Ninety-Two Years of Editorial Freedom I E Mitri4a Iai g WEAR (LOVES Cloudy, windy, with snow flurries, highs in the mid- 30s. Vol. XCII, No. 63 Copyright 1981, The Michigan Daily Ann Arbor, Michigan-Saturday, November 21, 1981 Ten Cents Te en Pages Profs say union threat may raise pay By JULIE HINDS Even though a faculty unionization effort has not gained much support, some professors believe the threat of a union may force the University administration to raise salaries and to grant the faculty a greater role in deciding University policy. Concern over the University's practice of boosting its "academic hotshots," and a supposed lack of faculty influen- ce in budget decisions apparently has prompted this latest in- terest in unionization, according to faculty members. "I THINK THE people who signed the unionization petition perceived the action as a stronger way to negotiate with the administration," said Medical School Professor Bruce Friedman. Friedman added that he believed the faculty would stop short of formal unionization procedures. Most faculty members agree that the petition for a vote on possible unionization-submitted last month to the Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs by 14 physics would urge the faculty to support this (unionization) movement even if they don't like unionization, because it will get you a higher salary. The Regents tremble at the thought and would do almost anything to prevent unionization.' Daniel Fusfeld, University economics professor department faculty-will not lead to a union. "I don't think sentiment would ever go for unionization on this campus," said Friedman, a member of SACUA. BUT UNIONIZATION efforts alone can bring about salary increases, said Daniel Fusfeld, University economics professor. "I would urge the faculty to support this (unionization) movement even if they don't like unionization, because it will get you a higher salary," Fusfeld said. "The Regents trem- ble at the thought and would do almost anything to prevent unionization." Fusfeld said he believes substantial salary increases resulted from an earlier unionization drive. The University of Michigan Association for Collective Bargaining, formed in 1972, gained support of 15 percent of the faculty before it disbanded four years later, Fusfeld said. Several physics professors who signed the petition said they were interested in pursuing the idea of a faculty union and believed it would bring them higher salaries. Still others said they had some doubts about unionization, but backed the proposal because they feared faculty "stars" were getting a disproportionate share of salary increases. PRESIDENT HAROLD Shapiro said, however, that the threat of faculty unionization would not have much effect on salary increases, because obtaining increases is already a high priority for the administration. "We know we're behind in that area (salary increases), but we're trying to do something about it," Shapiro said. University Vice President for Academic Affairs Billy Frye told Regents on Thursday that an improved faculty salary program is the University's most urgent need. WHILE MANY professors agreed that unionization might lead to short-term salary benefits, they also expressed skep- ticism about its possible long-term effects. A number of faculty members said they fear the formality of collective bargaining would endanger current freedoms, including autonomy in decisions of tenure and salary. See PROFS, Page 2 Government goes broke as Congress negotiates WASHINGTON (AP) Congressional leaders abandoned effor- ts last night to met a midnight deadline for emergency legislation needed to keep the government from running out of money., But negotiators for the House and Senate, still struggling against a threatened veto, met late into the night trying to produce a compromise that both houses could ratify today and minimize disruptions in government services. WITH TALKS dragging on, House Speaker Thomas O'Neill recessed the House at 8:05 p.m. until 1 a.m. Satur- day. About 90 minutes later, Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker told senators to go home until noon. That meant that any compromise could not be reached until after the But Speakes, when pressed to name a specific government service or in- dividual that would be directly affected at midnight, when the government of- ficially runs out of money, could name none. Earlier, Baker said President Reagan would sign a compromise if the House went along with a Senate plan to cut $3.3 billion fromdomestic programs. Otherwise, he said, the president stood ready to cast his first veto. O'NEILL, AN opponent of the cuts, had said the House might go along with the Senate plan. Leaders of both parties said Reagan had more than enough, support to sustain a veto, a development that would keep Congress in virtually con- tinuous session if it had to draft a second measure the president would City to offer all-night dial-a-ride By BETH ALLEN or on all days of the week due to low demand, AATA SIMONETTA SAID that the project will require no deadline passed. Technically, the sign. Ann Arbor will be the site of an experimental all- hopes to eventually fund the project from 11 p.m. to 6 new equipment or new drivers for the companies, and government ran out of money at the The measure is needed to replace an night dial-a-ride program scheduled to begin in a.m. seven days a week. AATA is "hopeful we can get it (the program) going stroke of midnight. earlier stopgap bill which carried February, Ann Arbor Transit Authority officials an- "We want to stretch the budget to keep the within a 60 to 90-day period." Negotiations on the compromise, yesterdays midnight expiration. nounced this week. program alive as long as we can," Simonetta said. Simonetta said he was "extremely surprised" that Baker said, "no doubt will continue for Without the new authority, most of the The program will use local taxi companies to THE $89,000 program is being funded primarily the project was'approved as it is not cost effective much -of the night. I think they are government would be out of money. provide late night transportation