2 - Friday, August 13, 1993 -. North Shore News

School board ruled out wage increases for teachers

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meet the union’s bareaining de-
mands.

Bell said the union rejected the
board's final contract offer in
June but did not respond with an
offer of its awn.

“There was no request by the
union for summer negotiations. In
fact it was the board thar re-
quested summer bargaining.

“We do rot have the ability to
raise additional money. We had
what we thought were productive
mediation sessions last June but
the union broke off mediation,”
said Bell.

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He added thar the school board
was willing to go to binding ar-
bitration but that the unos
wanted a private arbiteator to be
involved rather than MeArthuc,

Bell suid the board was not
willing. fo pay for ao private ar.
bitrafor who was not aware of the
issues like MeArtbur had been,

He added the school board has
cut back in its administrative staft
and fow of the board's top ad-
ministrators have taken wage
rollbacks while school trustees
bave taken a cut in their indem
nity.

Bell District 44's

said that

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enrolment for this school yeitr will
increase by 416 students to 16,785,
He said the board's 1993-904
budget of $97,660,000 is $700,000
less than what the provincial gov-
ernment gave it for the last school
year,

Bell added thar the NYVSB has
cut $140 million from: ais budgets
over the last three years.

There are approximately |,000
fuall-time-equivalent teachers in
District 44. The district: serves 31
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the District 44 school system, said
students are being used as
bargaining chips in’ che labor
dispute.

“This should have been settled
lone ago. There's no reason tor it
to go on this long when they had
all of the summer to work out a
deal.

“Tm sympathetic to the teach.
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want my childrens’ education to
suffer because these two sides
can't work our a deal.’ said
Souter.

Another North Vancouver
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the Libor dispute has been atowed
to gooon this far aud called on
Labor Minister Moe Sihota to
prohibit teachers from goine on
strike.

The NVSB fas ruled out any
wage increases for teachers, saying
any salary hikes would result) in
layoffs. The union, meanwhile,
has not yet proposed a wage in-
eTe¢ilee,

District 44 teachers are currently
paid between $30,856 and $66,328
annually without benefits,

They work 187 days o year. Five
of those days are professional, o
non-teaching days.

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