Union Accuses the Chancellor's Office of Unfair Labor Practice in Pay
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Spartan Daily Volume 75, Number 15 Serving San Jose State University Since 1934 Monday, September 22, 1980 Union accuses the Chancellor's Office of unfair labor practice in pay scheme by Tom Mays to the CSUC board of trustees, The Congress of Faculty passed a resolution this week in- Associations I CFA 1, has filed an structing senate Chairman Bob unfair labor practice charge against Kully to request that the trustees the California State Universities and return the proposed pay scheme to Colleges ( CSUC) system Chan- the chancellor. cellor's Office for proposing a new The chancellor would then be CSUC faculty pay scheme without instructed to consult the statewide consulting the statewide Academic 1. Academic Senate, the local Senate or employee organizations. sit academic senates of the CSUC The plan, which was proposed campuses and appropriate faculty on Sept. 10, was developed in secret, representatives regarding the need according to CFA president Bill for such a proposal, according to Crist, professor of labor economics Ken Simms, administrative at California State University, assistant to the statewide Academic Stanisla us. Senate. Because of the secrecy, the CFA The new pay scheme has been union charged that it was denied the added as an information item to the rights guaranteed under the Higher agenda of the Sept. 23-24 board of Education Employer-Employee trustees meeting. Relations Act. The United Professors of The unfair practice charge California ( UPC) does not plan to states that prior consultation with file unfair labor practice charges at the academic senate and/or em- this time. ployee organizations on such After a recent faculty affairs matters "has been the consistent committee meeting, UPC President past practice of the CSUC since its Warren Kessler informed com- inception." mittee members that UPC would not President Carter will be in San Jose tomorrow. Robert Kyndell, acting vice file charges unless the proposal is chancellor of CSUC, said that the adopted by the trustees. Academic Senate was consulted on But CFA's Crist said it would be the new proposal last week. a mistake to wait until the board Carter set to convene "This new plan allows the moves on the issue. faculty in each rank to go as much as The present pay schedule in the 15 percent higher in pay than they CSUC system is based on a step with local politicians would have in the top of the present advance system, according to Crist. system," he said. Within each faculty rank President Carter will make a short campaign stop in San Jose tomorrow "This would allow us a more ( lecturer, assistant professor, full morning. The visit is designed primarily to bolster Carter support in the Bay flexible salary schedule," he said. professor), there is a five-step ad- Area, where Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is expected "Because of the difficulty in vance system whereby faculty to win. finding qualified faculty, and to members move up in rank and pay. Air Force One from Los Angeles is sciieduled to touch down at San Jose comr,ete with other school The new pay schedule proposal Municipal Airport at 9:15 a.m. at Gate 22. It will be a closed arrival, meaning systems," he said, "we realized that would triple the number of existing the press only will be allowed in the area. we needed a revision of the present steps, Crist said. Carter will then leave at 9:30 a.m. and proceed to San Jose City Hall salary schedule." Therefore, each instructor where he will meet with Mayor Janet Gray Hayes and Bay Area Dr. Robert Kully, chairman of would now have to move up 15 steps congressmen. He will also meet with local conservation officials and discuss the statewide Academic Senate, said in order to obtain the same rank and ways to improve the environment. that this prorosal would "entail pay rate provided by the present At approximately 10:05, the president will go into the courtyard directly massive damage and pose serious five-step system. threats to education." The new proposal would also behind the mayor's office and review the conservation displays. photo by Sal Bromberger After discussing and reviewing the displays with the mayor, Carter will He added that the Academic decrease the salary differential - in local chapter president of the United proceed outside City Hall to speak to the crowd for five minutes and shake Senate was never informed officially Wiggsey Sivertsen, this case, a yearly facuity pay in- hands. The speech will take place at about 10:30. and that the entire group first heard Professors of California, discusses proposed salary scheme. crease - from 5 percent to 2.5 per- After the speech, the president will head back to San Jose Airport, where of the proposal last week. cent, according to Crist. he will fly to Portland, Ore., and Tacoma, Wash., to