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Pacifica bounces paychecks and breaks promise to obey labor law
Last month, workers around the Pacifica network, including KPFA, deposited their paychecks — and were shocked to have them bounce. KPFA had sufficient funds to cover its payroll, but Pacifica pools the payroll money of its five stations, and did … Continue reading
Posted in Antonio Ortiz, Arlene Engelhardt, CWA 9415, financial, fundraising, labor, Pacifica, pensions, Philip Maldari, Sasha Lilley, Tracy Rosenberg Tagged anti-union management, KPFA, labor 1 Comment
KPFA’s interim general manager abuses station’s email list for partisan purposes
While Pacifica continues to stall the listener-initiated recall process, KPFA’s interim general manager is pouring out incorrect and highly-partisan material onto KPFA’s own subscriber email list, in violation of the network’s fair election rules. On December 26, 2011, Andrew Leslie … Continue reading
Pacifica spins pension misappropriation, hires yet another law firm
Two months after KPFA’s union discovered that the station’s parent corporation Pacifica was illegally raiding the 403b pension funds of its union members for as long as 18 months, the network has finally admitted to workers that “during the past few … Continue reading
Update on Pacifica pension raiding; Workers vote no confidence in management at KPFA sister station
KPFA’s union workers are still waiting to get a full accounting of the extent to which parent corporation Pacifica illegally dipped into their pensions. Paid workers discovered last month that Pacifica was taking money out of their paychecks but not … Continue reading
Posted in CWA 9415, financial, KPFA, WPFW Tagged KPFA, KPFA management, KPFAWorker, pensions Leave a comment
KPFA union workers vote to support Oakland general strike
KPFA’s union workers have passed a resolution endorsing the Oakland general strike on November 2nd and supporting the movements across the country opposing corporate greed. “KPFA’s union stands in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement around the country and … Continue reading
Posted in CWA 9415, KPFA, KPFA recall, Tracy Rosenberg Tagged KPFA, Occupy, Pacifica, recall Tracy Rosenberg Leave a comment
KPFA interim general manager promotes right-wing conspiracy theories
Interim general manager Andrew Phillips promoted a questionable “thank you gift” to listeners who subscribed to the station during KPFA’s 2011 autumn fund drive. On Wednesday, October 12th, Phillips hosted and pitched excerpts from Zeitgeist: The Movie, which combines speculation … Continue reading
AM programming undermines fund drive; KFCF returns arts programming cancelled by KPFA
KPFA’s fund drive ran five days longer than the last fall’s fund drive, but still fell $80,000 short of goal. The shortfall and overrun are almost entirely attributable to the change in KPFA’s morning lineup. The hours of 6-10AM raised … Continue reading
Posted in financial, fundraising shortfalls, interim general manager Tagged KFCF, KPFA, KPFA management, KPFA Morning Show, the Week Starts Here, Twitwit 1 Comment
Pacifica caught illegally shorting pensions of KPFA’s union workers
Members of KPFA’s union have discovered that Pacifica appears to be underpaying the 403(b) retirement accounts of its paid workers, which is a violation of federal law. When employees received their quarterly statement from the 403b provider ING, they noticed … Continue reading
Second San Francisco Labor Council resolution in support of KPFA workers
The San Francisco Labor Council is demanding that KPFA restore the Morning Show, including David Bacon’s labor segment. With a long round of applause after presentations by KPFA workers Antonio Ortiz and Laura Prives, delegates voted unanimously in support of a resolution observing that Pacifica had “spent … Continue reading
Listeners, staff force managers to drop plans to axe Uprising
Deluged by hundreds of emails from listeners, KPFA management has — for now, at least — backed off from its plan to remove Sonali Kolhatkar‘s Uprising from the air. Kolhatkar produces her show at sister station KPFK in Los Angeles, … Continue reading
Posted in censorship, financial, KPFA, KPFA recall Tagged Carrie Core, LA Theatreworks, recall Tracy Rosenberg, Twitwit 1 Comment