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Tuesday, February 17, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Group discusses GTA unionization
By JOSEPH REBELLO
Staff writer
The inclusion of graduate teaching assistants in faculty unions could seriously impair unionization efforts, a professor of history told the executive committee of the Graduate Student Council last night.
The professor, Clifford Griffin, past president of the KU chapter of the National Education Association, said a peculiarity of the Kansas Public Employer-Employee Relations Act could trigger a long and complicated debate about the meaning and intent of the law.
one act says that all half-time faculty members, librarians and other staff members whose duties are related to research will be eligible to form unions, Griffin said.
But the law forbids all "supervisory employees" from forming unions. Supervisory employees are employees who are involved in tasks significantly different from those of their subordinates, such as the hiring and firing of staff members, he said.
For example, any university employee with the title of dean, vice chancellor or chancellor is forbidden to be part of a union.
So far, that interpretation has not been tested in court, but if graduate teaching assistants start a campaign to form unions under the PEER act, a court could easily rule that faculty members were supervisory employees. By doing so, it would forbid faculty unionization, Griffin said.
But, Griffin said, professors also might be considered supervisory employees because they could hire or fire GTAs.
Faculty members were wary of moves to include GTAs in faculty unions because of these legal difficulties, he said.
Griffin told members of GradEx that graduate teaching assistants should form unions, but that it wouldn't be in their interest or faculty members' if GTAs moved to join faculty unions.
After the meeting, Ted Valgallgis, GradEx member and a senior instructor in Western Civilization, said it was unlikely a union of GTAs would be formed because of the time it would take to start such an organization.
"The problem is that graduate students just want to get their degrees and get out," Valggalis said.
On the Record
- Lawrence police reported 13 accidents, and KU police reported two accidents Sunday because of icy weather.
A gold and silver Gucci watch, valued at $300, and $30 cash was stolen sometime Thursday or Friday from a KU student's apartment in Jayhawker Towers, KU police reported.
An AM-FM cassette car stereo and two speakers, valued together at $150, were stolen Thursday or Friday from a locked KU student's car parked in a Jayhawk Towers parking lot. KU police reported.
- Two pot roasts, a box of corn flakes cereal, 12 hamburger buns, two pounds of pork sausage, 10 pounds of cheese, a meat cleaver, a package of salami and two sponges, a package of stollen buns from Battlefield Scholarship Hall, 1425 Alumni Place, KU police reported
A camera, valued at $35, and $188 in cash was stolen Sunday from a KU student's home in the 1300 block of Westbrooke Road, Lawrence police reported.
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