40 - Friday, May 14, 1993 - North Shore News

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THE NORTH Vancouver Teach-
ers Association (NVTA) presented
North Vancouver District 44
School Board (NVSB) (trustees
with an 800-name petition Tues-
day, May 11, calling on the board
to increase contract bargaining
time between the two sides from
the current three days to five days
per week,

SCHOOL BOARD

NVTA president Linda Watson
told the board and an assembly of
approximately 100 teachers in at-
tendance that bargaining began
one year ago this month. Approx-
imately 36 issues remain on the
table.

Although most are ininor or
without cost implications, Watson

By Kevin Gillies
Contributing Writer

said the issues of class size,
maintenance of the mainstreaming
program, and maintaining services
such as libraries could be costly.

Watson told the News that she
fears bargaining will end when the
school year ends.

“We're reaching the end of tru-
ly productive bargaining,’’ she
said. .

Although sympathetic ta the
teachers’ plight, in his response to
the NYVTA_ presentation, board
chairman Don Bell was clear that
the NVSB has no additior.al funds
to spend.

Bell pointed to the fact that in
its budget for the 1993-94 school
year, the NVSB chopped $1 mitl-

No teachers

WEST VANCOUVER School
District 45 (WVSD) is being
swamped with phone ealls from
parents concerned about the cur-
rent Vancouver teachers’ strike.

District 45 superintendent of
schools Doug Player proposed
advertising in local newspapers to
clarify the situation to the con-
cerned parents, but his idea was
rejected by the board at a meeting
held Monday, May 10.

As reported in the Feb. 28
News, WVSD was one of the first
school districts to negotiate a set-

NEWS photo Brad Ledwiitge

NORTH VANCOUVER School Board members listen to teachers’
concerns during a meeting held Tuesday evening.

lion without any layolfs,

Labor costs -- NVTA and Ca-
nadian Union of Public
Employees (CUPE) — account for
90% of the $97.7 million budge

The school board is seeking
concessions on class size, provi-
sions for speciil-education aides,
counsellors, teacher librarians and
learning assistance teachers,

During the presentation,
Dorothy Lynas Grade ft teacher
Patti Stewart told the board that
the introduction of special needs
students into classrooms is taking
education time from the entire
class.

Kathleen Redmond, a Cirade 6
teacher at Queen Mary, said
62.7% of her students are from
single-parent homes. Half of them

Strike in WV

WEST VANCOUVER
SCHOOL BOARD

tlement with its teachers,

The two-year contract, which
expires in July 1994, provides for
wage increases of 0.6% retroactive
to July 1, 1992, and 0.67% retro-
active to Jan, 1993, in the first
year,

The settlement was reached Feb.
25, 1993,

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live below the poverty line.

She also claimed that 57% of
Queen Mary’s students are learn-
ing English as a second language.

Bell acknowledged that
mainstreaming special needs stu.
dents is ercating major challenges,
but said it was difficult to further
cut the budget without cutting
stalf,

“We feel besieged by
financial situation,” he said,

But said Watson, "If you
(NVSB) want to mainstream, put
money there."

“We don't want to go
backwards, it would be difficult,"’
she added.

The NVTA) served 72-hour
strike notice on April 12.

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