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DP‘ Capilano College, business administration, students confront instructor Tony Vic on the -
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NEGOTIATORS for the Capilano College board of
directors and the striking Capilano College Faculty
Association (CCFA) failed to resolve the college’s labor
dispute in a three-hour meeting Monday night.

. “Based on meetings over the
weekend, we thought there was
the possibility of a settlement,’’
Ed Luvyalle said Tuesday morn-
ing. **But if anything the situa-
tion is tougher now. We went
from cooperation on Saturday
and Sunday to confrontation on
Monday. Given the time (of the
dispute), the board’s proposal is
both provocative and insulting.”’

The CCFA’s chief negotiator
said the (wo sides had agreed
over the weekend that the effects
of increased teacher work-load at

IMOTHY RENSHA
News Reporter

the college should be re-
evajuated.

Im Monday's meeting, Lavalle
ssid the CCFA proposed a
work-load task force be
established and its recommenda-
tions be instituted by arbitration
if necessary.

The board, he said, was inter-
ested in the proposal, but not in-

terested in arbitration.

course time

and money

CAPILANO COLLEGE students are beginning to fear the
permanent loss of time aad money invested in courses dat
have been halted since Oct, 27 when 270 members of the
Capilano College Faculty Association struck over the issue
of teacher work-loud at the college.

Chostiit Beckett, one of 20
people enrolled in an accelerated
version of the college's award.
winking Camputer Systets
Management course, said) Mriday
the future of the course for het
chins will be black if the labor
dispute is nat sete by the end ot
this week

the Bl-veaseoht cepusteresdd tarse
said momentum dost aver two
weeks could not be cogtined .

“Toa oom partivulat course,
studies have to be kept ups des
samilat tooinath, One step back is
like 10 steps back. With one week
lost, weare abicady starting: to Teel
it. Alter twooweeks, the course will
really startte fallapart

Beckett sud othe accelerated
COHDSE ES a Eweevear program cone
densed ante TQ months and
therefore requites mlensive study
and commons practical guidanee,

The extended snteruptian ot
either, she said, would cause is:
reversible damage.

A former intensive cate purse at
St. Pauls hospital, Beekett said
she yatve up her $30,000 per veur
salary to enroll ing the Capihine
College progeam,

She decided on the move as a
career change and to combine her
nursing expertise with the business
and computer skills offered in the
program,

Beckett's program: bexan in July
and was scheduled to run to April.

Thus far, she says she has in-
vested about $4,500 in books and
tuition in seven full-tine courses,

“And I've worked day and night
for the past four months. You
can't pula price on that."

Instead, the board repre-
sentalives suggested that 12 of
the college’s 127 full-time college
instructors could be designated
hardship cases and permitted to
teach eight sections, or courses,
instead uf nine without having
their salaries cut by the full pro-
rated amount, .

Board chairman Hilda Rizun
said Tuesday the board's pro-
posal was one of a number made
“to find an area of solution to
what is keeping us apart.”

In the dispute, the board main-
tains a nine-section annual
work-load for college teachers is
the norm, while the CCFA main-
tains an eight-section work-load
is the norm.

Wy IEMOTHY RENSHAW
News Reporter
teed

In hopes uf) convineing the
COFA and the college board to
sete the dispute and: save their
program, Beckett and the test of
hee class have drafted a letter to
both sides calhap fot a quick tesa
lation,

te the fetter, the students point
out that they sire saature students
(most of them ate between JO and
40 years old who can only afford
to be out of tus work fotee for 10
months,

“Wo oa stitke continues. the let:
fer states, ‘we will be devastated
Haaneraily acd oie anibitions will
be serratiaty comproniised.

Beckett added: We are using
fo remind them Che teachers and
the board) of the personal costs to
the individual (ot the strike. tf
don't believe in the ethics of 20
trashed students for the sake of
better edhication. W's Hike being a
fat in aan esmeriment.*’

Capilane Coliege president Dr,
Doug Jardine said he sempathized
with all the college's students: and
understood the difficulties the
strike was causing them, but said
most would be wble to pick up the
pieces after the dispute was resolv.
ed,

Jardine said that, depending on
the (ime it Lakes to settle the strike,
“all the students stand to lose is
twe weeks or a month. We don't
sce the loss of an. entire year,
Phat’s small comfort, | know.”

The college president added that
extra time could be added to the
end of college terms to make up
for time lost during the strike.

“

The last board offer (to the
CCFA called for a raise in the
top teacher salary from $41,408
to $46,000 by Aug. 1, 1987.

The 270-member CCFA is
seeking a top salary of $45,700
for teachers working nine sec-
tions, and of‘ering to use the
balance of the amount offered to
restore to 50 per cent of full-time
teachers the right to work eight
sections at $43,200 rather than
the fully prorated eight-section
salary of $40,800 offered by the
board.

Though so further negotia-
tions -had been scheduled, Rizun_
said the board had notistopped
searching for a solution: ta:
dispute. P