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Last Monday,

: pickets from AUCE.
? Association of University and Public Employees)
’ stepped up their rotating strike action against

Simon Fraser University. They moved off-

campus, setting up picket lines at Gaglardi Way.

and Curtis, about a mile from the university.

B.C. Hydro ‘bus drivers
refused to cross the picket
line and a:substantial portion
.of SFU’s. 9,000 students had

- to walk or hitch-hike the rest

of the way to the university.

In addition, most of the

. rest of the university's 520.
' workers refused to cross the

lines. This deprived the
institution of cafeteria
services, garbage collection,
heat and a host of other

_ services.

Each of the trades at SFU
is unionized, and all honored
the AUCE line.

All. of the factions in-
volved in this stoppage are
public servants. The bus
drivers are public servants.
The “AUCE members. are
public servants. The other
employees who respected

' the picket lines and stayed

away from work are public
servants. And who got

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the © : students. This is a
particularly interesting
phenomenon of the 1970's,
and one which does not sit
well with me.

GOOD DEAL

Not that AUCE appears to
have a unat-
tractive deal. A ‘Grade two’
worker, a filing clerk or
typist, presently starts at

: $930 per month and is

making $1046 at the end of
the fourth year. Grade five
employees, for instance,
start at $1034 and makes
$1163 after four years AUCE
wants four per cent more
‘from November of last year
plus six per cent in April.
The. university's position,
as outlined by Dennis
Roberts, Director of the
university's news service, is
that the wage demands are
‘excessive, in these ‘hard’
times. “We surveyed a great
many companies - ICBC, BC
Tel, CP Air, UBC and others

. + and we feel that, with few

exceptions, our wage scales
are in excess of theirs. We're
trying to close the ga
between SFU and the
market.”

The faculty have been
filling in the rotating strike
holes when and how they
can. “AUCE's: position has
been that they are doing
nothing to hurt the students,
but they have had pickets up
at the Registrar's office and
the Office for Financial Aid
to Students. These services
are essential to many
students, and management
has kept them open. It's cost
us a lot of overtime though”.
Roberts estimates that the
one-day strike saved the

university about $30,000 in —

wages - about the only
cheerful note in the dispute.

BUSINESS AS USUAL

On the whole it was
business as usual during the
one-day-strike. Roberts says
that only about seven per
cent of the classes were
disrupted. “About 33 of our
430 faculty members refused
to cross the picket lines.
Fifteen of these were from
the English department, and
eight from the Centre for
Fine Arts which does
theatre, film and dance, and
the balance from other
places.

“Some of the classes were
taken over by collcagues,
and in general everyone
seemed to pitch in and help
out. Some students are
opposed to AUCE, and some

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‘The public service and SFU

of those students were
placing leaflets on the cars in

-the parking lot. Some other

students who live on campus
were called ‘scabs’ when
they drove their cars through
the line, which didn't please *
them much.”

- An interesting sideline to
the story is that about cighty
of the students are them-
selves membérs of AUCE.
The university it appears,
has a policy of giving casual
jobs to students as a way of

helping them - financially. _

Those students have been
organized and are now
represented by the union.

SOFT TOUCH

Life in the public service is
often a soft touch. It has
been in every
country -of the world, that
civil service wages
generally somewhat lower
than comparable private
industry wages. This is offset
by the advantages of being in
the civil service, such as job
security and in many cases
what can be best described

gently as an undemanding
work load.

When public sector job

holders, and it doesn’t
matter whether they're bus
drivers or school teachers or
janitors, strike and deprive
the taxpayers of public
services, then there is
something wrong with our
system.

If public sector employees
don’t like public sector
salaries, let them get out in
the. job market with the rest
of us, and make more money
the way we have to - in a
market where there is
a@ measure of performance,
risk, and room for individual
effort and initiative. But let’s
mot see them force the
taxpayers into acceding to
inflationary wage demands,
just because they're the only
game in town.

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