Free Our Media!

Help Stop Union Busting at WBAI!

For almost ten months the Paid and Unpaid Staff at WBAI-FM have been struggling against WBAI Management in an effort of preserve our Union (UE Local 404) and get a fair Contract. Under orders from the Pacifica Foundation, which owns WBAI, Management has gone to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in an effort to remove the Unpaid Staff, 90% of the Collective Bargaining Unit, from Union protection.

WBAI Management has been using delaying tactics and refusing to bargain. For these reasons the Union has filed Unfair Labor Practice charges with the NLRB against WBAI Management.

Pacifica/WBAI Management has:

Spent $32,000 of listener-sponsors' money on lawyers to bust the Union, with Pacifica spending an additional $30,000 on a union busting firm

Demanded that some workers become employees at will, as well as the removal of all Unpaid Staff from the Collective Bargaining Unit

Demanded givebacks from Paid Staff, despite a 6 figure surplus in FY 1996

Demanded a "No Strike Clause" which would make an informational picket line, or even the handing out of this leaflet, a reason to fire a worker at what was formerly described as "Free speech radio, WBAI-New York"

Where have the media watchdogs been while Pacifica tries to turn the Pacifica network into mainstream corporate media?

Raise your voice! Help free WBAI!

Call WBAI General Manager Valerie Van Isler: 212-279-0707

Call Pacifica Executive Director Pat Scott: 510-428-9196

Free Pacifica Web site: http://192.41.24.49/radio4al/freepacifica/
Unofficial WBAI Union Web site: www.interport.net/~rpmartin/union-----------------------------------------------Labor donated

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