In this clip from the September 18th KPFK local station board meeting, GM Radford, whose salary cuts, layoffs and denial of severance pay actions in September and October of 2015 resulted in a $200,000 plus arbitration loss for violating the station’s SAG-AFTRA union contract, blithely proclaims her actions are not her fault at all and decides Pacifica should pay for her six-figure labor violations settlement.

Radford assured Pacifica’s national finance committee in the Fall of 2015 that unofficial corporate counsel Dan Siegel had told her the actions were not in violation of the union contract – at least the 5th six-figure legal settlement Siegel has been responsible for in the past decade.

The labor violations were carried out by Lydia Brazon, whose signature claiming the title of Executive Director somewhat prematurely, was found on the paperwork implementing the pay cuts in September of 2015. 

Previous coverage by Pacifica in Exile of the labor violations can be found here and here.

KPFK is currently in default on network services payments in the amount of $244,000 over the last 18 months. Radford proposes to increase that amount to almost half a million dollars.