Al6 Terrace Review — Wednesday, April 17, 1991

Teachers to rally today
against new labour law

Schools will close an hour early
today as members of the Terrace
_ District Teachers’ Association join
-a province-wide action of their
colleagues, protesting against the
provincial government’s latest
labour legislation by walking off
the job at 2 p.m.

Teachers will hold a rally at 2:30
p.m. at the B.C, Government
Access Centre on Eby St.

"This political protest is not
directed at the Terrace school
board," TDTA president Rob
Brown said last week. "It’s pur-
pose is to express our disgust for
the government’s Bill 82, which
has the potential to destroy free
collective bargaining, disrupt the
delivery of educational services,
health services and ultimately all
government services in B.C."

* Bill $2 requires all public sector
wage settlements to be approved
by the Compensation Faimess

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the act to review collective agree-
ments and empowered to reject
them. The Commissioner has the
authority to order re-negotiation of
Tejected agreements, and he can
also impose settlements.

The government says the act is
intended {o protect taxpayers, but
unions believe it interferes un-
necessarily in the collective bar-
gaining process.

‘The TDTA and the board of
School District 88 have still not
reached a contract agreement for
1991-92. There are currently no
talks going on, as the two sides
wait for the assistance of mediator
Vince Ready. He is expected to be
available for mediation here in
early May. Even a mediated con-
tract will have to be reviewed by

the commissioner.

Ready mediated the settlement

that concluded a strike in Terrace
in 1989.
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Fairness Commissioner’s order not
to pay the wage scales negotiated
with teachers in new contracts
until the contracts are reviewed.

As a result the Act may be chal-—

lenged in court.

It appears Terrace teachers will
lose an hour’s pay for today’s
walkout. District secretary-
treasurer Barry Piersdorff said that
in the past the district has been
docked by the Ministry of Educa-
tion for unauthorized withdrawal
of services like this, and the dis-
trict has consequently docked
teachers’ pay cheques an equi-
valent amount.

The TDTA has invited everyone
opposed to Bill 82 to join their

_ Yally this afternoon, including local

school trustees and politicians.

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