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OSEA Measure Directing Review
O f Job Classifications Approved
An OSEA written measure directing the Per
sonnel Division to review the state's job
classifications, qualifications requirements and
tests and revise any which perpetuate arbitrary
barriers to fair and equal employment has been
passed by the House of Representatives.
The measure—HJR 31—has been before the
House State and Federal Affairs Committee. Rep.
Walter AuCoin (D-Forest Grove), chairman of
that committee, carried it on the House floor.
"M y interest in the state's job classification
system dates back to the 1971 legislative session,
when in a hearing before the Financial Affairs
subcommittee I heard testimony that the state still
maintains a 1946 job description in the laborer
classification which calls for an employe to drive a
team of horses pulling a mower, and shovel hog
fuel," he said.
"Testimony before the State and Federal A f
fairs Committee indicates that obsolete class
specifications such as this are not a ra rity ,"
AuCoin told the House of Representatives.
"T h e re are approxim ate ly
1,138 job
classifications in the state service. Of these, 69.7
per cent have class specifications more than five
OSEA Appeals 7
Reclass Denials
OSEA has appealed to the Public Employe
Relations Board requests for reclassification from
seven higher education employes who have been
turned down by the Personnel Division.
Four of the employes—all females—work at
Oregon State University in Corvallis. All are
domestic workers requesting reclassification to
bakers.
Two of the employes—both females—are em
ployed at Oregon Technical Institute in Klamath
Falls. They are classified as domestic workers
and seek reclassification to cooks.
The other employe—a male—works at Southern
Oregon College in Ashland. He has requested
reclassification from stores clerk to storekeeper.
All seven employes should be reclassified
because their present classification is not based on
the duties, authority and responsiblities of their
jobs, according to OSEA staff attorney John S.
Irvin who filed the appeals with the PERB.
In addition, Irvin said, the fact that the tour OSU
employes are classified as domestic workers and
the Personnel Division's refusal to reclassify them
as bakers "constitutes and perpetuates
discrimination again.st them on the basis of sex."
He said their present classification and the
refusal to reclassify them "results in and per
petuates unequal pay for equal w ork."
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Completed collective bargaining questionnaires
mailed recently to members of the Oregon State
University bargaining unit are being returned to
headquarters in large numbers.
It was prepared by OSEA's Unit Representation
Committee at the school. The committee will use
the results, now being tabulated, in preparation of
a new collective bargaining contract for OSU.
"We used the questionnaire for two prim ary
reasons," according to Kenneth Stueve, chairman
of the committee. "F irst, it is a direct and efficient
method of contacting every member of the
bargaining unit to ask him or her to participate in
the process of drafting the contract."
"Second, it adds validity to OSEA's contract
proposals at the bargaining table and stops such
questions as: 'How do we know employes really
want what you're asking?' "
The questionnaire is 5Va pages long and asks
employes to answer 28 questions covering a wide
range of employment relations matters. One
question asks, " If an employe is required to work
at least two hours beyond an eight hour shift,
should he receive a meal allowance regardless of
his work location?"
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than 25 years."
AuCoin said testimony given to the committee
indicates that some job classifications in state
government perpetuate unlawful discrimination
on the basis of sex.
"The main case in point involves male custodial
workers and female domestic workers in higher
education institutions doing the same work under
different classifications, with the men receiving
over $100 a month more than their women coun
terparts," he said.
AuCoin said passage of the measure "would be a
legislative directive that we mean business when
we say we want the state's job classifications
studied and brought up to date."
The measure was adopted by a vote of 47 to 8.
Voting no were Reps. Sidney Bazett (R-Grants
Pass), Jeffrey Gilmour (D-Jefferson), Leigh
Johnson (R -Ashland), Dick M agruder (D-
Clatskanie), Brad Morris (R-Medford), Donald
Oakes (R-lronside), Curtis Wolfer (D-Silverton),
and Martin Wolfer (D-Salem).
HJR 31 has been sent to the Senate where it has
been assigned to the Consumer and Business
Affairs Committee. Sen. Betty Roberts (D-
Portland) heads that committee.
The measure is the first of OSEA's bills to be
passed by either house of the 1973 legislature.
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