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-m 112 Orono Weekly limes, Wednesday, November 25, 1998 - Bioard h opes for faster OMA gets commitment progress, in negotiations to protect physicians While the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board is pleased negotiations with its secondary teachers' feder- ation are continuing, the Board is hoping for greater progress in the talks. "We know that students, parents and secondary teach- ersare becoming increasing- ly frustrated as we continue our efforts to reach a fair, equitable settlement with the union," says Judi Armnstrong, Board Chairperson. "We also are expeniencing great frus- tration with the lack of progress in the talks. We already have madeseveral proposais which meet the union's major concemns. We want to reach a deal as quick- ly as possible, so-that every-_ one involved in education can enjoy a stable school year free from the threat of possible teacher strikes. The uncer- tainty already has taken too big a toîl on students. We are listening to their concerns." "At the same time, we con- tinue to be extremely proud of our teachers in the class- room. They are faced wlth constant changes mandated provincia]ly, yet they continue to do good things for their students," she adds. 'The Board holds dear pro- grams such as special edu- cation," Armstrong notes. 'We are resisting the union nego- tiating team's continued pro- posals to reduce special edu- cation in some locations." Ernest Morrison, Superintendent of Human Resources, agrees he has been disappointed with the lack of movement in the nego- tiations with the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSPF), District 14. '«Time and again, we have slgnificantly revised many tenns of our offer to reflect what the union was demand- ing. We want this resolved, for everyone's sake." According to Morrison, the latest proposais offred by the Board to meet the union's demands include: -a two-year letter of agree- ment, patterned on others already agreed upon in the province by OSSTF; this would make the deal retroac- tive to September 1, 1998, and remain in effect until August 31, 2000. 1* secondary teachers teaching three out of four periods per day, or six out of eight periods per year,' thus returning them to a similar workload to last year's; if gov- emrment funding made that impossible in the second year, both sides would nego- tiate a solution - immediate relief for all teachers now teaching four out of four periods per day; from November to the end of this semester in January, these teachers would switch ta three periods a day, while those now teaching three per day would switch to four for the rest of the semester 1* 50 additional teachers being hired for the second semester, an increase from the Board's last offer, thus allowing teachers to teach three periods out of four per day for the entire second semester - spending the montes the Ministry of Education and Training provided in the sec- ondary teacher funding ".envelope", on the secondary teachers *meeting the Ministry's requirement for a system- wide average of 22 students per secondary classrooma <* implementing the salary grid requested by the union, to take effect February 1, 1999. 'Al of these items were requested by the teacher union:,s negotlating team," Morrison notes. "We are becoming increasingly frus- trated that, despite these pro- posais, the union stili is not willing to reach an agree- ment," Items offred by the Board and still on the table for dis- cussion include a managed health care plan, already in place for the majorîty of teachers; a flexible model f'or positions of responsibility. already in place in the major- ity of schools; and staffing levels to protect special edu- cation, library and guidance. 'The total annual cost of our contract proposal -ta the federation is $57.7 million," Morris on says. "This commits what the provincial funding model has allocated for sec- ondary teachers. The propos- aI also is very similar to agreements reached between the OSSTF and other school boards in Ontario, particu- larly when it comes ta length of the agreement and oippor- tunities for continued discus- sion once a basic letter of agreement has been reached." Ontario Medical Association President Dr. William OroVan welcomes a commltmenit from the province's top law enforce- ment officiLII to consider implement1ng measures, sug- gested by the OMA, that will further protect physicians against violeffice. Orovan met Ontario Solicitor General Robert Runciman ori November 18, to put forward a list of requests thât wMl help deal wlth violence against physi- clans. -fThe Soicitor General indi- cated that the government will seriously consider our r equests," sald Orovan. The OMA's requests are: a to consider the appoint- ment of a province-wide inspector to co-ordinate train- ing of police officers in inci- dences of violence against physicians; e to consider a safety audit program so that police departments across the province can provide safety audits of physicians' homes, clinics and hospitals, *to designate a single per- son or location for physicians to make complaints regard- ing violence; - to -have individual police protection for physicians who have been directly threat- ened; e to guarantee appropriate funding for the National Task Force on Doctor-Related Shootings "We cannot allow violence, or threats of violence, to pre- "We have altered our pro- posal several times to accom- modate the secondary teach- ers' union here," says Morrison. "Significant move- ment by the union is needed as well." 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