Don't be cei Guy Heywood Contributing Writer A recent Sunday edi- tion of the North Shore News rather uncritically reported a declaration of “victory” by Joe Badali, national CUPE representative, over the North Vancouver school dis- trict on the issue of the entirely regrettable but necessary decision to implement a wholesaic layoff and re-posting of jobs for special educa- tion aides. Hf indeed this is 2 victory tor CUPE, it is a defeat for * the public interest. First of all it is not clear to me thar this decision is within the jurisdiction of the Industrial Inquiry Commission to enforce, but that is for die lawyers and courts to decide. Assuming, that it can be enforced, whose interests are really being, served? For students, their interest in stable aide assignments during the year is trumped by the union “right” to have the bumping process work itself out for however many matibox Locals pick up provincial responsibil Dear Editor: _ _ Lam writing to express my thanks to the volunteers who deaned litrer near the Westview Interchange on Saturday morning, Aug. the 12. Seven very large garbage bags were filled. [ am proud of cur accomplishments yet also amazed at the amount of ‘garbage in a relatively small 2 area. A special thank you goes to volunteers Sharon Janousck and Susan White who stayed ‘ill the job was done. Also I ay A AUTOMOTIVE | 10 co Beha Vancower | encourage yea to submit it to the: BC Press Council Box 5414 Victocia, B.C VBR 6S4 * Tek (604) 595-2571 Fax: (604) 595-2573 The B.C Pre Counc was created in _ 1983 as an independent review baard to protecr the public from press “imaccacacy ot unbsicness and to months (or years) it takes to do so. Joe Badali acknowledges that there will be fewer aides because the Industrial Inquiry Commissioners have already given CUPE a victory by acceding to CUPE’s demand that the minimum hours per day be increased. The same dollars have to be split amongst fewer aides. More kids will receive the split attention of fewer aides because the same hours are now allocated according to the requirements of the union agreement instead of according to the require- ments of the kids. How exactly is this a victory for kids? Parents will soon realize that public spending on edu- cation is once again being channelled according to the want to thank the local Westview Susinesses, Safeway and the Esso gas station, as well as the Royal Bank of West Vancouver. The City of North Live beautifully, to Avense Dining | Room narrow interest of the union instead in the best interests their children. How exactly is this a victory for parents? What sbout the individual special education aides that are represented (or misrepre- sented) by the CUPE union bureaucracy? They have had the process explained to them whereby all of the jobs — those lost due to the higher minimue hours — will be re- posted in a wav that should minimize the likelihood of bumping. Individual aides do not have an interest in going through the bumping process because for most of them they could just as casily be the bumpee as the bumper. The only benefit appears to accrue to the CUPE union bureaucrats who have their increasing control over the public education system con- firmed while they ti¢ the sys- tem up in knots for the time it takes to bump through the whole bargaining unit. The bumping process for this magnitude of reorganiza- don could take years to work out. Children would be at constant risk of having their aides taken from them throughout the year. The people who have these aide jobs — as opposed to the comfortable and distant CUPE bureauerats — will be at risk of being bumped from Vancouver provided us with supplies of gloves, vests, garbage bags, and litter picker uppers to make the job much casier and safer. This generosity was appre-