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     Dal faculty put picket ‘signs back in closet 
     
    
   
   
    
     HALIFAX (CUP) —- More 
     
     than 700 Dalhousie Univer- 
     
     sity faculty members are 
     
     holding chalk and pointers 
     
     instead of picket signs in the 
     
     wake of a Jan. 24 faculty 
     
    
   
   
    
     A association vote not to walk 
     
    
   
   
    
     the line. 
     
    

    
     Only 446 out of the 728 
     
     member association showed 
     
     up at a general meeting where 
     
     246 members voted not to 
     
     strike Jan. 28 and 200 voted 
     
     in favor. The association 
     
     later accepted the administra— 
     
     tion’s latest offer. 
     
    

    
     Faculty will receive a three 
     
     per cent increase in salaries 
     
     this year and 3.7 per cent 
     
     next year. And the Dalhousie 
     
     pension fund, long a source 
     
     of controversy, will no longer 
     
     be integrated with the 
     
     Canada Pension Plan fund. 
     
    

    
     The move, which is valued 
     
     at $1.8 million, replaces the 
     
     association’s proposal that 
     
     the administration replenish 
     
     the actual surplus taken 
     
     during its holiday from 
     
     paying into the pension fund. 
     
     The administration stopped 
     
     making payments in the 
     
     spring. 
     
    

    
     But not all members of 
     
     the university community are 
     
     happy with the settlement. 
     
    

    
     Association president 
     
     Sandy Young says the strike 
     
    
   
   
    
     should have gone ahead. 
     
     “We should have got a better 
     
     contract if we had gone on an 
     
     all-out strike,” he says, 
     
     adding the administration 
     
     would have settled in a few 
     
     days to relieve the pressure. 
     
    
   
   
    
     And student council presi- 
     
     dent Alex Gigeroff says the 
     
     financial problems facing the 
     
     university and bitterness 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ONE am? REASON 
     
     rmzé 
     
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     HECK US OUT. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     among faculty remain. 
     
    

    
     “I feel a lot of problems 
     
     this crisis brought out are 
     
     still here. We’ve avoided a 
     
     strike this time but the inter- 
     
     nal problems faced by the 
     
     university haven’t changed 
     
     and neither has the external 
     
     funding problem. ’ ’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     Though he/was pleased the 
     
     strike did not go ahead be- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     pointed for the faculty,” 
     
     which he thinks took a 
     
     gamble and lost. 
     
    
   
   
    
     One member of the strike 
     
     support committee, however, V 
     
     says the decision not to strike 
     
     was not a defeat for the 
     
     union. “We made progress 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     on pensions,” says arts pro- 
     
     fessor Tom Sinclair-Faulkner. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Sinclair-Faulkner says he 
     
     no longer supports escalating 
     
     job actions such as informa- 
     
     tional pickets because they 
     
    
   
   
    
     ,do not have enough effect 
     
    
   
   
    
     on the hard of governors. 
     
     The strike would have been 
     
    

    
     the faculty’s first. Faculty 
     
    

    
     launched a one-day work 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     stoppage Jan. 16 and held 
     
     informational sessions to 
     
     alert students to the possi- 
     
     bility of a strike and its 
     
     effects. 
     
    

    
     Dalhousie faces a $25 
     
     million accumulated deficit 
     
     and monetary penalities from 
     
     the provincial government if 
     
     it does not-reduce the deficit 
     
     to below a certain percentage 
     
     of its operating grant. 
     
    
   
   
    
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