The Michi JIM KRUZ upervisory ds $ Doily Photo by PICKETERS LOOK ON as a van returns to AATA headquarters on Carpenter Rd. The vans, manned by s1 personnel, are in service only for senior citizens and handicapped persons needing "essential medical service AATA management ai igan Doily-Tuesday, July 8, 1980-Page 5 Committee ormed to pick new LSA dean By KEVIN TOTTIS Rackham School of Graduate Studies Dean Alfred Sussman announced June 23 the formation of a 12-member search committee for the LSA Dean. The post was left vacant July 1 when former LSA Dean Billy Frye assumed the position of vice-president for academic affairs. John Knott is acting LSA Dean until the position is filled. ACCORDING TO committee member and Economics Prof. Saul Hymans, the committee will most likely not meet un- til September because many of the committee members are out of town. The administration, however, has sent an advertisement of the position to the members of the committee for their approval, Hymans said. The adver- tisement will appear in national magazines. Other members of the committee in- clude: Mathematics Prof. Donald Lewis, chairman; Computer and Communication Sciences Prof. Joyce Friedman; Classical Studies Prof. Sharon Herbert; Psychology Prof. James Jackson; Biology Prof. George out Jones; Philosophy Prof. Donald y've Munro; Residential College Director John Mersereau, Jr.; graduate student heir David Brassfield; and LSA seniors our Beth Lupovitch and Daniel Solomon. g to itch ing im- the ant ger, ;ary ,red the _E age the° des for up 6.54 ess she half gage Chinos D an per at the ,age ""^" ""^M/ n T t b, d r tY rE fi. in fe it a fo A n si m of union renew ,negotiations By ELAINE RIDEOUT as days off with pay, the structure of issues," he said. "We can point After a week of inaction, AATA joint union-management committees, something over 50 areas where they management officials renewed and uniforms for bus operators before asked for more than the status quo." egotiations with representatives of the tackling the issue of wage increases. BUT UNION leaders consider ti transportation Employees Union "We're trying to focus on fifteen or so proposal as "the bare bones of what TEU) yesterday, but both sides agreed issues that tie in directly with wages," members have to have." According nly that the talks did little to resolve he said. "The more of these we can Ettinger, the union made a last-di he week-long strike. resolve, the more funding we can put effort to settle the contract, dropp AATA employees walked off the job back into wages." most of their demands fori y a vote of 150-3 at midnight last Mon- BUT THE union condemned the provement and instead returning to lay after AATA management did not strategy as "dodging the issue," while terms of the old contract. "We w ecommend extension of the contract at the same time taking away "rights" some improvements," said Etting hat expired June 30, and the union guaranteed employees under the old "we want the wage increase necess efused to ratify the management's contract. to catch us up with the losses incur inal proposal. Shelley Ettinger, vice-president of by inflation over the three years of AATA UPPED its six per cent wage TEU, criticized AATA for refusing to old contract and an insurance pack, ncrease offer to 9.2 per cent prior to the make a new wage offer and for "taking that would bring us into line with ontract expiration date. In its final of- back" 17 protections included in the last coverage (AATA) currently provi er last week, the union brought down contract. "I know these are bad times all the rest of its employees." is wage request to 33 per cent from 73 but they can't expect us to give up Ettinger said the union has asked er cent originally requested. things," she said, citing as examples an average wage of $8.75 per hour, The two parties met both separately the obliteration of all joint union- from the current average wage of $6 nd together with a state mediator for management committees, limits on an hour, an increase she said is I our hours yesterday but, according to maternity care and sick leave, and no than the rate of inflation.;'As it is," kATA director Richard Simonetta, ro limit on AATA's right to sub-contract said, "we're a good two-and-one-I ew proposals were submitted by either union work. bucks below the national average." ide. Simonetta suggested the term "take She said the AATA 9.2 per cent wC According to Simonetta, the back" is unjustified. "The proof of the hike offer would actually amount to management has adopted the strategy pudding is that they're not going back overall average increase of 2.841 f discussing non-economic:issues, such to the existing contract on most cent when compared to the final wi Secret Service to stay in local hotels By JOYCE FRIEDEN Ann Arbor will host its share of Secret Service personnel during next week's Republican National Convention, but the size of the group has been greatly reduced from original estimates, ac- cording to hotel officials. Cambridge House, the student dor- mitory section of the Michigan Union, will be the temporary home for only 75 Secret ServI& agents from July 11 through 20. According to Nancy D'Angelo, University Summer Housing Coordinator, the Republican Party had originally requested rooms for 1300 Secret Service employees. D'Angelo said the reduction in the number of agents was a result of con- vention politics, "Now that there is only one candidate in the nomination race, not as many agents are needed," she explained. Not every hotel has experienced a decrease in the number of convention- related guests. "The Hilton got a request for more rooms from both the Secret Service and media personnel, but we had to turn them down," said Briarwood Hilton manager Baird Bliss. "I think the decrease (in requests for Cambridge House rooms) was due to the dissatisfaction with dormitory-style living and the reduction in the number of candidates. The request for more See SEC'RETPage Ii, that would have been paid under the old contract. "An employee who currently has eight years seniority, for instance, would lose $4,492.80 over the three years of AATA's proposal compared to what his wage would have been with a continuation of the terms of the old con- tract," she said. Cecil Ursprung, AATA board chair- man, considers the union's wage demand as quite high. "We don't have the financial resources to meet a 33 per cent wage increase," he said. "We couldn't come up with that kind of money unless we tripled our fares and doubled the millage - and the com- munity wouldn't let that happen," he added. After spending over 200 hours at the bargaining table, Ursprung said the negotiating team is "optimistic," while Ettinger said she "sees no end in sight." Meanwhile, negotiators will meet again tomorrow while employees con- tinue to' picket-at the main AATA office.