Return to
the table

R. V. Bradley, president of
CUPE Local 386, Coquitlam,
Writes: The solution to the civic
workers’ strike is to get the em-
Ployer back to the bargaining
table to negotiate seriously. On
Jan. 21 when the spokesman for

€ Greater Vancouver Region-
al District, Graham Leslie, plac-
€d an unacceptable “final
offer’ ”onthetable, then refused

listen to a counter offer and
walked away from the talks, the
unions had no other alternative
but to go on strike.

_ The clerical staff, including
single parents, pay the same for

nilk and mortgages as do out-
Side workers and they can’t
make ends meet with a base rate
of less than $6 an hour.

While the GVRD acknowl-
edges that the workers deserve a
catch-up of approximately 10
Percent, its negotiator, Graham
Leslie, offered the employees
four percent catch-up plus 11
Percent wage increase provided
that they absorb five percent of

efit costs (short term sick
leave) and give up other benefits
Such as gratuity days and sever-
ance pay accumulations which
May cost some Coquitlam
workers more than $10,000.

The problem will be resolved
when management comes back
to the bargaining table and ne-
gotiates the union’s demands
for fair pay and a fair contract

— |

\— and that’s not much to ask. ]

‘BRITISH COLUMBIA

CLASSIFIED

Economic development plan (4bvErTisine
key to western alienation

Western alienation will not be
overcome until both the federal
and provincial governments are
forced to support a massive pro-

of economic development for
the West which will overcome re-

gional economic and political in- .

equality, said B.C. Communist
Party leader Maurice Rush.

The B.C. CP leader last month.

projected a program for western
economic development in a key-
note paper to a special conference
of the party in Calgary called to ad-
dress problems of western aliena-
tion and the threat of separatism.

In an interview this week he out-
lined a program for western de-
velopment in six points:

@ The building of all-Canadian
pipelines for oil and gas from the
west coast to the east coast, com-
plemented by a parallel east-west
hydro grid.

@ The adoption of a federal-
provincial water policy aimed at
keeping fresh water resources in
Canada and blocking implementa-
tion of U.S. plans to tap the fresh
water resources of B.C. and Mani-
toba.

@ The processing of mineral
ores in the West, as closeas possible
to the source. Processing would in-
clude the establishment of a steel
industry, copper smelters and cop-

-per products industries in B.C.,

and the establishment of new and
enlarged metal processing and
farm implement manufacturing in-
dustries and a petrochemical and
fertilizer industry on the prairies.

@ Theadoption of a coal policy

MARCH 8
International Women’s Day

All welcome to hear speakers on:

© Women in the work force @
@ Peace in the ‘80s @ Racism @ —
@ Prices and the economic crunch @
@ Abortion @

Oddfellows Hall,
1720 Gravely St., Vancouver — 8 p.m.

Musical program to follow.
Refreshments. Bake sale.
For more information, phone Sue 254-9797

Bethune Marxist Lecture Series
presents

Vt

el

‘Racism:

A clear

and present

danger’

with

LOUIS. FELDHAMMER

Professor of Anthropology, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute,
Toronto. Chairman, Committee for Racial Equality, Toronto
Sunday, March 15, 8 p.m.
lronworkers Hall,
8th and Columbia, Vancouver
Chairman: Alderman Bruce Yorke.

The Bethune Marxist Lecture Series is sponsored
by the educat.on committee, Communist Party of Canada.

to halt present plans for massive ex-
ports of Alberta and B.C.’s high
grade metallurgical coal to Japan,
and diverting priority for western
coal to providing coke for steel-
making and for use in synthetic
fuels and petrochemicals.

@ The food resources of the
West, including grain, beef, fisher-
ies and fruit, to be used as a base for
large-scale food processing and
‘canning industries.

@ The development of second-
ary manufacturing based on the
forest industry, including fine

paper products, furniture and

petrochemical industries.
“These kind of projects would
lead to a vast expansion of the Ca-

nadian economy, and of course
particularly in the West. It would

lead to the creation of a larger
home market and spur population
growth in the western provinces,”’
Rush said.

The program could be financed
if the export of capital was restrict-
ed and if funds now designated for
massive energy projects is redirect-
ed, he added.

Economic development is at the
heart of the problem of western
alienation, he said. ‘‘Right wing
forces and the multinationals based
in energy and resources are exploit-
ing that alienation for their own
class interests, and are hoping to
bring about political changes to
tighten their grip on our resources.
Our program is a democratic, anti-
monopoly and pro-Canadian solu-
tion to western problems which
starts from the need to nationalize
natural resources and energy.”

A boycott of the Delta Cana-
dian Inn in Kamloops has been
launched by the Kamloops and
District Labor Council follow-
ing a report to the February 18
meeting of the council that the
Inn had let rooms to B.C.
Telephone management per-
sonnel in Kamloops to scab.

Telecommunications
Workers’ Union local president
Bob Ashton told delegates that
seven scabs have been at the Inn
since Feb. 16, which prompted a
demonstration of 350 union
members Feb. 17 that surround-
ed the hotel. After a confronta-
tion with management, the
hotel applied for an injunction
to prevent further demonstra-
tions.

Carpenters delegate John
Harper said that the Inn is a
union house and has enjoyed
labor support, but that policy
will change if it continues to aid
B.C. Telephone.

Already four functions at the
hotel have been cancelled due to
the boycott. —

Council delegates also en-
dorsed the B.C. Federation of
Labor’s stand in opposing the
sellout of Northeast coal to the
Japanese.

“They’ll get the coal and we'll
get thehole,’’ was one delegate’s
observation. Others wondered
how the government could
justify the enormous subsidy to
the coal companies while cutting
expenditures in essential ser-
vices.

In other business before the
council, NABET delegate Gor-
don Warner reported that his
union is in another battle with
CFIC radio and television sta-
tion. NABET Local 822 was
certified nearly two years ago
‘after a five year organizational
drive at the media outlet and a
fist agreement was signed last

y. Now the union has learn-
ed of an application for decer-
tification currently under in-
vestigation by the Canada
Labor Relations Board, a cer-

a?

Unions boycott hotel |
for renting to scabs

meeting was Roberto Junia, a
Philippino trade unionist
employed at the Luzon
Stevedore Corporation in the
province of Luzon.

Junia appealed to the labor
movement to boycott food im-
ported from the Philippines and
to pressure the Marcos dictator-
ship in that country for better
treatment of working people.

Multinational corporations
like Dole and Chiquita are ma-
jor importers of Philippine food
products to Canada.

Kamloops

_ Harper

Junia, touring the province
for the B.C. Interchurch Project
for World Development and
Education, told the council that
malnutrition affects 70 percent
of the population in his
agriculturally rich country.

All the rich lands are taken
over by multinationals which
export the best food while the
remaining small farmers are be-
ing squeezed off the land by
serait jailing, or murder, he
said.

' Farmworkers employed on
the foreign owned plantations
are paid $1.60 for an eight hour
day, receive less pay for over-
time and are forced to live in
cramped, squalid conditions.

There are few independent
unions in the country, said
Junia, who claimed three at-
tempts on his life for his role in
organizing trade unions. The
Philippine labor code allows for
strikes, except in essential ser-
vices. However the list of essen-
tial services is exceptionally

: broad, including the soft drink
bor ier gurteai tages gee ne told “enc MADCONVOR Es
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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FEB. 27, 1981—P

‘age 11