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Strike averted
Faculty
accepts
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Clackamas Community College
Thursday, October 20, 1977
Vol. 11, No. 4
pssibility of a faculty strike over
trances at Clackamas Community
nsyear is over.
(considerable deliberation, the de
bt last Tuesday during a faculty
The instructors agreed to accept a
worked out by the CCC Board
lion negotiating team and the faculty
m team last Wednesday
evening,
me faculty vote was 97-15.
accepted agreement is
basically
a
contract, according to Shirley Cress
fat of the Clackamas Community
[Educational Association (CCCEA).
ary schedule will be frozen for the
’of the contract. During that time
¡II be no step increments, Cressler
bend of the two years the entire
will be open for re-negotiation,"
Ian Hein, chief faculty
negotiator,
[second year, the top of the schedule
n become competitive with
ity colleges. That will
which ultimately will
other
help these
help every-
hj the current year, retroactive to
I, everyone will
receive
a straight
the-board dollar amount increase of
[minus $252 for fringe benefits (in-
Cressler said.
fa next year, there would be an au-
icost of living percentage raise accord-
neConsumer Price Index (CPI) in the
Portland area. This raise is based on a
month - January or April, chosen
tod - plus an additional 1.5 per cent
{.according to Cressler.
e cost of living percentage raise of the
larycould be as low as 6.5 per cent or
as 10.5 per cent, including the add-
1.5per cent increase," said Jim Paint-
CPersonnel Officer and member of the
[negotiating team.
efaculty will decide how much of the
31.5 per cent will go into insurance,"
laid. "Whatever they don't put into
■ill go into salaries."
■faculty insurance committee will meet
■administrators to look into ways of
photos by Brian Snook
health coverage requiring less out-of-
:moneyfrom members, Cressler said,
forty to 45 per cent of the faculty are
[p 10 of either level one or level two,"
Pin on yours
said. "The faculty is one of the most
paced in the state among the com
fy colleges.
lia average salary current this year is
[doseto $18,228 (including the $1,428
Dr. Marv Weiss, Dean of Community Services,
pl," he said. "The second year's aver-
adjusts
plary will be a little over $19,000 if the
jsiper cent or under and $20,800 if it is
as Ralph Groener, CCC board member, looks
P per cent.”
CCC Board of Education. Faculty members
[he settlement is .5 per cent higher the
stormed
»earthen last year's," Hein said. "We're
strike buttons, pushing the board members
Ppy about having to change the form of
fadule, but the settlement was accept-
was settled Tuesday. See page 2 for related
his
faculty
strike
button
(above)
on during a recent executive meeting of the
into
the
board
meeting wearing
into immediate mediation. The strike dispute
story about the strike and button (right).
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