e Daily Collegian Tuesday, September 7, 1976 chool districts differ: one strikes, one teaches .RRISBURG (AP) is is a tale of two school aricts. • Ine. West York, has ;ot,:ifec! four teachers' tr ict4 in six years without NKC. other, Phoenixville, lad two strikes in six -- including a 19-day (Mut that has) left teachers ter a year later. n an effort to determine y one distFict had labor ,ife and tivi other peaceful •eementsithe Associated ess "7. erviewed the N,erinit..ndent, a school and officer and a union lidol in each district. Their comments revealed :p differences between the ltricts differences that ty explain nationally, why le districts suffer strikes others avoid them. est York, Phoenixville all other Pennsylvania cool districts are forced to ;otiate with teachers under state's 1970 Public Iploye Bargaining Act. The establish - es a five month !otiation timetable and .mits teachers to strike en the timetable expires. 'his year, 15 teacher locals re struck in Pennsylvania, Ir 454 , districts still iotiating. In six years of (lective bargaining, there re been 234 teacher strikes, lording to the state nation Department. est York and Phoenixville largely suburban districts ise mostly' white-collar payers work in York or respectively. :nixville also has some -collar areas and farm est York has 157 teachers 11,400 pupils, while ixville employs about .achers and has 4,100 is. West York teachers ..age $12,437 in salary. The ienixville average is ;23. kith districts had tax in ,. Fluting to compensate for Fliqing state subsidies. and iy for teacher pay raises. he interviews revealed t West York's teachers superintendent have a b regard for each other, jugt during negotiations iu their day-to-day ionships. . • The super slide rule programmable powerhouse :.with 10 memories and 100 program steps. The SR-56 is a i tremen dously powerful ~s lide rule calculator. Yet ypu can pro gram it , whenever you're ready. ~ There'are 74 prepro grammed functions and op ?e-r-a-ti-ons. You can do arithmetic within all 10 memoriesf. It has AOS a unique algebraic operating system that lets you handle problems with up to 9 levels of parentheses. There's also polar to rectangular con version built in. Mean. Standard deviation. De grees, radians, grads. And, it works with Tl's new printer the PC-100. • Chances are, you'll be pro- 1 i I i L 'Suggested retail price. 111 with the 1-register. 01976 Texas Instruments Incorporated "Rather than work at it 30 days, we work at it 365 days," said Raymond Troxell, Jr., the West York superintendent. Phoenixville's superin tendent said there are good daily relations between him and the teachers, and problems exist only during a strike. Two teachers in terviewed said faculty members feel distant from the superintendent, rarely see him, and are never consulted about educational policy. "I don't think the day-to day relationships have a whole lot to do with that contract negotiations," said Dr. Raymond Straub, Phoenixville's superin tendent. Troxell of West York said he accepted collective bargaining from the begin ning, and saw negotiations as a lever to bring about provressive change. S:eaub said he too accepts labor negotiations, but views them as a time-consuming hindrance that takes him away from educational duties. Troxell said he meets the first Wednesday of each month with teachers' union representatives to discuss anything the teachers want. Straub said he rarely meets in this manner, although teachers discuss specific problems with the district's fulltime labor negotiator. Troxell and the chief union negotiator said the superintendent spends considerable time in school buildings talking with teachers. Straub said he visits the schools, but teachers deny his claim that he spends time with them. The union president and another teacher said some younger faculty members had never met Straub. West York union officials said only two teachers filed grievances during six years of collective bargaining. Both were settled by school district personnel. Phoenixville teachers filed _ 38 grievances in six years, including eight or 10 that were settled by an outside ar bitrator. About 10 were filed in the last year, mostly in volving disputes over ,per- n0995* The edge you need. Now. And in your career. Texas Instruments will rebate $lO.OO of your original SR-56 purchase price when you return this coupon and, your SR-56 customer information card post marked no later than October 31,1976. To apply: 1. Fill out this coupon 2. Fill out special serialized customer information card inside SR-56 box 3. Return completed coupon and information card to Special Campus Offer P.O. Box 1210 . Richardson, Texas 75080 .