JHE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUYES YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1969 ” Capilano students WEEKEND talks between negotiators for the Capilano College board of directors and the Capilano College Faculty Association (CCFA) have brought sew hopes of setilement for the two-week-old strike at the North Vancouver college. Chief CCFA_ negotiator Ed Lavalle said Monday morning, “We are cautiously optimistic. We met yesterday and we are making steady progress on all issues.”* The 270 full and part-time teachers that belong to the CCFA struck Oct. 28 after the associa- tion’s negotiators failed to reach agreement with board negotiators over the issue of teacher work-load Students te sue college By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter at the college. On Nov. 7, board chairman Hilda Rizun said the board had met the previous evening and decided to allow its negotiators some movement in negotiations with the CCFA, First year arts student David Beaubier said Monday the Con- cerned Studenis Committee (CSC) had thus far distributed 500 information sheets to college students explaining the commit- tee’s proposed suit, asking them to document their own estimated losses suffered as a result of the strike and inviting them to join (he committee as plaintiffs in the sence, = 28 BE ee aa ee ye sleet 3S HO BQ Sento CEERI UOT Ba DREGE |Full election coverage FULL NORTH shore ounicipal election coverage can be found in today's North Shore News, Biographies and pictures of cach of West Vancouver District's 2) council and school boacd candidates are featured on pages 18 and 19, while biogeaphies and pictures of North Vancouver District's 21 council and school bowed candidates are featured, on pages two and three. | ERRNO AS NY FE eaens e, haere Ore PS HO OT GTB A ye brighten darkness help: 8 wednesday TEEN Vat aeRO MTR TSAR So MOM, Ginn Head, and her Qwin (hree-yeur-old sons Gregory, left, and Bryan enjoy = reading one of the new braille books avatlable at West Vancouver Memorial Library, Bryan, who Is blind, has the opportu- nity to learn braille by reading these books. ‘The Howe Sound Lions Club donated $600 towards the purchase . of a set of Touch-See books from the Cana- . diun Institute for the Blind. a EFUL could return to class today A subsequent meeting began at t p.m. Sunday. Negotiations con- tinued Monday at) Burnaby's mediation services centre. Lavalle said college classes could be resumed Wednesday if Mon- day’s negotiations were successful, In the dispute, the board main- tains that a nine-section (nine- course) annual work-load for cal- lege instructors has to remain the norm if the college is to continue offering its current level of service with steadily reduced provincial funding. The CCFA maintains that the college must return to an THE FOUNDER of a Capiiano College students’ com- mittee planning to sue the college for $10 million in damages, resulting from the two-week-old strike at the college, says the legal action will proceed regardless of whether the strike is settled this week. By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter legal action. Response, Beaubier said, tas been overwhelmingly positive. The lawyer representing the CSC said students planning to transfer to university in January would now beunable to do so if cight-section annual work-load if quality of education at the college is to be preserved. In each of three semesters, Capilano College teachers are con- tracted to work a minimum of 16 contact’ (or in-class) hours per week, Under the current nine-sec- tion work-load, they teach five courses in the first: semester and four in the second. Lavalle has said that additional in-office and pre-and post- preparation time for most courses currently increases to about 45 hours per week the time instructors time lost during the strike is add- ed to the end of the current col- lege semester. Carey Linde added that stu- dents with spring and summer jobs would also iose wages and possibly entire jobs if semesters are extended. Because the 4.100 students at the college had paid money to achieve certain) course credils over a specified time, Linde said the college will be sued for breaching that contract. The Sta niilion figure, he said, was band on estimates of an average $300 tuition fee for 4.000 invest in each semester. The last board offer to the CCFA called for a raise in the top teacher salary from $41,408 to $46,000 by Aug. 1, 1987. The CCFA, meanwhile, is seek- ing a top salary of $45,700 for teachers working nine sections, and offering to use the balance of the amount offered by the board to restore to 50 per cent of the col- lege’s 127 full-time instructors the tight to teach eight sections at $43,200 rather than the fully pro- rated eight-section salary of $40,800 offered by the board. students and an additional $2,000 in estimated lost wages for those same students. He said the college was negligent because it had failed to inform students that the college’s faculty had not signed a contract with the college stating that a strike was possible. Linde added that the suit would be unique in its potential number of plaintiffs (4,100 stu- dents) and because breach of contract action brought against a learning institute was ‘‘absolutely novel."