| Strickland rejects contract recommendation
Governor Ted Strickland rejected on Monday a fact-finder's recommended contract for Ohio Highway Patrol troopers, who have been working since June under an expired contract. Gongwer New Service reported that Strickland said the proposal "spends too much money on non-wage items, interferes too much with management rights and breaks the bargaining pattern" established with other state employee unions. Other unions saw their off-duty disability benefits reduced, for instance. That issue was not covered in the fact-finder's report. The Ohio State Troopers Association and the state can continue to negotiate or send the contract dispute to binding arbitration. .
Berkeley High Students Learn Negotiation Skills
The union made some big wins at Berkeley High on Tuesday. Except that the students were acting as both management and labor and the cash was just play money. Juniors and seniors got together in the school library for a crash course in negotiation—courtesy the California Federa-tion of Teachers (CFT). The day-long session was part of CFT's Collective Bargaining Education Project (CBEP), which was held for the first time at the BHS campus. Based on the popular education techniques of Paolo Freire, the CBEP provides students with a range of labor history and contemporary union organizing and collective bargaining role-plays for the high school classroom. “It's a way of teaching them conflict resolution in the workplace. In this case, we have picked a hospital," said Fred Glass, communications director for CFT.
Swimming chief blames Court of Arbitration
Australia's swimming chief Glenn Tasker has pointed the finger of blame at the Court of Arbitration for Sport over the controversial leaking of Ian Thorpe's doping test result. French newspaper L'Equipe first reported news of Thorpe's alleged test for higher than normal levels of testosterone. Tasker believes the leak occurred as soon as the paperwork was sent to Europe. He says FINA - the international governing body of swimming, diving, water polo, synchronized swimming and open water swimming - is promising some answers. Glenn Tasker says a judge will review what has happened and find where the leak has occurred. Meanwhile Ian Thorpe is also considering court action because of the breach of confidentiality. The international drug-testing code for athletes is supposed to guarantee results are not leaked before being finalised.
Maryland Lawmakers Seek Mediation To Resolve Morgan State-Towson ...
Maryland lawmakers are exploring using mediation and binding arbitration instead of the courts to address a dispute between duplicative programs at state universities that has raised allegations that the state is violating federal desegregation law. The dispute over a Maryland Higher Education Commission decision relating to MBA programs at historically Black Morgan State University and a joint program at Towson University and the University of Baltimore has been a difficult issue for lawmakers this legislative session. Some lawmakers fear a bill enabling Morgan State to take Towson to court would be unprecedented, allowing public universities to sue each other over a state commissions decision and producing potentially stomach-churning legal bills.
Roberts appointed mediator for MUW dispute
Thus far, Mississippi University for Women's 117-year-old Alumnae Association and MUW president Dr. Claudia Limbert haven't been able to work out their differences among themselves.Their issues have instead come to Limbert disaffiliating the MUWAA and forming a new alumni association and the ousted group filing suit against the embattled president.Lowndes County Chancery Court Judge Dorothy Colom seems to think a mediator will help.Colom filed an order Wednesday requiring the two entities to arrange mediation with James L. Roberts Jr. of Pontotoc, a retired Supreme Court justice and former chancellor, who now serves as a municipal judge in Pontotoc.Colom's action follows her decision Monday to continue the National Executive Board of MUWAA's complaint against Limbert until 1:30 p.m. April 12, giving the plaintiffs until Friday to amend their complaint and the defendant until April 10 to respond.
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