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Page 4 August, 1973 The OSEA News H E A D O U A R T E R S O F F IC E P O R T L A N D B R A N CH O F F IC E 112725th St. SE, Salem , Oregon 97301 I 1432 S.W. Sixth Avenue, Portland,O regon 97201 or P.O. Box 2307, Salem , Oregon 97308 I Telephone: 224-1870 Telephone: 581-1505) : I * OREGON STATE EMPLOYES ASSOCIATION Published m onthly by the Oregon State Employes Association OSEA DIRECTORS PRESIDENT RICHARD F. YOUNG 3949 Summers Lanè- Klamath Falls 97601.-, PAST-PRESIDENT CHALMERS L. JONES 223NEGr8ham Portland 97212 VICE-PRESIDENT LESTER B. STRICKLER 3125 NW McKinley Place Corvallis 97330 SECRETARY-TREASURER CLIFFORD R. EBERT Star Route, Box 70 Forest Grove 97116 ACADEMIC and UNCLASSIFIED ROBERT E. NYE 2510 Woodland Drive Eugene 97403 EMPLOYE REPRESENTATION DONALD KELLEY 740 SW 28th , Pendleton 97801 INSTITUTIONS MYRTLE B. JARVIS 210 25th Street SE No. 2 Salem 97301 INSURANCE JACK A. DAN LEY 1300 NW Menfo Drive Corvallis 97330 MEMBERSHIP BETH MASON 7917 SE Lincoln Portland 97215 PUBLIC RELATIONS JAMES R. DYER 681 Sunset N. Salem 97303 RETIREMENT THEODORE H. THOMPSON 508 N. Holladay Drive Seaside 97138 DISTRICT DIRECTORS 1. DONALD A. MARTIN 9605 SW Corbett Portland 97219 2 JAMES J. KINNS 1333 Waller Street : Salem 97302 3. RUSSELL E. B LA IR .S R . 2 0 8 H arrison .. </• ’ Ashland 97620 From the.... Executive Secretary Strikes a False Issue During the next month you may be approached by someone pushing a petition to "stop teacher strikes and hold down school taxes." If so, don't sign it because that isn't the purpose of the petition at all. The petitions w ill be circulated by a " fr o n t" committee backed by the Oregon School Boards Association, called "Taxpayers Against Teacher and Public Employe S trikes." Their aim is to get. a referendum vote on the public employe collective bargaining b ill - HB 2263 - passed in the recent legislative session. 4. HARRY J. MARSHALL 4824 Laverne Klamath Falls 97601 safety or w elfare of the pu blic." Any prolonged strike in a school would certainly come into this category. The real opposition by the school boards is to the provision in HB 2263 that the court shall order binding arbitration when a strike is prohibited. The big battles between teachers and boards have been where im partial fact-finders under the present law have made recommendations favorable to the employes and the boards have refused to pay any attention to them. In case any state employe taxpayer is envious of or w orrying about teacher salary costs, the average of salary adjustments for teachers in Oregon this year was less than three per cent. That is less than half the average pay raise for state employes. 5. DELBERT C. CHANEY 410 NW 7th Pendleton 97801 6. W ILHELMINA F. BEVERS 769 Baxter Street Eugene 97401 7. LEE ROY RYAN 824 E. 9th The Dalles 97058 » 8 CAREY J. HUCKABA 7660 S. Prairie Road Tillamook 97141 9 WALTER S. SCHMIDT 1220 14th NE Salem 973u> - PROFESSIONAL STAFF THOMAS C. ENRIGHT Executive Secretary EVERETT B. STILES Assistant Executive Secretary CLARENCE D. JOHANSEN Executive Assistant JOHN S. IRVIN C apitol re p o rte r Charles Beggs re c e n tly discussed HB 2263 and the refe rra l attem pt in his Oregon Statesman column. Regarding the strike issue, Beggs said: Staff Attorney - DONALD G. OLDS Business and Services Manager DALE E. LEACH Public Relations Manager and Editor JOHN M. SCHOONOVER Strikes by teachers are not prohibited under present law. Witness the teacher strike at Hillsboro this spring, which was not taken to court because there was no law prohibiting it. HB 2263 does not specifically prohibit strikes by all public employes, only policemen, firem en and guards at correctional and menai health in stitutions. For that reason its opponents (and a proposed ballot title w ritten by the attorney general's office) claim it "gives most public em ployes the rig h t to s trik e ." Actually, the bill contains many safeguards against strikes. It also provides penalties for prohibited strikes which are not specified in present law. Its most significant provision is authority for the courts to order injunctions against any strike which would endanger the "health, "T ha t's a volatile enough issue with the public when it involves private employes. It's a bombshell in public employment, and it is a big weapon for opponents of the bill in the ir efforts to defeat the whole measure. . .there are real causes to doubt whether it w ill pass the voters, if it gets on the ballot. Images of wide-spread teacher strikes can be conjured, scare stories about government worker strikes in the East - these kinds of things w ill ring hom e." • Field Representative GILBERT C. POLANSKI Field Representative HARRY C. WARD Field Representative PAUL R. WARD Field Representative WILLIAM D. KALIBAK Field Representative RICHARD A. LEITH Field Representative | DONALD F. LARKIN Field Representative CHERYL WILLIAMS Research Analyst The School Boards Association and their "Taxpayers A gainst" committee w ill make heavy use of this phony issue to defeat a good collective bargaining b ill. The best thing state employes can do rig h t now is inform themselves and the ir friends on the true facts of the measure, and not allow them to "be mislead w ith scare tactics about teacher strikes and school taxes. SHARLENE CRABTREE Employe Counselor . (Address a ll com m unications to the Salem address.) ■ Second Class Postage Paid at Salem, Oregon. Subscription rates: S I. 50 per year to association members; S3.00 t o a il others; 25c per copy. O fficial publica tio n o f the Oregon State Employes A ssociatio n.a non p ro fit organization.
