The Michigan Daily-Thursday, July 10, 1980-Page 3 Local Scene AATA strik ers stage rally__ Bargaining leaders make no progress By ELAINE RIDEOUT Shouting slogans including "We want a contract," approximately 100 demon- strators-members and supporters of the striking Transportation Employees Union (TEU), rallied at city hall yesterday on the ninth day of the bus employees' strike. But hopes for a quick resolution ap- peared bleak as negotiations bogged down for the second time since the strike began June 30. NEGOTIATORS FOR the TEU and the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority (AATA) met yesterday at 2 p.m., but according to Cecil Ursprung, chairman of the AATA board of direc- tors, the union "didn't have anything new to propose." "I'm disappointed that we're not making much progress," said Ur- Wsprung. "Nothing happened at all," said Shelly Ettinger, vice president of TEU. But, she said she considered the rally to have been more constructive. "We got the message out to AATA that we're not alone and that our demands are not unreasonable," she said. DEMONSTRATORS, BEARING signs reading "Stop Union Busting," "We Want Day Care," and "No Con- tract, No Work For AATA," slogged down Main St. in the pouring rain to City Hall where they were met by speakers from other unions who offered their support.- John Sokolow of the Committee Against Registration for the Draft (CARD) expressed the full support of his organization. UAW representative Arlene Brown told the spirited crowd, "Don't let them take away from you what we all have worked so hard to get-we offer you our support." "THERE IS A conspiracy afoot to put working people down in a time of distress," said former TEU president Steve McCargar. "What's happening here is an attempt to break this union." According to Ettinger, the morning rally served to revive sagging spirits, reiterate union goals, and promote publicity for the union cause. But Ursprung said he was disappoin- ted the workers were at city hall rather than at the bargaining table. URSPRUNG ADDED that the union was expected to come up with the next proposal because AATA management was the last to make an offer. "Our 28 per cent wage increase over the next three years was the last offer made before the contract expired at midnight nine days ago," explained Ur- sprung. "Their's was 34 per cent the first year and 33 per cent the year following." Ursprung said the management is See STRIKING, Page 0 Dully Photoby DAVID HARRIS STRIKING TRANSPORTATION,- EMPLOYEES picket Ann Arbor City Hall yesterday. About 100 employees participated in the rally. Talks, however, bogged down for the second time since the strike began June 30. Questions albout contract termination rules By HOWARD WITT Under often painstaking cross- Speciai toheDaily examination by Vercruysse, Marwil at DETROIT - Whether or not Sir one point conceded that his rights would Francis Bacon was a true scientist was not have been violated had his reap- the subject of some question yesterday pointment to the University been during cross-examination of Jonathan reviewed in 1978 by an ad hoc depar- Marwil in federal district court here. tmental committee: The issue surfaced as University At- MARWIL AGREED that a review of torney Robert Vercruysse was attem- his reappointment by an ad hoc com- pting to establish the quality of Mar- wil's scholarship - including a book about Bacon - during his six years as an assistant professor in the engineering humanities department. MARWIL, WHO has been off the University payroll since May 31, 1979, is suing the Regents and three members of the humanities department, claiming his constitutional rights were violated mittee - instead of the review he ac- and he was unjustly denied an impar- tually received from the department's tial review by an ad hoc departmental administrative committee - would committee of his qualifications . to have upheld his rights, even if the receive tenure. decision reached were not to reappoint The former assistant professor is him. seeking either reinstatement to the The members of the administrative faculty pending a tenure review or committee who conducted the reap- damages from the three department pointment review in May, 1978 are the members that could reach $1.1 million. same men Marwil is now suing - surface humanities department chairman J. C. Mathes and Engineering Profs. Ralph Loomis and Dwight Stevenson. Marwil has claimed the three defen- dants sidestepped College and depar- tment procedures in deciding not to renew his contract because he had op- posed several departmental policies. MUCH OF Vercruysse's cross- examination yesterday was devoted to establishing Marwil's understanding of department, College, and University rules regarding notification of the ter- mination of a contract. It is the University's contentipn that proper procedures were followed in Marwil's termination, despite Marwil's claim that four departmental and College policy documents led him to believe tenure-track faculty members in their sixth year of employment automatically receive tenure reviews. Marwil explained that prior to 1978, he had not been aware of a rule in the University's Standard Practice Guide that a non-tenured professor must be notified no later than two weeks into See CONTRACT, Page 11 ..rte. epdmolg tPayne- dead at 54 Dr. Francis Payne, 54, professor of Medical School in 1953 and came to the University epidemiology at the School of Public Health, died in 1955 on a post-doctoral fellowship. Monday at University Hospital after a brief PRIOR TO his illness, Payne was researching illness. the possible relationship between measles and Born in Bellflower, California, Payne did his multiple sclerosis under a National Institute of undergraduate work at the University of Califor- Health grant. nia at Berkeley, and also received his Master's Payne is survived by his wife Anita of Ann Ar- Degree there. He graduated from Stanford bor, and son Gregory and daughter Teresa. ._._._ v