Hayward, CA - September 27, 2012. The Alameda County Superior Court issued a ruling today enjoining the Berkeley-based Pacifica Foundation, the 501c-3 nonprofit organization that holds the license for Bay Area radio noncommercial radio station 94.1 KPFA-FM, from proceeding with a member-initiated recall election of an elected board member. The injunction was in response to a [...]
PREAMBLE This Agreement is entered into as of April 30, 2010, between Pacifica Foundation, its successors and assigns, (“Employer”) which owns and operates radio station KPFA-FM and KPFB-FM in Berkeley, California, and the Communications Workers of America (“Local” or “CWA”). SECTION 1 – RECOGNITION The Employer recognizes CWA as the sole exclusive bargaining agent for [...]
For Immediate Release From: Independents for Community Radio contact: Anthony Fest 415-563-5658 adf55@yahoo.com www.voteindyradio.org August 2, 2012 – State Superior Court Judge Evelio M. Grillo signed a temporary restraining order Wednesday blocking the counting of ballots in the current KPFA recall election, based on an application made by Local Board member Tracy Rosenberg, the target [...]
August 1, 2012 For Immediate Release Press Release Contact: Tracy Rosenberg, KPFA Listener Delegate and Director, Pacifica Foundation Board of Directors Telephone (510) 684-6853 Email: tracyrose@gmail.com Alameda Superior Court Orders Ballots Sequestered Until September 10th Oakland, CA-The Alameda County Superior Court issued a temporary restraining order today enjoining the Berkeley-based Pacifica Foundation, the 501c-3 nonprofit [...]
Update: An Alameda County Superior Court Judge issued a Temporary Restraining Order against the counting of the KPFA recall election ballots on Aug 1, 2012. Listener-representative, Tracy Rosenberg, was the target of the recall. There will be a full hearing on this issue on September 10th and the court ordered that the ballots kept safe [...]
Some (not all) election violations September 29th and 30th, 2010 Excerpt from Report by Renée Asteria Peñaloza, Pacifica National Election Supervisor 2010. At KPFA, on-air violations were committed on September 29th and September 30th by three staff members, the last 2 days of the election. Both the staff and listener election process was affected. While [...]
The following is response to efforts to recall Tracy Rosenberg from the KPFA Station Board and the National Pacifica Board of Directors. The answers to the questions were answered first by Tracy herself and secondly by listener-activist, Mara Rivera. The text of the recall ballot is below. For more on this issue, visit: Stop The [...]
July 15, 2011 This statement is to inform our listeners, subscribers and any other interested members of the public of the final resolution of all legal claims brought by Communication Workers of America Local 9415 against Pacifica Foundation. We are pleased to announce that all the claims have either been withdrawn or decided in the [...]
Four SaveKPFA Local Station Board members: Dan Siegel, Margy Wilkinson, Conn Hallinan, and Mal Burnstein were named in a suit charging them with “intentional breach of loyalty.” The suit, filed by station member Daniel Borgstrom, is a response to a fundraising drive in which the the local board members allege to have raised $61,000 from [...]
April 18th. National Labor Relations Board dismissed the claims of the Communication Workers of America against the Pacifica Foundation regarding the layoffs of November 8th, 2010. They said, “The charge should be dismissed… because none of the allegations have merit.” The decision was issued in the form of an advice memo from the General [...]
National Labor Relations Board Upholds Pacifica
By Carol Spooner May 11, 2012 For the past 6 months the people behind “KPFAWorker/SaveKPFA” have run a relentless, dishonest and destructive PR campaign – both on and off the air – against KPFA and Pacifica over the layoff last November of two KPFA staff members – Brian Edwards-Tiekert and Aimee Allison, the former co-hosts [...]
By Carol Spooner Two years ago there were major staff cuts all across the Pacifica Network — all except KPFA. For the rest of the network salaries and related expenses were cut 18.5% from 2008 to 2010 — from $6.3 million to $5.1 million. But at KPFA the reduction was just 6.1% — [...]
Report on claims of “corporate underwriting” from Merrill Lynch Greetings, Here are the facts regarding the claims of corporate underwriting from Merrill Lynch that have been erroneously reported by (sequentially), the WBAI LSB, the KPFA News Department and the Save KPFA organization. Please feel free to forward this report. This is being provided in the [...]