for a fixed fee of ap- through an experimental grant submitted to UMTA and the Reagan administration has been particularly making progress. I hope they are Federal agencies go broke when proximately $1.00 to any destination in Ann Arbor. last February by AATA's board of directors. AATA is hard on transportation projects this year, with many making progress and I urge them to money runs out after Congress fails to FUNDED JOINTLY by the federal Urban Mass providing $10,800 for the program. proposed cutbacks. make progress." pass appropriations bills or when Transit Administration and AATA, the experimental The grant will last for approximately one year, af- "I don't think anybody (at AATA) thought it was presidents veto the appropriations bills project is the result of fourteen months of lobbying ter which it is possible that AATA could pick up the going to pass," Simonetta said. AT THE WHITE House, deputy press Congress passes. When Congress can't and negotiations between AATA and the Public In- entire tab for the program, Simonetta said. PIRGIM MEMBERS also expressed surprise at secretary Larry Speakes said failure to meet a deadline, it passes legislation, terest Research Group in Michigan. AATA is still in the process of contracting a cab their victory. The all-night service has been a project pass the bill left the administration called a continuing resolution, that AATA director Richard Simonetta said yesterday company, Simonetta said, but several local com- of PIRGIM's women's safety task force since Sep- "with no choice but to initiate gover- allows agencies to limp along until the that although at first the system may not run all night panies have expressed interest in the project. tember of last year. nment shut-down procedures." resolution expires. See ATAJ age02....................Y.....0....... ........ .....:......................n...,................................................. University won't appeal By JANET RAE President Harold Shapiro handed the Graduate Employees Organization an official victory yesterday when he an- nounced that the University will not ap- peal a recent legal decision ordering the University to collectively bargain with graduate student assistants. The announcement came following a two-hour closed executive session with the Regents, during which the board reportedly debated the GEO issue and discussed an internal audit and proper- ty acquisition. ACCEPTANCE OF the decision han- ded down by the Michigan Employment Relations Commission forces the University to recognize a contract negotiated with the GEO in 1976. Collective bargaining efforts will begin soon to arrange a new contract. , The University had previously refused to negotiate with the GEO on the grounds that graduate student assistants are students receiving work experience financial aid, not full em- ployees. "I have decided that it is in the long- run best interests of the University not to appeal," Shapiro told the audience, which interrrupted him with applause and cheers. "The Board of Regents supports my decision, though not unanimously." SHAPIRO* SAID his decision was based on conversations with various campus groups and the Regents. "I am confident that the University and Graduate Employees Organization can negotiate in good faith and reach a satisfactory agreement," he said. GEO ad hoc Steering Committee member David Marker was en- thusiastic about the administration's decision not to appeal. "GREAT. IT'S about time," he said. "I'm not surprised they finally got to this point. I'm just glad I was around to see it.", Marker told the Regents Thur- sday that he would be leaving the University because of financial har- dships caused by his low pay as a graduate student assistant. "They're apparently anxious to sign the old contract and get to negotiating," Marker said. "Thet've offered to sign it on Monday." According to Marker, the provisions of the 1976 contract include protections against discrimination, medical in- surace benefits, and a formal grievance procedure. "THERE'S LOTS of room for im- provement on this but the important thing is that they can't, in their budget cutting, take away the rights we've earned," Marker said. "It gives us a format to make a much better con- tract." Marker said negotiations should begin in the next two to three weeks. "But before we get down to bargaining, there aire things we and the. University have to work out," Marker said. "We'd be open to anything that. allowed more people in on the bargaining." ACCORDING TO former GEO President Gregory Scott, the contract will be retroactive to 1976. See UNIVERSITY, Page 5 GEO ruling :Yv" , r..v, i........T ,C,: . . ., , , v . . . ,. . :v.. . . d .: . Jf < : C v,1 ~ ~ i : TODAY I New OSU admissions office THE RECENT budget crunch at Ohio State University has the school's administration offi- cials scrounging for out-of-state students who can pay inflated tuition rates. Always anxious to help out its scarlet and gray neighbor, the University, with a lit- Seventy-four-year-old mother? It wasn't the bill from the Swedish Hospital that staggered Claude Kremer. It was the fact that he was being dunned for "labor room, delivery room, delivery material and maternity recovery" for his wife's hospital stay. He's 73. She's 74. "I had to write them a letter," said the retired Atlantic Richfield finance department worker. "I told them my first impression was one of joy and macho. I think I can appreciate how good old Abraham in the Bible felt about his 'wife Sarah, who was approximately 65 when she gave birth. "But Sarah couldn't hold a candle to my good wife Charlot- people, Redford got a ticket. The star of movies such as "The Sting" and the director of the recent hit film "Or- dinary People" has until early January to pay or contest the ticket, officials said yesterday. The amount of the fine was not disclosed. Redford, whose name appeared as Charles R. Redford on his Utah operator's license, was in a 1981 Toyota with New Jersey license plates, police said. He has a Fifth Avenue apartment, where he recently slept through a burglary attempt by two youths who were scared off by Redford's wife. i