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November 13, 1983

tary School in West Vancouver have passed three

motions expressing support for teachers that have
crossed picket lines and demanding that others do

the same.

The motions were approv-
ed unanimously by about 200
parents at a meeting Wednes-
day evening in West
Vancouver.

The three, in the form of
petitions, have since been
forwarded to the West Van-

By NEWS STAFF

couver Teachers Association
the B.C. Teachers Federa-
tion, MLA John Reynolds,
the West Vancouver School
Board and the media.

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‘‘We, the parents of
Westcot School, request that
all teachers and support staff
of Westcot School return to
work immediately and cross
any and all picket lines,’’
reads the first of the three.

The second express ‘‘full
and on-going’’ support and
protection from parents of
Westcot students for all
teachers who have crossed
the picket line at the school
and any that ‘‘will do so in

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PARENTS OF students attending Westcot Elemen-

the future’’.

The third motion directs
the school board to contact
the West Vancouver police
department in order that
‘the police department be re-
quested to have officers pre-
sent at all schools in West
Vancouver to prevent any
harassment’’ of anyone
crossing a picket line.

The action by the Westcot
parents is the latest in grow-
ing parent discontent with the

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strike that is keeping most of
their children out of
classrooms.

At other schools in West
Vancouver, and other North
Shore locations, there have
been angry exchanges bet-
ween teachers and parents
and other parents groups,
either already in existence or
put together in response to
the strike, have called on
their teachers to get back into
the classroom.

NEWS photo Eric

THE WAY you plan new roads is to find out what kind of traffic you can expect. And fhe .
way you do that is with automatic traffic counters that nestle by the roadside and are fed in-
formation by long, black hoses, Above Bent Christiansen bolts a cord onto Mathers
Avenue as part of West Vancouver's continulng road survey program.

BY THE time you read
this it may all be over.

By NEWS STAFF

But as the News went to
press Thursday (a day early
because of the Remembrance
Day holiday) there were few
indications that the growing
confrontation between the
provincial government and a
growing number of public
sector employees would be
settled.

If it is continuing, in fact,
the situation will worsen this
week as previously scheduled
walk-outs take place.

West Vancouver, however,
may escape much of the
impact.

West Vancouver Municipal
Employees Association
members, meeting last week,
voted 2-1 against taking part
in the walk-oufs and that ap-
pears to mean that municipal
services will be maintained.

That won't be the case in
North Vancouver, where
municipal workers, who are
represented by the Canadian
Umon of Public Employees,
are scheduled to leave the job

Monday.

Others scheduled to walk
out Monday include B.C.
Ferry and BC Rail
employees and unton-
represented workers with
legal services

Tuesday, if ois utility and
transit unions that are

scheduled to join the protest
strikes North Vancouver
residents will be without bus
service as the Metro Transit
system is shut down

In West Vancouver, mean-
while, it appears the bus
system may still be running.

The News was not able to
contact an Amalgamated
Transit Unton official prior
to deadline but a dispatcher
with the West Van bus system
said that as far as he was
aware the ATU-represcnicd
employees would remain on
the job