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Wednesday, February 1, 1984
Vol. 47, No. 4

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COPE nominations open

1984 election campaign
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| TOERIES

NATO must match words

with deeds, says Gromyko
— page 8

Trades vow ‘no
cuts, as CLRA

pushes for 16
major rollbacks

CP targets

Tory policy
in upcoming

federal vote

—page 3—

— ee OD

‘Teachers Action Centre, called for a Van-

ie eMart’ $ success. Story on page 2.

James Falkener frames Broadway Street
branch of MoneyMart in a demonstration
mounted by the Vancouver Unemployed
Action Centre Jan. 25. Demonstrators,
joined by members of the Unemployed

couver city bylaw curbing MoneyMart’s
practice of charging fees — six per
cent — for jobless recipients of welfare
and Unemployment Insurance cheques.
In a leaflet the unemployed activists
stated “there is always a business ready to
exploit’ low-income people, listing rental
“agencies, tax-buying outfits and JobMart,
which used to sell false promises of jobs
for $50 before the centre helped putit out
of business. Demonstrators said tough
policies by banks are responsible for

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Talks now
broken off

The: closely-watched negotiations in the
construction industry opened briefly Jan.
25 — and then broke off the following day
as the employers tabled sweeping demands
for concessions that the Building Trades
charged would “gut existing agreements
...and roll the clock back 30 years.”

Building Trades Council president and
bargaining council chairman Roy Gautier
declared: “There will be no further meetings
with Construction Labor Relations Associ-
ation until the employers drop a set of
demands which border on the ludicrous.”
The 17 trades on the bargaining council
were unanimous in stating that position.

CLRA came to the table Wednesday
with demands for 16 major changes, each in
a key area of the collective agreement. They
include:

@ An unspecified wage rollback;

© Cuts in travel time;

Editorial, page 4

@ Increases in the work week aS 374,
to 40 hours;

© Cuts in overtime pay from double time
to time-and-a-half;

© Elimination of the reservation clauses
which currently give unionists the right to
refuse to work alongside non-union or non-
affiliated workers;

e Fifty per cent name request on hiring,
enabling employers to bypass the hiring hall
at least part of the time;

@ Replacement of the current single
agreement covering all construction with
three different agreements covering residen-
tial construction, commercial and institu-
tional construction and industrial con-
struction.

_ The opening demand was preceded by a
well-publicized propaganda campaign by
CLRA declaring that the union sector in

see CLRA page 12