OPEU
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OUS administrators that contin
ues months after the two groups
resolved this summer’s often in
tense contract negotiations.
“Maybe they think we’re only *
going to communicate with each
other when we’re on strike,” said
Star Holmberg, American English
Institute office worker.
According to Knight Library
circulation clerk Ellen Klaastad,
this is the second time the insur
ance dividends have been de
layed.
“At first they said mid-Decem
ber; then they recanted and
bumped it back to January,”
Klaastad said. “Now they’ve
bumped it back again.”
The dividends, compiled from
unspent insurance reserves,
weren’t distributed by the Feb. 1
deadline because OUS was
bogged down processing W-2 tax
forms, Vice Chancellor for Fi
nance and Administration Bill
Anslow said. The money, averag
ing $200 per employee, will in
stead be included in OPEU mem
bers’ Feb. 29 paychecks, he said.
What irks OPEU members
most, however, is that all other
state employees entitle^ to the
dividends have already received
them, Holmberg said.
“This is part of an ongoing pat
tern of the state not respecting its
own employees,” Cheri Smith, a
computer information sciences
office specialist, said. “Maybe it’s
academic prejudice.”
After meeting outside Camp
bell Hall on the rainy Friday after
noon, the protesters crammed
into the building’s lobby and sang
a song composed for the occasion
titled “We’re not gonna let it
slide.” The song included the
lyrics: “The rest of the state got
paid on time — we’re not gonna
let it slide. When are ya. gonna
start keeping your word? We’re
not gonna let it slide.”
University employee relations
manager Mark Zunich said the
passionate nature of relations be
tween the OPEU and OUS is to be
expected.
“Labor negotiations are general
ly pretty tense,” he said.
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