Page 2-Friday, August 3, 1979-The Michigan Daily
Striking union reports
Continued from Page 11
the University's Ann Arbor, Flint, and movement" in the bargaining session
tearbor Uniers s .AnnTArborlit that lasted from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Dearborn campuses. The unit is yesterday.
represented by the Washtenaw County Picket lines continued to "slow
Building Trades Board of Directors. down" deliveries at University Hospital
Five years ago, the trades council loading docks, according to Joe Owsley,
went on strike for 28 days.laigdcs corigt a wly
Telrgest campuskuniondtysa hospital spokesman. "The situation is
AmericanrgestionmofS onty unchanged," Owsley said. "Everything
AmrcnFederation of State, County, i going along fairly smoothly."
and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), is oiaong arl sthly."
which representa 2,000minen 'c Negotiators are still trying to work
andhfoodhrvicwores ers, annurses' out compromises on the sick leave
and food service workers and nuss policy and the amount of the pay in.-
aides on the University's three cam- crease.o
puses, is expected to meet Tuesday to ON WEDNESDAY, picketers said the
"discuss whatever actions we can take UNvEity wAfeigwaersse
to assist the building trades council,, University was offering wage increases
torsit t Digtdewunl, between 4.4 and seven per cent, depen-
presdnt of AFSCME L al Nwman, ding on individual pay grades, but was
MURPHY SAID there was "no sign of threatening to modify the current sick
'no progress in talks
leave policy. THE MICHIGAN DAILY
The union has asked that current (USPS 344-900)
benefits be maintained and an ap- Volume LXXXIX, No.58-S
proximate nine per cent pay hike be FridayAugust 3, 1979
implemented, picketers said. is edited and managed by students at
the University of Michigan. Published
The strike has halted construction daily Tuesday through Sunday morn-
work at the law library, the Taubman ngs during the University year at 420
medical library, ypiarnvain Ma ynard Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan
hospital renovations, 48109. Subscription rates: $12 Septem-
and other projects contracted by ber through April (2 semesters); $13 by
tradesworkers in non-University mail outside Ann Arbor. Summer seas-
unions, according to University and sion published Tuesday through Satur-
day mornings. Subscription rates:
union spokespersons. $6.50 in Ann Arbor; $7.00 by mail out-
University AFSCME workers side Ann Arbor. Second class postage
Ui t .paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. POST-
renewed their contract with the MASTER: Send address changes to
University in March, receiving a 6.5 per THE MICHIGAN DAILY, 420 Maynard
cent pay increase, and improved health Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
benefits, Newman said.
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