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iggIVERSITY 0F PRINCE EDEégg I§LAND
FACULTY ASSOCATION PROPOSAL ON
FACULTY SALARY SCHEDULE OF MINIMUMS
1973 - 1974 l 2 Years in 1972—73 Rank Schedule of Including Minimums 1972-73"
3 4 1973—74 Years in Schedule Rank
of Including Minimums 1973-74
RANK IMMEDIATELY BELOW ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
0 $ 9,270 $ 9,777 1
1 ” 9,270 10,091 2
2 9,599 10,431 3
3' 10,122 10,986 4
4 10,459 11,340 5 more than 4 10,472 11,354 more than 5 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
0 $11,603 $12,194 1
1 11,603 ’12,658 2
2 12,035 13,013 3
3 12,732 13,855 4
4 13,181- 14,317 5
5 13,631 14,790 6
6 14,080 15,262 7 MORE THAN 6 14,097 15,280 more than 7 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
0 $15,082 $15,851 1
l *IS,082 16,431 2
2 15,622 16,999, 3
3 16,504 17,926 4
4 17,066 18,516 5
5 17,627 19,108 6
6 18,189 19,626 7 more than 6 18,210 19,719 more than 7 PROFESSOR
0 $19,140 $20,166 1
1 19,140 20,812 2
2 19,788 21,493 3
3 20,867 22,627 4
4 21,541 23,335 5
5 22,214 24,043 6
6 22,888 24,751 7 more than 6 22,914 '24,778 more than 7
AN ISSUE FORLCONSCIENCE
In 1971, the Special Sen—
. ate Committee on Poverty
published its report. Part of this report consisted of
the setting of poverty lin- *
es. By the Committees defi— nition, if you make below the salaries listed, you are
living in poverty conditions.
For a married couple with no children the minimum is $3570, if they have one 1 child $4290, two children $5000, three children $5710 etc. These were the figures as published in 1971 and-do not include the increases due to cost of living.
The University of Prince Edward Island is a partially government run organization. Despite this the administr— ation does not seem to be aware of the figures ment— ioned, or are indifferent to them. As can be seen from the salary scale for non-academic employees a large number of these are below the set poverty lines. It has come to my attention that there is a foreman in , range #27. If this is true then the workers of this community are making less than the $5235 which is tops in this range.
For the staff member who comes in at the bottom, his salary will be $3229 a year, non—negotiable. The same
position on faculty nets $9270 which is only a min— imum and is negotiable. The difference here is hardly noticable ($6000) if we go to the other end of the scale and see a difference of over $13000. Simple ari— thmetic will show that $3229 per year works out to about $1.55 an hour. Would you do manual labour at that wage? In talking with members of the staff I found it difficult'to find out how you get promoted. It appears
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‘ that the way is lined by a recommendation of your supi erior, which is always a wonderful way to stop any boat rocking that might dev‘ elop.
But things are looking better, or are they? The workers now are in atunion. they are represented in negotiations by two carp: enters and an electrician. Those two trades make up
‘about 10% of the union, whereas the cleaners who are over half of the union
have no.representative. This appears to me like
" asking Dundas Farms to look
after the interestsof the small farmers of Prince Edward Island. The matter of the rink attendants also has me puzzled. I learned that they are union members, they pay their dues, yet for some reason are not represented by the union in
V negotiations.Strange happen-
ings.
The argument was present- ed to me that the salaries are low but you can increase
_ if you stay on. In my rese—
arch I discovered one part— icularly interesting exam- ple. There is a person on this campus who has worked here for over twenty years. That's a hell of a long tome to put into any job.
This individual is consi— dered to be the best worker in his/her occupation on campus. The shameful facts are the salary of $4122 per year that is paid to this individual. Good money for a lifetime work.
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