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The AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center Executive Director Shawna Bader-Blau has called on the Trump government to continue to fund the NED which funds the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center. It gets over $70 a year from the US government....
Posted: Tue, Apr 22, 2025 9:14am PDT
The US funded AFL-CIO Solidarity Center which receives $70 million from the National Endowment for Democracy and USAID has filed a legal appeal by the director Shawna Bader-Blau that appeals for the Court and Trump government to continue to fund it....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2025 11:23pm PDT
WorkWeek interviewed Panamanian union leader Saúl Méndez Rodríguez about the threat by Trump to take over the canal....
Posted: Mon, Mar 3, 2025 5:24pm PST
The Trump Musk massive illegal layoffs are part of a fascist plant to privatize all public jobs and destroy the unions in the US. He layoff of 200,000 Federal workers and the implementation of Project 2025 must be stopped by a general strike and the formation of a mass democratic labor party....
Posted: Thu, Feb 20, 2025 1:17am PST
Darrell Whitman, was a Federal OHSA investigator with the Whistleblower Protection Program. He was investigating whether workers were being retaliated for making health and safety complaints including Michael Madry, a whistleblower at Air America who reported that they were falsifying testing at Hunters Point Shipyard. He was fired and Whitman did an investigation and determination that he had been fired for making health and safety complaints. Whitman and other OSHA investigators were also f...
Posted: Fri, Feb 14, 2025 4:56pm PST
Trump and Musk's Doge has shut down funding to the non-profit National Endowment for Democracy. This organization provides 90% of the funding of The AFL-CIO Solidarity Center. This operation has more than 400 workers which is larger than the entire staff of the AFL-CIO and the Liz Schuler, president of the AFL-CIO and the rest of the leadership have not reported the closure to the AFL-CIO membership. Frank Hammer the retired president of UAW 909 and Kim Scipes a professor Emeritus at...
Posted: Thu, Feb 13, 2025 7:34pm PST
The shutdown of the NLRB will likely result in an end of all union elections through the NLRB process. This closure will also be used by the bosses and billionaires to escalate their attacks on workers and unions. Teamster Vice President at large John Palmer talks about what that means to Teamsters and other workers throughout the country. He also discusses the silence of Teamster president Sean O'Brien to challenge this frontal attack on labor....
Posted: Fri, Jan 31, 2025 12:35am PST
WorkWeek interviews Panama SUNTRACS union president Saúl Méndez Rodríguez about the threat of Trump to invade Panama unless they allow the US to take it over....
Posted: Mon, Jan 27, 2025 4:37pm PST
WorkWeek On KPOO covers the LA fire storm, climate crisis and global capitalism and also the global day of action against genocide and the freedom of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza and other healthcare workers in Gaza....
Posted: Thu, Jan 16, 2025 1:38pm PST
WorkWeek covers IBT Amazon Workers Unfair Labor Strike & Korean Workers Fight Yoon's Martial Law, AFA Flight Attendants Fight For A Contract & German AfD, Trump & Rise of Fascism...
Posted: Fri, Dec 27, 2024 7:01pm PST
WorkWeek covers Privatization & The Attack On CCSF & BRICS, China, Africa & Imperialism...
Posted: Sat, Oct 26, 2024 7:39pm PDT
WorkWeek On UCSF Health Workers For Palestine, SFSU Palestine Action , UAL Mechanics & Flight Attendants, Lessons Of Bhopal, Extraction Industries & Capitalism With Kakoli Matri...
Posted: Sun, Oct 20, 2024 8:42pm PDT
The issue of Trump, the rise of fascism and Project 2025 is a critical issue for labor and the trade unions in the United States. This program looks a the rise of fascism and what labor faces regardless of who wins....
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2024 1:19pm PDT
Thousands of people rallied in Chicago to protest the continuing genocide supported by the Democratic Party and the Harris Biden administration....
Posted: Tue, Aug 20, 2024 7:18am PDT
WorkWeek on KPOO covers Hiroshima Anniversary, E. Palestine Poisoning, LA Meeting On Fascism & Workers Party & Slave Labor & Free Labor In The Golden State With Professor Jean Pfealzer...
Posted: Thu, Aug 15, 2024 10:09am PDT
WorkWeek on KPOO covers In SF, Jail Billionaires, Not The Homeless & US Hedge Funds Destroying Kenya's Healthcare and Labor & International Struggle For Palestine...
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2024 6:44pm PDT
A workers meeting of labor and the community is being organized in Los Angeles on the issue of fascism, democracy and a workers party. Cliff Smith who is the business manager of Roofers Local 36 in Los Angeles has initiated a day long meeting in Los Angeles on September 7 on the issue of fascism, democracy and the formation of a workers party....
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2024 11:54am PDT
WorkWeek covers IBU ILWU Alcatraz Cruise Workers Strike, Supreme Court & Workers, Robotics IBT, TechnoFascism And Argentine Workers Protest Milei Repression...
Posted: Thu, Jul 18, 2024 8:20am PDT
Teamster president Sean O'Brien has said that he is going to the Republican national convention despite the union busting anti-labor racist record. General Vice President of the Teamster John Palmer is calling on SOB not to attend the convention and also urging Teamsters to call on the officers and SOB not to attend....
Posted: Tue, Jul 9, 2024 7:52pm PDT
ILWU Local 10 retired secretary treasurer Clarence Thomas was invited to speak at the People's Conference on Palestine in Detroit on May 24, 25 & 26. This is his presentation for the conference....
Posted: Thu, Jul 4, 2024 9:55am PDT