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CANNED MEATS - Swift Prem Luncheon Meat, ‘Holiday Luncheon Meat, Swifts Cooked Ham. All packaged meats sold in Canada bear this small government inspection label. The number in the label indicates the plant where the meat was produced. The number from Gainers, }) Edmonton is 18B. You can use this | number to identify the Gainers products | sold in your store. Union campaign targets Tory ‘three-headed monster’ OTTAWA — Labor’s cam- paign to stop the federal Tory government from wrecking and privatizing the postal service swung into high gear last week. Canadian Union of Postal Workers vice-president Bill Che- dore, in an interview reported that municipal councils had begun tak- ing up the demands for a better postal service issued last July ina campaign the Canadian Labor Congress has called, “‘unprecedented.”’ The CLC has made the drive by five unions at Canada Post Cor- poration a central focus of its two-year campaign against what it calls the “‘Tories’ three-headed monster’’ — free trade, privatiza- tion and deregulation. **‘A number of municipal coun- cils have endorsed our campaign including the Regina and Saska- toon councils,’’ Chedore said. ‘We've sent telexes to all of our locals asking them to report in to the national office by noon tomor- row, (Oct. 16), and we’re in the process right now of finalizing a reporting system.” The campaign, launched last summer under the auspices of the CLC, brings together the CUPW, Letter Carriers of Union Canada, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the Union of Postal Communication Em- ployees, and the Canadian Post- masters and Assistants Association. They've united around a 10- point program directed at revers- ing the government’s obsessive drive to make the crown’s postal corporation financially self-suf- ficient by 1988. Topping the positive program advanced by the unions is secur- ing a commitment from Canada Post to make improved service to the public the corporation’s top priority. In the CLC’s and the unions’ view that begins with dropping the deadline for reaching financial self sufficiency and concentrating instead on expanding services. Some of the services they'd like to see added include: expanding parcel distribution services be- yond occupying only 3.8 per cent of what amounts to a $4-billion dollar business in this country; expanding wicket services; pro- cessing electronic bulk mail; contracting-in major sub post of- fices, which currently provide some 350 sub post offices with re- venues of more than $150,000 a year and give the contractors commissions of more than 19,500. On the contracting out issue alone, the unions point out that making the sub post offices, sub- ' urban services and cleaning, “‘in-house’’ services would not only be cheaper than contracting them out to the government’s pri- vate sector friends, but would give Canada Post greater control Over its operations, and create more jobs. The campaign also calls for an immediate moratorium on both post office closures and the elim- ination of rural routes. All urban communities with more than 2,000 points of call should auto- matically receive door-to-door mail delivery. The unions link workers’ health and safety to improved postal services by demanding a concert- ed effort by management to re- duce workplace injuries and work related illnesses. ‘*With one of the worst safety records in the country,”’ the re- form program states, ‘‘Canada Post spends more than $20-mil- lion annually as a result of work place injuries alone. “‘It’s time to improve working conditions,”’ the unions declare. The leaders of the five postal unions and the CLC form a na- tional committee that is mirrored throughout the country at the loc- al, regional, and provincial levels. At the local levels the joint union committees have distributed more than a million pamphlets with cards addressed to Prime Minister Mulroney, the leaders of the opposition parties in the Commons, and to individual Members of Parliament. Ads have been placed in the major daily newspapers and the local committees were urged to get them reproduced in the local press. All Members of Parliament are being confronted with a question- naire pressing them to take a stand on whether or not they sup- port better postal services. Lobbying efforts have been ex- tended to city councils, and the unions are reaching out for allies such as senior citizens and other members of the community who use the postal services, to press the federal government to change its policies. ‘*‘What’s at stake here is the postal service Canadians have en- joyed for the past 100 years,” Chedore said. “‘If you take the trend of this Tory government and the pressure that’s being put on Canada Post for cutbacks and financial self-sufficiency, they'll succeed in privatizing the post office and we'll lose services many now take for granted, and the jobs that go with them.”’ At press time the national postal unions committee was to meet in Ottawa to review the progress of the campaign to date. That’s when the CLC and the unions will be able to assess the progress they have made in protecting a vital national institu- tion and in throwing another road block in the Tories’ neo-conser- vative agenda of privatization. north of Toronto. a heart attack last winter. listened to.” — : MARKHAM — Among the setbacks for choice on abortion a small success has been won. Despite a well-financed campaign and ‘The tactic anti-abortionists have played out at hospitals across the country — to gain control of a hospital board and cut off access to abortion — surprisingly failed in these two bedroom communities The anti-choice campaign “generated a great deal of publicity and “[t’s an important lesson in the value of education!” says Scarbo- rough who is resting at her home in Bobcaygeon, Ontario following _ “This pro-choice win, and the fact that the Morgentaler and Scott clinics in Ontario are still open, make me hopeful that in Ontario and other parts of the country, the wishes of the majority are finally being and there are no facilities in two provinces, Prince Edward Island al force. It’s been a tough fight — and it isn’t over a powerful political force. It’s be _ yet. But in our desire to move faster toward achieving our goals, we _ must not lose sight of the tremendous strides we've made so far. Strides that 20 years ago wouldn’t have been possible.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE, OCTOBER 22, 1986 e 7 it thee