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A2 - The Terrace. Standard, Wednesday, October 26, 2005

CUPE workers stage walk out
In. support of striking teachers

_ BUSES WEREN'T running,

city services were closed
and most .of the classes at
Northwest Community Col-
lege and the University of
Northern British Columbia

. here were ‘cancelled Oct. 18
‘ as members of the Canadian

Union of Public Employees

'\(CUPE) walked off the job

‘in support of striking school
teachers.

. The CUPE workers here
were joined by. union mem-
‘bers elsewhere in the north.

Bus drivers, who are

. CUPE..members and who

work for B.C. . Transit, .
-parked their vehicles for the
day.'But Handi-Dart service,

: belonging to B.C. Transit,
and the shuttle to the airport

‘up for work,

was not affected.

While. Northwest Com- .

munity College instructors’

who teach university credit”

and other programs and who
belong to CUPE didn’t show
the | college ©

campus wasn’t picketed. :

That meant it was busi-
ness as usual for other pro-,

~: grams .and. operations,. said
_ college public relations: offi-’
cial Holly-Anne Burrows.

. Some instructors joined
striking CUPE. members at

' other. locations around the

city...
CUPE "members - ‘who
work . for. the University of

From front

‘Schools

. similar but smaller work ac- .

tions Oct: 18 in the: north-

_west and Oct. 20 in the

_ Okanagan.

On ‘Tuesday, Oct. 17,

‘Premier Gordon Campbell .

_ said neither he nor any other

. elected official “can condone

‘or in any way. support any
" group acting: in contempt of
‘the courts or ‘in contempt of
the laws that are democrati-
cally passed by a democrati-
cally elected legislature.”
On Friday, Oct. 21, the
teachers’ union learned it
; had been handed a $500,000-
fine, imposed _ in, ‘B, com “Su. 7
* preme Court. ea tienad
Madam Justice. Brenda
Brown said the court had
no choice but to punish the
B.C. Teachers’ Federation:

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here also walked off the job. .
That affected some but:

not all classes scheduled for

that day, said university of- -

ficial Judith Lapadat. °

CUPE workers did picket —
an office building on the ."

4500 block of Lazelle, af-
fecting not only the B.C. As-

sessment Authority, whose .
workers belong to the unidn,-
but other operations as well. ©

Kitimat-Stikine . regional .
district administrator’ Bob
Marcellin said he sent dis-
_ trict. employees home_in-
stead of having them face
the prospect of crossing a °
- picket line.

. “But there were four of us
who had things to ‘do so we

went elsewhere and- when
we came back, the pickets ©

were gone,” said Marcellin.
Regional district
ployees do not belong to av
union.
The provincial child and
family development . minis-

try, which does have offices’

on the top floor of the office
building, was closed. -

Its workers are members
of the B.C. Government and
Service Employees’ Union
and they moved to another ©
ministry office.

The - Terrace. Women’s
‘Resource Centre and. the

Family “Place ‘were also

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obey her. earlier back-to-
work order.

. Veteran facilitator. Ready
_ was appointed to start: talks

with public school employ-
‘ers and the teachers’ federa-
tion midweek.’

' ‘The same day the. fine

was levied, Ready’s. non-*
binding.

recommendations
had been accepted by the

government and condition-- -

ally’ by the BCTF, though
its executive still reluctantly

urged teacher approval.

The ‘main: four. parts of
Ready’ s ‘recommendations
“are equalizing teacher § salary
scales through the province,
a study of the existing teach-
er benefit plan, recruitment

and. retention of substitute

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-CUPE member lleen Sutherland Fjoined fellow unionists ©
in front of city hall Oct..18 as the public sector union .

staged a one-day walk out in Terrace,

closed as their employees
are CUPE members.

_ .. While all of ‘the above .
CUPE workers walked off

for just one day, those who —
work for the Coast Moun- ’
tains School District have ~
been out of work ever since |
the teachers put” up picket. ....

lines.
“They received a minimal

open once again

(BCTF) for its refusal to

teachers, an increased BCTF
_ presence at the new provin-
cial Learning Roundtable

ward class size ‘and compo-
sition, with possible amend-

ments for Grades'4- 12i in the

School Act. .,
In all Ready’s .recom-

.over $105 million this year.

tute teachers in this district
would benefit from the pro-
posed i increase to $190 from
$150 aday. °°

She said equalizing teach-
er-pay scales in this district
would not have much impact
as they are already close to
the provincial average.

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and additional money to- °

mendations,. accepted by the ©
government, would cost just ”

Munson said the substi- .

$10 a day strike pay at the
start, but that. was subse-" ;

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