Published in "Current " magazine, August 5, 1996 in the "Readers Write" section: Caption: Ex-Staffer rejects rebuttal by Pacifica Management To the editors: The July 8 issue of Current contained responses by Pacifica Foundation Management to Ms. Conciatore's article of 6/17, "Workers charge Pacifica with union-busting." I am indeed sorry to see a statement that Current apologizes for "their" error re: Pat Scott "giving herself a raise." That statement was made by me and I stand by it. The distinction she tries to draw regarding the Board giving her a raise is semantic. Furthermore, though she was confirmed as Executive Director officially in February of 1995, she had been the "acting" executive director for at least six months prior to that, during which time "she gave herself a raise." If anybody wishes to believe that ACG worked for one year, defended an NLRB charge, drafted a contract and provided a contract negotiator who has been in, to date, 17 sessions with the union at KPFK, a number of which have lasted 7 to 8 hours, all for $1000, consider the following: statistics on file at the U.S. Department of Labor indicate the usual levels at which the American Consulting Group is compensated: *Custom Alloy, Santa Cruz, Calif.--five-month period--$41,904.22 *Radisson Hotel, Commerce, Calif.--10 months--$74,268.33 *Century Windows, Industry, Calif--seven months--$18,707.10 Obviously, the amount varies depending upon each client's particulars. However, under no circumstances could anyone be expected to accept a figure of $1000. If Ms. Scott and Mr. Bunce wish to dispute my figure of $30,000, let them open the books of the Foundation and show us. The general secrecy surrounding both policy and financial decisions and decision-making processes has become the grounds for a charge filed with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by a community group in the San Francisco Bay area, the Committee to Take Back KPFA. The Foundation's management continues to assert they are srtiving for an equitable contract. The unions beg to differ. The prior contract, which Pacifica terminated at KPFK in Los Angeles, and attempted to terminate at KPFA in Berkeley, was, as far as the workers are concerned, an equitable contract. The current proposed contract, which includes termination for disclosing labor/management issues publicly, and a clause forbidding labor actions, including informational pickets by workers to publicize their grievances, is not considered "equitable" by the unions at either KPFK, KPFA or WBAI (New York.) Ms. Scott has continued to reiterate the phrase "six-year-old brochure" [in reference to an ACG document]. Her statements imply the age of the document somehow renders it irrelevant, and that the charges against the management of the Pacifica Foundation are based on "a brochure." ACG has not changed its field of endeavour in the past six years--another document in my possession from the AFL-CIO, dated May 14, 1996, classifies ACG as a "union-buster." Current and Jackie Conciatore have nothing to apologize for,which, unhappily, is not the case with the management of the Pacifica Foundation. Lyn Gerry former staff member and UE steward KPFK-FM, Los Angeles ************************************************************ Current magazine is posting their articles on the Pacifica controversy to their Website----http://www.current.org They have graciously invited us to link our soon to be open Website with theirs.