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November 1. 1987 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Distribution 986-1337 60 pages 25¢

ollege, union reach con

A CONTRACT “agreement has been reached between
Capilano College and 180 members of the facility’s Office
and Technical Employees Union (QTEU) Local 378.

OTEU- members voted over-
whelmingly to accept the 25-month
contract offer earlier this week
after, last-minute negotiations
Saturday heiped avert a strike vote
scheduled for Monday.

PRESIDENT PLEASED

Under the agreement. which ex-
pires Oct. 31, 1989, the college's
130 full-time and 50 part-time
OTEU workers wili get an overall
seven per cent wage increase over

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW
News Reporter

25 months: four per cent im-
mediately and an additional three
per cent in January 1989.

College president Dr. Doug Jar-
dine said Thursday he was pleased
agreement had been reached with
the OTEU without a strike vote
“or other traditional shows of
force. That's the direction we'd
like to be heading towards (in col-

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lege labor relations)."*

In 1986, the college’s 270 fuil
and part-time teachers were on
strike against the. college for 16
days before a new three-year facui-
ty contract was ratified Nov. 13.

UNION JOBS

OTEU spokesman Paula
Stromberg said in addition to
wages, the new agreement provid-
ed an avenue for the union to help
college students find and apply for
union jobs at the college and
elsewhere.

“We were reaily pleased to have
reached an agreement in less than a
month,*’ Stromberg said.

The college’s GTEU members
were represented by the indepen-
dent College Employees Union
prior to October 1986 when they
voted 94 per cent in favor of join-
ing the 7,000-member OTEU.

Capilano College OTEU
workers include all the facility's
clerical, technical and maintenance
staff.

Under ihe old agreement be-
tween the college and the OTEU,
which expired Sept. 30, union
wages ranged from $10.30 to $24
per hour, but the majority earned
between $12 and $4 per hour.

The Capilano College Board of
Directors will vote on ratification
of the agreement Nov. 16.

Sabres
cut it
close

SUTHERLAND SABRES }§
captured their third straight
North Shore senior boys’
soceer title Monday after a
scoreless game against the
rival Argyle Green Pipers.

Wiiii 9 scoreless game, the
undefeated Sciherland was
able to stay one point «head
of second-place Argyle to
win the title on the basis of
poins standings,

Here, ia tonse action, »
Argyle’s Jack Wendt (green
jersey) and Swtherland’s
Tewanee Josenh (red jersey)
Jeap after the ball as Mark
Reid (number eight) and
Mike Dodd watch for the
rebound. a

‘Sutherland, coached by
former Vancouver
Whitecaps player Daryl
Samson, plays Burnaby-New §
Westminster champion Bur-
naby North st 2:45 p.m.
Wednesday at Loutet Park
to decide the Vancouver and
district championship and a
berth in the 16-team B.C.
tournament Nov. 28 to 21 in
Victoria,

After losing to the Bur-
naby North team in the
Vancouver and district final
last year, Sutherland even-
tually qualified for and won
the B.C. championship.

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tract agreement

COLLEGE president Dr. Douglas
Jardine...pleased there was no
strike vote,