WW 8-6-20 Amazon Workers Shut It Down For Safety & Ag Workers In Central Valley Dying by WorkWeek Radio
WorkWeek covers the August 1, 2020 caravan and shutdown of the San Leandro Amazon warehouse over lack of health and safety protection from Covid and for $30 an hour in wages. Workers talk about their action which shutdown the warehouse for 4 hours and also why this is important for all workers. Next, WorkWeek interviews Ramon Real, of the In The Margins Theater in the Central Valley. He discusses the growing Covid Epidemic and how agricultural workers are being coerced to go into plants with virus infestation. He reports on the resulting sickness, contamination of family members and the death of workers. He also reports on the dangers to the public who are consuming food that is being picked and processed by workers who maybe contaminated and the failure of the Departments of Health and Cal-OSHA to have testing and tracing and enforcing both CDC and Cal-OSHA regulation. WorkWeek interviews former Federal OSHA Whistleblower Protection Program investigator and lawyer Darrell Whitman. Whitman was based at OSHA District 9 office in San Francisco and was investigating retaliation against health and safety whistleblowers. When he found that there had been illegal retaliation for OSHA complaints he tried to issue merit determinations. These companies included Fed-Ex, Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan, Lockheed Martin and PG&E. He was met by bullying and coercion and his termination along with the other three lawyers at the WPP. He discusses how the former US Labor Secretary Tom Perez who is now head of the Democratic Party thwarted and obstructed an investigation which is required under law. He also looks at the cover-up and eco-fraud of the development of the Hunters Point shipyard and Treasure Island and the relationship of Feinstein, Pelosi, Newsom, Breed and Kamala Harris to this corrupt development. WorkWeek https://ift.tt/1rrJacE
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