In
Brief
Auchter Orders
Safety Booklets
Destroyed
Where to Call with Insurance Questions
OPEU members with questions concerning insurance may call the BUBB board
o r the insurance company directly, according to Cindy parrish, BUBB Insurance
Adm inistrator.
BUBB
9
CNA
800-452-1633
223-4012 (Portland)
H M O , Inc.
800-452-7278
243-7585 (Portland)
370-8856 (Salem)
Kaiser Foundation
,
Klamath Medical Service Bureau
224-3400 (Portland)
371-3400 (Salem)
884-7756
Oregon Dental Service
228-6554 (Portland)
Physicians Assoc, of Clackamas County
SelectCare
659-4212
485-1850 (Eugene)
Members with questions concerning Great-West Life and Disability o r Oregon
Prepaid Legal Insurance should call 800-452-2146.
Charging that the cover photo
was slanted against employers,
Assistant Labor Secretary Thorne
G. Auchter has ordered the recall
and destruction of over 100,000
booklets on health hazards associa
ted with cotton dust.
The photo, shown above, is of
Louis Harrell, a cotton worker for
44 years who died of "brown lung,"
a disease which results from
breathing cotton dust.
Auchter has also ordered O SHA
to withhold distribution of agency
films and slide shows about
worker’s health and safety rights,
c o tto n d u st an d acrylonitrile (a vinyl
compound) all on the grounds that
they are pro-labor.
VOLUME XXIII, NO. «
MAY 1981
E OREGON
P U B L IC
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Oogon Public Employ— Unt<
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Elsewhere: M9-45X-79S5
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928-1682 (Albany)
364-4868 (Salem)
Capitol Health Care
“Union Busting”
Activity Felt
in Public Sector
Increased incidence of “ union
busting" activity is not limited to the
private sector. The Public Employes
Department of the AFL-C IO reports
the following instances of public
revenues being used in anti-union
activity:
In Washington State, the chief of
the state patrol has issued
guidelines directing supervisory
personnel to lead opposition in
union election campaigns.
School boards in Jacksonville and
Pasco County, Florida, have spent
an estimated $1-million during the
past four years to defeat unions.
Both school boards have been
found guilty of violating the state
public employe bargaining law, but
no penalties have been imposed.
In Maryland, a county executive
has been found guilty of violating
labor laws by reneging on a
contract, V u f » b e in g allowed to
continue to fight the case with tax
dollars.
800-452-7813
373-1174 (Salem)
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Childbearing on the Decline?
The steady decline in the rate of
first births among American women
during the past two decades, has
been popularly explained away as
women just delaying childbearing
until later in life.
But a professor at Carriegie-
Mellion University has predicted
that there will be a dramatic
increase in the proportion of
American women who will never
bear children.
David Bloom, of the university’s
sc h o o l of u rb a n a n d public affairs,
projects that 30 percent of the white
women and 20 percent of the
m inority women who were about 24
years old in 1978 will never have
children. Through most of this
century this figure has been about
10 percent in the United States,
according to Bloom.
based on the number o f first births
between 1950 and 1978. That
number dropped steadily from 966
per 1,000 women aged 24 in 1950 to
712 per 1,000 women in 1978.
Bloom says his projections are
Proposed Rules
Called Setback
for Civil Rights
State Bargaining
Statutes Upheld
Over Local Laws
Adoption o f guidelines in President
Reagan’s transition team report on
the Equal Employment O pportunity
Commission (EEOC) “ would prob
ably set the civil rights movement
back 25 o r 30 years,” said Daniel
Leach, vice chairman o f EEOC.
The report recommends recon
sidering the entire “ affirmative action”
approach to fighting discrimination,
which has forced employers to
remedy past discrimination by
agreeing to goals o r quotas for hiring
o r prom oting women o r minorities.
A t the center of the recommended
changes is that, in the future, those
pressing charges against employers
would have to prove intent to
discriminate.
The report portrays, affirmative
action as a form of racism, o r reverse
discrimination, because it looks at jo b
applicants or workers as members of
groups rather than as individuals.
Leach says the report is filled with
inaccuracies and displays a high level
of ignorance of case law developed
over the years in the area of
discrimination.
The state Employment Relations
Board (ERB) can review local
collective bargaining ordinances for
compliance with state statutes in
deciding unfair labor practice
complaints, the Oregon C ourt of
Appeals ruled on March 30.
The decision upheld ERB’s ruling
that the city of La Grande
committed an unfair labor practice
by refusing to bargain with the
International Association of Fire
fighters.
The C ity sought to negotiate
under its ordinances rather than
under different provisions in the
State’s public employe bargaining
law. The C ity argued that ERB has
no power to review local ordinances
fo r compliance w ith the state law,
but the court disagreed.
The Appeals Court said ERB can
base its decisions on a review of
local ordinances, because courts
have ruled that local governments
can’t operate under bargaining
provisions that conflict with state
law.