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"Dr. Das, speaking for the administration at the workers comp hearing in Oakland (audio/mpeg 10.3MB) Dr. Das who is the medical director of the Division of California Workers Compensation told doctors in the Workers Compensation that they should work for free in providing consultations for injured workers. Dr. Robert Weinmann wrote an article about how this would help the insurance industry deny injured workers proper health care in the present system which works against seriously injured workers....
Posted: Thu, Jan 30, 2014 1:05pm PST
DemocracyNow Debate (audio/mpeg 18.9MB) Amy Goodman hosted a debate on the TPP on Nov. 14th between Bill Watson, a trade policy analyst at the Cato Institute, and Lori Wallach, director of Public Citi...
Posted: Thu, Nov 14, 2013 9:51am PST
Community meeting to Remove California Victims Compensation Fund Regulation 649.56 (audio/x-wav 7.3MB) SF Main Library
100 Larkin St, San Francisco
Community informational event to remove California Victims Compensation Fund Discriminatory regulation 649.56. ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 17, 2013 9:43pm PDT
Student academic workers speak at Quarry Plaza (audio/mpeg 11.9MB) ...
Posted: Fri, Nov 1, 2013 9:51pm PDT
WorkWeek BART Union Busting, Concession Bargaining And Murder On The Rails (audio/x-wav 119.0MB) Interview of Yuri Hollie who is an executive board member of ATU 1555 representing station agents, Doug Gilbert who is a rank and file member of AC ATU 1555 and...
Posted: Thu, Oct 31, 2013 5:05pm PDT
South Africa and the Marikana Miners' Massacre, One Year Later (audio/mpeg 3.0MB) Friday, August 16th, marked the one year anniversary of the Marikana Miners’ Massacre, in which South African Police fatally shot 34 striking platinum miners at the Lonmin Corporation's mine in Marikana, South Africa. KPFA spoke to University of Johannesburg sociology professor Peter Alexander, who attended the memorial, and co-authored an investigation of the massacre, "Marikana, View from the Mountain and a Case to Answer." The book has just been published in the U.S. as "Marikana: Voices f...
Posted: Fri, Aug 23, 2013 9:56am PDT
8/5/13 KPFA WorkWeek Interview On BART Strike Issues (audio/x-wav 136.4MB) KPFA WorkWeek on August 5, 2013 covering the struggle of BART workers and the issues that they face...
Posted: Sat, Aug 10, 2013 1:50am PDT
SEIU 1021 BART Strike Rally Civic Center (audio/mpeg 42.5MB) SEIU 1021 held a rally at Civic Center at 5PM on the first day of the BART strike, to highlight labor negotiation issues. It was part of a full day of actions, this rally timed to include daytime workers just completing ther shifts. (23 minutes)...
Posted: Thu, Jul 4, 2013 11:53am PDT
Oakland Strikes Back! Speeches from Oakland City/BART Strike (audio/x-wav 236.3MB) OAKLAND STRIKES THE EMPIRE BACK! SPEECHES FROM OAKLAND CITY/BART STIKE...
Posted: Mon, Jul 1, 2013 4:56pm PDT
Concession workers at San Francisco Giants AT&T Park hold one day strike (audio/mpeg 5.1MB) As the San Francisco Giants got ready to play the Colorado Rockies on Saturday, more than 700 concession workers at AT&T Park went on a one-day strike for job security and increased wages and benefits. The workers union, Unite Here Local #2, is currently negotiating with Centerplate. The concession worker spokesman told KPFA that Centerplate had called the workers "obnoxious" and filed a lawsuit against them. He also said that many of the concession workers live below the poverty level...
Posted: Tue, May 28, 2013 9:26am PDT
Setting the Standard Presents: Interview with Donaji with P.O.W.E.R about May1st in SF (audio/x-wav 94.5MB) Setting the Standard Presents: Interview with Donaji with P.O.W.E.R about May1st in SF...
