Center, Jewish Family and Children's Service,
at Loggerheads With Union, Curtail Services

Services rendered by the Jewish in contact with William S. Van-
Community Center and the Jewish Zandt, executive director of the
Family and Children's Service have municipal employes' union. The
been considerably curtailed since
JFCS expressed a wish to con-
last Monday as a result of a walk- tinue "individual collective bar-
out of emploYes, in a strike that gaining" and requested that the
also affects - 12 other United Com- Labor Relations Board "help
munity Services agencies.
mediate the issues to the extent
Involved in the demands are a
that they cannot be resolved di-
number of economic matters, par- rectly between the union and the
ticularly wage scales, and hope agency personnel committee."
was expressed Wednesday that
The JFCS, in its message to
collective bargaining will soon be
Van Zandt, expressed the view
resumed. Ninety Center employes that: •
and 30 JFCS employes are involved
"We believe that the form of
in the walkout.
bargaining is not the important
Spokesman for the two Jewish
agencies expressed regret that issue. We prefer individual agency
collective bargaining was inter- bargaining because our board has
felt that in this way we can relate
rupted and entertained the hope
the needs of our staff to the pro-
that it can be resumed.
grams, resources and purposes of
While the strike is directed at
our
agency and can thus arrive
United Community Services and
at collective bargaining agreements
United Foundation for a master
that are more meaningful to both
agreement, the two Jewish
sides.
agencies' representatives claimed
"Because of the many functional
that their bargaining with the union
has not been ruled out but that and programatic differences be-
tween the 14 agencies as well as
the union has broken off talks.
the staffs covered under existing
A Jewish Center statement de-
agreements, we do not believe that
clared that "The union refuses
it is wise, at this time, to conduct
to continue bargaining with us."
collective bargaining for all 14
The Center's statement states: agencies at one time.
"The union insists that they will
"Our agency has always felt
not negotiate further unless and that more important that the mat-
until United Community Services ter of individual or multi-agency
(UCS) and the United Foundation bargaining is the issue of financ-
(UF) themselves come to the bar-
ing of agency programs, of which
gaining table for "multi-lateral or the major cost is staff salaries and
joint agency collective bargaining. fringe benefits.
"UCS and the UF said that they
"We do not believe that either
cannot, and will not participate
UCS or UF should do the bar-
in these negotiations. The Center,
gaining
for all agencies or for
for its part, can do nothing to

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change this policy—even if the
Center felt that multi-agency nego-

tiations were desirable.

"The Center's executive com-
mittee has instructed the admin-
istrative staff to continue to pro-
vide services to Center members
to the fullest extent possible under
the circumstances. In the event
that this becomes impractical,
the Center will close down com-
pletely until the issues of the
strike can be resolved.

"In all future negotiations, as in
all past bargaining, the Center
will attempt to meet its respon-
sibilities to its members as well
as to its employes. The Jewish
Community Center is fully pre-
pared to continue bargaining in
good faith with the union at any
time the union desires to resume
direct negotiations."

Picketing at both the Center
and the JFCS continued all week.
The Center Symphony Orchestra
concert that was scheduled for
Tuesday evening was canceled.
Soloist Mischa Mischakoff is a
member of the musicans union.
The Jewish Community Council
Delegate Assembly met else-
where, and other functions were
serious affected by the walk-
out. Johannes Spreen, scheduled
speaker next week for the Bnai
Brith Human Relations Seminar,
insisted he would not speak if he
had to cross a picket line. The
seminar will take place at the
Workmen's Circle Center. While
executives, (professionals are not
unionized) carried on many of
the functions of the two Jewish
agencies, there was drastic cur-
tailment of activities. There was
no trash pickup, cleaning or food
delivery because other unions
will not cross the picket line.
Representatives of the Center
and the JFCS said they have been

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our agency in particular, or even
that UCS or OF sit in our collect-
ive bargaining sessions. What we
believe to be important is that
we receive the funding for what-
ever salary increases are worked
out as a result of our honest
efforts to negotiate a contract
that is reasonable and fair both
I to the agency and the employes.
"However, we recognize that
even if UCS-UF were to sit at the

bargaining table this would not
guarantee that the additional funds
would be available to meet the
salary demands of the union. This
depends on the total amount raised
• in the campaigns and the amounts
available for disbursement to each
agency.
"Thus, neither multi-agency nor
' individual agency collective bar-
gaining, with UCS-UF participation,
can be considered as panaceas.
VanZandt insisted in behalf of
the union that negotiations must be
conducted with UCS and UF as
well as the individual agencies, but
UCS, in its reply, declared that

Habonim Association
Invites Community to
Reunion and Program

"any intrusion of UCS would des- between the union and UCS, she
troy the autonomy of agencies and said, individual agency negotia-
with it the broad-based involvement tions will take place in certain
of citizens in the administration areas peculiar to the agency.
of our voluntary service organi
zations."

tion is concerned with Jewish
education, Israel projects and the

development of leadership for
Habonim through the Habonim
Foundation and support of Hab-
onim camping.
During the May 24-25 weekend,
the national board of directors
will meet in Detroit. Ex-members
of Habonim and members of the
community who would like infor-
mation may call Jeannie Levy,
862-3142, or Doris Werner, 353-8647.

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A statement issued by the
union, Local 1640 of the Union of
Community and Social Agency
Employes, said that the union
has tried for two years to meet
with UCS and United Foundation
to discuss a collective bargaining
agreement, but that the two um-
brella agencies have refused to
do so.

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The statement also condemned
"refusal of individual agency
boards of directors to commit
themselves" to negotiations along
with UCS and UF.
Although UCS and UF "control
agency budgets and determine com-
munity services," the union
charged, "they have clearly dis-
played a lack of responsiveness to
the needs of the Detroit metropoli-
tan area." The statement cites
"poor salaries for social workers,
poverty wages for clericala nd
maintenance employes, high turn-
over of staff and a gap in services
to the community."
One employe of the Jewish Fam-
ily and Children's Service, Seema
Tales, a union steward, said that
a social worker for JFCS earns
a starting salary of $7,800 with
a masters degree, whereas school
social workers earn at least $9,000.
Clerical workers for the Center
and JFCS earn $3,000 annually, she
said.
Miss Tiles added that individual
agencies will not lose autonomy
over their workers, except in the
economic area, they will continue
to have power over hiring and
firing. When a contract is signed

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