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SQUAMISH
Nation members
decide today if they
will accept $92.5
million from the

federal government.

The money was offercd
June 9 as compensation tor
reserve lands on the North
Shore, in Squamish and in
Kitsilano from which the
band was forced carly in the
20th Century.

In order to get the money
members also must accept a
settlement agreement negoti-
ated by the late Chief Joe
Mathias and the government.

The agreement allows a
distribution to all members
of up to 20% of the $92.5
million, The rest of the
money is to go into a trust
and can be used for things
like education, social pro-
grams, purchasing or repair-
ing houses, — enhancing
Squamish Nation culture and
language; generating busi-
nesses and economic activi-

See Vote page &

Jen-Christian Sorensen
Contrituting Writer
THE Industrial Inquiry Commission (IIC) has
ordered the North Vancouver School District
back to the drawing board.

On. Tuesday, the governmert-appointed body directed
District 44 to rescind its wholesale layoff of 438 special educa-
tion staff members.

spe
accordance with the CUPE provincial collective agreement,
which reorganized the number of employee hours into a mini-
mum four-hour workday.

The district had a number of SEAs that worked 14- to 16-

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NEWS photo Terry Peters

Crash landing

THE driver of this Oldsmobile lost control of the vehicle while exiting the Capilano Mall underground parking lot. The car veered
across Hanes Avenue, struck the curb and was launched on top of a parked Chevrolet Cavalier in the Walmart parking iot. The dri-

ver was taken to Lions Gate Hospital.

Commission rules District 44
must negotiate with CUPE

hour weeks, depending on the nature of their assignment.
Under the collective agreement, job classifications will now be
based on a new standard of 20-, 25-, 27-and a-half or 30-hour
work weeks.

North Vancouver was the only school district. in’ the
province to implement the changes through a widespread lay

fF of its employees. It had planned to recall laid-off workers i

the fall, bur still permanently slash 75 positions.

The HC was appointed to help hammer out a collective
agreement between CUPE and the province after the govern-
ment legislated striking workers back to school in the spring.

Joe Badali, the national CUPE representative assigned to
North Vancouver, said chat the union had asked the school
board to sit down and negotiate the implementation of the
changes earlier in June but was refused.

CUPE went to the HC earlier this month to ask for clarifi-
cation on the school board’s decision to cut its special needs
staff entirely, claiming it was in violation of an earlier ITC
report.

Badali charged that the school board has tried to pin the
blame for the layoffs squarely on the shoulders of the union.

“tt was punitive action by the employer,” said Badali. “M
perspective of it is that they didn’t get their way at the b:
ing table and they were less than warm to the four-hour mini-
mum (day) and the job security that’s contained in the accord

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