AGREEMENT EXPIRES MARCH 31 Capi lano Colle negotiations com CAPILANO COLLEGE faculty will for the first time be coordinating collective bargaining information and strategy with other B.C. community colleges to back contract de- mands for wage increases and workload reductions in cur- rent negotiations. Collective agreements between faculty and Capilano College, Nanaimo's Malaspina College. Cariboo College in Kamloops and New Westminster's Douglas Col- lege all expire March 31. Ed Lavalle, Capilano College instructor and vice-president of the College-Institute Educators’ Association of B.C. (C-IEA), said Wednesday faculty representatives at all four colleges will be sharing and coordinating information and perhaps coordinating negotiating strategy in what C-IEA is calling a “critical negotiating year."* Main issues in the negotiations, Lavalle said, will include instructor workload, salaries and treatment of part-time staff. in a C-IEA statement issued earlier this week, the union said “college faculty will be secking to reverse the effects on their salaries and working conditions of eight years of government restraint." C-IEA president Paul Ramsey said college faculty in 1989 ‘twill be starting a period of catch-up after cight vears of restraint. We will be proposing substantial pay increases, more realistic workloads and a better deal for part-timers.”’ Ramsey said faculty proposals would be calling for wage increases ‘tin the tow double digit area...between 10 and 12 per cent.” C-JEA Local 1, which represents the over 300 full and part-time Capitano College instructors, met Dec. 15 with the college in an ini- tial negotiating session. By TIMOTHY R News Reporter Because the college will not know what its 1989 provincial grant will be until the provincial budget is presented in late March or early Apzil, negotiating sessions between nc and the end of Feb- ruary will deal primarily with non-monetary issues. Although Lavalle declined to release specific contract demands being tabled by Capilano College faculty, he said instructors were secking ‘*economic justice."* Details of the instructors’ bargaining position will be released later this month. In 1986, instructors at Capilano College went on strike for 16 days to back demands for higher wages and reduced workloads. The three-year contract that ended the strike provided for base teacher salary increases of 3.25 per cent in 1986-87 and three per cent increases in each of the two subse- quent years. Prior to those raises, base teach- er salaries at the college had not been increased since April 1, 1983. As of August 1988, annual Capilano College instructor salaries ranged from $28,935 up to $46,539 for an instructor who teaches a full nine sections (or courses). Lavalle said approximately one third of Capilano College instruc- tors are at the top of the wage scale. The majority, he said, are in the mid-range and only a few, NEWS SPONSORS GRENBY TALK Money handling skills taught at financial CONFUSED ABOUT taxation or how to seminar invest your money? 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As part of the seminar, audience members will receive a free tax planning booklet and a personal- ized RRSP retirement projection prepared by the Certified General Accountants Association. The financial News seminar begins at 7 p.m. Questions will be fielded at 8:15, and from 8:30 to 9:30 free individual advice is available. Tickets are $5 in advance and are obtainable at the North Shore News office at 1139 Lonsdale Ave. If you wish to order tickets by credit card and pick them up at Centennial Theatre on the night of the seminar, call the News Promo- tions department at 985-2131. primarily part-time temporary in- structors, are at the bottom end. While Capilano College academ- ic instructors are contracted to work a minimum of 16 contact (or in-class) hours per week for eight months, Lavalle estimated addi- tional in-office and pre-and post-preparation time requires nine-section instructors to work an average of between 50 and 60 hours per week. The average is estimated from a 3 - Sunday, January &, 1989 - North Shore News 10-month instructor work year. Ramsey said the college instruc- tor workload issue is extremely complex, but comes dawn to ‘toa many students and not enough in- structors.°" But community colleges have been faced with a steady erosion of provincial funding over the past few years. Provincial grants to Capilano College have dropped from $12.6 million in 1983 to $12.2 million in ie faculty ence 1988. Enroiment, meanwhile, has continued to rise: from 4,100 stu- dents in 1986 to 5,100 in 1988. Ramsey said college faculty bargaining resources are being co- ordinated because, with college boards appointed and funded by the province, ‘the various union locals recognize that they are really Negotiating with the provincial government, and there was a need to act in a more coordinated man- ner."* shoto Mike Wakelleld WEST VANCOUVER Foundation chairman Keith Duncan (left) recently presented West Vancouver Mayor Don Lanskail with a cheque for $250,06¢ to go tewards the enhancement of West Vancouver District’s waterfront. Lanskail received the donation at Ambleside Landing, where the beautification work will take place. W. Van Foundation funds Ambleside Landing projects | major beach works, construction WEST VANCOUVER’s new Ambleside Landing project received two Christmas presents from the West Van- couver Foundation. Foundation chairman Keith Duncan recently presented West Vancouver District Mayor Don Lanskail with two donations — totalling $250,000 — that will go towards the enhancement of the district’s waterfront park at the foot of 14th Street. One, for $240,000, was made possible through a bequest from the late Roy F. Wrigley. A second donation of $50,000, intended for lighting at Ambleside Landing, was from the Kay Meek Foundation. A great deal of work has already been conducted at the foot of 14th Street, including of a rock groyne, public square, boat ramp and fountain, and placement of the old ferry termi- nal building, now under renova- tion. The West Vancouver Founda- tion was formed to facilitate the receiving of tax deductibie gifts and bequests to be used for educational, cultural and other projects contributing to the bet- terment of life for residents of the district.