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May, 1973
The OSEA News
OSEA Files 'Bad Baifh' Complaint I NEWPORT'S NEWEST
Against Correctional Institution
ALL UNITS:
OSEA has charged the Correctional Institution
with refusal to bargain in good faith in a complaint
filed with the Public Employe Relations Board.
The Association's old "basic" contract has been
in effect at the agency since 1968. A new contract
was submitted for negotiation last December. The
complaint stems from incidents that have oc
curred at the institution since the new contract
was proposed, according to C. D. Johansen, head
of OSEA's negotiating team at the agency.
Johansen said the correctional captain in charge
of officers held a meeting with some officers prior
to the beginning of negotiations. "He informed
fhem that the method of assigning posts, which
had been in effect for five years, was being
changed. He said officers who had desirable posts
would probably get undesirable posts, and those
officers who were assigned to posts they couldn't
handle may have to be fire d ."
The captain implied the changes were being
made because of OSEA's proposed contract,
Johansen said. "We view the captain's action for
what it was: a deliberate attempt by the OSCI
administration to alienate the employes from
OSEA and cause dissension, among them."
During the first two and subsequent negotiating
sessions, Johansen said, the agency's negotiating
team took the position that they were not willing to
discuss OSEA's proposed contract.
"They were willing only to talk about their
counter proposal, which was nothing more than a
stripped-down version of OSEA's old basic con
tract negotiated over four years ago. Not a single
counter proposal regarding an employe benefit
item was made by the agency until forced to do so
under the threat of a bad faith charge," he said.
During the first six negotiating sessions, OSEA's
negotiators made several attempts to bring about
meaningful negotiations, including a meeting with
OSCI Administrator George Sullivan.
Sullivan, OSCI
On Unfair List
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OSEA Asks OSU
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Employe Charge
OSEA staff attorney John S. Irvin has asked the
president of Oregon State University to in
vestigate a complaint of intimidation and coersion
lodged by two employes.
The complaint originally was made to Field
Representative Gilbert C. Polanski by two OSU
domestic workers who recently asked OSEA to
appeal the reclassification of their positions to the
Public Employe Relations Board. Polanski turned
the matter over to Irvth.
Irvin told OSU President Robert MacVicar that
he has information which indicates an ad
ministrator in the food services department may
be taking "retaliatory action" against the two
domestic workers because they asked OSEA to
attempt to reclassify their positions from
domestic worker to baker.
He noted such conduct is in violation of both law
and PERB rules and asked MacVicar to in
vestigate the matter.
"Regardless of law .or rule, this conduct is
d e s tru c tiv e o f good la b o r re la tio n s and e m p lo y e r-
e m p lo y e r e la tio n s , a n d is , I a s s u m e , a t o d d s w it h
George E. Sullivan and the Oregon State
Correctional Institution have been placed on
OSEA's unfair labor practice list by vote of
the Association's Board of Directors.
Sullivan, superintendent of OSCI, joins
Attorney General Lee Johnson as the only
agency administrators in state government
on the list.
The reason for placing Sullivan and the
Correctional Institution on the list stems from
incidents that have occurred during
negotiations on OSEA's proposed collective
bargaining contract.
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"Nothing produced results/' Johansen said.
"The agency maintained its position that it wanted
to put the old basic contract back into effect."
In an attempt to resolve the problem, the
Association asked the agency to agree to a
declaration of an impasse and to ask for mediation
by the PERB. It refused. OSEA finally had to force
mediation on the agency on a unilateral basis.
"Three mediation sessions finally forced the
agency to consider OSEA's contract proposal, but
their actions in negotiations clearly indicate an
attitude of bad faith in that the OSCI proposals
were an obvious attempt to widen disagreement
on each issue rather than to bring about
agreement," Johansen said.
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How's That For
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The faculty of the University of Oregon's School
of Music is proud of a recent achievement: it
reached 100 per cent membership in OSEA.
In fact, the school has.exceeded 100 per cent
membership. How? Leslie Breidenthal, a group
representative for UO Faculty Chapter 77, ex
plains it this way:
Every full-time faculty employe of the School of
Music is a member of the Association. That ac
counts for the 100 per cent membership.
But besides that, the dean and the associate
dean of the school also are members. And, in
addition, there is a part-time faculty member and
a teaching assistant who have joined.
And, if that isn't enough to exceed the 100 per
cent membership requirement, there also is a
retired member who remains active in chapter
activities.
It is on that basis that the School of Music claims
a 100 per cent—plus—membership.
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table.
Both the "variable annuity" portion of the account (which is
invested in common stocks and short term notes) and the
"fix e d " portion of the account (which is invested in long term
bonds and mortgages) are listed. The table shows the value of
each $100 invested in either the variable annuity or fixed ac
counts on the date listed.
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