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You an d Your Job in 1946
By FORREST V. STEWART, Executive Secretary
The year 1946 will be an extraordin to annual the gains already attained.
ary year indeed, for every employee of The effectiveness of these undermining
the State of Oregon. This year by vir influences will be determined by the
tue of the Public Employees Retirement strength of the Employee Association
A ct state employees will begin to par which oppose them. You individually
ticipate in a program to provide finan as a state employee can help to supply
cial security for the later years of life. that strength.
For the great majority it will be the
The year 1946 will be a critical year
beginning of a future free from the for each and every state employee
worry of what will happen when they whether he or she expects to remain
are no longer able to earn a living, in state employment one year or thirty
freedom to gracefully and proudly en years.
joy those twilight years. For others it
The Oregon State Employees Associ
will begin a period of systematic saving ation is the only organization dedicated
which in itself is of unestimable value. wholly to the interests and protection
In the year 1946 the State Civil of state employees. It deserves your
Service A ct will influence the work-a- support.
day life of practically every state em
The democratic method of operation
ployee. It will begin a future where of the Oregon State Employees Associa
petty jealousy, religious intolerance and tion coupled with its reasonable re
political difference no longer need bur quests, not unreasonable demands, in
den the employee. It will mark the be behalf of state employees has made
ginning of a future when advancement O.S.E.A. a respected organization and
and professional growth will depend has made it unnecessary to jeopardize
upon the interest and ability of the the rights of state employees by re
employee to do his job.
sorting to drastic means to accomplish
The year 1946 will usher in an in those things it has sought to accom
surance program for state employees plish.
and their families; a program which
The year 1946 will find many chap
will materially affect the lives of each ters asking members to pay their dues
member on or off the job. A program a year in advance in an effort to re
which none can afford to ignore.
duce the work of secretaries and treas
The year 1946 will see the develop urers and other officers. This is not an
ment of a new wage structure for state unreasonable request when the member
employees. Whether the trend is up or realizes that the chapter officers as well
down will depend a great deal upon the as the state officers serve without pay.
interest of the employees themselves. The officers donate their evenings, hol
If state employees are willing to cooper idays, week-ends and vacation time to
ate and work as a unit w ith the desig carry on the business of the Associa
nated state agencies toward a sound, tion and pay dues like other members
equitable and intelligent pay plan, then besides.
they may expect to be benefitted by a
I t would seem as if those employees
revision of the wage structure, other who have not as yet had the opportun
wise benefits may be few.
ity to serve in the capacity of a chapter
The year 1946 will see groups laying or state officer in the Association
plans to undermine the effectiveness of should pledge themselves to the secur-
the State Employees Association and
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