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; _Kitselas gains |
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Moore, just 18 years old, says its important the the Kit-
selas be able to move forward quickly with plans to create
more housing, particularly on the Gitaus reserve.

“Theard their idea is to make 150 houses out there,” Moore

“ says of the band’s plans to increase housing. “Right now we
have nine people living i in a three bedrooom house.””

He’s confident the band will be able to mange its land
prudently.

“T’ve always thought it was better for the community to
make decision for themselves,” he says.

’. “]T know everyone on the band council and whatever de-.
cision they make will be good -— and if they make mistakes
they will learn from them.”

Other development plans include creating a destination
tourism centre at Gitaus which will eventually include a
museum with cultural artifacts, replica longhouses, walking
trails, riverboat tours of the Kitselas Canyon and an addi-
__ tional community building.

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RICKY MOORE votes in v election held last week to give

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TEACHERS: HERE © and

elsewhere -in the province .

* went into the weekend defy-

ing a new contract legislated ;

_ into,existence by the provin-
cial government and a La-
bour Relations Board (LRB)
order forbidding them. from
striking.,

Picket lines first went

up Friday, Oct. 7 as teach-

-ers protested the refusal by
school districts to negotiate *.

-@ wage increase and to ne-

gotiate. working conditions

such as class sizes. » -week, there would be less 0
Provincial . government support for students and
officials late last week were larger classes because the
- calling the strike “illegal” in school district would have oe eo
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the face of the LRB order,

obtained by school districts,

“ordering teachers to “‘im-
mediately refrain from par-
ticipating in or continuing
a strike against the schools

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seen.

Yesterday was to have ;

been the start of rotating
strikes under a. plan an-
nounced in September but

= teacher, -action accelerated.

last week after the back to

i Work legislation was intro-

duced.

_ It called for a two-year
extension of the contract
which ran out June 2004 and
provided for no wage in-
creases. It also continued on
with legislation from 2002

_ which took issues such as

_ class sizes, working condi-
tions and specialized ser-

vices for students out of any ©

bargaining. ;
Terrace and District
Teachers Union president
Veralynn Munson wouldn’t

release'the results of the lo- —

cal strike vote, but said ‘the
province-wide 90.5 per cent
endorsement couldn’t have
been possible without very

Bri support from teachers
-here and elsewhere. .

Last Friday’s picket. lines
may have seemed odd as
that’s the day schools are
closed in the Coast Moun-

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tain school: district regard-.

less.

* But Munson said teach-
ers at the district’s corre-
spondence school are on a
five-day week while others
use Fridays as preparation

time for their classroom ac-

weeks, thé president added:
Munson said her member-
ship hasn’t been surveyed for
awhile on thé issue but notes
in particular that elementary
and primary teachers feel
five days a week is needed
for younger students.
“When we. did do a sur-

‘vey for us, I got a stack of:

comments back from teach-
ers saying a four-day week
was really the lesser of two
evils,” shé added. '

_ “If there was a five-day

to cut spending as it would
have to employ CUPE peo- .

ple five days a week instead -

of four,” Munson said.
In many ways, she con-

-’ tinued, ‘the four-day week
teachers .

here has made
more determined. than ever
for change in the school sys-
tem.

“I think we felt the chang-
es, the contract stripping, the
budget cuts more in rural ar-
eas then in metro ‘ones. And
now they are catching up,”
said Munson.

She said the district here
is being starved by the prov-
ince regardless of whether
teachers get a wage increase
or not.

The B.C. Teachers Fed-
eration and the B.C. Public
School Employers’ Asso-
ciation: (BCPSEA), which
bargains on behalf of school
districts, met 35 times with-
out agreeing on even one

_item. ,
In terms of wages, teach- .

ers said they wanted 15 per
cent over three years. Em-
ployers countered, saying
the increase was at least
double that amount.

A provincial fact finder

hired to see if there was any .

common ground found that.
the teacher proposals would
cost anywhere from $673
million to $938 million a
year.

The wage freeze legislat-
ed by the province continues
its policies of zero increases
for all public sector workers
under its control.

All other public sector

tivities. unions except for the teach-
“They are there, doing ers have negotiated zero
their work,” she said. . increases in their collective

Putting up picket: lines
on the day when schools are
-normally closed here could
also be interpreted as teach-
er opposition to four-day

‘Union member awaits fate .

agreements.
Teachers and their em-

ployers have never been

able to negotiate an agree-
ment and all settlements

LA TERRACE MAN accused of violating a supreme court
injunction forbidding Telus workers from interfering with
managers awaits the judge’s decision on his fate.
Mark Capewell, a Telecommunications Workers Union
_(TWU) member and Telus employee, was in a vehicle which
was following a Telus vehicle into Kitimat several weeks
ago. A third vehicle not connected with the two ended up —
having its side mirrors clipped when it tried to pass.
_ ‘The injunction given Telus lays out strict rules about how _
union-members were to picket and conduct themselves, in-
’ cluding the distance union vehicles have to maintain while
. following Telus vehicles to job sites..
~ It’s standard practice for union members to set up “flying
pickets” at sites where Telus replacement people are work-
ing. Capewell’s lawyer Theo Arsenault, wouldnt comment
in detail on the case, but-did say they object to a claim by
Telus that he is guilty of contempt for violating the court.

. injunction.

He believed the Judge would i issue a uling sometime this

week.

More than 50 union members have been arrested since

they were locked out in July.

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Kitselas more powers over land and planning. fo

~ Teachers defy gov't
~ and school districts
_ by going on stri

e

have come with the involve-

ment of the provincial gov-
ernment.
Labour minister Mike de

Jong is now establishing a

commission to come up with
a new bargaining system for

teachers and their employ-
"ers.

_ “We have a broken bar-
gaining system and we will
not see negotiated settle:

ments unti] that system ‘is » B

fixed,” he said.

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