June 8,1978
The OSEA News
Page 2
'Wings,’ city deal
curtailed parking
The real parking crunch in
the Mall area came at the
conclusion of 1975; it “flew” in,
one might say, on the Capitol
wings.
At that time the City of Salem
said that it would not issue a
building permit because Mall
area parking did not comply.
The city agreed to issue a
conditional use permit if
residential
neighborhood
parking around the Mall were
decreased and if there were no
major
additional
parking
structures built. The later was
necessary to prevent any fur
ther deterioration of the
downtown air shed, an air shed
which would be strained with
the addition of the city’s Pen
ny-Lipman parking structure.
Legislative action on parking
came in the last couple weeks of
the 1977 session, always a hectic
time. An amendment to Senate
Bill 31, a bill which addressed a
wide range of Department of
General Services activities, set
parking fees in all state-owned
parking lots at $20. For some
employes, this would be the first
time ever they would pay for
their parking. In some cities in
the state, state employes would
be the only people in town
having to pay for their parking.
When OSEA lobbyist Bill
Wyatt heard about this, he told
then-General
Services
ad
ministrator Larry Sprecher and
State Rep. Rick Gustafson,
whose committee was con
sidering the bill,‘that he was
opposed to
such
action,
especially as it applied to any
parking outside of the im
mediate Capitol Mall area.
Wyatt said that OSEA would
oppose such a program until
reasonable alternatives were
available to state employes who
worked in Mall-area buildings.
Sprecher, who now heads the
Executive Department, was
being hit from all sides, Wyatt
noted. State employes want
adequate
and
inexpensive
parking; the Legislative Fiscal
Office wants the state’s lots to
start paying for themselves,
and the City of Salem wants to
keep Mall-area workers from
parking in neighborhood areas.
The immediate result of this
meeting was that state in
stitutions were not to be covered
by parking fees. There was a
problem there, however, as will
be explained later.
As to other agreements,
Sprecher’s
and
Wyatt’s
“recollections split.” Wyatt
maintains that they agreed that
all outlying areas would not get
parking fees.
Following the legislative
session Sprecher moved over to
the Executive Department and
Corinne Hayes was hired to
head
General
Services.
Apparently,
however,
the
agreements made in the halls of
the Capitol were not passed
along. When General Services
wrote its rules recently to
implement SB 31, especially
those having to do with parking,
parking fees were set statewide
- outlying areas and state in
stitutions included.
At an administrative hearing
in Portland, attended by very
few state employes, and at one
in Salem in the Employment
Division auditorium, to which
Fairview Chapter 57 president
Dottie Cobb brought over 400
institutional employes, Wyatt
said that the parking fees
should not apply to any em
ployes outside the immediate
Mall area. He added that the fee
does not buy a license to park,
but rather “a license to hunt”
since the lots are over
subscribed.
At a meeting in Hayes’ office
in May, she, Wyatt and others
reaffirmed the free parking at
the institutions; agreed to look
at the parking situation for the
outlying areas; agreed to a re
examination of ALL parking
rules, and potentially planned to
hold more hearings.
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Grant
promoted,
resigns
SALEM - OSEA’s first
woman president resigned
May 23 because of a
promotion to a position
excluded from collective
bargaining.
Marie Grant, 43, a motor
vehicle representative in
MARIE GRANT
JON LUCKE
the
Motor
Vehicle
Division’s Albany office,
started work June 5 as the
manager of the mobile van
operating out of DMV’s
Bend office. Jon Lucke, of
the Employment Division,
has moved up from the vice
presidency to act as in
terim
president
until
someone is chosen by the
Board of Directors to fill
out Grant’s term. Grant
recommended, at a special
Executive
Committee
meeting where she an
nounced her resignation,
that Lucke be named
president and District 8
Director G. Louis Roberts
be named vice president
until the General Council
delegates elect officers for
a new term beginning in
October.
“I have mixed emotions
about even going,” Grant
said, “because I feel I’m
leaving a job half-done. But
I don’t feel I can turn down
a promotion.”
In her new job, Grant will
supervise one other em-
ploye and will travel 1,500
to 2,000 miles a month
between Heppner and
Lakeview giving drivers
license examinations and
issuing
vehicle
regis
trations.
Figures from the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
showed that OSEA was the
third largest union in the
country with a woman
president while Grant was
in office.
Threatened rights
SALEM - A threat that you’re
in trouble if you exercise your
rights under the collective
bargaining agreement needs to
be dealt with immediately.
When that happened in the State
Accident
Insurance
Fund
(SAIF)
recently,
OSEA
Employe Representative Peter
De Luca acted so quickly it
caught SAIF management off
guard and they reacted in a way
which later necessitated an
apology from them.
When De Luca was advised of
this threat by the OSEA job
representative on the scene, he
decided to handle the case
personally and in post haste. He
and the job rep went into the
office of the supervisor who
made the threat and told him
that he probably had invited an
unfair labor practice charge.
After De Luca left the ASIF
building, OSEA Job rep
resentative Ron West was
called into the office of un
derwriting director Wilbur
Ewert, where he and un
derwriting
manager
Dan
Morley, West’s supervisor,
grilled West. As Ewert and
Morley put it in their May, 5
letter of apology to West, they
“wish to apologize for the ex
tensive questioning of Mr. West
that occurred on March 3,
1978. . . .; for any conduct from
which Mr. West concluded that
he was in trouble for contacting
OSEA or in accompanying Mr.
De Luca in his visit that day to
see Mr. Ewert; for any
statement which indicated to
Mr. West that he or any other
employe does not have the right
to contact OSEA or should not
contact OSEA about any acts
which they feel may be unfair
labor practices; for directing
that Mr. West explain the dif
ference between a grievance
and an unfair labor practice,
and for directing Mr. West to
prepare a written memo for
delivery to Mr. Morley the
following week which defined
an unfair labor practice and a
grievance and explained the
difference between them.”
That letter of apology was the
resolution of OSEA’s unfair
labor practice complaint that
SAIF management had in
timidated
employes
from
exercising their rights under
the
contract
and
SAIF
management’s counter unfair
labor practice complaint. Prior
to the unfair labor practice
hearing, the two sides decided
that a letter of apology would be
the
most
appropriate
resolution.
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