Page A10 — Terraca Standard, Wednesday, January 3, 1990

Law centre receives help

TERRACE — B.C.’s Legal Ser-
vices Society is granting Ter-
race’s community law centre
money to add a para-legal assis-
tant after the centre’s directors

threatened to take their pleas, to.)

the Attorney General. ‘,
Staff lawyer Terry Brown

said the new assistant could be

hired as soon as January,

following. the Legal Services -
Society’s Dec. 7 executive board

decision to approve the money.
The society finances the pro-
vince’s legal services offices
through grants from the provin-.
cial government,

But Brown said the move
doesn’t address the Lax-Ghels
Law Centre’s need for another
lawyer. Demand has increased
far beyond capacity since the
centre opened last February, he

College —
workers
approve
contract

TERRACE — Canadian Union
of Public Employees members
at Northwest Community Col-
lege will get pay increases of 14
per cent over the next 20 months
under a new contract ratified
recently.

NWCC public relations
manager Betty Kofoed said the
agreement provides for a 3 per
cent “catch-up” increase to br-
ing rates at the college into line
with those of similar sized
establishments elsewhere in the
province, a 7 per cent hike ef-
fective Aug, 1, 1989 and a fur-
ther 4 per cent on Aug. 1, 1990.
The contract expires March 31,
1991,

The contract also calls for a
joint union-college committee
to be set up to examine the
system of assessing instructors’
workloads. Kofoed explained
each teaching position was
assigned a value based on the
workioad associated with the
job.

She said the review committee
will consist of three union and
three college representatives and
its recommendations will be im-
plemented in August, 1990.

Most of the approximately 40
CUPE members are instructors
at NWCC but the agreement
also covers library staff, the col-
lege’s counsellor position and
its academic head,

Increase
given

TERRACE — Employees of the
Terrace Community Services
Society will have their wages
brought up to provincial
averages with the signing of a
three-year agreement, says its
executive director.

The contract with the B.C.
Government Employees Union

(BCGEUV) is retroactive to April J

feel like

1 and concludes March 31,
1992, Detlef Beck said last
week,

He said the contract will
benefit the most
employees working in the socie-
ty's group homes and self help
programs as the province has

said it wants to gradually in- §
crease wages in those areas. |

Those programs are financed
through a contract with the
social services and housing
ministry. .

. Well be going into negotia-

tions (with the ministry) in J

January,’’ said Beck.

Other workers receiving in-
creases, through the collective
agreement are drug and alcohol
counsellors and those in home
support programs,

’ *Alcohol and drug workers,
for instance,
covered by a BCGEU agree-
ment and we follow closely the
master GEU agreement with the
province,” said Beck,

Beck did not know what |

retroactive pay dating back to

April 1 will amount:to and said’

the total cost of the package i is

now being worked out:
Starting wages of $7 an hour

for home support workers in-

creases to $9,50 an hour by Oc-

tober 1991.
. The. society has an’ annual
budget of $3.5” million ‘and
; " employs 80° people: in various
: programs. through:. contracts

with the provincial ntract,

those .

are already §

Bi any Ain thle PA de gk fi

said.

“It’s not going to change the
situation,” he: said. ‘“There’s
still a basic need for the services
of another lawyer,”"

Brown '— the centre’s only
. lawyer — was one day recently

called to represent three clients

in three different court rooms at .

the same time. “‘I’m not a
miracle ..worker,’’ he said.
Brown . met native affairs
minister Jack Weisgerber and
Skeena MLA Dave Parker two
weeks ago to continue lobbying
the province for a second
lawyer,
Only. ‘five per cent of the
Legal Services Society's budget
goes to native community law
‘centres, he said. “That percen-
tage should be increased,”’
Terrace’s community law

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centre serves non-native clients
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“Once these offices began ex-
panding Into. communities like
Terrace the need was much
greater,”’. he said, noting the
province has not yet caught up.

Terrace residents aren’t get-
ting the same level of the ser-
vices as elsewhere, he said, with
people going before court

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to Dease Lake compared to ‘the
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being forced to use Vancouver
lawyers for some local family
law cases.

Family law clients are hardest

hit, because those cases take a’
back seat in court to criminal

cases, -
“We think it’s unfair.’’ He

. said the Terrace office’s staff of

two covers an area from Kitimat

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