The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, July 29, 1980-Page 3
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TEU rejects
resoundingly
AATA's final
contract offer

By ELAINE RIDEOUT
Negotiations between striking bus
drivers and the Ann Arbor Transpor-
tation Authority were forced back to the
drawing board Sunday night as mem-
bers of the Transportation Employees
Union voted 112-18 to reject AATA's
final offer.
"It doesn't look good when after four
weeks of negotiations the union rejects
the employer's final offer,"' said
Thomas Badoud, state mediator of the
bargaining talks.
UNION VICE President Shelly Et-
tinger said the union considered several
non-economic terms of the proposed
contract "unacceptable." She said
union officers unanimously urged
members to vote against ratification.
"We couldn't retain a clear conscience
and recommend going back (to work),"
she said.
Ettinger said union members voted
with a "real clear understanding" of
their actions. "We knew that by rejec-
ting their (AATA's) offer it meant
staying out a long time," she said. "I
think they mean what they say," she
added.
Richard Simonetta, director of AATA
said the union will find out "just how
serious we really are." He reiterated

his claim that the Authority has nothing
more to offer TEU.
AT STAKE, Simonetta contends, is
maintaining and increasing company
productivity.
According to Ettinger, a loss of union
protections in several areas prompted
members to reject the proposed con-
tract. Most important, she said, were
unreasonable sick leave and absentee
policies, and take-backs in joint union-
management officers and committees.
"We had mixed reactions to their
wage proposal," Ettinger said. "Had
we been offered a decent compromise,
we would have been a lot more willing
to take a serious look at it."
STATE MEDIATOR Badoud said
AATA realized it was taking away some
of the old contract's former union
privileges and tried to compensate by
offerin TEU more money than is nor-
mally offered for the first year.
"Management claims provisions of ab-
senteeism and worker's compensations
were abused," he said. "They're trying
to rectify what was wrong with the
previous contract."
Badoud said the strike will continue
for as long as it takes for someone to
See STRIKE, Page 7

Doiy Photoby JIMRU
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Two towheads tinker with the fountain located between Michigan Union and
the LSA building yesterday during a brief respite from the rain.


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Art Fair visitors consume stunning amounts of food

EATERY

ART FAIR SALES (EST.)

Bagel Factory (1306 S. University) 18,000 bagels
Burger King (520 E. Liberty) 5,000 Whoppers
Count of Antipasto (1140 S. University) 20,000 pizza slices
Dooley's (310 Maynard) 5,500 hot dogs
Drakes Sandwich Shop (709 N. University) 3,000 lime-aids
El Grecos (217 S. State) 2,400 gyros
Falafil Palace (629 E. University) 4,000 falafils
Miller's (1227 S. University) 14,000 ice cream cones
Olga's Kitchen (205 S. State) 3,000 "Original Olgas"
Orange Julius (1237 S. University) 4,000 Orange Julius'
Orient Express (342 S. State) 3,000 egg rolls
Second Chance (516 E. Liberty) 3,000 beers
Village Bell (1321 S. University) 3,600 hamburgers

By STEVE HOOK
"Believe me, it was incredible,"
sighed Jeff Boudin from the Miller's
Farms ice cream store yesterday. For
Boudin, and other employees of local
eateries, the four days of the Ann Arbor
Art Fair, which ended Saturday night,
were utter bedlam. Not only did the
300,000 plus visitors entertain
themselves perusing the arts and crafts
displays and listening to local
musicians, but they ate. No, they
gorged themselves from beginning to
end with unprecedented ferocity..
Even the food merchants, who had
been mounting their stocks for weeks
before the fair, were surprised by the
consumption. "We were going crazy
around here," said Nader Zarou of the
Falafil Palace. "I started losing track
of how much we were selling." And in
the words of Orient Express Manager
Lok Lau, "I dreamed Sunday night that

I was rolling eggrolls."
Although the coffers, and the
departed visitors, were stuffed at the
close of the annual fair-feast, an
atmosphere of resignation-if not total
exhaustion, prevailed Sunday and
yesterday among these merchants. At
least one enterprise, The Count of
Antipasto-Good Time Charley's, was
closed Sunday to give its beleagured
employees a brief rest-and reward.
Nearly all reported business as usual
yesterday, although the personnel
professed lingering fatigue.
The Daily asked some of these
campus-area proprieters, who found
themselvessparticularlysclose to the
fray, to estimate the sales of their
principle items during the Art Fair. To
many, this was a difficult, almost
impossible task. But from those who
could muster an approximation, here
are the results: