State Treasurer Redden reports:
Collective bargaining legislation to aid faculty ]
A recently enacted piece of
legislation (HB 2263, establishing
collective bargaining for the pub
lic employee sector, will have the
effect of giving faculty members
within the state system of higher
education bargaining rights in
stead of “begging rights,” State
Treasurer James Redden said
Tuesday.
Speaking to about 30 faculty
members and some students in
the EMU Dad’s Room, Redden
said previous legislation dealing
with collective bargaining had
not really been drafted with the
purposes of including all public
employees. He said a limited
collective bargaining bill affect
ing state employees was passed
in 1969.
“Under that law, bargaining
units within local governments
could ask to come under the law,
but very few did,” he said. “Up
until the new law, Oregon State
employees had fairly good bar
gaining rights while faculty
members were limited to begging
rights,” he said.
The former Medford attorney
and author of HB 2263 said when
he was appointed to the gover
nor's task force to study collect
ive bargaining for the public
sector, he wasn’t sure how broad
a spectrum of employees the bill
would encompass.
“I asked myself ‘how much will
the public put up with?’ and
‘Should we lump everyone under
the same law?’ We decided that
everyone should come under the
law in order to give tljem effect
ive bargaining power,” Redden
said.
The law does exclude certain
employees such as firemen and
policemen from going on strike.
Redden outlined the steps to be
taken in the bargaining process.
The first step, he said, involves
choosing an approporiate bar
gaining unit. Once chosen, that
organization represents the fac
ulty in negotiations with the
employer. If negotiations are at
an impasse, then the Public
Employees Relations Board
(PERB) is notified, and they
provide for state mediation. If
mediation fails to break the
impasse, than an objective fact
finding crew examines the issues
and presents the facts.
“If fact-finding does not resolve
the dispute then the employees
can strike,” says Redden. He
adds, however, that at any point
in the negotiation process one of
the parties can request binding
arbitration.
“Binding arbitration is strong
medicine, but the beauty of it is
that the parties will make up
their minds rather than have
someone unfamiliar with the en
tire affair come in and make a
binding arbitrary decision.”
After Redden delivered his talk
he fielded questions from the
audience. Among those topics he
touched were:
Higher Education—“I think
higher education has been com
ing under an increasing amount
of fire from the public, and their
reaction against higher education
spending is hard to fight. But I
think all public institutions are
facing this kind of difficulty!’
Communication between Legis
Student plans to run
for state representative
John Stewart announced his
candidacy for State Representa
tive from District 41 in Lane
John Stewart
County Wednesday morning.
Stewart plans to enter the Demo
cratic primary. The incumbent
Representative is Republican
Mary Burrows. Stewart is the
first announced candidate for the
office.
Stewart, a 21-year-old Univer
sity student, was a delegate to the
1972 Democratic National Con
vention. He served as the first
chairer of Sen. George McGov
ern’s presidential campaign in
Oregon.
He called for change through
the legislative process including
a complete conflict of interest
and public disclosure act for
public officials and candidates
during a news conference in the
Eugene Hotel.
He also advocates stronger
health and day care programs in
Oregon.
Stewart said he supports stiff
environmental legislation to
“protect the Willamette Valley
from unchecked industrialization
and urban blight.”
Stewart also advocated the le
galizing of marijuana and lower
ing the drinking age to 19.
In a published release, Stewart
accounted both his campaign's
financial status and his personal
assets.
lators and faculty—“Certainly
not everyone in the Legislature is
informed about what is going on
at the University,” he said. “Sev
eral of them are though, and
especially the ones in the Ways
and Means Committee.”
“I think the faculty should have
more contact with the Legislators
also. Faculty representatives or
organizations should attempt to
explain to the Legislators exactly
what their problems are. I don’t
think the Legislators understand
some of the problems of the
faculty and I don’t think the
faculty understands some of the
problems of the Legislators.”
Running for Governor—“I think |
so. There’s a disadvantage in !
announcing too early because
any work I do as State Treasurer
would be suspect. Also given tne
attitude of the public today, I
don’t think Oregonians are ready
to have 11 months of campaign
ing,” he said. “But if tomorrow
was filing day, I’d be filing.”
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