University of Southern Maine USM Digital Commons UMP Campus, 1959-1967 Student Newspapers 3-16-1967 UMP Campus, 03/16/1967 University of Maine at Portland Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/umpcampus Part of the Creative Writing Commons, and the Social History Commons Recommended Citation University of Maine at Portland, "UMP Campus, 03/16/1967" (1967). UMP Campus, 1959-1967. 33. https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/umpcampus/33 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at USM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in UMP Campus, 1959-1967 by an authorized administrator of USM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Volume 10, No. 8 March 16, 1967 Custodial Staff At UMP Unionizes News Of Custodial Staff Union Surprise To Officials By JOHN PLUNKEI'T and MICHAEL O'CARROLL Towal'ds the end of last year, members of the custodial staff at U.M.P. decided to protest what they called "low wages and unsatisfactory working con- ditions." 1·eady does except charge dues University of Maine-Portland Richa1·d E . Clinch, a staff rnem- H e explained that certain rllles bPr, cha1·gpd that the custodians aJ1d regulations concerning non· pay "is low and working condi- academic employees are outlined ClassicalGuitarist tions are not too good, either. in a booklet issued by the Univer· Thc1·e is no overtime - just sity. ln the section dealing with Presents Concert FloridaPl~ns straight time after 40 hours." One "individual persons with problems, Junior Slc·ve Smith custodian told this reporter that it provides for· "an orderly method Miguel Rubio, classical guitar Folk Festival thl'Ough periodicals.