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MANCHFSTFR FOCUS BOLTON WEATHER GOP joins battle Mark Twain’s 150th Highway approval Cloudy, mild tonight; vs. new town plan will make you busy called premature showers on Saturday ... page 3 1 ... page 13 ... page 8 1 ... page 2 iianrkBtf r * UmliCrl/4ow Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Friday, Oct. 18, 1985 — Single copy: 25<t Athletic policy Personal Income Union workers for 9th-graders Seasonally adjusted annual rates in trillions of dollars. passes first test authorize strike By Susan Vaughn Herald Reporter at nursing home The state 'governing board for interscholastic athletics Thursday unanimously backed a rule well Street employees start at $6.50 an change sought by Manchester public school adminis­ Bv John F. Kirch Herald Reporter hour. District 1199 represents workers trators that will allow gifted ninth-grade athletes who at Meadows in addition to homes in attend junior high schools to play on high school Recently unionized workers of the Hartford and Bloomfield, officials said. teams, Manchester High School Principal Jacob Crestfield-Fenwood Nursing Home The union delivered the 10-day strike Ludes said today. voted 38-9 Thursday to walk off their notice to the home’s owners last week, The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Confer­ jobs next week if the owners of the home announcing a strike would take place ence Board of Control, which Ludes chairs, took an refuse to negotiate a contract with Monday if the owners did not begin advisory vote at its monthly meeting at CIAC them, a union official said today. negotiations. Owners responded with a letter to employees that said negotia­ headquarters in Hamden to modify an eligibility rule Illl Bill Meyerson, communications di­ tions would not take place because the which had prohibited the ninth-graders from playing rector for District 1199 of the New union does not represent the feelings of on high school teams if there was an interscholastic England Health Care Employees Un­ ion, which represents 85 nurses’ aides the workers. team in their sport at their school. mniiiiiiiii “ The ball is in their court," Meyerson and maintenance workers at the home, Ludes said the Board of Control will seek reaction said there was a good turnout at the said. ’’They’ve broken the law. All we from CIAC members before a final vote in November. union’s meeting, where a secret ballot want them to do is negotiate.” Fox said the strike would be a long Ludes said he expects the response to be positive and SONDJFMAM.JJAS vote was taken. that the amendment will be adopted. If it is approved, one and that the union could support 1984 1985 He said the union, authorized as the new rule will go into effect for the winter sports bargaining agent by a 46-40 vote in workers for as long as it takes. season. December, has the full support of the ■ Fox said the union will draw from its national strike reserve fund. Meyerson Ludes said the Thursday action was based on a employees. Meyerson said workers will and Fox said they did not know how proposal from Jack Hanley, chairman of the CIAC's begin to picket outside the home Monday morning if the home’s owners much money each worker will get, but Eligibility Revision Committee. Ludes said he said that workers facing tougher stepped down from the chair during the lengthy do not agree to negotiate. But one of the owners of the nursing financial situations will receive more discussion and vote on the issue to speak in fa vor of the UPl graphic honrie said this morning that the union benefits. change. does not have the full support of the Meyerson said the union will go to the The Manchester Board of Education sent a proposal The U.S. savings rate fell to the lowest level on record in workers and pointed to the low number public for contributions, too, and will to the CIAC earlier this week, with the backing of the September as consumer spending soared and personal income of people who voted for the strike as an set up a financial committee to oversee the allocation of funds. school administration, to change the rule because rose, the Commerce Department reported today. Personal example. some athletes in Manchester’s two three-year junior "W e have 91 people in that bargaining “ When we have this strike,” Fox said, Income rose 0.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of “ it’s going to be a major commitment high schools were not finding enough competition unit," said Holland Castleman, an $3.2 billion. attorney who is one of the home’s three from our union. I think we’ll win if the from area middle schools which go only to eighth workers stay together.” grade. The ruling also put some Manchester High owners. "Thirty-eight people voted for a strike — thirty-eight out of 91... Less Fox said 30 percent of the unionized School teams, such as the wrestling team, in a position than 50 percent." workers are women who run single- of having to forfeit matches because it did not have Castleman said the strike, If it takes parent househotds. enough light-weight wrestlers. Spending on the rise place, would be illegal. He said the Owners of the nursing home fUed a Besides Manchester’s, there are 11 other school union did not notify federal and state contingency plan with the state Health systems in Connecticut that have three-year junior mediators in time before it delivered a Department Oct. 16, outlining how they will take care of the patients at the high schools and high schools. 10-day strike notice to the owners last but income siuggish week. nursing home during a strike, said Ludes described the revision as a "permissive Castleman said the union must give 30 Cynthia Denne, chief of licensure at the action’ ’ which allows, but does not require, local days notice of a strike to the federal department. school districts to take advantage of the change. The Bv Martin Crutslnger Consumer debt now stands at an M ^iation and Conciliation Service and She would not give specifics of the local boards will be encouraged to set their own The Associated Press all-time high of 19 percent of disposable the state division of Mediation and plan, but said the department will policies governing the ninth-graders participation, income, topping the old peak of 17.8 Arbitration. review it to ensure it meets the based on the new guidelines, Ludes said. WASHINGTON — Consumer spend­ percent set in 1978. “ They failed to do that,” Castleman standards of public health codes. The amendment includes the restriction that a ing soared in September as Americans’ With this high a debt level and the big said. The union has filed another complaint ninth-grade student who is allowed to play on a high auto-buying spree continued, but per­ dip in the savings rate, many analysts The owners have filed a complaint with the NLRB in Hartford charging the school team cannot play on a junior high team during sonal income gains remained sluggish, are worried that consumer spending with the National Labor Relations owners have not agreed to negotiate the same season, Ludes said. But the student could the government reported today. could soon plummet, thus seriously Board in Hartford claiming that the with District 1199. return to a junior high team for another sport. The combination of heavy consumer endangering the recovery. strike would be illegal. Castleman said Workers claim the owners said they Ludes said Manchester got more than it sought purchases and weak income gains left The Reagan administration has been the owners have asked the NLRB to rule would negotiate with employees and the because the amended ruling is not as restrictive and the personal savings rate at the lowest counting on good gains in consumer on the matter immediately and he said union when it was certified. would allow all ninth-graders to play on high school level ever, 1.9 percent of disposable spending to pull the economy out of the he is expecting a decision today. Officials for the hJLRB could not be teams at the local board’s discretion. The school income, the Commerce Department doldrums. District 1199 was certified by the full reached to discuss either complaint. board’s appeal said it would be willing to accept the reported. The big surge in auto purchases in the labor board in Washington, D.C., CIAC's conditions for eligibility. The report showed that personal last two months helped to propel overall earlier this month. Union officials have Assistant Superintendent Wilson E. Deakin, who consumption spending jumped 1.2 per­ economic growth to an annual rate of 3.3 said the owners of the Vernon Street has been a strong backer of the rule change, said cent in September, matching the strong percent in the July-September quarter, nursing home are required by law to today he was pleased with the CIAC action. The key to August gain. / the government announced Thursday. Inside Today negotiate a contract with them. the new policy which will be drawn up soon, he said, The two big increases were the result But many analysts questioned Larry Fox, secretary-treasurer tor will be the junior high school principals. of heavy demand for new autos, spurred whether growth will now slump in the . District 1199, said workers wanted to Ludes also said the CIAC Board of Control approved by attractive cut-rate financing pack­ final three months of the year as much 24 pages, 4 sections negotiate with the owners for better another eligibility rule change ’Thursday that will ages offered by automakers.

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