The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, March 13, 1979-Page 5 Natural foods workers organize new union t f ยง4 By RICK BLANCHARD Amidst disappearing benefits, in- secure working conditions and non- recognition by the management, the workers at the Midwest Natural Foods Distributing Co. of Ann Arbor are in the process of giving birth to a new labor union, the United Midwest Workers (UMW). After three weeks of worker- management negotiations and organizational meetings in February, the UMW, has been forced to file a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) because of the management's refusal to recognize the existence of the union. DENISE RICKMAN, member of the' UMW's organizing, publicity, and outreach committees, said yesterday, "We are looking to define the working conditions of 61 non-supervisory people at the company." I Midwest Natural Foods, recently bought by Balanced Foods of New York City, is located at 170 April Dr. and is one of the Midwest's largest wholesale natural food distributors. "When the company was acquired by the new owners, we felt ; a lack of security or concern for the workers' in- terests," said Rickman. "There was -a shifting of rules and benefits, such as the quiet elimination of a Cost of Living Allowance (COLA), that made us feel neglected and tucked away from recent developments." ON MARCH FIFTH, the organizing committee, in accordance with NLRB guidelines requiring 30% or more sup- port of the people desiring represen- tation, presented the management with a petition containing 45 of the 61 (or 75 per cent) qualified signatures asking for its recognition of the union. "The union is not directed against the management, but is an attempt to define and better the conditions of em- ployees," continued Rickman. A spokesman for management said they wanted to offer a "better alter- native, without all the legal guidelines" that would arise from an organized union. According to the spokesman, "it would be a complicated mess of in- volvement that really would not help." The management considers the of- fering of a "legally binding contract" that would contain a signed and dated statement of policy to be a situation as "beneficial as a union." THIS HAS CAUSED some confusion, said Rickman. "Their lawyers say it would be binding for the management in that they could not arbitrarily change policy, but according to NLRB lawyers, there is nothing in the tontract to stop them." As of Friday of last week, the management of Midwest Natural Foods has not recognized the union, "so we have taken the next legal step," said Rickman, "and filed our petition with the NLRB who will review the case and, if there are no jurisdictional problems, send an official to hold an election at Midwest. At that point the decision as to whether the union can be certified is up to the NLRB." BAD AXE, Mich. (AP)-A Harbor Beach man has discovered that if you're going to speed, it pays to know where you're going. Huron County sheriff's deputies said yesterday a speeder who tried to avoid a pursung patrol car by turning off the highway picked the wrong driveway. As the pursuing patrol car sped by Sunday night, the owner of the home came out to investigate the car sitting in his driveway. 'U o A SchooQ o Auste antd '-ULAC pheent: a Soire Alarch 17, 1979 Ilkhigan ('iTion balroom 9.0 .pn t11am $7.50 perc ouple $4.00 per single T und-aoising event gickebs on safe -Mach 12 at Jieket entnaQ and the -Muste Scoo V/ I Voyager shows Jupiter close up By TIMOTHY YAGLE Yet another chapter was added to the National Aeronautics and Space Ad- ministration's (NASA) book of historic encounters with our Solar System's outer planets last week as the first of two Voyagaer spacecraft made its closest approach to the planet Jupiter. Voyager I sailed to within 172,000 miles of the colorfully cloudy planet and began transmitting brilliantly detailed and never-before-seen pictures back to .scientists and the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif. THREE DAYS after its closest ap- proach and while on its way to Saturn, Voyager discovered a ring of gas and dust resembling Saturn's, around Jupiter. While sailing near the largest planet in our Solar System the 18,000-pound spacecraft was pointing its television cameras not at Jupiter, but at one of Jupiter's biggest and rockiest moons, Io. Io, about the size of our own moon, is a major part of Voyager's exploration of Jupiter's four other moons. Scientists want to determine precisely how many moons Jupiter has as well as getting detailed photographs of the planet's three closest moons-Io, Ganymede and Callisto. ATMOSPHEREIC AND Oceanic Science Department chairman Thomas Donahue is actively involved in the Voyager project, as well as other NASA unmanned missions. The noted scien- tist is assembling various experiments and serving on various teams studying the collective data. ' Voyager I used Jupiter's tremendous gravity to propel it to a line of travel where it could photograph those moons. NASA scientists are anxiously awaiting those pictures. The unmanned spacecraft's exotic itinerary put the closest approach to Jupiter at 4:42 a.m. PST, but Voyager, flying at 81,000 miles per hour, actually was crossing that point more than half an hour earlier because it takes the radio signals more than 37 minutes to travel the 420 million miles to Earth. Voyager I's sister ship, Voyager II launched later and traveling slower than Voyager I, is due at Jupiter around June 9. If after sailing past Io and the other 'moons its systems are still intact, scientists will send Voyager to Saturn to study its famous "rings." TEACH IN JAPAN Anyone with a bachelor's degree in different engineering fields, production/manufacturing, quality control, materials management or procurement wishing to teach full-time for one or two years in Japan should write to: Personnel Director, International Education Services, Shin Taiso Building, 10.7, Dogenzaka 2-chome, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150, Japan. The position involves teaching Japanese businessmen and engineers the basic vocabulary in various fields. No Japanese-longuge is required for classroom instruction. Teaching experience is not required. An orientation is given in Tokyo. Information on salary, transportation and housing can be obtained by providing International Education Services with a detailed resume and a letter indicating an interest in the position. Personal Interviews will be held IN YOUR AREA between the middle to the end of April. Selected applicants would be expected to arrive in Tokyo from June through September, 1979. NfSA 19 79-80 The Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) Annual Elections will be held April 2, 3, 4, 1979. All seats up for election. Candidate filing forms are avail- able now at the MSA- Offices, 3909 Michigan Union. millic that cuts capita Ho trio The Neur tant, of a while we were out.. . (Continued from Page 1). ioas opposed to the $22 million week in Washtenaw County Circuit t ous pprovCeourt. Neither the defense nor the tould be $6 million for nurse prosecutor dispute that Aparicio shot woldb $ mlion fo nus Donald Koos five times with a .38 caliber gun during what Aparicio spi tal murder remembers to be a chance encounter in the hall between the two offices. Thee psychiatrists and a psychologist trial of a University Hospital called by the prosecutor have testified o-Psychiatric Institute accoun- that while Aparicio often demonstrated William Aparicio, for the murder symptoms of emotional , and co-worker fast July opened last psychological stress, he was not men- taltiss or insane. E. Ann may be labelled historic (Continued from Page 1) landmark. According to Greenberg, one of the reasons the homeowners wanted to designate the block an historic district was to facilitate the development of more single family homes. "What do the renters do then?" said Greenberg. "Ann Arbor should be careful of not overdoing its creation of historical districts." If the "Ann Street Historic Block" is adopted by council, its immediate ef- fects, however, would be primarily structural. The report lays out a list of guidelines detailing the preservation standards of specific physical elements of the houses such as roofs, openings, porches and trim. For instance, in or- der to preserve the streetscape con- sistency created by the relationship of roof heights and shapes, the report states that "the existing building heights, roof lines, gables, pitch, and chimneys shall not be changed or modified." THE REPORT also gives a number of restoration recommendations which Mtichian :4I3atg is preserved on The Michigan Daily 420 Maynard Street AND Graduate library are not legally binding. The report "strongly encourages" restoration but suggests that any necessary replacement with new material be visually identical to the original. The issue of creating the "Ann Street Historic Block" has been in the making since July 6, 1977 when council appoin- ted the Division Street Historic District, a study committee consisting of Historic District Commission members and Ann Street homeowners. According to Louise Pieper, the staff director of the Historic District Com- mission, the project was spurred by rumors that the Campus Inn was plan- ning to demolish the house at 610 E. Ann to extend its parking lot. "This didn't sit very well with the residents in the area. It created a sense of urgency and con- cern over the particular area of Ann Street,"said Pieper. Although the committee had originally been charged with deter- mining the feasibility of extending the present Division Street Historic District to include the 500-600 block of East Ann Street, concern over the preservation of the specific area led the committee to consider it as a single unit, unique in its historic value. "East Ann Street is a special area, presenting different issues than other places," said Clan Crawford, a member of the committee. "The idea was to treat the entire block as one historic monument. Each house is part of the whole and the whole is what has value." THE U-M CENTER FOR AFROAMERICAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES PRESENTS "WHITE POWER IN RHODESIA: RISE AND FALL(?) OF THE RHODESIAN FRONT," W.~ith DR. HASU PATEL Visiting Professor Yale University MARCH 14-12-1:30 P.M. 346 Old A a D BLDG. 909 Monroe St. 1979, 4:30 P.M. BE A PART OF INFLUENCE 22, The Michigan Student Assembly is the alt-campus student government of The University of Michigan. , ii *k America 's longest Running Musical * THE FANTASTICKS Thursday, Friday, Saturday March 15; 16, 17-8 p.m. CANTERBURY LOFT-332 S. State St. TICKETS $3 AT THE DOOR The Ann Arbor Film Cooperative presents at Aud. A TUESDAY, MARCH 13 ALICE, SWEET ALICE (Alfred Sole, 1977) 5:30 only-AUD. A This horror thriller opened to ecstatic reviews in London. Hitchcock-like, the film interweaves the acts of a psychotic killer with the symbolic human sac- rifice of the Catholic Church conimunion. An unusual and frightening work. With BROOKE SHIELDS, LILLIAN ROTH, and ALPHONSE (400 lbs.) de NOBLE. { ANN ARBOR PREMIERE. THE CRAZIES (George Romero, 1973)T. 10:00 only-AUD. A Another shock fest patterned after Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. The townspeople of Evans City drink contaminated water which alters their mental state into murderous, raving crazies. Don't blame us if you stay up all night! ANN ARBOR PREMIERE. 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