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at work plugging for adjustments and
will continue to do so. It cost the state
several hundred thousand dollars to put
this pay 'schedule into operation so
someone must have received an increase
in salary, and those employees did not
h av e/to pound the picket line to get
the adjustment.
The cloak-room rhetoricians. 1 also
heave a heavy’ ear at the baiig-board.
Many ¿of these shyly tu rn .their head
when we try to see where the noise
is coming from. We have no way of
knowing- w hat the individual’s prob
lems are unless they aré brought to us;
If your case has merit it can be cor
rected or we will know the reason why;
We cite but tw o examples, a member
was forced to quit state service because
of a disability. When he requested jrnis
prior service certificate he found he
had accumulated none. He came to
O. S. E. A., and when we-closed the case
this man had ;18- years.::.prior service
credit.,, I
Several people in one department felt
th at their jobs- had been incorrectly
classified. Upon investigation fóur of
these classifications were changed and
one employée was advanced up the sal
ary scale. It; all took time and effort-
and Kilroy didn’t do it.
We hear 'm any criticisms from em
ployées about th e Retirement system,.
Some few/s£&mi p) think thât making
their contribution i's^too muçh of ra
"sacrifice. It does work a hardship in
some cases during times like these, but
we should keep,in minid that the State
of Oregon'is lay^fg a way a like amount
fo r you. It 4s all yours, no one else
Can tax it pr' touch it and you don’t
have to die to get it. '
Employees asked, for' a plan of, re
tirem ent and got it. We sometimes
wonder w hat kind óf. a noise would be
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made against th e o ld bang-board ifI the
request had failed.
We can say the same for Civil Serv
ice. Neither is perfect. Changes must
and will be made. W h e t h e r those
changes will be to the benefit of state
employees w ill depend upon the willing
ness of the employees' tp support the
organization working H toward those
benefits; These changes won’t take place
as a m atter of course. Organized effort
m ust be behind every attem pt. .
It was quiteevident at the 44th ses-!
sipn of the legislature that there' would
be organized opposition to some phases