-- A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 2, 2005

Union boosts

strike activity

NORTHWEST COMMU-
NITY College (NWCC)
support workers Set up pick-
et lines in Terrace Jan. 28,
continuing a series of rotat-

ing strikes to convince the |

Campbell government to lis-
‘ten to their wage demands. .

It was the second time in
three weeks the B.C. Gov-
ernment and ‘Service Em-
ployees’ Union shut down
the main college campus
here and smaller ones else-
where. in the northwest.
Union members say more
job-action is expected. pos-
sibly this week. ,

“We will continue until
the government does some-
thing,” said union member

The union continued to
ask for zero, zero, three per
cent and four per cent in its
four year proposal.

Members also want ben-
efits, such as. maternity or,
parental leaves, increased
to match those given to in-
structors. ,

Gowen noted that all the
strikers were women.

“It appears to us the wom- |

en-dominated careers or jobs
in this province have been

the ones hit by Campbell's
- government,” she said.”

“Gowen listed nursing.
support work and teaching
as careers in which women
“outnumber men.

“Big industry-based busi-

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Lorrie Gowen, one of those

manning the picket line.’
She said an attempt at

mediation broke down when. |

ness in the province that are
predominately. male — the
government hasn‘t touched,”
she said. -

B.C. GOVERNMENT and Service Employees’ Union members were out on the

picket line at Northwest Community College Jan. 27, the second such time they’ve 4660 Lakelse

a mediator offered to give
union members $1,000 per

. person for professional, de-.

velopment.
It. was money ~ which,
-Gowen said, had already
been received and spent.
- She likened it to a sign-

ing bonus rather than a.wage -

increase.

‘Union members say they.

have been without raises in
five of the last seven years
and wanted a seven per cent
hike over four years.
Colleges around B.C.,

which received the major-

‘ity of their money from the
. provincial government, have
- stuck to a. government-or-

dered mandate of offering no

increases over three years.’

Kincolith —
chooses |
new. chief.

THE SEAFOOD capital of
the Nass Valley has a new
‘ chief councillor.

George Moore Sr. has
won last week’s by-elec-
tion in the Nisga’a village of .

Kincolith (Gingolx), located: -

at the mouth of the Nass
River.

Moore garnered 83 votes
in a four-way race for chief
councilor, beating out in-
cumbent Nelson — Clayton,
who had 66 votes.

_ Both men tied in the dis-
puted Oct. 27, 2004 clec-
tion. 1

The election was declared
invalid by the Nisga’a Ad-
ministrative Decisions Re-
view Board, triggering the

~ Jan. 25 by-election.

The three-member review
board was. set up as part of

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