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A8 - Tha Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 17, 1993

CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD

The Mail Bag

Seniority must count

Dear Sirs:

I am absolutely appalled that
the CUPE membership would use
Mr. Chinn as an expendable pawn
in their political maneuver.

Mr. Chinn, a mentally chal-
lenged man, has worked for the
school board in a non-unionized
position for 22 years. This has
been done through the coopera-
tlon of the board and the union
which has been able to ignore this
situation for all this time.

However, at this point in time,
CUPE has decided to use the
situation to gain an advantage of
the board and use Mr, Chinn as a
bargaining tool.

By requiring Mr. Chinn to join
the union and requiring the
school board fo create a union

Dear Sir:

Some time ago, a concerned in-
dividual wrote to this paper in
suppport of the daycare that is
being constructed on Hamer ave-
nue, which is a residential arca.
As well as support the daycare,
some remarks were aimed at Mr.
Papais who did not support the
daycare, The insinuation was
made that be had sent his own
child to such a daycare.

The daycare that Mr. Papais’

position for him, he would effec-
tively become a.shield for the
union, He would have absolutely
no seniority and would be the
first to be laid off in the event of
cutbacks.

Public opinion would certainly
be against a school board that
would lay off a mentally chai-
lenged man who had worked for
22 years.

The union could then point out

the apparent injustice and point ~

out that legally their hands are
tied by the seniority clause and
that somehow it was the school
board’s fault that Mr. Chinn was
losing his job.

They have indicated first that in
spite of having heid his job on his
own merits for 22 years, that if he

child attended dealt with a small-
er group of children in a particu-
lar age group. My child was alse
at that daycare at that time.
I chose Heleu’s Play and Learn
on Gair Avenue because it was
professionally run but also be-
cause there were fewer children
there and they were around the
same age.

Even in kindergarten or pre-
school, children attend two hours
with children of the same age

joined the union, he would be the
first to be laid off to protect other
members.

Then after a significant protest
by the community they indicate
that they may be willing to nego-
tiated some seniority for him.

If it is legally possible to nego-
tiate seniority for him, if they are
truly interested in protecting Mr.
Chinn, they can simply negotiate
the 22 years that he has worked.
Of course this will victimize one
of their members.

I also do not believe that Mr.
Chinn is being exploited by the
school board. This is simply a fair
agreement that benefits both
patties. Any exploitation here is
on the part of the union.

Would it not be a simple matter

group. In a daycare there can be a
varying age group attending for
up to eight hours or more.

If it’s not acceptable ina school
for kindergarten children why
should it be for children in
daycare? We should all keep the
child’s best interest in mind.

Mr. Bromley is presently run-
ning a 16-child daycare business
on Agar Avenue next to the Agar
store. I cannot see how a large
daycare business such as thal

Political opinion polls

Dear Sir:
With the election just over, I’m
writing to mention the glaring in-

accuracy of the Educomp opinion _

poll which appeared in The Ter-
race Standard on Oct. 20.
Statistically speaking,

readerswere advised the margin

of error was plus or minus 5.4 per
cent once the undecided were

removed. ||
However, Educomp’s error ¢x- '

ceeded this for the Reform (-6 per
cent), Liberal (-7 per cent), New
Democratic (+6 per cent) and

Conservative parties (a whopping
+10 per cent overestimate).
Moreover the poll un-

derestimated the National party
vote by a gigantic 92 per cent,
predicting they would receive

only 4 per cent of the vote, while

in actual fact National received
almost double that amount, or 7.7
per cent in total.

Since we know that publishing -

poll results during the campaign
causes a bandwagon effect, and
since the data reported were so

Worker
saluted

Dear Sir: ‘

Congratulations, Lavern,

It is not often we take the op--

portunity.to salute someone for
just quietly doing his work, faith.
fully and well, rain or shine; over
the years as you have done,

It is hard to realize that it is 22 1

years since that day at Jack Cook
School when you passes” your
final hurdle by changing the fluo-

rescent light bulb at the school - -

and at last became an employes
of School District 88.
‘Not. many” people: ‘know the

courage it took for you to strike .

out on your own when so many
people were afrald for you and
tried to persuade you not to leave
the security of the social services
welfare.

But you did it and stuck to it.

Now you aro an example to all of
us of what can be done with
courage amd independence. We
salute you and look forward to
secing you in that yellow slicker
raking and shovelling in raln or
snow for a long time to come.
Sincerely,
_ Nancy Orr,
Terrace, B.C.

erroncous, perhaps this newspa-
per may wish to rethink its

policy, say prior to the n¢st

cause bandwagon effect

provincial election.
Jerry Reitman,
Terrace, B.C,

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for the union and the board to
print up « letter of agreement stat-
ing that this is a unique situation
and sets no precedent?

I have no doubt that they are
legally correct in their position in
the same way guilty criminals are
sometimes let off on a tech-
nicality.

However I am of the opinion
that should Mr. Chinn lose at ar-
bitration, that he will have been
denied equal benefit of law (his
22 years seniority must count)
and an appeal should be launched
under the charter of rights,

I would be interested in a
response by our MLA and our
new Member of Parliament as to
where they stand on this issue.

John Pequin, ,
Terrace, B.C,

Daycare rezone opposed

could be licensed in a single fam-
lly residential area such as Hamer
Avenue.

Ido not feel that a large daycare
is appropriate in a residential area
that is not zoned for it.

Mr. Bromley should find a
building where the zoning is
proper or, keep his business right
where it is,

Judy Koven,
Terrace, B.C.

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- 20 years as a senior manager in the provincial post secondary education system (12.
ears as President of Northwest College). Presently, semi-retired “ong human -
resource consulting work.

Past and present community involvement:

Chalrman, Terrace Touism and Economic Advisory Commission

Chairman, Skeena Labour Market Development Committee

President, Terrace and District Arts Council President, Northwest Regional Arts Council
President, Terrace Concert Society Chairman, Sacred Heart Parish Council

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