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

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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.