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Conflict at KBOO sparks effort to unionize

Apr 23, 2013  |   http://www.theportlandalliance.org/laborradio

KBOO-FM, Portland’s community non-profit radio station, may soon be a union shop. A petition filed April 18 asks the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to conduct a union election to determine whether the station’s 10 employees want to join Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 7901. http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/kboo

Employees contacted the union after the station’s elected board of directors approved a package of personnel policy changes over which they had no say. Among the changes: Paid maternity leave was cut in half to three weeks; paid sick leave was cut in half to 40 hours a year; and employees were designated as “at-will.”

Eight of the 10 employees signed union authorization cards, and at an April 2 staff meeting, asked the station manager to voluntarily recognize the union. But that didn’t happen. So on April 18, with a mass firing rumored to be in the works, the union asked the NLRB to oversee an election.

The April 22 meeting of the KBOO Board of Directors was packed with union supporters there to urge recognition. But retired letter carrier Jamie Partridge — one of a crew of volunteers who host the station’s weekly Labor Radio program, said the board seemed resolute in backing the changes. Partridge predicts a protracted struggle at the station.

No election date has been scheduled yet.   http://laborradiocollective.blogspot.com/

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Mon, 03/25/2013 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Social Equality Educators & Social Justice Autoworkers

In the first half of the show, Adam Sanchez of Portland's Social Equality Educators describes local resistance to the corporate education "reform" agenda of school closures, charter schools, high-stakes standardized testing, merit pay and union-busting. In the second half, Wendy Thompson, former president of United Auto Workers local 235 in Detroit and activist with Autoworker Caravan talks about the rebellion against the ten-hour day and "alternative scheduling" in the auto industry.

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We wound up 2012 with Labor Radio at 6pm Monday, Jan 31st in Portland on 90.7 FM • Corvallis 100.7 FM • Hood River 91.9 FM

Hosts were Lane Poncy, Tim Flanagan, & Michael Morrow with guest Mike Munk. They discussed

Labor Under Attack: Learning from the Past & Preparing for the Future

with special attention to the current struggle between grain bosses and the ILWU.

Call in to Labor Radio every Monday night at 6pm to join the conversation! 503 231 8187.

Lane PoncyMichaelMorrowMichael Munk&Tim Flanagan
A Struggle for Jobs with Justice                 http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/laborhistory
The PNLHA's 45th Annual Labor History Conference

will be held in Portland, Oregon, from May 3-5, 2013.

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• Labor

Program: 

 Labor Radio

Air date: 

 Mon, 03/11/2013 - 6:00pm - 6:30pm

Short Description: 

 Wildcat! The Great Postal Strike of 1970

Download:

kboo_episode.2.130311.1800.2654.mp3

Tara Lee, retired letter carrier and a leader of the great U.S. postal strike, and  Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor, of the African American Studies department at Northwestern University and editor of the International Socialist Review, discuss the 1970 wildcat strike and its implications for today's labor movement.

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On October 29, 2012, Fifth Monday Labor Radio on KBOO
will have an hour long show, from 6-7pm, "Third Party Choices in 2012," 
to provide listeners with exposure, a forum, and coversation with advocates for Third Party Alternatives.


Michael Meo, (at left) will tell us about Jill Stein (at right) and how the
Pacific Green Party addresses issues for everyday people. 
Rocky Anderson (left) may call in at 6:30,
or we will have a local representative of the Justice Party
in the studio to field questions.
The show will include Dan Meek (Independent),
Seth Woolley (at right) (PG),
Bob Wolfe (Progressive),

and Steve Hughes (at left)  (Working Families Party),
  in the studio.  If you are a candidate for a third party
or willing to speak on behalf of third party candidates
issues, or platforms:, please contact us
at your earliest convenience.
Call Tim prior to show at 503-697-1670,
or to call in on Monday, 
October 29, during the show:
KBOO's number
for call-in programs is
503 231 8187.

laborradio@writingresource.org
Tim, Lane, & Mike at left            

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