Teachers File 'Sub' Charge

An unfair labor practice charge has been filed by the Ann Arbor Education Association (AAEA) against the Ann Arbor Board of Education. Anne Enderby, president of the AAEA, announced last night that since the board has refused to negotiate all matters related to "permanent substitutes" hired in the schools, the AAEA filed an unfair labor practice charge pursuant to Section 10 of the Public Employment Relations Act (PERA). "The board has refused to bargain collectively with the representative of the public employés 'of the board and the .board has unilaterally established wages, hours and working conditions for employés covered by the PERA and represented by the AAEA," said Miss Enderby. The AAEA requested that the Michigan Employment Relations Commission: - Issue an order to the board requiring it "to cease and desist f rom unilaterally establishing the wages, hours and working conditions of employés covered by the act and represented by a duly certified bargaining agent." - "To require the board to bargain over such wages, hours and working conditions." - "To order the board to post a notice of this violation of the statute in prominent places in the school district." - "To award damages to the teachers affected by the board's violation of the statute." According to the AAEA statement: "The association and the board signed agreements on Sept. 8, which agreement.s either provided new contract terms or provided that the parties would adhere to last year's terms pending a settlement." "The board hired approximately 40 fully certified teachers as permanent substitutes at the opening of school and these teachers were hired on a day-today basis. The board unilaterally established the wages, hours and working conditions for these teachers without notice to or bargaining with the association," continued the statement. "On Sept. 14, the association ed that the board negotiate all matters related to these individuals and the board has refused to negotiate since that I time," said Miss Enderby. There are presently 28 permanent substitutes in the elementary schools. At the Oct. 20 Board of Education meeting the permanent substitutes were given pay and fringe benefits based on the 1970-71 contract. This was alsj retroactive from the beginning of school. The permanent substitutes had previously been paid $37 a day 'with no fringe benefits. However, the administration says it cannot guarantee a contract for employment until the settlement is made with the association for the 1971-72 master agreement.

A girl was stabbed and eight arrests were made in a series of racial confrontations at Pioneer High School this morning. The incidents reportedly were triggered by an on-the-spot suspension and subsequent arrest of a black student. William Stewart, public relations director for the Ann Arbor public schools, said the disturbances began after Deputy Superintendent Frederick Holliday suspended a black student who refused to leave an area where black and white students were voicing threats against each other. A group of black students had pursued a group of white students out a door of the school after school administrators and city pólice had 7 ff &=:& Tff&xs ed the two factions, Stewart said. The black student defied Holliday's suspension and, when he continued to refuse to leave the area, was placed under arrest and escorted away by city pólice on the scène, Stewart said. In a series of incidents which followed, 15-year-old Julie Callison, a white Pioneer student, was stabbed several times in the legs; Police-Community Relations Lt. Kenneth B. Klinge, who headed the initial pólice detachment at the school, was struck in the face; and a Pioneer teacher was hit in the shoulder. The stabbing occurred after Miss Callison, a lOth grader, was chased from the school by a group of black youths, Deputy Chief Harold E. Olson said. The girl feil when she reached a grassy area near the school's flag pöle and the blacks surrounded her, witnesses said. Miss Callison was taken to St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Chief Olson related. The crowd of blacks which had encircled her fled when a white parent, who had come to Pioneer to piek up his youngster, leaped out of his vehicle brandishing a hammer, witnesses told pólice. No one was apprehended in bing but earlier a total of seven Pioneer black students and a black Human Relations counselor, Shirley Gulley, were arrested in confrontations with pólice. Deputy Chief Olson said Mrs. Gulley interfered with officers on the scène and will be charged with that offense. Superintendent of Schools Dr. R. Bruce McPherson, who remained at Pioneer throughout the day, urged calm and reasoning in the situation. "This community needs to go beyond talk and start sorting out the differences which have been festering here for years," McPherson said. Also on the scène was Dr. Robert Potts, grie vanee officer for the public schools, who conferred with Principal Joseph Pollack and other school officials. The school remained open and dismissal for the day was scheduled at 3:30 I p.m. This was the fifth consecutive school day that disturbances have occurred in city schools. Other confrontations occurred at Huron High School and Scarlett Junior High School. Charges are pending against eight students in tion with those incidents.