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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.

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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.

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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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