This is in violation
of the Union contract and I know he is appealing this ant-working class
decision from the Stalinist revolutionary nationalist General Manager
who always has professed in the past that all workers of
the world must
unite except at Pacifica. (Jim Dingeman, WBAI)
COMMENTS FROM PAUL DERIENZO
Subject: Reassignment
Date: Wed, 23 Dec
1998 10:02:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Paul DeRienzo
<pdr@echonyc.com>
Hi-- Yes, I was at
High Times for a year until it became obvious the new publisher was a right-winger
who hated the work I was doing. I had been warned before I even took
the High Times gig that any outsider coming to
work there would
be on thin ice by definition, so I made a point of requesting a leave of
absence from WBAI. I filed all the proper paper work and got the ok from
my immediate superior, news director Jose Santiago who
passed on the paperwork
to Valerie Van Isler. There was no reply from her and not really thinking
that there would be a problem I went on to work at HTs. After I left HTs,
I requested my job back under the leave of absence agreement and on December
8th the union was confronted with a letter from Valerie saying I had been
fired back in Feb. 98 for not coming into work (presumably because
I had left for HT). Even if the firing was justified (which of course it
was not) the way it was handled is in complete violation of the contract.
The union has taken up the cause and filed a grievance which I'm told VVI
is ignoring. the reasons for her actions? I
don't know
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