Nurses invoke
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TO STEP UP job action against employers this week, the

B.C. Nurses Union has refused to grant hospitals overtime
work.

Black i ice Causes injuries Loeal shop steward Penny Henderson said an overtime ban

TWO PEOPLE were injured east of the Kasiks River | on acute care facilities at Mills Memorial Hospital bepan on

bridge f Nov. {7 when their truck hit black ice and slipped Saturday, but employers have been granted overtime Vari-
down a sleep embankment, :

; ances to help meet minimum essential service requirements.
‘The truck was resting on ils roof at 9:20 p.m. when emer- But as of terday Hend id time
gency vehicles arrived, finding one trapped occupant. 0 as © noon yesterday Henderson said no more avert
The passenger, a Terrace resident, was admitted at Mills variances will be granted.
Memorial Hospital while the Powell River driver was trans: [| “We'll have to make due with essential service’ levels,” shew poe

ported to Vancouver with serious injuries, said,
Terrace RCMP say drivers should watch for black ice Henderson said the overtime ban has been abused because

where asphalt meets concrete or where the road is partially management at some hospitals aren’t taking nurses seriously
covered by shade, They also warn drivers not to use cruise anymore
control when roads are slippery. . - . :

The B.C. Nurses Union overtime ban now extends to 30
hospitals across the province affecting about 80 per cent of

Ebbels moves to mines B.C.’s 20,000 nurses. About a third of the province's acute

JACK EBBELS, the provincial aboriginal affairs minis- care facilities are now affected causing elective surgery to be 1) ay
try’s deputy minister and the provincial gavernment’s chief canceled and patients to be discharged.
negotiator for the Nisga’a land claim has a new job. The union decided to add 13 more hospitals to the overtime ,

He began work Nov. 16 as deputy minister of the energy, {ban to pressure the Health Employers Association back to the
mines and petroleum resources ministry under Dan Miller.

Ebbels. a laywer, began working for the aboriginal affairs bargaining table.

‘oat tay i Talks broke down Nov. 15 after the employers offered $45 T
ministry on the Nisga’a claim in the early 1990s and was “ mploy h d N Db 26
nromoted to deputy ester several years ago. million over three years to hire about 600 more nurses, but urs a y 9 oO V em er

Replacing Ebbels at abcriginal affairs is Philip refused to offer nurses wage increases.
Steenkamp, He was acting deputy minister for four years “They are refusing to talk about pay equity or equality,” 9-380 am - 4:00 pm
and was a negotiator for northern interior claims. Henderson said. “We! re willing to go back to the table to talk

‘ about all issues.”
Esca pee caug ht The union says 600 nurses aren’t enough to ease workload

A MAN charged with six counts of break and enter problems. And they still want to discuss issues like what pay
escaped from the Terrace Correctional Centre Nov, 20 was they should receive for remaining on call, mileage rates and
caught by undercover RCMP officers wages they should receive for running a ward. The employers

Christopher David Prokopchuk, 19, walked away from the say there’s no more money for wage increases. :
minimum security prison at 12 noon last Friday. Charged . ;
with six counts of break and enter and one count of posses: Shoplifter arrested
sion of stolen property, Prokopchuk was being held in cus- TERRACE RCMP arrested a shoplifter at the Kalum Street
tody until his court appearance later that same afternoon. Copperside store Sunday after he waved a knife around and ran

He was found Saturday by an off-duty guard from the out of the store.
Terrace detachment near the pool. With the help of RCMP The 18-year-old Terrace man faces charges of shoplifting and ‘#8
officers and a police dog, Prokopchuk was found coming out possession of an offensive weapon. He will appear in a Terrace
of the wooded area behind the Terrace courthouse and courtroom Dec. 12.
returned to jail.

Leg called back Nov. 30 ”
THE PROVINCIAL legislature is going back into session The Dr. R.E »M, lee Foundation

next Monday, Nov. 30, to begin debating the Nisga’a treaty.
Already ratitied by the Nisga'a, the treaty must be passed pr esenis

by the provincial legislature and the federal Parliament. . | d
Premier Glen Clark has said there will be a free vote in the Va enti nes Day, my ear

legislature on the treaty. There is no estimate on how long | ]

the debate will take. Iti New Or eans Sty e

Nisga’a on Knowledge . Sat. Feb. 13, 1998

THE NISGA’A treaty takes to the airwaves on Channel
12, the Knowledge Network, Monday Nov. 30 with an hour
long discussion on the document and phoned-in questions.

_ In addition to being televised, the forum will be carried on
Knowledge Network's website at www. knowty.com ‘

The phone number to call in questions during the forum is
1-604-431-3270,

Appearing will be chief federal negotiator Tom Molloy, = (¢ t ¢) %
chief provincial negotiator Jack Ebbels and Joe Gosnell,
president of the Nisga’a Tribal Council. nd

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Leaders debate treaty

ALSO ON TV Nov. 30 is a CBC-TV debate on the
Nisga’a treaty between four political leaders,

Premier Glen Clark, Liberal leader Gordon Campbell,
Progressive Democratic Alliance leader Gordon Wilson and Levis Red Tab

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