Save KPFA: Eliminate Rank and File Input into Manager Evaluations - "No Value"

LSB member Mal Burnstein in emails sent to the committee tasked with carrying out the evaluation described rank and file worker opinions of their manager to be "second-hand", "random" and "without value to the local station board".

"We are not conducting a popularity contest", he said, tacitly admitting the interim general manager is probably considerably more popular with KPFA's 150-strong unpaid workforce than with Burnstein's 14-person contingent on the local board.

Every other general manager at KPFA has received a comprehensive evaluation with approximately 80-100 responses tabulated for board and ED review. Barely 30 people (board and department heads) will have input into Phillip's review.

The rank and file (paid and unpaid) who are used to having at least this small amount of input into working conditions, have had yet another piece of workplace democracy abruptly stripped away.

Those who wish to assert their right (or the rights of ALL of KPFA's workers) to participate in the general manager evaluation at KPFA will have to speak up now. Emails can be sent to kpfalsb [at] pacifica.org and pnb [at] pacifica.org and in-person comments can be made at the November LSB meeting (location TBD).

Tracy Rosenberg
KPFA Listener Representative
Pacifica Foundation Board

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(by KPFA Women's Magazine correspondent and reporter Preeti Mangla Shekar)