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University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 25, 1991
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Local unions support Food Barn strike
By Patricia Rojas
Kansan staff writer
Members of six local labor unions rallied yesterday afternoon in South Park, 11th and Massachusetts in, support of Food Barn strikers.
About 30 people, including strikers and former customers of Food Barn, are killed in a trucking accident.
Analyze, reassure, business manager of the local Plumbers' and the strikers at yesterday's only that his office backed them 100 percent.
"My family used to shop at Food Barn, but they won't be going back until you go back." Peslee said. "If we were not going to go better, they re-wrong."
Doris Parker, Lawrence resident,
carried a picket sign displaying old
cashed checks made out to Food
District. The district wrote,
"I used to shop at Farm Awn."
"I've been shopping there since the doors opened," Parker said. "I'm just appalled at what they're doing to the people."
Food Barn's labor union went on strike March 3 to protest the management's implementation of a new contract that requires a $9 million-a-year reduction in wages and benefits.
'My family used to shop at Food Barn, but they won't be going back until you go back. If the management thinks it's going to get better, they're wrong.'
Dwayne Peaslee business manager of the local Plumbers' and Pipeffters' Union
Charles said he thought business at the local store was down 30 to 40 percent.
Mike Charles, union steward for the local store, 1900 W.23rd St., said that 10 of the local employees were on strike. Before the strike, the store employed 40 people.
Local Food Barn representatives have not commented on the strike since it began about three weeks ago.
tative of Food Barn's union, criticized the managers of Food Barn Inc., yesterday at the rally for portraying their company as community-minded.
Jerry Helmick, business represen-
"To be community-minded, you're going to have to be fair to your own employees.
"We're not asking for pay increases or benefit increases. All these people are asking for is not to work and they presently have." Heilmick said.
He said Food Barn Inc. was dragging the employees' standard of living down to poverty levels.
"There's a lot of them who are having to pull their children out of college after this semester," Helmick said.
He said that the union had announced to the management their willingness to negotiate but that the company had not reacted.
"What I foresee in the future is either Food Barn to训动 acting like an ostrich and pull their head out of the sand, or they better sell their stores to someone that knows how to operate the business," Helmick said.
Members of local labor unions discuss the current strike by Food Barn employees: (From left to right) Jim Seeman, Sheet Metal Workers Union; Dwayne Peaselee, Central Labor Council; F迪rorne, local chapter president of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union; Tom McCall, local chapter president of the American Federation of Grain Millers; and Jim Briggs, also of AFGM. About 30 people attended a rally yesterday in South Park in support of striking Food Barn employees.
Blow me awav
Syd Rodway, St. Louis junior, plays a solo during a Jazz Ensemble I performance. The group's performance Saturday night was the final to the 14th Annual Jayhawk Invitational Jazz Festival, which began Friday. The festival included clinics and performances by jazz singer Mavis Rivers, pianist Frank Mantooth, bassist Bob Bowman, drummer Peter Erskine and the U.S. Air Force Notables.
Finney attempt fails to give people power
Kansan staff writer
By Joe Gose
TOPEKA — Gov. Joan Finney's vehicle to republican bail wall on the honeys on Friday.
Three resolutions, two which would have given voters the power to enact laws and constitutional amendments, and one which would not.
did referendum power,
did not receive the two-
thirds majority vote
needed after receiving
tentative approval Thursday.
Finney, who had retracted an earlier threat to veto all appro
Joan Finney
on her desk if the resolutions were not passed, attacked Republican leaders.
"House Republican leaders abandoned their own party platform to use this vehicle to attack me personally," she said. "They are apparently more interested in beating up on a Democrat governor than in doing what is in the best interest of the people of this state.
"The actions of the Republican House leaders on this issue demonstrate that, in fact, the people could conduct the business of this state more effectively after all."
But State Rep. Tim Shallenburger, R-Baxter Springs, who introduced an amendment to give the people the right to reject tax increases, said the failure of the Democrats to pass the amendment rendered the resolutions impotent.
"Some of us tried to get an amendment on here to give the people what they really want
— the ability to address the tax problems that we have in this state," he said. "I think the 63 bleeding hearts on this bill are guilty of providing to the citizens what they want."
Finney, however, said that voters should examine the Republican agenda and hold them responsible for the failure of the resolutions.
"I can only hope that the people of this state will hold Republican obstructionists accountable for their games and that the majority of legislators can find the wisdom and courage to dedicate the few weeks left of this session to becoming part of the solution," she said.
10-K walk will tackle AIDS
Bv Amv Francis
Kansan staff writer
The Douglas County AIDS Project and Health Care Access are organizing a fundraiser for April, but they are not doing it alone. Organizations from KU and Lawrence are helping, too.
Stamp Out AIDS-Walk For Health is a 10-kilometer walk planned for April 13. Its goal is to raise awareness about AIDS and raise money for DCAP and Health Care Access, said David Douglas, a member of DCAP.
The goal for the walk is to raise $12,000.
Mike Sullivan, director and treasurer of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said that GLSKOH its own goal for the registrar was sponsoring this week in the Kansas Union.
"We'd like to get at least between 10 to 20 walkers," he said. "When the walk actually takes place, we're also going to have volunteers along the walk."
The participants will not have an entry fee but are asked to raise at least $30 in pledges. The proceeds will be divided between DCAP and Health Care Access.
The walkers will have four hours to complete the route, which starts in South Park, continues through the KU campus and ends in South Park. There will be rest stops during
The Lawrence Parks and Recreation department is co-sponsoring the walk.
the route where walkers can drink water and eat
Kathy Fode, superintendent of recreation for Parks and Recreation, said, "We feel strongly about AIDS and about health. That is something we want to do." It is something that is a community project.
The department will provide chairs, chairs and electricity. It also will open the park's restrooms for the walkers' use, Fode said.
Douglas said use of the equipment was not the only benefit of having the parks and recreation facilities available.
"It adds a lot of credibility," he said.
The Lawrence Public Works department will provide orange vests for the safety monitors to wear during the walk, Douglas said.
The walk will be one of the final events of AIDS Awareness Week, which starts April 6.
“This week is designed to raise funds,” he said. “This walk will probably be the primary
After the walk a party will be sponsored in the park for the walkers. Douglas said he hoped DCAP could get local merchants to donate supplies for the party.
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