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ed the clericals as they enter'ed come convinced that one union
the Union building to cast votes will win." In the spirit of the
late last week, labor movement, leaders echoed
UAW won a strike settlement the unity pledge of one JAW
for clericals at Wayne State organizer - any union is bet-
University the week before, and ter than no union at all.
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Tale of two unions
For the campus, the move-
ment to organize 3200 clerical
workers was a new and sophisti-
cated form of struggle. Unlike
last year', union uprising - the
Graduate Employes Organiza-
tion's successful move to repre-
sent some 2400 teaching fellows,
researchers, and staff assist-
ants - the latest battle is more,
a duel of unions than anything
else.
Two of the nation's strongest'
and most progressive labor or-
ganizations, the United Auto
Workers (UAW) and the Amer-
ican Federation of State, Coun-
ty, and Municipal Employes
(AFSCME), brought in their
biggest guns in preparation for
the clericals' vote, which ran
for three days last week and
will end tomorrow.
1ROM BOTH sides came an
extraordinary literature-and-
leaflet blitz on a campus that
eats leaflets for lunch. UAW
even dispatched Doug Fraser,
the tough, widely-respected vice'
president of the union's Chrysler
division, to exhort the Uni-
versity's secretaries and clerks.
AFSCME chided its opposi-
tion for trying to pull clerks and
typists into a union reputed to
brought its victory press con-
ference to Ann Arbor to make
a winning impression on work-
ers here. If AFSCME was the
right union for public employ-
es, it was argued, why h a d
The debate rose to a f i n a I sharp
pitch as
little mobs of button-stud-
ded workers from both sides lined
up and proselytized to the clericals
as they entered the Union building
to vote late last week.
The battle reflected larger
political forces: as G e o r g e
Meany leads the AFL-CIO ,nto
the conservative wing of t h e
Democratic Party, a half-dozen
liberal unions - among them
AFSCME and the auto workers
- are attempting to pr e s e n t
their moderate-to-progressive
coalition as the strongest force
in the party rank-and-file.
Within the liberal coalition,
AFSCME, a fast-growing young
union and old, staunch UAW
are vying for superiority.
But in the two unions' rush
for ascendency, it almost ap-
peared that the clerical workers
themselves weren't getting
much attention.
j"I have two children to feed
and I'm doing it on my own,"
stated Student Activities Build-
ing secretary Jane Gould, a
UAW worker. "Between the
University and AFSCME, I
could probably do better on
ADC."
AFSCME's supporters, too,'
complained that the opposition
would cost too much in union
dues. But perhaps the most in-
teresting statement came from
a group called Concerned Sec-
retaries.
represent auto workers; UAW
boasted of a separate division
specifically representing cleri-
cals, and claimed AFSCME has
done a poor job for its people
at the bargaining table for
workers it already represents in
Ann Arbor.
The debate, which had lasted
all summer, rose to a final
sharp pitch as little mobs of
button-studded workers
bath sides p r o s e l y
frnm
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Wayne's people sought UAW's
help when push came to shove?
AFSCME supporters took a
blast at UAW for creating the
danger of splitting campus
workers' representation between
two unions - hence allegedly
giving the University a strong-
er bargaining position. AFS-
CME now represents 2400 serv-
ice workers here.
IN THE HOME stretch, organ-1
izers from both unions were
optimistic but conceded t h e
likelihood of a run-off if neither
UAW nor AFSCME gains more
than 50 per cent of the vote. The
clericals have a third option -
voting for no union at all
and if neither union gets a ma-
jority, a run-off election will be
scheduled.
The chances of a "no-linini"'
outcome looked minimal. "At
first I wasn't so sure," said Syl-
via Halorin of AFSCME, but
in the past few weeks I've be-
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" A FSCME is not run demo-
cratically . . . the United
A"to Workers is not the proper
union to represent office per-
sonnel in an educational institu-
tion," the secretaries declared.
"We are a small group with
unique problems and what we
need, if anything, is a group
tailored to our special needs
. . . we urge you to express
vor individuality and vote
'neither' in this election."
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close fight, another looms. effort falls just short of vic-
tory.
trend out of the voting so far - getting solid financial back-
this is the first campus-wide ing from the party. He report-
clericals' unionizing election, edly has invited a bevy of
and there are no historical Democratic limelighters to pro-
yardstocks to measure interest mote his cause, including Ed-
and turnout, ward Kennedy, George McGov-
State officials will count the ern, and Hubert Humphrey.
ballots tomorrow night. But it will not be easy. While
* * * Esch's protracted failure to take
Reuther faces Esch a firm stand on Richard Nix-
on's impeachability will surely'
As the unions railed at e a c h cost him Ann Arbor votes, the
other and begged for votes, ano- state GOP sees his incumbency
ther politically-charged s h o w- as solid, Esch is considered a
down was just getting under- strong senatorial hopeful in
way. Handsome, well-funded, 1976.
well-named Democrat J o h n Reuther has another problem:
Reuther finally won the nomin- while his well-oiled primary
ation of the Second Congres- campaign rolled up expectable
sional district Aug. 6 Demo- labor votes in Livonia and the
cratic primary after a recount rest of the Second district's eas-
showed him leading Dr. Ed tern end, Pierce, a radical,
Pierce by at least 130 votes. walloped him by a near 5-1
Pierce conceded late Monday margin in Ann Arbor. During
night. the recount, the two men os-
Now comes the larger battle: tensibly ran a "joint campaign"
the nephew of late UAW leader against Esch, but they were
Walter Reuther will seek to rarely seen together. Reuther's
tumble the three-term incum- ability to roll up votes in Ann
bency of Congressman Marvin Arbor's liberal-radical campus
Esch, a moderate Ann Arbor community now becomes a crit-
Renublican. ical question.
As with the UAW-AFSCME WHEN PIERCE set out to
battle, Reuther's challenge is run in the primary, few
being watched from afar. Par- observers gave him much
ty workers say Democratic Na- chance of coming close to a
tional Committee's campaign heavyweight like Reuther. But
strategists are eager to see if the friendly, sincere-sounding
Reuther can forge the magical doctor got enough votes to make
student-labor compound into a the primary a dead heat. In
victory in this "swing" dis- ! the end, Reuther won by only a
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