Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 21, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday free october a3 pupils Job offer at risk by Wanda Chow staff reporter Tatlor University of Manito m a engineering student Richard the faculty strike Means More than delays in it could mean the end to a great Job Prospect with a Large Corpora Hes not Hes walking the Hes been sick to his Stom Hes had a headache for a week Hes stressed Laurins Gail Blanchette said yes was supposed to com plete his degree in Industrial Engi Neering in its a cooperative education program that sets students up with employ ers for work Chance at Job next Standard steel Spe a specially products company he worked for As part of the was going to Fly him to its head office in Pittsburgh for a fou Day he is sure hed have a Good Chance at a Job but Only if he graduates on if they want to hire there going to want me to be there in Jan he the thought that such an Opportunity might go Down the Drain is Blanchette Hes got a lot of debts and Loans As a result of his and to have this Job offer snuffed out under his its almost too much to Laurin said Hes been told by professors that courses could be can celled if the strike goes on for too he would then have to retake the courses in september As there Only offered once a reassuring but the Dean of engineering is More no ones talking about cancelling said Donald arrangements would probably be made to continue classes through december and have exams in january by holding classes on saturdays or shutting Down february ski week to make up some there Are about 42 students in the faculty Coop program who Are not on their work terms and could be affected by the Shields had no doubt that Stu dents whose classes Are disrupted could catch up in their courses if the strike lasted a if the work stoppage lasts longer than he said As they say in the houses of were into real speculation Shields said he was willing to intercede with employers to get them to wait for students whose education was delayed by the Wayne free press Aitchison teaches a math class at the University prof says extremists running strike by Aldo Santin education reporter a University of Manitoba professor who refuses to join the picket line says negotiations have been taken Over by extremists More interested in beat ing the administration than in achieving a fair Peter a mathematics said the faculty associations negotiating team rejected a Las ditch offer from the University that did not jeopardize academic instead of responding to the administrations offer with a real they presented a proposal that was essentially a Aitchison they we rent and now were on Aitchison said he believes that faculty negotiators failed to act responsibly when the administration offered last Friday to with draw its controversial Layoff proposal in favor of the current contract language and an eight per cent wage referring to a for members Only memo sent to faculty this Aitchison said the faculty response was to accept the current contract offer to take a total of 14 Days of unpaid leave but insist on annual salary increments of two per Aitchison said the faculty salary response presented Little of the financial savings the University has been trying to achieve in Terry a University vice said earlier this week the administration withdrew its alternative offer when the faculty responded with a proposal that contained elements that were favor Able Only to the Paul the faculty chief dismissed Aitchison complaints As Phillips said the faculty counterproposal met the universe Tys financial a professor of labor eco said no one has hijacked adding the association has regularly consulted its membership before submitting any she walks he toes line As University of Manitoba president Arnold Naimark defended the administration to an angry crowd of students his wife assistant professor of nursing was out walking the picket she makes her own he said of his Barbara it makes me feel Good because Shes doing what she feels is important and its a sign of academic the strike by the University of Manitoba faculty association has divided with 281 out of professors crossing the line each Day to continue Job Security and tenure Are the main issues in the four Darold which sees a Cash strapped University battling for Freedom to downsize against a faculty concerned that academic Freedom will be the University has proposed contract language making it easier for the administration to Lay off faculty Naimark told demonstrating students the administration needs flexibility to Deal with cuts in we dont want to fire any said Naimark As students at the University Centre rally peppered him with but the Way it is now Doest allow us to adjust to the kind of budget shots we the president of the faculty association yesterday accused Premier Gary Filmon of taking he has been reported As saying we Are using the students As said Grant How can we be assured of fair treat ment when the government is publicly siding with our employer student Union president David Gratzer said his organization remains although Many students at yesterdays rally wore buttons supporting the proves City wife charged with theft in scheme to defraud lottery winners by Paul Mckie staff reporter a Winnipeg police officer and his wife Are charged in a lottery scam that skimmed Money from winning Randy a seven year Veteran of the Winnipeg was charged yesterday with theft under theft Over Possession of stolen goods under and Possession of stolen goods Over he will appeal1 in Selkirk court his Theresa was charged earlier this week with theft under and theft Over Theresa worked As a cashier at shoppers gifts in she was fired this the Kouts live in the Rural municipality of Selkirk in cooperation with Manitoba lotteries have been investigating the Case for More than a acting on a complaint about stolen ramp traced a ticket from where it was purchased to where it was cashed in when a customer would come in to the Selkirk Kiosk with a winning they would be told their numbers we rent the ticket would then be cashed in Susan Olynik of Manitoba lotteries said the corporation provided the ramp with information on winning Olynik said complaints made to the corporation about the Selkirk location prompted the investigation by the Security divisions of Mac and the Western Canada lottery Randy Kohut will appear at a police Force sus pension hearing Early next he is currently on a previously booked tories sowed seeds of strike universities undergo transformation by Aldo Santin education reporter the forces that brought the University of Manitoba faculty and administration to a picket line this week were unleashed by a harshly critical report from a provincial commis Sion almost two years the University education review chaired by former Premier Duff Roblin and business leaders Kathleen Kevin Kavanagh and Sid concluded the univer sity system is too badly managed and out of touch with the the report urged the universities to get smaller and abandon areas they didst do in their the universities pointed out the report was Long on generalities but Short on but the report was adopted by the Filmon which appeared to use it to justify its dwindling financial support for despite the rhetoric about the knowledge Economy and the importance of an educated work the government has been withdrawing funds to in the last five the portion of the u of m budget covered by government Grants has dropped from 70 per cent to 65 per funding is now at 1992 Over the last three annual funding has been reduced or in one the govern ment demanded funds be returned Halfway through the to meet the Cash the u of m has Cut courses and slashed analysis students feel like pawns a1 millions from its since the size of its faculty has shrunk 40 per cent from to this but the Filmon government wanted former education minister Clayton manness seized the Roblin report and used it As a club against the in a interview with the free press last manness said universities had no Choice but to get with fewer fewer fewer staff and fewer he wanted to see a plan from the universities on How that would be accomplished and he wanted it done crashing Down there will be and i think there going to Call upon some structural Man Ness said at the in talking the program course offering faculty offering across it appeared the hitherto stable world of Academia was about to come crashing funding pos secondary Educa Tion has fallen out of favor in the political Cycle of whats in favor and what Tim now the nip Industry said at the the universities didst Roll not they didst deliver the restructuring plans that manness a year u of m president Arnold Naimark repeatedly stated the University want about to chop Naimark pointed out the inaccuracies in manness argument along with other University offi underscored the contributions the institution makes and the cuts it had already the tussle Between government and University appeared a Short during negotiations with the fac the Bottom line for the administration has been to secure a mechanism to quickly Lay off Large numbers of staff in order to close programs and the primary Issue in negotiations is the University ability to downsize in a rational and orderly fashion in the face of progressively More severe the University proclaimed in a memo before the it appears the manness scenario is about to become a although the University claims the downsizing will occur without compromising academic Quality and academic the faculty Doest believe there is a great Deal of mistrust among faculty about the universe Tys True intentions during these the Roblin report and manness comments taint every offer and the faculty Points out that the downsizing Model Doest bind the University to any of the recommendations from its faculty councils or even an Appeal the University maintains who gets Laid off and what programs Are cancelled is a management the pointing out the tradition of Senate approval 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