TERRACE — After six lengthy
bargaining sessions, the nego-
tiating teams for the board of
School District 88 and the Ter-
race District Teachers’ Asso-
ciation haven’t. even begun to
look at the nuts and bolts of
‘their first collective agreement
— they’re still arguing about the
rules of the game.

After the TDTA group cancel- »

led a scheduled meeting Satur-
day, the board’s negotiating
committee chairman, Kitwanga
trustee Delbert Morgan, issued a
sharply-worded statement ques-
tioning the sincerity of the
TDTA’s efforts. ‘‘I am disap-
pointed, frustrated, that we are
not getting down to the business
at hand, which is hammering out
a first collective agreement.
They promised, and I expected
to receive, their demands and it

just didn’t happen,’’ Morgan:

‘Negotiations likel

stated.

The words ‘‘mutual” and
‘‘ynilateral’’ are the center of
the disagreement. During the
negotiating process the board
committee wants to retain. the
right to reopen discussion on
clauses that have already been
agreed upon and signed off. The
TDTA position is that signed-
off clauses should only be
reopened by mutual consent of
both parties.

treasurer for the school board
and the administration represen-

tative on the bargaining team,

pointed out that the unilateral
clause would apply to both sides
— the TDTA would also have
the right to reopen clauses to
negotiation.

The TDTA has made a written
and signed protocol agreement

City renews lease
on Fisherman’s Park

TERRACE — The city has
agreed to renew its lease on
Fisherman’s Park at the CNR
rate of $1,250 per year. In a
January meeting, council decid-
ed they may consider ter-
minating the lease, but a presen-
tation by Jim Culp on Monday
night changed their mind. —

Culp told council that because
the park was valuable to the
community, six members of the
Northwest Chapter. of the
Steelhead Society, with the help
of Dave Dams and some heavy
equipment, had gone ahead on
their own. and removed sand
from the launching ramps and
cleaned up the park. This was
volunteer work which he said
was probably worth about $600
and ‘the type of thing they are
willing to continue if the city
renews the lease.

Mayor jack Talstra replied by
saying, ‘‘Council is much more
aware now of all the users of
that facility and its value. Coun-
cil wants to do everything they
can to keep it.’’

Correction

Adrianne Braid, teacher of
the hearing impaired for School
_ District 88, recently stated that

the District has recruited a half-
time teacher of the hearing im-
paired to serve children in
Hazelton and Kitwanga schools.
Sue Anweiller will join Braid,
speech pathologist Karen Nash,

and speech pathologist Gill.

Parker — who works in
Hazelton, Stewart and Kitwanga
schools — in helping speech and
hearing impaired children in the
District.
We want to thank Braid for
pointing out that three students
who will work in B.C. will
graduate this year from the hear-
ing impaired program at UBC,
not the speech pathology pro-
gram as indicated in an article
on page 14 of the May 25 issue
of the Terrace Review. In the
same story it was stated that
there is no speech pathologist in
Prince Rupert. In fact, there is a
full time speech pathologist at-

tached to the school district —

there.

The present lease expires at
the end of this month,. and
Talstra told council a decision
would have to be made quickly
and it may be a good idea to get

all users together to discuss the

maintenance of the park.

BMX track |
bulldozed

The Community. and Recrea-
tion Services Committee has ad-
vised council that they have been
unable to contact organizers of
the Terrace Torken BMX Ctub,
and because the track presents a
hazard, recommended that it be
levelled and the Riverside ball
park be expanded.

Committee chairman Alder-
man Doug Smith said the track
is not being maintained and he
had been informed that the club
is no longer operational. He ex-
plained that some of the ramps
are in a deteriorated condition,
and because the club had
disbanded the city was liable if
someone were hurt.

The city approved the motion,
but the track had already been
levelled. City Administrator Bob
Hallsor explained that work
crews were in the area on Mon-
day and it was known that coun-
cil. would approve the recom-
mendation. He said the city sav-
ed money by not waiting, which
would have meant transporting
the equipment back to the park
ata later date.

an essential feature of their posi-
tion, but the board thinks it’s
unnecessary. ‘‘We don’t need a
signed agreement to begin
negotiating,’ Morgan said.

' Board committee member
Kirsten Chapman, trustee for
Stewart, objects to. the mutual
consent provision, ‘It’s a whole
package. A collective agreement
is just that — it has to be viewed

-as a. whole, one item affects
another.” ~

In a press conference Satur-
day Barry Peirsdorff, secretary-*.

be

“TDTA president Helmut Gies-

‘brecht sees it differently..“‘It’s a
tactical ploy. They could reopen

signed-off items as a bargaining
tool.”

“We don’t want to play that
game. Once we've signed an
item off we're willing to stand

‘by it and live with it, and so

should they,’’ Giesbrecht said.

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The ribbon-cutting ceremony by

Terrace Review — Wednesday, June 15, 1988 3

The board committee stated
that at a Friday night session
they presented eight options in
an attempt to resolve the dead-
lock, all of which were rejected.
Giesbrecht said the TDTA
bargaining team is acting under
direction from the association’s
executive in insisting on
establishment ‘of ground rules
before negotiations begin.

The TDTA is having a general
membership meeting today.
Giesbrecht said that, . among
other things, one item on the
agenda will be discussion of
what he called ‘‘job action in the
long term’’.

The two negotiating commit-
tees are scheduled to meet again

June 24, but both sides concur it”

will be virtually impossible to get
an agreement before the end of

union,

y to shut down for summer

the school year, During the sum-

mer break the TDTA won’t be
able to-assemble their bargaining
team, so talks will have to
resume when school convenes in
September.

In the meantime relations be-
tween the school district and
teachers are covered by the
bridging agreement signed
earlier this year, which extends

‘the terms of the previous con-

tract until a new collective agree-
ment is reached.

The contract proposals for the
two sides are expected to be
about 200 pages in length. Barry
Piersdorff noted that the board
has received 14 pages, most of
which are concerned with rela-~
tions between the board and the

city freeman Vesta Douglas last Saturday was the begin-

ning of Howdoyoudo Days — the official opening of the 1988 tourist season. Pictured

above are second princess Leigha Needham,

infocentre’s Challenge.88 student Dianne

Morehouse, Alderman Ruth Hallock, Vesta Douglas, first princess Becca Shears and
Chamber of Commerce representative Joe Zucchiatti.

Early indications show
strong tourist season

TERRACE — Last Saturday
was Howdoyoudo Day, the of-
ficial opening of the 1988 tourist
season in the area, and Infocen-
tre staff say they’re more than a
little happy with the way the
event turned out. - Fifty-nine
carloads of visitors attended the
event and 45 carnations were
passed out to the ladies.

Visitor records for 1988 are
encouraging and offer an indica-

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gest year ever for the local
tourism industry. To the end of
May, the Infocentre had
welcomed 331 ‘carloads of

visitors and answered 106 phone

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