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What is union-busting?
By law, employers aren’t supposed to intimidate, coerce, or fire employees for exercising their democratic rights to act collectively with their coworkers. Yet many employers do it anyway — often with the help of outside union-busting consultants like Jackson Lewis. See … Continue reading
Posted in CWA 9415, KPFA, KPFA unpaid staff, labor, Pacifica, union busting Tagged anti-union management, KPFA, KPFA management, KPFAWorker, labor, Pacifica, unions Leave a comment
KPFA workers and listeners rally against union busting firm
On Wednesday, April 18, listeners joined KPFA’s paid and unpaid staff for a spirited picket of the station’s parent organization, Pacifica Radio, to raise their voices against the network’s hiring of infamous anti-union law firm, Jackson Lewis. The firm was … Continue reading
Join us for a picket against Pacifica’s use of Jackson Lewis
WHEN: Wednesday, April 18, noon-1pm WHY: Picket to demand that our radio network stay true to its principles and reverse the hiring of legal consultants Jackson Lewis, which the AFL-CIO calls the nation’s “number one union-buster.” Learn more here. WHERE: in front … Continue reading
Posted in CWA 9415, financial, KFPT, KPFA, KPFK, labor, Pacifica, union busting, WBAI, WPFW Tagged anti-union management, KPFA, labor, Pacifica Leave a comment
Pacifica hires notorious union-busting legal firm of Jackson Lewis
KPFA’s parent organization, the Pacifica Foundation, has hired Jackson Lewis, a notorious anti-union law firm which the AFL-CIO calls “America’s number one union-buster.” The multimillion-dollar corporate firm specializes in what it calls ”preventative practices” — that is, advising managers how to … Continue reading
Posted in CWA 9415, KFPT, KPFA, KPFK, labor, Pacifica, union busting, WBAI, WPFW Tagged anti-union management, CWA 9415, KPFA management, KPFA workers, KPFK, KPFT, labor, Pacifica, WBAI, WPFW 1 Comment
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, CWA, KPFA, KPFA staff, labor, layoffs, unions, unpaid staff, volunteers 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
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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, KPFA unpaid staff, Tracy Rosenberg Tagged KPFA, KPFA unpaid staff, Occupy, Pacifica, recall Tracy Rosenberg Leave a 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