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THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: LSA MASS MEETING PLANS
CREATION OF STUDENT UNION
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On Monday, the University
of
Michigan’s
Lecturers’
Employee
Organization
released
a
call
to
allies
for
support
against
the
administration’s
salary
proposal for lecturers.
The LEO is comprised of
lecturers from all three U-M
campuses.
Currently,
the
minimum salary for a full-
time lecturer is $34,500 in Ann
Arbor, $28,300 in Dearborn
and $27,300 in Flint. The LEO
has
been
bargaining
with
the University since October
for higher wages, better job
security and improved benefits.
On Monday night, in response
to initial requests from the
LEO, the University proposed a
$1,000 increase to the starting
salary in 2019, $750 in 2020 and
$500 in 2021. According to the
LEO statement, the University’s
proposal also included a 1.5
percent annual raise for Ann
Arbor
employees,
but
not
Dearborn or Flint lecturers.
“Our members are stunned,
insulted, and outraged,” the
LEO statement reads. “In the
past 14 years, Lecturers have
seen a 11 percent overall raise
in minimum salary. In that
same time period, tuition has
increased roughly 90 percent.”
According to the LEO press
release, the administration’s
proposal Monday night gave
the impression lecturers were
highly replaceable employees.
“Administration began their
proposal by telling us that
Lecturers
cannot
complain
about
this
exploitation
because with the current job
market, they are more or less
disposable,”
the
statement
reads.
In response to the proposal,
the LEO is staging a grade-in
before the University Board
of Regents meeting on Feb. 15.
The LEO plans on speaking
at the meeting as well and is
calling for students, faculty
and community members to
show support for the LEO
by attending the grade-in,
joining their action listserv
and spreading the word.
By Chris Steele
At a mass meeting on language
requirements last night students
voted to establish a literary college
student union and to stage a boycott
if the faculty takes unfavorable
action on the language requirement
at its next meeting, March 3.
A call for a disruption sit in in
Dean William Hay’s office today
was approved on a first vote, but
was reconstructed and defeated at
the request of its sponsor, Radical
Caucus, because it failed to gather a
large enough vote.
The motion for the student union
was made by Daily Editor Mark
Levin. He called for a referendum
on the language requirement to be
held in the next two weeks.
In making his proposal Level
called a disruptive sit-in a “very
ineffective tactic” which would
not bring effective “pressure on
faculty members/” A disruptive sit-
in would only result in suspensions
and arrests, he said.
Several Radical Caucus members
voiced objection to the student
union proposal. Eric Chester, Grad,
said “It’s a stall.” He conceded the
disruptive sit-in might fail but the
real question was “intimidation.”
“Are we going to let the legislature
and the faculty intimidate us?” he
asked.
Parliamentary action followed
in which an unsuccessful attempt
was made to combine Levin’s
proposal with the Radical Caucus
sponsored sit-in. Levin’s proposal
was eventually passed by a vote 105
to 96.
A
short
discussion
of
the
implementation of Levin’s motion
followed the one hour debate on the
major proposals from Levin, Radical
Caucus and another student.
The
meeting
named
three
students to recommend members
of a provisional steering committee
which would organize the student
union. The three students are
Radical Caucus chairman Marty
McLaughlin, Ron Landsman, ‘70,
and Bill Bleich, ‘69.
The motion for the disruptive
sit-in was introduced by Bernard
Elbaum, ‘71, a Radical Cacaus
member. His motion called for a
sit-in in the LSA building to begin
at 1 p.m. today. Students sitting-in
would have locked all doors and
remained in the building until the
language requirement was abolish.
The Radical Caucus motion was
passed by a vote of 114 to 86, but was
later withdrawn.
McLaughlin moved to reconsider
the motion and to defeat it because
there were not enough people to
support the sit-in.
Radical Caucus had previously
pledged to reconsider the motion
if there were not 200 people in
support.
The vote following McLaughlin’s
motion
was
overwhelmingly
against the disruptive sit-in.
Debate on how to arrange
the referendum on the language
requirements failed to reach any
definite conclusion.
MAEVE O’BRIAN
Daily Staff Reporter
News
Administration began their
proposal by telling us that
Lecturers cannot complain about
this exploitation because with
the current job market, they are
more or less disposable
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Lecturers’ Employee Organization
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