WIIITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOV' IRER 12, 1980, PAGE 5 F act finder s ays thaàt both board' s and teachers', attitudes are holding up current neg.otiatiols There are three major issues lef t unresolved bet- ween the Durham Board 0f Education and its secondary school teachers accordlng to a fact finder's report released to the public early last week. Accordlng to T.G. Bastedo, the provincially appolnted fact finder in the contract dispute between the board and its teachers, represented by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF), wayges, benefits and the pupil-teacher ration (PTR> are the stumbling blocks. However, Bastedo said in hie report to'the Education Relations Commission that "Ineither party was of much assistance to me ini setting forht the facts which would be of assistance to a neutral person." "Each party appeared to me to rest its submissions on an ineluctable logic which that side preceived to be self-evidently persuasive." "Bastedo also said in his report aht much of the fric- tion between the teachers and the board is caused by the fact that there is no "4consultative co-operation" between the two parties. Throughout the province boards and teachers generally co-operative through bot formai and in- formai ways to iron out everyday problems* In the negotation process, the OSSTF has proposed that no changes to be made in existing practises unless both parties agree, while the board bas said that it does not want limitations placed on its "management perogatives." in summlng up this problem, Bastedo told the commission that "I make no comments on the opposing position except to reiterate that the problem cannot be solved except by an easing of the rather paternalistie policies of the board on one hand and by a somewhat less combatitive position of the teachers on the other. " The two sides have been negotiating since February to replace the one-year con- tract that expired at the end of August. The board has 17 secondary schools in its jurisdiction and a staff of some 1,017 teachers. Pickering Trustee William McCracken, chairman.of the board's negotiators, said that while Bastedo has correctly put the opposing positions on paper the language that was used was "Highly charged.", It is said of Winston Churchill that he mobilized the English language and sent it to war," McCracken said. "Dr. Bastedo has been doing the came thing here. " He objected to the section of Bastedo's report that ac- cused the board of being "1paternalistic" and the teachers of being "com- batitive," saying that neither is accurate and that both sides are just trying to make their positions clear to the other. McCracken also disagrees with the fact finder's obser- vations about the lack of consultation between the parties saying that, "Both sides are looking for ways to include the ocnsultatîve process. " The trustee also pointed out that "a fact finder's report is always a subjective evaluation. " During the last set of con- tract taiks the fact finder did not find a reason for changing the pupil-t.eacher ratio from the present 17.87 to one althougb Bastedo recommended that the trend be brought into line with the provincial average of 16.81 per cent. Peter Snaith, the chair- man of the teacher's negotiating committee said that he is satisfied with the report and was flot bothered with the language adding that the board does, indeed, have a "paternalistic" at- titude. Because of this, he said, the teachers do assume a combatative r51e. "What kind of attitude would you have if someone told you what je good for you? " he asked. "We'll resist them," he continued. "That sounds in- flexible but there je no other alternative. " Snatih said that the con- sultative process je used in two major areas of school life, adding that while it works well in both cases, the board does not seem to believe in it. 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