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About The OSEA news. (Salem, Oregon) 1970-1981 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1973)
January, 1973 [ I The OSEA News Special Discount Prices To State Employes On: O pen Road R ecreation Vehicles Campers— -Vacation Trailers— Motor Homes Chevrolets Cars------- Carry Alls------- Pickups A ll tailored to your needs and purse John Lucas Chevrolet, Inc. R Phone: M R f ,oy’x W 1 769-2126 Stayton, Oregon The Beauty Center 464 Capitol St. NE On Capitol between Center & Marion In the Capitol Shopping Center 362-0992 NOW OPEN THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHTS UNTIL 9 The Beauty Center is proud to announce it has been chosen as a REDKEN R E T A ILC E N T E R We offer Redken Products, including Protein Plus Skin Care Conditioner (as advertised in Vogue m agazine). Let us test your hair w ith our M icrogram - Scale and help you attain healthy hair through proper re-conditioning in our salon o r a t h o m e w it h th e c o r r e c t form ula for your in d iv id u a l p ro b le m . * $ 2 6 5 DOWN, $47.28 A MONTH FOR THE NEW 2 FROM m in e me e SUBARU Front Wheel Drive, beauty, a price you can handle. $2,165 Page 3 OSEA Charges Welfare With Using Secret Forms to Damage Employes OSEA has charged the Public Welfare Division with using a secret personnel form to "obstruct or prevent" the promotion of Its employes. The charge Is contained in a petition for review filed with the Public Employe Relations Board by John S. Irvin, OSEA's staff attorney. It was filed on behalf of Lawrence E. Wilson, a caseworker employed In PWD's Albany office. The Association has learned that the form was developed at the direction of Leo T. Hegstrom, an assistant administrator of the agency. It Is used by him and his subordinates to rate the promotional potential of the employes under their authority. The forms are kept secret from the employes who are rated, however. Neither employes nor their legal representative are permitted to examine or Inspect them. In Its petition, OSEA charged that Donald Lady, a PWD district manager in Albany, wrote a "strongly emphatic recommendation" on one of the secret forms against the promotion of Wilson because of his alleged activities In connection with the Association. The petition charges that Lady discriminated against W ilson's “ prom otional prospects" because of h IS "activities in attempting to recruit OSEA members," and because of Lady's "u n founded belief that Wilson viewed himself as a shop steward or OSEA representative." In numerous other instances, OSEA alleges in Its petition, PWD supervisors, branch managers and district managers—acting under orders from Hegstrom—have furnished Information about employes to Hegstrom "secretly and without giving notice to the employes to whom the in formation pertained, for the purpose of damaging the prospects of the employes for employment in higher classifications In the Public Welfare Division." OSEA also alleges that the forms are being used a rb itra rily to penalize employes for acts not known to be true, that forms are being used to d is crim in a te against employes fo r th e ir Association activities, and that they are being used In violation of the constitutional provision of due process. Before filing Its petition with the PERB, OSEA asked Hegstrom and later PWD Administrator Andrew F. Juras to either abolish the secret forms and prohibit their use or to permit employes and their legal representative to Inspect the forms. After both men refused the request, the Association asked the Personnel Division to review the m atter. That request was never an swered. OSEA's petition alleges the secret forms violate Oregon's m erit system law which prohibits fu r nishing "to any person any special or secret In formation for the purpose of affecting the rights or prospects of any person with respect to em ployment In the classified service." Any person who w ilfully violates that provision of the law Is guilty of a misdemeanor that is punishable, upon conviction, by a fine of not more than $500or by Imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding one year, or both. In ad dition, any person convicted of a misdemeanor under the m erit system law is ineligible for em ployment In the state service for a period of five years. OSEA has asked the PERB to declare the use of such secret forms to be a rbitrary, contrary to law and rule, and prohibit their use by the Public Welfare Division. OSEA Wànfs Empfoymenf Division To Pay Employe Travel