The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, July 9,1980-Page 5 LEGISLATURE OKs RIGHT- TO-STRIKE MEASURE Milliken By BONNIE JURAN Gov. William Milliken is expected to veto a bill legalizing public employee strikes which was recently endorsed by the state House and Senate, according to legislative officials. Milliken is expected to act on the measure within a week, Milliken's legislative aide, Bill Long, said.. LONG POINTED to one of the bill's provisions, which allows courts to send the strike into binding arbitration, as a reason the governor. may quash the measure. Binding arbitration is currently used only in the case of a strike by police or firefighters, acci plained this is N "critical" that tt to work as quickl Long said he bh wish to negotiate ployees for a long it is not quite as return to workp ding arbitration would allow an agreement whi costly" to the em CITING THE 9,000 members Federation of Municipal Emp ikely ording to Long. He ex- Detroit, Lo ecause it is considered Young's opti hose employees return junction cou y as possible. tlement if th elieves employers may binding arbi with other public em- The mun: ger period of time since "another in imperative that they pact the bill promptly. But the bin- added. clause, he continued, AFSCMEl arbitrator to reach an Newman sa ch could be "quite bitration is ployer. get a fair set current walk-out of "PEOPLE of the American negotiate fo State, County and but if they c loyees (AFSCME) in the table," t of binding ar to veto bill ng said Mayor Coleman these rights. on of requesting a court in- IN ADDITION, Long said Milliken ld lead to an expensive set- disagrees with the bill's provision to ex- e strike was ended through tend the school year ten calendar days tration. as a result of a strike by teachers. The icipal workers' strike is governor believes the school year dication of how much im- should only be lengthened five days in can have on the city," he the event of a strike. according to the aide. local 1583 President Dwight John Lamberts, executive assistant id he believes binding ar- to state Sen. Robert VanderLaan (R- "the one way that you can Kentwood), who is an opponent of the tlement." bill, said he would be "very surprised" (INVOLVED in a strike) if the state House and Senate overrode r a reasonable settlement, the governor's expected veto. an't reach an agreement at Citing the fact that botr chambers hey must accept the results need a two-thirds majority to override bitration, he said. the veto, Lamberts said he "didn't see to Long, the governor is any possibility" of getting that number ed to the bill's narrow of votes. Lamberts added the House f supervisor. As the bill and Senate needed only a "simple continued, some workers majority to pass the measure initially. esently considered super- Lamberts said he believes that if e re-labeled as employees, proponents of the bill decide to re- d the right to organize and introduce the measure in revised form, ectively. they probably will not do so until next Drs are currently denied year. Party files suit to amend state ballot laws (ACLU) Funds of Michigan said he will By ELAINE RIDEOUT ask that Secretary of State Richard Former Ann Arbor Mayor Robert Austin be ordered to place the Citizens Harris was scheduled to file suit in party on the November ballot. Washtenaw County Circuit Court this The party has adopted a platform morning on behalf of the Citizens party calling, for public control of energy to contend the costitutionality of resources, a job for everyone, human Michigan's ballot access law. rights, and a reduction in military The suit claims the McCullough Act spending. Said Commoner, "The large (Michigan Public Act 94 of 1976) amount of non-participation we see severely restricts the rights of minor today is because the people of this coun- parties to participate in general elec- try have literally rejected the two main tions for local, state, and federal of- parties as being unable to represent fices, and that the statute discriminates them." Pin favor of the. Republican and Democratic parties. ACCORDING TO Enid Eckstein, Coordinator of the Michigan Citizens Party, the law requires all minor par- ties to win .3 per cent of the total votes cast in the August primary to qualify for the November ballot. "Michigan is SUNJUNS' the only state with this strange two- desk to disc stage requirement," she said. "A minor A rhythmic party must get a certain-percentage as well as fulfill the existing petition requirement - that's why we believe the law is extremely restrictive." The Citizens Party submitted 30,000 signatures to the secretary of state's of- fice last May, which, she said, should be -sufficient to qualify the party for the November general elections. According to Eckstein, the Mc- Cullough Act was enacted solely to prevent there being more parties on the ballot than could be accommodated on a single voting machine, especially in large cities like Detroit. Since then, Detroit has adopted punch card voting. THE PLAINTIFFS of the suit include Barry Commoner, the Citizens party candidate for president. Also named as plaintiffs are Zolton Ferency, a former candidate for governor, Mark Robin- son, state co-chair of the Citizens party, and Tommie Suber, a resident of the 13th congressional district. Robinson explained why the Mc- Cullough Act discriminates against minor parties. "In 1976, the first elec- tion since its passage; not one minor party qualified for the November elec- tions. In every election in this century prior to 1976,' Michigan voters have been able to choose among an average of six parties. It's obvious this law restricts the citizen's political choices," he said. Suber complained that in voting for a minor party, a voter is disqualified from participating in the Republican or 529 E. LIBERTY Democratic primaries. ANN ARBOR Harris, serving as volunteer attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union According also oppos definition o stands, heo who are pr visors will b thus granted bargain coll Superviso ENERQY. We can't afford. to waste it mid-heel fashion notes go from .o without missing a beat. blend of style and comfort. Only by Bass'. SUNJUNS. MasterCharge and VISA honored Hours: M-F 9:30-8:00 SAT 9:30-6:00