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would negate their pay raises
The union also fears the state
would place a cap on how much
it would finance increasing in
surance rates.
On job security, the union
wants a specific clause in the
contract making job seniority
the major criterion when the
state is forced to layoff workers.
A fact-finding process is cur
rently under way in which both
sides present their cases to a
negotiator appointed by the
OPEU and the slate. The
negotiator will issue a report on
August 7.
The sides will review the fact
finder's report on August 8 and
vote on accepting it as a solu
tion. If both sides accept the
report's recommendations for a
new contract, it will go before
the union membership for a
vote.
If either side rejects the
report, the countdown will
began for a strike. If a new con
tract is not forged from the
negotiations by the end of
August, the union said it will
serve the state with a 10-day
notice of an intent to strike.
The earliest strike date would
be September 16, according to
Sieracki. This would affect the
registration process Among the
University's services that the
strike would also effect are dor
mitory maintenance, foot! ser
vice. and the Oregon Hall
bureaucracy.
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themselves at risk even though
they had shared needles with
other users and with each other.
"I had always associated AIDS
with the gay community,” Deb
bie said.
She was diagnosed as HTLV
positive after a physical. She
said she had noticed lumps on
her neck and was tired, and was
afraid she had cancer.
Debbie was fired from her job
as a waitress at Casa Tol Tec, a
Eugene restaraunt, less than 24
hours after appearing on a local
newscast about the disease. She
claims that she was fired
because her employer learned
she has ARC. She since has filed
a complaint with the State
l.abor Commission.
"1 know how to protect you
from me.” Debbie said. "I know
what to do if I get a cut or if I
handle food.” she added.
Debbie Carper
In addition to Debbie losing
her job. the Carpers said they
have lost their health care in
surance. lost the business that
Richard ran before they moved
to Eugene, and had an attempt
made on their lives.
Debbie first learned that she
had tested HTLV-positive two
days before Christmas in 198ft.
Richard took the test the next
day on the advice of their physi
cian, and both knew they had
tested positive.
"We were both ignorant
about the disease, and our doc
tor didn't know any more than
we did.” Debbie said. "We
thought that was our last
Christmas. We didn't exchange
gifts or talk to each other,”
Richard added.
Two weeks after the tests
Richard went to an infectious
disease specialist in Portland
and learned that he had ARC
rather than AIDS
"The doctor advised us not to
tell anyone since there was h lot
of fear and paranoia running
rampant through the communi
ty," Richard said.
At first Debbie and Richard
agreed that they did not want
anyone to know they had ARC.
Hut they also had questions that
needed to be answered and
hostility towards one another
that was going unresolved.
“I thought we had a bond that
would hold us together, but it
was ripping us apart.” Richard
said.
That hostility eventually took
the form of domestic violence,
and it was the aftermath of one
of those bouts that brought their
Richard Carper
affliction into the open.
Richard, suffering from a pair
of stab wounds in his back,
went to the hospital. While
there he told the personnel
working on him that he had
ARC. The reaction of the com
munity. which Richard describ
ed as "redneck." was swift and
severe.
"The hospital freaked out. I
was quarantined immediately,
people were completely
covered up when they came in
to the room, and I didn’t even
knov what was going on
myself," he recalled.
Within three days of that inci
dent. all of the contracts under
Richard's electrical installation
business were canceled "No
mention was ever made of the
disease. They just made a lot of
excuses." he said.
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