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About The Oregon public employe. (Salem, Oregon) 1981-???? | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1981)
This program is part of the initial work that OPEU’s Clerical Committee is doing to promote better working conditions and wages for clerical related employes. • Women and credit; • A panel discussion on a woman’s place in her union; Lunches and daycare are being provided at no charge and some districts are helping to defray costs of transportation and/or lodging. If you are interested in being a network contact person, call Karen Noonan at 378-3361 (Salem) during work days, or 792-3476 after 7 p.m. Or, contact Eleanor Meyers at OPEU headquarters at 1-800-452-2146. • The movie “Union Maids; and • A social hour to end the day. The conference is being sponsored by OPEU, the University of Oregon Labor Education Research Center and the OPEU Clerical Committee. Highlights of the program are: • Women in labor history, with Mary Jo Wagner of Portland State Univer- In discussions following Schrank’s presentation, labor and management participants said that such com mittees are useful only when both sides agree to cooperate fully. The information is designed to help employes identify problem areas in the workplace and then show them how to sef up programs that will help employes find possible solutions. • Assertiveness training, with Sue Christian, a Portland, Oregon em ployment consultant as a speaker; Pre-registration forms and flyers should be available in your workplace soon. If you cannot find this informa tion, you can contact Jean Moyer at 588-9230 or Eleanor Meyers at 581- 1505 or 1-800-452-2146. Schrank said labor organizations and management are beginning to look at joint committees where workers have a say in how their jobs are performed. These committees also devise ways to create a more pleasant work environment. Information packets on how to organize workshops in clerical areas are being sent to contact persons of the newly-established statewide net work of clerical employes. • The double day (stress and the working woman) with Jo Maloy, a women’s labor specialist from Berkeley, California; • Sexual harrassment, with OPEU staff attorney Alice Dale as a speaker; The conference will feature ses sions ranging from women in labor history to pay equity to sexual harrassment. Over half-a-dozen guest speakers are being brought to the conference. “Employes are subject to public hostility, poor job security and low pay,” he said. “Like other workers, they are frequently denied sufficient responsibility to make them feel they are an important part of the public service system. This may result in lower productivity.” SEIU Starts Clerical Drive Job Safety Workshops Planned Presentations at the April 2 pro gram in Salem will include an overview of occupational injuries and illnesses, worker and union rights under OSHA and Oregon Accident Prevention Division regulations and an introduction to hazard recognition. The Portland workshop, which is being conducted by John Lund from the Pacific Northwest Labor College, will focus on everything a union safety representative should know. You may not know it, but the State does not automatically transfer your dues deduction if you transfer from one agency to another. To maintain your membership status, you must fill out a new membership application and give it to your union steward, business rep resentative or mail it to OPEU headquarters at P.O. Box 12159, Salem, OR 97309. “This is one of the largest and fastest-growing segments of the work force,” said SEIU president John Sweeney. “Lacking union representa tion, office workers are among the most underpaid and abused members of the work force.” The April 16 session in Salem will include three workshops on specific hazards found in office and clerical positions, service and maintenance work, and at institutions. The program will include informa tion on OSHA safety and health standards, how to recognize safety problems, how to handle complaints from workers and when to file formed complaints. In addition, special time will be set aside to deal with specific problems facing workers in trades and clerical positions. Most OPEU members that have transfered are not aware of this, because the State will rarely mention it. The Service Employees Interna tional Union (SEIU) and the organiza tion, Working Women, have begun a campaign to organize over 20-million office and clerical workers who don’t belong to a union. Sixth Avenue. Workshops on job safety and health will be held in Portland on April 4 and in Salem on April 2 and 16. Transfer Requires New Membership Sweeney said he didn’t foresee any jurisdictional disputes, with other unions, arising from the new organ izing campaign. “There’s plenty of people out there (to sign up),” he said. “We’re not getting into this program to get into conflicts. We’re out to organize.” Both Salem sessions will begin at 7 p.m. in OPEU headquarters at 1127- 25th, S.E. Both sessions are being presented by the University of Ore gon’s Labor Education and Research Center and OPEU. The program will begin àt 8:30 a.m. in the District 1 office at 2300 S.W. 22. Oregon Public Employes Union is local 503 of Collective Bargaining Crossword Puzzle Across 14. Association representing electrical engineers. 15. Employes sign____________ cards to qualify union for a place on representation election ballot. 17. Initials of Oregon collective bargaining act covering public employes. 19. Collective bargaining replaces the o ld __________ and confer system. 21. To help opposing parties reach agreement after impasse (verb). sity as a speaker; • Pay Equity, with Helen Remick of the University of Washington as a speaker; Oregon Public Employes Union’s First Annual Women’s Conference has been scheduled for May 2 at Chemeketa Community College in Salem. Although the public sector enjoys a higher rate of productivity than the private sector, public workers suffer from lack of job satisfaction, Ford Foundation’s Robert Schrank told the sixth annual Public Sector Labor Relations Conference. 1. Group excluded from col lective bargaining; the boss. 5. Binding statement of your rights regarding pay and working conditions. 7. What employes do to ap prove a settlement reached in negotiations. 8. State board which oversees collective bargaining. 9. Deadlock in negotiations. 11. Initials of this union’s new name. 12. Civil service employes are grouped into five bargaining Network Begins Information Flow Women’s Conference Announced Job Satisfaction Ideas Discussed 1. 2. 4. 3. Down 6. 5. 7. 11. 13. 15. ■ r 16. 17. 18, |jg g ' 20. 1 21. Answers will appear in your next Negotiation News. Look for it in your workplace. If you do not find it in your workplace, ask your bargaining contact person or your uniorfsteward. 1, Signed document outlining areas of understanding. 2. What labor and management do to reach agreement. 3. The bargaining law requires both parties to negotiate in _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (two words). 4. In bargaining elections, em ployes choose a n ________ representative. 6. The process for having a deadlock settled by a final and binding decision made by a neutral third party. 10. Negotiation limits; as the _________ of bargaining. 13. Employes’ ultimate weapon against management. 16. Process of choosing a col lective bargaining representa tive. 18. If management breaks the rules, the union can file an ________ labor practice charge. 20. Initials of world’s largest labor organization (Oregon Public Employes Union is affiliated). Page 3
