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A2 Terrace Review — Wednesday, April 10, 1991

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TERRACE — Members of the
Terrace District Teachers’ Associa-
tion will decide today whether they
will participate in a province-wide
one-hour walkout next week to
protest Bill $2, the government’s
compensation Fairness Act.

TDTA president Rob Brown said

_ yesterday the action would have

nothing to do with local bargaining
issues. "It’s not a strike, it's a
symbolic political action to protest
this Act, which is destroying the
collective bargaining process."

Bill 82, recently ratified by the
legislature, establishes a commis-
sion that will review all public
sector wage settlements. The Com-
missioner is supposed to determine
if the settlement under examination
is within the taxpayers’ ability to
pay.

The Commissioner has the power
io send settlements back for
renegotiation, or to impose a settle-
ment at a lower rate of compensa-
tion.

_ Brown said the one-hour walkout

" concept was ratified at the recent

annual general meeting of the B.C.
Teachers’ Federation. It will have
to be approved by the local mem-

‘bership before the action can be

taken in School District 88, he
added.

The walkout is planned for 2
p.m. April 17.

political
protest

Wednesday

firetruck is of 1974 vintage, and to meet underw

UP, UP AND... OVER, Gordon MacRae of And
last Thursday for an impromptu demonstration of thi
of 55 feet and a straight-up lift of 90 feet, the truck
water. The truck is also ideal for rescue work and would serve the city’s needs for many years to come. Terrace’s second-newest
riter’s specifications it will need to be replaced in two years.

erson Engineering in Lang
s $500,000 demo Bronto S
can be operated by a single fir

ley stopped off at the Terrace firehall at about 7 a.m.
ky-Lift aerial platform firetruck. With a sideways reach
efighter and sprays 1,000 gallons per minute of

Kitimat teachers
out on full strike

Schools in Kitimat are behind
picket lines, Yesterday the Kitimat
District Teachers’ Association
went on full-scale strike after a
week of rotating strikes prior to
spring break.

KDTA president Isobel Cole-
brook said yesterday the issue,
which mediation failed to resolve,
is class size. “The numbers we
have on the table are close to the
provincial average, and the num-
bers the board has on the table are
close to the provincial average. We

have to meet to find some kind of
common ground,” she said.

Colebrook said that as of noon
yesterday there had been no
response to the strike from the
Kitimat school board.

A general membership vole held
by KDTA Monday night was
overwhelmingly in favour of a
strike, Colebrook said.

There are 190 members in the
KDTA, including substitutes. The
strike has thrown 2,500 students in
School District 80 out of school.

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course of a number of City blocks,
a driver may encounter a variation
of new pavement, pavement on the
verge of breakup, or a gravel road
surface."

Priorities are outlined in the
proposal. First consideration would

be given to high-volume paved
streets where poor road surface
conditions hamper traffic flow and
safety. Then would come the
paved streets that have deteriorated
to below gravel standards. Next
roads with

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