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associations have voted

overwhelmingly in favor of being represented by local

teachers’ unions.

Results from votes cast Wed-
nesday (Jan. 13) by the West Van-
couver Teachers Association
(WVTA) and the North Vancouver
Teachers Association (NVTA)
were released Monday.

Of the 74 per cent of the
WVTA's 333 members cligible to
cast ballots, 96.7 per cent voted in
favor of union certification.

WVTA president Kit Krieger

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said that in the association's two
preliminary certification votes in
October and December, 95 per
cent of West Vancouver's District
45 teachers were for uniou repre-
sentation.

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District 44, just over 75 per cent of
the NVTA's over 1,000 members
voted 92 per cent in favor of union
certification.

The approval in Wednesday's
vote follows two preliminary
District 44 certification votes in
October and December in which
NVTA president Andy Krawezyk
said votes ‘well over 90 per cent"
were in favor of having a local
teacher union represent district
teachers.

“It's rewarding that teachers in
North Vancouver have faith in the

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organization,’’ Krawezyk said of
the overwhelming approval.

He said the new set of rules that
accompanied union certification
will be ‘'a challenge for all of us "

The local results follow the Jan.
11 certification of B.C.'s first three
teachers unions in Maple Ridge,
Victoria and Comox,

Industrial Relations Council reg-
istrar Ken Albertini said Monday
beth the WYTA and the NVTA,
which will retain their current
names, wifl be officially certified
as trade uniens sometime this

Andy Krawczyk...teachers ‘‘have

faith in the organization."”

week.

The IRC-supervised votes are
required under the new Teaching
Profession Act.

Votes in most of B.C.'’s 75
school districts have been sched-
uled to be taken through to Jan.
27.

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MIKE GRENBY played to a full house Monday night ut the North Shore News-sponsored Financial Semi-
rar, held in North Vancouver's 718-sext Centennial Theatre. The event featured News columnist Grenby's
lecture and slide show (left), which was followed by a question period. Later, several CGAs were on hand to
deal with concerns of the audience on an Individual basis. Above, Grenby talks money mutters with Arnie

Manness.

NORTH VANCOUVER City Council will ask the Royal
Commission on electoral boundaries currently touring the
province to create a fourth riding approximatcly matching

the borders of the city.

But provincial MLA for North
Vancouver-Capilano Angus Ree
says the time isn’t ripe for a new
riding on the North Shore, and
said it would be illogical in any
case to award one to the city when
the district is twice its size.

Ree was at Monday’s councii
meeting to informally ‘tmeet the
new aldermen.’’ He said the mo-
tion presented by Ald. Bill Bell, a
member of the NDP, was
motivated by ‘‘certain partisan-
ship,’ and that the area would get
anew MLA “‘in time.”

In presenting the motion Bell
argued if the government accepts
the recommendation of the

. boundaries commissioner Thomas
- Fisher. to: increase: the: number -of

By KAREN GRAM
Contributing Writer

MLAs in the legislature ro 75 from
69 and establish an average popu-
lation of 38,500 per riding, the city
would be under-represented
without a fourth MLA. The city’s
population is 35,698.

Bell said the city should have a
distinct riding because it is a
distinct community. ‘‘What is
good for the district is not always
good for the city,’’ he said.

‘Ty have long recognized the his-
torical and economic differences
between the two municipalities (in
North Vancouver), The city was

's incorporated-in 1907, we have-the - entations: from North: Shore. resi-

highest concentration of retail
space, as well we have many more
aparument dwellers and institu-
tional services such as the court-
house, the hospital, crown cor-
porations such as ICBC and B.C.
Rail...”

Ald. Stella Jo Dean supported
the motion, but doubted it would
get results.

‘T have it from a very good
source that this government has no
intention of increasing the
legislature to 75 members," she
said, glancing at Ree.

The royal commission, which
was established by the Social Cred-
it government to eliminate dual
member ridings, has since had its
mandate increased and can make
more comprehensive recoramenda-
tions on electoral divisions within
the province. Commissioner
Thomas Fisher will hear - pres-

ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES RE-EXAMINED

C

ity to request 4th ridin

Angus Ree... new riding ‘‘il-

logical."

dents at a public hearing scheduled
for Jan. 28 at 10 a.m. in the River
Room of the Park Royal Hetel. .

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