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- From: colinj@engin.umich.edu (Colin Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Co-ordinator's Employement Contracts
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 19:08:49 EST
- Organization: Students for a Cooperative Society
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- In article <lpG=sC-@engin.umich.edu> blagdon@engin.umich.edu (Kenneth James Clark ) writes:
- >In article <JrF=3b@engin.umich.edu> colinj@engin.umich.edu (Colin Johnson) writes:
- >> You might want to contact the Inter-Cooperative Council in
- >>Ann Arbor Michigan. They have a contract for their employees that seems
- >>to be very fair and equitable.
- >
- >At least if you are one of those employees. You should know that there
- >is a significant fraction of the current residents of the ICC that feel
- >that our staff members are untouchables and aren't accountable to the
- >membership. Please note that Brian Nagorsky, who sent one of the responses
- >to the original posting, is currently one of the paid staff members.
- >Hardly an objective opinion.
- >
-
- Let's not consider that it was board members that wrote the
- contracts and hired the current staff.
-
- >If you intend to use these contracts as a model, I strongly suggest you
- >add written, quantifiable performance requirements; yearly, public
- >performance appraisals; and short contracts, with renewal dependent
- >upon the ratings received in these appraisals. This will only guarantee
- >you that if you get a bad apple, you aren't stuck with them for life.
- >
-
- Almost none of which ever gets brought up by the members of
- ICC-Ann Arbor.
-
- >Note that the above mention of Brian Nagorsky is not intended to imply
- >that he is a problem. He's one of the few paid staff members that no
- >one is griping about.
- >
-
- And gripe is about all that they ever do. Not a word of
- constructive criticism or feedback.
-
- >KC
-
- Let's face as far as member empowerment goes there almost none
- here in Ann Arbor. And that is all on the part of the members they
- don't want to be empowered. They just want to complain.
-
- Colin J.
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