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The actual KPFA union contract as a searchable PDF

by Aaron Aarons (kpfa2010 [at] aarons.fastmail.net)
The entrenched staff at KPFA has been screaming for two months about alleged violations of the union contract between the Pacifica Foundation and the Communications Workers of America. As is usual with that group, they don't actually quote what they are citing or invoking. Now here's the full text of the contract, copied from the non-searchable one at the union local web site that I have converted to searchable text.
kpfa_2009-2012_union_contract.pdf_600_.jpg
The original, non-searchable copy of this document was found at http://cwa9415.org/KPFA.pdf. Using Adobe Acrobat's 'Document -> OCR Text Recognition -> Recognize Text Using OCR ...' command, I converted it to a form with text that can be searched and copied.

Now there's no excuse (was there ever?) for those invoking the union contract not to quote it exactly. They can start by telling us exactly what provisions of the contract are violated by anything Arlene Engelhardt or any of their opponents on the KPFA Local Station Board or the Pacifica National Board have done.

On the other hand, it seems pretty obvious that the faction that is screaming 'Union Busting' far and wide is violating or ignoring 'SECTION 5 - GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE' and violating subsection B of 'SECTION 7 - NO STRIKE BREAKING, NO STRIKE, NO LOCKOUT', which reads:

The Union, it’s officers, agents, members and employees of the Employer covered by this Agreement agree that so long as this Agreement is in effect, there shall be no strikes, sitdowns, job actions, stoppage of work, slowdowns, retardation of work procedures, boycott, sympathy strikes, corporate campaigns or any acts that interfere with the Employer’s operations.
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