University Daily Kansan, September 8, 1983 1 Prof seeks faculty negotiations By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter Staff Reporter The president of the KU chapter of the National Education Association said yesterday that collective bargaining was needed to give faculty a fair voice in the decisions of the University. The president, Clifford Griffin, professor of history, told an audience of about 50 people at yesterday's University Forum that collective bargaining would help unite the "two universities" that exist at KU. "One is defined by the state constitution and state law," Griffin said. "It is an agency under the Board of Regents, which has jurisdiction. It is as long as they stay within the state." "THE SECOND UNIVERSITY is a community of scholars, in the old sense of the word. We are KU's heart and lifeblood and brain." Although those two universities may overlap, he said, they are not the same. The judgment of one is as good as the other, and each knows some things that the other does not. Still, he said, equality between the two universities was needed before a good relationship between them can be sustained. "We faculty members do not have that equality now," he said. "I do not say that the authority of the Board of Regents is all to the bad. But authority is authority and domination is domination." Gritn proposed that the "intellectual university" establish itself through law to become the equal of the "law university." And that could be achieved by making certain changes to the guidelines in the Kansas Public Employer Employee Relations Act. That act allows and encourages Clifford Griffin faculty to organize for negotiation, he said. The Kansas Supreme Court in July, in a case involving Pittsburg State University, the only Regents institution with collective bargaining, upheld lower court rulings that found eight items that the Regents must negotiate with faculty unions: - Tenure procedures and appeal processes. - Determination of faculty salaries. - Salary allocation. - Salary allocation. - Allowances for out-of-state travel. - Faculty input on promotions. - * faculty input impact * - * Decisions about which faculty members will be employed in summer sessions. - Program or department cutbacks or elimination. - Access to personnel files. - Access of people Griffin said those were not the only concern that might be negotiable, depending on what the Regents and the faculty organizations agreed to debate in forming a memorandum of agreement. The KU chapter of the NEA is not a full affiliate of the Kansas-NEA. Griffin said. To become an affiliate, it would have to be approved by "not less than a authority of the unit." The unit then defined to exclude the law school faculty and any employees with chancellor, dean or director as part of their titles. Department heads would also be excluded, he said. The unit would include faculty who teach at least half-time; full-time faculty assistants who teach at least one course a year; unclassified staff recognized as faculty equivalents; librarians at grades I, II and III, and others as defined by the state Public Employee Relations Board. Employee will THE UNIT MAY vote for no representation or for a particular recognized group, such as NEA, with which to be affiliated, Griffin said. If three or more choices are involved, a run-off election between the top two would decide the outcome. outcome. Once representation is determined, Griffin said, negotiation on a memorandum of agreement can begin. The agreement could last as long as three years, he said, and impasse procedures could be used if agreement is not reached. reached. Among the responsibilities of employee Griffin said, were conditions that they could not encourage or discourage membership in the union, or be involved in its organization; they cannot refuse to meet with the employee organization, and they cannot refuse to let union members work. Employees cannot strike or engage in job actions such as slowdowns; they cannot interfere with management rights or refuse to negotiate, and they cannot endorse political candidates, he said. Collective bargaining would make an arena for negotiation as equals between faculty and the Regents, Griffin said. fairly to say. "We KU faculty members have no such arena," he said. "Our arena is the arena of powerlessness." TIME Magazine April 1983 One of the two best orchestras in the nation. 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