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contract by Nov. 27, NV District

A CANADIAN Union of Public
Employees (CUPE) strike could shut
down North Vancouver District 44
schools as early as Nov. 28, Local 389
spokesman Bil! Harper said Tuesday.

By lan Noble
News Reporter

He added that the union has given District 44
until midnight Nov. 27 to settle a contract or the
local’s 750 employees will walk off the job the
next morning. Talks between the union and the
school district have broken down completely,
with no bargaining sessions scheduled, he said.

A representative from the government's
Education Employer's Assuciation stepped into
the negotiations Friday, Harper said, to make
sure a setdement does not exceed 1.2%, a gov-
ernment-mandiated wage guideline instituted in
June.

“ICs very apparent here the employer's asso-

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ciation is making this the ground they are going
to stand on to institute wage controls in the
province,” Harper said.

And the union is just as determined to stand
its ground.

“That’s what we are going to do Monday,”
Harper added. ,

He said the last offer the union received from
the schoot district calls for 0% in 1994 and a 44-
cent per hour increase in July 1995, for a total of
55% over two years,

His local is looking for a deal similar to those
signed by other CUPE locals in other Lower
Mainland school districts. Those deals call fora
60-cent per hour raise over two years and better
benefits for a total compensation increase of
4.7% to 5% over two years, he said.

CUPE represents teachers aides, secretaries,
janitors and other support staff in District 44.
The current hourly pay rate for CUPE members
employed by District 44 ranges from $12.10 to
$23.

But board chairman Pat Ueal said the district

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cannot afford what the local wants. She said she
is glad to have the support of the employers’
association behind the district because it rein-
forces that the district is “doing the right thing.”

She said District 44 is running a deficit from
last year and is underfunded. Heal added that
other districts have experienced problems.
because they have signed contracts without the
ability to pay for them.

North Vancouver Teacher's Association pres-
ident Keith Denley said North Vancouver teach-
ers will honor CUPE picket lines.

Harper said that CUPE previously thought the
guidelines could be worked around, but “they
have made these into controls.”

B.C. CUPE president Bernice Kirk said in a
press release that the responsibility for the cur-
rent District 44 labor impasse “rests squarely on
the shoulders of the employers’ association.”

Representatives for the Public Sector
Employers’ Council, which looks after public
sector wages, and the employers’ association
could not b¢ reached for comment.

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