Al 4 - The Terrace Standard, Social service workers rally and march for better wages COMMUNITY SOCIAL service workers were on the picket line again Monday to push the provincial govern- ment for better wages and benefits. As of Monday, there were no pickets scheduled by workers in Terrace but they did join others across the’ province March 8 with a ral- ly and march. In Terrace, the march ended at Skeena NDP MLA Helmut Giesbrecht’s office, Forty workers here have joined 10,000 community. social’ service workers around the’ province by refusing to work over time and by doing only essential duties. “They'll do their job and that’s that — they don’t do the extra things,’? said Shel- ley Anderson, staff repre- senlative’ ‘for the BC Government and Service Employees’ Union in Ter- Tate, Community social service workers here look after 11 adults with physical and de- velopmental disabilities in the city's three group homes. . Community social service worker: Dorothy Bartsoff said she aids clients in every aspect of life from personal care to job support, Clients would not be able to maintain a normal lifestyle if it wasn’t for these people who work with. them,” she said, Bartsoff added that’ clients’ lives will not be endangered by job action, | _ “They will be safe and sound, fed and supported.”” Community social service workers are paid the lowest wages in the unionized scc- tors.. Their wages range from’ $11.50 to $14.50 an hour, ‘Every other sector, is making $16 or more doing the same work,’’ Anderson said, referring to hospital and community health: ‘Ber- vice workers. She said community soclal service. workers, who are mostly women, are un-— dervalued. Le “I don’t believe the government recognizes. the critical type of work that, Alcan calms smelter talk THERE’S STILL a long way to go before Alcan can , make a decision on expand- ing its Kitimat aluminum production capacity. “In fact, we still have to make a decision whether we're going to go shead with the feasibility study in more detaii,’? Alcan official Roger Bennett said last week, ‘ The prospect of Alcan ex- panding in Kitimat has been on the table as one of the : outcomes. of hydra power negotiations with the provincial government, Referring to the comments made recently by Eric Sykes, — Alcan’s president of corporate af- fairs, who had indicated Al- can was prepared to go ahead with a scaled-back version of one expansion plan, Bennett suggested, ‘‘]. some: think there was misinterpretations of what he said,”’ Some preliminary work has been done and now the company must decide whether or not to go through a preliminary engineering exercise, Bennett explained, adding that step is, itself only part of the feasibility | ; study, The decision of whether : its a viable project would only come after a preliminary engineering ex: ercise — “If we even do that,’’ Bennett added, Wher you can't breathe, nothing else matters. - BRITISH COLUMBIA LUNG ASSOCLATION 731-LUNG of 1-800-665-LUNG. _ Vice-: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 - MV mT ay Alex Hamilton photo DOROTHY BARTSOFF, (left), a community support worker and a key bargaining unit representative with the B. GC, Government and Service Employees’ Union and union Staff representative Shelley Anderson hold signs of the times. family and children’s ser-° vices, and services to women and childcare. ‘They work with people who have physical or devel- opmental disabilities iu group hemes, vocational programs, adult day care will have more marches and tallies if the government doesn’t negotiate a fair and equitable collective agtee- ment. Community social service workers. provide support to British Columbians in four these individuals do,” Anderson said. She said the workers here will keep pushing for wage parity, job security, sick days, dental plans and other benefits until a fair collec- tive agreement is reached. a! +8 eS me, ee = eu, To introduce Freedom Lite we'll give you 1,000 weekend minutes every month for one full year. 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