2A —Wednesday, February 14, 2018 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com FRIDAY: Behind the Story WEDNESDAY: This Week in History MONDAY: Looking at the Numbers THURSDAY: Twitter Talk TUESDAY: By Design Photo by Molly Stevens THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: LSA MASS MEETING PLANS CREATION OF STUDENT UNION LOVE BUG puzzle by sudokusyndication.com 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. 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