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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1977)
If student interest is high 'Voiceless consumers' may bargain in 78 When Clackamas Community College's fa culty contract negotiations come to a close this year they will end another year of col lective bargaining without student represent ation, despite the efforts of Michael Ayers, former Associated Student Government pres- dent. ISSUES CRITICAL The collective bargaining board, made up of five members of the CCC Faculty Associ ation and the Oregon Education Association, deals with issues Ayers considered critical to students as consumers, including class size, changes in administrative procedures, use of part-time instructors, faculty work load and student tuitions. Primarily, thoughts pointed out by Vince Fitzgerald, past president of the CCC Educa tion Association (CCCEA) and current griev ance officer of the collective bargaining board, the board haggles the dollars and cents of faculty contracts. This subject neither is the concern nor the interest of most of today's students, Fitzgerald said. which will eventually evolve into full voting memberships. ENTIRE CAMPUS AFFECTED "What the collective bargaining board decides affects everyone on campus," said McCarty," and there has got to be people interested in what will be affecting them." McCarty said that he is trying to change ASG's image as a bunch of "Mickey Mous ers." He said that he found Dr. John Hakanson, CCC President, to be supportive of his efforts in the area of collective bargain ing, and that he has recently found support among the faculty which last year's ASG had feared was missing. ASG president, alongside her ovj person of the board and one fl Kofsky, head of the classified! The seat remained empty throi] summer. Fitzgerald noted that the bargail is only in its third year, and has n<J its own by-laws. It is quite timer said Fitzgerald, and added "Fol year, we've discussed nothing bug money, money— it was disgusting.« The final position of the bargail on student involvement, said Crfl to express their desire to call in st confer with them when issues come® may be of interest and importance Carl Starker’s Shop| But Cressler and Fitzgerald, although supportive, are dubious about actual student interest. Last summer, Cressler said, there was a seat in board of education meetings for the FLOWER ARRANGER SUPPLIER DRIED FLOWERS CONTAINERS - TELEPHONE 654-6361 INPUT UNSOLICITED "The present position of our organization with regard to student participation in collec tive bargaining is ambivalent," said Marcus Essig, former president of CCCEA in June of 1976, in his first official statement concern ing this issue. "First, we feel that the present process is somewhat complicated, and could become more complicated with additional people in volved. Since the bargaining process not only involves educational policies but all aspects of the teachers' employment, the students may have only a partial interest. Many items brought to the table are purely employe/ employer concerns and we do not feel we need input from outside factions," Essig said. Essig went on to say in his memo to the Board of Education that student participa tion may be quite helpful in reaching agree ment on issues such as student evaluation of instruction, instructor loads, including pre paration time, and other educational policies. "As the board will begin tearing apart the contract beginning each February, we hope to get students involved in proposals for the next year," said Shirley Cressler, president of the CCCEA and chairperson of the fa culty's negotiating team. Enter the Soundshin KPAM Sweepstakes •A journey to the Isle of Skye •A Droid named KPAM to call your own • A Quadraphonic Soundship Van PLAN A UNDERWAY ASG President Mike McCarty foresees com munity college students having an official vote on collective bargaining boards in the near future as students of four-year institu tions now do, provided by a law passed in I975. "I feel it was somebody's oversight that community colleges weren't included in the original law. If anything, students of two- year colleges are older than those of four- year colleges and have been consumers and taxpayers longer," McCarty said. McCarty lobbied for passage of such a bill last year with other members of the Community Col lege Organization of Student Associations and Commissions (CCOSAC). McCarty intends to follow through with Ayers original proposal to select two stu dents, a returning sophomore and a fresh man, to sit in on meetings of the collective bargaining board in observatory positions Hourly on-air drawings Hundreds of other prizes Board the Soundship K-PAM! Listen and win FM97orAM14 77ie Page 6 allunili 5220 S.E. MILWAUKIE. CRE.d
