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News guild approves new R-G contract The five-year contract brings relief for some despite reservations Jennifer Bear Campus/City Culture Reporter The Eugene Newspaper Guild voted Tuesday to accept a five-year contract proposal extended by The Register-Guard management by a vote of 60 percent to 40 percent, guild President Adele Berlinski said. The new contract will be in place by Friday. The last contract expired at mid night April 30,1999, and guild mem bers have been working without a contract for more than three years, according to the guild’s Web site. “I thought it would be an over whelming ‘yes’ vote,” said Berlinski, who leads a guild of approximately 150 members representing advertis ing, circulation, technical, news room and office workers. “It was a lot closer than I thought.” Register-Guard spokeswoman Cyn thia Walden refused repeated requests by the Emerald for an interview. Berlinski said she had reserva .. I'm glad this is over after three and a half years" Adele Berlinski guild president tions with several aspects of the new contract, including a new policy that prohibits the union from using the company’s e-mail system, one pro hibiting workers from wearing union insignia when dealing with the pub lic and the installationof a drug-test ing procedure. With the new e-mail policy, mem bers of the guild will have to use per sonal e-mail, office bulletin boards or newsletters to communicate with each other. “There are some things that real ly bother me about (the contract), but I’m glad this is over after three and a half years,” Berlinski said. One feature of the new contract that helped it to pass was newspaper management’s removal of a bargain ing waiver, Berlinski said. Former proposals contained a provision that would have restricted the union’s right to bargain mid-contract. Berlinski added that the new con tract contains provisions for a sign ing bonus of $1,000 per union mem ber and yearly raises for most workers between 2 percent and 2.5 percent during the next five years.* Berlinski blamed the three-year negotiations on Attorney L. Michael Zinser, whom she called out-of-state and anti-union. She added that guild members were so incensed by the stymied bargaining process that the union filed nine unfair labor practice charges against the newspaper. Prodding from the National Labor Relations Board prompted newspa per management to back off several demands and present the guild with an acceptable contract proposal, Berlinski said. Berlinski also credited the com munity in helping the guild during the past three years. “The community has been phe nomenal,” she said. “They have been very supportive.” Contact the reporter at jenniferbear@dailyemerald.com. Emerald Newspaper Guild employees, seen here at a May rally outside The Register-Guard, approved a five-year contract Tuesday after working without a contract for three years. SAVE $$$ BUY USED TEXTS 768 East 1 Bth 345-1651 A UO CAMPUS ALTERNATIVE SINCE 1974 a proud member of Unique Eugene Campaign offers help for same-sex violence Groups focus on spreading awareness of domestic violence in the gay community Danielle Gillespie Safety/Crime/Transportation Reporter When most people think of domes tic violence, they think of women as victims and men as abusers. But that is not always the case; abuse also hap pens in same-sex relationships. YWCA financial advisor Kirista Trask said many people do not think of domestic violence as a same-sex issue, but it does occur in the gay community. Trask said the YWCA is working on a poster campaign for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the group will be focusing on in forming students about same-sex domestic violence. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans gender Educational and Support Services Director Ghicora Martin said gay men who are suffering from domestic violence do not really have a safe place to go in Eugene. Trask agreed and said that although gay men can go to Women space, a local domestic violence serv ice, most do not feel comfortable going. “Gay men have little resources, and there is very little written litera ture about same-sex domestic vio Same sex battering stats • 50,000-100,000 lesbian women are battered by partners every year • 500,000 gay men are ' battered by partners every year • 25-33 percent of same-sex relationships inlvove domestic violence ■ Seven states define domestic violence in a way that excludes same-sex victims ■ 21 states have laws that require same-sex victims to confess to a crime in order to prove they are in a domestic relationship SOURCE: www.aardvarc.org lence,” she said. Martin said gay men do not gen erally come forward when they are being abused because they must admit first that they are gay and second that they are being bat tered. She said this can be difficult for gay men because society does not typically accept them or be lieve that a man can be abused by a partner, whether it is physical or mental abuse. “There is not a lot of statistics about gay men who are abused by their part ners,” she said. “They do not have a lot of resources available for them to report domestic violence.” Martin said gay men will most likely not call the police, and if they do, authorities do not always report the situation as domestic violence. “A fight between two men won’t be seen as partnership violence, but as two male roommates duking it out,” she said. There are gay men on this campus who have been in violent relation ships, and most say they left the re lationship because of friends or be cause they decided to move out or leave town, Martin said. She said she has heard of gay men on campus being stalked by partners, but the men have had difficulty ob taining a restraining order because au thorities did not believe them. Womenspace has gay and lesbian advocates as a support group for peo ple dealing with same-sex violence. Womenspace community out reach director Margo Schaefer said Turn to Violence, page 10 0149101 Nokia 3360 $wo - *50 Nokia Rebate - *50 Instant Rebate FREE! Panasonic 320 « mmm $50 - *50 Instant Rebate FREE! A AT&T National Network 3500 Minutes Free Long Distance $34.99/month r AT&T W ~'C zsz A few doors from the UO Bookstore A+ UJireless 841 E. 13th Ave. • 465-8877 Oregon Daily Emerald P.O. Box 3159, Eugene OR 97403 The Oregon Daily Emerald is pub lished daily Monday through Friday dur ing the school year by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc., at the Uni versity of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.The Emerald operates independently of the University with offices in Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. 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