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Wednesday, Nov. 23, 1983

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THE DAY

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More than 400 Building Trades workers,
Beneral Hospital Nov. 16, joining 100 oth

Uilding contract being awarded to a non-union comp
90ing to the Labor Relations Board for a common site ruling (story page 12).

Solidarity will back teachers

if extra three days imposed

B.C. Federation of Labor presi-
dent Art Kube warned the Bennett
government Thursday that any at-
tempt to impose new conditions on
teachers that were not part of the
original “‘truce agreement”’ to end
the strike would be met by the full
weight of Operation Solidarity.

The warning came immediately following
Premier Bennett’s appearance on the Jack
Webster show and his insistence there that
any extra funds realized by savings in strik-
ing teachers salaries would only go back into
the education system if teachers made up the
three days lost during the public sector
strike. Asked if teachers must make up the
three days, Bennett replied, ‘‘Yes.”’

But Kube and Federation secretary-
treasurer Mike Kramer, who took part in the
closed-door negotiations with deputy
premier Norman Spector, repudiated that
“‘At no time was the question of making up
the three days ever discussed,’’ they em-
phasized.

And Kube warned: “‘If the government is
bound and determined to force that down
teachers’ throats and the teachers take action
in opposition to that, Operation Solidarity
will support the actions of teachers. I want to
make that perfectly clear.”’

Asked if Operation Solidarity would
mobilize its forces if the teachers were to take
job action, Kube said, “‘in support of
teachers, yes.’’

See TEACHERS page 3

TRIB MOVES FRIDAY

TRIBUNE PHOTO—SEAN GRIFFIN

At the end of this week, Nov. 25, the
Tribune moves its offices to 2681 East
Hastings St., Vancouver, V5K 1Z5 (above
Globe Tours, entrance at east side). The
phone number remains the same, 251-1186.

many of them unemployed, demonstrated at the construction site at Vancouver
er Building Trades members as they launched job action in protest over a major
mpany. The Building Trades shut down an adjoining union project and will be

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