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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1947)
14 GROUP PURCHASING The Association has had many re quests from the membership concerning discount -purchasing. , We have made several contacts w ith firms operating on a state-wide basis and have had but one offer. The General Tire Company, through its Salem dealer has agreed to sell tires, batteries, home appliances ,auto acces sories, etc.; to members of the Associa tion at a substantial discount. /If the idea is adopted, credit cafds will be issued by the Company to the members. , The Association is under no obliga tio n to the Company. ' Adoption of this plan,'would be an added service to the membership. RECOM MENDATIONS Keeping up the interest of th e m em bership has been a problem. A possible solution would be ; a news letter mailed onee a month to each member., This would require an Address-o-graph m a chine. The cost is low, but 1J fully | | | | lieve it would be money well spent. I I would also recommend breaking up our large chapters into smaller, homogeneous groups. By doing this, it would allow more people to participate in Association activities, and give Some of the minority groups a better oppor tunity to be heard; it I should increase membership and interest. The move ment is already under way in Portland Chapter Np.-;^7,p^ The D istrict Directors should be called, upon to play a larger part in promoting O.S.E.A, w ithin their dis tricts,, , In conclusion I would say that the O.S.E.A. has had a successful year. W orking conditions have been great ly improved ¡for the great majority of State , employees. Our legislative program was success ful; wc lost but one im portant meas ure, but saved Civil Service, . W e/haye issued charters to six new chapters since November, 1946. Respectfully submitted, FORREST V. STEW ART Legislative Approval of OSEA Proposals Listed By DeFrance To the Members of the Board of D ir ectors and General Council: The Law and Legislation Committee makes the following report. The presentation of the Oregon State Employees Association Legislative pro gram to the 44th Legislative Assembly resulted in some progress and some failure. 1. W e received approval of our requests concerning... (a) . Payroll deductions for Group Life Insurance (b) Six months employment before entering into Retirement System (0) Established July 1, 1947 as ef fective date, of Retirement A ct (d) Established effective date of Civil Service A ct (e) Civil Service Pay Plan was made effective March 1, 1947 instead of R B H 1947 (f) Increased salaries for unclassified employees and officials (g) The 5 day 40 hour week Was obtained by action of Boardipf Control an,d Civil Service Com mission 2 / W e failed to secure (a) The removal qf th e,20 year lim it' on prior service credit but were promised reconsideration in 1949 (b) A special "Emergency Salary Fund,” but, were told th a t/a n increased emergency fund would be set up which would be avail able for the same purpose We withdrew our request for in creased regular contributions in lieu of excess I contributions privilege
