European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 06, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 the stars and stripes Friday May 6, 1977 new York Tymn part time workers such As those at control data s Selby bindery Are a Low paid but eager work timers by Jerry Funt new York tires a Here s a Little factory in St. Paul that May be unique in the annals of manufacturing. It s not the product this control data corp. Plant merely produces manuals for the company and a few out Side customer. What s different is the bindery s work schedule. We re the Only part time facility in the world says Richard Mangram the Man Ager. A morning shift allows women to work while their children Are in school and an afternoon shift is filled by students. These Short shifts were set up to create More jobs for inner Eity Blacks. Such sched uling although unusual in manufacturing is part of a growing trend in the world of work the employment of part timers. Part timers Are most obvious Selling clothing at Sears or dispensing Hamburg ers at Mcdonald s. But they Are also busily punching keyboards in offices teaching in universities Selling insurance or standing watch As Security guards. Today one american voluntarily works part time for every five and a half full time workers. A decade ago it was one part Umer for eight fall timers and is years ago it was one for 10. A filth of today s unemployed workers want netting Bat part time jobs two decades ago it was Only a hers seeking part time work May be distorting the unemployment figures which Are crucial in setting National economic policy. The government s unemployment figures incidentally Are collected by 1,000 women working part time it s where the growth is in the Economy retail Trade and the services says John Bregger of the Bureau of labor statistics. Heis chief of its division of employ ment raises a question about realistic employment goals says Robert Bednarzik a , analyst who has been studying part timers for a year. With a fifth of the nation s unemployed people seeking Only part time work he explains a s per cent Overall jobless rate Iff actually a 4 per cent rate for those seeking full time jobs. The implications of this swing have just begun to be studied but May be significant part timers for example provide a Low paid but eager work Force which delights employers. They Are Bard to organize which disgruntled provide jobs for millions of women entering the labor Force. Yet the huge num part time work does t seem to move in relation to the business Cycle he continues. The part tuner can hold his or. More Likely her Job during a recession which Means there May be a solid under pinning for family income even in bad times. Employers pay part timers close to the minimum wage and give them few fringe benefits. Providing fringes accounts for 35per cent of labor costs at Many companies. Loyalty absolute loyalty boasts Man cram of control data when be talks about his part timers mostly Black women. We a 1 per cent absenteeism against t per cent in the corporation Overall. And we re an Otter and can hire people for or fwd 10 am. To 4 Tia wow Stop Fie nay them f rom i to or asks eur Ginsberg co Humbla professor who s int Snow the for r at the Howard Johnson co., 25000 employees Are part timers. I dont too what would without then says Robert Mackinnon vice president personnel of the restaurant and Motel the . Kresge co. S4.000 of the 131,000 workers work 24 tour a week Orless. Theystartatii35of $2.40 a hour and promotions Are not common. Hamlet twice. Personnel vice president sex. _ a a in am North Plains Why part timers Are in demand of regular employees get a saturday sunday off and a weekend off every third week. Our part time people want Par time. Very rarely would we take anyone who wants 40 hours work and give them apart time half the seven million women who joined the labor Force in the last decade entered As part timers. Of the present 13 Mil lion part time workers women outnumber men 2 to 1. Among teen age part timers it s 550, but women outnumber men 7 to 1 in the age group of 25 to 54.it is possible though Saya Bednanek that older men some of them taking Earl retirement from full time jobs Are moving into More part time work. In the s54no order group of part timers there Are two men for every three women. The growth in the part time labor Force May mean trouble for onions. Last fairs three me oui strike at United parcel service ended Only when the company agreed to pay a extra $1 an boar to part timers and pledged not to subs title them for full time workers. An economist at the american federa Tion of labor Congress of Industrial organizations says employers to try hire part timers to avoid fringes such As pensions and health and he acknowledge that such workers have so Little invested in the Job that they Are not prime prospects for unionization. The growth in part time workers millions of workers 14 4 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 unemployed part time workers 1976 in millions total 7.288 seekers of part Lime work seekers of full time work 1.414 5.874 Mary Shturm today one american voluntarily works part time for every five and a half full time workers. By Ermo bomb Chat wits end i m going to Tell you today about a Friend of mine who sees Good in everyone and the world were to end tomorrow. Ruth would smile and observe. Perfect that s when my charge account Billing Are saying to yourself. Big Deal. A lot of people see nothing but but Ruth sees goodness in kids. The other Day at a Kaffee Klatsch. Mayva purposely tested Ruth to see what she could come up with in the Way of positive thinking. My daughter said she hated said Mayva. Thank goodness you still said Ruth. She has started to drink a cheer up she could be she is said Only cigarettes counselled Ruth gently. She said she s leaving it s wonderful smiled Ruth to raise a child who can assume to share an on your Knees it s a sighed Ruth. It s a said Mayva Shell be fortunate enough to have a Man around for she told me to mail her said Mayva. And to t in t that stated Ruth. Thin some parents Don t even know where their children do you know i found half of my clothes in her closet to think there Are 22 years Between you and you both Wear the same sue 16." said Mayva bitterly. When the metric system comes Well All be in theft in numbers. Be ?ing Oul 0 added frugal Little said Ruth. She s Reading books on How to find should read More and watch less to " she certainly left her room in a mess said Mayva pushing open the door of her bedroom. Ruth peeked to gasped fell Back and in a voice shaking with anger so rocked. This in t a room it s none imperfect. Her
