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“October:29; 1986

CAPILANO COLLEGE stude
n. Tuesday morning. Following

“CAPILANO College's

Tuesday morning: after: a last-minute, atlempt to
he dispute: between’ the t
board failed Monday afternoon:

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8M haye a'problem here,’?) Ed
pavalle:. said «Tuesday
‘We don't think. the’ board | really

understands» the working life of.”

teachers at Capilano Coilege.”’
+The “chief.”

Capilano College’ Faculty Associ:
tion (CCFA):said all financial mat-
ers in the dispute had been resolv-
pained wal

Mediator: Jack | Chapelas.: who -
s culled into ‘the dispute Oct. 15;
cessful last attempt’

by

1969

OF HORTH AMS

morning.

negotiator; for the

ander (right) argues with fellow
n unsuccessful attempt at last-minute med

Ten ae . fn : : :
270 full and part-time. (éachers went

presented «five: different: ways: in
which the work-load issue could be
resolved financially, but allwere

. Tejected by the board.

Capilano. College” president. Dr.
Doug Jardine said Tuesday options

presented, by ‘both sides: Monday ~

were not acceptable; pn
“The board is saving that teach-

“ers: who choose to work less should
.be- paid tess.olt has never, been an

issue as to Whether a teacher can
work, eight or nine classes, bur-if
they choose ¥to Avork Veight. rhey

“should be yaid eight-ninths (of :the
“Ainessection rate)" ;

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eachers and the college,

College teachers walk out

The. CCFA maintains. thachan
eight-section load is the norm, and
that. teachers’ who work onine
should be paid more, but teachers
who work eight should not be paid
less. -

The latest wage offer from the
, board amounts to-a cumulative ‘in-
erease of TI.t per cent to Aug. 1,
1987;.and would result in teachers
at the top of the college wage scale
earning $46,000 annually.

Teacher work-load at the college
was increased. after ‘the CCFA
‘signed an. interim agreement with
the: college board in’ May, 1985
‘that required faculty to teaci: nine
instead of eight sections aapually.
The agreement increased. work-

toad by 12 per cent for full-time:

teachers, cut salary. for’ part-time
workers -by ‘the. same) percentage,
and laid off temporary workers.

In. each ‘semester, teachers are
» contracted to work -a-minimum: of

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student Len Polly (left) as the awo: met. on
yn between teachers and the college bourd on Monday

16 contact. (or in-class) hours, per
weeks “They ‘teach five ,courses: in
one.semester and four in the other.
Teachers get a two-month vacation
rach years ae

Lavalle said additional in-office
and pre and post-preparation time,
for academic and. career - courses
amounted ‘to. about 45 hours per |:
week per semester. " ;

Jardine, who points out that at
feast seven B.C. colleges have sin-
creased teacher work-load to: 10
sections per year, said it. was made
clear in the. 1985 interim agreement
that a nine-section’ work-load
would henceforth be the norm at
the college. ; ot

He said the. teachers were told
that, under: decreased provincial
funding (provincial grants. to: the
college have been cut. from $12.6
million in“1983 to $10.9 million in
1980). the ‘college could’ not

without. an jnereased

afternoon, 270 fullund partt

work-load.

“And nothing has changed) ti
nancially,"” en :
But Lavalle said de CCEA ha
made clear the cost Gf any reduced!
work-load will ‘come out ot) the
overall setdemment and srgued thai:
work-load in different ceases ine
different: colleges. varied = siecath.

‘and comparisons were COUN Ist

ly unfair and misleading: :
~ Hevsaid the intertn igscemeni
signed in May was not peratures

As for. the college'’s: 4, ted lain
dents. Lavalle said-the chaputs cee
tred: as much on siadent tearuiine |
condityyns "as. teaches
conditions. :
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officially suppossine the Cor A is
the dispute to batt vy thu lt da.
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