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The Bay Air Quality Management Management District executives at the last minute made proposals at the June 21, 2017 meeting to increase the level of pollutants by 25% in response to a policy to cap emissions. The BAAQMD management has previously bullied and fired two whistleblowers who were trying to stop the destruction of pollution records by the agency....
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2017 4:36am PDT
IUAPT Painters and other unionists and supporters of immigrant rights rallied on June 20, 2017 at the SF ICE building to demand the release of Hugo Meijia Murguila who is a member of IUPAT and Rodrigo Nunez of UBC Local 713...
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2017 10:51pm PDT
The Placerville Food Coop nestled in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada off Hwy 50 in Placerville Ca. use to be a relaxed mellow place to work. A small community food coop that employed maybe 25 people tops. Placerville has a long history of being a highly conservative area but that is changing quickly and the coop was a place where more liberal minded people could come to connect while enjoying a good organic healthy meal - a hub for the more left minded people in the area to connect and fee...
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2017 3:05pm PDT
Master bookbinder Dominic Riley talks about the 1786 strike of UK bookbinders for a shorter workweek and also the role of anti-labor laws like the "combination law"...
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2017 9:39am PDT
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SF Immigration Court ~ 630 Samsome St, SF...
Event Date: Tue, Jun 20, 2017 10:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2017 1:49pm PDT
This is the schedule of LaborFest FilmWorks United 2017...
Posted: Sat, Jun 10, 2017 9:10am PDT
On 10/20/07 a Labor Conference Against The War was held at ILWU Local 10 and Jeremy Corbyn who was against the war and a UK MP spoke to the conference along with former UK RMT president Bob Crow. Also Jeremy Corbyn returned to ILWU Local 10 on December 27, 2016....
Posted: Fri, Jun 9, 2017 11:02am PDT
For too many decades our union and other leaders have not done enough to educate themselves and the union members or the general public about the general problems and structures of capitalism, and other modes of design. Now we are very far "down the pike". Solutions abound, if we allow for real problem solving methods without preconceptions. Will the earth be virtually destroyed before the so called, union leaders get real....
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2017 6:06pm PDT
Health and safety advocates spoke at a meeting in San Francisco to discuss the role of the Bay Area Air Quality Control District managers. They reported on the failure of the agency to protect the community and public from dangerous toxins in the air. They also supported the whistleblowers at the District who have been fired for protesting the destruction of documents by the executives. The California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has refused to launch an investigation of these criminal ac...
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2017 8:12pm PDT
KPFA Pacifica WorkWeek radio examines the growing incidents of hanging nooses and racist graffiti at SSA at the Port Of Oakland. The show also examines the serious injuries that are taking place at the Fremont Tesla auto plant. WorkSafe issued a report on the escalating injuries and health and safety problems....
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2017 9:36pm PDT
KQED Management and CEO James Boland is attacking the workers who are members of CWA NABET 51....
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2017 8:35am PDT
A solidarity rally was held in San Francisco on May 21, 2017 for two teachers Nuriye Gülmen & Semih Özakça who have been on hunger strike for 10 weeks. On the next day the government police arrested both of them....
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2017 3:04pm PDT
Two films from the organizing of the HERE Local 2 between 1997 when the rank and file organized a strike at the Zim's Restaurant chain and the 1980 hotel workers strike. These two struggles the rank and file had tremendous power in the local and it was put under a trusteeship by the International to shutdown the strike....
Posted: Sun, May 21, 2017 9:02pm PDT
21,000 AT&T CWA workers strike on May 19, 2017 for a contract that would protect their living standards and against outsourcing and degradation of jobs. Mobility workers make $16.00 an hour while the CEO Randall L. Stephenson make $21,000 an hour or more than $28 million a year....
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2017 5:10pm PDT
Dozens of UC students and workers from throughout the California protested at the UC Regents meeting on May 17, 2017 over the corruption scandal and cover-up of $175 million by UC President Janet Napolitano and UC executives. Workers are demanding her resignation and also a stop to union busting, outsourcing and privatization...
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2017 6:46pm PDT
UAW 2865 UC which represents graduate students at all UC campuses is calling for the resignation of UC Pres Janet Napolitano for hiding a slush fund...
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2017 4:36pm PDT
Trade unionists and supporters of the Korean independent trade unions rallied and spoke out at the San Francisco Korean consulate to call on the new president Moon Jae-in to free the jailed trade unionists....
Posted: Sat, May 13, 2017 5:41pm PDT
Hundreds of UESF teacher and staff rallied on May 9, 2017 at the SFUSD to demand living wages, an 18% wage increase over 3 years and proper staffing....
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2017 8:52pm PDT
Yesenia Guitron was a Wells Fargo bank teller in St. Helena and blew the whistle on fake accounts being set up and also racist targeting of immigrants and Latinos. She was bullied and terminated and OSHA management covered it up....
Posted: Sat, May 6, 2017 3:49pm PDT
KPFA WorkWeek radio looks at the May Day protest in San Francisco and also hears from a metal trade unionist Herbert Claros da Silva in Brazil about the successful mass general strike on April 28, 2017 against the Temer government and it's privatization, deregulation and attacks on the working class and youth....
Posted: Wed, May 3, 2017 10:17am PDT

















