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Higher Ed.
Pay Delayed
Over 4,500 employes represented
by OPEU in Oregon’s higher educa
tion system are having their $55
salary-increase withheld until at least
Oct. 1, eventhough all other OPEU-
represented state employes received
their increase on Sept. 1.
The State Board of Higher Educa
tion has reneged on their contracturai
agreement to provide the increase—
retroactive to July 1—and have
indicated that these employes may
not receive their increase until Oct.
10.
Higher education officials contend
that because their payroll center is on
a different computer than the rest of
the State payroll centers they are not
able to get the retroactive increases
processed any sooner.
However, Allen McKenzie, as
sistant vice chancellor for personnel
administration and higher educa
tion’s spokesperson at the negoti
a tin g ta b le , has in d ic a te d th a t
management’s pay increase may be
distributed by Sept. 10.
“ Higher education management is
always blaming their computers for
foul-ups that effect their employes,
but they have never been able to give
us an adequate explanation for their
delays," said OPEU executive direc
tor Thomas Gallagher. “When no
o th e r p a y ro ll c e n te r has these
problems, you begin to wonder if they
(higher education management) care
about their employes.”
OPEU is countering management’s
delay on two fronts—with litigation
through the grievance procedure and
through pressure by members.
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The grievance filed by OPEU asks
for the retroactive pay increase to be
released immediately. Here again
though, higher education officials are
stalling.
A grievance can be settled quickly if
both management and the union
agree to drop hearings at the agency
and Executive Department levels.
This expedites the grievance by
taking it straight to binding arbitra
tion.
The main obstacle to expediting the
grievance is a recommendation by
McKenzie to all university and college
presidents not to skip the agency
level in this proceeding.
OPEU members in the higher
education system are putting pres
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.................................. 686-4146
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Jeff Schrader, OPEU spokesperson
at the higher education coalition
negotiating table said that these
phone calls are meant to register
com plaints and “to put pressure on
those people who are responsible for
holding back employes' retroactive
paychecks."
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Local Settlements
Marion County Employes
After months of bargaining, members ratified a new contract calling for a
15.75 percent pay increase over the next two years. Employes w ill receive 4.75
percent retroactive to July 1,1981; this w ill be followed by increase of 2 percent
on Jan. 1,1982; 3 percent on July 1,1982; 3 percent on Nov. 1,1982 and 3 percent
on March 1, 1983.
Present health insurance benefits will be continued in the first year of the
contract. The C ounty w ill contribute an additional 18 percent toward health
insurance in the second year o f the contract.
Lincoln County Employes
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Employes accepted a contract which calls for a 7 percent cost of living
increase in the first year of the contract and 4 percent, plus one-half the percent
increase in the Portland Consumer Price Index in the second year of the
contract. In addition, dispatchers will receive a two-step pay raise and all other
employes, whose salaries do not fall exactly on a pay step, will be advanced to
the next pay step.
Lincoln County Sheriffs
Employes were awarded a 12 percent pay increase, effective July 1,1981, after
negotiations went to binding arbitration. A rbitrator Leroy Smith also awarded
employes continuation of current insurance benefits.
The County gave unrepresented employes an 8 percent pay increase on July
1, 1981.
Q ty of Beaverton Employes
In a six-month long wage reopener negotiation, the C ity agreed to move each
employe to a step salary range at or above their current salary and to increase
salaries by 7 percent effective July 1, 1981. Management also agreed to
complete a classification series—w hich was begun over 18 months ago— by
Sept. 30,1981.
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