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Related to the aforementioned cost issue is the querying of the priority
of health and safety issues in times of "restraint". My view is that
restraint makes many goals more difficult to achieve. It reduces the
number of students we are able to serve, the number of faculty and staff
that can be employed, and the quality of the conditions under which
employees work and students learn. I take responsibility as the Faculty
Association's health and safety representative for synthesizing the
health and safety concerns of the membership and for informing them
regarding what I see as critical issues. Whether these are taken up

in any serious fashion is, of course, a matter of democracy. What I
would caution against. though, is the assumption that there must be a
choice between jobs and health. The aim of restraint is to restrict
whatever can be restricted; the only effective defense is to criticize
and challenge it on whatever front it appears.

I will be asking the Health and Safety Committee to consider the proposal
or reasonable alternatives, based on these results. I urge the employees
of the College to contribute to a solution by continuing investigation

and debate in whatever forums are appropriate.

Connie Broatch