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Adjunets Reject PSC Contract

By TOM LYNCH

A group calling itself the Ad-
junct and Part Time Faculty
Caucus has called for rejection
of the recently negotiated con-
tract between the Professional
Staff Congress and the Board of
Higher Education.

In “An Appeal to the Full
Time Faculty,’ David Allen,

chairman of the Caucus, stated.

that under the new contract,
part time faculty would receive
only a four per cent increase on
their average $4000 yearly sal-
ary. The increase, according to
Allen, is less than the average
cost of living increase, let alone
that granted to the full time fac-
ulty. The adjuncts are also re-
questing that certain sections of
the contract be renegotiated to
include more of the full time fac-
ulty fringe benefits for part time
‘personnel.

Aaron Alexander, chief spokes-
man for the PSC, was unhappy
about the adjunct position. Ac-
cording to Alexander, “The
union leaders are not happy
about the gains for the ad-
juncts.” He went on to explain

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PSC President Belle Zeller

that negotiators for the PSC had
to weigh the “pluses and mi-
nuses” of the Public Employees
Relations Board (PERB) fact-
finding report before deciding to
accept it as it had been sub-
mitted.

Zeller Visits Lehman

A meeting of the Lehman
chapter of the PSC was conven-
ed this past Wednesday in Car-
man Hall to discuss various as-

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pects of the proposed contract.
Dr. Belle Zeller, President of the
PSC, expressed confidence that
the contract would be approved
and that as a result the union
would be strengthened. As it is
presently constituted, the PSC is
one of the strongest college fac-
ulty unions in the country and
formal passage of the contract
is expected to have a domino
effect at other public universi- |
ties. ;

Student Rights Threatened

During the period of negotia-_
tion, the PSC had demanded that |
students be removed from all)
governance bodiés throughout |
City University. The PSC later)
dropped this demand when the
BHE insisted that the matter
was not of the nature to be con-
sidered in a contract. While the
currently proposed contract will
remain as is, the PERB is ex-
pected to rule on whether the
issue is negotiable for future
contracts. According to BHE
Vice Chancellor David Newton
the BHE Bylaws will remain un-
effected on matters of student
participation in academic gov-
erance.