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Oregon Daily Emerald
P.O. Box 3159, Eugene OR 97403
The Oregon Daily Emerald is published
daily Monday through Friday during the school
year and Tuesday and Thursday during the
summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald
Publishing Co. Inc., at the University of Oregon,
Eugene, Oregon .The Emerald operates
independently of the University with offices in
Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. The
Emerald is private property. The unlawful
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Thomas Patterson Emerald
Eric Edwards, a graduate teaching fellow in the sociology department, says that University administration has not acted in good faith at the
bargaining table. ‘The University has not violated the letter of the law, but certainly the spirit,’ Edwards said.
GTFs rally for fair contract
■The GTFF wants language
in its contract that protects
against gender discrimination
By Leon Tovey
Oregon Daily-Emerald
It was a scene straight out of an
“Afterschool Special” about the
1960s — angry students with signs
chanting on the steps of the student
union, preparing to march — but
Tuesday’s Graduate Teaching Fel
lows Federation rally in the EMU
Amphitheater wasn’t about “peace
and love. ” It was about “faith.”
The rally opened at 1 p.m. with
George Michael’s “Faith” blaring on a
portable stereo and members of Grad
uate Teaching Fellows Federation
Local 3544 proclaiming what they
called a lack of good faith was recent
ly demonstrated by University repre
sentatives in the GTFF’s nearly four
month-old contract negotiations.
In November, the GTFF began ne
gotiating with the University to se
cure better pay and benefits for the
University’s 1,200 graduate em
ployees. Negotiations hit a snag Jan.
19, when the University halted dis
cussion over the addition of new
language governing harassment and
discrimination in the new contract,
according to GTFF negotiating team
member Ashley Overbeck.
The GTFF wants to add nondis
crimination language to cover trans
gender and transsexual employees in
its contract, and classify “arbitrary
and capricious action by faculty” as
harassment. Richard Linton, vice
president for research and graduate
studies, who is leading negotiations
for the University, said those groups
are already covered by existing
nondiscrimination language.
“We, as an institution, feel that
those issues are under protection al
ready,” Linton said. “It’s unfortu
nate that the University is being po
sitioned in a way that makes them
appear insensitive. ”
Overbeck called that language in
sufficient. She pointed out that un
der current rules, union members
who think they’ve been discrimi
nated against based on their gender
status cannot file a grievance with
the union.
“A pamphlet doesn’t cut it,”
Overbeck said. “They might as
well have offered to put up fliers
around campus.”
After the rally, GTFF members
marched down 13th Avenue to
Prince Lucien Campbell Hall, where
the negotiating teams met again. Ac
cording to Linton, the two sides were
“making some progress.” Both par
ties are closer together on wage issues
and the “nuts and bolts” of the con
tracts are settled, he said.
The current GTFF contract ex
pires March 31. Overbeck had pre
dicted negotiations would be com
pleted by early March, but in light
of the recent problems, both sides
now expect the negotiations to go
the distance.
GTFF president Michelle Diggles
said she hopes for a speedy end to
the negotiations.
“But considering that they took
all the non-economic issues off the
table, it makes me leery that the Uni
versity is looking for a speedy reso
lution,” she said.
Diggles said the GTFF would ne
gotiate past the expiration of their
contract, but would not rule out the
possibility of a strike.
“That’s the University’s gamble,”
she said.
E-mail higher education editor Leon Tovey
at leontovey@dailyemerald.com.
CRIME
WATCH
Drugs and Alcohol
Tuesday, Feb. 19,1:04 a.m.: The
Department of Pubfic Safety cited
several people in Robbins Hall for
possession of less than an ounce of ,
marijuana.
Sunday, Feb. 24,8:02 p,m.: DPS cited
one person near McArthur Courtfor
possession of marijuana.
Thefts and Recoveries
Monday, Feb. 18,2:13 p.m.: DPS
received a report of a coffee table stolen
from Willamette tfatl.
Monday, Feb. 18,3:55 p.m.: DPS
received a report of cash stolen from
Pizano’s restaurant in Bean Complex. |
Disorderly Conduct
and Vandalism
Thursday, Feb. 21,3:45 p.m,: DPS
received a report of a mart on 13th
Avenue near the University Bookstore
following women and making sexual
comments to them. The man was gone
when DPS arrived.
Saturday, Feb. 23,2:49a.m.: The
Eugene Police Department arrested a
man in Sptller Hall for criminal
trespassing, disorderly conduct and
sexual abuse after he entered a woman's
room against her wishes, touched her
inappropriately and then resisted arrest*
Miscellaneous
Thursday, Feb. 21,7:10 p.m.: OPS
received a report of a man in Pioneer
Cemetery following women and making
sexually insinuating comments. DPS
and EPD searched thearea with police
dogs hut could not find the man.
Friday, Feb. 22,7:10 p.m.: A student
reported that as he was walking near
Pioneer Cemetery he noticed a man
masturbating. The man then attempted
to grab the student, but he struggled
free. DPS could not find the man in the
temetery.
Friday, Feb. 22,10:33 p.m.: DPS
received a report of four men streaking
across the Humpy-Lumpy Lawn near
Bean and the Knight Law Center.