The Michigan Daily-Thursday, September 7, 1978-Page 1 REGENTS APPROVE PLAN FOR MORE SPACE Union to become student center;: By SHELLEY WOLSON $1.50. President Fleming described the "We've quadrupled programming for programming such as coffee hous Plans to revitalize the Union with sum as "less than the price of a movie." this year, starting with a kick-off "We also hope to arrange more lo ore student programming are now After the proposal was unanimously night-a giant all-nighter crammed areas, and more student office spa Iderway after the Regents approved a approved, six student leaders ex- with activities such as a raffle, movies University Cellar would also have a udy showing a need for an activities pressed their support for Fleming's and disco dancing lessons," said Union expansion- Theacrease wirequest that the Union be reorganized Programming Committee Chairman "It will be a place for interact ace lnas em. e uprtdb to attract more students and that the Jeff Lebow. between students hand faculty," s ma un+ stu sp mandatory $1.50 student fee. Vice- President for Financial Affairs James Brinkerhoff appointed a committee to study the reorganization and operation of the Union, to look into its present status. "CONCERNED students came to us and said that the Union is not a warm, friendly place that students can gather," said committee chairman and assistant to the Vice-President for Financial Affairs William Sturgis. "We're working very hard on im- proving the food service, physical stature, electrical and mechanical aspects of the Union. We're also looking into the unfortunate financial state of the 'U' Club," Sturgis added. The student space plan, which was endorsed by' student leaders and ad- ministrators, was passed unanimously at the Regents' February meeeting. The plan required renovationsand new equipment for increased space in the Plant building next to Crisler Arena and the Student Activities Building (SAB) workshop. COSTS FOR THESE buildings were estimated at $360,000 and bus service expansion and increased maintenance will add $24,000 to the total.,Theatre and craft groups can also expect more space as each student pays the required Regents relinquish control. Sturgis said he hopes the committee's recommendation list will be ready to go before the Regents' September meeting. "We're shooting for Septem- ber and we hope to get drafts out before then for reactions. Our plan will try to find solutions for the problems that people saw," he said. STURGIS SAID the committee had talked to many different groups and had received many good suggestions for improvements. Union programming is now routed through the University Activities Cen- ter (UAC). The Union Program Com- mittee, under the auspices of UAC, has been increasingly active in the past year and has already sent a full schedule of events for this year. Last year's top events included the revival of "Michigras," a huge all-campus car- nival. Other activities included dances, a white elephant sale and mini-courses. Daily Classifieds Bring Results - Call 764-0557 "THE UNION CAN be a nice, warm cozy place," he added. Some of the physical changes they hope to implement are a student rathskeller which would be a quiet bar at night sometimes featuring different Larry Pulkownik, student president of the Union Board of directors. "All of these new activities bring vitality to the building. UAC progri ammers are really working hard orb that," Sturgis said. LEATHER GOODS * VESTS * POUCHES t- f " * BOOK BAGS * BELT BUCKLES *CUSTOM MADE LUGGAGE WALTER DYER MOCCASINS CRAFTk * TRAVEL BAGS ----'-- P71NCUSTOM LEATHER LO0 WHOLESALE - RETAIL IL-TS-5AG 665-5575 '°" SRIIPCASMS OPEN MON.FRI A1 AM -PM S UNIVERSITY HATrs SAT AM-S PM r1 II $ 6l11S. FOREST aAlJ4NARBOR a B R~3 ivsl off S. University a' E- ! University President Robben Fleming tells MERC Judge Shlomo Sperka why he - thinks GSAs are not employees, during a hearing earlier this summer. Judge to determine 'GSAs' worker status 6- U the what, how when, why where of (Continued from Page One) students. If they are deemed em- ployees, GSAs will be assured collec- tive bargaining rights under the Michigan Public Employment Relations Act, and the University will be legally bound to negotiate a contract with them. University officials, however, con- tend, that GSAs are students. Ad- ministrators have testified that GEO members are not employees because GSAs are offered their positions on the basis of their performance in their graduate-level classes. UNIVERSITY Vice President for Academic Affairs Harold Shapiro said during testimony this summer, that the positions are offered as a form of financial aid. He said GSAs are not evaluated on their ability to teach and are given their ' "jobs" because teaching experience "fulfills a training function" for graduate students. GEO maintains that its members are, in fact, employees. GEO President Mike Clark says, "'We do provide services and for those ser- vices we are paid a wage. These ser- vices- are a profit and an aid to the University." THIS SUMMER'S hearings came as a result of a MERC ruling which came down last January. The commission stated that it could not rule on a Univer- sity appeal of an earlier Sperka ruling unless evidence was heard on\ the student-worker issue. The appeal was made on an August 1977 ruling in which.Sperka found the University guilty of an unfair labor practice (ULP) for refusing to sign a contract with GEO in November 1976. The administration refused to sign the pact pending resolution of two unsettled grievances left over from the previous contract.. Later, the union said it was willing to drop the charges but the University op- ted to bring the case before MERC for a clear decision on the student-worker question. MERC PROCEDURE calls for an administrative law judge to hear cases and pass a recommendation on to the commission as a whole, which makes a final ruling. If either side in the dispute objects to the recommendation, it can appeal to the entire commission, as the University did last September. If there are no objections, MERC usually ac- cepts the judge's recommendation as its decision. In hearings before Sperka in the summer of 1977, University lawyers at- tempted to enter evidence that GSAs are students, not employees, but Sperka would not admit any evidence on the student-worker question, SUBSCRIBE TO THE DAILY-Call 764-0558 claiming it had been settled by a 1973 Michigan Supreme Court decision. In that ruling, interns and residents at University Hospital were found to be students And employees - and were allowed t? form a union. The University appealed Sperka's original ruling, which favored GEO, to the full commission. MERC, however, said it could not rule on the appeal without hearing testimony on the question of whether GSAs are students or employees. Consequently, the com- mission ordered the case back to Sperka and explicitly ordered him to allow evidence on the issue. During this past summer's hearings, Sperka has indeed allowed testimony on the matter. But no matter how he rules, the losing side will undoubtedly appeal and the case could progress up to the state Supreme Court, a process which may take as long as four years. 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