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KU faculty leaders reject KNEA union
By KATHRYN KASE Staff Reporter
Although KU faculty leaders made it clear last week that they didn't want anything to do with the Kansas National Education Association or any other faculty union, the KNEA probably will keep trying to gain support here.
"We're really very patient," Lee Quisenbier, KNEA higher education coordinator in Topeka, said recently. "We don't want to rush people. That's not the way you build a faculty organization."
And according to Quisenberry, there are needs on the KU campus that a faculty organization like KNEA could fill. One of those needs—increased faculty representation at the legislative level—has resulted in aversation with faculty presidents at the State Board of Regents institutions, he said.
"I've found that faculty members at KU and other campuses are and do feel restricted about involving themselves in the legislative process," Quisbenberry said. "They are told to put their concerns in the hands of some hired by the administration to represent administration views."
Richard Von Ende, KU executive secretary, is the administrator who usually represents the University with his own ears at the Legislature's budget hearings.
But KU faculty members and at least one administrator have cried foul at Quisenberry's assessment of the situation.
He said that any faculty member who wanted to go to Topeka could and that the administration was making strong efforts to increase the faculty interests at the Leriumature.
Quisenberry said that when the administration represented the faculty at the Legislature and the administration and faculty had differences, the administration would present its point of view.
But Evelyn Swartz, president of the
KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, took issue with that scenario.
"I think there's an overgeneralization," she said. "There are administrators and there are administrators. It depends on who it is."
WRANGLING OVER what faculty needs are and whether they are represented is typical of talk concerning a faculty union at KU. Perhaps part of the problem is that under Kansas law, faculty can only "meet and confer" about employment conditions, they cannot strike.
But the statutory prohibition against striking isn't too important, Robert Miner. NEA staff liaison in Washington. D.C., said.
"First of all, collective bargaining does not imply the threat of strikes," he said. "Second of all, NBA has never made any mistake as being the first line of offense."
He added that NEA affiliates had struck in states that prohibited striking.
"We believe that currently, one of the more pressing needs in higher education is more representation at the legislative level," he said, suggesting that KNEA could actively lobby for new funding and legislation to creases. "It is a mistaken notion that we organize only for collective bargaining."
"I can't tell you that striking is never mandated, or dictated by the NEA," he then our locals go on strike, the NEA will say that they have decided the decision is made by the local group."
Quisenberry agreed that if KNEA organized KU, the union's function probably would be a lobbying agent at the legislative level.
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, and all that it entails, is only one of the many services KNEA could offer here. The company Loyd, KNEA executive director, said.
"We did react informally to Rep. Joe Haagland (R-Roverland, Park), indicating our support of tenure," he said, using that as an example of what
ralk about KNEA lobbying away* seems to degenerate into a shouting call to the police, as we can do this for you," and the other side counters with, "No, you can't."
KNEA could do for faculty while lobbying.
"If faculty here or anywhere think that organizing with the KNEA for purposes of collective bargaining is to result in dramatic economic benefits, they are in a dream," he said. "We do not believe our colleagues have been misled to belie that the way out of the economic problems of the 80s is unionization."
Worth used as an example KNEA's faculty union at Pittsburg State University. PSU is the only Regents institution where faculty are organized and any other faculty increases are not any better than any other Regents faculty. Worth said.
HIGHLY DISPUTED on the KU campus is whether the KNEA could bring about higher salaries. George Worth, Faculty and Senate Executive Committee claims "no" and claims that increased salaries are a low priority for the KNEA.
Dale Frihart, chapter president of the PSU union, agreed with Worth.
"Our local concern has been the means of distribution of what the legislature allocates," he said and explained that merit pay raises previously had not been equitably distributed at PSU.
ALTHOUGH PSU faculty may not be ahead of other Regents school faculty in salary increases, KNEA still charac- terizes the Pittsburgh affiliate as a success.
"In my judgment they are making a lot more progress than any of the five other Regents universities," Quisenberry said. "They feel more confident
that their desires and wishes are being heard."
"There are numerous alternatives to what we have accomplished with KNEA here," he said. "It's one way. We believe, at this time, that it offers the greatest supporting mechanisms of any type of benefit organization." He added that insurance all sorts of insurance and services are available through it."
AT KU, HOWEVER, faculty governance is strong, according to William Scott, a professor of English who is also active in the AAUP.
This year the KU faculty received only 7 percent of the 10 percent salary increase they requested from the legislature. But Swartz agrees with Worth, who doubted whether a union would support the faculty's economic condition.
"We are present in pretty good shape there," he said, adding that weak faculty governance was usually one of two purposes for unionization. "The second is to improve the faculty's economic position."
But Swartz said that more KU faculty were interested in unionization because of the financial crisis.
It's totally in keeping with the low salaries and frinie benefits," she said.
Notetheless, the national office of the NEA has targeted Kansas as a state that is ripe for organizing higher education and indications are that KNEA will continue to wwo faculty at Regents institutions.
"We can identify an inclination in the faculty towards collective bargaining." Miner said. "All the rumblings indicate to me there's fire where the smoke is. How close we are to organizing, though, I just can't say."
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Former assistant sports information director John Weltner will know whether he has succeeded in his efforts with the University back by May 28.
That was the date set by the University Judiciary. Committee last week for an informal hearing to determine whether Weltmer had indeed been fired for "unlawful, arbitrary and capricious reasons" as he charged in a petition filed last November.
"To me it's a positive step," Weltmert said about the upcoming hearing. "It affirms the fact that we has a basis for my complaint."
Weltner said he understood from Regina Kossel, chairman of the University Judiciary, that a decision made after the hearing Udatay.
Don Baker, former sports information director who resigned in July to work for Southwestern Life Insurance, Athletic Director Bob
Marcum, and the KU athletic department were named in the complaint.
Last Monday, Baker was dismissed as a plaintiff because he part of the University, but he will be called to testify at the hearing.
Weltner said he was not worried about the length of time it had taken to have his case heard.
“Frankly, my lawyers didn't move very fast, and neither did Regina Kossek, partly because this was the first time she'd had to deal with a situation like this,” Weltmer said.
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