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Grand Valley’s Student Run W eekly Number 8 ' '. t . ;; Volume 12 ALLENDALE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1979 COT Union Ratifies Three Year Pact by Jett Tikkanen insurance will become open for nancially for a lengthy strike, but bargaining and a no-strike clause had developed detailed plans for Following a fifteen hour bargain­ will expire. communication and support in the event a work stoppage was neces­ ing session, the Clerical, Office, and After six long months of bar­ Technical workers union has voted gaining, negotiations last Thursday sary. A state mediator began working 106 to 6 for the ratification of a night became tense. "AH Thursday with the bargainers last week and new contract Monday night in the night we were prepared to strike! Campus Center Theater. said union President Patricia both sides say that the mediation Polach "but wc were relieved in the was helpful in moving the talks The new contract gives COT middle of the night, when proposals along. workers a series of pay raises over came up that wc could work with. This is the first contract for the the course of three years. It was touch and go for a while but new COT union, which is associated In the first year starting Oct. 14, the strike was averted and good with the Michigan Educational Sup­ everyone will move up a step in things arc now happening at Grand port Personnel Association seniority along with a 9% increase Valley.” (MESPA). The union was formed in the new pay schedule totaling a The marathon Thursday night after GVSC increased the length 1216 to 13% average raise in pay. In bargaining session was called after of their work week without a sub­ the second ycar everyone will move bargainers had reached an impasse stantial increase in pay in the spring up another step and rccicve an 8% and the 120 COT’s voted over­ of 1978. increase in the new pay schedule whelmingly to authorize their bar­ The COT classification includes for a total of II to 12% average raise gaining team to strike if progress secretaries, lab technicians, audio­ visual workers and several other job Member* of the COT bargaining committee work toward* ratification of a new contract (photo by John Haafke). in pay. could not be made. In the third year new wages and The COT’s were ill-prepared fi­ descriptions on campus. COT Pact Avoids Legal Tangle Athletic Facility Approved Board by their chief designer, Robert fact that they arc not employees of course of action would be for a judge by Raymond Stock therapy rooms, a human perform­ by Dick Shier Wakely of the Warren office of Wake- city or state government, but of to order both parties to negotiate. ance laboratory, and faculty offices. Taking advantage of the natural ly and Associates, an architectural With the looming possibility last Grand Valley State Colleges. As em­ According to Gartner, the import­ The GVSC Board of Control ap­ proved a preliminary schematic plan north-south slope of the site’s ter­ firm headquartered in Mt. Pleasant. week of a strike by the Clerical, ployees of the school it could be ant thing in situations where public for the rebuilding of the campus rain, a new multi-purpose section on Wakely’s company specializes in the Office, and Technical staff, the argued they arc not covered by the services are interrupted is to settle physical education facility. The plan the building’s north side will be con­ creation of academic facilities, and GVSC administration was quick to law. Gartner pointed out there had the matter and get everyone back to will eliminate the Dome and replace nected to the present locker-area recently designed a new music build­ point out that strikes by public em­ not been an official ruling by the At­ work. The law was not intended to it with an expanded, flat-roofed corridor. The addition will hold ing at Eastern Michigan University in ployees arc illegal. The lawreferredto torney General on that point. punish, but to assure continued ser­ Ypsilanti. is the Public Employees Relations vices. structure. three intramural basketball courts, However, final approval by the volleyball and tennis facilities, a 200 Though there was little criticism Act. As it happens though, there are If a strike by COT workers had meter track, and a swimming pool. of the plan offered by the Board, one some questions to whether or not been ruled illegal the chance of a Last week a memo signed by Fi­ state and construction of the new fa­ The new north wing will seat member, Richard DeVos expressed that law applies to the COT staff. judge issuing an order to return to nancial Aid Director Ken Fridsma cility may take as long u5 three to 6,000 spectators when the basketball skepticism about the future shape of Michigan Assistant Attorney Gen­ work would have been slim. There was sent to all work-study students, four years. courts are not in use and 4,000 when the structure. DeVos repeatedly eral, Richard Gartner says the COT’s were few such orders related to the informing them that strikes are illegal The remodeled Dome area will asked Wakely if the various sections may not actually be public employ­ several teacher strikes this fall, and and that student workers were ex­ have a flat roof; housing dance stu­ they are. The plans were presented to the of the facility would have a flat roof. ees. The uncertainty stems from the none were enforced. The more likely pected to cross picket lines to work. dios, racquctball courts, physical continued on page 3 Don Williams, a College of Arts Lubbers Delays and Science faculty representative who opposes student membership in Bilingual Education Program Reorganizing ACAS, said it “blows(his)mind” that referred to the setting of the Grand ACAS Ouster faculty were expected to recruit stu­ in which the program scored highest Colleges in Washington, D. C., was by David Whinham Valley area as perfect for this kind of dents for ACAS. Williams and many were, nature and magnitude of hired by Grand Valley to evaluate program, but also said that the plan­ other ACAS senators feel that there need, administration, and budget. the bilingual program. In his report The bilingual education program ning and management of the endeav­ of Students should be separate faculty and stu­ This indicates that while great po­ Barron cited the lack of qualified here at Grand Valley is in trouble. It or have not yet happened. dent senates. They have said that tential exists, the necessary commit­ bilingual-bicultural personnel and the At President Lubbers’ request, the is a department without a director, there can be no student/faculty voice fact that Grand Valley does not pro­ without federal funds, and without ment has been lacking. These sentiments have been ex­ Board of Control will wait until De­ because the faculty always “co-opt” vide the appropriate courses required the support of the community. Pcpe Barron, Director of El Con- pressed by almost everyone concern­ cember to decide whether or not to and manipulate students in the for bilingual endorsement under A federal evaluator referred to greso Nacional De Asuntos Colegial- ed with the bilingual program at retain students in the All Colleges faculty’s interest. Michigan state law as the most ser­ Grand Valley State College. So now Grand Valley’s commitment to bi­ cs, a council of the American Asso­ Academic Senate, the most powerful “ If he (Lubbers) thinks he’s going Grand Valley has to take action. lingual education as “a hoax.” When ciation of Community and Junior ious setbacks of the program. Barron advisory body on campus. to get one (student/faculty) voice . .. replying to a question pertaining to Wessell says “We’re trying to con­ Lubbers said that the student he is out to lunch," Williams told vince people that we re not giving staff qualifications in the field of bi­ voice at GVSC must be preserved, ECS. up. We’re going to do it on our lingual education, the evaluator but that he didn’t care through what Jeff Hubbard and Lenore own.” wrote “what staff?” Another cvil- structure. Mayfield of the Student Senate Plans to save the program include uator-consultant wrote, “The lack But when Vice-president Glenn attended the meeting and said that meeting with directors of bilingual of bilingual endorsement is an incred­ Nicmeyer asked the ACAS executive they have not one, but two proposals programs across the state, and work­ committee (ECS) to make a new ible oversight by this institution.” for resolving the conflict. One recom­ How did the program get in such a ing with the public schools in order recommendation about student mends that the Student Senate condition? Grand Valley’s director of to assess the needs of the program. membership, they rcfuscd,saying that elect student representatives to the School of Education, Dr.