Vol. LXXXI, No, 22-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Friday, June 4, 1971 Ten Cents Twelve Pages 'U', state officials confer on budget By ALAN LENIHOFF Special to The Daily LANSING-Facing the prospect of re- ceiving a state appropriation severely reduced from their initial budget request, top-level University administrators met with state officials Wednesday to plead their case. Although details of the closed meeting with the state's Legislative Fiscal Agency were not made public, sources said yes- terday that the meeting was held to dis- cuss technical points in Gov. William Milliken's budget proposal for the Uni- versity. Milliken's proposal allowed for only an additional $2.8 million dollars over this year's University appropriation. Univer- sity officials fear that the appropriation will be grossly inadequate for them to meet the coming year's financial needs. The meeting was seen as a prelude to the intensive study the appropriation pro- posal will undergo sometime this month in the Senate Appropriations Committee. President Robben Fleming; Allan Smith, vice-president for academic af- fairs; Fedele Fauri, vice-president for state relations; and Richard Augenstein and Lawrence Fincher, both of the office of state relations, represented the Uni- versity at the session. After recommending last February only the slight increase in appropriations to the University, Milliken suggested a number of austerity measures for the University to take to combat the severe lack of operating funds they would face, including: -A decrease of 294 in the enrollment at the Ann Arbor campus after six years of expansion; -A seven per cent increase in tuition, the fourth hike in five years, which would raise an additional $2 million; -An end to the University's $1.1 mil- lion annual fee paid to the city for police, fire protection and other services and the creation instead of a separate cam- pus police force; and -A three per cent across-the-board cut- back in the University's faculty and staff. coupled with a three per cent increase in "productivity" of the remaining staff. See 'U', Page 10 yOv. IllienfCf Union janitors renew protests over grievance By MARK DILLEN About 40 of the University's union janitors expanded their recent protests over new working schedules by picket- ing two University buildings yesterday. The workers, members of local 1583 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes (AFSCME) said the four-hour demonstrations were under- taken because "all channels of communication with the University had been exhausted" without a resolution of union complaints. The complaints chiefly concern the scheduled change in lunch periods, effective Monday, for some 280 Plant H Department janitors on the Hearmg set evening shift. Several weeks ago, Plant Department offi- fo I A , cials announced a w o r k f U change that would cancel r I paid 20 -minute 1 u n c h dip breaks for the workers and u nirp e b u in their place substitute a 30-minute break without By ROBERT SCHREINER pay. The Michigan Employment Re- This would in effect increase lations Commission (MERC) has the normal work day for these set a hearing on June18 for an employes from a 4 pm. to mid- unfair labor practice charge night shift to o n e extending brought against the University by from 4 p.m to 12:30 a.m.-a the Interns and Residents Asso- change which workers say vio- ciation (IRA) of the Medical Cen- lates their five-month-old three ter. year contract with the Univer- The IRA is seeking a MERC sity. ruling to order the University to Grievances were filed soon af- bargain with it in its attempts to ter the proposed change became obtain a union contract. public April 27, But, when these Interns, residents and post- "normal" channels failed to re- doctoral fellows at the center scind the Plant Department di- completed the final step May 7 in rective, a group of a n g r y becoming the first group of union- AFSCME workers took their ized interns at a university by protest before the Regents at approving IRA as its official col- their meeting last month. lective bargaining agent. When this move also failed, But the University had refused a formal complaint against the to accept a previous 2-1 MERC University was filed last. week decision which found the interns, before the Michigan Employe residents and post-doctoral fel- Relations Commission (MERC) lows an appropriate unit for col- in Detroit. The brief, submitted lective bargaining purposes. On by AFSCME attorney George April 5, the University asked the Maurer, contained several al- Michigan Court of Appeals to re- leged contract violations which view the MERC decision. the union said also violated the The University has steadfast- state Unfair Labor Practices ly opposed IRA's year-old drive Act. for unionization, maintaining that A hearing on the charges is interns are not really employes scheduled here June 21 at 10:00 of the University but instead are a.m. involved in a training program James Thiry, University man- with status similar to students. ager of employe and union rela- At the time of the appeal, the tions, has maintained through- University had asked for a stay out the dispute that the change of the election approving IRA. in w o r k week is "legitimate" The court declined the request though he admits t h e r e has but at the same time said the Uni- been an "uncommon" amount of versity did not have to begin bar- union dissent over this change gaining until the appeal is acted See UNION, Page 7 on. UNIVERSITY JANITORS picket in front of the Administration Bldg. yesterday. The workers, mem- bers of local 1583 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes (AFSCME). were protesting the scheduled loss of a paid lunch hour for 280 Plant Department janitors. HOUSE TO ACT SOON: Abortion vote expected By ROSE SUE BERSTEIN Michigan's controversial abor- tion law, long entangled in the legislative morass, enters i t s final stages to becoming law within the next few weeks. The bill, which passed the Senate last March by a _ 20 to 17 vote after a five-year strug- gle, is "not more than a couple of weeks from House action and possible enactment," according to its floor manager, Rep. Rich- ard Allen (R-Ithaca). The liberalized statute would allow a woman to have an abortion for any reason during the first 90 days of her preg- nancy if she had been a Mich- igan resident at least that long. Later abortions could be per- formed under the bill only if a doctor found "significant risk of danger," damage to the mental or physical health of the mother, or deformity of t h e child. David Holmes (D-Detroit) chairman of the House Social Services and Corrections Com- mittee promised yesterday that his committee would take some- sort of action on the contro- versial bill before the end of next week. It is estimated that if the bill were to leave committee and come to an immediate House vote, it would fall about f i v e votes short of passage. The bill's proponents, however, hope that discussion on the House floor will convert the needed "swing votes." After its Senate passage, the bill was sent to the House, where it went to the Social Services and Corrections Com- mittee on March 15. At that time,. speaker Wil- liam Ryan (D-Detroit), an- nounced that the committee, which was considered to be op, posed to the bill two to one, would be enlarged specifically to give the bill a fairer and more comprehensive hearing. Ryan's action was unprecedented. Allen has sought to block sending the bill to Ryan's com- mittee preferring to send the bill to a less hostile group. Allen yesterday told the Daily, "Our best count leads us to be- lieve that we don't have the votes to get it out (of committee)." He said that the public reaction against the bill seems to him stronger than the reaction in its favor. "The pros haven't cam- paigned as hard as the antis," he observed. For example, he pointed out that he considered the march in Lansing last March 14 a helpful step to demonstrate public senti- ment in favor of changing abor- tion laws, but that many more such actions were necessary. Allen further pointed out that if a bill lingers in committee for a protracted length of time, -then it is possible for the committee to be dissolved. But that action, he said, is difficult and might not have enough support on the House floor.