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About The OSEA news. (Salem, Oregon) 1970-1981 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1970)
July, 1970 The OSEA News Page 2 Academic Committee Prepares Faculty Pay Plan A salary plan for Oregon's 6,200 academic employes is being prepared by OSEA's Academic and Unclassified Services Committee, according to Dr. Paul Weswig, director. He said the plan wi 11 be based on the recent opinion poll of the state's academ ic employes conducted by the committee. The salary plan w ill combine both cost of living raises and m erit increases, Weswig said. "F irs t p riority should be given to restoring fa cu lty purchasing power by an across- the-board increase in salaries to adjust for the rise in the cost of livin g ." "A fte r that, the plan calls for additional increases based on m erit principies," he said. The combination of the two must be sufficient to bring Oregon's institutions of higher education into line with com parable schools throughout the country, Weswig declared. "The practice of basing all academic salary increases on Employe Who Helped Form OSEA Retires An employe who was in strum ental in form ing the Oregon State Employes Association in 1943 and who served as one of its founding officers retired last month. Forrest Cooper, Oregon state .highway engineer, ended his career after more than 48 years with the Highway Division. He started at the bottom of the ladder with the division as a chainman in 1922 and step by step climbed the ladder to the agency's top job in 1961. His career began five years after the Highway Division was organized in its present form and Oregon was struggling to get out of> the mud. Cooper stayed on not only to see the state's highway system get out of the mud but. to see it recognized as one of th e fine st in the nation. He was an innovator, and many of his projects will serve as m em orials to his achievements. Perhaps one of the most notable was the Safety Rest Area program along the Interstate Highway System. With few, if any, guidelines, and facing opposition all the way because many thought if would be a waste of highway users' funds, Cooper insisted on going ahead. The success of the program is FORREST COOP.E.R Helped Form OSEA now le g e n d a ry. L e tte rs pour into fhe state congratulating Oregon on its program and requesting plans and in formation so sim ilar things can be done in other states. Cooper and his wife, Zeta, live in Salem. They have two children, no longer at home. While the Coopers'plans for the future are still indefinite, they plan to tra v e l and relax following almost half a cen tury's dedication to a most complex and demanding career. Sometimes troublés come unexpectedly . . . if you need it, you'll be glad your protection is OSEA/Blue Cross P. O. Box 12 7 1 , P O R T L A N D , O R E G O N 9 7 2 0 7 P H O N E: 225-5221 In addition, 83 per cent of the respondents said they favored automatic salary adjustments In OSEA's opinion poll of for changes based on the cost of living index. Weswig said the salary plan w ill be studied by the com mittee at its next meeting. He said every effort w ill be made to get OSEA's academic members behind a campaign to reach salary goals at the next session of the legislature. OSEA Charges Firing Illegal; MacLaren Employe Reinstated . . . . A cook who was fired by MacLaren School for Boys was ordered reinstated to her job with back pay following an OS EA charge that she was illegally terminated. The employe, Mrs. Mary Salyers, is a cook for the agency at Camp Florence. M acLaren claim ed M rs. Salyers was fillin g the job on a provisional basis. She was fired, according to the agency, when it obtained a list of cer tifie d employes from the Personnel Division to fill the job. Upon inve stiga ting the matter, however, staff member Donald A. Beninger found Mrs. Salyers had been appointed as a trial service employe and had worked for the school more than six month's. Therefore, he claimed, she had achieved regular status. Beninger warned MacLaren that the action was improper, and asked that Mrs. Salyers be ....... . > employe to fill the job. Beninger then asked the Personnel D ivision to in- tervene. "A n irre g u la r series of events has resulted in an un fortunate set of circumstances which seem to have victimized OSEA members have less than three weeks left in which to try to win the $100 first prize in the association's three- month membership campaign. It began May 1 and w ill end -July 31. Cash prizes totaling $500 will be divided among 26 members and the new members they enroll. The only way to become eligible to win is to enroll a new m em ber. E nrollm e nt form s w ill be kept at headquarters until the campaign ends. There Hospital Workers Get $1,400 Overtime Pay A prize of $15 w ill go to the cha pter whose r e c ru ite r w ins f ir s t p rize in the d ra w in g . In order for enrollment forms to be counted in the campaign they must be received at headquarters by Aug. 4. "Will’ Forms Four "WILL" form* & 64-Page Booklet on WILLS. Written by Attorney Harry Hibschman . . . plus inportant Guide to Wills. It's Hot! COMPLETE ONLY $1 National Forms, Box 48313 W Los Angeles, Calif. 90048 S -t-r-e -t-c -h i i i I I Busy Bee Beauty Salon ! MM will be two separate drawings to determine winners in each category. For the recruiters, first prize is $100. Second prize is $50 and third prize is $40. In addition, ten cash prizes of $12.50 each will be awarded. . For the new members enrolled during the campaign, firs t prize is $50, second prize is $25 and third prize is $20. Ten additional prizes of $7.50 each w ill be given to new members. All three are sta tion ary firemen. Beninger said the employes earned the overtime during the past three years. He based the claim on the Personnel Division rule which says for those employes working split shifts, all time after 12 hours from the tim e an employe in itia lly reports to work is overtime. Eastern Oregon Hospital and Training Center in Pendleton has agreed to pay three em ployes $1,400 in back overtime at the request of OSEA. The claim was filed in behalf of the men by staff member Donald A. Beninger. The employes and amount each will receive are: Oliver Lesh, $197.40; George Perkins, $1,132.56; and Alex Watson, $76.12. 388 State Street Downtown Salem Phone 363-3663 S63 11 the Híi/¡c¡nn Mrs. Salyers," division said. It said she had achieved regular status and could not be terminated from her job as a provisional employe. The agency then rehired M rs. Salyers. Cash Prizes A w a it Campaign Winners re in sta te d . The agency refused, how ever, and h ire d another Hot weather getting you down? 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