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Vol. 94, No. 2 (USPS 650-640)
Monday morning, August 22, 1983
Conflict lasted 15 days
Tentative contract ends AT&T strike
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Union leaders approved a tentative contract yesterday to end a 15-day-old telephone strike by 675,000 Bell System operators and service technicians.
The three-year contract, which still is subject to completion of local bargaining and ratification by the rank-and-file, provides for a 16.4 per capita wage increase during the life of or after agreement.
The document was signed last night by Glena
'It's an excellent contract. It's good for the company, it's good for the workers and it's good for the customers.'
Watts, president of the Communications Workers of America, and Rox Reed, vice president of labor relations of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Charles Dynes AT&T Spokesman
The 17-member executive board of CWA, which represents $25,000 Bell System workers, was the last of three unions to approve the contract.
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OFFICIALS OF THE International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents 100,000 workers, and the Telecommunications International Union, which represents 50,000, signed
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Staff Reporter
The check policy at the University of Kansas is simple. You do not have to go through the usual ritual of showing two pieces of identification. If you do not cover it, your enrolment will be canceled.
By SUSAN WORTMAN
Bad checks are a problem at KU especially during enrollment, said Roger Liebst, general accounting supervisor for the comptroller's office. At the end of enrollment last semester, the comptroller's office had almost $60,000 in bad checks he said.
A BAD CHECK is treated as a late enrollment and carries an extra $10 charge. This year University officials have added an extra charge for writing bad checks.
"People will write a check knowing full well that they don't have the money to cover it." Liechst said. "Often they will do it to hold their enrollment."
"We now have an $8 charge for bad checks
That became effective as of late July." Liebst
Schneider says he's loved sun for 14 years The 'Tan Man' of KU has devoted his life to worship of the sun
MONDAY MORNING
By ALBERTO SALDARRIAGA Staff Reporter
Some say he was a soldier in Vietnam who ruined his nerves and then was dropped somewhere in the United States by the Army. There are people who think he is a sun monk. And many say he has skin cancer and is waiting for his death in the sun.
according to the Tan Man, is that one day, nearly 14 years ago, he decided he had fallen in love.
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10 years He was born 40 years ago in Wichita where his mother, three brothers and one sister still live.
From that day on, he devoted his life to that love - the sun
tentative contracts earlier yesterday with AT&T.
The one thing true about the Tan Man,
"All those stories about me are false. I just love the sun. That's the only reason why I spend my time, my life, sunbathing," he said.
HIS REAL NAME is John Schneider. 426 Rhode Island St., and he says he has been subbating in front of Wescop Hall for almost 15 years.
Watts estimated that $3 billion worth of improvements were in the contract. He said the agreement would raise the current average hourly wage at $12.33 to $14.33 over the years.
three years. Watts said telephone workers could return to
He says he never was a soldier. He likes religion, but he is not a monk. And, he says, he is as crazy as any other human being.
"About those skin cancer rumors, I think they also are false. I feel fine. I don't have any
See TAN MAN, p. 5, col. 1
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