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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1949)
16 $15, if they were assured that t h e j S g j would be - representative ôf: w hat the| new job would reqm ie'Of them. Recommended Remedies The Oregon State Employees As sociation, at its Portland, recom m ended Civil Service im provem ents as follows: . 1. Require immediately that g g g a tions, especially those of a super- visory nature, be filled from lists created by Civil ■ tional exam inations. 2. That the Civil g | B Q G B W j | j increased to providaab'etter ®erzv-: ice; bet,ter^selecting4 rating and -^certifying H That the AssffcMgCTBtehd B B i P - port ■•W BW EriW HKg^vfl->Serv- i r e W f f i iâ g M d ia educating and g j M | | | l K | of |fhdse who neglect or fail to c o o p é r a t i f in m aking the A c t i |m ||l its t r u ^ J purpose 4 « ^ » l « B B 3 i e » g a r e ^ ^ R t e l ^ B employee. In the interests of good go vernm ent and good e m p h ^ r a K ^ M i c S ,.em- ployees w ant a fair deal in th S ^ jm a tS h ters of examinations, jobs and promo tions which affect theirjM E B j l their lives, their families and tli’e i r j « ^ ^ ® ; Guess Who’s Mad? Lar^c Union Attacks OSEA By VIRGIL G. O’NEIL Former Director of Public Relations When our comparatively small Ore gon State Employees/’Association, ap proxim ately 4,500 members, draws the abuse of an AF of L àffiliàtion of over 200,000 members in the Oregon P u M g Employees News (A F of L magazine), one wonders what is behind smoke! Could it be th a t'thè A F of L union for State, Òpunty and Municipal Employees is having h ard sig m n ^ h i j getting State emolov^sWto join- them at^ ^ -tune of $2.00 per month dues, 60 cents of which goes goodness-knows where in the East? Or is it because our own self-governing, boss-free As sociation has made good and brought home the bacon for all State employees while th e S C & M E labor bosses drew their high salaries with little accomplished for their membersffM Claims Are Cheap Everyone-, knows that desperation begets carelessness and often results in exaggeration. To illustrate the pos sible desperation of the paid le a d e d of this S C & M E group, we q i t ìg / a few excerpts from the October; 1949 issue of their Oregon Public Employee News: Concerning the prèsent^5-;day, 4Ó- hour week—“A t no tim e during these mg g t^ ^ ^ (Board of Control) w ere any representatives of the non-union em- ployees association (M eaning t h OSEA) present. Howev^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ -f/Jy tion, through its propaganda machine, has ‘ s e e n H B to '^ B u la r i'f e O M e em- ployees that they, th e association, were responsible for obtaining the 5-day, 40-hour week *“Up to n B j ^ w o f l ^ e a ^ p late!) “làbòr^had m ade no attem pt to publicize thè* falsity of the non-union state e m p l ^ ^ S B ^ ^ ^ O ^ ^ ^ a L s t a t é - mentsi” The article then g o e s o n to state that they, the S C & M E were wholly responsible for ob’tairiing it. Quoting again, “It is a w ell-know n fact among the common énípl ^ ^ ¿t^S, ■ the State that officers of the non-union association arejSH |SM B B || from óthéx r a n k s 'o f 1 these, officers, in their capacity of supervi sors on occasion apt as organizers for the non-union association.” Now, fellov^ m p ld y ^ ^ W ^ h a v e be- fore us a m ild sample" of hów;ftBigjà- €B bor-boss controlled “sister u n io i^ K feedfB ^o ir propaganda to th eir m em - bership, (our® èllow w orkers in State service), and how easy,?$B i||to m ake c l a i ^ ^ ^ ^ S t o exaggerate ^ e n there I are axes to grind. The facts about the ,5.-day> 40-hour week are th at Jwr own OSEA Execu-
