{"id":3556,"date":"2015-10-21T20:03:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T03:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2015-10-28T07:01:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T14:01:49","slug":"save-kpfa-supports-union-busting-at-kpfk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/?p=3556","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Save KPFA&#8221; Supports Union Busting at KPFK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/broken-Transmitter-tower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1393\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/broken-Transmitter-tower-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"broken Transmitter tower\" width=\"310\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/broken-Transmitter-tower-300x155.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/broken-Transmitter-tower.jpg 377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><em><strong>Save KPFA&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em> current Pacifica National Board member Margy Wilkinson was elected to chair the national board.\u00a0 As part of that position, she stepped in to serve as the Executive Director of the Pacifica Foundation when there was no one serving as the E.D.\u00a0\u00a0 This summer, in the weeks immediately before John Proffitt took over the job, Wilkinson appointed Lesley Radford, a long time <em><strong>SaveKPFA<\/strong><\/em> ally, to the job of General Manager at KPFK, our sister station in Los Angeles.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Radford, although faced with a nearly impossible task, massively bumbled her dealings with the KPFK union and set off a staff rebellion.\u00a0 To date, neither Wilkinson or <em><strong>Save KPFA<\/strong><\/em> have severed their support for Radford.\u00a0 In fact, another central <em><strong>Save KPFA<\/strong><\/em> member, Dan Siegel continues to advise Radford.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">KPFK Management\u2019s Anti-Union Tactics<\/span><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Management cut all the union staff working over 50% to 50% pay.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They gave the staff less than two weeks\u2019 notice before their pay cut took effect.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SAG-AFTRA said the pay cut was breaking the contract. KPFK management refused to talk to or negotiate with SAG-AFTRA. The matter went directly to arbitration.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Management made no arrangements to cut the staff workloads and to address the critical needs of running a radio station.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">KPFK management said that the staff would be eligible for the Cal Works program. It was discovered later that when KPFK management made that statement KPFK was not eligible for the Cal Works program. Management claimed the union did not sign off on it. Management had not sent it to the union for their signature when they made that statement. KPFK management has, as of Monday, still not put through the paperwork in order for the staff to receive this benefit from the state.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/KPFK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1959 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/KPFK.jpg\" alt=\"KPFK\" width=\"210\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>Management is using volunteers for some of the union positions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There is still a discrepancy about:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8211; Seniority pay<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">-Pension funds owed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0 It seems management is contesting these monies; management is anticipating litigation over these monies.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">KPFK\/Pacifica collected the union dues from staff salaries as usual \u2013 but for the previous six months did not send those monies to the union. SAG-AFTRA could have kicked our staff out of the union but did not. It is not known if those funds have since been paid to SAG-AFTRA.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At least one staff member, with a critical position \u2013 the webmaster \u2013 was terminated with no reason given. Web donations are somewhere between $150,000-$200,000 a year.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The union host, although offering to work 100% for 50% pay, had her show cut and half her days given to volunteers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The subscriptions manager and person who runs ours fund drives, also a shop steward, is or was in the hospital; cause unknown. Management claimed Tues night at the finance meeting it was not work related.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The other person now out sick was not a union person. It is not known if she is or was in the hospital but claimed exhaustion for overwork due to filling in to replace the subscriptions manager for the fund drive.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Due to these two absences, KPFK\u2019s GM cannot verify any of the fund drive tallies and can only guess at an overall total to date.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Save KPFA member, Dan Siegel, is advising KPFK\u2019s GM in these matters against the SAG-AFTRA union staff.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Suggested question to ask Save KPFA folks:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do you condemn the CURRENT regime&#8217;s extensive union &#8211; busting tactics at KPFK? <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The massive cutbacks and layoffs, all done without any union negotiating was just the start. There are over half a dozen union grievances that have been filed and arbitration on all these complaints is set to happen during the first weeks of November. Add to that the intimidation and hostile tactics to intimidate the staff and you have classic union busting that Walmart would be proud of.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <em>A KPFK Staffer<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>10-21-15<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: KPFK Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Save KPFA&#8217;s current Pacifica National Board member Margy Wilkinson was elected to chair the national board.\u00a0 As part of that position, she stepped in to serve as the Executive Director of the Pacifica Foundation when there was no one serving &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/?p=3556\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[447,445],"tags":[550,64,68,76,85,112,556],"class_list":["post-3556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-community-reporting","tag-election","tag-kpfa","tag-kpfk","tag-margy-wilkinson","tag-pacifica","tag-save-kpfa","tag-union-busting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3579,"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions\/3579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unitedforcommunityradio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}