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GERRY OQ’NEIL waves from his horse-drawz sleigh on top of Grouse Mountain. O’Neil and his trio of horses offer the rides each weekend through
the winter ski season. ;

Cap College faculty seeks
wage, benefit hike of 26%

THE CAPILANO College Faculty Association (CCFA) has tween the college and faculty, round of negotiations.” over two years were recently
CCFA president Bob Camfield ratified between teachers’ unions

resented an economic package in its current contract Which is not part of the current ¢
P Pp 8 wage negotiations. said the association’s economic and both North Shore school

negotiations with the college that calis for a one-year wage
and benefits increase totalling 26.82 per cent.

College director of employee
relations Geeff Holter estimated
the total increase to the college's
faculty payroll and benefit costs
from the proposed economic
package. coupled with the costs
resulting from the new college
definition of a full-duty instructor
workload, would be approximately
33 per cent in one year.

The figure includes the CCFA’s
proposal for a basic 14 per cent

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW

News Reporter

wage increase, an additional 2.82
per cent cost to reduce the number
of steps in the current instructors’
wage scale from 14 to 10, a union
demand for a maximum 10 per
cent increase in benefits and the
5.88 per cent cost of implementing
the new workload agreement be-

“It (the economic package) is
significantly higher than we would
have expected,’’ Holter said.

But according to a CCFA press
release, an average instructor's
salary is worth 15 per cent less in
real terms today than it was in
1980.

“Over the years, our salaries
have fallen further and further
behind those of school teachers,"’
CCFA chief negotiator Ed Lavalle
said. ‘‘We expect to achieve some-
thing better than parity in this

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proposal was an attempt to main- districts.

tain parity with the province’s
school teachers, and pointed out
that Capilano College instructors
have one of the highest percentages
of PhDs of all B.C. community
colleges.

The CCFA, he added, will push
to resolve all contract issues prior
to the March 31 expiry date of the
current three-year contract to
avoid protracted negotiations.

Contracts providing teachers
with 13.7 per cent wage increases

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The agreements will raise, as of
July I, the annual teacher salary
range in West Vancouver’s School
District 45 to between $23,900 at
the bottom and $51,480 at the ton
of the scale and the range in North
Vancouver’s School District 44 to
$21,899 at the bottom and $52,512
at the top.

By comparison, according to
CCFA figures, Capilano College
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