Monday, June 28, 1993

THE SOCIAL CONTRACT:  UW's faculty association has scheduled an emergency
general meeting for July 28 to ask its members' approval for whatever comes
out of the on-campus social contract negotiations.  "We will not officially
sign anything before we've met with the members," association president
Jim Brox said this morning.

Negotiations haven't officially started, although the "Tuesday morning
group" of top administrators and the heads of employee groups has been 
meeting more often.  The next meeting is set for this afternoon.  Brox
said the faculty association is telling management that actual talks about
cutting salaries, and other "social contract" measures, should take place
in the Faculty Salary Committee, where annual salary levels are regularly
negotiated.

The staff association, similarly, expects the hard work of payroll-cutting
to be done in the Staff Compensation Committee, says staff association
president Linda Norton.  She said this morning it seems clear that staff and
faculty talks will be held separately, with the "Tuesday group" meeting to
coordinate things that affect both groups, as well as the unonized staff
in Canadian Union of Public Employees local 793 and, possibly, graduate
students who work for UW as teaching assistants.

Norton said the staff association executive will be deciding later today
whether to hold a general meeting of its members next week.

IN A NEW JOB:  UW president James Downey has a new secretary starting today,
although he's taking a few days off and won't be here to see her.  Susan
Shantz, previously the secretary to the dean of environmental studies,
becomes the president's secretary, replacing Joan Molloy, who has retired.

SUNRAYCE:  Final results of the solar-car competition, Sunrayce '93, aren't
on hand this morning; the race was to have ended yesterday in Minneapolis.
At last report UW's vehicle, Midnight Sun, was running 33rd out of 34 cars
in the race.

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs
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