& = Wednesday, April 15, 1987 -

North Shore News

NVTA PRESIDENT SAYS 90% OPPOSE LEGISLATION
Teachers support labor laws — MLA

MOST TEACHERS are not that strongly opposed to the
new government legislation which reduces the power of the

B.C. Teachers’

Federation,

according to North Van-

couver-Capilano MLA Angus Ree.

He said local teachers feel they
“have to be adverse to the legis’
tion because the BCTF says th,
have to be.”’

“The BCTF has become an ac-
tive political force against the gov-
ernment — Social Credit. We have
many teachers who are NDP, so |
think the reaction is more political
than otherwise,”’ Ree said.

But Andy Krawczyk, president
of the North Vancouver Teachers’
Association, said he is amazed that
Ree would make such a statement
when 90 per cent of local teachers
have expressed their opposition to
B.C.’s proposed new labor laws.

Krawczyk said cpposition letters
signed by the majority of the
association’s 900 members were
presented to Ree and North Van-
couver-Seymour MLA Jack Davis
during a meeting in Victoria
Saturday.

He said the association has two
main concerns about the new legis-
lation. Firstly, that principals and
vice-principals will become
management, thus splitting the
BCTF, and secondly, the bill
would force teachers to join a Col-
lege of Teachers.

| Ry XIM PEMBERTON

News Reporter

The college would take the
power away from BCTF by deter-
mining teachers’ qualifications; by
becoming the profession's
disciplinary body; and by ensuring
teachers’ continued professional
development.

Said Ree: ‘‘I think the legislation
is good. It gives teachers an oppor-

tunity to separate the basic negoti-
ated workplace issue from profes-
sionalism, At the moment the
BCTF seems to do both of them."’

But Krawezyk said it is wrong to
set up an industrial relations mode
of managers and employers, when
all members of staff share in the
task of education.

“It is sicaply erroneous to what
goes on in a school system. The
college would also be centralized at
the provincial level and there will
be far less opportunity for indi-
vidual members’ input,’’ Krawczyk
said.

Ree said he believes North Van-
couver teachers are hesitant about

WV wants bill rethink

AFTER LENGTHY debate, West Vancouver School Board
voted 3-2 to send a letter to the provincial government, ask-
ing it to consult with groups affected by proposed labor leg-
islation before passing bills 19 and 20.

Board member Jean Ferguson
said the Social Credit government
is pushing the pruposals through
the legislature too quickly.

“If consultation can somehow
conciliate the inflammatory situa-
tion developing... I think it would
serve us better in the long run,’
she told the board.

By ROBERT BEYNON
Contributing Writer

Board chairman George Suart,
who voted for the motion, said he
generally approved of the propos-
ed legislation, but felt it was being

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the college because they don't yet
know how it will function.

‘DT can understand their con-
cerns,’* he said. ‘But | don't think
the legislation is etched in stone —
it will be amended from time to
time.”

Regarding the issue of principals
and: vice-principals, Ree said an
association of such members could
be formed.

West Vancouver Teachers
Association met Thursday with
West Vancouver-Howe Sound
MLA John Reynolds.

WVTA's co-presidents Kit

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Krieger and Peter Lefaivre said
they asked Reynolds, who is House
Speaker and must remain neutral,
to urge the government ia private
quarters to withdraw the legisia-
tion.

“He was non-committal,"’
Krieger said. ‘‘But wg hope he sees
the present course the government
is going on and will communicate
with government that this is a
disasterous policy."

Both local teachers’ associations
mect this week to discuss possible
action to fight the new legislation.
if strike action is approved it will
be announced by the BCTF.

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