SF Labor TV On Labor Imperialism, Corporate Unionism&SEIU Convention In

7/11/2008 SF Labor TV On Labor Imperialism, Corporate Unionism And The SEIU Convention In
by Labor Video Project
Tuesday Jul 8th, 2008 10:55 AM
In the midst of the US presidential election and the visit to Puerto Rico by Democrats Clinton and Obama, the SEIU had it's national convention. Over 20,000 Puerto Ricans marched on June 1, 2008 for independence and against the interference in Puerto Rican politics by US politicians. At the same time, the Puerto Rican Teachers Union FMPR is fighting a raid by SEIU Chair of Healthcare Dennis Hickey Rivera and a pro-privatization supervisor's local that the SEIU has chartered to raid the FMPR this summer. This video will also look at issues of corporatization of the SEIU.


Labor On The Job
Friday July 11, 2008 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM PST
San Francisco Comcast Channel 29
Streamed on the web at
http://accessf.org/guide/watch/
Channel 1
Labor On The Job
Friday May 23, 2008 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM

In the midst of the US presidential election and the visit to Puerto Rico by Democrats Clinton and Obama, the SEIU had it's national convention. Over 20,000 Puerto Ricans marched on June 1, 2008 for independence and against the interference in Puerto Rican politics by US politicians. At the same time, the Puerto Rican Teachers Union FMPR is fighting a raid by SEIU Chair of Healthcare Dennis Hickey Rivera and a pro-privatization supervisor's local that the SEIU has chartered to raid the FMPR this summer. This documentary also looks at some of the issues of democracy and corporatization that were being fought out on the SEIU convention floor by the delegates for rank and file control.
For further information on this story and an edited video from this program go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0sFjqmld5I



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