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Joshua Berger, right, captain of the Adventuress sailing schooner, which was moored at Britannia Shipyards the past three days for the Ships to Shore event, tells the sordid story of the boat’s missing and recently found bell from 1913. See page 3. Photo by Graeme Wood/Richmond News. Below, crew member Elizabeth Becker holds the original bell. Photo by Gord Goble/Special to the News.
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EDUCATION
Battle lines drawn for summer school RTA will ‘absolutely’ picket private school where district plans to hold international student program Alan Campbell
Staff Reporter acampbell@richmond-news.com
A new battleground has been laid in Richmond as the bitter fight between the teachers’ union and B.C. government drags on into the summer. The Richmond School District has decided it will go ahead with its 400-student summer international program, starting July 7. Due to the teachers’ strike, the district has been forced to switch the program’s venue to the privately-run Richmond Christian School
on No. 5 Road, so the program’s 12 unionized teachers don’t have to cross any picket line at a school district facility. Reacting to the news, however, the Richmond Teachers’Association (RTA) said it would “most definitely” set up a secondary picket line at the Christian secondary school, teeing up a potentially controversial clash between teachers and fellow union members next Monday. “This is going to go ahead,” said the school district’s director of international student programs, Richard Hudson.
“It’s a non-credit program, therefore the collective agreement with the union doesn’t apply. We do run into potential difficulties with picket lines so, therefore, we’re going to move it off-site to Richmond Christian.” Hudson understands the union can set up a secondary picket line, but believes the picket “would not be sustainable, as we can get an injunction to cease and desist.” When asked if the union intends to set up a secondary picket line at Richmond Christian, RTA president Al Klassen said, “absolutely.” “The (school) district must expect a
reaction from the union on this,” added Klassen. “I would say there’s some truth in what they’re saying (about the collective agreement), but it’s not quite as straight forward as that. They’ll do one thing, we’ll do another, and then we’ll let the (Labour Relations Board) decide.” In terms of the finances at stake, Hudson said about $600,000 will have been spent on airfares alone by the families of the international students. see HUDSON › page 3
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