What rights will you have in the workplace?
Chances are your plans are ready: Each quarter brings you closer to a degree, with the likelihood of a good job. You expect employers will find you an attractive hire, and you are assured that discrimination because of gender, age, race, religion or disability won’t occur. These individual rights have been fought for and won.
But what rights will you have, once hired, to effect change in the workplace? Will you have the right to organize in a union and to bargain in good faith?
Chances are you will enjoy fewer collective rights than did your parents. American workers have seen an erosion of community standards supporting labor’s role in the workplace.
One local example is the plight of labor at The Register-Guard, where for almost two years the Newspaper Guild has made little progress obtaining a contract. The family-owned paper, whose liberal face makes it seem an attractive spot for a new journalism or business graduate, has hired a tough, anti-union negotiator.
These problems are not uncommon. We see anti-union sentiment at retailers and public agencies. In their efforts to organize and negotiate, warehouse workers at BI-Mart and teachers and drivers at Head Start of Lane County have met with strong resistance from management.
Your future employment is assured by a tradition of individual rights. But what about your rights to organize in the workplace? What will your employer think of your labor activism?
These are questions better left out of the interview!

Erik Muller

Eugene

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Bret and Matt want to work for you
I have served on the ASUO Student Senate for nearly two years. During that time, I have never been as optimistic about an Executive candidates’ potential to serve the student body as I am after meeting with Bret Jacobson and Matt Cook.
Jacobson and Cook have unique ideas to serve students and assist student programs. If elected, they plan to develop a [public relations] hub to help groups promote events and inform students about events that their incidental fee helps to fund. They also have ideas to work with the Alumni Association to help fund events. With the increasing challenge of maintaining a reasonable incidental fee while simultaneously helping programs grow, this is a critical issue.
Bret and Matt have the most potential to connect with students who haven’t spent a lot of time in the ASUO office. They aren’t afraid to question the status quo in the ASUO and have worked hard to educate themselves about present problems and solutions in student government. With the Oregon Legislature posing questions about the incidental fee as it debates the higher education budget, we need an ASUO Executive that will work to ensure that all funds are spent responsibly.
Bret and Matt are not running to serve their own interests or to further an agenda. They are running because students have expressed their desire for Bret and Matt to be elected.
Vote for Bret and Matt: Capable, qualified and dedicated students who want to work for you.

Jennifer Greenough

senior


political science


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Nilda and Joy are best for ASUO Executive
Until recently, I was unaware of how many ways the ASUO affected me. I was unaware that the people in the Executive office make decisions that will have an effect on student programs, the voice and image of students in the eyes of the general public, the committees that students have a seat on and a voice in, and on student-faculty relations. Knowing this, I realize more fully the impact of the general elections that are going on this week.
With such important issues at hand, it is vital that the best candidates are elected into the office of the Executive. Nilda Brooklyn and Joy Nair are these candidates. They have worked tirelessly to voice the concerns of students on campus and in the community. They will make the decisions and hire the staff that will make a positive impact on the school and surrounding area. Most importantly, they will recognize the concerns of students. The coalitions that they have built in their combined four years of experience will dramatically increase their ability to make concrete positive changes.
It is because of this hard work, combined with the reality of the impressive tasks and decisions to be handled by the executive that I will vote for Nilda Brooklyn and Joy Nair. They are truly the best candidates for the job.

Nadia Hasan

freshman


undeclared