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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.
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said Fitzgerald, and added "Fol
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money, money— it was disgusting.«
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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
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"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.
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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
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