: The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 28, 1998 - A? _

uge college strike averted TTS BUSINESS AS usual at Northwest Community Col- lege after a tentative agreement was reached Oct. 23 — Iss than two hours before instructors were ready to strike. College instructors here and at 15 other post secondary iistitutions around the province were scheduled to take irike action at 6 a.m. Oct. 23 afler eight months of little é jrogress at the bargaining table. ben te at 4:30 am, Oct. 23, a deal was reached be-

een the joint bargaining team of the College Institute lucators’ Association (CIEA) and the B.C. Government - bnd Service Employees Union (BCGEU), which represents fabout 8,000 professors, instructors, counsellors and librar- lians, and the Post Secondary Employers Association. » “We're hoping the collective agreement creates stability iin the system,’ said Rocque Berthiaume, president of the i Academic Workers Union, which represents 65 instructors

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' NWCC. In addition, members who deposit $1,000 or more will be eligible | Until last Friday, Berthiaume said negotiators weren’t for a trip for two to Vancouver*, This prize includes airfare, two ) able to reach an agreement on monetary issues — in-

nights accommodation and $300 spending money. An additional prize will be awarded by each community branch.

f structors wanted a provincial salary grid (a system wide i grid providing equal rates of pay at all institutions), better . health aud welfare benefits, and job security provisions as instructors want to make sure they aren’t replaced by courses on the Internet.

According to John Shields, president of the BCGEU, col- lege instructors are sick of doing more work with less resources. ‘British Columbia has a first class education system, but we can’t maintain that system if the govern- ment continues to ask our members to do morse and more with less and less,”’ he said, |

Now that an agreement was reached, Shiclds is happy with what the joint bargaining committee has done. ‘‘We

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achieved some significant improvements in many areas of you did. the contract, 1 believe this is a historic agrcement,’”” The three-year agreement includes new job security lan- _ guage, improved health and welfare benefits, protection “7 ts * against contracting oul, and a process ta convert sessional or part-time educators to regular status. | H u n d red Ss hel ped ais, NORTHERN STANDARD i. The settlement falls within the government’s monetary ee SAVINGS ? ., guidelines of no compensation increases in the first or sec- Jake Drooger helps prepare 140-food bags Oct. : -{ ond year, and a two per cent increase in the third year. 20 at the Terrace Churches Food bank. On its first PRINCE RUPERT MASSET QUEEN CHARLOTTE TERRACE About 75,000 full-time students in B,C. (3,000 at NWCC day running, the foad bank gave out 138 bags of (250) 627-7574 (250) 626-5231 (250) 659-4407 (250) 638-7822 /; campuses) would have been affected by striking in- | food. Donations of food can be made through lo- l structors. College teachers had been without a contract cal chur ches, Overweightea and Safeway. BC www.northsave.com info@northsave.com

since the end of March.

This would have been the largest post secondary sirike in B.C.’s history since it is the first time college instructors agreed to walk out logether as a single unil.

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“If You're Looking At Us, We're Looking.For You!” -

THE TERRACE & District Chamber of Commerce has been in the business of helping businesses. If you're one fo the many businesses looking to relocate or expand in Terrace, give us a call. We can provide you with demographic and com- munity profile information that will make your decision the right one.

Small Business Week’

A History of Celebrating Canadian Enirepreneurship

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For the past 18 years, the end of _ October has come to mean something special to small business owners across the country, and to the Business Development Bank of Canada. It has come to be a time when the Bank — with the help of national and local co- sponsors — have organized Small Business Week .

While this one-week celebration of entrepreneurship attracts tens of thou- sands of small businesspeople, its ori- gins are somewhat more modest. The story begins in British Columbia in 1979 when the Bank’s Lower Mainland branches pooled their resources to hald small business management sessions under a Small Business Week banner.

While the main reason for combining their efforts was to save money, the B.C. branches quickly realized they had struck something remarkable.

_ Businesspeople were not only inter-

. ested in learning how to better manage their businesses, they wanted to meet their fellow entreprensurs, and attract public attention.

Businesspeople wanted to tell the country about the important economic benefits they produce. They wanted to tell peopie about the jobs they create, about the products they develop and

about the new markets they explore. Most importantly, they were anxious to tell people that small business had come of age; that they were just as committed, daring and innovative as their big business counterparts.

Riding high on the success of the 1979 experience, Bank staff in British Columbia repeated Small Business Week in 1980 and tripled the number of sessions held for locai business. In 1981 the Week was adopted nationally by the Bank and endorsed by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

Since that time, the Bank and thes Canadian Chamber of Commerce, along with co-sponsors, organize busi- ness fairs, exhibits, workshops, confer- ences, luncheons, award ceremonies, etc.

Each year a theme is chosen for Smail Business Week which reflects the current interests of small business. This year's theme is Innovation - A Growing Success!

As the theme suggests, Small Business Week ‘98 will focus on inno- vation and on how it is a key to busi- ness success and growth as we enter the new millennium.

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“We're That Much More Efficient”

IF THERE'S one area of businesses that has benefited and changed because of burgeoning technological changes, it’s the raal astate industry.

Cellular phones, faxes, pagers, e-mail, web sites and connec- tions to many diffarent computer data bases all combine to place sealtors square in the middle cf the global communications village.

And for independent real estate agencies such as Skeena Realty, the new technology puts them on a level playing field with franchise operations.

“It’s making the independents a lot more stronger with every thing a franchise has. The only thing a franchise has that an inde- pendent doesn't have is that itis a franchise,” says Skeena Realty broker-owner Erika Langer. She took over control of the agency two months ago after 12 years of working for somebody else.

All of the new technelogy enables agents to gather information quickly in order to respond to customer questions and queries, adds Langer. “It just makes us that more efficient," she said.

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“We Do Things Differently”

IN THE last 10 years the Business Development Bank branch

in Terrace, which covers the northwest, has more than doubled its portfolio and client base.

Manager Paul Williams says the federal crown corporation con- centrates on small and medium businesses, two areas which have seen steady growth as the northwest itself has grown.

"Tourisin-related businesses take up 27 per cent of the total portfolio with the next largest one at 19 per cent and that would be manufacturing,” he said.

The bank helps businesses with long term financing they might not be able to find at other, more traditional institutions. “We can do things a bit more differently,” sald Williams.

in the last few years, the bank has added a number of Items to assist ‘the growing knowledge-based businass sector of the economy. ;

Formed in 1946 to help with industrial growth after the Second World War, the bank has had a branch in. Terrace SINC® guiness Development Bank of Canada

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“Offering Extraordinary Assistance”

IT'S NOT unusal for Diane Francis and her Uniglobe statf to pick up the phone and hear a voice from as far away as Johannesburg, South Africa.

Dealing with clients from all over the world is all part of a day's work for the Terrace-based fran- chise which has been in existence for five years now.

“| felt the market was right,” said Francis of her decision to enter the travel agent business. .

tt now has five employees and offers’a full range of leisure and business travel services.

And as one of 1,100 franchises around the world in the Uniglobe group, Francis and her staff can offer extraordinary assistance.

The Uniglobe Rescue Line, for instance, is in operation 24 hours a day through worldwide toll-free phone numbers. “It's amazing what they do,” said Francis who visited the rescue line's headquarters in Seatile, “And we get a message telling us how ona of our clients has been helped.”

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