January 10, 1935 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     A booklet listing Federal summer job prospects. Because booklet and cross out the positions no longer in existence. 
     
     of the cuts, employment officers had to go through each On these two pages are Summer Canada Works (total 528 (Photo: MacLeod) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Has yOur job been jett 
     
    
   
   
    
     By Carolyn Ryan 
     
    
   
   
    
     At least 619 government 
     
     summer jobs won’t be 
     
    
   
   
    
     around next year for Prince 
     
     Edward Island students. 
     
     And the UPEI Student 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     Employment Centre . . . . , 
     
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     Life Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
     
    

    
     Financial Aid . . . . . . . . . . . . 
     
    

    
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     Union is not very happy with 
     
     that. 
     
    

    
     A six-week campaign to 
     
     protest government under— 
     
     funding in education and stu- 
     
     dent jobs had been planned, 
     
     and will start unfolding this 
     
     week, said Michelle Dorsey, 
     
     SU President. 
     
    

    
     Meetings with the provin- 
     
     cial Minister of Education, 
     
     Leone Bagnole, soup-kitchen 
     
     information sessions with 
     
     students, a Main Event to 
     
     raise funds for summer posi- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' tions, and a final climactic 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lobby Day with provincial 
     
     MLA’s at Province House in 
     
     mid-February, are some of 
     
     the events planned to alert 
     
     students and the public to the 
     
     dwindling financial alterna- 
     
     tives open to students trying 
     
     to attend university. 
     
    

    
     The campaign arose last 
     
     term from a Student Union 
     
     COuncil meeting (see Novem— 
     
     ber 29 issue) when Councillors 
     
     were angered to hear of the 
     
     extent of the fledgling Con- 
     
     servative government’s plans 
     
     to cut funding for student 
     
    
   
   
    
     employment, especially in the 
     
     area of Summer Works and 
     
     Summer Career Access pro- 
     
     jects, which account for 575 
     
     of the jobs mentioned above. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CFS rep for P.E.I. Cathy 
     
     Campbell and Ombudsman 
     
     Jacinta Gallant volunteered 
     
     to start working on an agenda, 
     
     and over Christmas some of 
     
     the groundwork was done. 
     
    

    
     The campaign will start 
     
     with an information blitz, 
     
     including articles in the 
     
     Netted Gem, a radio talk 
     
     show mid-week on ClMN, 
     
     posters, and printed pamph- 
     
     lets. 
     
    

    
     Organizers are focussing 
     
     on employment program cuts 
     
     as a symptom of the larger 
     
     problem of student under- 
     
     funding, and mean to make 
     
     their point by an extensive 
     
     use of statistics such as the 
     
     following: 
     
    

    
     —— Only 36% of young people 
     
     with no post-secondary edu- 
     
     cation have full-time, year- 
     
     round job. ' 
     
    

    
     — Half of those with post- 
     
    
   
   
    
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     jobslast year) and Summer Career Access (total 47 jobs). 
     
    
   
   
    
     isoned? 
     
    
   
   
    
     secondary education work 
     
     full-time for the whole year. 
     
     — Nationally, 81,685 jobs 
     
     with Summer Canada in 1984 
     
     won’t exist in the summer of 
     
     1985. 
     
    

    
     — One-third of post-second- 
     
     ary students view summer 
     
     savings as their primary 
     
     source of funding for educa- 
     
     tion. 
     
    

    
     —— In June, 1984, the official 
     
     government figure for youth 
     
     unemployment was 463,000, 
     
     but Youth Minister Celine 
     
     HervieuxPayetté said this 
     
     omitted 106,000 young 
     
     people who had given up 
     
     looking for work and 250,000 
     
     youths underemployed 
     
     through working part—time  
     
     this totals 819,000 people 
     
     from the ages of 15-24. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Dorsey says the Jobs ca— 
     
     paign will not necessarily be 
     
     asking the government to re-' 
     
     instate what existed in the 
     
     past for students: Instead, 
     
     politicians will be asked to 
     
     ensure that such programs be 
     
     replaced with programs 
     
    
   
   
    
     creating productive, posi- 
     
     tive jobs rather than “do- 
     
     nothing” positions. 
     
    

    
     “The government is saying 
     
     the private sector will pick 
     
     up the slack in the economy 
     
     and replace the lost jobs,” 
     
     said UPEI Ombudsman 
     
     Jacinta Gallant, “But what 
     
     are students supposed to do 
     
     in the meantime?” She says 
     
     such an adjustment period 
     
     could take five years or more. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In short, the Student 
     
     Union campaign is trying to 
     
     bring about an increase in 
     
     awareness on the part of 
     
     students especially and the 
     
     general public as well, that 
     
     the cuts being made in 
     
     Ottawa will slash students 
     
    
   
   
    
     badly. 
     
     It won’t hurt, either, to 
     
     remind Prime Minister 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mulroney of a statement he 
     
     made in June of 1984, to the 
     
     effect that “nothing can be 
     
     too dramatic, nothing can be 
     
     enough, to deal with the pro- 
     
     blem of youth unemploy- 
     
     merit.”