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
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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).
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