College labor-studies program . continues, despite union boycott INSTRUCTORS! teaching Capilano College’s labor-studies program will continue teaching the program despite a con- tinued boycott by the B.C. Federation of.Labor. - / The program's , administrative coordinator Ed / Lavalle said Thursday instructors and members of the program *s/union advisory committee attending a Wednesday night meeting /to discuss the boycott agreed “the position of the program was correct. -.(and that) we would proceed as usual.”” Lavalle said labor-studies _in- structors would meet again after an April 11 meeting scheduled be- tween they college and the B.C. Federation of Labor. Federation officials have said / By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter the boycott was. instituted because the college expanded its program to Nanaimo’s Malaspina College, and had refused to go along with: federation and Canadian Labor Congress guidelines regarding “toals courses’’, which deal with such things as labor grievance pro- cessing and provide training for shop stewards and. other union leadership positions. | The two labor groups want unions to teach courses that. train union officers, But college president Dr. Doug Jardine said he could not-unders- tand the reasons for the boycott. “Our mandate is to try and meet the educational needs of the cam- munity,"’ Jardine said. ‘‘}.mean, here the college is trying to provide good education to union members, and they go and boycott it. It’s re- ally like shooting yourself in the foot.” Jardine said the college has a colicctive agreement with its facul- ty and cannot violate that agree- ment to accommodate federation desires to dictate who should teach Union. studies courses. RESCUE. BOAT Now IN INDIAN ARM. WATERS _ Lifeboat society gets NEWS photo Mike Waketlold ally Waisman displays é ie: s° perly.-s: : : aps “The suit ‘has’ been adjourned. to n ‘its statement of’ ‘défence:. .MVD-~ maintains: that {registered wnership does not constitute lega' “IT WAS OFFICIALLY. an! chors away for the North Shore. Lifeboat Society a) in Deep Cove as of By MICHAEL BECKER News Reporter The NSLS has been granted moorage space at the Deep Cove “Yacht Club for a rescue boat to serve the Indian Arm and sur-, rounding waters. _ Up uatil the Deep Cove mgorage : was granted, the. society had to _ Make Mo. with a single North/Shore . Point Atkinson. The society has “‘operaied a rescue , boat: from the cove since 1981 ‘and currently has a lifeboat. 24-foot high speed operating .on 24-hour .call-in con- junction with Coast Guard; police, : . fire and ambulance Tescue, person: , “nel: : ‘The society responded to 138i in-'.. “cidents and assisted 428 people i in 1987. . The majority of the. calls . in’ sid=s of 4 broken down . were - pleasure craft. : “During the ‘search or. * Musso,’ a man ‘who went! missing “en Mount Seymour on Labor Day,” the society. dispatched a boat. from - Fisherman’s Cove‘ to, Indian. Arm every day: for six days to help: the. North’ Shore ‘Rescue: Team try to “locate the missing, man.’ fo ‘At that: point’ one. of the guys ; proached us : and. ‘said from the Deep Cove os Club there would be okay. We'v. always “wanted to puta Tully Wa in Deep egistration. is. being. waneferred on: ut-of-province’ vehicles... approximately 7 cent’of cars*stolen in Canada, are | tolen in Quebec,’ Lui maintains the: MVD clerk who ‘attended’, his inquiry ‘ should . have checked: ‘the . Y fear out. through the police CRIC : er when Lui’ ‘came’ to the MVD “with the: person ‘who: sold him’ the : stolen car’ did . not:'check, Tegistra- w tion serial: “numbers with the car’ 's: a. base». _ ‘minal at the foot of 14th Strect. | 3 - Wednesday, April 6, 1988 ~ North Shore News He added that Malaspina had invited Capilano College to teach the program on its campus. B.C. Federation spokesman Tom Fawkes said’ the boycott was called because of an ongoing dispute, with the college's program. The dispute, he said. was ‘‘long and