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Philip Rankin, director of personnel services, said employee organization would make it difficult to confer with employees on a one-to-one basis. But, he said, dealing one-to-one is difficult at the moment because the University is understaffed.
RANKIN SAID he could not imagine a situation under the new law in which employees would fall to report for work because of an inability to settle grievances. The law provides that the PERB will intervene in the event of an impasse, he said.
Such situations as the one that occurred last spring when maintenance and service employees walked off their jobs probably will be avoided under the law, he said.
University officials said they could not predict with any certainty whether more employees would attempt to form bargaining units.
"The history of employee organizations in colleges and universities is that there has been much activity in organizing. We might not be active activity here in Kansas," Nichard said.
Rankin said other groups probably would petition for representation. The University needs to keep the units as large as possible, he said, so they will be effectively dealt with if staff, so.
THERE HAS BEEN discussion in recent years about professors bargaining collectively. Oldfather said that in private institutions particularly, the American University Professors (AAUP) had participated in elections of public labor boards.
John Glinka, associate director of the library and president of the KU chapter of the AAP, sent to AAUP members about a year ago asking whether they favored collective bargaining. About 60 per cent of those responding did favor collective bargaining,
Glinka said, however, that AAPU members were not a representative sampling of the faculty. The temper of the times has changed since then, also, he said. The question was administered in 1972/73 in which there no were no roles in faculty salaries.
"I'T NOT THE same feeling this year," Glinka said. "There's an interest (in collective bargaining), but not a strong drive."
Maintenance and service employees are the only employee group on campus yet recognized by the PERB as a bargaining unit. The unit comprises 530 positions and includes employees from Buildings and Grounds, housing and health services.
The University has agreed that the maintenance employees were an appropriate candidate.
Nitcher said that no decision had been made about whether maintenance employees would be represented, or who would represent them.
Service Employees Local Union 1132 has petitioned the PERB to represent the maintenance and service employees. The petition was successfully commissioned administered by the PERB whether
THE COMMUNICATIONS Workers of America have asked to represent 90 classified employees in the KU library system. A bearing concerning recognition unit for a bargaining unit is scheduled for April 31. The employees are appealing the date.
they will be represented at Local 1132 or by another organization or whether to be represented at a different location.
If the hearing is not held sooner, much of the organization will be lost, and many people will be displaced. Mild hearing loss.
Nitcher said the University did not believe the library employees were an appropriate burgeoning unit for two reasons. The university does not have the faculty and the university administration believes
Second, some of the employees among the 90 seeking recognition are supervisors, and Senate Bill 331 prohibits supervisors from leaving in the same unit as regular employees.
MITCHELL SAID that campus-wide organization of clerks and secretaries would make labor relations easier for the University, but that it was not the intention of the library employees to make things simple for the administration. The employees are trying to better their position, he said.
that clerks and secretaries throughout the University, not just the clerks from the University.
"A decision by the PERB to get a campuswide bargaining unit would be a decision to
The lack of communication between employees in small offices across campus would make organization impossible, he explained.
have no bargaining unit organized," Mitchell said.
Because funding for wages comes from the state, Mitchell said, the library employs 170 staff members. The Kansas Association of Public Employees (KAFE). The AFL-CIO has a large lobby in Topeka and is one of Gov. Robert Docking's largest campaign contributors, said Mit
MITCHELL SAID one working condition library employees were seeking to ameliorate was "a feeling of helplessness in the face of bureaucracy."
AURH Stands Firm on Demands
Representatives of the Association of University Residence Halls (AURH) reasserted Monday the role of AURH in the development of funds by the dean of women's office.
Jack Meyer, vice president off AURH and Norton senior, and Jan Stokes, secretary of AURH and Cincinnati freshman, made a statement for the AURH executive board in response to a position taken Friday by Emily Taylor, dean of women.
Taylor had said that she would talk to AURH about allegations she had misused funds from a residence hall library but that she thought the fund was of no concern
"AURH feels it does have a right to intervene." Stokes said.
Meyer and Stokes said that AURH, as a liaison between the deans' offices and the residence halls, should act in this case because the dean's office was charged by the dean of women were involved.
AURH requested Thursday a refund of $1,000 in residence hall funds it said were used to establish a career library in the dean of women's office. The money in the refund was used by five percent rebate from vending machine profits in the four residence halls.
Taylor's office administers Oliver,
Schellars and Sellars
Passports (GSP) and Cornholds.
Meyer and Stokes said AURH considered itself representative in its action to request the refund because of eight of the 12 representatives from the five halls were present at the meeting of the Residents Assembly Thursday.
Taylor met Friday with representatives of the halls under her jurisdiction to discuss the refund request. The representatives were to explain the library fund to the residents of each hall, then report back to Taylor Thursday.
Meyer and Stokes questioned whether the composition of the group that met with Taylor Friday indicated a bias in favor of the dean of women's office.
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An awareness of the problems and opinions of the faculty and alumni has grown in the students on the committee, Dillon said.
Kleinberg said that he still considered the academic program of the University its largest and most important part.
"The students have seen faculty problems which must be solved," he said. "We also know how valuable the alumni are and that they should not be someone who they can work with."
"I have now seen problems the new chancellor must face in all situations whether it be with students, faculty or alumni," he said.
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"But I also see the benefit of other
Dillon said the groups in the committee had not acted like groups. Situations had arisen, he said, when the students asked if they were at a university alumni might have asked and vice versa.
as a member of the committee "very pleasant despite the work load."
Students who attended the meeting said no decision was made to oppose AURH involvement in the controversy. They said that any other opinion from the halls on the matter.
dorms were official," Harmon said. "The advisers of the library in each hall were also invited to come to learn about the situation but not to influence the group's decision."
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--programs such as the athletic program," he said. "The alumni members and I still have our differences but we understand each other much better now."
Meyer and Stokes also said the investigation of the use of the library funds had been clouded by such side issues as the future use of the funds and the value of the Women's Resource Library for which the funds were used. Taylor has said.
The remaining six were employees of the dean of women's office, Meyer and Stokes said. Besides Taylor, they were Walter Smith, associate dean of women; Terry Duffield, Pitman, N.J., senior, Oliver resident assistant; Cathy Leavitt, CMount city senior, Oliver resident assistant; Pam Brown, Oliver resident assistant; GSP-Corbian graduate assistant, and Kathy Harmon, Lawrence graduate student, Hashinger resident director.
Edwards said that explanations by the faculty and student members of their opinions had helped him understand their points.
AURH is still seeking an explanation of the expenditures in question, they said. A meeting between the executive board of AURH and Taylor has been tentatively scheduled for Wednesday. Taylor was to be out of town until late today.
All the members expressed the view that the attendant was working as a whole and not as an artist.
"The library representatives from the
"We have come down to a center line of thinking." Edwards said.
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