JULY, 1968
OREGON STATE EMPLOYEE NEWS
Page 2
Yaquina Crew Members
Get $ 1 9 8 0 Back Pay
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Months of negotiation between OSEA and the Highway
Dtpartment culminated June 20, with the signing of a
basic collective bargaining contract. OSEA Executive Secretary Thomas C. Enright, left, and State
Highway Engineer Forrest Cooper signed the document. Witnessing the event were, from left,
David Moehring and Gene Huntley, Highway; Everett Stiks and Edward Wilson OSEA; and
E. S. Hunter, Highway.
HIGHWAY CONTRACT SIGNED
Basic Bargaining Contracts
Negotiated W ith Agencies
OSEA has negotiated basic
collective bargaining contracts
with four more major state
agencies during the past six
weeks.
Nearly 3,500 classified em
ployees are now working under
the terms of the documents.
The first was negotiated May
27 with the University of Ore
gon Dental School in Portland.
It was signed by Dr. Louis G.
Terkla, Dean of the School. It
covers some 91 employees.
The next contract became
effective June 10 when it was
signed by Andrew F. Juras,
administrator of the Public
Welfare Commission. About 875
employees now work under its
terms.
The third contract covers
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the 2,409 employees in the big
bargaining unit in the Highway
Department. It was signed by
Forrest Cooper, state highway
engineer, on June 20.
The fourth was negotiated
with Eastern Oregon College
July 1. It was signed by Averno
M. Rempel, president, and cov
ers some 116 employees.
The basic collective bargain
ing
contracts have been
described as “ ground rule”
agreements which outline the
procedures to be followed in
establishing collective bargain
ing between OSEA and an
agency.
Once it is started, supple
mental agreements spelling out
specific bargaining items will
be added to the basic contract.
OSEA now has bargaining
contracts with 34 major state
agencies.
Additional contract negotia
tions are going on in a number
of agencies.
They include the Department
of Agriculture, Portland State
College, Oregon Correctional
Institutional and the University
of Oregon.
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there was enough money avail
able to make the pay raises
step-to-step.
He also pointed out a civil
service rule which states,
“ when a pay range for any
class is increased, individual
salary rates shall be raised to
the corresponding step unless
the commission adopts an al
ternate procedure at the time
of adjustment.”
No formal. Alternate proced
ure was ever adopted by the
commission, Wilson claimed.
The employees represented
by OSEA were Rudolph Buda,
Robert Fries, Robert Ingersoll,
Francis Jennings, Howard
Linse and Reuben Loskota.
They will receive $1,980 in
back pay.
Spread The
OSEA Word
By BETTY FRENCH
Director of Membership
Membership is the life blood
of our association. I know all
members are concerned and
interested
in membership
growth and in the efforts to
enroll new OSEA members. In
order to strengthen and im
prove our association, we must
continue to grow.
Every chapter should be o r
ganized for membership re
cruitment (ideally on a daily
and constant basis) and should
be in the final stages of the
statewide membership drive.
The letters and information
al materials that were mailed
earlier this_summer have made
all state employees aware of
OSEA. Now is the time for
personal contact follow-ups.
EVERY state employee should
be contacted this summer and
invited to join. This job isn’t
as big as it sounds. If every
chapter attempts to contact ev
ery non-member in its working
area, it can be accomplished
easily.
L e t ’s m a k e s u r e e v e r y n o n -
member gets the word about
OSEA. Let’s make sure every
one understands that almost
every benefit enjoyed by state
employees in Oregon today is
either directly or indirectly
the result of work done by
our association over the past
25 years.
Every member’s interestand
support of OSEA is solicited—
and appreciated.
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After one year of negotiations
by OSEA, Oregon State Uni
versity has given one-step pay
raises to seven crew members
of the research vessel Yaquina.
The
Yaquina is OSU’s
oceanography vessel berthed at
Newport.
Before it was over, the battle
involved the Marion County
Circuit Court, the Civil Serv
ice Commission and various
OSU officials.
It began last July when the
employees, who range from a
ship’s electrician to the master
of the vessel, received a two-
step pay increase in the Civil
Service Commission’s
1967
compensation plan.
They were given only one-
step of the raise, however.
OSEA claimed they were en
titled to step-to-step adjust
ments, the same as other em
ployees.
When the pay plan was adopt
ed, OSU’s personnel officer said
some departments operating on
grant funds would have prob
lems implementing the plan
on a step-to-step basis.
The commission at that time
approved the plan but stated,
according to its minutes, that
if some departments had ser
ious problem areas they should
“ work with the civil service
staff to get them ironed out.’*
Edward L.Wilson, OSEA staff
member who represented the
Yaquina’s crew during the pro
longed negotiations, claimed
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