IFPTE20 March For Science -Denialists/Charters, Workers Memorial Day & OSHA MayDay ILWU

WW4-25-17 IFPTE20 Marches For Science In SF -Denialists & Charters, Workers Memorial Day and OSHA and May Day Action By ILWU Local 10

WorkWeek Radio hears about the April 22, 2017 March For Science rally of 20,000 with IFPTE Local 20 member Kathy Setian and delegate to the SF Labor Council who was one of the speakers in San Francisco. She discusses why hundreds of their members joined the march to protect their jobs, the science and the protection of the environment. Next WorkWeek hears from Nina Deerfield who is a member of the Palomar Community College School Board and Defend Public Education Now who discusses the climate denialists at publicly funded charter schools and how religion is now being brought into the schools with public funding.
WorkWeek also looks at the commemoration of Workers Memorial Day with former OSHA Whistleblower Protection Program investigator and lawyer Darrell Whitman. Whitman who also a member of AFGE talks about his thwarted efforts to protect workers who were retaliated against for making health and safety complaints and also the systemic corruption of the Department of Labor including former DOL secretary Tom Perez and others. He also also written a letter to his union president David Cox about the need of the national union to protect whistleblowers in government agencies.
WorkWeek then looks at the history of May Day with labor historian Gifford Hartman who works with LaborFest.net and the connection of the ILWU Local 10. He talks about the first May Day in 1886 in Chicago and the slogan An Injury to One Is An Injury To All today.
For more information
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio/ww8-7-16-osha-wpp-investigator-whitman-on-cover-up-and-corruption
https://youtu.be/MQ6qKbz5BWo
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio/yesenia-guitron-wells-fargo-whistle-blower
https://issuu.com/injuredworkersnationalnetwork/docs/10.25.2014_six.investigations
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio/ww11-29-16-jpmorgan-chase-crimes-with-osha-whitman-and-burris-and-marsh
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-wells-fargo-accounts-whistleblower-idUSKCN11Z1RE
http://fortune.com/2016/09/29/wells-fargo-employees-sue/
http://labornet.org/cgi-bin/intbd/cgi-bin/intbd.cgi?action=read&id=567
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