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Show 16 will get you 10 University employes petition personnel office by BABS DELAY Chronicle Staff Several recent instances have caused University employes to petition for their rights to the Personnel Office within the past few weeks. These employes, Union members or not, have the right to file such "grievances" anytime they feel they are being unfairly treated by their supervisors, fellow workers, or the University as a whole. Complaints by the employes must be written up in a concise manner and must be filed with supervisors and the Personnel Office. m Present grievances range from unfair pay, no pay increases, to no Union posting rights in the Medical Center. A common practice of the University when hiring new employes em-ployes is to not advise them of pay policies, even in the initial orientation orien-tation for them, according to Israel Martinez, a University employe. Ten years One woman who worked for the food service for more than sixteen years never had a pay raise for the first ten years of her employment. She had no sick leave and was laid off during the scheduled University vacations. When she did become a salaried employe with full benefits, they based her vacation on six years. The first ten were not counted, according to Harry Baker, University grounds Crewman. An instance that happened with the Mailing Bureau included an employe who was forced into driving an overloaded truck, old in make, overloaded by at least 300 pounds. The employe was a student on work study who complained about the overload to his supervisor. His supervisor told him that if the student did feel that the truck was indeed overloaded then he would have to take out each piece of mail and weigh the pieces individually. This task would have been obviously too lengthy and petty, so the student decided to drive the truck to its destination without further "intimidating" his supervisor, according to Harry Baker. Wrong classification Lynn Merrell works for the food service, but was never assigned to a correct job classification for the posit'on she occupied. Miss Merell was assigned as a food service worker , paying $1.60 per hour, when she had originally been assinned to do the work nf food service worker class two, paying $1.82-$2.00 per hour. Miss Merrell then asked Mr. Moore of the Food Service and the Personnel Office to correct her situation. Later she was told by Dare Keller that they would not audit her job for at least a month and a half, because thev didn't want Mr. Moore to think thev were attacking him personally Lynn Merrell then filed a grievance and within a week had conferences with Mr. Maxfield, Assistant Director of Personnel, Mr. Moore and a woman from Wages and Saleries Division of the Personnel Office who audited her job The report was sent to Mr. Moore in forming him that Miss Merrell whould be classified as a number two worker receiving 82 per hour retroactive to her hiring date said Lynn Merrell, Food Service cashier. In the Policies and Procedures Manual under 2-60 section B it states that all employees who will be working 75 percent or more of full time and whose position will last longer than four months or longer is to be put on a salaried basis, according to the 1971 policy. The food service employes are run under a 1967 agreement which isn't an official policy, and it would seem obvious that the 1971 policy would overrule the 1967 agreement. Nothing has been said about this and the Food Service is still being run under the 1967 agreement, said Miss Merrell. Filing grievances To file a grievance, employes first send a copy to their supervisor. After passing the first supervisor it then goes to a second supervisor and then finally to the Personnel Office itself. It usually takes a long period of time for the grievance to be heard because of different reasons. The problems involved are a function of a morass of bureaucratic hodge-podge. Employees Em-ployees have difficulties in filing grievances because they are blocked from the beginning, discouraged, and some are ignorant of the policy changes that often take place. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes Union here at the University urges members and nonmembers to file complaints whenever a need arises. Employes who require assistance in writing greviences are urged to attend the Local 585 meeting on campus this Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in the Union 312. Rita Urie, State legislative representative, will be there to explain the process of influencing the legislature. A representative from the citizens lobby will also be present. The meeting is open to any interested University employee and to those employes with specific grievances already drafted into rough form. |