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Grievance Notes Had DisappearedContinued From Pag? Bllong time Only when Don (Karges) came did I have somebody to work with. Until then. I was put to work alone Despite Allaway’s denial, both Mike Casey and Kris Wells, campus representatives for CSEA. told police that Jacobson had met with Alla way the previous Friday and had asked them to join the Monday morning grievance meeting Ms. Jones says that while no formal grievance was written up. Jacobson almost certainly would have entered notes on Friday's meeting in the yellow legal pad he carried with him everywhere. He wrote everything down.” she said.No notes of any kind ever turned up.Shortly after the shootings. Jacobson’s wife. Sondra. a longtime employee of the university's personnel department, entered her husband's office accompanied by her attorney, Sam Hill, and campus police chief Gerald O’Keefe, according to documents in the Superior Court file on the murder caseThe visit presumably was to retrieve personal effects remaining in Jacobson's office, including his briefcase and calendar.Fullerton police said in a recent interview they had no knowledge of anyone entering the sealed-off crime area, although documents show a Fullerton detective later tried unsuccessfully to obtain evidence of the grievance from Jacobson’s wife.Mrs Jacobson, now living in Prescott. Ariz., could not be reached for comment.University vice president Ivan Richardson refused to comment on who had authorized Mrs Jacobson's entry into her husband’s office.Ms. Jones said CSEA officials also tried to retrieve evidence of the grievance from Jacobson's office.“We knew there were other grievances. We didn't want them (university officials) to get a hold of them.” But by the time CSEA personnel gained entrance to the office with the help of a custodian. she said, all CSEA documents had been removed Later, she said, Jacobson’s CSEA documents were returned to her, but the file was incomplete Ail it was was a box of forms he had — nothing else.” said Ms Jones Missing, along with any notes Jacobson might have taken on Allaway's complaint. were all the other grievances Jacobson was handling — some of them regarding sensitive issues involving high-level university officials — and notes Jacobson was known to have taken on another grievance the same afternoon he met with Allaway “All I can think, they don't like the puhiic to hear the discussion that’s oncampus.” said Ms. Jones. •We've had a number of grievances since We never win any Shortly after the July 12 shootings. Ms. Jones says she circulated a flier soliciting other complaints university employees had about their jobs.She received at least 50 responses from the plant operations department, the department in which Allaway worked, Ms. Jones said. “.They were really pretty terrible . . We've had very good people quit there for various reasons They’re either hounded (by supervisors), or bird-dogged, or whatever.”She said that one such complaint resulted in a campus plumber’s suicide several months after the 1976 shootings. The plumber had documented a number of abuses by his supervisor but was unable to get any help when he took the matter to Richardson, Ms. Jones saidShe said the plumber told another CSEA official shortly before his suicide. ‘I hate 'he thought of going back to work on Monday. There’s three things I can do. lean either quit, go back, or blow my head off.' ”The plumber, perhaps like Ailaway, chose the violent solutionRichardson declined to comment about the incident or what happened to the documentation the plumber had prepared against his supervisor — who still is employed at the university — saying that it is a personal matter.Ms. Jones said she made copies of the complaints turned in by plant operations employees and gave them to a reporter for a possible story on unhappy working conditions at the university, then filed the originals in an unmarked green notebook in her officeSometime later. Ms. Jones said, she met campus police chief O'Keefe, since dismissed from his post, at a banquet. He said to me. ’You remember those letters you gave to the Los Angeles Times’?’ He said. •You notice they didn’t do anything with them, didn’t you?’ ”Ms. Jones, who said she still doesn't know' how O'Keefe would have known about the fliers, said she looked for her notebook containing the originals the following day and found it missing from her office. She has never found it.I always told Bruce to keep his grievances at home, not in hts office, but he never listened to me.” said Ms Jones. I’ve had my desk broken into three times ”Council Names New MemberMISSION VIEJO — Marilyn MacDougail. a school teacher and resident of Mission Viejo for 5Vi years, was appointed to replace municipal advisory councilman Ted Keene at Monday night's MAC meeting.
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Santa Ana Orange County Register
Santa Ana, California, US
Thu, Jul 12, 1979
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