Fewer Jobs, But More Pay

Two unpublished administration memoranda dealing with personnel matters will one day make good public relations material for Mass Hall.

One, prepared by Financial Vice President Hale Champion for President Bok, shows that in the past three years the administration has reduced its regular payroll by the equivalent of over 150 full-time employees.

The other projects pay raises next year for clerical and technical workers that will average between 9.5 and 10 per cent.

President Bok said this week that he asked Champion to prepare the memo on jobs to find out, "is the administration growing in size while faculties are tightening their belts?"

Evidently the answer to Bok's question is no, the administration is doing its part--an answer the administration no doubt very much wants the faculties to hear in order to smooth out the academic administrative tensions that are always at their most acute in times of tight money.

The payroll cuts were accomplished without many layoffs--although there have been some in the University Printing Office--but through attrition. The jobs eliminated fall in a broad range of salaries and areas of the University.

The raises for the University's 4000-odd clerical and technical workers are substantial, apace with the inflation rate, and they come at a time of intense unionization efforts among the workers who will get the raises.

Organizers for District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America, the union that is trying to organize clerical workers into two separate locals here, said yesterday they consider the raises a direct response to their efforts.

But Champion and John B. Butler, director of Personnel, say the main reasons for the raises are inflation and a highly competitive job market, not the possibility of a union.