The Michigan Daily-Friday, September 5, 1980-Page 9-A Cit teachers out for better pa By JULIE BROWN Ann Arbor's public school teachers remained off the job yesterday, the esult of a 4-1 strike vote Tuesday by members of the Ann Arbor Education Association to strike for higher wages. Classes were to begin Wednesday, with teachers reporting for work Tuesday. According to Dan Burroughs, a spokesman for the teachers' association, 680 members voted in favor of the work stoppage and 181 voted against the proposal. ROBERT MOSELEY, assistant superintendent of the Ann Arbor school district, said both sides are scheduled to meet tomorrow morning with a mediator from the Michigan Em- ployment Relations Commission. The mediator may make recommendations, but these would not be binding on either side, he said. Wendy Barhydt, president of the Ann Arbor Board of Education, said the school tbard has offered the union a 12.1 per cent wage increase. Burroughs aid the group is seeking a 16.8 per cent wage increase spread across the salary schedule rather than concen- trated at the top. "Generally, in this school district we have had a 10- to 12-step (salary) schedule," Burroughs explained. "A step means a teacher moves from one pay level to the next with each year of teaching (in the district)." ACCORDING TO Barhydt, the school board offer would provide different salary increases for teachers with dif- ferent levels of experience. Under the board offer, which includes experience levels beyond the twelfth year of teaching, teachers would receive wage increases varying from 9 per cent ot 15.2 per cent, based on length of teaching and academic degrees. Other issues also divide the teachers and the school board, including classroom size, layoff procedures, and the assignment of homerooms to inter- mediate school teachers. "At the intermediate schools, the board would like to give a sixth assign- ment called homeroom," Burroughs said. "That's quite an addition in workload as far as we're concerned,," he added, noting the homeroom's fun- ction has not been well-defined. ACCORDING TO school board president Barhydt, the board reached an agreement with the teachers' association two years ago to implement a homeroom system. The agreement was unsigned and thus unenforceable, she said. The school board, she added, agreed to a 25-minute cut in the inter- mediate school day.(since implemen- ted) in exchange for the homeroom agreement. "The attempt is to have kids not lost in the intermediate schools," Barhydt said. In that sense it is an extra assignment, she added, but not suf- ficient to merit widespread dissent. The present agreement mandates that class size shall not exceed 30 students, Burroughs said. He added the administration should make an effort not to overload classrooms, and also should assign only 26 students to classrooms when planning class size in the spring in order to accommodate new students moving into the district. "CLASS SIZE is something that's impossible to disagree with," Barhydt said. "They (the teachers' association) want us to budget four (students) below the maximum in the spring." The teachers' association is also op- posed to the use of race as a criterion for teacher transfer within the school system, Burroughs said. "A teacher could end up getting shuffled around indiscriminately in that kind of system," he said. In 1972, 13.2 per cent of the district's teachers belonged to minority groups, Barhydt said. Under the current agreement, this percentage would be maintained in the event of teacher layoffs. The teachers' association would like to see the figure increased to In 1970, just over 18 per cent of the paper consumed by paper mills and manufacturers was wastepaper. Today, it is about 20 per cent. 14.5 per cent, while the board favors the present figure, she said. THE SCHOOL BOARD also seeks the right to use teacher qualification, based on program need, in determining layof- fs. Under the current system, a teacher with greater seniority would be kept over a less-experienced teacher who may have other qualifications. According to Burroughs, the teachers' association is concerned over the definition of qualification, and the question of who will evaluate such qualifications. Approximately 1,056 teachers are out on strike, Burroughs said. The last teacher strike in Ann Arbor was in 1974. Ann Arbor teachers were among some 4,300 teachers in 23 Michigan school districts striking yesterday, providing an extended summer vacation for nearly 86,000 students. 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"It's a fact that drinking is a part of this University," he said, ad- ing that by cutting back on the bus ours, the University was depriving him and other North Campus residents of, access, to academic, cultural, and social life in Ann Arbor. But Brinkerhoff also maintained that operating the late night-early morning buses - was not economical. He ex- plained that the University budget allowed for an eight per cent increase in costs for operating the buses, but the cost was greater than anticipated. He explained that during the normal *us service hours, it costs 20 cents per person to run the buses, and 70 cents per person during the extended hours. He added that operating the buses during the late hours cost $11,000 per year. "Something had to be given up," he said. BRINKERHOFF SAID he recom- mended to Gold that the students come up with alternatives to the cutbacks hich would be given "serious con- sideration" by the executive officers. 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