Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 20, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free october 1995 a3 cuts prove common fear u of strike highlights worries of teaching staff at u of Winnipeg As Well by Heather Mclaughlin free press correspondent academic Freedom and the future of education Are not Only key to the univer sity of Manitoba labor but for the University of win Nipges 250 teaching staff As weve been without a contract since said Alden president of the University of Winnipeg faculty who spent his lunch hour picketing the main Gates at the u of said talks for a new two year agreement at the u of w Are set to resume within a week or while both sides at the u of w Are optimistic they can find common ground for a Turner says academics there have the same fears As their u of m cuts Are going to result in billions of dollars being pulled out of health and administrators real ize that massive cuts in Public funding Are coming and administration and faculty Are being pressured by the Federal and provincial governments to reduce education services and to raise tuition fees students at the University of Manitoba Are unhappy about a strike but How will they feel with 15 per cent tuition rises every year frustrated our administration is very responsible in their handling of what resources they receive from the provincial but there like in Lim its on they Are being pressed by government to make changes without adequate salary is an Issue to the extent that its hard to attract and retain qualified academic staff when professors query you rank 15th or 16th out of 18 universities in said turn University of Winnipeg academics want to see courses taught by full time he were concerned that if and when changes in programs occur that this be done in a open and consultative University of Winnipeg student Elizabeth Carlyle said she thinks the strike addresses a key Educa Tion Issue that impacts on her own she also joined the u of m picket yesterday in a show of questions if i want to come Here for graduate i dont know if the program that i want will be How is downsizing going to happen i just want to make sure its going to happen in a fair Graham Vic president of finance and administration at the u of said negotiations Are going relatively were trying to reach an Ami Cable pact that Doest prove disruptive to we had significant layoffs in the Spring of support staff and restrictions on its a very difficult time for educational funding uncertainty also extends to red River Community where negotiations Are ongoing Between administration and 400 Community colleges have Dif Ferent problems than the univer but the Issue of government funding affects said red River presi Dent Tony red Rivers 700 All Mem Bers of the Manitoba govern ment employees Are in but have been working what the u of m pays its professors University of Manitoba 199394 full professors average salary median salary associate professors average salary median salary assistant professors Jeff Deboom Winnipeg free press Alden Turner of the University of Winnipeg mans a University of Manitoba picket under the terms and conditions of their last collective even though that lapsed last sep we see the Prospect of reduced funding As a result of Transfer payment said red River Cut program Ming last june As a result of Federal withdrawal of we lost million of Federal purchasing in 199596 and had to eliminate programs and the magnitude of the problem is Knowles said red River is Wor ried about the future of apprenticeship training and is facing another loss As the fed eral government reduces the Pur Chase of individual education seats in red River unlike red River has leeway in its collective agree ment to downsize within limited said All of these issues Are coming to the fore As we head into this year and of course the pressing question is How much Relief we will get on some of these issues said no talks Are scheduled in the history making strike by u of m academics and the focus of Atten Tion for u of m administration last night was carrying on As planned with fall convocation ceremonies for students receiving strikers promised no disruption to the student but University spokesman Bob Rae Burn issued a Public caution to families and friends planning to attend convocation to allow for extra time to pass through pick professorial participation in convocation ceremonies has always been optional and Atten dance Raeburn a Boycott by striking faculty would not impede the he Roy an economics professor and picket Captain at the main indicated it was up to individual professors to decide whether to attend the Convoc he added that he want sur prised that no discussions have been it takes a few Days for both sides to recover after things break said Hope fully by the weekend something might foreign students keep nervous Eye on Calendar intervene in strike labor minis Bews yesterday r forced the provinces Handoff saying he has no authority to order the two sides to Settle their differences through bind ing he said Hes prepared to meet with both sides and if they agree to binding Arbi he would facilitate he said he would not impose the University of Mani Toba faculty association had requested the minister intervene by directing the University to go to arbitral but the University has rejected the Toews tabled a letter he wrote to the association turning Down their there is no basis in legislation for the minister of labor to direct that a Dis Pute of this nature be resolved by binding Arbi he i believe that it is import from the standpoint of maintaining the Independence of the that the parties make fur ther efforts to resolve this dispute without the imposition of a settlement often by Heather Mclaughlin free press correspondent foreign students at the University of Manitoba who pay 75 per cent More for tuition than their Domestic counterparts Are crossing their Fin Gers that the Campus labor dispute will come to a Quick Sie Siew a 19yearold third year management student from tosses Back her Long Black hair and ponders the implications of an extended like other students munching lunch at the University Centre and talking about the Only topic of conversation on the University of Manitoba Campus these she shares the concerns of Many of the University foreign Stu in Canada on an education Al Lim must graduate and return to her Home in Malaysia by the summer of i just have one class which was said in order to graduate by the end of the fourth i have to finish this on time and during the sum Mer i this one class could affect me because in taking three credit hours every a full 24 credit said she is opt Jeff free press Zhang has Only a year to finish his graduate studies at u of mistic that even if the strike drags she can squeeze that course in Over the but its not so easy for if you Are in a faculty where none of the professors Are teach ing at its said some countries Send students under contract to return and work for their respective govern she if you Are on scholarship you have to be Back by a certain it can be quite i Hope the strike will be Over said Honghua a graduate student in Power sys tem the chinese foreign student barely got his feet wet when he arrived in sep tember for research Zhang says graduate students have it a bit easier than under so he has been Able to continue research but at a certain Point hell need professorial input to continue and Zhang has Only a year to com plete his work before he returns to our studies will be Zhang another foreign a 24 year old computer science Stu Dent from Hong said he was scheduled to write an exam this but none of his professors Are in their we just keep on studying and said the who would it be i respect their free Dom to continue the but it will affect my 95f150supercab escort la 3 air cd 3 Only captains 2 Only your Choice Sable is 95 Aero trac 4x4 Quad 2 Only your Choice 95 f150 4x4 win Star la 2 tone much 2 Only your Choice 95 f150 super cab i 95 mystique with 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committed to the but in not doing it because of the she As a Nurs ing she spends Only 25 per cent of her time teaching and 75 per cent on its a pretty Good Deal for the University they get 40 per cent of our work for said Grant president of the faculty of Woods said some dissension within the Union is to be expect but he is confident the majority of members support the faculty associations actions at the bargaining the fact that were members Strong and weve got members out pick eting in this weather and people volunteering to help us makes me think weve got the majority of he 94 Crown Victoria 4 loaded 2 Only i your Choice l 94 probe 2 Hatchback loaded 94 Ranger ext cab air much More 93 Sable is 94 Tempo go 4 with air 5 Only your Choice i 94 Lincoln town car executive series loaded 93 Cougar xr7 1 loaded 1 91 grand Marquis is 94 Taurus 4 4 Only your Choice 93 Mustang la 3 92 escort 4 with air 93m50xlt loaded i hell ;