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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1979
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SAN ANTONIO —The American
Federation of Government Em
ployees says it will try to organize
10,000 federal contract employees in
San Antonio’s five military installa
tions, doubling the membership of
the AFL-CIO union in Texas.
Glen J. Peterson, national vice
president of the AFGE’s 10th Dis
trict, told reporters Wednesday that
long-time local labor leader Henry
“The Fox” Munoz has been hired to
direct a recruiting program that will
begin among workers at the huge
cafeteria at Lackland Air Force Base.
Peterson estimated 750 to 1,000
persons who formerly were civil
service workers are employed at the
cafeteria by Greyhound Bus Lines,
which has contracted with the Air
Force to teed Lackland personnel.
“All they (Greyhound) do is supply
the people. The utensils used are
still the same. The government is
fooling the public by saying it is re
ducing costs at military installations
at a time when the contractors are
out to make money,” Peterson said.
The AFGE official also alleged
Greyhound and other companies
with govenment contracts were tak
ing “several millions a year out of San
Antonio and it is time our city fathers
woke up.”
“Organized labor is on the
threshold of something vibrant,”
Munoz said of the organizing effort
among employees of government
contractors. “We are going to be in
volved in politics up to our eyeballs. ”
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stood for many years. The building was heavily Battalion photo by Lee Roy Leschper Jr.
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United Press International
OKLAHOMA CITY — A rival
ion withdrew its support of the
lahoma City teachers strike
mrsday and announced plans to
an election certifying it as the
jaining agent.
dangerin!||Mary Hepp, president of the As-
iation of Classroom Teachers,
isl^idthe ACT Executive Board voted
seek the representation election
a court declared the striking
erican Federation of Teachers
lost its br ‘ng rights.
ACT i. ..liated with the
klahoma Education Association
id National Education Association.
leAFT is affiliated with the AFL-
10.
School officials reported all but
,300 teachers had returned to
ork on the 16th day of the strike
Wsday, a slight increase of re-
imees over Wednesday. AFT offi-
ials disputed the figures and said
iy would not take part in what they
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“There is no one who can legally
bargain with the school board until
we have this election,” Hepp said.
“The teachers have no representa
tion, and we can’t wait forever.’
Another district court hearing is
scheduled Monday in which the
school hoard is seeking an injunction
to prohibit it from bargaining with
the AFT'. The State Supreme Court
earlier refused to overturn the lower
court’s temporary order which ban
ned future bargainng on grounds the
AFT had violated the law by striking.
Hepp said the ACT, while with
drawing organizational support for
the strike, would continue to suoport
teachers in their individual deci
sions.
“The association will not urge
teachers to forsake the strike and re
port back to work, she said. “We
will support every individual teacher
in whatever individual decision they
will make.”
Dr. Thomas Payzant said if the
ACT won a certification election, it
National briefs
United Press International
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The Department of Energy has
scheduled additional public hearings in Texas and New Mexico next
month on the proposed Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern
New Mexico.
The DOE said it had received requests for additional hearings on the
proposed nuclear waste disposal site following hearings on the
environmental impact statement earlier this year.
The additional hearings are scheduled Oct. 1 in Odessa, Oct. 2 in
Hobbs, N.M., and Oct. 5 in Santa Fe, N.M.
LITTLE ROCK — Classes began Thursday at the University of
Arkansas at Little Rock but Dr. Grant Cooper, the self-proclaimed
Marxist professor ordered reinstated at the school, wasn ’t among those
teaching history.
A federal judge has ordered that Cooper, dismissed from the UALR
faculty'in 1975, be reinstated with back pay. But the case still is tied up
legally and the school has not yet offered Cooper a formal reinstate
ment offer.
John Bilheimer of Little Rock, one of Cooper’s attorneys, said the
legal precedent in reinstatement cases is that a person will be offered
the first vacancy that occurs. Cooper currently is an English teacher in
the Houston school system.
would become the bargaining agent
but said he did not know whether it
could continue to bargain this year’s
disputed contract or would have to
wait until next year.
Payzant said he also did not know
whether the law would forbid the
AFT from resuming as bargaining
agent if it won in a new election.
Rio Cubans
want asylum
in Houston
United Press International
HOUSTON — Two Cuban men
who stowed away on a Russian ship
from Cuba jumped overboard Wed
nesday and swam 100 yards to shore
in search of political asylum, officials
said.
Immigration and Naturalization
Service officials said they were un
sure of details, but sources said the
men had not eaten in six days when
they jumped overboard about 1 p.m.
Wednesday at the Goodpasture Inc.
grain dock.
Officials said two other men and a
woman reportedly were being held
aboard the 500-foot-long Geroi Pan-
filovspky by the ship’s crew. The
men who jumped overboard said
they faced 10-year sentences for fle
eing Cuba.
“We don’t have any facts yet, but
we ll give them due consideration for
political asylum if they request it,”
said Paul O’Neill, INS district direc-
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