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> <channel><title>KPFAWorker</title> <atom:link href="http://www.kpfaworker.org/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.kpfaworker.org</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 09:30:07 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1</generator> <item><title>Pacifica seeks to impose gag rule on workers</title><link>http://www.kpfaworker.org/2013/05/01/pacifica-seeks-to-impose-gag-rule-on-workers/</link> <comments>http://www.kpfaworker.org/2013/05/01/pacifica-seeks-to-impose-gag-rule-on-workers/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 06:19:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>KPFA Worker</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category> <category><![CDATA[KPFA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[KPFA unpaid staff]]></category> <category><![CDATA[labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pacifica]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category> <category><![CDATA[union busting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[unpaid staff]]></category> <category><![CDATA[WBAI]]></category> <category><![CDATA[WPFW]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anti-union management]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.kpfaworker.org/?p=1699</guid> <description><![CDATA[KPFA is known as &#8220;free speech radio&#8221; because it was founded on the notion that open discussion &#8212; between activists, listeners and programmers &#8212; would be at the heart of its mission. For decades, listeners and staff have shaped KPFA &#8230; <a
href="http://www.kpfaworker.org/2013/05/01/pacifica-seeks-to-impose-gag-rule-on-workers/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.kpfaworker.org/?p=1659</guid> <description><![CDATA[KPFA&#8217;s paid and unpaid workers celebrated the decision by the Pacifica National Board (PNB), under pressure, to not renew the contracts of Pacifica Executive Director Arlene Engelhardt and Chief Financial Officer LaVarn Williams. Engelhardt subsequently sent a letter to KPFA&#8217;s &#8230; <a
href="http://www.kpfaworker.org/2012/08/20/arlene-engelhardt-out-layoffs-retracted-yet-future-of-pacifica-remains-uncertain/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.kpfaworker.org/?p=1640</guid> <description><![CDATA[[We received this message from KPFA's Brian Edwards-Tiekert on June 29, 2012.] Hi everyone, If you&#8217;re a KPFA member, you should have just received what may be the most important KPFA ballot you ever get. It asks whether or not &#8230; <a
href="http://www.kpfaworker.org/2012/06/30/layoffs-imminent-at-kpfa-vote-yes-on-the-kpfa-recall-to-stop-the-next-purge/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.kpfaworker.org/?p=1630</guid> <description><![CDATA[By law, employers aren&#8217;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 &#8212; often with the help of outside union-busting consultants like Jackson Lewis. See &#8230; <a
href="http://www.kpfaworker.org/2012/04/28/what-is-union-busting/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.kpfaworker.org/?p=1612</guid> <description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, April 18, listeners joined KPFA&#8217;s paid and unpaid staff for a spirited picket of the station&#8217;s parent organization, Pacifica Radio, to raise their voices against the network&#8217;s hiring of infamous anti-union law firm, Jackson Lewis. The firm was &#8230; <a
href="http://www.kpfaworker.org/2012/04/20/kpfa-workers-and-listeners-rally-against-union-busting-firm/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.kpfaworker.org/?p=1598</guid> <description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s &#8220;number one union-buster.&#8221; Learn more here. WHERE: in front &#8230; <a
href="http://www.kpfaworker.org/2012/04/11/join-us-for-a-picket-against-pacificas-use-of-jackson-lewis/">Continue reading <span
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url="http://www.savekpfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/pnb120412c.mp3" length="5139122" type="audio/mpeg" /> </item> <item><title>Pacifica hires notorious union-busting legal firm of Jackson Lewis</title><link>http://www.kpfaworker.org/2012/03/13/pacifica-hires-union-busting-legal-firm-of-jackson-lewis/</link> <comments>http://www.kpfaworker.org/2012/03/13/pacifica-hires-union-busting-legal-firm-of-jackson-lewis/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:39:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>KPFA Worker</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[CWA 9415]]></category> <category><![CDATA[KFPT]]></category> <category><![CDATA[KPFA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[KPFK]]></category> <category><![CDATA[labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pacifica]]></category> <category><![CDATA[union busting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[WBAI]]></category> <category><![CDATA[WPFW]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anti-union management]]></category> <category><![CDATA[KPFA management]]></category> <category><![CDATA[KPFA workers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[KPFT]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.kpfaworker.org/?p=1562</guid> <description><![CDATA[KPFA&#8217;s parent organization, the Pacifica Foundation, has hired Jackson Lewis, a notorious anti-union law firm which the AFL-CIO calls &#8220;America&#8217;s number one union-buster.&#8221;  The multimillion-dollar corporate firm specializes in what it calls &#8221;preventative practices&#8221; &#8212; that is, advising managers how to &#8230; <a
href="http://www.kpfaworker.org/2012/03/13/pacifica-hires-union-busting-legal-firm-of-jackson-lewis/">Continue reading <span
class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.kpfaworker.org/2012/03/13/pacifica-hires-union-busting-legal-firm-of-jackson-lewis/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Pacifica bounces paychecks and breaks promise to obey labor law</title><link>http://www.kpfaworker.org/2012/02/08/pacifica-bounces-paychecks-and-breaks-promise-to-obey-labor-law/</link> <comments>http://www.kpfaworker.org/2012/02/08/pacifica-bounces-paychecks-and-breaks-promise-to-obey-labor-law/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:13:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>KPFA Worker</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Antonio Ortiz]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Arlene Engelhardt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CWA 9415]]></category> <category><![CDATA[financial]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fundraising]]></category> <category><![CDATA[labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pacifica]]></category> <category><![CDATA[pensions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philip Maldari]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sasha Lilley]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tracy Rosenberg]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anti-union management]]></category> <category><![CDATA[CWA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[KPFA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[KPFA staff]]></category> <category><![CDATA[layoffs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[unions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[unpaid staff]]></category> <category><![CDATA[volunteers]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.kpfaworker.org/?p=1529</guid> <description><![CDATA[Last month, workers around the Pacifica network, including KPFA, deposited their paychecks &#8212; 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 &#8230; <a
href="http://www.kpfaworker.org/2012/02/08/pacifica-bounces-paychecks-and-breaks-promise-to-obey-labor-law/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.kpfaworker.org/?p=1511</guid> <description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s fair election rules. On December 26, 2011, Andrew Leslie &#8230; <a
href="http://www.kpfaworker.org/2012/01/24/kpfa%e2%80%99s-interim-general-manager-misappropriates-station%e2%80%99s-email-list-for-partisan-purposes/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.kpfaworker.org/?p=1418</guid> <description><![CDATA[Two months after KPFA&#8217;s union discovered that the station&#8217;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 &#8220;during the past few &#8230; <a
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