The impact of a work-to-rule campaign by union- AA ized employees depends largely on how closely the Cd -normal operation follows the rules to begin with. In - je, workplaces where, by mutual consent, management __and staff throw out the book and do whatever is ‘needed to get the job done — like in B.C. hospitals — work-to-rule can be almost indistinguishable from a strike. | oO _ Terrace has been sheltered somewhat from the full - impact of the B.C. Nurses’ Union work-to-rule and overtime ban. By all accounts the excellence of — management-staf f-relations has kept nursing vacancies to a minimum at Mills Memorial Hospital. In‘ other areas, however, the overtime ban has provided undeniable proof that B.C. hospitals. are seriously short of nurses. ae In rejecting a tentative contract a few weeks ago, BCNU ‘no’ vote reps said the wage offer was inade- quate because it wouldn’t solve the shortage. As mediation intensifies in the renewed bargaining, the question seems to be — how much will it take to at-" . tract'and keep nurses in B.C., and can the province : } , ai ar ; ’ ; ‘ f J } pa] afford it? | When degree-bearing nurses make their annual emergence from university, Vancouver is the scene of a massive, hard-pitch recruitment drive. A lot of the . people making the pitch are representatives of American hospitals, bearing staggeringly lucrative ‘wage Offers. One nurse we interviewed recently took a | “one-year contract in Connecticut that paid an a unbelievable $56,000 US in wages and benefits, plus paid leave-of-absence and paid tuition for-periodic. | upgrading. Can we compete with that? One reason for the competition, according to most sources, is the surpassing excellence of B.C.’s graduate nurses. Our system appears to be producing profes- - . sionals so good that we can’t afford them. . But even the BCNU says the money isn’t everything. -Perhaps nurses can be counted upon to stay here out _of attachment to their home province, if they get the "respect they deserve. The provincial government says if there isn’t an agreement by the end of this week they'll impose a settlement. This dispute has certainly gone on too long, and an imposed settlement may be - necessary to keep the hospital system in one piece, but it’s the nature of that settlement and-the manner in which it is offered that will determine whether it’s go- _ing to be good for the health care system in the long term. Just a little respect, please. ' VICTORIA — When I was a daily newspaper editor. — in Nanaimo, and in Oxford and always very, very wary of - advertisers who tried to ‘‘slip through” an ad in the form of d news story. You know — those ads with a photo and caption above a ‘normal’? . headline and story, with the word “advertisement” in tiny "print somewhere in it. what of a specious way to flog a product or service, and was used to seeing clear demarca- tion between objective news reports and subjective advertis- ing. | So I am more than a little disturbed to see ‘News Up- Established May 1, 1885 Second-class mail " * ‘ ; The Terrace Review is published registration No. 6896. dates” on province-wide televi- each Wednesday by All material appearing in the Terrace Review is SiON these days, sponsored by — protected under Canadian co) ht tetra mci Prete we und connec egy bevepre. tHe provincial government, Ciose-Up Business Services Lid. ; duced for any reason without permission ofthe: - which means paid for by thee mie bilsher. Publisher: Errors and omiasions, Advenising is scoepted and me, the taxpayers:: These 78 m7 . 8 fog ry oo. ; Mer typographical err, tat portion of the savers insidious little reports are dis-" . ° = . . u a Michael Kelly nat be cherged fo, But ne balance of ine adver guised as news, and even run a a 7 1 ig Staff Reporter: Advertisers must xasume responsibility {oF er. during the ad slots on BCTV’s moe Tod Strachan rors In any clasaified ad which |s supplied tothe News Hour, obscuring even » wes Advertisin Manager: In comptience with the B.C. Human Rights Act, further the line between fair wea seiting: . discriminates against. a person due 40 age, 1208, and balanced news reports and - ree ols hs religion, color, sex, nationality, ancesiryorplace = qne-sided selling of a govern- Production Manager: 4535 n ment program or service. - . + dim Hall | det he a Don’t get me wrong. There ; egptoduction: Vea 1M? are many initiatives and pro- entne Coaia Na Phone: 635-7840 jects which the government Gutbax Gill, Linda Mercer Fax: 635-7269 . Office: ax: Operates which are good ones, Carrie Olson ————_ _ and they should indeed by + fgcounting: ; in Gena 8 eat00 * widely publicized and ad- - ° t , s * . Seniors in Terrace and District $12.00. vertised, even at public ex Harminder Dosanjh ; a Harminder onan pense. The public needs to know what fees are raised, or * what health care services are Senlora out of Terrace and Olatrict $15.00 2 ese ts Te way fe petite ) the edit r available, and the like. But — Be ego truer hae and it’s a big ‘but’ — to pre-- ' sent them as ‘news’? is dis- giipribased are not nec seinen turbing. i The view from | __ Victoria— Mo by John Piter Darlington in England — I was. It always’struck meas some- . unfair to the readers, who were — Given that a former BCTV - , reporter, Eli Sopow, the Castlegar Kid, is in charge of _public (dis}information, itis hardly surprising to see this . abuse. Eli and his assorted minions have repeatedly echoed their political masters’ state- . ment that they ‘“‘must get the message out’’, Fine, let-them - have at it and do their job; but _ when they are spending tax- _ payers dollars to give their ver- sion of the truth, they should label it as the subjective adver-. ‘tising itis, and not as news. In general, the media in B.C., and in particular in the — Lower Mainland and Greater Victoria, are not trusted or lik- ed by many Socred politicians or government hacks, because the reporters, columnists and commentators cannot be as “controlled” as they would like. , Good journalists look -beyond the flurry of bumpf ment, and recognize that there are indeed two sides to every story. Often the result is not . solely the ‘*good news’’ the government wanted to shout about, so they resort to scuzzy little ploys such as ‘News Up-— date’. - C'mon, Eli; fight fair. Despite political infighting that has been swirling around the Pacific National Exhibition for years about its future, and the future of the prime real - estate site of its Hastings Street home, there is no doubting the drawing power of the annual — Vancouver fair. . The 17-day event (which | kicks off text Saturday and . presented with every announce- . throughout B.C, — from Ter- - race to Fernie — as well as the U.S. Pacific Northwest, and this year should be no excep- tion, Whether they are involved | in the massive 4-H and livestock shows, or for the ‘mid- way madness or the. big-name attractions, the out-of-towners _ get their money’s worth ($6 adults, $3 seniors and children). and a lot more. . When you realize that the free events on site include. country rockers such as Emmy- lou Harris, jazz greats such and . B.B, King and Kenny G., and — legerids such as the Everly Brothers and The Temptations, all on the Aquastage, it makes for quite a fair. Add concerts ‘by Dolly Parton, Ringo Starr and friends, and The Judds, to - name but three, and it should be oneheckuva 75th anniversary PNE. I’d hate to sée it fade away. met with provincial economic development minister Elwood Veitch last Thursday to discuss the fate of the fair, the site and the racetrack. What really went" on is still generally under wraps, but expect the-decision to move to Coquitlam’s Colony Farm to be announced shortly after Labour Day, In 1987, Premier Bill Vander Zalm made a great point of keeping aged PNE president ' Erwin’ Swangard in place, over _ objections from then-tourism minister Bill Reid, Varider Zalm and Swangard have been — allies, perhaps even friends, for years} but I believe that the ~ continued on page 6 runs through Labour Day, oe _ Sept. 4) pulls in visitors from - Meanwhile, the PNE board oe