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University Daily Kansan / Monday. November 16, 1987
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AAUP touts commitment
By NOEL GERDES Staff writer
Staff writer
The KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors wants to represent a faculty union because it is committed exclusively to higher education, its organizers say.
Robert Hohn, chairman of KU-AAUP's committee on collective bargaining, said a union represented by KU-AAUP would hire a full-time lobbyst to represent KU faculty in the state Legislature. He said that would be an advantage over the Kansas National Education Association because K-NEA's lobbyst would be representing elementary and secondary school teachers, in addition to university professors.
Hohn said that if KU faculty and staff elected KU-AAU9 to represent a union, the organization would negotiate issues including:
- Salary increases, including cost of living adjustments, market value adjustments and merit raises.
- Increased involvement to determine priorities for money raised by
the KU Alumni Association and the Kansas University Endowment Assoc-
Hohn said a cafeteria approach to tringe benefits meant employees were allocated money with which they could choose certain benefits. For example, he said, an unmarried faculty member without dependents might want to put more money into a retirement fund, but a married faculty member might want more money to go to health insurance benefits for his family.
Hohn said that dues for the national AAUP were about $70 a year and dues for the local chapter of AAUP were $7 a year. If faculty elect KUAAUP to represent them as a union, dues probably would increase to about $200 a year, he said. The increase would be used to pay for the administration and staffing.
The local chapter would determine its own dues. Hohn said that they would probably be about 0.5 percent of an employee's yearly salary.
KU faculty members have much to lose and nothing to gain from a faculty union, the members of KU Independent Faculty said last week in their newsletter.
Independents decry union
A faculty union would hurt already
good relationships with KU administra-
tors said saïd Bicke.
Bicke went on to geology and
president of KU Independent Faculty.
"Collective bargaining by its very nature is adversarial." he said.
He said a faculty union would be out of place at the University. The administration is not management, he said.
"There's no reason to believe that they don't share the same concerns I do."
Staff writer
David Downing, professor of aerospace engineering and KU Independent Faculty member, said KU didn't need a faculty union because KU had had the things collective bargaining was most effective in bringing about.
By NOEL GERDES
KU ad-hoc committee that studied the effects of collective bargaining on other college campuses. He said the committee found that faculty unions strengthened weak faculty governance systems and were helpful in setting up grievance procedures. But he said KU already had a strong faculty government and established grievance procedures.
Bickford said he didn't want a faculty union because KU administrators would be obligated to discuss negotiable matters only with union representatives.
Downing was a member of a 1986
"A relatively small group of people will run the union, yet they will negotiate for all of us, whether we want it to or not." Bickford said.
Bickford said he didn't want people to think that KU Independent Faculty was satisfied with KU's present financial conditions just because it opposed a faculty union.
He said KU needed more state money but that the best way to get it was through KU's traditional labor force chancellor and the Board of Regents.
NEA emphasizes services
Marion "Pat" Bickford
By NOEL GERDES
So a faculty union represented by the KU chapter of NEA would benefit from the organization's membership of 1.8 million elementary, secondary and higher education professionals, said Tom Madden, organizing director for K-NEA.
A large, diversified membership is the National Education Association's greatest strength, a representative from the Kansas NEA said recently.
"We can use the influence of a large membership to advocate the concerns of a small segment of the membership," Madden said.
NEA now represents about 80,000 paid members in higher education. K-NEA membership dues are $278 per year for full-time faculty.
He said that if KU-NEA was elected to represent a KU faculty union, the association would negotiate a salary structure that would include:
Staff writer
- Objective criteria for merit pay.
Madden said an example of objective criteria for merit pay would be a published article.
Annual cost of living adjustments.
Market value considerations.
He said KU-NEA also would negotiate for a grievance system that would impartial review of the grievance and a final, binding decision by a neutral third party.
Minimum salaries for each rank
Specific grievance procedures and specific salary proposals would be decided after the election, Madden said. KU-NEA would survey faculty to try to determine specific salary proposals, he said.
Union leadership would be decided by open nominations and then a secret ballot vote.
Madden said an advantage KUNEA had that KU-AAUP didn't was an affiliation with a state organization. A union represented by KUNEA would have access to two full-time attorneys and a full-time lobbyist in Topeka.
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