| YOUR COMMUNITY | NEWS photo Terry Peiers IN A show of union solidarity with B.C. teachers in their one-day work stoppage. approximately 120 acific Shipyard workers gathered in the parking lot of the Seven Seas Restaurant Tuesday at Versatile P a K neve 5 noon to hear speakers from the B.C. Teachers Federation and the B.C. Federation of Labour condemn the provincial government's proposed bills 19 and 20. Sitter Service produced PAGE 24 a first PAGE 33 TEACHERS IN North Vancouver will begin an instruc- tion-only campaign in District 44 schools today. The announcement was made in an enthusiastic Tuesday niorning teacher “study session” held at the North Vancouver Recreation Cen- ue. Approximately S00) teachers from North Vancouver and West Vancouver attended the mecting. Under the instruction-only cam- paizn, which is scheduled to con- tinue until a May 8 of 9 BCTF strategy session, teachers will pro- vide regular instruction to and regular evaluation of students, and maintain regularly assigned super- vision schedules, but will uot par- ticipate beyond instruction’ time in such voluntary activities as fund raising, exchange trips, concerts and field trips. In conjunction with the instruc- tion-only campaign outlined by the B.C. Teachers Federation (BCTF), teachers in North Vancouver will arrive no more than 30 minutes prior to and stay no later than 30 minutes after classes. The North Vancouver Teachers Association (NVTA) also an- nounced establishment of a steer- ing committee to process any teacher probicms arising from the instruction-only campaign. Though all North Vancouver schools were open Tuesday, be- tween 85 and 90 per cent of North Vancouver’s 800 teachers joined the one-day work stoppage orga- nized by BCTF to oppose Bill 20, the Teaching Profession Act. But in West Vancouver’s District 45, assistant superintendent of schools Doug Player said only about 40 per cent of the district’s 300 teachers did not show up for work. He added that a clause in the district’s coniract with its teachers requires District 45 teachers give six-month'’s notice to the school board before launching instruc- tion-only campaigns or similar job action. West Vancouver Teachers Association co-president Kit Krieger told teachers at Tuesday’s meeting the underlying values con- tained in bills 19 and 20°*were ob- noxious to the public school system." He said the Social Credit gov- ernment regarded education simply By LIMOTIEY RENSTIAW News Report { as accost rather than an investment in the future. The government, he said, treated teachers and educa- tion with a philosophy of ‘social Darwinism... survival of the fit- test." “This is the beginning, not the end of job action,”’ Krieger said. Asked after the meeting why close to 60 per cent of teachers in West Vancouver had chosen to ig- nore Tuesday’s work stoppage, Krieger said there were ‘‘cultural differences’? in the district and District 45 teachers found the deci- sion to join the one-day stoppage “more difficult.”” But West Vancouver School Board trustee Michael Smith said Tuesday District 45 had the most professional teachers in the pro- vince. Their majority decision to remain on the job Tuesday, he said, ‘Shas shown that today.”’ Of Bill 20, he said, “overall | think it’s good for teachers. It gives them the same rights that other workers have.” Smith said the bill’s proposal to give teachers the right to bargain and strike on a district-by-district basis would provide a_ better system for school boards and teachers associations to address local problems ‘‘rather than always getting caught up in provincial issues.”’ But independent labor lawyer Kim Nichols told the assembled teachers the legislation contaired in Bills 19 and 20 ‘‘is a form of economic warfare’? and was in- tended to curb the powers and authority of the BCTF, He said the College of Teachers, under the structure proposed by Bill 20, would not be accountable to teachers, Isolating the province’s 75 school districts into separate bargaining units, he said, would drastically reduce B.C. teachers’ collective bargaining powers. Acting school superintendent for North Vancouver’s District 44 Tom Carlile said he did not know as yet what specific effects the in- struction-only campaign would have on area schools, ‘‘but it could have very serious implications.”