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dailyemerald Vol. 30, No.. 24 Eugene, Oregon 97403 Friday, October 6. 1978 Labor reps would back GTF strike Representatives of major Lane County labor unions have promised support for a Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation strike. In an announcement Wednesday, the Lane County Labor Council’s executive board said it had decided unanimously to “reaffirm its support" for the GTFF in its contract talks with the University. The announcement quoted Irv Fletcher, executive secretary of the council, as saying “It was also the board’s concensus that, should the GTFs be forced to strike the University to gain a contract, the full labor council would vote to grant strike sanction and seek support for the GTFs from other area labor groups and employee associations.” Hugh Perkins, executive secretary of Teamsters Union local 57. confirmed that he has assured GTFF lead ers that Teamsters would honor the University union’s pic ket lines. Perkins noted that many commodities delivered to the University, including laundry supplies, soft drinks and food stuffs, arrive in vehicles driven by Teamster members. If the GTFF votes to strike, Teamster drivers will refuse to deliver goods to the University, Perkins said. The Lane County Labor Council consists of represen tatives from 46 Lane County AFL-CIO locals. Eleven local union leaders sit on the council’s executive board. Retcher said that, in voting a strike sanction for the GTFF, the council would recommend that its member un ions respect GTFF picket lines. The council cannot direct its members to follow council decisions, Fletcher noted. Each local must decide whether to support a GTFF strike, strike. Gary McMahon, chairer of the Student University Af fairs Board, expressed concern over the progress of negotiations in a statement at a monthly meeting of Univer sity Assembly Wednesday. Union and University negotiators will convene another bargaining session Tuesday at 3 p.m. Ethereal motion Marianne Morino demonstrated the ancient art of belly dancing before an appreciative noon time crowd of about 50 students in the EMU breezeway Thurs day. Morino, a local belly dance instructor, was joined by fellow dancer Karen Hartman. Photographer disrupts anti-Weinstein move By KEVIN HARDEN Of the Emerald Photographs taken at a meeting to organize a recall effort against Lane County Commissioner Ar chie Weinstein may keep some county employees from participat ing in that effort, a leader of the drive says. Jan Newton, co-chairer of the Citizens' Committee to Recall Weinstein, says most county em ployees who have been ap proached about the petitions are reluctant to get involved because they are afraid they will lose their jobs. “They are terrified," she says. “They are just afraid to sign the petitions." The recall drive began earlier this week when Newton and Ros coe Caron, both of Eugene, filed today A Lausmann campaigner adds to the intensity of the Fourth District race by rebutting criticisms about the group he co-chairs, Democrats for Lausmann. See Page 3. A week of Chilean events at the University is completed with the accompaniment of Pueblo Unido. a Chilean folk ensem ble See Page 6. Sexpert Carole Kirkpatrick answers questions about gonorrhea and oral sex on Page 7. the necessary petition with the county elections division. The drive needs to collect 14,762 valid signatures before the recall can be put on a special election ballot later this year. Many employees who would otherwise participate in the recall effort are also afraid that photo graphs taken by a member of Weinstein's staff at that meeting will be used by Weinstein for har assment, says Ed Wemple, a former county commission candi date. Those photographs were taken during the hour-long meeting Tuesday evening in Harris Hall by Weinstein s nephew, Clint Reed. Several people warned Reed against photographing the sup porters, and others demanded that he remove the film from his camera. # Although Reed, a high school student who's also an intern on Weinstein's staff, told people after the meeting the pictures were for his photo album." Wemple disag rees. Those photos may be used to intimidate employees who sup port the recall, he says. “Clint Reed's being there to take pictures is just too obvious,” Wemple says. “His saying that the pictures are for his album is just ridiculous." Reed, Weinstein and his aid George Kramer, have all refused to comment on the photographs. Harrassment of county em ployees by members of Weinstein s which represents county em ployees. If employees participate in is limited to verbal abuse. Other times it may go as far as threats to employee s jobs, he says. County employees have also been instructed to not participate in the petition drive or sign peti tions during working hours says Linda Laffer, president of the .American Federation of State and Municipal Employees Union which represents county em ployees. If employees participate in the drive, they may be in violation of the county code, and could lose their jobs, Laffe says. Issa Simpson, of the county's forester office, who plans to an nounce her support of the recall this morning, says working in county government under Weinstein's leadership is de moralizing. Simpson says Weinstein's statements in Wednesday's county commissioner meeting are clear examples of the type of harassment county employees face. At that meeting. Weinstein said he wanted to investigate whether three Comprehensive Employ ment and Training Act (CETA) employees in the forester office were part of the recall effort before he would allow them to be reap pointed to another county posi tion. The commissioners decided at that meeting to phase out CETA funding to that office and place the CETA employees in other posi tions. Simpson says those state ments prompted her public sup port of the movement. Weinstein continually put down everything we ever did . she says. It was no telling how long we d work on a project just to be cut off. mostly for temperamental reasons Intimidation of county em ployees because of their personal political beliefs is also commeon. Simpson says.