complicated and we are not discussing it in the media.” But Lavalle said all. concerns raised by the federation had since been addressed by the college through the.union advisory com- mittee. The program, he said, was designed to accommodate the needs of the unions that use it. He pointed out that the ‘federa- tion had ‘removed its observer boat Society. The yacht club executive granted . a moorage spot carlier this year. . In the meantime the saciety got a ‘fantastic’’ $5,000 deal ona - Hourston Glas craft, an 18-foot hardtop “runabout. ” tions to funds already in place. _The craft .is outfitted “with. emergency equipment pumps, stretchers,” first’ aid’ kits, searchlights, a CB radio, VHF _ tadio and towing lines, The yacht : * eltb has also provided a storage” room to keep emergency equip- “ ment in, Tully. said the group had to ar- range for a Coast Guard cutter to help in the search earlier this year for two Bellingham teens who went. missing while skiing on Mount ‘Seymour. “‘It's silly to get the cut- ter up there (Indian Arm) just to sit there, but. it’s been the closest, resource up. ‘there™ as - dedicated search and rescue: goes » Waisman said. Based in Kitsilano, the trip for . the cutter to. Indian Arm can take! “anywhere from 45 minutes to: one, hour according to Waisman. \*' : The new Deep Cove base for the. = “society . comes “at. a good - time... ‘canoeing and: ‘Sports: diving, * boating activit y are all on thei in, : crease in the i areas The society is: pressing to reali -a goal of three North Shore bases ‘with “an application | currently’ be- fore. West Vancouver Council ask- ing..for. space in. the-old. ferry ter- “We've proposed. to council for; “the, sociéty to look. after: the. top: floor of the building and use it as a: : food . Bob Hunter. «: Lifestyles : : Mailbox . . Siorts fan ‘ Society | members helped pay, for the boat , by each contributing $500 dona- * including © . Monitor! person nel, ‘far | as” ‘everything ” ourselves, - (tax edueribie: member from the program's union advisory committee as a part of the federation’s Bill 19 protest and, in doing so, had effectively removed their program input. “When the question of the col- lege as a public institution arises,"* Lavalle said, ‘‘we can be respon-” sive but not controlled."" The college's labor-studies began in 1975 and was previously boycot- ted by the federation in 1979. That boycott was never officially revok- ed or resolved. Currently 29 instructors , teach the program, which covers such things/as occupational health, fed- eral and provincial labor law, . labor history and economics. . { i a Cove motrage central area for the society. ‘We'd like to put a rigid hull inflatable on a trailer; and base it. there as a backup for the Coast Guard.” ., - The!soricty made the proposal in’ October.: “‘We had an acknowl- -edgement, from the mayor,. but we really haven't heard. much else,!"- Waisman said: - The. society has letters of sup- port. for the proposal from Fish-, erman's Cove Marina,’ North :& West Vancouver. Emergency . Pro-* gram, « Vancouver Wharves, Lions 7 Gate Anglers-Fishing Club, - Cates. oo Tugs and the Coast ‘Guard. |. . The: society. currently.. is “sup- ported by ‘over 100 trained ‘volun- - teers;\including ‘vessel operators, |” ambulance attendants and radio | AS, a cnew | member of the Coast Guard alix-” iliary; the society has. access ‘to training: for its members, , money -for’ out-of-pocket expenses and in-, ‘surance | ‘coverage, for the boats cit , “we'd have. to raise : “The:,‘ar-. ” rangeméent.. (with the Coast Guard) . -felieves’ the fund raising a bit,"! oThe; society is current ly yi iB ‘to raise a total $60, 000 for two life-. “command: centre. The'society’ is’ lookiiig for a 22-foot hardtop life foe, rary theasure, danatio society.can write the: North shots ” Lifeboat Society:: at’ P. 10, Box ' 91369 : {West Vancouver," V7V..3P 1 or call Dave Lamb at 667- 3052. : “rain easing 0. 13 3's ars. ‘Highs near 18°C.