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Penetanguishene Citizen (1975-1988), 27 Jun 1984, p. 16

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Behind The Scenes Ground rules for bargaining in education sector listed Legislation governing collective bargaining between school boards and teachers has existed since the summer of 1975, when the School Boards and Teachers Collective Negotiations Act, which created the Education Relations Commission was passed. Specifically, the Commission has seven Barrie labour to get new provincial funds: George Taylor, MPP for Simcoe Centre, announced this week, he had been advised by the Minister of Labour that the province will provide the 24 unem ployment help centres in Ontario, operated by labour organizations, SCBE's Simcoe County Board of Education will again offer a summer school program for sceondary school and mature students. Eastview Secondary School (Barrie) will be the location for sessions beginning July 2 and concluding to Aug. 10. A cookbook produced by the members of three church groups, the Waubaushene Bicen- tennial Cookbook, is on sale in Waubaushene. Members of the functions: I Monitoring all negotiations: 2. Collecting and providing of data to all parties in collective negoliations: 3) Assisting the parties in their collective negotiations; 4. Training third- party neutrals; 5. Adjudicating bad faith charges; with up fo a total of $1 million until next March 31 {0 support their Operations. The new funding for the centres was com mitted by Provincial Treasurer Larry Grossman in the May 15 summer The daily program will run from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Students residing in all parts of the county will have access {0 summer school via bus service on a "main roads only"' basis with stops at most county secondary schools, Anglican Guild, St. 220 ens Ladies Auxiliary, St. John's Roman Catholic Church, and the United Church Women, con tributed 100 favourite recipes. Police Beat From June 18 to 25, Midland OPP investigated a total of 11 traffic accidents on area highways in North Simcoe, Three of the crashes resulted in injuries being suffered by a number of the people involved in the collisions "| see you being the sole survivor of a global thermonuclear war." "Play 'Any Umbrellas' once more and I'll kill you.' Page 16, Wednesday, June 27, 1984 6. Supervising last offer, strike and ratification votes: te Advising the Lieutenant Governor in council concerning jeopardy to students' courses of study in the event of a strike and or lock-out. Ground rules' for bargaining in the education sector, as provided in the Act state budget. The centres were created through initiatives taken by the Ontario Federation of Labour, labour councils, and the United Steelworkers' Union and its locals to provide counselling, referral, school The program includes upgrading or remedial courses for most sub jects in Grades 9 - 13, al both the advanced and general levels. These will afford an Opportunity to students with a failure of 40 percent or better to that bargaining in each jurisdiction begins in January of the year in which expires. And all collective agreements, in the sector, regardless of the term, expire on Aug. 31. Thus the parties, have eight months of bargaining time available prior to the expiration of their and support services to unemployed people. They were funded by the Canada-Ontario Employment Develp- ment Program, the joint federal-provincial program designed 10 help create jobs for people whose unem- the agreement " collective . agreement. Events leading '0 a strike or lock-oul under the Act are regulated and neither is legal until: a' A fact finder has met with the parties and his report has been made public; and p b) A 30-day cooling off period takes place after the fact finder's report! is submitted to the parties: and c) The teachers have voted - by secret ballot in a supervised vote - on the last offer of the school board: and d) The teachers have voted - by secret ballot in a Supervised vote - to take strike action. Significantly, this Act also allows for realistic alternatives in dispute resolution voluntary ployment insurance portant! community- benefits had run out or based work in the last who were receiving year. They have social assistance. provided counselling The Minister- of and referral on job Labour said, "The searching, securing unemployment help social benefits, stress, centres sponsored by and managing financial organized labour have done some very im- and family problems. They have promoted set for July 2-Aug. 10 reclaim a credit, or allow students with a minimal pass to upgrade the mark. In addition some full credit courses are of- fered for students who are missing a credit for diploma, who are wishing to accelerate, or who require a credit in a particular area of study. All registration will take place at Eastview on Monday, July 2, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. For county residents the only cost is a $25 commitment fee, which will be refunded on the last day to all students who complete the course. For further in- formation you may contact your local secondary school, or phone the Summer School Principal--Karl Cadera at Banting Memorial High School-- 458-9742 Or 435-6288. "Tie-less' month green light home during the summer months. Penetanguishene Town Council has decreed July and August as '"'tie-less months."' The resolution endorsing the summertime informality in dress encourages town councillors,municipal office staff and "all citizens of the Town of Penetanguishene"' to leave ties at Hl amburger Eating Live EN tertain Mayor Ron Bellisle attended Monday night's council meeting without a tie, the only councillor to do so, with an explanation for one councillor who questioned him about it that he had received a dose of poison ivy the previous weekend and was under doctor's orders to forego the tie. 5th Annual Dock Lunch-CKMP World Famous Sunday, July 1, 2 p.m. . 50° FIRST PRIZE Ven Miss Bikini will be there Register now at Dock Lunch 18 years old and up NO ENTRY FEE See you at the Town Vock ment Last Year's arbitration or final offer selection - al each step in the bargaining process. In the eight year history of the Com- mission, 1,464 sets of negotiations have taken place, 1,019 third parties have been appointed - 595 fact finders and 424 mediators and the strike action has been used on 34 occasions. education and adult retraining program provided liaison bet- ween companies and social services organizations; and operated recreational and cultural programs. "In short, they have offered sensitive service 10 men and women who have had a real need for counselling and support, whether members of trade unions or not.' The , centres are located in Barrie, Blind River, Brampton, Chatham, Hamilton, London, Oshawa, Oltlawa, Peterborough, Renfrew, Sarnia, St. Catharines, Sault Ste. Marie, Simcoe Sudbury, Timmins and Metropolitan Toronto. The new funding is expected to support continuing employment for approximately 150 people. Taylor said, "I am delighted that Barrie will be one of the par- ticipants in this program. 'The unem- ployment help centres have done excellent work in our. com- munity." 9s

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