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Thursday, September 9, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
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By Lorna Nissen
Though some Nebraska teachers say they don't get a
fair shake when they go to the bargaining table, teacher
salary negotiations have worked well overall, said Ron
Joekel, associate dean of Teachers College.
Joekel said the 1967 Nebraska Teachers Professional
Negotiations Act, which allows teachers the right to form
bargaining units at the local level, has worked in pre
venting teacher strikes.
Originally designed to establish peace between teachers
and school boards in salary negotiations, the law is now
questioned because of delays in the bargaining process,
Joekel said.
A resolution pending before the Education Committee
of the Nebraska Legislature would shorten the time period
for the negotiating process, he said.
Another complaint among teachers is the lack of
freedom to negotiate other contract items, Joekel said.
At present, the law sets forth a clear definition of what
items may be negotiated, he said.
The Nebraska State Education Association favors in
cluding non-salary items in negotiations, whereas school
boards do not, Joekel said. Non-salary items include vaca
tion time and the school calendar.
Though teachers are not required to join a bargaining
unit, many teachers do join, Joekel said. The advantage in
joining a unit is being represented collectively instead of
trying to negotiate salaries individually.
Choosing not to join a unit doesn't affect teachers' ne
gotiations any differently, even for incoming teachers,
Joekel said. The problem of individual bargaining rests
in the discrepancy between individual salaries.
By forming bargaining units, teachers have made their
salaries more visible, Joekel said. Schools across the state
can look at teacher salaries within Nebraska and across
the country and compare them with their own to deter
mine what salaries may be negotiated, he said.
The average base salary for an incoming teacher in Ne
braska today is $12,000 a year, Joekel said. Nebraska lies
somewhere in the middle nationwide.
If salary negotations fail, teachers may take their case
to the Commission of Industrial Relations or they may
strike, Joekel said.
Though the possibility of a strike is always present,
Joekel said he feels that Nebraska teachers would strike
only as a last resort.
Joekel said he believes that teachers generally abhor
violence and wouldn't do anything to seriously disrupt
education.
NSSA assembly
to set lobby goals
Ruth Boham, UNL campus coordinator of the
Nebraska State Student Association, said this year's
first NSSA legislative assembly will be Oct. 7 at Peru
State College. It will be the first such assembly held
outside Lincoln.
The legislative assembly guides policy for the year
old statewide student lobbying organization. UNL,
UNO, Wayne State College and Peru State College are
current members and students at Kearney State College
and Chadron State College may vote on joining the
association.
Boham said NSSA lobbying goals will not be
determined until October. However, she added, financial
aid cuts made by President Reagan will most likely
continue to be a big issue.
"I assume that will take a lot of our time," she said.
Each member campus sends two representatives to
the legislative assembly, plus one representative for each
thousand students. UNL's assembly members are divided
between the colleges, student groups, residence halls,
fraternities, sororities and off -campus students.
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