Wednesday, December 1, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY J: Page Seven. Wednesday, December 1, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven .. _ _ af, Contemporary Discussions rAAR Student wage presents Arthur M.Schlesinger, Jr. * Advisor to President Kennedy * Pulitzer Prize Winning Author THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2 Michigan League Ballroom 4:00 p.m. FREE ADMISSION Contiiued from page 1) "Students do the same thing as the counter lady does," says one worker in East Quad. "If she is busy the students take over." "The work is more than the money," says one Markley stu- dent employe. "If you wash 1000 dishes. $1.75 just doesn't seem worth it.' In fact, according to the hous- ing student employe policy, stu- dents are expected to do the same work as other employes. "When accepting employment in a specific residence hall, you assume responsibilities the same as regular employes do and must do your work to the satis- faction of your supervisors," the policy reads. In addition, students feel they have no recourse but to accept the things they are told to do or face being fired. "When we are unhappy about something which is happening to us in our job and the University refuses to do anything about it," says one student, "we have no choice but to quit." And the University seems to have little trouble filling their openings, since most of the dorms have waiting lists for jobs. In addition, students who want to find work in Ann Arbor find little choice open to them but the University - the city's largest employer. "It was the only place to get a job," said one student. "I looked all over the city and the University was the only one hiring," said another. Students, who need work. therefore, generally have to work for the University, regardless of conditions. r "Temporary workers are com- PETITION NOW for a central committee chair MAR ,-)A- scale: pletely at the mercy of their employer," says Joel Silverstein, one of the organizers of the new- ly formed Temporary Employe Association (TEA). "They have nothing to fall back on." "There are lots of instance. of no efassification," Silverstein continues, "and employes don't hesitate to tell students to do whatever they want them to." East Quad Food Supervisor Linda Colhurst says that stu- dents are hired in as "general kitchen help." "We can't set up classifications for students, be- cause scheduling changes means they don't always do the same job." Another student says, "I do whatever the head cook wants me to." Students have had no recourse in the past if they are unhappy about treatment in their jobs, other than complaining to the supervisor-who is usually the one telling them what to do. And they have had little on which to base their complaints since they have had no job classifications. This situation, however, may soon be somewhat remedied, as Thiry says that while the ques- tion of temporary employes is under study, the University is planning on classifying these employes beginning Jan. 1. Spe- cific plans for this are still vague, though, he says. But even in this situation, sup- ervisors will retain hiring and firing power over the employes. Many student employes !:ave been getting paid more than the flat $1.75 an hour rate, however. These students generally wo k in the hospital and on Univer- sity transportation jobs. Here, Thiry says, there is no difference in expectation at jobs between the students and non- A losini student temporary employes. Yet, these students also get paid a salary below that of union workers, since they are still paid under the schedules agreed upon >y the union and the University .n their now expired 1968 con- tract. Thiry attributes this to limited funding. For the most part, therefore, the University employs tempo- rary employes, especially stu- dents, at a lower rate than unionized workers. According to union President Charles McCracken this situa- tion "hurts the student and it hurts the bargaining unit" "It is much cheaper to have students do the job," he explains. "Take a student working 25 hours a week at a job which the con- tract says allows us $3 an hour. "Adding in the vacation time, sick time and health benefits we are getting, it adds up that the University is saving over $1.60 an hour per employe. 25 hours, 30 weeks a year, the total comes to $1,200 savings a year per worker. "Considering there are close to 500 to 1,000 students working 20 hours a week or more, the University saves over $15,000 monthly," he continues. In an effort to guard against the University turning union jobs into student employment, contract has a special provision. which reads: "A position filled by a full- time employe which becomes open will not be split into two or more part-time positions in order to provide employment for a student employe, unless the position cannot be filled with an employe on a full-time basis." In addition the contract pro- vides that "work regularly and customarily performed by an g proposition? in the Ist annual World Traying Championship 1 chairmen following needed in areas: GENERAL PUBLICITY GROUNDS REGISTRAR OFFICIATING PRE-CH RISTMAS GIFT BOOK SALE Includes Publisher's Remainders, Reprints, Close Outs and Special Imports State FOLLETT'S SaeSt. at N. University-Open Sat. Afternoons 'til Christmas employe shall not be performed by a student employe or tem- porary employe to the extent that it results in his layoff or removal from classification." But the contract is vague re- lating to students filling part- time openings, formerly held by a union member. According to Thiry, "If we have a part-time opening and fill it with a stu- dent, we are not violating the agreement. A job represents work the University has to do- not student jobs or union jobs, just work." McCracken strongly disagrees. "The University cannot hire a student into a part-time job that a bargaining unit employe was previously working in. The unit takes the position that the job was a union job and filled by a union member and that the University cannot change its status in that way." The problem with the whole disagreement, McCracken says, is trying to discover if this stu- dent replacement in part-time jobs is actually occurring. "One way to tell if the bar- gaining unit is being eroded by the University in this way," says McCracken, "is by comparing the number of student hours worked with the number of union hours worked over the past two years. We have asked the University for that infor- mation, but they haven't given it to us yet," he adds. The Daily also asked for these statistics but was told they were "unavailable" by several Uni- versity officials. "The Union has been asking us for those statistics, too," says Robert Parker, assistant mana- ger of compensation, plans and personnel, "but it just isn't available. The union doesn't be- lieve me either. It involves hand counting." While union workers have their collective clout and re- cognition as a union to fall back on to legitimize their demands, students feel they have nothing except the "good will" of their individual supervisors. Students, as a unit, have been excluded from the AFSCME bargaining unit, because,. ac- cording to University Attorney William Lemmer, "students have a different community of interest than union workers." Lemmer defines community of interest as "ages, hours, work- ing conditions used in determin- ing whether any given group of employes has an inherent co- hesiveness so as to comprise an appropriate bargaining unit." "For students," he says, "work is secondary to their education and schedule flexibility is im- portant in determining their hours of work. Their work is not a means of livelihood as it is with non-student workers, but a means to an end." Legally, it has never been de- termined whether students do in fact constitute a separate community of interest from oth- er workers. Any group, before it is desig- nated as a bargaining unit, must petition the Michigan Employe Relations Commission (MERC) for approval. In addition, there has never been a test as to whether stu- dents, who are working for a university can in fact organize into a union. In Michigan his- tory there has only been one such instance received by the board, involving the mailroom clerks at Wayne State Univer- sity. Before deciding, however, on the larger question as to wheth- er students could form a bar- gaining unit, MERC rejected the students' petition on the basis "that. it only asked for unionization of a small portion of the total student grouping," Lemmer says. Thus, the question has re- mained unresolved. Meanwhile, students at the University have been trying to form TEA, which they feel would be potent even if it never becomes a formal union. To apply, come to UAC offices, 2nd fl. Union. Applications due Mon., Dec. 13. 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EDUCATION AND ECSTACY reviewed by John Ellis I * Next Week DIALECTIC OF SEX reviewed by Claire Jeanette OFFICE OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS Michigan Union, 3rd floor ATTENTION: Students Receiving Degrees by August 1972 GRAD 11 Computerized Job Opportunity Matching System is available for the second arid final time this academic year. This system can be helpful in searching out potential employers. Come in and pick up the forms. Deadline for completed forms: 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 8. 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