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Hiroshi Nakamura Emerald State Rep. Kitty Piercy, D-Eugene, urges protesters and calls for preservation of em ployees’ right to join a union. She was one of the speakers at Monday night’s rally. Register-Guard staff rallies to protest lack of contract ■After more than a year with no contract, employees have grown weary of negotiations By Josh Ryneal Oregon Daily Emerald Appearing at a rally Monday for The Register-Guard’s employee union, Secretary of State Bill Brad bury and other state and county of ficials expressed strong support for its efforts to obtain a new contract. Bradbury; state Rep. Kitty Pier cy, D-Eugene; Lane County Com missioner Peter Sorenson; and state Sen. Tony Corcoran, D-Cot tage Grove, all criticized the pa per’s management for not re sponding quickly enough to employee demands. Contract negotiations between the Eugene Newspaper Guild and The Register-Guard management have lasted 18 months, and Guild mem bers believe the management’s hir ing of L. Michael Zinser, a Nashville attorney with reputation among la bor organizers as a “union-buster,” has created an atmosphere that al lows for no room for compromise. Bradbury opened his remarks by leading the crowd assembled in front of the paper’s offices in a chant of “we support the Guild” and then proceeded to denounce the paper’s management as “not a good member of the community. ” Bradbury said “we are no longer seeing the direct negotiations that you need to get this dispute re solved.” Management “needs to walk their talk, and Zinser needs to walk his talk,” Bradbury said as the audience cheered loudly. He then called on the paper’s management to support “everyone’s right to organize the workplace. ” Piercy said “this has been going on for way too long” and called for a guarantee from management to preserve employees’ right to join unions. “Workers support families and kids, and I don’t like to see man agement not consider the income that supports these families,” Sorenson said. He said that the employees would have the support of local government hi their fight for a new and better contract. The paper’s management was unavailable for comment. Suzi Prozanski, Register-Guard copy editor and president of the Guild, said that the rally’s date was set to coincide with the expiration of their contract one year ago. “All we want a fair contract,” Prozanski said, “but only one or two paragraphs out of a 110-page proposal have been settled in a year and a half.” Prozanski said that the manage ment negotiation team, led by Zinser, has attempted to modify the employees’ contract to give more control to the paper’s man agement and eliminate the Guild’s ability to bargain. “They tried to put in three pages of management language that would tear down everything the Guild stands for,” she said. Lance Robertson, Register Guard reporter and lead negotia tor for the Guild, said that it is in Zinser’s best interest for negotia tions to dragon. “We haven’t even gotten to the issue of wages yet,” he said. Robertson also said that the man agement’s proposal contains “an enormous amount of anti-worker language,” and would attempt to re place full-time employees with part-time ones whenever possible. The proposal would also pay part time employees a lesser wage than that paid to full-time employees. This proposal “would allow them to replace anyone, anywhere at the paper, at any time,” he said. Why Is This Person Smiling? She has just discovered the ease of Wireless Internet ACCeSS now available to students on the UO campus and paid for by your Educational Technology dollars. Using a small PCMCIA receiver card in her laptop, she is able to surf the Web at speeds compa rable to that of a wired connec tion—or about 100 times faster than a modem connection. This service is now available throughout the EMU and in the Atrium of Willamette Hall. So, why not get a cup of coffee and sit down with a wire less connection and surf away at high speed? 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