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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1949)
17 t.ive Secretary - Forrest Stexvprt DID ATTEND the mentioned- Board of Control meetings, as the S O & M E business agent well knows (unless his /'eyes failed him there® S teW arm jd® attej^ ^ fe t lfer I important I conferences n this^W ter, which led up to favojSH ble action, toj/wjiicb the S C & M E representatives were apparently indif- ferent, as they were conspicuous by their absence! That guff- about our OSEA being nin by * supervisor ^ ,w S get a going over a little later on, but you should first hear what was’ written- .abou^u^l in the November, 1949 issue of this Oregon Publij|j Employees News ma gazine about our comparatively small BaflBB S S The article concerns the slBfe M E 1947 and 1949 legislative failut.ek^in trying to close the “back .d o o r ” offthe Civil Service Act. As you all know, the I Federal Civil Service Act does haveva pa« W fclnsed back door, and everyone finds fault with it. “Closing the back door” means mak ing it mandatory to rehire^with ba*cpl MBfc>ay any employee, whio^^s discharged :^ jRvhen he can ^^^texdoubt that his dis charge" was du lllentirely to his (the pm^'aM r o wn fault. Under the pres ent Oregon Act g B M S s “ op en back door,” a discharged employee who cannot definitely be shown to be in- H ^ B ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ c c ^ ^ n ^nded for rehiring, for IIBlIbmpaMble position in another department, or at least is placed at* the t o W s y K l i s t for re employment. Many have been put back to w o rk undeg^^^joplm back doo£^ • Abuse Is Cheap Well, to proceed with the quotations from said the 1949 session, labor again duced a bill from unwarranted discharges (that I “back door” bo|S , and provided in the same bill that one member of the service commission should be a representative of labor” (of the S C & M E ?). Continuing, they said, “ Of course, you have guessed it, again' the non union state employees association boss- controlled company union (that’s the OSEA they refer to) bitterly, fou^hl this bill and bragged about -ik ir^ ^ ir- • cular they'put dût.” The next para graph of this article read as follows: “Statrn employee -locals bf 'th e State, County and Municipal Employees, American Federation of Labor, are' of ficered by members who are iibt and cannot be bosses or supervisors.” While everyone draws a deep breath, it is well to remind the readers that the legislature would not ‘K'dvb- origin- I ally passed our Civil Service Act if it - had provided for the “ closed* back dooi^B^j/l^^it is^ good to know , that; the Act is patterned- on a national model act which represents the best thinking -of experts in field, who avoided therein the pit-falls and er rors that have cü rsed and made non- effectiye so many of the, present sys tems of Civil Service throughout the nation. In these two articles under discus sion, in October the OSEA was merely called a “non-union àssôciation” ; while the following month we were referred to as a “non-union boss7 con trolled company union.” How bad we became in 30 days! Did you notice I their reference to themselves as -being- “officered by members who are not and can not be bjos'ses.or supervisors 9 | Could this be a slap in the face to their State employee members by call ing them incapable of advancing them- trust and res^ou^ l a bility; *or do they infer thatfflSnBol I g f the.S C & M S is by high-salarie$g Ifurnon gj^^^^ayeer&fhen who live well bn the high dues collected from members^ I would rise in defense of the ^^^^^mplbye^s * tc^^a ^ ^ ^ t ANY of them have a chance to becomesl^ss3g eslgangj^S^^^^Slin State service- if the emp^^^^^^^^^to get ahead, and I just don’t believe that any state em ployee members of the S C & M E are below average in their abilities to ad- vance in the^senydæ’^M Of were pre^- pared by their Organization Commit tee, and perchance this committee is not very well informed. If thejjj jjwant the truth about OSEA organization/ they are w elcom e'tc^ ^ ^ gur Chapters at any time. Naturally, this Committee, trying to get a new organization and a large Vnumber of -heavy* dues-paying people in t h S nanks has to resort to
