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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Wednesday, June 25, 1986
City,police still working on contract
By a Kansan reporter
After the final day of deliberations with a federal mediator, Lawrence police officers and the city have not met to draft contract agreement for 1987 and 1988.
The two parties have settled on a partial agreement, which was sent to attorneys for the police officers and the city.
The police officers and city officials have until Friday to reach a final agreement, or the Lawrence C. Hammons hearing to examine both sides
"We have turned over the appeals processes to the attorneys to work out wording," David Reivis, an associate counsel for the association chairman, said yesterday.
Reavis will take the agreement as it stands now to the LPOA membership meeting tomorrow night.
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Kansas plant to leave state
HESSTON — State officials said yesterday that they were surprised by news that Hesston Corp. plans to move 100 employees to its Oregon, Ill., plant because of a reported shortage of skilled Kansas labor.
Schwartz said Mario Chessa, Heston president, was unavailable to speak with him yesterday, but was going to contact him today.
"We've met with them several times over the last two months and that was never discussed," Schwartz of Saheson's apparent inability to find appropriately skilled workers. "It'm surprised."
Jamie Schwartz, secretary of the Kansas Department of Economic Development, said he contacted the financially struggling company by email and about the transfer. Hesson Corp. produces farm and oil-field equipment.
Fred Scharer, Hesson executive vice president, said demands on the skilled work force by a number of firms in the region. Hesson with a shortage of trained
workers for production of its rear mounted and under-mounted mowers.
"They have worked such quantities of overtime in the first five to six months of this year and (company officials) have not been able to hire the skills that were required to keep them ahead of schedule," he said.
Chessa, contacted by a McPherson radio station, downplayed the transfer, saying it involved minor operations.
"Some of the company's growth will be made in Oregon, Illinois rather than in Hesston," he said. "We are not talking about reducing production jobs in Hesston at this stage."
Michael Swenson, press secretary to Gov. John Carlin, also expressed surprise when told of the Hesston move.
"That's certainly something we're going to get on," he said.
He called reports of Hesston's inability to find skilled workers unusual and said Carlin would be advised immediately of the company's
Heston recorded a nearly $14 million first-quarter loss this year, more than five times the loss recorded in the same period of 1985.
Nearly a year ago, Hesston moved its rear-mounted and under-mounted mower division in Illinois to its Heston plant in south-central Kansas, citing a need to cut overhead costs. At that time, the company mounted 90 jobs from its Oregon and Mount Carroll, IJ, plants to Heston.
Of those, 100 jobs will be transferred back to Oregon, company officials said.
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