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Dear Editor,

! am concerned with the
power that unions have
gained within our society. |
don’t want you to misunder-
stand me, | think that unions
are useful tools that have a
place within a nation, but |
think that their-power should
be more limited. It seems like
a month can’t go by without
another strike happening
somewhere in the province.
Earlier this year the support
staff at the university struck,
putting students and profes-
sors in the middle of their

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fight with the administration.
Right now the Canadian
Union of Public Employees
(CUPE) workers at public
schools are on strike making
all sorts of demands while
children are missing school,
parents are unconvenienced
and teachers are making less
on strike pay than they could

be making working at
McDonald’s. One of the
demands

being made by the CUPE
workers is that all teachers
must submit (in writing) a pro-
posal to CUPE whenever
they want to have parent

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helpers in their class which
CUPE will then approve. For
teachers of young children
this would be a nightmare.
Kindergarten teachers have
at least one parent helper in
every day. These parent
helpers do not interfere with
CUPE jobs in any way
because teacher's aids are

only even used in classes

that have children with spe-
cial needs in the

classroom. Having parent
helpers gives the teacher a
chance to have more one on
one time with children, as
well as giving teachers a

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Now for Mr. Dossa. This is
the many we elected as pres-
ident of the student society
two years ago. His mandate
was to make the Women’s
Centre an equity center and
to make both the women’s
society and newspaper self
sufficient. From this day this
is not the case. He was just
another puppet for Chris
Reed, head of finance. Each
way Reed voted, Dossa
voted. Then we elected him
Ombudsperson and he was

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acting prez for the Model UN
club. The Model UN was the
most successful club before
Dossa’s Presidency. Well he
may have done a satisfactory
job as Ombudsperson, he
took the Model UN to shit.
Oh, let me add that he was
asked to resign his position

as chair of NUGSS meetings.

Now Mr. Dossa is a student
representative of the board of
Governors. God knows that
the world will come to next.
Mr. Dossa, your success at

. the student society may have

been a free ride as you have
done everything based on
popularity not on content.
Now you have a successful
resume, | challenge you to
leave a legacy that all stu-
dents remember you by. A
legacy where you fight for
students, not just for a good
resume, but something peo-
ple will remember you by.

Thank you,
Ray Stevens

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chance to talk to parents
about their children without
having

to set up an appointment.
This is just one of the prob-
lems | have with unions.
While | worked at Overwaitea
| belonged to the United Food
and Commercial Workers
Union, and because of a con-
tract my union had negotiated
before | began working there,
| could not work more than
twenty hours a week, | could
not work during the day on
week days and | had to pay
union dues which ended up
being four times as much as
the income tax that was
deducted from my _ pay
cheque, while only making
$8.30 an hour. Another
example of the problems with
unions is an example given to
me by a person | know who
works for one of the mills in
town. In order for him not to
break any union rules to
move his computer monitor
from his cubicle to the cubicle
next to his he would have had
to call two different unions.
The first union would send
someone to unhook his mon-
itor from his computer. The
second union would move the

Woman’s Letter

monitor to the next cubicle
and bring the new monitor
back. The person from the
first union would have to
come back to hook up the
monitor to

the computer again. My
fourth and final example has
to do with an example from
highschool. When ! was in
highschool on the student
council we wanted to paint
the lockers in the school,
because they were a hideous
Orange colour, and have the
Art 12 students paint murals
on them. The teachers who
were helping with the student
council told us that because
we might be infringing on one
of the local school unions that
we shouldn’t bother trying. |
think that these examples are
a sad testimony to what
unions can do when they gain
too much power. Unions
have their place, but | think
that they have grown far to
large for that place and are
starting to lose all sense of
practicality and reality.

Sincerely, Andrea Larson

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