Pentagon’s hand shows in Israeli raid

“In a military raid that has
Caused universal condemnation,
Israeli jets crossed 1,000 kilo-

metres of Arab airspace and de-

Stroyed an Iraqui nuclear plant on
the outskirts of Bagdhad.

The U.S.-supplied F-16 air-
craft carried out the raid June 7,
three weeks before the country’s
general elections, the timing of
which, many suspect, is designed
to increase Premier Menachem
Begin’s electoral fortunes.

Iraq has called for an
emergency meeting of the United
Nations Security Council saying,
“The international community
Cannot remain silent regarding
this extremely serious escalation
of Israeli aggression.’’ The Sec-
urity Council is scheduled to meet
June 12.

UN secretary-general, Kurt
Waldheim reacted by telling the

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press the attack is “"a clear con-
travention of international law.”’
The 21 members of the Arab
League have called on emergency
meeting June 11 to consider steps
which may include an oil and
economic boycott of western
states who keep Israel’s war
machine oiled.

The attack has thrown the U.S.
administration into confusion
with the public embarassment
that its spanking new aircraft
were the instrument of attack.
President Reagan reacted by sus-
pending delivery of four F-16s
ready for shipment. But obser-
vers note these are the tail end of a
large shipment of both F-16s and
F-15s already delivered to Israel.

Washington is also extremely
concerned over what it expects to
be a full-blown condemnation by

the United Nations and is gearing
up to lessen the blow.

Responsibility for this act was
clearly outlined in a June 10
statement by the Soviet news
agency, Tass, which called it an
‘tact of gangsterism’’. Tass
charged the raid was the “‘latest
link in a long chain of tel Aviv
crimes in which Washington’s rul-
ing circles are direct accomplices
and, in effect, inspirers.

‘Billions of dollars,” Tass
writes, “‘flow in a continuous
stream from the banks of the
Potomac into the Israeli treasury
to finance aggression.”

The USSR points out that,
“‘this time Washington is stinting
no effort to try again to cover up

- Israel’s criminal actions by saying

the Iraqui nuclear reactor h as
‘long worried’ the U.S.
‘*But it is well-known,’ Tass

‘Memorandum between Sudbury
CUPE locals and hospitals

The publication in the June 8 Tribune of a guest
column in William Stewart’s ‘Labor In Action’’,
dealing with a memorandum of agreement between
locals of the Canadian Union of Public Employees
(CUPE) and management of all Sudbury hospitals,
has prompted lively interest among our readers.

The column, written by a CUPE member who
chose to remain anonymous was entitled, ‘One of
the greatest sell-outs of all time,’’ expressing that
member’s viewpoint on the agreement.

Responding to readers’ requests we reproduce in
full the text of the April 23 memorandum between
the hospital negotiators, nine local CUPE spokesper-

sons and CUPE staff representatives William Brown —

and Richard Belanger. As the agreement notes, the
terms of memorandum were recommended to the
parties by Terry Meagher, secretary-treasurer of
the Ontario Federation of Labor and Robert Joyce,
an employer sideman on the Ontario Labor Rela-
tions Board.

The Tribune invites and welcomes comment on
the memorandum which is reproduced below:

1. Suspensions for three days and less, issued to
employees for their participation in the strike, are
accepted by the employees and the union and all
grievances
dropped. a

2. Suspensions for periods in excess of three
days, issued to officers of the union for their parti-
Cipation in the strike, will be reduced to eight days
On the employee’s record, but without payment by
the hospital for the lost time from work in excess of
eight days. All grievances pertaining to these sus-
Pensions are dropped.

