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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>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:28:50 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>What is union-busting?</title><link>http://www.kpfaworker.org/2012/04/28/what-is-union-busting/</link> <comments>http://www.kpfaworker.org/2012/04/28/what-is-union-busting/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:10:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>KPFA Worker</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[KPFA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pacifica]]></category> <category><![CDATA[union busting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[anti-union management]]></category> <category><![CDATA[KPFA management]]></category> <category><![CDATA[KPFAWorker]]></category> <category><![CDATA[labor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[unions]]></category> <guid
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. &#8230; <a
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
href="http://www.kpfaworker.org/2011/12/16/pacifica-spins-pension-misappropriation-hires-yet-another-law-firm/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.kpfaworker.org/?p=1409</guid> <description><![CDATA[KPFA&#8217;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 &#8230; <a
href="http://www.kpfaworker.org/2011/11/22/update-on-pacifica-pension-raiding-workers-vote-no-confidence-in-management-at-kpfa-sister-station/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.kpfaworker.org/?p=1399</guid> <description><![CDATA[KPFA&#8217;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. &#8220;KPFA&#8217;s union stands in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement around the country and &#8230; <a
href="http://www.kpfaworker.org/2011/11/02/kpfa-union-workers-vote-to-support-oakland-general-strike/">Continue reading <span
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.kpfaworker.org/?p=1359</guid> <description><![CDATA[Interim general manager Andrew Phillips promoted a questionable &#8220;thank you gift&#8221; to listeners who subscribed to the station during KPFA&#8217;s 2011 autumn fund drive.  On Wednesday, October 12th, Phillips hosted and pitched excerpts from Zeitgeist: The Movie, which combines speculation &#8230; <a
href="http://www.kpfaworker.org/2011/10/29/kpfa-interim-general-manager-promotes-right-wing-conspiracy-theories/">Continue reading <span
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