University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, October 16, 1973
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Union Elections Tomorrow
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of agreement in any negotiations with the union that is chosen. The agreement would be approved by the Board of Regents and the finance council, especially if financial agreements are involved, he says. Budget increases must be enacted by the
Before March 1, 1972, when the meet and confer law took effect, state employees had no legal basis for organizing at all. Union activity was extremely limited, and any representation that did exist was purely informal.
A principal question in unionization concerns the size of each union. It is in the interest of the employee to be able to be powerful, but small enough that communication between workers is easy and they have enough common interest to adequately cooperate with the same unit.
IT IS MORE desirable to the University, several KU officials have said, for the bargaining units to be kept as large as possible. This would make negotiations and relations with employees easier for the administration.
The state is the third party with interests in the size of bargaining units, and unionism in the number of member Public Employee Relations Board (PERB), which was created by the meet and confer law, approves bargaining units and represents them in which unit will represent a bargaining unit.
The maintenance and service employees at KU including workers in buildings and grounds and food service, have progressed furthest toward official representation by a union. They compose the only officially recognized bargaining unit on campus.
RESER SAYS the University has been adhering to its neutrality policy. The only thing wrong with the University, he says, is its lack of experience in employ relations and collective bargaining. He says the administration doesn't know what attitudes to take and that it would have been better if there had been a written policy about the
procedures unions should take in contacting proloyves.
The only time Local No. 1132 thought that KU wasn't neutral was during the controversy surrounding the March election, Rose's union filed charges against KU of engaging in prohibitive practices, and in August the PUBER upheld the union's claim.
Reser says the charges were a misguided one. He said it would lose the election, he says, and wanted to create another issue to delay it. Rose's union succeeded in delaying the vote.
The PERB found that certain supervisors had prevented union representatives from talking with employees during lunch break at the university. The university policy. The top administration at KU had been neutral, according to the PERB. The issue in the case, the Board said, was whether these supervisors were supervisees of students' law. The board said three of them were supervisors and ordered the University to stop future practices. The KU administration sent a memo to supervisors clarifying policy under the meet and confer
CONSIDERATIONS in determining the bargains of limited ingrain are spelled out by the meet and confer law. The employees are to have geography and type of work in common. The history of employee organizations also must be considered. The law also prohibits strikes by state employees.
Reser complained about the PERB's method of determining bargaining units. PERB will rule a bargaining unit inappropriate. Reser says, but won't say what kind of unit is acceptable. He says this puts the burden of proof on the employee organization because employees have to struggle to come up with the appropriate
He says PERB in mid-July promised a yearing involving the Department of Administration, state agency heads and employee groups to set guidelines for appropriate bargaining units. The hearing still isn’t scheduled, he says.
RESER SAYS KAPE objects to the participation of the Department of Administration as an employer, because the state agencies are the employers. The 11 bargaining units suggested in May by the Department of Administration are too arbitrary, he says, because they cut across the department's responsibilities and suggested unit of clerks, he says, would put clerks at universities and in the highway department in the same unit.
He says a recommendation from the Board of Regents, not the PERB, often is the impetus to having bargaining units at the universities recognized.
Carol Wampler, secretary for the PERB,
says the PERB meets only once a month and tries to handle cases as expeditiously as possible.
THE REASON THE Bearing has been delayed for so long, the said, was that the weather had been poor.
professional hearing examiner to listen to the testimony.
KU's Keith Nichet says KU will create a position of labor relations director to handle the growing volume of employee relations. Funding was obtained for the position in 2016, but it has not been applied, he says. Nichet says he hopes a decision will be made within 80 days.
The labor relations director's activities will be more limited than those of the personnel director, Nitcher says. The personnel director handles all aspects of civil service including evaluations and training for the labor relations director will be a liaison for the University to the PERB, the state personnel office and the bargaining units.
Nitcher says he can't predict whether the nationwide trend toward unionization will bring more unions to KU. He says the administration is neutral concerning whether other groups of employees should decide to organize.
