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Friday, April 7, 1978
University Daily Kansan
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KU denies unfair labor charges on grounds of management rights
By TIMOTHY TANKARD
Staff Writer
In a statement mailed this week to the state Public Employee Relations Board, the University of Kansas denied all nine charges of unfair labor practices leveled against it March 20 by the union investigators for KU Medical Center staffers.
The charges said that KU violated five sections of the state labor laws in recent policy changes implemented at the Med Center by American Management Services. American Management is now directing the housekeeping department at the Med Center.
In denlying the charges, the University statement referred to a management rights clause in the state statutes. The clause, K.S.A. 754328, stipulates that the state employee must comply with the state's methods, means and personel by which operations are to be carried out."
THE COMPLIANTS CHARGED that the housekeeping management unlawfully altered sick leave policies, changed pay scales, harassed union stewards and refused to consult with union officials on policy changes affecting personnel.
The University statement said, "Three employees—one, a union steward—were cautioned for discussing union matters while on duty."
Russell Mills, University director of Support Services, said that the employees were cautioned because they were engaging in activities which interfered with their
But Francis Jacobs, union representative for local 1132 of the Public Employees Service Union, who filed the complaint, said that after being cautioned, the union
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TONIGHT: The Student Senate ACADEMIC AFAIRS Committee meets at 6:30 in the Union's Walnut Room. The Senate COMUNICATIONS Committee meets at 6:30 in the Pine Room of the Union Council Room. Meet at 7 in Parlors B and C of the Union. The KU FOLK DANCE Club meets at 7:30 in 173 Robinson. SARAH JOHANNSEN, mezzo-soprano, presents her student recital at 8 in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. "Short Plays for a Man on the Moon," a play, will be presented at 8:30 in both Vermont streets. The SIGMA GAMMA RHO dance begins at 9 in the Big Eight Room of the Union.
TOMORROW: The Art and Design Building OPEN HOUSE leaves from 2 to 5 p.m. DAVID WEHR, pianist, presents a preview of his first-round program for the Techalkovsky Competition at 4 p.m. in Waukong Hall.
Events
KU employee injured in fall
A Facilities Operations employee was listed in good condition yesterday at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after he fell 13 feet from a balcony. He was in the basement of the power plant.
Police were called to the power plant on Sunflower路 by fellow employees of the victim, Oleron Olson, 29, 1911 Tennessee St. and Gate Street, where the body of the foot of the ladder, according to police.
Olson was conscious but apparently suffering from shock when police arrived. He complained of pain in his back and right leg.
steward was followed by supervisors and subjected to unfair inspections of her work
A spokeswoman at the hospital said that the woman was suffering from minor back injury.
"They tried to scare us," Jacobs said. "JERRY POWELL, director of the state Public Emergency Department, said the public he would first need and then he would first try to settle the conflict through an informal investigation."
"However, we handle these things as they come in," Powell said. "I probably won't be able to use them."
Jacobs said that he was pretty sure the disagreements could be resolved without a judge.
If the problem cannot be settled informally,
the following will be scheduled
access to Power
"That management rights clause is so ambiguous it means nothing." Jacobsa said. "They could use it to fire the whole staff if they were to. It always best to talk these things out."
An exhibition of the art work of Albert Bloch, former chairman of the KU department of drawing and painting, will light up the Art Building of the new Visual Art Museum.
The School of Fine Arts will sponsor an open house today and Sunday that will feature works by the students.
Bloch, born in the United States, studied in Europe from 1906 to 1911, and then joined Der Blae Reiter, a well-known group of German painters.
Bloch's work caps building dedication
The Bloch exhibit, featuring German expressionism, will be in the main gallery on the third floor and will continue through April 22.
Walter Hiersteiner, chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents; Chancellor Archie R. Dykes; and James Moever, dean of the School of Fine Arts, will speak at the dedication ceremonies at 2 p.m. in room 315 of the Visual Arts Building.
BLOCH CAME to the United States in 1921 and was appointed chairman of the KU department of drawing and painting in 1937. In 1928, when he retired due to poor health
Moeser said about 500 students used true new building, which opened last fall. Completion of the building had been delayed or for next fall but it was completed early.
He continued to paint and to exhibit his
He said the displays in the studios for the dedication ceremony should give the public a good idea of what types of work art and design students were doing.
work until his death in 1961. His work has been exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Chicago Museum and the Städsche Galerie in Munich.
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