Education community awaits Brown action on relations board
California educators await Governor Brown to appoint the Educational Employment Relations Board EERB created to implement the new collective bargaining law for school employees The article notes expected duties of the board including deciding eligible subjects for bargaining exclusive agent status and election scope The piece highlights local unions and administration views on representation and a potential clash over which groups vote and who becomes sole agent for non teaching staff
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Vaughn Proctor
California
Brown
New Educational Employment Relations Board
EERB
Lompoc Education Association
Cta-Nea
Lompoc Federation of Teachers
Cft-Afl-Cio
California School Employes Association
CSEA
LFT
Patterson-Taggart
Hospital vows surgery still for those in need
Lompoc District Hospital faces a surgery access crisis as malpractice insurance costs force three senior surgeons to quit. Administrator Ken Wicks says patients will be referred elsewhere if needed while the hospital runs a deficit and considers raising rates or borrowing money to survive.
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Lompoc District Hospital
Ken Wicks
Wicks
John D. Sawyer
David J. Ray
Jean Michels
Ray
Lompoc
W. Blake Jamison
Lewis V. Campbell
Wallace S. Marsh
Eldon Elam
Labor secretary censures Ford veto on picketing bill
Labor Secretary John Dunlop says Ford veto of the common situs picketing bill destroys labor management cooperation for the near future. He notes he may resign but offered no decision, while union leaders resign from a construction industry labor management panel amid criticism.
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Washington
UPI
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Ford
Dunlop
Administration
Construction Industry
Teamsters Union
Frank Fitzsimmons
Richard Nixon
Fitzsimmons
Building Trades Union
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White House
Second forum planned for candidates
The Lompoc Valley Chamber of Commerce will host a second public forum for the eight city council candidates on February 3 at the Royal Coach Restaurant with dinner at 7 and the forum at 8. Reservations are through the chamber. voter registration ends February 1 with hours at the Lompoc Library.
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First Presbyterian Church
Lompoc Valley
Chamber
Ken Stillman
Earl D. Collins
Alberta Morgan
John Peto
Ed Rodgers
Floyd Southern Burn
Burnham Truman
Joe Valenci
Charles Ward
Joblessness steady as prices fall in December reports
The Labor Department notes unemployment at 8.3 percent in December with 7.8 million unemployed, while 77.8 million are employed, up 240,000 from November. Wholesale prices drop 0.4 percent chiefly due to lower food costs, fueling administration optimism for 1976.
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