'·'GSU Not Dead"-Members 12 Different Sundry Items That the ALRB Was Created to Run Students Might Purchase at Union Elections on California
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·Farm Board CalPIRG Says Loses Funds; Bookstore Stri ke Looms Overprices Because of the suspension early by James G. Soto this week of California's historic City Editor Agricultural Labor Relations Act, Sundry and convenience goods at United Farm Workers (UFW) UC San Diego and other local President Caesar Chavez has campus bookstores are .' announced that the UFW will significantly higher priced than reactivate the strike and boycott they are at privately owned chain activities which brought picketing, Chancellor M cElroy presented the new ·UC San Diego I.ogo to t he Board of O.versee.rs at stores, according to a recent chanting demonstrators to the its meeting Wednesday. The logo, designed .by San Diego ar::lst Robert Penne, Will be survey by the San Diego CaIPIRG. used in a variety of ways, including publications, bookstore Items, campus signs and campus last spring. Cal PIRG's survey, conducted by parking stickers. k Susan Sayler, on Jan. 19 The suspension of the act, which Perine said of the logo: " The configuration is suggestive of a ~abynnth, a small net:-",or" made possible over 400 union of organized spaces not unlike a school, where one moves about In quest of an e~ucatlon ., discovered that the UCSD elections on California ranches and The logo cost " just under $400," according to Dagmar Grimm, who works In UCSD s bookstore charges 15.3 percent farms, is the result of a stalemate public affairs office. more for convenience and sundry between Gov. Brown and the items than a Woolworth chain committee responsible for funding store. the newly formed Agricultural The survey compared prices on Labor Relations Board (ALRB). '·'GSU Not Dead"-Members 12 different sundry items that The ALRB was created to run students might purchase at union elections on California . bookstores. Woolworth's depar ranches; it used up its first year Seek Organizing On State Level tment store was used as the base budget of $1.3 million in only five for comparison and bookstores at by Mark Stadler . tuition waivers for all graduate <?ne majo~ union go~l . will ~ to months. Grossmont Community College, New Editor students, 50 percent teaching gam collective barga~1Og :lghts San Diego State, University of San No More Funds " The union is definitely not assistant compensation for all grad for state employees, Sm1th sa1d. A majority of the growers and Diego and UCSD. dead," Graduate Student Union students and year-long contracts W~rk to R~e legislators which make up the Sayler's survey showed that San (GSU ) member Cory Smith signed the year before. After the strike v~~ 10 Januar;;: Diego State's bookstore is the least ALRB's funding organization, the maintained at a news conference Agreements on the latter two the GSU adopted a . work-ta-rule Board of Food and Agriculture, expensive campus bookstore in the Tuesday afternoon. h~ve been worked out in strategy, under which a TA. wor~ have refused to appropriate fur community though it is still 6.5 Fellow member Gregg Robinson negotiations between ad- only a~ many hours as h.e is pa1d percent higher than Woolworth's. ther funds unless the controversial affirmed this statement, saying ministration and union. for . Smce T As are pald for a USD and Grossmont have the board is amended to make it more that as long as graduate students Those negotiations ended in maxlmum of 20 hours a week, they acceptable to the growers. The highest prices. need protection from unfair ad- January, just before the ~SU v?t~d would work only th~t many hours. growers' demands include Buying Power ministration practices, the GSU to postpone a scheduled mdef10lte The st~~tegy behmd work-to-rule restriction of the board's "access UCSD Bookstore manager will be alive. strike. No new date has been set. was to ~~y bare the amount~ of ru le, II which allows union Robert Meyers, said that the The issues that birthed the GSU In the past month, the GSU has ove~work ':fAs contend wlth, organizers and representatives to discrepancy between UCSD and are still alive, Robinson added, and been active, but less visible, Smith Ro~1Oson sald. He added that, enter the fields and talk to Woolworth's prices is the dif they are " the guts ofthe union." said Tuesday. It has been while the .strategy has alrea~y workers. ference between "the buying Static Class Size redirecting its efforts in two s~own a falr amo.unt of ef.fect, lt Brown has refused to renegotiate power of a large chain like Those issues are addressed by directions : solving specific wlll dem?nst~ate lts