Center and Union Charge Harassment
Late Bulletin
to Jewish News
The Jewish Family and
Children's Service and Local
1640 of the American Federa-
tion of State, County and
Municipal Employes reached
an agreement on an individu-
al bargaining basis Wednes-
day night.
With ratification expected
Thursday by the union mem-
bership, JFCS employes would
be returning to work today
or Monday, Samuel Lerner,
director, announced.
He added that as far as he
knew, this was the first of
14 struck United Foundation
agencies to have settled on an
individual bargaining basis.
"We are very pleased that an
amicable settlement has been
Worked out, mutually satisfac-
tory to all," said Lerner. "We
will be again available to all
our clients."
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ers "get poverty wages—$L65 an we can't very well change salaries
hour." Shaw insists that those who when we're negotiating." He added
receive these wages are making that those who are earning $1.65
"last year's salary; negotiations are part-time or summer employes.
have been on since last year, and
Copies of Shaw's letter to the
National Keren Ami Survey Throws
Doubt on Program's Effectiveness
NEW YORK—The national gov-
erning council of the American
Association for Jewish Education
has received the report of the first
national study of Keren Ami pro-
grams conducted by its department
of statistical research.
Robert Arnow, vice chairman of
the governing council, in present-
ing the report noted that this study,
covering the years 1965 to 1967, is
a pioneering effort in the subject.
Containing 18 tables which
anal yze
.
by
Pe
schools, auspices, orientation and
pupil enrollment, the report also
-
includes the first compilation of
more than 270 beneficiaries of all
campaigns. Of 2,900 schools, 498,
--
representing 163,000 pupils, re-
ported on their Keren Ami pro-
gram, said Arnow.
The amount of money raised for
KA by reporting schools during
Jewish Center Director Irwin 1965-66 was $208.797; during 1966-
Shaw denied Wednesday that strik- 67 it was $261,168, according to the
ing employes would be fired if they survey.
did not return to work this week.
The amount of money raised by
but he conceded to The Jewish reporting
". schools via special sup-
News that "If they don't come plemental drives (UJA, UJA-Israel
back, we will find replacements." Emergency Fund, JNF, federa-
Shaw insisted that the Center was tions), in 1966-67, in addition to
legally within its rights in sending those raised for KA, was $75,511.
out a letter to the employes. giving
KA funds were allotted to over
them until Wednesday to return to 270 beneficiaries, which were
work. Following the strike, he said, grouped into 10 categories. Distri-
"If their jobs are still open, they , butions to UJA, UJA-Israel Emer-
can come back. But we can't - guar- gency Fund, JNF and the federa-
antee their jobs if we have to hire tions were listed separately as the
replacements. –
following: UJA, $48,253: UJA-IEF,
The Center and Jewish Family $32.409: JNF, $87,512; and federa-
and Children's Service have been' tions. $10,023.
operating on partial staff for six
weeks, since Local 1640 of the
American Federation of State.
County and Municipal Employes
struck 14 United Foundation agen-
cies in a contract dispute.
Milton Tambor, 1640 president.
demanded in a letter Tuesday
to the UF labor participation
committee that it press UF to
cut off annual appropriations to
the Center and Detroit Area
Boy Scout Council. The 1969
allocation to the Center was
$550,000.
Thomas Turner, president of the
Wayne County AFL-CIO and a ,
member of the UF labor commit-
tee, hesitated to commit himself on
the withholding of funds to the two
agencies. However, he said he
would urge the committee to meet
if allegations by Tambor were true.
Tambor charged that the Center
has "escorted scabs to work" and
"harassed pickets by employing an
armed photographer accompanied
by a German shepherd dog" out-
side the Center.
Commenting on these charges.
Shaw said that the Center does
have a German shepherd but it is
used only for surveillance within
the building and is "taken outside
solely for walks or to go home.•' A
photographer was used only "to
take pictures of the illegal picket-
ing," he said.
Arnow warned that the study
raises many serious questions
about the effectiveness of the
Keren Ami activity in teaching
Jewish civics. Among these ques-
tions he listed:
• The record-keeping efforts in
responding Jewish schools bearing
on the KA program leave much to
be desired.
• Orthodox schools, generally,
were not responsive to the request
for Keren A • d t
• The average amount of money
contributed by pupils in responding
schools appears to be rather puny
and counter-productive education-
ally.
• Jewish social service institu
tions are given preference over
Jewish cultural institutions as reci-
pients of Keren Ami funds. Will a
shift in the thrust of the adult
Jewish philanthropic effort be re -
flected in the school's KA alloca -
tions?
• The majority of reporting
schools involve pupils in the deci-
sion-making process on distri-
bution of the Keren Ami funds
but do not accord them the right
to make the final decision, even
with the guidance of the rabbi or
principal.
• The dearth of comments offer-
ed by responding schools regard-
ing the qualitative aspects of their
Keren Ami program does not per-
mit a clear assessment of the ex-
tent to which Keren Ami is tied
in with their educational program.
Union Nixed at Sinai
Sinai Hospital employes for the
second time June 20, rejected un-
strikers were sent to members of ionization through Local 79, of the
the Jewish Center with a cover Service Employes International
letter signed by President George Union.
The final vote was 150-101. Some
Keil.
360 employes in 10 departments
The agency and the union met were eligible to vote in Friday's
briefly last Friday with the State election.
Labor Mediation Board, but again
On June 5, 1968, Local 79 lost a
came to an impasse: the union in-
bid for unionization at Sinai by a
sists on bargaining along multi-
vote of 149-142.
agency lines, the Center refuses to
Employes are primarily orderlies.
bthi
argai n on b s i as Sh
s.
aw con- housekeepers, nurses' aides and
tends that there are more differ- dietary workers. Dan Vorkapich,
ences than similarities between the organizational director of Local 79,
agencies involved, while the union said he felt the union lost "because
states that without a unified front, hospital management promised a
agency employes are subject to the 20 cent per hour increase as of
whims of their employers.
July 1.
Shaw said he's all for increas-
"We'll be back next year," he
ing worker salaries, "but you
added.
can't negotiate with someone who
won't sit down at the table with
IF YOU TURN THE.
you."
There has been little curtailment
of Center activities, Shaw said. "If
• PSIDII DOWN YOU WON'T
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all Center members honored the
picket line, we'd have to close the
Center. One reason why we have to
keep the pressure of the injunction
on is so the summer programs
Milan Wineries, Detroit, Mich.
won't be hamstrung."
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Tambor charged that many Cen-
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Since the photographs were
taken, the Circuit Court granted
an injunction limiting pickets to
six at each Center entrance at
any one time. The union has re-
quested a hearing on the injunc-
tion. As for scabs, "eight em-
ployes have voluntarily returned
to work," said Shaw.
He said that they have the right
to return because, by the employes'
own agreement, the Center is not a
closed shop, "But these employes
have been harassed by the union,
so we have had to accompany
MOM
MICHIGAN BANKARD
Look at your shoes. Everyone else does.