9- Sunday, May 4, 1986 - North Shore ‘News

NV BOARD CONTRACT TALKS

- Teachers reject offer

NORTH VANCOUVER teachers have rejected a final con-

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‘tract offer from North. Vancouver School Board.

“in a show-of-hands vote taken at
an emergency teachers’. meeting
Thursday; afternoon,...an - over-.
_~ whelming majority of the approx-
imately: 300 teachers in attendance
‘voted to reject the’ board’s final

: offer. ; .

: North "Vancouver “Teachers’
_ Association + “(NVTA)? president
Andy Krawczyk’ said “Friday ‘the.
association’ would hold an
: emergency meeting Wednesday to
draw up‘an action plan for the ap-
proximately _ 1,000: ‘full: and. part-

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very frustrating,”’ Krawczyk said.
a tWe presented the committee. with

many | of which have’ ‘nothing to: do.
with: salaries, and they refused “to.

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: disappoinied and uipset.’”

- Board bargaining committee
chairman trustee Marg Jessup said

the board had given each of the

items careful consideration, many
of’ which, she ‘said,
teacher working conditions.

Under the School ;Act those de-

mands, Jessup argucd, do. not

qualify: as. negotiable. ‘contract

items. 7
Jessup’ said a lot, of ‘the items
. proposed. by the NVTA: “would

cost us money. And in these times, ..

“money items have to be looked at

very: carefully. Our budget | was’

drafted to replace lost’ services and
jobs: rather than increase salaries.”

‘ Because a settlement can still be
either side in the cur- -
8 will release’ details :

-negotiats

-Vancouver teacher — salary,’
- benefits, is $38,672. The provincial
related to.

Krawczyk declined to say what -
the salary increases sought by the -

NVTA were, but elsewhere in the
province teachers are asking for
raises anywhere from six to 10 per
cent.

With 70 per cent of the district's
teachers at the top of the wage in-
crement scale, the average .North
with

average is $37,190.

Jessup said the board will be
holding a special meeting Tuesday
night to address ¢ contract negotia-
tions.

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