FRIDAY Test drive the Mazda Miata : Automotives: 27 ook Display Advertising 980-0511 Distribution 986-1337 NEWS photo Nell Lucente ABOUT 600 North Vancouver teachers rallied in front of the North Vancouver District 44 School Board office Thursday morning demand- ing a quick contract settlement. The teachers also walked out of classes for three hours and held a ‘‘study session”’’ to back contract | Teachers walk out ABOUT 600 North Vancouver teachers rallied in front of collective agreement on Jan. 29. the negotiations are class size. in- Vancouver teachers will not wait ae the North Vancouver District 44 School Board (NVSB) of- The contract is retroactive to July tegration support for students any longer for a collective agree- fice Thursday morning and called on the board to negoti- 1, $990 and will expire on June with special needs and securing ment.” . ; nen ayn . 30, 1992, adequate means of implementing While saying wages are not a ate a contract settlement with North Vancouver teachers Watson said the NVTA new educational prowramts nite key. issue’ in the. negotiations. quickly. escalated its job action from a ated by the provincial education Watson accused the NVSB of at- The teachers had walked off the work-to-rule campaign (0 Thurs- ministry. tempting lo creale a ‘bargaining job for three hours Thursday By Surj Rattan day's ‘study session’? because it The union, she said. has been at ploy’’ by making a pre-emptive morning to back contract de- News Reporter was unhappy with the pace of the burgaining table with the salary offer. v- mands, and North Vancouver contract negotiations, which ure NVSB for nine months and there “They wanted to be able to tell a os Teachers’ Association (NVTA) still continuing. are still 34 issues unresolved. the media that we have refused , president Linda Watson said that couver school board have been in Chanting ‘‘Fairness for teach- “We have been more than rea- their salary offer when the real further job action by teachers is comtract’ negotiations since last’ ers, fairness for students now.’ sonable with this board,’ said issue is the lack of progress on the possible if no progress is made at May. The NVTA has been the crowd of teachers was told by Watson. ‘*We have spent 508 whole contract,"’ said Watson. pS the bargaining table. without a contract since July 1, Watson that school board hours at the table over 68 days of But NVSB chairman Marg , “Rotating strikes may take — 1990. negotiators walked away from the negotiations. No other teacher Jessup said she was unhappy with = place next week, we'll have to see Meanwhile, the West Vancouver bargaining table when the teachers local in the province has spent so the union’s job action while both how the bargaining goes," Wat- District 48 School Board and the arrived, but returned to the much time, so patiently, working sides are still at the bargaining : i. son said at the rally. West Vancouver Teachers’ bargaining table a short time later. toward a settlement. The time has table. . The NVTA and the North Van- Association ratified a two-year Watson said the key issues in’ come for serious action. North See Parents page 2 eee SSE SS a ed eee ce ee!