A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 16, 1994

Province tightens

More
teacher bargaining money

TEACHERS ARE going to
find it more difficult to strike
in future,

That, says finance minister
Elizabeth Cull is the intent of
a new bargaining system to be
introduced by the province,

Cull announced last Thurs-
day plans to use a two-tier sys-
tem for negotialing teacher
contracts.

The proposal cails for wages,
benefits and working condi-
tions to be handled at the
provincial level.

School boards and teachers
in individual districts will be
able to deal only with remain-
ing local issues, ones that will
not have any significant finan-
ciai impact on the district.

Since 1987, contracts have
been negotiated by individual
districts,

City
lowers
daycare
boom

THE CITY will revoke Discovery
Daycare’s business licence if its
Inspectors again find more than
eight children at the facility.

Permits director Bob Lafleur
issued that warning in a letter
delivered to operators Mickey
and Sharon Bromley last Friday
morning.

The letter followed investiga-
tion of two complaints from 4700
block Hamer residents the pre-
. Vious day.

Lafleur said senior building in-
spector Paul Gipps and acting fire
chief Richard Owens had visited
ihe daycare Thursday afternoon
and been told by Mickey Brom-

5 ; ley there wee Lis Childyen ‘on the.

“premises, .

»;.That contravenes the local by-
law which permits only ¢ight-
. child daycares in Ri residential

ZONES. .

Last month council rejected a
proposal io amend the zoning by-
law to allow up to 20-child
daycares in R1 areas,

It also declined to act on Brom-
ley’s request to issue a temporary
permit to allow him time to find

alternative places for half the 16
children who regularly attend the
daycare.

The leticr also warned Bromley
the city would ask the province to
revoke the Bromley’s child care
licence as well.

Explaining the hard line,
Lafleur said council had made its
decision and his depariment’s job
was to enforce that directive.

Pointing out Bromley knew .

what the zoning regulations said
even before he bought the Hamer
Ave, property and built his
home\daycare there, Lafleur
added, ‘‘He gambled and lost.’”

Meanwhile Bromley may have
found a solution to his problem.
He explained a parent of one of
the children had offered the use
of her basement as a second
cight-child daycare.

Bromicy said Gipps had in-
spected the house and confirmed
it would take relatively little work
io bring the basement up to build-
ing code standards,

Bromlcy anticipated the work
could be completed in approxi-
mately three weeks.

Asked why his department was
nol prepared io give Bromley
time to effect the change, Lafleur
pointed out “council did not give
him an extension.’’

Correction

In the March 9 issue of The Ter-
race Standard, it was reported
that Clayton Overholt pleaded
guilty to escaping from a: federal
penitentiary.

In fact, Mr. Overholt pleaded
guilty to driving without due care
and attention,

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there had been too many mediation asa way of solving work with in their 1994-05 erace. Bw. IAM: Oona
strikes and lockouts in the past contract disagreements. budget.

seven years.

While teachers will still be
able to strike, they will necd a
province-wide vote in favour
of a walkout to do so.

“Getting a strike vote will
be more difficult,’ Cull
agreed.

Nor will teachers in an indi-
vidual district be able to strike
over a purely local issue.

Where the board and union
cannot reach agreement on
such an issue, it will be
referred to the provincial talks
for solution, she explained.

That system, Cull suggested,
puts extra pressure on both
sides to reach agreement at the
locai level.

Describing mediation as ‘‘a
cop-out’, she said resulting
settlements end up costing
more,

Conceding the B.C, Teachers
Federation has consistently
opposed. province-wide
bargaining, she expected that
to continue, at least at the
union leadership level.

However, she said, trustees,
parents and ‘‘many teachers’’
supported the change.

“It will allow them
(teachers) io get on with teach-
ing,’’ she added.

Cull also estimated the move
to province-wide bargaining
will save at least $2.5 million
each round of negotiations,

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But exactly how the 1.79 per
cent budget increase will affect
local spending remains to be
seen.

Secretary-treasurer Barry
Piersdorff noted the government
has said much of the extra money
will be targetted towards special
education and: native education
programs.

Victoria has also warned dis-
tricts to expect no new money for
leachers’ salaries and to expect
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‘We have no idea what the out-
come will be until we see the
detailed numbers for this dis-
trict,’ Piersdorff said. “It’s just
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