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It was news that most in the
audience knew from personal
experience.
“More families in the U.S.
have a second worker than ever
before.”
“Despite this increase in two-
worker families, the distribu
tion of income in the U.S. is
greater than at any time in our
history.”
And because of this gap
between needs and income,
“ most families will still have
two wage earners ten years
from now.”
It was with these cold, hard
facts that OSEA Executive
Director Thomas Gallagher
opened a workshop where
Portland-area clerical workers
were given insight to avenues
that are open to higher pay.
At the Jan. 10 workshop,
which was organized by OSEA’s
District 1 office, Gallagher told
the participants there are three
ways that they can increase
their income — by securing a
pay increase through a new
contract, by gaining reclassi-
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Call for Pietro's boycott
Farm workers who pick the
tomatoes that go into such
products as Campbell’s Tomato
Juice are continuing their
struggle for better conditions in
the tomato fields of the Mid
west.
The farm w orkers a r e
making two demands: that
they be included in annual
negotiations betw een the
growers and Campbell’s and
Libby’s, and that the two giant
canning companies set up a
fund to retrain farm workers
displaced by mechanization.
U ntil these goals a r e
reached, a re continuing their
boycott of Campbell’s and
Libby's products. In Oregon,
farm worker supporters are
focusing on Pietro’s Pizza, a
wholly-owned subsidiary of
Campbell’s. Consumers are
being asked to boycott Pietro’s
until Campbell’s negotiates a
fair settlement with the farm
w o rk ers.
F or further inform ation,
contact David Papen or Ginny
O’Farrell a t the Oregon F arm
Worker Support Committee,
516-15th St., N.E., Salem, OR
97301 or call 364-7963.
fication or by obtaining a
promotion.
The m ajor thrust of most
workshop sessions was to give
concrete advice on how to ob
tain a promotion. Participants
received instruction in job
interviewing, filling out the
state job application, grading
guidelines and the m ajor pit-
falls in taking the state job test
and what to look for in the
gram m ar and math portions of
the state job test.
A m a jo r point of the
workshop, that was stressed
many times during the four-
hour session, was that people
have to take the initiative to get
what they want.
In addressing this point,
Gallagher told the participants,
“We are going to get you a pay
increase in the upcoming
negotiations, but we need your
input. You can help by watching
the negotiating process and
being involved in them through
your local BURCs and par
ticipating in OSEA.”
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Thanks for
supporting
our boycott
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Dear OSEA:
On behalf of the striking
farm workers, we would like to
thank you and our union
brothers and sisters for your
recent endorsement of the
Campbell’s and Libby’s boy
cotts.
W e a r e con tin u in g to se e k
support from groups through
out Oregon. Your endorsement
helps to spur others on.
Ginny O’Farrell
Oregon F arm Workers
Support Committee
Two opinions cut surgery
N EW
YORK,
N .Y .—
Researchers have found that
mandatory second opinions for
elective surgery could reduce
unnecessary surgeries and help
contain rising hospital costs.
Dr. Eugene McCarthy and
research er Madelon Finkel
described the results of a
se c o n d -o p in io n
p r o g ra m
initiated by New Y ork H ospital
in conjunction with several
multi-employer welfare funds
in the G reater New York City
area. The Cornell program
'involved a voluntary and a
mandatory second opinion plan.
The decrease in the number
of surgeries because of the
mandatory program translated
into a 9 percent decrease in
surgical claims for the United
Store Workers and a 12 percent
decline for the Building Service
Workers’ Fund (Local 32B-J),
according to the study.
They concluded that findings
to d ate “ p rese n t strong
arguments for advocating a
m a n d a to r y
se c o n d -o p in io n
program. Medicine has nothing
to fear from an informed
patient/consum er who can
actively participate in decision
making concerning h is/h er
h ealthcare.”
Women win major court ruling
The OSEA News is published by the Oregon State
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Oregon 97301. Second class postage paid at Salem.
For the first time, the
Federal Circuit Court of Ap
peals has ruled in favor of a
suit based on the concept of
Comparable Worth.
Comparable worth is the
concept that certain types of
jobs, especially those tradi
tionally held by women such as
nursing and clerical work, have
been paid less than jobs of
equal value traditionally held
by men.
The theory holds that if this
is d iscrim in atio n ag a in st
women, it should be eliminated
by bringing the wages for these
jobs up to the level of jobs
requiring comparable skills
and responsibilities that have
traditionally been held by men.
The suit in question was
brought by the International
Union of Electrical, Radio, and
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Corporation.
The Circuit Court of Appeals
ruling means that the case will
go back to the Federal District
Court, which will now be
required to determine if the
Westinghouse Corporation has
engaged in illegal discrim
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