Posted: Sun, Apr 28, 2013 10:34pm PDT
Black builders call on San Francisco School District to contract and hire in the 'hood (audio/mpeg 1.0MB) Rising Sun Developers, a coalition of Black builders in San Francisco's Bay View Hunters Point neighborhood, are protesting their exclusion and the lack of a fair bidding process for contracts to build the new Willie Brown Middle School in their own neighborhood.
Unlike the City and County of San Francisco, the San Francisco School District does not have a local-hire requirement that would guarantee contracts for local companies or jobs for local residents, including minorities....
Posted: Mon, Feb 11, 2013 7:18pm PST
US Sailors & Families In Japan Contaminated By Fukushima Meltdown While DOD Stops Registry (audio/mpeg 7.1MB) KPFA WorkWeek radio which is part of the Morning Mix on KPFA Pacifica in Berkeley did an interview with US sailor Daryl Brooks who was contaminated in Japan while doing work to help the people of Fukushima and San Diego Attorney Paul Garner who is representing many sailors and their families who were contaminated during the meltdown. These sailors have sued the Tokyo Electric Power Company TEPCO which ran the nuclear plant. Many of these sailors were also on the U.S.S. Reagan...
Posted: Sat, Feb 9, 2013 7:17pm PST
Longshore Workers In ILA And ILA Under Attack-WorkWeek Interview (audio/mpeg 6.6MB) Longshore workers on the East Coast and West Coast are under attack. San Juan, PR ILA leader Jose Ojveda and ILWU Local 10 retired member Jack Heyman discuss the issue facing longshore workers on both coasts....
Posted: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 1:36pm PST
1/7 WorkWeek Radio Show-Texas Protest At Volero, Mi Pueblo Workers, Emancipation Proclamat (audio/mpeg 22.9MB) WorkWeek radio on KPFA on 1/7/13 -Texas Protest At Volero with environmentalist and injured worker advocate Diane Wilson, Mi Pueblo Workers for for justice and unionization and the use of ICE by the owners to terrorize workers, WW also looks at the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and also interviews CNA RN Kay McVay On The CNA-NUHW affiliation....
Posted: Sun, Jan 13, 2013 9:11pm PST
Sutter Healthcare And the CNA Nurses, Bullying In SF City & Schools, Nuclear Whistleblower (audio/mpeg 23.1MB) This WorkWeek radio show on December 24, 2012 covers the struggle and 8th strike of the CNA sutter nurses, the epidemic of bullying against SF city and SFUSD school employees and the dangers to workers and the public at the San Onofre Nuclear plant including the retaliation against whistleblowers at the plant....
Posted: Sat, Dec 29, 2012 10:53pm PST
Stand with San Leandro Walmart Workers interview on Setting the standard kpfa (audio/x-wav 172.2MB) Stand with San Leandro Walmart Workers, interview about the actions taking place on No.22nd and 23rd around the Bay to support workers rights....
Posted: Sun, Nov 18, 2012 11:56pm PST
SEIU 1021 activists arrested barricading de Young Museum entrance (audio/mpeg 1.5MB) On September 7th, 2012, 19 SEIU 1021 members were arrested barricading the entrance to "Friday Night at the deYoung," a weekly art event at San Francisco's deYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park, in support of museum workers engaged in bitterly contested contract negotiations for the past year....
Posted: Tue, Sep 11, 2012 1:04pm PDT
Oakland rallies in support of Marikana miners (audio/mpeg 1.0MB) On the evening of Friday, August 24th, labor, Occupy, and Third Party activists rallied in Oakland's Oscar Grant Plaza in solidarity with South Africa's striking miners, at least 34 of whom were massacred by South African police ten days earlier on August 12th, at the Lonmin Mining Corporation's platinum mine northwest of Johannesburg....
Posted: Mon, Aug 27, 2012 8:47am PDT
Harry Hay: Gay Liberation's Radical Founder (audio/mpeg 19.5MB) Gay activist and independent historian Joey Cain speaks with Kate Raphael about the life and legacy of Harry Hay, the Communist labor organizer who founded the country's first gay rights organization in the early 1950s. Audio 42:31...
Posted: Tue, Jun 12, 2012 10:08am PDT
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