Rally for Justice Sat., July 7

John Hendry (Trout Lake) Park, Vancouver beginning at 1 p.m.

Wednesday, July 4, 1984

Newsstand Price 40° Vol. 47, No. 26

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Triumphant members of the Sunshine Coast Peace Committee cheer after planting, for the second time this year, their sign declaring the

"egional district a nuclear-free zone. The sign, originally erected last April and removed a few days later by the provincial highways

= nistry, reflects the unanimous decision the regional district board made more than one year ago. Regional director Brett McGillivray
ttended the sign planting, outside the Langdale Ferry terminal, as did city alderman and publisher of the local Coast News Weekly, John
Umside. Story page 11.

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general elections

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‘Vancouver, |EXPO 86 board,
GVRD urge / OV't brandish
anti-union club
over job site

The B.C. and Yukon Building Trades
Council has vowed that its affiliates “‘won’t
build Expo under compulsion...and it
won't be built by anybody else.”

That declaration, by Building Trades
Council president Roy Gautier took on new
significance this week as Expo president
Michael Bartlett gave notice to union con-
tractor Cana Construction Ltd. that if its
workers, currently taking part in a rotating
job action, are not back on the site by July
11, the contract will be cancelled and
handed over to a manager “with workers
willing to work.”

The Expo president’s statement gave
further confirmation that the Expo board of
directors plans to continue its anti-union
offensive launched by the board meeting
June 28.

At that meeting, atended by Socred
Labor Minister Bob McClelland, directors
again refused to endorse the tentative
agreement worked out with the Building
Trades Council and voted instead to call on
the provincial cabinet to proclaim Section
73.1 of the amended Labor Code and
declare Expo 86 an “economic develop-
ment zone.”

The board also set a wage standard on
the site at a level some.$3.50 an hour below
that provided in the earlier tentative
agreement — and then exempted Kerkhoff
from its provisions.

The board’s decision prompted an angry
statement from “Building Trades Council
president Roy Gautier.

“In place of an equitable negotiated set-
tlement, the Expo board has now asked for
compulsion. But it won’t work,” he said.
“Expo won’t be built under compulsion.
Our affiliates won’t build it under compul-
sion and it won’t be built by anyone else.”

The Expo site remained virtually shut
down Tuesday as Building Trades unions
continued to invoke their non-affiliation
clauses in staging rotating walkouts to pro-
test the Expo contract given to anti-union
contractor J.C. Kerkhoff and Sons Con-
struction.

But Bartlett’s statement, sent out by spe-
cial courier Tuesday, made it clear that both
the Expo board and the provincial govern-
ment are seeking a showdown.

In the nine-page statement, Bartlett
warned that Cana Construction, currently
involved in two contracts, totalling $14.7
million, to build the B.C. Pavilion: “. . .if full
production is not reinstated within the next
five days we will have no choice but to
consider cancellation of their contract and
the appointment of a_project manager to
continue the project with workers willing to
work.”

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