Tuesday, March 9, 1976
University Daily Kansan
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Employs interview
From nose one
Do you expect your demands to be met overnight?
Bohlander: Buferd (Watson) has made the statement a number of times, "Well, it appears to me that the men seem to think they have been cheated. We want they've been cheated." The problem isn't that we don't get everything we want, but that there has never been any kind of meaningful dialogue. Some kind of meaningful agreement called "meet and hear."
Q: Why didn't you take your complaints
rightew to federal court, as you're doing me
now?
Bohlander: It costs money. It's a whole lot of trouble. And we didn't want to back anyone up against the wall needlessly. We have always stressed getting along and working things out. We have always tried to live here. We don't see ourselves as emissaries.
Q: Dennis, some people say you're fighting City Hall because you're personally angry at certain city administrators. Is this true?
Smith: I'm doing this because I feel I'm representing 35 men. I've got a tendency to use "I" instead of "we." I'm angry at the workers and I work with the workman's comf (compensation) check.
Bohander: You never made an issue of it at any public hearing.
Smith: I got my check today. That's the first time I've been paid in five weeks. I've worked on physical therapy and physical therapy. I've worn two back braces that cost well over $300. I get x-rays that show I'm hurt. Because they're fighting me, union, all of a sudden they're fighting me.
Q: You've been angry with City Hall for
months. Why don't you just finer last one?
Smith: I'm gonna fight it for 10 years, not just 10 months.
Eblander : Because somebody's got to do it.
Smith: Because I feel I'm right.
Bohlander: When Dennis and I were elected, we told the men what we would do would be with their approval. We wouldn't set policies. We would be spokesman. Look, if the men came up and said, "We appeal to the work you've put into it but we're fired."
Smith: I'd shake their hands and walk away.
Bohander: We'd have a big party.
Smith: I'd buy the beer.
Q: What has been the reaction from the city at large?
Bohander: The only thing I've ever
gotten is support.
Q: Have you ever harassed non-association members?
Bohlander: No. We've never condoned any kind of negative action. We've never threatened anybody. We've never supported anybody who succeeded we do.
Q: How much does your failure to be recognized as a collective bargaining unit have to do with your continued pressure on city administrators?
Smith: We've got a long, hard road ahead of us as far as recognition goes, but it's going to happen—sometimes, some place. The sooner they realize what we want is to do, the sooner we can work under the laws of the state, the sooner these things will never happen again.
Bohlander: One of the things we tried to get across to the commissioners and the councilors was that the municipal employees organize is the problems cited in the 24 charges of mismanagement. If anything, the fight for recognition was a result of the problems
Q: Is a sanitation employees strike possible?
Bohlander: There's always the possibility.
Q: Have you brought the idea before the coalition as a whole?
Bohander: People don't want to go on strike. Firemen want to keep the city from burning down, policemen want to keep the streets safe, sanitation workers want to keep the streets clean, street employees want to keep the streets repaired. People want to work.
Smith: We're looking into national affiliation now.
Bohlander: Personally, most of the guys would rather not strike but go ahead and affiliate with a national union and let them work for them. I will encourage organizations and gotten encouragement.
We're an easy mark because we've already organized.
Q: How long until you affiliate?
Q: What union would you join?
Smith: Less than a month.
Smith: There's the AFL-CIO, the Teamsters and the municipal workers union. But, you know, these people pushed us into this. The Teamsters begged me six months ago in Kansas City, Mo. They are willing to come in here any time I please.
Bohander: Ultimately, that decision lies with the men.
Q: Once you join a union, aren't your problems automatically solved?
Bohlander: We'd have a strike fund, union lawyers and national spokesmen.
Smith: We're out or it.
Q: Why didn't you ever try to call in
Q: Inquiries to help solve the labor-
moment?
Bohander: To bring in an arbitrator would be tacitly giving us recognition. They're not about to do that. But Mao didn't lose any sleep because the United States as an official country, but That didn't mean Red China was any less of a threat.
Q: That concludes my questions.
However, I want you to know I intend to schedule a similar interview with city administrators.
Bohander: I'd like to see you do it. Maybe we can get a dialogue going in the press.
Smith: We haven't gotten one going anywhere else.
Events ...
TONIGHT: GOV. ROEBERT F. BENNETT will speak to the Young Republicans at 7 in the Council Room of the Kansas University. KJHK's "CROSS-CULTURAL SHARING" will have an interview with a graduate student from Venezuela who will discuss her country and its music at 8:30. The second in a series of eight weekly seminars entitled "TELT'S TALK ABOUT DEATH," dealing with death and dying, will be at 7:30 in the Lawrence Community Building.
A PRE-NURSING ASSOCIATION meeting for all students interested in the pre- nursing program will be at 7 in the Jayhawk Room of the Union. There will be a KU-Y form on "PENAL REFORM" at 7 in the Big Eight Room of the Union. ROBERT WILSON, national vice president of the American Institute of Architects, will lecture on "The Architect as Developer" at 7:30 in the Forum Room of the Union. MARY ANNE DRESSER, San Antonio, Tex., senior, will give a cello recital at 8 in Swarthout Recital Hall. She will be accompanied by pianist Nancy Engelken, Goff senior.
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