| Feeling lucky? You could drive away with $25. SEE PAGE 23 FOR DETAILS Nevembez 17, 1989 News 925-2132 Classified 936-6222 Distrivution 986-1337 29 pages 25¢ PICKET LINES COULD BE UP MONDAY ‘Volley’ during ‘a match’ with’ “Handsworth, Wonneoass at Wat Van- & Th "Highlanders. won three straight games and are ranked first going into a § Shore touriament: this ‘weekend against second place Handsworth, Argyle and § fins will “be held Saturday 7:30 p.m. at West Vancouver: Secondary. CAPILANO COLLEGE could be behind picket lines Monday if members of the Office and Technical Employees’ Union (OTEU) employed at the college vote to strike today. OTEU spokesman Paula Stromberg said Thursday the union will issue 72-hour strike notice as soon as the Industrial Relations Council-supervised vote is counted late Friday afternoon. The union, which represents ap- proximately 170 Capilano College audio visual, maintenance, clerical and library workers, would be in a legal strike position by late Mon- day. Capilano College Faculty Association president Robert Camfield said Thursday the association’s inembership would honor any OTEU picket lines. Classes for the college’s 5,000 stu- dents would then likely be cancell- ed. Stromberg anticipated that to- day’s vote would strongly support strike action because OTEU members at the college had voted 80 per cent Oct. 19 to strike. But the vote was not supervised by the IRC and therefore not legal under current B.C. labor laws. Contract talks between the col- lege and the OTEU have been under way since late September. Mediator Hugh Ladner entered the negotiations Nov. 6, but book- ed out Nov. 10 after making little progress in helping the two sides reach a settlement. The OTEU wants wage increases similar to those negotiated by the college’s instructors earlier this year, which the union maintains total about 23 per cent over 33 months. The wage scale for Capilano College’s OTEU members ranges from $11.03 up to $25.47 per hour. According to the union, the average OTEU wage at the college is $14 per hour. The majority of Capilano College OTEU members are paid between $14.33 and $16.38 per hour. An agreement reached between the college and its 335-member faculty association in April added cumulative wage and associated costs of 21.2 per cent over 33 months to the college’s faculty budget. Geoff Holter, the college’s director of employee relations, said Thursday the actual compounded By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter wage increase for the faculty totals 18.6 per cent over the term of the contract. He said Thursday the 23 per cent wage-increase figure contained in the union press release was incor- ‘*,..what the college has put on the table is profoundly insufficient.’ — OTEU spokesman Pauia Stromberg rect and had not previously been presented to the college. The union, he said, had yet to present any specific wage demand. There were no new negotiating sessions scheduled between the two sides to press time Thursday. Holter said the college had pres- ented a contract Tuesday to the union with an offer to settle all outstanding issues in the negotia- tions. The college, he said, had invited the union to meet with its negotiators to discuss the offer, or failing that, allow its membership to vote on the contract. But Stromberg said Thursday the offer was ‘‘not even close. We are willing to negotiate when there is something realistic offered. We want a settlement. But what the college has put on the table is pro- foundly insufficient. It’s several steps backward from where we were when negotiations broke down.”’ Holter denied that the offer rep- resented any steps backward, ad- ding that the union was obviously **not interested in talking.”’ While he declined to give details of the contract offer, Holter said the wages contained in it were close to those contained in the faculty settlement. The OTEU's previous two-year contract with the college, which provided for a total seven per cent wage increase, expired Oct. 31.