University Daily Kansan, January 19, 1981
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KU facultv. staff to lobbv for larger pav hikes
By DALE WETZEL
By DALE WETZEL Staff Reporter
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Gov. John Carlin's fiscal 2012 budget has made him an unpopular man on the KU
Dissatisfied with the governor's tightified financial stance, the University Senate executive committee, the American Association of University Professors, and the Senate Senate are disclosing efforts to persuade the Legislature to raise the ante.
'If the Legislature refuses to raise Carlin's proposed 8 percent increase in faculty and unclassified staff salaries, faculty morale could suffer severely, according to T.P. Srinivasan, last year's president of the KU branch of the AAUP.
SRINIVASAN, PROFESSOR of math, said he had met Carlin earlier with other AAUP members and left with the impression that Carlin would boost faculty salaries to keep them happy and finance finances. This made the governor's proposal doubly hard to take, he said.
"We weren't expecting to catch up with inflation," he said, "but the proposal, 4
percent below what we asked for, compounded the shock."
Another KU group plans to protest Carlin's austere policy. Susanne Cuznue, Classified Senate member, said that SenEx plans to lobby the Legislature for a bigger cost-of-living increase than a 5 percent increase recommended by Carlin.
"The cost of living is the same whether you're a professor or a classified employee," Cupp said. "Professors make considerably more than laborers for Buildings and Grounds, and the 12 percent inflation rate hits laborers considerably harder."
Classified employees include secretaries, maintenance personnel and other non-
specialized employees.
SRINIVASAN SAID he believed the immediate effect of Carlin's proposal, if it passes, would be decreased morale among the faculty.
"A longer-term result could be increasing difficulty in getting young people into the teaching profession," "Srinivasa said." Less is more than into teaching if the incentives aren't there."
His concerns were echoed by George Worth, chairman of SenEx.
"It's going to affect us, these decreased salaries," Worth said. "We're going to lose some good people, and the people who remain are going to find it harder to make ends meet."
Worth, professor of English, revealed that a faculty movement was underway to lobby for the reopening of colleges.
FACULTY SENATE presidents of the six Regents universities have already met with the chairmen of both the Senate and House Committees to finalize the final budget. These committees influence the final budget.
"I know the presidents, the chancellors, the Board of Regents, the Regents staff and the legislators are all going to be doing a lot of talking over the next few months." Worth
Worth added that besides faculty salaries,
power of 6 percent increase in operating
costs, and salary increases.
If it stays at 6 percent, that would be devastating," he said. "We're hurting now. The cost of the things we buy, from paper bags to uping up at least at the same rate as inflation."
Some items such as library books, Worth said, are going up as fast as 30 percent.
WORTH SAID the legislative session was too young to make any predictions, but he was not optimistic KU would get its full budget request.
"I hope the budget will change upward, but I really can't predict what will happen," Worth said. "I can only hope the Legislature will do the right thing."
Cupp said the Classified Senate had already met with legislators from Lawrence and were
Implementation of a new "merit" pay plan concerning classified employees' salaries also could have adverse effects on pay levels, Cupp said. Although faculty and unclassified employees have used the merit plan for classes, this is its first year with classifieds.
"We were allotted 20 minutes, and wound up getting two hours of their time," Cupp said. They seemed extremely interested in our teaching and course cost-of-living increase as the professors get."
"The philosophy of the new plan is good." she said in civil service, employees must not drop into a job without training.
living rises, Classified employee will now receive "step" increases according to their work rating. An outstanding employee will receive a three-step increase, good ones a two-step boost, and so on. Employees rated "poor" could face a salary cut, Cupp said.
MERIT PLAN PAY increases, Cupp explained, are in addition to regular cost-ofthe legislators felt that offering more money to the entry-level jobs would attract higher-quality personnel and would keep them longer," she said.
"The merit system for rating classified employees is also much more structured than the current system."
Rating requirements are likely to be more stringent in the merit system, Cupp said, making it harder to get a three-step wage increase. In the past, a longevity system was used with workers getting an annual step increase regardless of performance.
THE GOVERNOR'S recommended funding for the merit system also emphasizes entry-level positions, to the disadvantage of longer-term employees. Cudo said.
"In fiscal year 1979, under the longevity plan, approximately 25 percent of classified employees were rated outstanding, as said. In contrast, this percentage is not likely to be as high."
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