to the Fraud Assessment Commission. Last he discusses the impact of deregulation of workers compensation with the support of Baker and the California AFL-CIO Art Pula...
Posted: Fri, Apr 19, 2019 11:25pm PDT
CA DIR Baker Corruption Scandal Continues Under Gov Newsom
The escalatiing California criminal corruption scandal involving former Governor Brown's Director Of Industrial Relations director Christine Baker and others is now enveloping Governor Gavin Newsom. Former Governor Brown covered up the corruption by his DIR director Christine Baker and appointed her to the California Fraud Assessment Commission after she was forced to resign as director of DIR. Governor Gavin Newsom continues to support her appointment and the Attorney General Xavier Becerra ...
Posted: Thu, Apr 4, 2019 4:45pm PDT
37 Israeli Violations against Palestinian Journalists in November
Israeli violations widen against Palestinian journalists during November of 2018. The Ministry of Information’s Government Media Office (GMO) indicated, in its monthly report, that further Israeli violations occurred against Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank, and Jerusalem....
Posted: Thu, Dec 6, 2018 2:13pm PST
Dwayne "Lee" Johnson & The Monsanto Ruling With Journalists Carey Gillam and Bob Egelko
KPFA WorkWeek Radio looks at the recent court victory by Beneica Unified school district groundskeeper Dewayne "Lee" Johnson. Johnson sued the Monsanto corporation for causing cancer with the use of their product Roundup. He was drenched in the chemical and now has terminal cancer....
Posted: Tue, Aug 14, 2018 9:31pm PDT
Hate crime charges filed against driver accused of plowing into Charlottesville rally
James Alex Fields Jr., was indicted on 30 counts, and is the man accused of driving his car through a crowd protesting against neo-Nazis and white supremacists at a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August, resulting in the death Heather Hyer, a 32-year-old-paralegal!...
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2018 8:04am PDT
In November voters can vote to repeal Costa Hawkins Act
A vote for the Affordable Housing Act will be the voters opportunity to repeal the draconian Costa Hawkins Act, the 1995 law that severely limits cities’ rent control options!...
Posted: Mon, Jun 18, 2018 3:52pm PDT
They Knew What They Did: Texaco in Ecuador
The world has created a system where businesses only have rights but no obligations. There is no international tribunal that can make businesses liable for human rights violations. What is perverse is that Texaco knew they polluted the land. World corporations refuse responsibility....
Posted: Thu, May 24, 2018 9:27am PDT
Cancer Weapon, CW attacks on Venezuela, Syria...2-27-18 Mouse Report (audio/mpeg 44.5MB)
In the endless bad news side of things the MSM is screaming for war on Syria and other post 9-11-01 hit list countries based on...Al Qaeda linked sources?...and on 60 Minutes this week do White Helmet assassins murder the child on camera wittingly or by incompetense?...but first a reading from CIA whistle blower Jim Wilcott on the cancer weapon used on Hugo Chavez and Venezuela...and we return to the bogus Hiroshima day trial in Concord for protesting at the tracks the war on Afghanistan base...
Posted: Tue, Feb 27, 2018 2:58pm PST
The War On The EPA & The Scientists , Lead, Health and Safety & Scott Pruitt At The EPA
KPFA Pacifica WorkWeek Radio hears from former EPA scientists about the attack on science and the effect of attacks on the workers of the EPA whose job it is to defend the health and safety of the American people....
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2018 9:22am PST
Worldwide Actions Commemorate Ahed Tamimi’s 17th Birthday, Demand Freedom
Protests and actions around the world marked the 17th birthday of imprisoned Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi. With birthday songs, cakes and cards as well as strong, powerful protest actions against Israeli occupation and colonization, the streets of international cities marked days of action called for by Samidoun, the Free the Tamimi Women campaign and other organizations to demand the release of Ahed, imprisoned since 19 December and facing charges before an Israeli military court....
Posted: Sun, Feb 4, 2018 1:34pm PST
Omali Yeshitela Says No to FBI Targeting of Black Activists; Yes to Self-Determination
Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African People's Socialist Party and leader of the Uhuru Movement returns to Oakland Feb. 17 and 18 to discuss the struggle for black socialism and African Liberation and to organize against the FBI targeting of Black Activists under the label "Black Identity Extremists!"...
Posted: Thu, Jan 25, 2018 4:38pm PST
WorkWeek Radio - SA NUMSA On Trump, US Workers, Immigrants & Workers
KPFA WorkWeek radio hears from South African Trade unionist about Trump's racist attack on Africans, Haitians and people from Latin America....
Posted: Tue, Jan 16, 2018 10:01pm PST
IBT Western Region VP Aloise Out-Report From SA NUMSA and IAM Henkel Strike Victory
Pacifica WorkWeek Radio looks at the removal of IBT Western Regional VP Rome Aloise and the charges against him. It also hears a report from the South African National Union Of Metal Workers NUMSA on their plans for 2018 and lastly why the IAM 1584 Henkel workers had the most important victory of workers on strike in 2017....
Posted: Fri, Jan 5, 2018 10:16am PST
KPFA WorkWeek Radio On Puerto Rico Labor Action By US Unionists And Jones Act
WorkWeek radio looks at the role of the NNU-CNA nurses to support healthcare efforts in Puerto Rico and what the conditions are for the people. WorkWeek also looks at the role of the Jones Act and how it is affecting Puerto Rico....
Posted: Fri, Oct 27, 2017 11:11am PDT
Democracy Now:Who’s Hacking Who? Americans, Not Russians, Disenfranchise Millions of Black
The capitalist media and "left" outlets like "Democracy Now" are supporting the Democratic Party hack line that the "Russian Hacking" is the reason Hillary lost the election....
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2017 8:46pm PDT
Court decision in Empire State Bldg versus Pacifica & WBAI
In two short words: We lost. (Report from Steve Brown in NY)...
Posted: Sat, Oct 7, 2017 4:08pm PDT
This Week in Palestine, September 29 2017 (audio/mpeg 6.8MB)
Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for September 23, to the 29, 2017....
Posted: Sat, Sep 30, 2017 8:06pm PDT
Technology, Automation, Internationalism, Longshore Workers And The Future Of Work
On July 15, 2017 at an international conference on technology, automation and longshore workers Professor Raquel Varela spoke about how technology is threatening the lives and jobs of longshore workers and what they should do about it to defend themselves and other workers....
Posted: Tue, Jul 25, 2017 12:55pm PDT
Report On Cuban Labor Movement & Cuba's Health and Tourism Union by Victor Manuel Lemagne,
Victor Manuel Lemagne, Cuban Health & Tourism Union General Secretary spoke on 6/29/17 in Berkeley on the Cuban labor movement and the tourism union and industry today....
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2017 9:19pm PDT
KPFA Pacifica WorkWeek Looks At NNU Single Pay Campaign And CWA West AT&T Contract Fight
KPFA Pacifica WorkWeek covers the fight for single payer with the National Nurses Union co-president Deborah Burger and the CWA fight for a contract at AT&T telephone and mobility workers....
Posted: Fri, Mar 31, 2017 2:37pm PDT