WW9-27-16 AFL-CIO and Opposition To Pipeline and Brazilian Workers Strike by WorkWeek Radio published on 2016-09-28T23:18:16Z WorkWeek looks at the growing conflict in the labor movement over the Dakota Access Pipeline project and the protests by Standing Rock Sioux Native Americans and other tribes and supporters against the pipeline. LIUNA, the Teamsters, Operating Engineers and Richard Trumpka of the AFL-CIO have supported the pipeline. Additionally LIUNA, IBT, Pipefitters and Operating Engineers have also called for the National Guard to protect the pipeline workers from protesting the pipeline. Unions including the National Nurses Union NNU, Amalgamated Transit Union ATU, Communication Workers Of America CWA and American Postal Workers Union have opposed the pipeline and supported the protesting Native American tribes. WorkWeek interviews NNU Director of Director of Environmental Health and Climate Justice for National Nurses United (NNU) Fernando Losada. We also interview Jeremy Brecher who is a labor writer and with Labor For Sustainability. They discuss the split in labor, what is behind it and also the labor management partnership between the building union leadership and the oil and fossil fuel corporations. Next WorkWeek looks at the upcoming strike in Brazil of auto and metal workers along with bank and public workers with Fabio Bosco who is with the Sao Paulo Metro workers union and Conlutas a labor federation which is supporting the strike. Additional information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJTh_yPNFh0&app=desktop http://www.atu.org/media/releases/atu-condemns-attacks-on-standing-rock-sioux-and-opposes-dakota-access-pipeline http://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/unions-want-governor-to-ensure-safety/article_8d97f21e-70e8-55f1-b218 0eaafdb71914.htmlutm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/showdown-over-oil-pipeline-becomes-a-national-movement-fonativeamericans/2016/09/06/ea0cb042-7167-11e6-8533-6b0b0ded0253_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory http://www.aflcio.org/Press-Room/Press-Releases/Dakota-Access-Pipeline-Provides-High-Quality-Jobs http://www.labor4sustainability.org http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/us/politics/democratic-turnout.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/09/13/call-in-the-national-guard-to-protect-against-native-american-people-in-north-dakota/ http://laboursolidarity.org/Brazil-September-29th-National Production of KPFA WorkWeek Radio workweek@kpfa.org https://soundcloud.com/workweek-radio
