<html><body> <DIV>Leaving aside the important question of  whether  employment relations within an institution such as Pacifica should be governed under the same common law of management (employment at will etc) as private firms  (which the moderator implies should be the case) the fact remains that in a private firm of comparable size, any manager that got into or was about to get into a fist fight with an employee (as Campenella did with A programmer of  Hard Knock Radio, per the report from the Daily Planet that was posted on this list) would be out the door immediately ( That is over and apart from the reports of Campenella attempt to date staff).  </DIV> <DIV>       This thus  is obviously not a question  of KPFA Staff being out of control and ousting a manager who attempted to manager (altho that might have been the case with the prior manager, Gus Newport) but of an unwillingness (either through the existance of some sort of institutional protector or a lack of will) to deal with an unfit manager. SR</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><BR>> <BR>> How do you feel about workers at other <BR>> institutions selecting their manager and having <BR>> control over the workplace? Would that be a good <BR>> model for a ball-bearing factory, but not a radio <BR>> station? Or should the ball-bearing workers just <BR>> yield to management too? <BR>> <BR>> Doug <BR>> <BR>> ___________________________________ <BR>> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>