continue his campaign "Anything like this takes a discuss," he said. faculty members from the 19-cam- Another provision of the swing. considerable amount of time to The Academic Senate, a body of pus CSUC which recommends policy -continued on back page A.S. business manager questioned Downtown area focus on authority to give clerical pay hikes of committee's review by Mary Washburn SJSU President Gail Fullerton, Union High School District board of by Stephen D. Stroth However, Lenart, using a stipulation of Title crease. "The board h2s to approve budget political science Professor Terry trustees, the committee is "not A non-budgeted salary increase for the two V of the California Education Code, granted an amendments," Christensen and Housing Director really at this point defining the members of the Associated Students clerical increase of the clerical staff salary that was "It is a budget amendment," said Fil, Cordell Koland have been named to limits of the study downtown." staff has sparked some question as to the "comparable" to that of state employees per- "there's no doubt about it. the Downtown Working Review However, according to authority of the A.S. business manager, ac- forming the same function. "She went beyond her authority in granting Committee organized this summer Christensen, the committee has cording to A.S. board member and former A.S. However, because the funds do not exist in the salary increase without the approval of the by Mayor Janet Gray Hayes and generally adopted the city Planning president Nancy McFadden. the A.S. budget for this year, Lenart will be board," he said. Assistant City Manager Frank Department's definition of the The A.S. Business Office and the A.S. asking for $990 in compensatory funds from the Fil said that the issue is a question of "who's Taylor. downtown core for the focus of its clerical personnel were budgeted for a 7 percent special allocations committee of the A.S. board boss," which is very important for the newly The 38-member committee, study. salary increase for this year. on Monday for the 2.75 percent, unbudgeted formed A.S. board. comprised of business and com- The Planning Department During the summer, the California state increase in clerical salaries. "Who is in atthority is very important in the munity leaders appointed by the defines the downtown as being a 9.75 percent salary employees were granted successful operation of this ( A.S. office," Fil mayor, has been asked to provide a bordered by Guadalupe Parkway on increase by the State Legislature. "My concern is not the salary increase," McFadden said, "but the process." said. master plan for further development the west, Fourth Street on the east, According to McFadden, A.S. Business and restoration in the downtown Julian Street on the north and McFadden said that she felt any decision McFadden said that she was content to let In- Office Manager Jean Lenart "had the flexibility core area. terstate Highway 280 on the south. involving the adjustment of salaries should be the issue pass without further argument. But, of reserve funds" to cover the expense of the The committee was divided into Christensen acknowledged, the decision of the AS. board of directors and not she said, next year she will ask for a stipulation Business Office staff's salary increase but not five sub-committees ( social issues, though, that the sub-committees the business manager. in the budget that all salary incivases should be will that of the members of the A.S. clerical staff - housing, historic preservation and try to integrate their proposals made by the board alone. for A.S. secretary Carol Whaley and Programs "Jean is our ( the board of directors em- zoning, economic feasiblility and the the downtown with its surroundings. Board secretary Kuni Capps. ployee," McFadden said. "I think that it's an "The basic question here," she said, -is the San Antonio and Convention Center Koland said there was a 'strong Lenart compensated for the increase for the assumption that the employer make those line of authority. I think the board has to realize projects, and parking and tran- understanding" among the mem- employees in her own office by using money decisions. that she (Lenart) is still an employee of the sportation) to which the members bers of his sub-committee that the from a non-reverting fund of the A.S. business "It's almost a budget amendment," Mc- organization." were assigned. university was a part of the down- office, according to A.S. Controller Tom Fil. Fadden said of the I,enart-approved salary in- -continued on page 3 According to Chairman Frank town. Fiscalini, chairman of the East Side -continued on page 3 Separate smoking sections initiative gets campus boost by Anne Papineau was a matter of the tobacco industry calling smoke an Members of the SJSU "Students for Smoking and No irritant - like somebody picking his nose in public or not Smoking Sections (Yes on Prop.