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Wednesday, July 14, 1976
University Dally Kansan
Agreement
From page one
total number of hours worked per year into equal pay segments.
McMahon said the firemen were offering their alternatives in lieu of the initial proposal.
The idea of "Kelly" days originated in Chicago, the first city to institute such time.
No additional firemen will have to be hired to make up for the extra time each fireman now will have off. McMahon said. The city won't be spending any more money.
"The proposal doesn't involve shorting the department or closing down stations," McMahon said. "The chief will have discretion to as the allocation of time off and will regulate days off according to available personnel."
Watson said he and city officials would need more time to consider this proposal.
"I thought we'd worked out an acceptable agreement last week, but your membership wasn't as responsive as we'd hoped and our efforts backfired," he said.
McMahon said that any agreement formulated at the meeting would have to be taken to the union membership for approval.
"You and I can agree all day long but there still may be differences in the members' thinking about our proposals," he said.
McMahon said the firefighters wouldn't be the ones to give in, and said the were "a game of fair play where we both have to bargain."
He said that the negotiations had the basic concept of collective bargaining but were without any contractual rights. A memo indicating informal agreement rather than a binding contract results from such talks, McMahon said.
Watson suggested that both sides review their position and reconnect at 2:30 p.m.
their position and reconvene at 2:30 p.m.
At the later session Watson submitted
another proposal in the form of a letter to
firefighters in St. Louis, who included
included payment of hospital and
life insurance for the firemen and eligibility
of each firefighter for three "Kelly" days
Watson said this allocation of extra days off would reduce the average work week for them.
--and McMahon agreed that adoption of the eight-hour shift wasn't good.
"You break up the team concept when you go to eight hour stints," McMahon said. "Fire service today is a team operation and we are ready. It isn't important that it isn't kept at between 10-14 hours." he said.
Watson reminded the union representatives that present schedules for firemen in Lawrence were drawn up to accommodate them over 50 per cent of men who had other jobs.
McMahan said, "I don't think this and the compensation (days off) will break the team."
The problem of equal pay periods was discussed despite Watson's remark that he'd hoped such discussions were behind them.
Despite polite but firm objections from both sides, an agreement contingent on two alternatives is possible.
"I thought this business of equal pay periods was behind us when we started talking about the Kely's day. I don't see why they say men in advance on an estimated basis."
Both sides agreed to no change in the overtime cycle. A fireman can't work more than 240 hours per 28-day cycle without becoming eligible for overtime pay.
With the acceptance of the four-Kelly-day proposal, the firefighters decided against the city's offer of partial payment of health insurance costs and equal pay periods.
Watson said he and city officials would agree to three Kelly days and equal pay periods or four Kelly days and no equal pay periods. He added that any periods would be based on an average of 2,928 hours a fireman worked each year. This number of hours would be divided by 26 (total number of shifts worked) to determine if firefighters would receive in each check.
McMahon said he thought the firefighters would insist on the equal pay stipulation before they would agree to any of the city's offers.
The union ended the work slowdown at approximately 5 p.m. yesterday.
Lack of leads slows search for student
Baker's disappearance baffled her KU friends, too.
Fireman Isarel Bermudes said that he was surprised the slow down, which began at 7 a.m. Monday, ended so soon as Friday. "I never expected there is a lot of work to catch up on."
From Kansan News Services
Two truck drivers said they saw a female hitchiker on Interstate 70 the night Baker disappeared. This clue led to a fruitless search to Colorado, Wasinger said.
HAYS—There aren't any clues to help officials find Carla Baker, Hays senior, who has been missing from her home since June 15. Sheriff David Wasinger said yesterday.
"The searches have come to a halt until we get some more leads," he said. "We don't have any evidence of that there was an attack, like this we have to assume the worst."
"I don't think she left on her own because she didn't give me any reason why she wanted to," Rick Kellerman, Baker's boyfriend, said. "We weren't having any problems and she wasn't having any at home."
"She went out for a bike ride about 8 p.m. and when she didn't return for several hours we went out looking for her," Bakers' friend said. "She was bored about bike riding, but bike about 1 a.m. by a creek, but not her."
"It didn't seem like her nature to leave." Carol Kemp, Hill City senior; said. "We are
Several searches have been conducted since Baker disappeared. The creek where her bike was found was dragged, and many dogs were taken in air searches were made, her father said.
in pharmacy school together and she's a real good student."
The Ellis County sheriff's office will continue to investigate cloak to her disqualification.
Shankel names board to advise women's sports
Members of the newly created Women Intercollegiate Athletics Board were announced yesterday by Del Shankel, executive vice-chancellor.
The purpose of the board is to advise the director of women's athletics and the chancellor on all aspects of women's football, sponsoring, financing and fund raising, Shankel said.
Board members include Kala Stroup,
dean of women; Arno Knapper, associate
professor of business; Elizabeth Banks,
professor of business; classicists; Jacob
Klembert, professor of化学; Oldfather,
retired law instructor and
university attorney; Robert Billings,
president of Alvamar, Inc., and three
students: Rodney Dennis, Baltimore, Md.
Jill Grubaugh, president of Overland Park sophomore, and Jill
Grubaugh, Frontenac, Mo. sophomore.
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KU faculty members receive a higher salary increase than many other Midwest colleges of its size and was lucky to do so, it said. KU professors should express their appreciation and forsake any devious tactics to pressure the public for more money. It won't—and shouldn't—work any more.
You get what you pay for: This age-old adage no longer applies strictly to the marketplace. Since the Kansas University in 1971 in the form of a frozen budget, Kansans have had to deal with a large state university that doesn't pay its excellent faculty members as much as they get at other schools about as big as KU.
Pay ranking has meaning for KU
One large exponent that argument fails to recognize is that several years ago, while examining the program code,
When there was no faculty salary increase in 1971, professors began to look for other markets where they could sell their skills for a better price. That's understandable. We accept job mobility in other professions. Selling one's skills to the bidders is an accepted American tenet.
Comment
The Lawrence Daily Journal-World said the other day that faculty groups such as the American Association of University Professors (AUP) were playing with statistics and attempts to get more in on the legal issues in the Journal-World expressed disbelief that KU was listed near the bottom of a list of what universities of KU's size, called "peer institutions," pay their faculties. The AUP reported those figures last week.
Kansas Legislators won't swallow whimpers like that, the Journal World said.
their faculty's salaries at a healthy rate, KU wasn't. The Kansas Legislature dealt in the only way it knew how with the early '70s student protest.
A now-calm student populace genuinely deserves good teaching, legalators agree, but they have not.
If KU faculty salary increases were a rare item this year, it's only to help them gain ground on schools whose legislative fathers didn't seek to quiet the child by starving him. The myopic 1971 Kansas legislature thought that if they refused to pump money into a father of protest, the legislature had times changed, protest tailed off, and the legislature had failed to see the long term effects of its action.
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The salary increases that progressive KU administrators have succeeded in steering through the legislature have brought KU's wage scale to parity. It would be a recurring challenge for professors to勋府 to professors enough to keep them to stay at KU over a conflicting offer.
It's a good thing that groups such as the
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Wanting the best isn't enough in this case, and closing one's eyes and hoping for the best isn't, either. Lack of ability to weight sequences is a hallmark of sequences—slacking efforts to get the money we know our faculty merits—can reduce our chances of the misfortune such action surely precludes.
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