Expenses OSEA has charged the Employment Division with refusal to comply with a provision of ifs collective bargaining contract in a complaint filed with the Public Employe Relations Board. The contract provision in dispute deals with reimbursing employes for moving expenses. The present contract between OSEA and the Employment Division contains a provision which requires the agency to reimburse Its employes for travel, subsistence and moving expenses that result from transfers made "a t the request of or for the benefit of the employer." Last August and September the Employment Division, because of a shortage of funds, abolished some 25 to 30 positions In various classifications in Its offices located throughout the state. In most of the cases, the agency allowed affected employes to choose transfer to a position elsewhere In the same class. However, the division refused to reimburse employes for travel, subsistence or moving costs Incurred by the transfers. OSEA contends such refusal Is a violation of its / bargaining contract because the transfers are, In reality, for the "b en e fit" of the Employment Division, in most instances, each affected em ploye was first ordered by the agency to transfer. That order was then cancelled. Finally, the em ployes were offered a choice of possible locations to which to transfer. "We do not feel," OSEA staff attorney John S. Irvin said, "that an agency can defeat its obligation to pay for moving expenses by offering alternatives of transfer toan employe It already has the duty to transfer. And we feel that is what occurred." "A shortage of funds, as drastic as occurred In the Employment Division, causes much anxiety, we know. But compliance with bargaining con tracts Is as much a duty of an agency as com pliance with statutes and rules In such situations. It is our belief that the Employment Division has tried to avoid the contract," he said. The agency has filed a demurrer to the com plaint. The PERB has not yet set the matter for hearing. Decision to Stop Testing In K lam ath Falls D raw s Criticism Fully equipped, even push-button radio! And Front Wheel Drive McPherson Strut Front Suspension Independent Torsion Bars in the rear. 1.3 liter, horizontally opposed, four-cylinder, liquid cooled engine. Up to 3 0 mpg on regular. Thermostatically controlled electric cooling fan. Four speed all synchro transmission. Rack and Pinion Steering Reclining high back bucket seats All vinyl upholstery Wall to wall carpets Whitewalls Wheel covers Wood-grained dash Parcel shelf * Plus Dealer prep, freight, state and local taxes, if any. * Example: 1973 Subaru 2-door coupe Selling price Cash or equity down Balance to finance Monthly payments (48 months, APR of 9%) $2165.00 265.00 1900.00 47.28 Eastgate Motors 88812th Street SE, Salem, Oregon Phone: 364-8445 The Personnel Division's decision to discontinue giving job examinations for state employment in Klamath Falls after February 3 has drawn criticism from OSEA. PD Administrator William G. Hughes said applicants in and around Klamath Falls would have to go to Medford or Bend to take the tests. OSEA Executive Secretary Thomas C. Enright called the drive over the mountains from Klamath Falls to Medford in the winter "nerve racking." "Even in the safer months, the loss of time and the expense of travel for such a trip impose an undue burden upon the potential state employe, or the state employe who is seeking to qualify for advanced status," he said. "We are advised that the person who gives the tests in Klamath Falls on a part-time basis is paid about $300 annually by the state. Because there are a number of state offices available for the testing without cost, we cannot envision such savings to the state as to justify the termination of this important public service on an economy basis," Enright declared. "Both state administrators and employes in the Klamath Falls area have adyised us that they feel ready accessibility to tests is important to recruiting and retaining an effective work force," Enright told Hughes. "We urge you to reconsider your decision and restore testing in Klamath Falls." Portland Attorney N am ed to PERB Portland attorney Paul T. Bailey has been appointed by Gov. Tom McCall to the Public Employe Relations Board. He replaces Medford attorney James Redden, Oregon's newly elected state treasurer, who resigned after becoming a candidate for the office. The other two members of the board are J. W. Forrester Jr., publisher of the Pendleton East Oregonian, and William Lubersky; a Portland attorney. '
