The Daily Egyptian, May 02, 1984

Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC May 1984 Daily Egyptian 1984 5-2-1984 The aiD ly Egyptian, May 02, 1984 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_May1984 Volume 69, Issue 149 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, May 02, 1984." (May 1984). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1984 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in May 1984 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 50 civil service workers stage ,valkout Worhers want benefit.ff during layoffs By John Racine benefits during tile often long periods Staff Writer they are laid off. Broadnax said that the workers are Civil service wor~ers from both East laid off during holiday breaks and for Campus cafeteria I staged a :ID-minute three months in the sum;ner - from walkout at noon Tuesday to tell ad May 14 to Aug. 20 - but are not eligible ministrators the~, w~.nt a !;:troDger voice to receive unemployment. :n upcoming contrad talb. Rindla said that the state, along with Sharon Broadnax, president of Local the federal government, changed its 878 of the American Federation of policy concerning unemployment State. County and IILmicipal Em crmpensation last summer. ployees, charged that in recent yens "The Universi!:) had nothing to do the University has turned a deaf ear on with it," he said. the needs of its 125 food service em Workers are now being laid off with ployees. 00 guaranteed source of income. About 50 workers walked off their "We are not asking to be laid off, they jobs in GriJUieH and Trueblood halls, are laying us off. We can hardly get most still ciressed in their white overtime anymore," Broadnax said. uniforms, and gathered outside She said that the University has not Trueblood to discuss what .bey want bfop" .. ble to guarantee jobs for workers out of the upcoming talks. displaced in the summer as it is sup Sam RlIIelia, director of University posed to. Rinella said that all 59 Housing, said that discussions of the workers who ha-..e applied for janitorial contract should be done at the positions have been hired for this negotiating table 1'.1d not in the parking summer. Staff Photo by Neville Loberg lot. He said that the union can dis.:uss Kathy Calbert, secretary vf Local any issue with the bargaining com 878, was one of the more vocal people Civil service workers gathered outs~de Trueblood Hall during a walkout. mittee. during the walk-out. She said that last "That is the poorest way to handle the summer the University hi~ others to didn't try to find any work for us," she ](lOger walkout before the school year situation,"RineIla said of the walkout. do grounds work instead of displaced said. ends. One leader said it was possible, Among the concerns listed by the Food Service workers. The union would give no solid in workers was the loss of unemployment "They laid us off last summer and dication of whether there n.ight be a See WALKOUT. Page 2 Graduate Council to address new Vaily C£gyptian engineering degree Southern Illinois University By John Stewart Guyon said SnJ-C received Stall Writer about $300,000 in state funding Wednesday. May 2. 1984, Vol. 69, Nt) 149 in 1983 for new engineering A resolutioll ~o approve a equipment to support un prOJloseO doctoral program in dergraduate engineering engineering sciences will be programs, which wouJd be used considered by the Graduate by the doctom} program. The 60 recruited to teachers·union Council on Thursday. engineering sciences program This will be the third attempt . prOposal asks only for money to Union orgunizer to esta:i>1ish a doctoral program. pay for admiaistration. (11tCUlty, in engineering at SIU-e, ac- graduate. assistants, civil --in9Pocus--------- solicits faculty cording tv Echol Cook, assistant serviCE and student employees. dean of the College of The program would begin 10 join federation Engineering ar,d Technology. with 10 studeniS in ks filst year The two p"evious att<;~o!pts, in and grow to 30 students by By .Jolla Stewart 1970 and 1975-76 failed to gain its fourth year, the proposal Staff Writer llIinms Board of Higher states. Between 50 to 65 percent Education approval because of the doctoral students could be S~U-C may have a collective SIU-C's faculty had not expected to be foreign bargaining representation published enough and because oath,nals. Cook said. The election as e2.