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Page 4 ■~i 111 OREGON STATE EMPLOYEE NEWS i ■ h u c r n "P /M W ** ÍMMOYIM ASSOCIATION . Published monthly by the Oregon State Employees Association ISIS State Street or P. O. Box 2307 Salem, Oregon Salem, Oregon Telephone: 581*1505 97301 97308 1008 S.W. Sixth Avenue Portland, Oregon 97204 Room 206 Telephone: 224*1870 (Address all communications to the Salem address) Second Class Postage Paid at Salem, Oregon. Subscription rates: $1.50 per year to association mem bers; $3.00 to all others; 25c per copy. Official publica tion of the Oregon State Employees Association, a non profit organization. President..................... R. m . Smith........................Highway Past1 President............ Chalmers Jones.......... Employment Vice-President............Smith French..................... Highway Secretary-Treasurer-- Carroll Allison............ Employment Civil Service............... James F isher......................Forestry Law-Legislation........ Harold A dam s.......................... SIAC Membership............... Dale Sturmer.......................Highway Insurance....................Floyd Baxter ................Employment Retirement..................Jerry Liebertz............................ PERS Public Relations........ George Gearhart..........Employment Academic and Unclassified................H. Kent Farley............OCE Faculty DISTRICT DIRECTORS Dist. No. 1 Glen Snyder.........................Board of Health _ x 4 370 S. W. 345th, Hillsboro Dist No. 2 Edward Euken........................... ............. SIAC 4082 Penny Drive, Salem Dist. No. 3 George Baker....................................Highway A 433 West 17th, Coquille Dist. No. 4 Belva M ayfield............................... Highway Box 930, Bend Dist. No. 5 Robert de Witt........................................EOSH Rt. 1, M.H. 7, Pendleton Dist. No. 6 Helen Towne—......................................n of O 3390 Potter, Eugene Dist. No. 7 H. N. Van Cleave--.............................Highwav 1504 View Court, The Dalles y Dist. No. 8 Raymond F alleur.............. ---— .---Highwav , , Box 574 N, Warrenton Dist. No. 9 Alvin Coulson........................ OSH 703 Faymar, N. E., Salem headquarters staff Tliomas C. Enright—- ......................... Executive Secretary Edward L. Wilson................Assistant Executive Secretary Everett B. Stiles, Jr.................-Wage and Salary Analyst C. D. Johansen-...................................Field Representative Donald A. Benmger........... - ............. Field Representative Donald G. Olds, Manager..................... Insurance Services T?^in S' ^ ewi2........... ................................... Office Manager Dale E. Leach.......Editor and Public Relations Manager The recent policy statement by the OSEA Board of Directors against-strikes by public employees has drawn favorable editorial comment in a number of newspapers around the state. The TIGARD TIMES described it as "evidence of responsibility on the part of directors for the state classified workers." OSEA is a member of the Assembly of Governmental Employees, a national association of independent public employee organizations which includes 26 state associa tions. A t its last annual meeting, the Oregon delegates pressed for a comprehensive no-strike statement which will no doubt be adopted this year. Some wonder why it is necessary for a public em ployee organization to adopt a no-strike policy, or, as in the case of OSEA, to include a prohibition against strikes in its constitution. "Is n 't it already against the law for public employees to strike?" they ask. Practically all states have laws against striking in public employment, but the problem is their enforcement. Oregon law makes public strikes unlawful but provides no penalties. As such it stands only as a statement of public policy and a possible ground for injunctive action against the strike. Some laws provide penalties such as the loss of job protection rights of employees who strike. As a prac tical matter, however, when the strike is over the employer needs experienced employees to carry on its work, so the power to penalize by not rehiring is not usable. A fter the New York transit workers strike, a court strictly interpreting that state's law against public em ployee strikes held that the transit employees would have to be penalized by denial of pay increases for three years. I t is doubtful the holding w ill stand. Even before this de cision, Governor Rockefeller and other leaders had urged changing the law because it was unworkable and provided too great a penalty against the individual employee, when it is generally the union and its leadership who are res ponsible for the strike. Most of the Unions refuse to recognize a curtailment of their "rig h t" to strike in public employment, except possibly in the case of police or firemen. The president of the AFL-CIO public employee union, AFSC&ME, recently refused to go along with W alter Reuther in a statement against public employee strikes, claiming they were neces sary for effective union activity. The Government Employee Relations Report, a service to which we subscribe, shows constant use of threats of strikes or actual strikes by AFSC&ME and the American Federation of Teachers at the first sign of frustration of their demands upon public management. It is not likely that a public employment strike w ill be seen in Oregon for some time. But as the unions con tinue their attempts to organize public employees in this state it is well to be reminded of their position on the strike matter. This is not only because of the showing it makes of irresponsibility on the part of some who seek to repre sent public employees, but also because it offers further proof of the apparent inability of the labor movement, rooted as it is in private industry, to adjust to the more intelligent attitudes and methods needed to do an effective job of representation in public employment. NAME James I. Beeson (La Grande) Marie M. Butler (Woodburn) Donald E. Harlan (Salem) Haskel C. Hart (California) Helen H. Hayes (Salem) Elmer A. Hinton (Ukiah) Harry H, Johanns (Portland) Darrell P. Jolley (Portland) John A. Luie (Portland) Vernon R. Torgerson (Tigard) Hazel H. Ward (Portland) Clifford A. Winings (Enterprise) YEARS OF SERVICE 31 12 17 9 9 28 14 11 19 14 15 8 LAST EMPLOYER Highway Higher Education Higher Education EOSH Hillcrest Highway Liquor Commissioi Liquor Commission Secretary of State Higher Education Labor Commission Highway Thomas C. Enright Executive Secretary Oregon State Employees Associ ation 1515 State Street Salem, Oregon Dear Mr. Enright: I wish to thank you and the Ore gon State Employees Association for.the honor recently accorded me in Salem. Sincerely yours, Frank L* Hruza (Editor’s Note: Hruza was one of the three public employees select ed by the Oregon State Employees Association and the Oregon State Junior Chamber of Commerce as the Outstanding Young Public Em ployee for 1965. The other two were James G. Fisher, State For estry Department, and Robert J. Prinslow, Woodburn Chief of Pol ice.) ■ ■ ■ — I ?C 9H I DARRYL E. STORM Storm Seeks School Post A two-term, past-president of the Oregon State Employees As sociation has announced his can didacy for a position on the Salem School Board. Darryl E. Storm, who served as OSEA president in 1961-62, will be opposed for the position by Dr. Maynard Shiffer, a Salem physi cian. Storm, "41, is employed by the State Forestry Department as fin ance director. He has worked for the department for the past 18 years. He received a B.S. degree in forest management from Oregon State University in 1948. Storm and his wife, Ardys, live at 117 Idylwood Dr. S.E., Salem. They have five children. In addition to serving as associ ation president, Storm has also served as vice-present, director of insurance, chapter president and long-time d e le g a te to General Council. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters, the Mas onic Londge and is currently sec retary of the Oregon Association of State Fiscal and Administrative Officers. Retired Chapter Charter Granted OSEA Executive Secretary Tho mas C. Enright presented Oregon State Retired Persons Chapter 97 with an OSEA charter at cere monies in Corvallis January 5. Earl Litwiller, a candidate for chapter vice-president, presided at the meeting. After the presentation ceremon ies were completed, R. S. Besse gave a report on the progressbeing made by the Public Employees Retirement Conference sponsored by OSEA and OEA.
