The Michigan Daily - Monday, February 17, 1986 -Page 3 GEO, 'U' begin Fifth V vote at contract talks ard to city By JILL OSEROWSKY When the Graduate Employees Organization begins negotiating a new contract with the University today, it will seek salary increases and broadened tuition waivers for all ,teaching and staff assistants and a mandatory training program for new TAs. The current contract for the 1,625 graduate student employees expires March 15. GEO, which submitted its proposal for the next contract Feb 7, has negotiated contracts for the group since 1974. This year, the union is asking for a nine percent salary increase for the graduate employees, according to Martin Doettling, president and chief negotiator for GEO. W The average T.A. works 18 hours a week, and earns an average of $2923 a semester, according to Alice Haddy, GEO secretary and negotiator. This salary represents a five percent in- crease over the 1984 contract. The union also wants to reduce the amount of tuition its employees must pay. Under their current contract, the TAs and SAs who work at least 10- 12 hours a week, or 25 percent of full- time, receive a waiver on 50 percent of regular in-state graduate student tuition for fall and winter semesters. Although that's an increase from 40 percent last year, GEO has asked that the waiver be raised to 75 percent. "Our ultimate goal is complete tuition exemption," Doettling said, adding that "it's the University's goal too." Colleen Dolan-Greene, chief negotiator for the University, refused to comment on the talks with GEO. Those at the .25 level and higher also receive the same health and den- tal benefits as faculty and staff at the University. However, many TAs and SAs' ap- pointments fall below the .25 mark, and GEO wants them to receive the same benefits as those above, Doet- tling said. GEO has also asked that the tuition waiver be extended to spring and summer semesters, TAs and SAs must currently pay full tuition during those terms. "If they can't offer them the oppor- tunity to financially support them- selves, I don't know how they will fill their (summer ) graduate classes," said Doettling, a graduate student in German Language and Literature. Whether TAs and SAs should pay tax on their tuition waivers may be a part of GEO's negotiations with the University, Haddy said. Federal legislation exempting the graduate employees from the tax expired last December, but the University did not begin withholding the amount from paychecks. The University may hold off collec- tion throughout winter semester because officials expect Congress to renew the measure, which is part of the Employee Educational Assistance Act, according to Don Gamble, manager of Compensation and Staff Relations and another negotiator for the University. GEO wants the University to make mandatory the now optional teaching assistant training programs offered by University departments and reim- burse TAs for taking the courses. "On the whole the TAs greatly benefited from and were glad they had that training," said Haddy, a chemistry graduate student. "It alleviates fears and prevents some bad habits from happening in the classroom." Both Doettling and Haddy said they expect the negotiations to be produc- tive. GEO hasn't staged a strike since 1975. "I don't expect (the University) to be hostile," Doettling said. "We have a reasonable contract and the Univer- sity seems willing to negotiate." GOP primary By SUSAN GRANT Republican Phil Spear will take on perennial GOP primary candidate Paul Jensen in today's contest for the chance to face Fifth Ward incumbent Doris Preston in April's Ann Arbor City Council elections. This is the first time Spear - owner of Spear and Associates Realtors, Inc., former board member of the Hands On Museum, and Ann Arbor resident for 40 years - will seek public office. HE HAS the blessing of the local Republican party, something his op- ponent has yet to receive, even though Jensen has run in every GOP primary in the last four years. Jensen says his occupation is managing political campaigns, primarily his own. The Republicans in August 1984 disavowed Jensen as their candidate after he won the local GOP primary for the State House of Represen- tatives. Jensen sued the GOP for $1 s million. "Because my money is wrapped up in court, pending litigation, it is preventing me from enjoying a free and fuller campaign," Jensen said. NEVERTHELESS, Jensen is also a candidate for the August GOP Daily Photo by SCOTT UTUCHY primary for Lana Pollack's (D-Ann Arbor) seat in the state Senate. o be moved from the old to the new He says he doesn't plan to win his jrse}. Friday as she makes the 12 campaign for city council. He is only running, he says, "for clout." One of the issues facing Jensen and Spear in the GOP primary is whether Ann Arbor should become involved in as L foreign policy. The April ballot will feature a resolution written by University students that says the city believes The move went so smoothly that the federal government should not in- John Turck, director of public relations terfere with affairs in Nicaragua. for the hospital, said one of the Voters will be asked to endorse or emergency staffers even had time to reject the resolution. finish reading a novel. "I DON'T think the city of Ann Ar- bor shoul: be involved in foreign policy," Jensen said. Spear agreed, saying "city council should spend time on local issues like." .. the (proposed) conference center as opposed to getting involved with. gun control." "There are things that can't be ef- fective at the local level," he added. Both candidates say they oppose a. tax-bond issue which asks taxpayers; to provide $3 million over the next} three years for road repair. And like the Republican contestants in the Fifth Ward, Spear and Jensen support efforts to build up business in the downtown area. Spear encourages more housing downtown, especially in the Ashley,. First and Washington Streets area. "We need to get more professional people who live and work in Ann Ar- bor downtown," he said. Tune in to the TURKISH HOUR FM 88.3 Sundays 10-11 am UM Turkish Students' Assoc. Sponsored by Michigan Student Assembly Ester Archambeau, the last patient t University hospital, jokes with a nui minute trip to her new room. AId Statio (Continued from Page 1) Three stations spaced a minute apart from each other were manned, by nurses, physicians, anesthesiologists, technicians, and, respiratory therapists in case of an emergency, Gains said. Phone 764-0558 I What's happening around Ann Arbor Film The Karate Kid (J.B. Avildsen, 1984) MTF, 7:30 and 9 p.m., Mich. Revenge is sweet, especially for a teenager who is continually harassed and beat up by school bullies. Ralph Machio, who plays the teenager learns discipline and karate from the Japanese handy man in his building and gets the last laugh. Bars and Clubs Bird of Paradise (662-8310) - Paul Vornhagen & Friends, latin jazz The Blind Pigg (996-8555) - Frank Allison and the Odd Sox, 60's rock- pop The Earle (994-0211) - Larry Manderville, solo piano Mr. Flood's Party (996-2132) - Killer Troug, R&B and early rock The Nectarine Ballroom (994-5436) - New music with DJ Roger LeLievre Rick's American Cafe (996-2747) - Jeanne and the Dreams, R&B Speakers John Campbell - "Japan Copes with the World," University Faculty Women's Club, 11:30 a.m., League. James Crump, Charles Wasser- burg-Guild House Writer's Series,' 8 p.m., 802 Monroe. Jerry Broadbent - "The Technocratic Vision in Japan," Faculty Women's Club, 11:30 a.m., Michigan Room, League. Thomas Deuel - "Platelet- Derived Growth Factor-Regulation of Normal and Transformed Cells," Medical School, noon, Towsley Cen- ter. When the Woman Goes Back to School the Family Goes Too - ,Women's Student Network, noon, 350 S. Thayer. Japan Copes with the World - Faculty Women's Club. 11:30 a.m. Middle East," Near East & North African Studies, noon, Commons Room, Lane Hall. Robert Howe - "A History of Manual Control Research in the Department of Aerospace Engineering," NASA Center of Ex- cellence, 3:30 p.m., 115 Aerospace Engineering Bldg. Meetings Multiple Sclerosis Society - Counseling group; Significant Others group, 7 p.m., Washtenaw United Way. Society for Creative Anachronism - 7p.m., East Quad. 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