~iy as next fall, "the timing just wasn't right," nationwide average Cor !J)reign says at. Illinois Federation of he said. doctoral students in Teachers union organizer who has begun recruiting members The G~.duate Council's new enginet'ring is 40 percent, the programs committee has proposal said. on campus. recommended plIssage of the Cook said 65 percent of SIU Victor Deboer, a field :;ervice director for the 1FT, said proposai, committee Chairman C's en~ineermg master's Tuesday that he has recruited Jam~ gvers said. sttxN!nts are ioreign, because But Coot. said that this time there just aren't enough 2bout 69 faculty members in the he's confident the proposal will last few w~··.~ks for the Car pass the Graduate Council and See PROGRAM, Page 2 bondale J.o·e1eration of University Teachers, the local ultimat~ly the mHE. A 66-page prOgram pro::;osal provides that 1FT affiliate. That brings the doctoral students begin at SlU CFtJT's membership uf to about 160, or about hal the C in August, 1986. The minimum needed to calJ for an proposal requests $436.000 in election to bring collective state funding over four years, --....... bargaining to SIU-C, he said. and based on CUlTt'"t projec ~ "U 1FT had 10 field serviC\; tions no institutional money representatives .1t SIU-C we'd would have to be used to begin or support the program, ac have 4()0 fIlembers t>y now," cording to John Guyon, vice '~i'_ Deboer said. He said he's talked president for academic aIlairs. to nearly 200 faculty members Guyon said the state has ._~ ~dy. and that t-is reception grante; SiU-C's requests for Staff Pboto by Sherry Chiseah:lU bas been good. He said about 70 new e~uipment for its un Gas say. they could call the DeW JacDa County State's AUorDeY Job R. Clem ODS cor,fen on a of the faculty members with dergra.juate program for the eagiDet.:-ing degree a Pb.i)E' - case in ~ ~nce in tile Cotr.lty courUlouse. Clem0P.8' poIiey 01 whom he's talked were still " Hi..! d R_ Ef "digesting" the information last two years, and he expects P ue .& &IIer aa ~......... - Umi&ed plea "'rg~i»iIlg iz ia ........, Pag~ 5. fldeaUy. L bu'n provided them, b'.lt he that money to continue. expects most of them to ultimately sign cards calling for an election. Polish May Day ,parade turns into protest The 1FT bas a proven track record, Deboer said, and this WARSAW - Riot polk: non, clubs anti teal' gas to break and g-Jt to within thri;8 yard!. of stopped talking among them- year it succes3fully won a swinging trurcheons t;harged up Solidaritol demonstrations. the ~.. iewin~ staoo. He then selves when they ~potted higher state appropriation for into a May Day parade in Western eorrelp<»ndents thrust up .-his band io Walesa. One senior police m- the Board of Governors schools Gdansk on Tuesday after Lech wit.'leSSed se It.ral dozt.'tI .vrests Solidarity's "V-for-victory" ficer on band turned and baorked from the legislature tba, what Walesa and bUndreds 01 SI.J!.' in Warsaw, Gdansk, WTllclaw, sigo while supporters unfurled orders to "ZOMO" riot Gov. Thomrsoo bad recom p)rters infiltrated the official S:ezecin, Nowa Huta and Solid..-ity banners lInd chanted troopers, wbo then charged tM meru!ed. The 1FT is the ex prOCt!£Sion, unfurled Solidarity CZestocbowa. There were· no union slogans under the noses of Solidarity group tm_ tima;, clusive bargaining agent for the h.9.llners and flashed "Ie tory immediate reports of injuries. Commldlist officials. the witnesses said. BOG schools: Eastern J1J.i~, signs at suprised. ~O'"'.Jlmuoist In Gdansk, where the banned Western reporten who : 'Walesa and his supporters Northeastern, Cbicaijo State officials. Solidarity labor union was witnessed the protest said were chased out of U18 parade. and Governor'. Stat~ In at least five other f'olish founded by Walesa,. he surprised oiliclals on the He disappee.red into the crowd . cities, police \ sed walel' c:an- petielrated the offieial parade revlewiog· stand abruptly and returoed to·bia· apartment.' 8eeUNION, h~'!: WALKOUT from Page 1 r---l\"ews Roundup-- but another said the workers would not be made. wewant more," Broaclnax said. House OKs edUClllhm funding bill did not want to hurt the students Calbert agreed with the "We haven't had a s~'bstantial SPHINGFIELD, III. (AP) - A prorosed constitutional th~y help feed. proposal to Colt the work week pay raise in a few years." amendment that would require the sla,,, to pay haif the cost of Calbert protested a proposal from 40 to 37.S hours and to give The prevailing attitude of the to cut one cook from the staffs public education was app;-oved Tuesday by the Illinois House. an across-the-board pay in- workers toward University But opponents argued that approval of the amendment could at Grinnell.

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