Fwd: : Planning for Keep KBOO as KBOO meeting this Friday

[Timothy Martin Flanagan]

 From Bill Resnick -- and a reminder:  

Keep KBOO as KBOO committee meeting this Friday, 6pm at home of Bill and Johanna, 1615 SE 35th pl.(just s. of Hawthorne)

 

Comrades,

Protecting and assisting  the union must be part of a larger struggle to defeat the forces that would transform and kill the union before killing the station itself. Because even if KBOO agreed with every provision of CWA’s contract proposal and signed a contract this week, current station leadership will continue their attempt to reorganize the station and terminate the staff they consider impediments to their plans, contending that they do not have the experience or credentials for fulfilling the responsibilities of the changed job descriptions in their KBOO reorganization plan.  There is no law that protects workers from termination if their position is eliminated in a legitimate staff reorganization.

 

Thus if we are to save KBOO and the union and its current staffers, we need either (a) gain influence in the current Board, perhaps by convincing current Board members that the ED’s policies are disastrous, or (2) more likely by winning upcoming Board elections in September, nominations ending in late June, and gaining a majority or (3) successfully petition for a Special Membership  Meeting under KBOO Bylaws Art ARTICLE V: Section 2, which meeting has the authority to change Board decisions (station manager decisions too?) and perhaps make policy.

 

My sense is that no course will be easy. To be sure the ED is obviously not just corporate but an incompetent manager without any sense of how to work with people and what might work in radio. Some on the Board similarly concluded, and others are beginning to recognize it; still Board support for her might continue. She has ingratiated herself with lots of people and many influential people in the music shows.

We need strategize about how to operate for succeeding  as to (1), (2), or (3) above.

 

We gathered 105 signatures on 7 clipboards. (We started with 8 clipboards and wonder if one of our canvassers still has one.) We need figure out when, how and with what messsage to contact those 105 folks. We also need figure out how and who to contact for the meeting of May 10^th at our house. Do we need larger space? Nearly all or maybe all of the folks who were at the last meeting need be reminded.

 

Note I will be gone starting next Thursday for at least two weeks and maybe until the end of May. Johanna will be home however and I think attend the meeting.

 

bill

 with best regards, Tim....    

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