University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 28, 1987
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Salary proposal upsets KU staff
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
Staff writer
Some employees at the University of Kansas said last night that they felt insulted and that they feared becoming second-class workers because of Gov. Mike Hayden's proposed salary increases for them.
"It's a slap in the face." Judith Scheff, a clerical worker at Haworth Hall, said at a senate meeting for classified employees. "We should be treated as equals along with all other types of employees."
ries.
On Friday, in his State of the State address, Hayden proposed a 2.5 percent increase in faculty salaries, and a 1 percent increase in faculty retirement benefits. He proposed a 1.5 percent cost-of-living increase in classified employees' salaries and a 2.5 percent increase in student sala-
John Brothers, a sergeant for KU police and president of the KU Classified Senate, said the 1.5 percent salary increase offered to classified employees was demeaning compared with the increase offered to faculty and other unclassified employees.
Classified employees are those who hold non-faculty positions such as maintenance workers, secretaries and clerical workers.
"Classified employees see themselves as having a lower social standing. This comes from a long-standing, deep-rooted way of being treated," Brothers said. "There is a definite class perception."
Bill Parson, a computer operator,
said many people failed to under-
stand the language.
employees were to the University.
"Basically, what we're looking for is equality. We've always been second class." Parson said. "It's always the classified employee who receives two or three percent less than every one else."
Some of the people attending the meeting said they enjoyed the quality of life Lawrence had to offer but also considered themselves stuck here, with little chance of advancement or mobility.
"I tend to be tied to the town." Scoff said "I love Lawrence, the ambiance, the things I can do, but salaries are bad."
Don Dowdy, a cataloger at Watson Library, said, "You can be a hard worker, do a good job, but receive
nothing. There's no incentive."
Brothers said Chancellor Gene A. Budig had made very positive efforts to include classified employees in the decision-making process of the University and to involve them in committees and other University functions where they often had been denied access.
"But this country-cousin mind-set can not be eradicated in a short span of time," he said.
Classified Senate sent a letter to Hayden outlining its concerns and giving some examples of inequalities.
The members noted that from 1975 to 1985, their salaries increased 68 cents for every $1 increase in faculty and other unclassified employees' wages.
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