‘ . .. \ sonal leave days or reim bursement for graduate credits, the union said. West York has no school board members• at the bargaining table, because they're more subject to public pressure and may not be aware of all contract im plications. Phoenixville had three board members at the table, and Lawrence Gould, the board president, admitted there was intense pressure from the public to settle during last year's strike. He added that board members should be at the table, since they have to face the public. Troxell, who teaches a labor relations course at Western Maryland Univer sity, said he took swift action seven years ago to prepare for collective for collective bargaining in West York. He convinced the school board to finance' a trip for himself and several ad ministrators, who visited districts in other states that bargained with teachers. "We looked for the pitfalls and then shared the in formation with the board," said Troxell. "We learned you have to build this idea of trust and fair treatment. We did that by saying negotiation is a means of sharing a genuine involvement in . the school district. It's just a new way of reaching agreement in public education. It's a way of democratizing education:" Troxell said this trust enabled teachers and the board to agree to iron out problems on class size after negotiations rather than have the issue impede a settlement. The issue has been a crucial point of dispute in other districts. The matter was discussed again and the school district decided to add a new first grade class. With the same first grade population, the effect will be to reduce class size this year. Straub, who attended college workshops in collective bargaining, said he didn't favor the concept. "I saw it would com plicate the administration of schools," he said. "Which it has," said Gould, an aerospace engineer and SR-56 keii kFiriasra:tr~,it~~f 41tip Ii 'I %, 1%11 lit * NI, TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORP')RATEP the Phoenixville board president. "A good deal of attention is . paid at the ad ministrative levels to collective bargaining. It's making us spend education dollars on labor work. "A lot of people who were on the board resented the fact they could no longer deal with the teacher organization the way they had before. "I think that has been overcome." While the superintendents' views differ, the greatest division of opinions is be tween the West York and Phoenixville teachers. "Cooperation. That sums up everything in one word," Mondale says Carter will deliver jobs BARBERTON, Ohio (UPI) Sen. Walter Mondale said yesterday President JiMmy Carter would provide a job for everybody who wants one and make "working people and their families No. 1 again." "Any administration that can't promise and deliver on full employment doesn't deserve to be in the White House," the Democratic vice presidential candidate said in a speech at a Labor Day parade. "That's where we will begin." Speaking to a blue-collar crowd, Mondale said inflation is "ruining America" and said the rising toll of jobless Americans "has got to stop. Pakistan dam collapses after villagers evacuate RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (UPI) The Bolan Dam, one of Pakistan's main sources of irrigation for the vast arid tracts of Baluchistan province bordering Iran, collapsed last night and washed away 26 villages,. officials reported. Most of the 10,000 persons living in the villages in the Kachidistrict had been warned , that heavy rains had strained the dam, and they moved to high ground, the officials said. Yii~lo3li~~n+imirc~Si SFI 56 Address University Name of SR-56 Retailer said Ronald Verdier, a physical education teacher and chief negotiator for the West York union. "Our' superintendent is in the buildings. He's not the type to administer from the office. The basic aim of both sides is educating the children." Anthony Zabicki, the president of the Phoenixville teacher local, said a state survey revealed a negative teacher attitude toward the superintendent. "Most people in responsible positions in the district never come to teachers to discuss school procedure or policy," We've got to put people back to work." Mondale said if Carter is elected Democrats would have a moderate credit policy lowering interest rates and enabling more Americans to buy homes, and adopt a health plan to ensure a family's life savings is not wiped out by catastrophic illness, "just simple things we want to do in America:" Mondale said he and Carter recognized the value of unions. "We want to put working people and their families No. 1 again." Mondale kicked off the fall campaign shaking hands with well-wishers along a parade gramming. That's what pro fessionals in your field are doing—right now. And with an SR-56 you're ready. It has 100-merged prefix pro gram steps. 6 logical deci sion functions. 4 levels of subroutines. You can decre ment and skip on zero to iterate a loop as many times as you specify. There are 4 levels of subroutine to let you use your program steps to maximum advantage. And, you can even compare a test register with the dis play to make a conditional branch. So you can check an intermediate result t for convergence, or a maximum. Serial No. (from back of calculator) II Please allow 30 days for rebate No casualty figures were available. The northwestern part of Pakistan was heavily flooded in the past few weeks due to torrential rains. Workers working on the dam site were picked up by helicopters and taken to safer places before the collapse, the officials said. The army was asked to send helicopters to pick up persons stranded on hilltops in the flooded regions. said Zabicki, a social studies teacher. "There's a lot of