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NORTH VANCOUVER City firefighters take part in a firefighting exercise at the corner of 14th Street and
Mahon Avenue. The firefighters practised Wednesday to hone their skills to better tackle real fires.

North Van educators won’t return to school without contract, says union

NORTH VANCOUVER teachers vow to extend the sum-
mer holidays for students if they do not have a new colicc-
tive agreement in place by the time schools are set to open
in September.

North Vancouver Teachers’
Association (NVTA) president
Keith Denley said Thursday that
his membership will go on strike if

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

no contract is reached between the
union. and the North Vancouver
District 44 School Board (NVSB)
by Sept. 7, the first day of the
new school year.

The NVTA has been without a
comtract since June 36, 1992 and
the union has been in a legal strike
position since April.

Labor Relations

Board (LRB)

mediator Grant McArthur spent
nine days with the twa sides in
May and June.

He was able to reduce
disputed issues from 35 to 15.

Deniey said the union is disap-
pointed with the NVSB for failing
to respond to a union request to
bargain throughout the summer
and to send the oulstanding issues
(o binding arbitration.

But NVSB chairman Don Bell
said the school board was willing
to bargain over the summer, but

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that the union refused to do so.

But said Denley, ‘‘Teachers will
withdraw all services (without a
settlement), We offered to bargain
through the summer and to go to
binding arbitration, but the board
never responded.

“The pattern of metro. settle-
ments and provincial settlements
are well established and the board
is ignoring that,

“Withdrawal of service will lead
to government intervention which
will lead to binding arbitration.

We're prepared to say, ‘Let's cut
to the chase and do if now’ 7,
said Deniey.

If the union does go on strike,
the provincial government could
invoke Bill 31 to force teachers
back to work and send the labor
dispute to binding arbitration.

While other school districts have
been able to afford wage increases
for teachers, Bell said the school
board does not have the money to

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