Japanese to buy in to Di THE LARGEST construction company in Japan has entered into an agreement to buy into North Vancouver’s largest construction company Dillingham Construction Ltd. Announcement of the deal was made Wednesday with SC-US Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Tokyo-based Shimizu Construc- tion Co. Lid.,agreeing to buy in to Dillingham Construction from Dillingham Holdings Inc. The purchase price has not been publicly disclosed by either party. The SC-US Inc. purchase in- volves all three North American branches of Dillingham, including the company’s construction branch, encrgy branch and mari- time branch. “‘The agreement to purchase will not be totally finalized until June 22," said Dillingham marketing administrator Gale LePitre. ‘‘The company has been up for sale for several months.”* Weather: Sunday through Tuesday, cloudy with rain. Highs near 17°C. The agreement to purchase was entered into May 27. SC-US Inc. and Dillingham Construction management have agreed that management and employees will hold a majority in- terest in the new company which will continue to operate under the Dillingham name. LePitre expects the exact per- centage figure for management and employee control to be finalized in August with retention of an over 51 per cent majority. The remainder will be controlled by SC-US Inc. According to LePitre, Dill- INDEX Business........... 14 Classified Ads.......55 Doug Collins........ 9 Comics ............54 Editorial Page....... 6 Fashion ............17 Bob Hunter......... 4 Lifestyles .......... 43 Maifbox............ 7 Sports............. 50 TV Listings.........52 Travel ............. 99 What's Going Qn.....54 ingham Corp. was bought in 1983 in a deal arranged by Kravis, Kohlberg and Roberts, a New York-based investment banking firm. “Dillingham Corp. went private through a leverage buy-out fi- nanced by Kravis, Kohlberg and Roberts,"’ she said. Dillingham Holdings Inc. is managed by Kravis Kohlberg and Roberts for a pension plan investment group. 3 - Sunday, May 31, 1987 ~ North Shore News FOREIGN FIRM BUYS UP NORTH SHORE'S LARGEST CONSTRUCTION COMPANY “Nothing will really change. Our president and CEO, J.R. Baker will remain, and we don’t expect staff changes,"’ she said. With an annual revenue of $7 ‘Hion, Shimizu has been operating its North America for the past 25 years. The construction giant has no plans to integrate its North American operations with Dill- ingham. North Vancouver-based _ Dill- llingham ingham Construction Ltd. employs 160 salaried employees and 900 to 1,000 hourly employees depending on the company’s project load. The company specializes in in- dustrial, building, civil engineer- ing, marine and heavy construction projects. Dillingham Construction Corp. is one of North America’s largest construction firms, with offices and projects worldwide. NEWS photo Terry Peters SHANNON HUMPHREYS leads an aerobic session at Shaw Cable studios. The local station carried eight hours of exercise programming for Participaction day. The results of the three-way challenge between North Vancouver, Richmond, and Halifax are: North Vancouver, 38,702 participants or 37 per cent; Richmond 33,389 or 31 per cent; Halifax with a winning 76 per cent turnout. V teachers biast TEACHING PROFESSION Act Bill 20 will not improve the professionalism of teachers, but will serious rifts between prin- cipals and teachers. By KAREN GRAM Contributing Writer Those were the opinions of teachers speaking at a public forum on Bill 20 at West Van- couver Secondary School Wednes- day. Education columnist and Capilano College instructor Crawford Killian said Bill 20 creates a “triple jeopardy” for teachers and principals by giving the College of Teachers the power to strip unprofessional teachers of their credentials. He challenged the government’s claim that the college will ensure professionalism, because the ap- peal process open to disciplined teachers still ‘‘raises the spector of endless litigation and unpleasant publicity’? for the school boards and college. cause °. school teachers are not required to be members of the College of Teachers, the college council can- not enforce a professional stan- dard on them. “This throws into question the very professionalism the (college) council was created to ensure,"' Killian said. BILL 20 SUPPORTED: SEE STORY IN WEDNESDAY’S WEWS __ Killian said the bill does not alter the current system of dismiss- ing unprofessional teachers, except that it allows school boards to “buy out’? the contracts of un- professional principals. “We will get rid of no more bad apples, but we will spend a lot of money to maintain the status quo,”’ said Killian. . ; Killian added that since private “After all this moaning and groaning, bleeding and uproar, Bill 20 is not going to improve the pro- fessionalism one bit,’' he said. “The whole thing is smoke, mir- rors and a waste of time.” Kit Krieger, co-president of the West Vancouver Teachers Associa- tion, said his main concern is the new hierarchy generated by the bill. He said the new structure will “severely curtail’’ input from parents and teachers. “Teaching requires a coopera- tive model. The principals will no longer represent the needs of stu- dents and teachers, but will be ser- vants of the school boards,’’ he said. Labor lawyer K'm Nichols said the bill shifts the :ozus of labor laws from preserving harmony in the workplace to advancing economic prosperity. Norm Robinson, a professor of education at Simon Fraser Univer- sity, said the net overall effect of removing the principals from the teachers association will be to make relations more adversarial and less harmonious in the schools, But he added that since the bill is now law, ‘teachers have to do everything we can to make the College of Teachers a profes- sional body.”’ APPROXIMATELY 100 people attended a E YORE NEWS photo Neil Lucente public forum on Bill 20 held at West Vancouver Secondary School Wednesday. Above, audience members listen to a panel of speakers address the issue. Left, education columnist and author Crawford Killian speaks out against the bill. Teachers feet the bill will cause serious rifts between teachers and prin- cipals.