Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-22
issued: 1982-10-06
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note: '™m~'mamm^mmmmmmimmmmmmmma m MU^YVTLLE- "That is terrible,!', commented Aid. Muriel Arnason. "They should get a raise'"'*-.' ' Councilors heard Aid. Ian Strachan explain that "the average Langley teacher earns over $33,000.00 for a nine-month year, while the average Canadian worker earns under $12,000.00 for. a 12 month year." * - Strachan this' week continued' his attack on teachers who recently received a 17 percent pay hike, and school trustees who "are mainly related to people who. woik within the education system." "The ruling class today is government employees, and the 'elite' among these people are the school teachers," he said. . Strachan said it is not "morally correct" for teachers to negotiate their own wages by numing'tyf school board office. or making sure that their immediate relatives are elected. Such an incestuous system, although fully legal, is very much in evidence in Langley, Strachan timed. -Local trustees, in addition to ^negotiating, salaries with, the .teachers' union, have also been spending taxpayers' dollars ireely ;in other areas, Strachan said. $ "They approved a $5.5-million "addition to the Brookswood School that is not needed at this THiriie," he said. "There has been absolutely no growth in that area..; "They budgeted for $44-million to run the 1982 school year*..now cut to $37-million... "We have approximately 15,000 students in this district. At $37-million, our students cost over $2,400.00 each per year. "This cost to the taxpayers has doubled in the last four years." Aid. Elford Nundal suggested the trustees should address these and other questions through a direct and frank message to the hard-hit Langley taxpayers. "We come out above board with our annual stewardship report," he said. "And so should they." "Barrett's brave Vol. 25 No. 40 Wednesday, October 6,1982 16 pages 30" per copy VANCOUVER - Opposition leader Dave Barrett says an NDP government would launch economic recovery projects immediately throughout British Columb…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Aldergrove Herald (1957-10-16 to 1958-02-20), Aldergrove News (1958-02-27 to 1964-04-30), Central Fraser Valley Echo (1964-05-06 to 1964-12-23), Central Fraser Valley Star (1967-01-17 to 1969-02-05), and Aldergrove Star (1969-02-12 to 1991-12-31). Presented to the Alder Grove Heritage Society by Kurt Langmann and Family, July 1, 2021.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0420804
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Aldergrove : Central Fraser Valley Star Publishing Ltd.
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
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