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Workers- GTFF t0 vote on University offer Stories by MIKE HOPKINS Of the Emerald Members of the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF) will make the biggest decision in the union’s two and-a-half-year history Tuesday when they vote to accept or reject the University's latest contract proposal. According to Bill Ratteree, GTFF vice-president and chief negotiator, the GTFF will meet to hold the election at 7 p.m. in Room 167 of the EMU. GTFF members unable to attend the Tuesday meeting may cast absentee ballots at the GTFF’s headquarters, located above the Red Rooster Barber Shop at 868 E. 13th Ave., Eugene. Since only GTFF members may vote on the contract, Ratteree said, GTFs may join the union to cast a ballot at the GTFF office not later than today. If the GTFF membership rejects the contract, Ratteree said, the union will ask for fact finding, a process in which a state Employment Relations Board (ERB) official, acting as a neutral third party, hears proposals from both sides and devises a compromise, which either party may then reject. Oregon law requires a mediation period followed by fact finding before a union may strike. After beginning collec University, food workers’ talk in limbo Collective bargaining talks between the University and the Food Service Workers Union (FWSU) have stopped and apparently will remain in limbo until fall term. FSWU president Scott Higgins said he had been advised by Bob Bell, the state Employment Relations Board (ERB) official who has mediated the talks since the FSWU declared impasse April 17, that further mediation would be fruitless without a change in position from either side. The two parties are at odds over the issues of wages and seniority rights. Al though the University is willing to raise the starting salary to $2.65 per hour, the federal minimum wage, it has resisted union demands for an automatic raise when a worker has acquired 200 hours working time. Also, the University wants to exempt two key working positions from seniority provisions. I he i-swu warns an joos xo be filled according to seniority. Higgins said he was under the impres sion the University would ask for fact finding, a procedure allowing an ERB official to propose a compromise. How ever, Allen McKenzie, the University’s chief negotiator, in talks with the FSWU, said the University has no intention of requesting fact finding. “We’re still waiting to hear from the union,” McKenzie said. tive bargaining with the University last October, the GTFF declared an impasse and asked the ERB for mediation in late March. Ratteree said he believes sentiment in the GTFF is running against the pro posed contract because it fails to ade quately address the issues of wages, health benefits, child care, reappoint ment and discipline and discharge. However, the election’s outcome can’t be predicted, Ratteree cautioned. “A lot of GTFs haven’t made up their minds yet,” he said. “Departments have al ready begun to organize meetings to discuss it." Ratteree and Jon Silvermoon, a GTF from the Wallace School of Community Service and Public Affairs, expressed opposition to the contract Wednesday in speeches before about 100 GTFs at tending a noon rarity on the EMU terrace. “We can strike. We can work over the summer,” Silvermoon told the crowd. “Let’s throw that dirty piece of paper (the proposed contract) back in their faces.’’ Board tries again, gets position If at first you don’t succeed... The EMU Board tried again Friday and gained approval of an amendment to change their by-laws, opening up a position on the board for a ASUO program member. At a meeting last week, Board Chairer Dusty Rhodes proposed that of the three appointed posi tions open for EMU program members, one remain an EMU position and the other two be available to EMU or ASUO program members. The proposal was defeated, so Rhodes drew up another stating that two positions would remain in EMU programs’ hands while the third would be rep resented by someone from an ASUO program. The amendemnt passed eight to two. In other business, the board unanimously ap proved a motion made by Rhodes to allow him, EMU Business Manager Bob Schutz and any other in terested board members to look into a mangement study of the EMU’s revenue producing areas. 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