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ROGER SNOWDRAGON and Kieran Twohig lead an ambulance crew moving a patient to Lions
Gate Hospital from a Sechelt facility. The helicopter touched down near 13th Street and Grand
Boulevard. The patient, whose name cannot be released, was reported in fair condition Tuesday.

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and a ‘Mortgage to pay, ‘she said ‘the
extra money: she earns helps ‘out and
“the. benefits are needed. °

Her husband works at B.C. Tel,

“. Meanwhile, Canadian’ Union. of
Public Employees (CUPE) Local’
1389 president Mike, Hocevar said
some crossing guards may actually.
Bet higher’ paying jobs. if they are
cut.

Oo If crossing guards .are laid off,
they will : have bumping rights,
ss Which lets them bump others in the
v, bargaining unit with less seniority.
If.a guard has’ the qualifications
.. and more seniority ‘than another
CUPE worker, ihe ‘guard: gets: ‘the.
jobs:

That’ means’ a ',20- hour-a-week
crossing guard can bump ; a 40-hour’
a-week janitor if the guard is quali-
fied to’ be a janitor, Hocevar said.
;s"The'idea-is to keep ‘people with”
-more seniority, working, said

“* Hocevar.

The bumped worker then. can...
bump other workers with: Tess’
seniority, he added."

*! Workers” who find themselves
out. ofa job:go’on the ‘union’ 18:24-
month recall list.” : ;

Union representatives met with

District 44 school board administra-'

tors: Friday. for preliminary discus-

‘sions ‘aimed at trying to. save the

$12.10-an-hour crossing guard jobs.
Discussions will resume today,
In West Vancouver, ‘non-union

-crossing guards are paid $40 per day

for a two- to three-hour day, said:
School District 45 Secretary-treasur- ;
er Len Archer. The district’s: nine:
guards do .not receive a_ benefits
package. -

The total cost of crossing guards '
to the West Vancouver school dis-
trict is just over $40,000 per year.

School . District 44 .in North
Vancouver hopes to save $220,000
by: cutting the district’s 18 guards

: for the 1995-96 school year.

Hocevar said that.until the mid-’,
1970s. teachers and students shoul-

“dered the crossing- guard responsi- :

bility, © 305:

w ‘The. board then realized there
“was a liability issue and decided to

_ get adult guards, he said.

Crossing guards — were’ ‘first

-teferred:to in a’ CUPE collective
agreement .in:1977, said Hocevar. .

‘They received $4.54 an hour.
School.. District 44 assistant

news briefs

‘Copyright fines:

A 46-YEAR-OLD Delta woman was ff ned a total of $2, 650
‘on May. 11 for. trying to sell -pirated movies on a boat.
‘docked near Neptune Terminals in North Vancouver. :
». »:-Adonis | Patriarca Brigola' was found guilty’ of nine
~.. Charges of copyright infringement for the movies: The Age
of “Innocence, Another Stakeout, Demolition Man, The
Getaway, The Good Son, Malice, The Pelican Brief, Rising
Sun and Sliver. Brigola. pleaded guilty to offering to sell.
“: goods. aboard; M.V. i Virtue without Canada Ports
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is concerned about liability... jThe
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He: said that under the district’s

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crossing guards.

Killeen reiterated earlier com-
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