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NEGOTIATORS FOR North
Vancouver School District 44

and the Canadian Union of

Public Employees (CUPE)
planned to meet Saturday
morning in an effort to cob-
ble together a contract and
avert a support-staff strike
that would close the district’s
schools on Monday.

By lan Noble
News Reporter

The two sides are uying to
bridge a $300.000 gap that separates
the district and the support workers
at CUPE Local 389. said North
Vancouver School District 14 board
chairman Pat Heal. That monetary
gap is over a two-year period
stretching from July 1994 to June
1996. During that period, the
board's budget should total about
$182 million. Heal said.

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fA taped CUPE message urges the local’s members io prepare
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: day of a possible strike.

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: before leaving work on‘Friday and skow up for work at the regu-

“Jar time Monday morning, so they can sign in with ihe picket cap-
-fain. It aiso directs members fo register with strike headquarters

for strike pay, and benefits.

Brian Foley. the Labor Relations
Board’s associate chairman in
charge of mediation, said mediator
trene Holden called the two sides
back to the table as a “last shot” to
see ifa settlement could be reached.

He said Holden issued the call

e she feels discussions could
prove truitful.

“We are making every effort to
see Hf we can avert the work stop-
pages he said, adding that the
impact a strike would have on stu-

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dents, parents and support workers
in North Vancouver affected the
decision to hold the talks,

Heal said Friday the board can't
move on the 2.49% increase over two
years that it has offered the union
because it doesn’ (have the cash and
must Meel compensation “ceilings”
imposed by Victoria.

CUPE B.C. president Bernice
Kirk said Friday the union is stick-
ing to its demand of a 60-cent-per-
hour across-the-board increase for

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its Local 389 members over two
years. CUPE Local 389 spokesman
Bill Harper has said the demands
are similar to settlements reached by
other CUPE locals across the Lower
Mainland. Those deals, he said. total
between 4.7 to 5% over two years:
District 44’s offer totals about 95%
over two years,

CUPE represents 750 janitors,
teachers aides and office support
stall in District 44, The current
hourly pay rate for District 44
CUPE members ranges from $12.10
to $23,

After calling the situation bleak
on Thursday, Ken Kaiser, the school
district’s director of employee rela-
tions, said he was sore optimistic
after getting the call to attend
Saturday’s mediation.

Meanwhile, ina Friday press
release, North Vancouver-Lonsdale
MLA David Schreck predicted that
the dispute would be a long one if
no contract settlement was reached
before Monday morning.

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