Faculty contract negotiations still stalled
By Mike Rose
■ the Print
I Contract talks between the
■liege’s faculty and ad-
■istration are transfixed on
the issue of pay increases.
I At the Nov. 10 meeting,
the faculty voted to call in a fact
find
The fact finder is a
neutral researcher who will give
budgeting information as
■ited to a “fair” pay increase.
The fact finder will report
Mcember 16. Instructors have
beer working without a con­
tract since June 29.
I “We feel the administra­
tion’s offer is a slap in the face,”
said Les Tipton, president of
the Clackamas Community
College education association.
“The offer is lower than
other settlements being made
in Oregon and there has been
no change in the offer even
though the College’s, financial
climate has changed,” he said.
“The tax base was passed and
the College has received
money from the state. Despite
this, the bargaining terms have
not changed.”
The dispute centers on the
‘roll-around costs’ included in
the 10 percent pay increases.
Roll-around costs are the in­
stitutions over-head costs of
getting money to instructors
(Social Security, FICA, retire­
ment, etc.) Tipton said., “The
actual increases in pay is a little
over 7 percent.”
“Clackamas is the only
educational institute in the state
which includes “roll around
costs” in contract pay in­
creases,” he stated. “Colleges
in Oregon are settling for in­
creases between 12 and 16
percent and these settlements
do not include roll-around
costs,” he said.
Administration represen­
tative, Bill Ryan said he asked
for a firm offer that he could
take to the Board of Education
but the faculty group refused. I
didn’t think going to a fact
finder was necessary.”
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The administration is will­
ing to meet with faculty
anytime, Ryan said. He also
pointed out that the College’s
support staff recently accepted
a contract which had a pay in­
crease that included roll-
around costs.
“I won’t rule out a strike, but
times are financially hard. We
will continue to bargain and
hope for other opportunities to
become available,” he said.
Ryan said he was op­
timistic that the contract could
be settled before Dec. 16. He
The faculty is in the pro­ said the administration had a
cess of preparing a counter of­ strong bargaining position.
fer which will be presented “We are not planning for a
sometime before the fact finder strike but if it comes to that we
said Ira Heard, chairman for are ready,” Ryan said.
the faculty negotiating team.
In the event of a strike,
one of administration’s options
In past years, contract is to cancel the winter term.
negotiations have ended up in When asked about keeping the
fact finder.
Tipton said “We College open by hiring tem­
have always accepted the fact porary help Ryan commented,
finder’s decision and the ad­ “there are a lot of substitutes
ministration has always re­ looking for work right now.”
jected it. When they won’t ac­
Support staff could not
cept a neutral opinion they are
more or less asking for a faculty legally strike in sympathy with
the faculty. Unions outside of
strike.”
the College such as the
A strike could not legally teamsters, could choose not to
occur until after Dec. 16. Tip- service the College. A faculty
ton vsaid that instructors are strike has never occurred at the
sensitive to the needs of College. But two years ago, the
students and are not interested faculty came within six hours of
in striking unless it is necessary. striking, Heard said.
Litigations mired
on Pauling suit
By J. Dana Haynes
Of the Print
Staff photo by Duffy Coffman
THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY felt the effects of the wind storm as exhibited by the fallen
trees and shopping cart.
$21,263 has been lopped
off of a $465,142 law suit aim­
ed at the College by Contrac­
tors, Inc.,' the company that
built the new Pauling Science
Center. However, further
litigation is needed before the
suit actually goes to court, and
the process has been slow.
On
October
19,
Clackamas County circuit court
heard a Motion 21, a request to
have certain items dropped
form the law suit. Stoddard
Jones, litigation specialist for
Rankin, McMurry, VavRosky
and Doherty, the law . firm
representing the College, said
that three requests were made.
' Livestock facility anticipates dedication
By Mike Rose
Of the Print
■Speeches, scissor blades
snapping together, a blue rib­
bon falling to the ground and
applause, can be expected at
thejdedication of the College’s
livestock facility Saturday,
Nov. 21. The public is invited
ip attend the ceremony which
begins at 10:30 a.m.
■ The facility, located on the
eastern edge of the campus
neS Clairmont Hall, will be
known as the Animal Science
Center and will be operational
by winter term.
Bay Hobson, director of
the state agriculture depart­
ment, will join College Presi­
dent John Hakanson and
Assistant Dean for Agriculture
George Warren in the dedica­
tion.
advanced animal confinement
facility according to Warren.
The center will introduce
students to the concept of rais­
ing animals in a limited space.
New courses proposed include:
Confined Animal Production,
Animal Behavior, Animal
Waste Disposal and Planning
After the ceremony Ron and Building Confined
Baker of C & B Feedlots, will Livestock facilities. Agriculture
make a presentation in the Col­ students will now leam all
aspects of animal care on cam­
lege’s McLoughlin Theater.
The Animal Science pus. In the past, students had
Center is a technologically- to travel off-campus to nearby
Delaney gives economic view
farms.
The 4,118 sq. ft. building
will hold 18 steers, 10 breeding
sows, one boar, 25 ewes, two
rams and eventual offspring.
The Clackamas Community
College District 1978-81 Rate-
Based Levy funded the
building for $199,900 with
equipment costs at $18,256.
The building is insulated1
and has power ventilation.
There is a special farrowing
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They were:
—To strike a demand for
$21,263, rhade by Contrac­
tors, Inc., on behalf of L&R
Landscaping.
—To dismiss a claim for
$150,000 in damages. Accor­
ding to Jones, there was no ex­
planation in the suit as to why
the money was being re­
quested.
—To have the $150,000
request explained, as an alter­
native. to striking the motion.
The court agreed with the
defendant, the College, on the
first request. “In Oregon, a
company can’t ask for money
on behalf of another
company,” Jones said, “If L&R
Landscaping felt they were due
money for damages, then
they’d have to file suit
themselves.”
The court did not agree to
drop the demand for $150,000
but did agree that an explana-
tion is due.
The original law suit stem­
med, in part, from the College
alledgedly not paying the full
price for the construction of the
science fascility, and for
defamitory remarks made in
area newspapers, including
The Print.
At this time, the school’s
lawyers are awaiting the am-
mended complaint from the
plaintiffs attorneys. “There’s
nothing to do but wait until
we’ve
seen
the
new
complaint,” Jones said.