g = YOUR COMMUNITY [NEWSPAPER SINCE 1969 THE VOICE OF MORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER a, t, mak % Seite Gah AES Ree soy nf rod Sp eat ot AS NEWS photo Terry Peters HEAVE HO — it just won’t go, despite the determined effort by three-year-old Ryan Nassichuk. Ryan's father grew the 150-pound pumpkin in the garden of their North Vancouver home. fashion fanfare PAGE 17 vee Na fanaa low-income legal advice PAGE 35 ges WV abuse program on hold: 3 THE 275-member Capilano Collepe Faculty Association (CCFA) will be on strike Monday if a contract agreement between the association and the college board is noi reached over the weekend. CCFA chief negotiator Ed Lavalle said Friday an offer from the college board presented Thurs- day ‘twas insulting and unaccep- table." Mediator Jack Chapelas, who was called into the dispute Oct. 15, met with the board Thursday night after his meeting with the CCFA, “If they come back with the same offer today (Friday), we will ask the mediator to book out,” Lavalle said. ‘‘And if nothing happens over the weekend we will pull the plug Monday noon."' According to Lavalle, the offer from the board is an improvement financially, ‘but money is not the issue here.” He said the board had offered 2.5 per cent in the first year and three per cent in the second year of a two-year contract. “An increase in salary will not solve the problem of work load,”’ Lavatle added. The CCFA served the college with 72-hour strike notice Oct. 16 after the teachers had voted 81 per cent in favor of strike action earlier that day. Teacher work-load at the college was increased after the CCFA signed an interim agreement with the college board in May, 1985 that required faculty to teach nine instead of eight sections annually. The agreement, which Lavalle has said increased teacher work- load by 12.5 per cent and resulted in teachers working an average 50 hours per week, was signed to help the college deal with continuing budget cuts. Since 1983, that budget has been trimmed from 314.5 million to $10.7 million. Lavalle said the board’s latest offer to the CCFA, whose members have not had a raise since 1983, would ‘‘penalize enormous- ly” those teachers wanting to teach eight instead of nine sections. Ac- cording to Lavalle, eight-section teachers would have their salaries cut by one-ninth under the pro- posal. But acting Capilano College president Dr. Greg Lee said cight- section teachers would not have their wages reduced, but would simply be paid cight-ninths of what teachers are paid for working the full-time nine sections as they have for the past two years. Eight-section teachers at the top step of the $3-step pay grid would earn $38,244 rather than the cur- rent $41,408, according to Lavalle. Under the board's proposal, full-time teachers at the current step 13 who continued teaching nine sections annually would receive a nine per cent pay increase over (wo years. But Lavaile said the CCFA does not want to take the increase for nine-section teachers at the expense of those who choose to teach eight. He said the basic disagreement is over what is the work-load norm. “They are saying nine sections is the norm, but we are saying the normal work-load is eight sec- tions.”’ He added that increased work- load at the college is adversely af- fecting quality of education. The CCFA had previously pres- ented the college board with a compromise preposal that would pay those teachers who volun- teered to teach nine sectious an additional $2,500 annually. Lee declined further comment Friday, saying the whole matter was in mediation. But Jardine has said the CCFA’s proposal would cost an estimated $500,000 to $I million per year “and we can’t afford that.” Jardine said under the cir- cumstances, the college could not reduce work-load, but did not want to increase work-load to 10 sections per year, as some colleges have. He added that provincial grant contribution to the college budget has decreased 19 per cent since 1979 while the college’s income had dropped by nine per cent over the same period. S mae cara Ro ies Fakeatat ere hah anes per tee eat