February, 1973
The OSEA News
H ere is a Listing o f 13 Bilis
Introduced a t OSEA's Request
Editor’s Note: Following Is a list of bills intro
duced in the 1973 legislature at the request of
OSEA. Blanks indicate either the bill number was
not available or the bill was not printed as this
issue of The OSEA News went to press. Printed
bills' can be expected in about 10 days. A further
listing will be made in OSEA’s Legislative News
Bulletins when the bills are printed.
Please note this list does not include salary and
fringe benefit bills to be introduced and supported
jointly by OSEA and the Executive Department as
result of the collective bargaining contract
detailed on pages 1-6-7-8-9.
House Joint Resolution____ (Reps. Fadely and
Gwinn). Would require the Personnel Division
to review job classifications, tests and qualifica
tion requirements and revise or remove provisions
which would discriminate on the basis of race,
national origin, cultural background, or sex. It also
would require a quarterly report to the President of
the Senate and Speaker of the House.
House Bill 2551 (Reps. Dereli, R. Stults, and
others). Clarifies power of the Public Employe
Relations Board to reverse agency disciplinary
actions when in the board’s ’judgment the action
was not in good faith for cause.
House Bill 2552 (Rep. Dereli, Sen. Carson, and
others). Would place Corrections Division em
ployes whose duties include custody of criminals
in police classification for retirement purposes.
Senate Bill 301 (Sens. Hoy(, Howard). Adds
“ low option” combined basic and major-medical
plan to the plans to be offered by the State
Employes’ Benefit Board with employer contri
bution. Allows retired employes to continue plans
without a state contribution. Gives SEBB authority
to provide Medicare supplement plan to retirees.
(Sen. Burbidge, Rep. Rieke).
Senate Bil
Would permit payroll deduction for automobile
insurance premiums on plans endorsed by a state
agency or employe organization and having 1,000
subscribers.
(Sens. Heard, Wingard).
Senate Bill
Clarifies the right of academic employes to a
hearing under the Administrative Procedures Act.
House Bill____ (Reps. Skelton, Ingalls). Gives
academic employes access to personnel records
when appealing denial of right, privilege, or
property interest.
House Bill______(House Labor and Industrial
Relations Committee). Repeals the general
prohibition against public employe strikes, but
prohibits strikes where PERB impasse procedures
have not been exhausted or where a strike would
affect public health and safety. Provides binding
arbitration in health and safety cases.
Senate Bill ,
(Sen. Roberts, Rep. Hansell,
and others). Omnibus PERS improvement bill
developed by the Public Employes’ Retirement
Conference.
Senate Bill 297 (Committee on State and Federal
Affairs). Public Employes’ Retirement Conference
bill to allow legislators denied PERS membership
by erroneous legal opinion to make back
contributions and receive service credit.
House Joint Resolution_____ (Reps. Roberts
and Paulus). Would amend Oregon’s constitu
tion, upon favorable vote by the people, to allow
state employes to serve in the Legislative
Assembly.
House Bill____ (Reps. Densmore and Martin).
Would re-define “ employer” in state service for
collective bargaining purposes.
House Bill____ (House Labor and Industrial Re
lations Committee). .Exempts PERS benefits from
deduction from unemployment insurance bene
fits.
Subjects on which OSEA intended to submit
bills but instead will support other bills on the
same subjects: right of public employes to
return to their job after campaigning for or serving
in office; state tax credit fbr contributions to can
didate support organizations; creation of an office
of ombudsman; collective bargaining law im
provements; service fee for representation of
non-members of labor organizations in collective
bargaining.
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Task Force Says Pen Officers
Face Pay, Training Problems
Some serious problems have been found to
exist at Oregon’s Penitentiary and correctional
institution by a special legislative task force.
It was appointed last summer by the President
of the Senate and Speaker of the House in
response to a resolution drafted by OSEA and
adopted by Corrections Division employes. It
asked for an investigation of employe complaints
that were made following the death of a
correctional officer at the penitentiary from stab
wounds.
X tà h ^ ;ià s k force, which recently completed its
Reached the following conclusions from its
^ ^ R e c ru itm e n t and retention of staff falls short
’o l'|l|ia t -is 'desirable in public service, or, for that
.m atter,■; ’in any important undertaking. It is
apparent that employe turnover is high. Entrance
•level salaries are unattractive and suffer by
. .comparison with the pay of state, city and county
, law enforcement officers.
• Lack of adequate professional personnel staff
ofDEQ
Chemist Upheld
An OSEA appeal of a dismissal action taken by
the Department of Environmental Quality was
turned down by the Public Employe Relations
Board recently.
A chemist was dismissed by the agency for in
subordination after he refused to go on an out-of-
town trip of several days duration to collect fallout
samples at stations located throughout the state.
He asked OSEA attorney John S. Irvin to appeal
the action.
The employe contended the work was outside of
his classification and that it was assigned to him
for the purpose of preparing his position for re
classification downward.
The board, however, viewed the case as a de
liberate refusal to comply with a valid order and
upheld the dismissal.
at the penitentiary appeared to be si serious de
ficiency.
• Changes in emphasis in correction philos
ophy— preparing inmates to return to society
rather than just providing protective custody—in
volves a transition in thinking with which some
correctional staff members do not completely
agree or have been able to accept.
• Employe training programs appeared to be
exceedingly deficient. With the high turnover rate
it would be difficult to have teamwork among
staff, at best, but without adequate training it
would appear to be inviting inevitable disaster.
• Correctional officers pointed out that the
new, more permissive custodial practices tended
to make their work more hazardous and emotion
ally demanding.
“ It may be that while Oregon has given strong
emphasis to the needs of-the individual inmate, it
has neglected consideration for educational,
emotional and self-fulfilling needs of the custodial
staff in close daily contact with the inmates. It
appears to the task force that this is the case,” the
report notes.
It urges the 1973 legislature “ to follow up the
creative and innovative approach to corrections
adopted during the past six years by support of
salary, staffing and training request for personnel
so that Oregon may avoid the failures so painfully
apparent in some jurisdictions.”
The task force made the following recommen
dations:
(1) Penitentiary budget funds should be ear
marked for an adequate personnel program within
the institution. Staff members should have the
highest degree of professional competency.
(2) Salary levels for correctional officers at both
institutions and for teachers at the correctional
institution should be upgraded. There should be a
reasonable correlation between salaries for
correctional officers and law enforcement salaries
’ paid by state, county and city jurisdictions.
(3) Corrections personnel should be engaged in
a continuing educational program to improve
skills and broaden their knowledge in the correc
tional field.
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