effecbveness the ALRB "with the gun to the Woolworth's and a small operation the GSU in its four demands, which problems within separate most d~1O g fma.ls week, when TAs head," and said that he will not likeUCSD." were formulated at its inception departments and organizing t~eorebcally wlll turn over . all revamp the program in order to Chain stores offer loss leaders on last spring. These include: no statewide with other UC em- fmal~ to ~he professors for gradmg. secure additional funding. " I don't popular items in order to draw increase in class size fee and ployees. Un.lOrr members have e~- th ink the law is perfect and I'd like , phaslZed that work-ta-rule 1S people into their stores, Meyers to look at possible changes in the merely a means for effective said. A loss leader is a low priced future, but I don't think holding preparation leading to a strike if item which is often sold for less hostage a budget item is realistic conditions have not been alleviated than cost in order to attract or appropriate," he told reporters. to the GSU's satisfaction. customers Chavez called it "a day of in Although union member When the bookstore was first famy," and said that the UFW had Mariana Marin said Tuesday " it is opened, items such as razor no choice but to revert to the very probable" that a strike date blades, aspirin, and cosmetics strikes and boycotts which have will be set, discussion of a strike is were placed on sale as convenience plagued California agriculture in not on Thursday's agenda. items for UCSD students according recent years. One of the steps union members to Meyers. " Our prices were The UFW has been much less originally as high as a local 7-11 consider vital toward preparation store might be," he said. vocal in its protest against growers for a strike is union affiliation. Last since the enactment of the ALRB November the GSU rejected The UCSD bookstore used a iocal last August. Since then the UFW membership of the Association of " jobber' (wholesaler) who usually has won 198 union elections, and its Federal, State, County and. used the manufacturer's suggested rivals, the Teamsters, 114. Municipal employees (AFSCME ) list price as a guideline for prices. Barring resolution of the con by a narrow margin. Meyers aid that three years ago UCSD was able to put together an flict, elections cannot be reswned Graduate Student Union member Gregg Robinson, on Another union affiliation vote is organization with other bookstores until July, when the new fiscal right, shown here with David Gartman at a meeting last currently in progress, through next so that prices were reduced. budget is adopted. Nove mber. (TT photo: Nathan Meyers) Friday. Though UCSD's prices are high, Active in all Levels The three union members the bookstore has not been able to Special Issue present Tuesday said they hoped find a jobber with lower than Council Votes Itself AFSCME would be chosen to existing prices. " We are not abl.e to The Triton Times plans a special compete with a national chain like issue on the concept of a university represent the GSU . One reason for this is because the union, which is Woolworths," said Meyers. $ 5000 Pay Raise education in general, and UC San Sayler said that Woo I worth's Diego's brand of education in active among all levels of DC workers, provides an opportunity wa used in the study because they The San Diego City Council voted itself its second pay raise in two particular. have a wid range of convenience years yesterday. • for the GSU to organize with other UCworkers. time . The $5000 raise, which brings council salaries to $17,000 and the. The issue will discuss what a The GSU hopes that, through No 1 It IDS mayor's salary to $25,000, was approved by a 5-3 vote, with Coun university education is good for Though there were no sale items tangibly (that is, getting a job), AFSCME, any problems with cilmen Gil Johnson, Lee Hubbard and Jim Ellis opposing the move. on the survey, the Woolworth's Councilman Floyd Morrow was absent. and less tangibly (becoming undergraduate T As can be worked out. chain does feature a lot of discount The pay hike is the second raise approved by the councli since prepared for " life," both items, 8c'yler said. voters adopted a city charter provision allowing review of council emotionally and inteUectually. ) The GSU m et last night in the HL salaries every two years. auditorium. Scheduled topics for IPIBG, according to Sayler, That vote, taken two years ago, created a salary-setting commission The issue will appear Monday, discussion were union affiliation, thought f doin a book price the consequences of last fall' work which immediately raised council salaries from$5,OOO to $12,000 and F eb .