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November 22, 1989 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Distribution 986-1337 64 pages 25¢

CAPILANO SUPPORT WORKERS WALK OUT TUESDAY MORWING

sses disrupted as
e staff strikes

CLASSES for approximately 5,000 <tudents ground to a
halt Tuesday as the North Shore’s Capilano College was hit
with a strike by college support staff.

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Members of the Office &
Technical Employees’ Union local
378, which represents college audio
visual, maintenance, clerical and
library workers, set up picket lines
at the college carly Tuesday morn-
ing after voting 85.4 per cent Fri-
day to strike.

Though the college’s administra-
tion did not officially cancel
classes and some were held, most
classes were effectively cancelled as
college faculty honored OTEU
picket lines.

Prior to OTEU strike action, the
college had applied to the Indus-
trial Relations Council to have the
union’s membership vote on the
college’s latest contract offer, but
college president Douglas Jardine
said Tuesday the college had not
yet decided to exercise that option,
preferring instead to have the
membership vote on a negotiated
settlement.

He said he was particularly
disappointed with the union
because it had chosen not to return
to the bargaining table after the
strike vote.

“We can’t even get them to the
table,”’ he said. ‘‘When the faculty
served strike notice earlier this
year, we spent the weekend in
negotiations and had a settlement
by Monday. ff we are not at the
bargaining table, we are not going
to get a collective agreement.”

But OTEU spokesman Paula
Stromberg said Monday ‘‘a phone
call’? to the union would be a good
way to restart stalled negotiations.

She added that if the college
wanted the union back at the
bargaining table it would have to
withdraw its demands for **major’’
concessions in its latest contract

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

News Reporter

While the unics has stated that
it wants wage increases comparable
to those negotiated by the college
faculty in April, Stromberg said
the strike is not over wages.

The real issue, she said, was the

“If we are not at
the bargaining
table, we are not
going to geta
collective
agreement. ”’
—- College
president
Douglas Jardine

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contract language stipulating hours
of work and how promotions are
made.

But chief college negotiator
Geoff Holter said Monday the
scheduling flexibility contained in
the college’s contract offer would
only affect new OTEU employees.

Union members already
employed by the college, he said,
would still have control over their
hours of work.

Holter added that the hours of
new employces would only be
changed after operational needs

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