North Shore News September 20 2013

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CUPE wage hike paid for locally Potential contract settlement to come out of school budgets JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com

A potential school strike that was looming over the families of more than 20,000 students on the North Shore has been averted with a tentative deal between school

support workers and the province. The deal, announced late Wednesday night between unionized CUPE support workers and the provincial bargaining committee, would give workers a 3.5 per cent pay increase over two years.

Local school districts will have to pay for the increase from within their existing budgets and will have to submit a plan to Victoria detailing how they will pay for the wage hike. Union members must also approve the deal. For the West Vancouver school district, with about 7,100 students, the agreement with its support workers, represented by the West Vancouver Municipal

Employees Association, will mean finding about an extra $200,000 in its budget for the first year of the deal and about $350,000 a year annually after that. David Eberwein, assistant superintendent for West Vancouver, said the school district doesn’t yet know where the money will come from, but added, “We’re certainly looking at all areas of the budget that don’t have an impact on core services.”

Eberwein added the district is “very excited that a tentative deal is in place.” North Vancouver school district officials were still examining the deal Thursday and had no estimates of how much extra money they will have to find in the budget. There are about 1,100 CUPE members working in North Vancouver schools, while about 364 support workers are employed by

the West Vancouver school district. CUPE and associated unions represent school support staff including clerical and maintenance staff, classroom assistants and janitors. If the CUPE deal is approved, that still leaves local teachers without a collective agreement.The province has indicated See 10-year page 3

WV cop’s bike ride for cancer is personal JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

RCMP Const. Marie-Eve Beaupré is one of three North Shore police officers participating in this year’s Cops for Cancer Tour de Coast Team. Meet them at a barbecue lunch on Monday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at North Vancouver Civic Plaza. Scan with Layar to see the West Van officers. PHOTO KEVIN HILL

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She had just been accepted into the Cops for Cancer cycling tour when her mother was diagnosed with lymphoma. In the last seven months, West Vancouver Police Department Const. Nicole Hartwig has balanced two heavy burdens in anticipation of the annual event. “I’ve been between working four days in West Vancouver and then going to Victoria to help take care of my mom,” she says. In the midst of her police duties and familial responsibilities, Hartwig also needed to get acquainted with a road bike. “Training was pretty See Mother’s page 3

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