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Event Date: Fri, Oct 14, 2022 5:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2022 2:24pm PDT
WorkWeek on KPOO on 10-13-22 covers the South Africa National Dockers Strike, UAW Pres Candidate Will Lehman Speaking Out, The Laguna Honda Hospital Closure, Brazilian Elections & ILWU & Ukraine War...
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2022 1:01pm PDT
Dock workers in South Africa have gone on a national strike against the state controlled Transnet. They are fighting for major wage increases and against privatization of the ports being pushed by the ANC government....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2022 12:43pm PDT
The struggle in Los Angeles SEIU 399 was central to the Justice For Janitors campaign. The workers however who led this struggle faced a struggle to continue the fight for the membership when they won control of the Local through the Multi-Racial Alliance. Prior to the AFL-CIO convention in LA they had a sit-in at their offices. The International sent in SEIU president's aid Bill Fletcher to end the sit-in. He promised that they would get control of the local but as soon as the sit-in ended t...
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2022 10:46pm PDT
San Francisco Sheriff's department were directed by Mayor London Breed's DPH to blockade Laguna Honda hospital to prevent a press conference on the grounds....
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2022 10:03am PDT
Santa Cruz City workers will strike starting tomorrow to stop the City's unfair labor practices, win equity for essential workers, and fund the front line to protect community services. Add your name in solidarity: https://bit.ly/protectsantacruzcityworkers
Show up on the strike line starting Monday, Oct. 3, at 7 AM, Santa Cruz City Hall, 809 Center St. Santa Cruz....
Posted: Sun, Oct 2, 2022 1:29pm PDT
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Event Date: Sun, Oct 9, 2022 11:00am PDT
Posted: Sat, Oct 1, 2022 11:46pm PDT
Striking NUHW healthcare workers after 7 weeks on strike face a union busting attack by Kaiser executives and refusal of Governor Gavin Newsom and State Attorney General to enforce the law....
Posted: Sat, Oct 1, 2022 1:57pm PDT
Ashley M. Gjøvik an Apple employee discovers that her office is sitting on a super-fund dump site in Sunnyvale. She tries to get it tested by the EPA and is retaliated against and fired. She also discover that Apple has captured the agencies she is trying to get to protect her and her fellow worker....
Posted: Thu, Sep 29, 2022 10:39pm PDT
Concerned about the use of the cancer-causing drift-prone pesticide 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D), more than 50 pesticide reform advocates, including farmworkers, health professionals, teachers, and their allies held a news conference and rally at the Monterey County Government Center on Tuesday, September 27th – the 60th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. The group, organized by Safe Ag Safe Schools and the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council, called on the County...
Posted: Wed, Sep 28, 2022 9:34am PDT
Hundreds of UAL Association of Flight Attendants AFA flight attendants joined with 1,000 striking SFO Unite Here food service workers at the airport. The UAL AFA leaders charged that UAL is engaged in union busting practices and refuse to negotiate with the union over changes effecting passengers and the workers. SFO Unite Here workers have been without a wage increase since 2018 at the airport and cannot survive on their wages...
Posted: Wed, Sep 28, 2022 8:43am PDT
To register for the webinar: https://act.dsausa.org/signup/2022-national-protest-in-ecuador/...
Event Date: Thu, Oct 6, 2022 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 27, 2022 4:11pm PDT
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Event Date: Sat, Oct 22, 2022 11:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Sep 26, 2022 9:03am PDT
Community activists, kids and public education supporters protested at the LA meeting of FCMAT. They spoke out and shut it down when the FCMAT refused to provide answers....
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2022 9:40am PDT
WorkWeek covers Google Tech Workers Fighting Apartheid, Clean Water & Union Busting In Mississippi and the US, CIA, AFL-CIO, AIFLD &The 1973 Chilean Coup With Professor Ruth Needleman...
Posted: Sat, Sep 17, 2022 1:39pm PDT
Congresswoman Barbara Lee, US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff joined together to talk about Federal funding for Oakland projects. Barbara Lee and "Pete" refused to say whether they supported Federal funds going to the GAP A's billionaire owner John Fisher's proposed new A' stadium on Port of Oakland public land at Howard Terminal. "Pete" also refused to say whether this project would harm the Port of Oakland as a working port....
Posted: Sat, Sep 17, 2022 10:50am PDT
We are in the midst of a radical disruption and nurturing the roots of a just transition. Whichever way events unfold over the coming years, it’s clear that returning to the pre-pandemic status quo is less realistic and more difficult than embracing the change that’s well underway. James Magnus-Johnston is a PhD researcher at McGill University....
Posted: Fri, Sep 16, 2022 7:02am PDT
Gabe Christenson a conductor and Co-chair of Railroad Workers United RWU is interviewed about the conditions and health and safety for railroad workers....
Posted: Thu, Sep 15, 2022 1:48pm PDT
Who has followed the change of the Internet over the last 10 years carefully, will agree with me that the at the beginning very wide spectrum of knowledge, which was available to one in the www, became thinner and thinner and more and more limited. Censorship and deletion of search results is becoming more and more obvious....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2022 2:22pm PDT
Workers and SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital union leaders reported on the epidemic of bullying, racist discrimination and union busting by DPH and CCSF HR. The City has spent over $100 million on paying for illegal discrimination, defendant lawyers and City lawyers to defend illegal racist attacks and systemic racism....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2022 9:37pm PDT















