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Assange Gets Union Backing, ILWU May Day & Gentrification & CA DIR Baker Scandal
KPFA WorkWeek Radio covers union support for Julian Assange in Australia, the threat of the John Fisher's A's Stadium to Maritime Union Jobs and Gentrificaiton in Oakland and the growing corruption scandal at California Department of Industrial Relations DIR where the director Christine Baker was forced to resign after illegally putting her daugther on the payroll and paying her over $100,000 for no work. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is not only refusing to investigate and prosecute Christine Baker and her daugher but is defending Baker against illegal retaliations against an investigator and whistleblower at the agency.
WW4-16-19 Assange Gets Union Backing, ILWU May Day & Gentrification & CA DIR Baker Scandal
WorkWeek first hears a report about the Australian Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance supporting Assange and calling for his return to Australia.
Next WorkWeek looks at the plans for 2019 May Day by ILWU Local 10 and the connection to gentrification and the proposed new A's stadium at the Howard Terminal. We interview past ILWU Local 10 president Lawrence Thibeaux who is now president of Pensioners in Local 10, past ILWU Local 10 Secretary-Treasurer Clarence Thomas who is working with the May Day Committee and Kimberly King who is on the Executive Board of the Peralta Federation of Teachers, an instructor at Laney Community College and chair of the union diversity committee. They also discuss the role of the billionaire A's owner John Fisher whose family also runs the KIPP foundation and Rocketship charter schools.
Last WorkWeek radio looks at the deepening corruption scandal at the California Division of Industrial Relations DIR which was headed by Christine Baker. A California audit completed last year reported that Baker had put her daughter Julianna Baker, on the payroll and she had not done any work and received over $100,000.
After the report, she resigned and former governor Jerry Brown then appointed her to the California Fraud Assessment Commission and the California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is refused to investigate her and her daughter for fraud and corruption.
Additional media:
Maritime industry warns of harm from proposed Oakland A’s stadium
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/Maritime-industry-warns-of-harm-from-proposed-13773052.php
A's Billionaire Owner Fisher Loses Laney College Land Grab-Labor Community Speak Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMvg45CFGjU
Laney Land Not For Sale! Community, Students & Faculty Rally Against A's Land Grab Of College Land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx-tVzsl-Ck
Australian Union President On Assage
https://twitter.com/theprojecttv/status/1117347645805277184
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2649959828379442
No Reporters Allowed By CA DIR Director Baker At "Private Event" On Cal-Osha & Workers Comp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M6m8S1OoH0
May Day 2018 Oakland & SF Workers Rally & Speak Out -UNITE To Stop Union Busting Racist Attacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0JgnOHJXKA
Secret investigation weakens trust in state auditor
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article225170290.html
Auditor’s investigation exposed nepotism at DIR. Why did she try to hide it?
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article228455704.html#storylink=cpy
Production of
KPFA WorkWeek Radio
workweek [at] kpfa.org
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio
WorkWeek first hears a report about the Australian Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance supporting Assange and calling for his return to Australia.
Next WorkWeek looks at the plans for 2019 May Day by ILWU Local 10 and the connection to gentrification and the proposed new A's stadium at the Howard Terminal. We interview past ILWU Local 10 president Lawrence Thibeaux who is now president of Pensioners in Local 10, past ILWU Local 10 Secretary-Treasurer Clarence Thomas who is working with the May Day Committee and Kimberly King who is on the Executive Board of the Peralta Federation of Teachers, an instructor at Laney Community College and chair of the union diversity committee. They also discuss the role of the billionaire A's owner John Fisher whose family also runs the KIPP foundation and Rocketship charter schools.
Last WorkWeek radio looks at the deepening corruption scandal at the California Division of Industrial Relations DIR which was headed by Christine Baker. A California audit completed last year reported that Baker had put her daughter Julianna Baker, on the payroll and she had not done any work and received over $100,000.
After the report, she resigned and former governor Jerry Brown then appointed her to the California Fraud Assessment Commission and the California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is refused to investigate her and her daughter for fraud and corruption.
Additional media:
Maritime industry warns of harm from proposed Oakland A’s stadium
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/Maritime-industry-warns-of-harm-from-proposed-13773052.php
A's Billionaire Owner Fisher Loses Laney College Land Grab-Labor Community Speak Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMvg45CFGjU
Laney Land Not For Sale! Community, Students & Faculty Rally Against A's Land Grab Of College Land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx-tVzsl-Ck
Australian Union President On Assage
https://twitter.com/theprojecttv/status/1117347645805277184
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2649959828379442
No Reporters Allowed By CA DIR Director Baker At "Private Event" On Cal-Osha & Workers Comp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M6m8S1OoH0
May Day 2018 Oakland & SF Workers Rally & Speak Out -UNITE To Stop Union Busting Racist Attacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0JgnOHJXKA
Secret investigation weakens trust in state auditor
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article225170290.html
Auditor’s investigation exposed nepotism at DIR. Why did she try to hide it?
https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorials/article228455704.html#storylink=cpy
Production of
KPFA WorkWeek Radio
workweek [at] kpfa.org
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio
For more information:
https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio/ww4-...
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