Daily Bulletin, Thursday, March 3, 1994

STAFF SALARIES:  A sentence in yesterday's Gazette seems to say that
UW staff received a salary increase in the spring of 1993.  That's not
so, and I'm sorry if we gave that impression.  Here's the sequence of
what has happened about non-union staff salaries over the past two years:

     March 1992:  Staff association negotiators agree to freeze pay
     for 1992-93, if other employee groups such as faculty make the
     same concession.

     May 1992:  After faculty members negotiate a pay increase, staff
     and UW representatives agree to a pay hike on July 1, 1992, and 
     another 1.5 per cent on May 1, 1993.  The July 1 increase takes 
     place as scheduled.

     March 1993:  In a climate of budget cuts and layoffs, staff
     association members decide against reopening salary discussions
     to accept a freeze instead of the May 1 increase.

     April 1993:  With the Social Contract looming, the provost
     suspends the May 1 increase.

     July 1993:  Staff and university negotiators reach a local Social
     Contract agreement that includes cancellation of the May 1 increase,
     as well as unpaid days off for staff who earn more than $30,000.

So while it's true that negotiators "settled on a modest pay increase"
for last year, staff never did get to see the money.

LIBRARY SURVEY:  Students in 161 classes will be getting survey forms about 
the library in the next few days, as part of a "survey of information needs".  
The study began in November with a survey of faculty members.  "The results 
of this survey will provide the Library with information to plan services and 
resources, in a period characterized by both fiscal restraint and major 
technological advances," says university librarian Murray Shepherd.

Questionnaires are going to classes representing various departments and all 
undergraduate levels, says Shabiran Rahman of the reference and collections 
development department in the Dana Porter Library. A graduate student 
questionnaire will be made available to grads in their mail boxes, to be 
mailed back to Rahman.

The questionnaire asks about "sources from which you may be accustomed to 
finding references", library services and whether the individual student 
uses them, interest in electronic resources, the value of workshops offered 
by library staff, and so on.  And late in the questionnaire:  "If you have
not used the library at all can you say why?"

LISTEN TONIGHT:  Three major lectures are competing for audiences tonight:

"Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust", the annual Spinoza-Meir Lecture,
by Michael Marrus of the University of Toronto -- 8 p.m., Needles Hall 3001.

"Christian and Jew: Reflections of a Christian Historian", as part of
the Wilfrid Laurier University symposium on "legacies of Fascism", by
Alice Eckardt, American historian and theologian -- 8 p.m., John Aird
Recital Hall, WLU.

"Feminism, Censorship and the State", by Toronto artist Sandra Haar,
presented by Gay and Lesbian Liberation -- 7 p.m., Humanities 373.

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
888-4567 ext. 3004      credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca