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Fri Aug 12 2005
KPFA Workers File Complaints About Working Conditions
Women Workers File Complaints About Working Conditions and Roy Campanella II, the Station Manager at KPFA
August 11th, 2005: Eight women workers at KPFA women announced today that they are filing complaints with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) against the station's General Manager, Roy Campanella II. They have also stated that there have been a persistent pattern of discrimination based on gender, and that the station is now a hostile workplace for women. Those who turned down his sexual advances have been retaliated against through public belittlement, threats to cut funding, criticism of their work to their supervisors, slander, and threats of termination. Sexual harassment is illegal under state and federal law.
80 KPFA workers have signed a statement that they have no confidence in Campanella's ability to manage the station. Meanwhile, several members of the Local Station Board have committed themselves to an agonizingly long due process. Additionally, the employees' union is filing with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on behalf of seven male and female staff members for Campanella's violation of labor law and the contract between KPFA management and Communications Workers of America Local 9415. Fourteen weeks ago, on May 5th, Campanella threatened Weyland Southon, Executive Producer of Hard Knock Radio, with violence, and followed him out to the sidewalk to fight. The union demanded at the time that KPFA and its parent organization, Pacifica, provide the staff at the station with a safe work environment. Despite this, both Pacifica and KPFA's Local Station Board have failed to take action, and have dragged out deliberations about the General Manager's misdeeds over the past three and a half months. Read more | Press release from Local Station Board members | Daily Planet article | List of KPFA staff opposing GM Campanella
6/26 Open Letter from Hard Knock Radio Staff | KPFA Workers Website | Kiilu Nyasha's Open Letter to KPFA | Riva Enteen's "Confidential" Website | In June of this year, Noelle Hanrahan Filed a Sex Discrimination Suit Against KPFA | Solange Echeverría was Forced Off Flashpoints the day after KPFA was served with Hanrahan's suit | Many KPFA listeners are concerned about Pacifica's monetary problems
80 KPFA workers have signed a statement that they have no confidence in Campanella's ability to manage the station. Meanwhile, several members of the Local Station Board have committed themselves to an agonizingly long due process. Additionally, the employees' union is filing with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on behalf of seven male and female staff members for Campanella's violation of labor law and the contract between KPFA management and Communications Workers of America Local 9415. Fourteen weeks ago, on May 5th, Campanella threatened Weyland Southon, Executive Producer of Hard Knock Radio, with violence, and followed him out to the sidewalk to fight. The union demanded at the time that KPFA and its parent organization, Pacifica, provide the staff at the station with a safe work environment. Despite this, both Pacifica and KPFA's Local Station Board have failed to take action, and have dragged out deliberations about the General Manager's misdeeds over the past three and a half months. Read more | Press release from Local Station Board members | Daily Planet article | List of KPFA staff opposing GM Campanella
6/26 Open Letter from Hard Knock Radio Staff | KPFA Workers Website | Kiilu Nyasha's Open Letter to KPFA | Riva Enteen's "Confidential" Website | In June of this year, Noelle Hanrahan Filed a Sex Discrimination Suit Against KPFA | Solange Echeverría was Forced Off Flashpoints the day after KPFA was served with Hanrahan's suit | Many KPFA listeners are concerned about Pacifica's monetary problems
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