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VOLl ME 82 NUMBER S
An All-American Publication
Friday, October 10, 1986
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USF Negotiator
Fires Back
iijs Highlights Case Before Senate
By JIM Kl'NKEL
"Unions have rights. We are not out to bust the union,"
stated Dan Julius, Associate Vice President for Labor Rela-
ions at Tuesday night's student senate meeting.
In his appearance before the As-
(KJied Student legislative body.
uh lis touched on a broad number
it issues that in his view define
«hy we are where we are" regarding the as-yet unsettled con-
ract with the University of San
rancisco Faculty Association
ISFFA).
There are four primary issues." he explained: grievance,
conscientious objection, summer
••ession/intersession rate of pay,
and contract duration.
Simple Yet Complex
Slating that grievance (the procedure by which a laid-off faculty
member instigates union action to
protest the lay-off to an outside
arbitrator, who makes the final
determination as to the legitimacy
nfthe lay-off) "is in some respects
fte most simple and in others, the
most complex," Julius charged
'hat "the Union seeks a change in
•he current meaning of the language."
Essentially, what the Union is
s-jying is that the language gives
'hem the right to take to an arbitrator any decision made by the
trustees which would result in
ay-off."
According to Julius, the Union
is "contending that we replace the
trustees with a board of arbitrators.
The trustees have a right to determine whether or not to curtail or
augment the curriculum."
Responding to USFFA assertions that university proposals
would restrict the laid-off faculty
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member's opportunity to obligate
the administration to approve its
economic case, Julius highlighted
his last offer to the USFFA, stating
that "we will give reasons to the
faculty. We will meet with the faculty, we will provide a rationale,
give information" regarding layoffs. "Secondly, we would be
willing, to arbitrate any issues concerning seniority, competency,
qualifications of faculty," said
Julius. What we're not willing to
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Eleven nursing professors were suspended a day
without pay Monday. October 6.
The eleven included Judith Barrett. Betty Curmak.
Frances Carter. Jane Vincent Corbett. Sr. Ellcne
Egan. Janet E/ralt. Eleanor Hein. Akemi Hiraki.
Jean Nicl olson. Marcia Stevens, and Ann Watkins.
The disciplining grew out of the refusal of lhe
eleven to attend a curriculum meeting with Dean Fay
Bower on Monday. September 29.
According to the University of San Francisco
Faculty Association (I'SFFAJ, as a result of the
faculty resolution adopted September 3 (85-3 with
two abstentions), faculty are not required lo perform
voluntary services. In t.ieir view, this meeting was
filled by lhe faculty and was a voluntary activity. As
such, they were obligated nol to attend.
However, Daniel Julius. Association Vice President For l^ibor Relations, asserted that "This was
clearly not voluntary. This was a routine meeting
they always to go. They go back five years. "
In his view, lhe nurses' attendance at a union
meeting, held at the same time as the curriculum
meeting. was "insubordination. When a dean cails a
meeting, and the fact Ity doesn't show up. they are
engaging in insubordination and a possible work
stoppage." To Julius, this meeting was pan of their
customary duties to be performed in absence of a
contract.
Wally Montemayor. senior nursing major, viewed
the boycott ofthe dean's meeting as a demonstration
ofthe professors" cohesiveness. "The taculty feels
threatened about Dean Bower's push for certain,
specific requirements the faculty must have."
Dean Bower referred all questions to Julius. The
eleven suspended faculty members did not return
Foghorn phone calls.
Each suspended professor plans to tile a giie vance
against the administration. As well, the I'SFFA
plans to initiate grievance procedures.
Neighborhood PreferenceThreatens Parking
By BRANDON GOVERN
If you think parking is a pro-
biem now, it's going to get worse
'n the immediate future."
So says Joseph Costello, Diree-
*•••" of the Department of Public
Safety. His worry stems from a
^eral-year long neighborhood
struggle to develop a preferential
re**idential parking system.
Neighborhood Discontent
After a three-year battle, the Allied Neighborhood Association,
uPset about the lack of parking
sPace for themselves and visitors.
succeeded in forcing the City Office of Public Works to conduct a
survey into residential parking restriction.
Executed last semester, the survey noted license plate numbers
and checked car owners' addresses
with the Department of Motor
Vehicles' computer. The City determined that during an average
day, 95% of the cars parked on
Ignatian Heights had owners who
did not reside in the neighborhood.
The Office of Public Works
plans to mail out questionnaires to
area residents as a follow-up to the
survey. The responses to this investigation, a detailed analysis of
neighborhood responses to preferential parking, will be tabulated,
with results available by the end of
November.
Contingent on positive feedback, the office will recommend to
the City Board of Supervisors that
from Monday through Friday, 8:00
a.m. to 8:00 p.m., non-residents
will be allowed to park for two
hours (sources from within City
Hall state that some neighborhood
officials have been pushing for a
one-hour limit). Such action will
probably take place in March of
next year.
"It's only a matter of time,"
asserted Ted Thompson, member
of the neighborhood association.
Ignatian Heights residents will receive a sticker to affix to their car;
USF commuter students will not.
On sides of streets adjacent to
neighborhood houses, preference
will prevail; on side streets adjacent to the University the current
practice of "First Come, First
Served" will continue (see map,
page 3).
Will USF Protest?
Thompson believes that no objections from the University to this
new plan shall be forthcoming. In
his view the Association and USF
"are on very good relations."
ASUSF Commuter Chairperson
Tyrenda Dixon stated that "it
would be too early to determine if
the Associated Students would
fight" the neighborhood associations before the Board of Supervisors.
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