3. In cases where notices of suspensions have

N announced but not actually implemented, the
Parties agree to the following:
a)the notic> of suspension will be entered in the
employee’s record.
b) the employee(s) so affected will not be re-

aie

Under the terms of the memorandum, hospital
workers are required to drop all grievances against
“Spensions arising out of the strike.

pertaining to these suspensions are

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quired to serve their suspension period(s).

c) the disciplinary action described in a) and b)
above will be referred to as ‘“‘equivalent to’’ disci-
plinary suspensions and for all intents and pur-
poses such disciplinary action will be accepted as
the ‘equivalent to’’, by the hospital, the local
union, the union and the union:-on behalf of its
members. Should there be any occasion when the
employee's prior record is referred to in the griev-
ance or arbitration procedures, the disciplinary ac-
tion will be regarded in exactly the same way it
would have been had the employee actually been
suspended from employment, with time off with-

out pay. = : ee
In cases where employees have served only a

part of their suspension to and including the day of
signing of this memorandum; the procedure refer-

red to in this subsection c) applies to that portion of _

disciplinary action not actually implemented. -

4. The suspension action taken by the hospital
against any employee as a.result of participation in
the strike(s) will not be referred to in any future
disciplinary action except ‘where such action is
taken as a result of participation in a strike or
similar work disruption. :

5. The union agrees that the strike was illegal
and in recognition of this and in taken (sic) payment

of damages, agrees to submit a cheque to the hospi- —

tal within.one month, in the amount of $1.00. The
hospital and anyone acting on behalf of the hospi-
tal, directly or indirectly, will not place this infor-
mation in front of any board or other body or court.

It is specifically agreed that the use of the word
“union”’ in this section (5) means the ‘“‘local
union’’.

6. With the exception of the dismissal griev-
ances (where applicable) the union agrees all grie-
vances relative to the strike and subsequent steps
taken by the hospital will be dropped or not in-
itiated. The hospital agrees that no further disci-
plinary actions or grievances for additional dam-
ages will be processed or filed. ;

7. The seniority of suspended employees will
not be affected by the strike.

» 8. Accumulated sick pay credits for those

“employees who were suspended will not be re-

duced as a result of the strike or the suspension

"periods. :

9. The grievance of the dismissed employee
(where applicable) will be processed to arbitration
at the earliest possible time. It is agreed that the
disciplinary letter issued for participation in an ear-
lier work stoppage, as well as the dismissal for
participation in the strike referred to throughout
this memorandum, will be placed before the arbit-
rator. The mediators will immediately request the
department of labor to appoint arbitrator O. Shime.
The terms of this memorandum of agreement are
recommended to the parties by mediators Meagher
and Joyce.

The parties agree there will be a news blackout
on all matters related to this settlement,

The terms of this memorandum are agreed to
this 23rd day of April, 1981, subject to ratification

of both parties. ,

points out, ‘‘that Iraq is a party to
the nuclear non-proliferation tre-
aty and all its nuclear activities
are under the control of the Inter-
national Atomic Energy Agency.
In stark contrast, Israel . . - flatly
refuses to acceed to this treaty.”*

The agency draws attention to
Washington's latest ‘‘terrorism”
charges against the socialist states
and posturing as the defender of
international law. “‘Let us im-
agine,”’ it writes, ‘‘a similar
operation was carried out to de-
stroy nuclear installations in Is-
rael.

‘‘What would the champions of
‘legality’ in Washington have
said? What is all this talk of ‘inter-
national terrorism? worth ...?

“It’s hardly possible to find a
more vivid and fresh example:
Tel Aviv openly carries out an act
of terrorism at the level of state
policy while Washington supplies
it with arms and provides political
cover!”

Communist Party leader Wil-
liam Kashtan told the Tribune the
Israeli raid was “part of an effort,

backed by U.S. imperialism, to
maintain its dominant position as
a nuclear power in the Middle
East.”

Kashtan pointed out that the
raid sets *‘a dangerous precedent.
Israel has taken on itself the right
to attack another country using as
an argument the right to defend
Israel — even though it was not
under attack.”

He noted this line *‘is precisely
the line advanced by the Reagan
administration when it said it will
defend the national interests of
the U.S. anywhere in the world’.
Reagan and Begin see eye to eye
on this matter of the ‘right’ to mili-
tary intervention in the internal
affairs of other nations.””

Kashtan called on Ottawa to
sharply condemn this act. He also
said that Canada: should support
the convening of an international
conference of all Middle East
states, including the Palestine
Liberation Organization, together
with the USA and USSR to lay
the groundwork for a just and last-
ing peace in the region.

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