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Friday, April 19, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Pittsburg Profs Get Bargaining Unit
By DAVE BURPEE
Kanaan Staff Reporter
The Kansas Public Employee Relations board yesterday unanimously approved a faculty collective bargaining unit at Kansas State College at Pittburg.
The board's action was a result of a petition filed in March by 24 faculty members. Pitt-sturge that requested that they be allowed to form a collective bargaining unit.
According to Jerry Powell, executive secretary for the board, this was the first request for unit determination that had been made by the Kansas Board of Regents.
An open hearing on the petition was conducted last month by Donald Hoffman,
hearing examiner for the board. He said after the hearing that he would recommend approval of the unit but would without judgment direct an internal chairman to work as part of the unit.
Powell said yesterday that the approved bargaining unit excluded the department
The American Association of University Professors, the Kansas Higher Education Association and the department chairmen themselves, be said, all signed a letter requesting that the department chairman not be included as part of the unit.
According to the petition, the approved unit compares the Vocational Technical Institute faculty, the Learning Resource Center faculty, and the faculty but excludes all personnel who aren't primarily
responsible for teaching, such as secretaries.
According to Kansas law, the next step for the unit members is to elect a group to represent the unit in discussions with the employer.
"the board cannot officially make a move until there is a showing of intent. At that time, the board will have to approve."
Anderson said it was primarily the responsibility of the person who was using the boat to be safe. Life-jacketes are a part of the boat's normal equipment, he said.
The Midwest Collegiate Sailing Association, of which the KU Sailing Club is a member, has its headquarters in Fort Myers.
The case is significant because it establishes a precedent that faculty bargaining units should represent local campuses instead of statewide units. According to Hoffman, however, the precedent is not binding on future units and doesn't preclude the establishment of statewide units.
Although the Student Senate owns the KU Sailing Club boats, it has no control over their use, John Beiser, Salina junior and student body president, said yesterday.
The president of the club, Clark Anderson, Lawrence junior, said, that it was the responsibility of the person who is checking out the boat to see if it was running.
Club Head Says KU Boats Responsibility of Sailors
Powell said that the unit members hadn't given him any indication whether they would take immediate steps to select groups and hold an election.
Authorities have not yet found the bodies of the two KU students, Cheryl Stagner, and John McCain, who mulled juniors, who apparently drowned in Perry Reservoir April 9. Jeff Creel, Memphis sophomore, was rescued by the KU Salamander Club boat the three were using cannised.
temperature is below 55 degrees, sailors must wear life-jackets. The water temperature was below 50 degrees the day of the drowning.
Anyone who is certified by a club instructor as having the knowledge to sail can check out a sailboat. Anderson said. He said the instructor was a former Navy sailor instructor.
Since the sailors pick up the sails the day before they plan to sail, Anderson said, the safety of the weather conditions was their personal judgment.
Small-craft warnings were out the day of drownings, according to the Army Corps of Engineers.
Beisner said he had asked the Finance and Auditing Committee to discuss the matter of the boats at their meeting tomorrow.
"As far as we are concerned," he said,
The Student Senate annually asks the club to show physical possession of the two sailboats, Beisner said, but that is all the control they exercise.
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