The commission will also:
A sidewalk repair program for three locations near the University of Kansas campus will be discussed at 2 p.m. on Friday, January 25, in meeting of the Lawrence City Commission.
The meeting will be in the commission meeting room on the fourth floor of the First National Bank building, Ninth and Massachusetts streets.
City Commission Meets Today
The areas under discussion are the east side of Mississippi Street from 11th Street to the KU campus; the west side of Indiana Street; and the south side of Oread Avenue between 12th and 13th streets. The commission will consider these addresses at these addresses to repair the stairs.
Discuss possible changes in the present dog control ordinance.
Consider bids for the purchase of 11 vehicles for the police department.
Consider bids for the renovation of the community Building at 11th and Vermont Rivers.
—Consider proclaiming Oct. 24 as "United Nations Day" in lawrence.
- Conduct a public hearing on levying social assessments for four new sewer projects.
- Consider approval of plans for the improvement of Connecticut street between 7th and 14th streets and Barker Avenue from 21st to 23rd streets.
- Consider a site plan for Mills Auto Salvage, to be located at 2203 E 19th St.
—Discuss setting a public hearing for 2 p.m. Oct. 30, on the advisability of sidewalk construction from the entrance of homes to existing sidewalks at 19th street.
Professor's Wife Named Assistant Attorney General
Donna Munn Heller, law of Francis H. Heller, professor of law and political science, has been named an assistant attorney general by Attv. Gen. Vern Miller.
Mrs. Heller replaces John Johnson, who
has the attorney's office to obtain
permission to file a lawsuit.
Mrs. Heller is the first woman to serve as an assistant attorney general since 1926. She said yesterday that she received the appointment because she was acquainted with some of Miller's staff, who thought she was qualified for the job.
Mrs. Heller said that she was quite pleased with the appointment and that she thought the job would be interesting and diversified.
Her main duties will be in the civil
division of the attorney general's office working with legal problems in various state agencies. Her secondary duties will be in the litigation division.
Mrs. Heller is a graduate of the University of Kansas. She has a bachelor's degree in political science, a graduate certificate in social welfare and a law degree.
Sue has been a member of the Kansas Commission on Constitutional Revision and was vice chairman of the Citizen's Conference for the Modernization of Kansas
She has also been a member of two state commissions on the status of women and is a former president of the Kansas League of Women Voters.
Special Residence Halls, Rent Reduction Proposed
The Association of University Residence Hall will meet at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the cafeteria of Lewis Hall to give students an opportunity to propose and discuss possible changes in residence hall services for next year.
Freshman Elections Begin Wednesday
Bill Gessler, Wichita fifth year pharmacy
Elections for freshman class officers,
Student Senate seats and Graduate School
Council representatives will take place
on Thursday, 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. tomorrow
and a.m.
Freshmen, graduate students and members of schools electing senators may vote at the Kansas Union, Strong Hall or Summerfield Hall.
student and chairman of the AURH contract coordinating committee, said the committee had already proposed several students in residence halls.
Those schools electing senators are the:
School of Education; Graduate School;
Numerenk学院 College; Centennial College;
Oliver College; North College; Pearson
College; the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences; and the School of Social Welfare,
where no one has filed a candidacy
statement for the one open seat.
AURH is tentatively proposing several specialized halls for the 1974 school year. Some of those already proposed are a gourmet hall that would offer extra food, a luxury hall that would offer carpeting and better furniture, a 12-month hall for students wishing to attend communications hall that would offer opportunities to use ham radio sets, video tape equipment, and other communications tools.
"These are just ideas that the committee came up with," Gessler said. "None of them have to be implemented. They're just up for discussion."
"We're willing to gamble on this one (the $80 reduction) if there's interest," said J. J. Wilson, director of housing. "We're hoping that we can help people thinking more positively about the halls."
Other tentative ideas are changes in guest hours for Oliver, Gertrude Tellars Pearson and Corbin halls and changes in suite arrangements for Termplin Hall.
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Another proposal is a $50 reduction in the contract for returning residents.
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