8 - Friday, October 24, 1986 - North Shore News

CEU ‘NEEDED CLOUT’

Cap College union votes to merge

THE INDEPENDENT
CAPILANO College
Employees Union (CEU) has
voted 94 per cent to merge
with local 378 of the Office
& Technical Employees
Union (OTEUV).

CEU president Mick Maguire
said Tuesday the vote was taken

Saturday “becuse we needed
some clout.”

Formed in 1974, the 140-
member CEU has been a bargain-
ing unit since 1983,

OTEU local 378 has about 6,200
members.

Maguire said the CEU had only
just ratified an agreement with the
college in August after negotiating
for almost two years.

The union's contract
pired in 1984.

“So we had been without a con-

had ex-

tract for two years. ft (the situa-
tion) really reinforced the need for
professional help. The days of
amateur trade union representation
are over.”

The OTEU was chosen, Maguire
said, because it was seen as a proe-
ressive, noncontrontational union.

In Jate December, 1985, the
CEU reguested mediation in a
dispute with the college, after col-
lege administration presented plans
to apply for student employment
grants and employ college students

in projects that college president
Dr. Doug Jardine said would be
“nice-to-have rather than need to
have."

At the Gime the CEU had com-
plained that) students would be
employed to do union jobs at less
than the union’s $10.64 base rate,

The dispute has since been ser
ed and Maguire expects the union's
contract will be signed before
Christmas.

The three-year contract, which
expires at the end of September,

1987, calls for no wage increase.

CEU members include aff cleri-
cal, technical and maintenance
staff at Capilano College.

The majority of the union's
members earn between $12 and Si4
per hour,

Local 378 of the OTEU repre-
sents workers at ICBC, B.C
Hydro, SkyTrain and 16 other
bargaining units in B.C.

The CEU will henceforth
become an OTEU bargaining unit.

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