resentment among teachers because of this. It's more than dollars and cents. . "I don't think they ' care about us. Their attitude is, "You're getting your money, you do your job and let us run the school district.' We deal with students every day. If there's anything that has to be done in the educational process, they should come to the teachers." Added Elaine Hutchinson, a Phoenixville science teacher: "The classroom is the most important place, but the teacher is at the bottoM of the route in Barberton, a blue collar suburb of Akron which holds a big Labor Day parade. He flew to the West Coast later for a picnic in Alameda County, Calif., before traveling to Los Angeles for the night. „ His wife Joan, son Ted, 19, and he boarded a 1925 yellow and orange Packard to drive the parade route in Bar berton. He left the car twice to shake hands with the crowd of more than 35,000 in sunny Conversation program planned Volunteers are needed to join the Con versant Club, an organization that helps foreign students learn better English. Interested persons may sign up in 305 Sparks. The Young Socialist Alliance will hold an Student counselors meet 7: 30 tonight in the ' introductory discussion on "What Socialism Walnut Center.. They . are asked to bring Stands For" at 8 tonight in 365 Willard. preferred work schedules. For other in formation call 863-0465 or stop in 102 Boucke. Collegian notes The board of officers of Women in Com munications meet 5:30 p.m. today in the HUB lounge to discuss the WDFM.radio show and the national meeting in Milwaukee next month. A Women in Communications meeting for all organizations will be held at 7 tonight in 318 HUB. The Office of Residential Life Pro grams has positions for Security Night Receptionists. Applicants must qualify for College • Work Study funds. For information call: Got something to lug around? What does a Danish schoolboy use to carry his books? A Danish book bag. And what is now selling across the United States as the ultimate catch-all, carry-all for models, artists, pilots, travelers, photo graphers, business people, and students who aren't Danish? The Danish book bag. Made of canvas with a wide adjustable strap that enables conversion to a backpack, the' book bag is a trove of pockets, compartments, snapped and zip pered places for everything you have to have at hand, plus lunch. The bag comes in two sizes big (in gray, $21.00) and superbig (in gray, brown or blue, $27.50). and has been reported on the shoulders and backs of such di verse 'personalities as J.D. Salin ger, Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso, Mrs. Leonard Bernstein, Al Pacino, Candice, Bergen and Dustin Hoffman. naturally s . .shoes are still our business totem pole." Paul McCleary Jr., a York attorney and vice president of the West York School Board, gaye two reasons for the district's. success in 'negotiations: "We hired a superintendent who knows how to handle people and we keep the board away, from the negotiating table. I don't think the board can do without top ad ministrators. And if board members were at the table, they would have more per sonality clashes with teachers." Teachers, board members and administrators at West but crisp weather, shook hands, kissed babies and joked with the crowd. Mondale, delayed his departure from Washington to tour facilities at National Airport and visit with flight personnel from United and Eastern airlines, At one point departing from the hand shaking for foot-shaking. When -he poked his head under a compartment of the airplane where the radio crew was working, a crew member stuck a foot through . the hole HELP WANTED North Halls West Halls' South Halls East Halls P-N-C Halls 325 E. Calder Alley State College, Pa. York say the future of labor negotiations looks rosy. At Phoe'nixville, the picture is more uncertain. "The board is sitting back and looking at what we did and trying to see what we can do to increase Me probability of a peaceful settlements," said Gould. Verdier, , the chief negotiator and teacher at West York, summed up the future by saying, "With the present administration and school board, I don't think we'll ever see a strike at West York." and Mondale heartily shook In remarks prepared for the City Park in Barberton, Mondale charged ~ t he Republican administration of President Ford had betrayed the ' working people by economic mis-management. "On the record, they have - failed." He detailed a number of areas of economic mismanagement including response to recession, in flation and rising fuel prices. Free U course description forms are due today and tomorrow in 223 HUB. The Hetzel Union Board will hold its first meeting of the term at 7 tonight in 222 HUB. The Engineering Undergraduate Council will meet 7:30 tonight in 207 Sackett. The United Federation of Star Trek Fans will hold its first weekly meeting 7:30 tonight in 75 Willard. The Rape Crisis Center will hold an in troductory meeting for new volunteers at 7 tomorrow•night at 108 W. Beaver Ave. Men and women are welcome and needed. 865-2890 865-5951 865-8322 865-5375 865-6503 1111111111 Available exclusively at. 0 41 1 , Ogies*** •
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers