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Ixtters on disk, as a Ixt file, with a hard copy would be Live and In Person at the Orpheum • For Tickets, Call Ticketmaster at 280-4444 greatly appreciated. The Link reserves ' Box office service charge and GST extra, speakers subject to change. All presentations will be interpreted for the deaf and hearing impaired by still interpreters. the right to edit for clarity and brevity. MARCH 8, 2000 2 THEUNK NEWS SA Notes Paul Dayson SA continues to FSA, institute liammer out a frameworic for seniement watch FSA-BCIT Any return to a strilie seen as unliiceiy tliis spring negotiations PAUL DAYSON A President Shane Styles reported lhat Link Managing Editor Ihe SA is still monitoring the negotia• Stions between the Faculty and Staff iiances of another strike by As.sociation and BCIT management. Styles BCIT's Faculty and Staff said both sides appear to be optimistic about cAssociatio n members are fading the possibilities of reaching an agreemenl. This would appear to make a resumption of fast. According to Student Association strike activilies by the FSA this spring president Shane Styles, both sides appear unlikely. to be optimistic about the possibilities of Sludenls comments and concerns from Ihe reaching an agreement. SA's strike website survey are being tabulat• This return to goodwill in the negotia• ed and will be passed on lo Ihe instituie. tions would appear to make a resumption of strike activities by the FSA this spring • A presentation was made by Burnaby's unlikely but does not rule out the possi• transportation department about the instal• bility of future strike activity—such as ulty and the administration. faculty members and some improvements lation of high occupancy vehicle (HOV) next September—should negotiations The issue of wages has been settled in to the existing PD Leave fund. lanes on Willingdon Avenue. Two options breakdown again. accordance with provincial government Not included in the framework is are being presently considered: bus only On Tuesday March 1, the FSA— guidelines of no increases for two years BCIT's plan to establish a new $775,000 lanes or que jumping lanes. No decisions which represents instructors in BCIT's with a two percent increase in the third Technology Innovation Fund for curricu• have yel been made and public consulta• technology programs and staff in some year. Also benefits will include lum/professional development leaves that tion is continuing. Any changes made are support areas—cancelled an information improved vacation for those employees the FSA criticized for being "manage• planned lo be in effect by September 2000. meeting scheduled for that afternoon cit• with 20 years of service and 100 percent ment-controlled". Nor will it included ing "recent developments in negotia• employer-paid Long Term Disability pre• "the transfer of PD Leave funds to • A new forgivable loan program was estab• tions" Instead, the bargaining team met miums. expense funds," according to the FSA. lished by the SA, dubbed the SYA or Save with the FSA's board of directors. Under the framework regular working The institute's proposals for what the Your Ass Fund. (For more details see In a release later that day they said hours will be extended hours to 7;30am - FSA called "the creation of two-tiered story on this page.) significant progress had been made. 6:30pm, Monday - Friday, with protec• working conditions and benefits based on "After a meeting with the Bargaining tions for individual employees.