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The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 12, 2003 - A?

It’s thumbs down to holiday shopping

A SURVEY of local busi-
nesses has found most op-
pose any move to allow
shopping on statutory holi-
days.

But Chamber of Com-
merce president Sheila
Love. said that was the
only one of four questions
that got a majority ‘No’ re-
sponse,

The bid to host the 2010
Winter Olympics and the
prospect of a new big box
retailer coming here both
got the support of most
members, she said.

A majority also said
‘Yes’ when asked whether
power sales by Alcan
should be allowed.

Although the wording of
the question was unclear,
Love said many respon-
dents wrote in additional
opinions,

' “Many said it’s okay to
go ahead and sell power
but not if it means shutting
down the whole smelter,”
she-said.

|. Alean already sells
some power to B.C, Hydro.

Sheila Love

Workers
head to

court
for pay

SAWMILL WORKERS
here say they will seek a
court order forcing New
Skeena to turn over their
withheld vacation pay.

The $309,000 in ac-
crued holiday pay was to
be distributed to Terrace
mill workers by Jan. 15
under the terms of a La-
bour Relations Board-bro-
kered agreement.

- But the company mis-
sed that deadline, citing
delays in securing its fi-
nancing.

“We are registering it
with the court,” IWA busi-
ness agent Surinder Mal-
hotra says. “We'll get a
court order to recover the
money.”

“The employer has
failed to pay the moneys
as agreed upon by the
union and the company.”

The payouts are sup-
posed to: vary from zero to
$7,000 depending on how
much each worker is owed.

Company president Dan

Veniez has always main- '

tained the vacation pay
obligation will be hon-
oured

“I'm sure he has the
money,” Malhotra said,
noting. the company has

been taking in cash from:

logging contractors as it
sells logs.

Malhotra said there's
“no prospect of further
talks” right now to revive
negotiations toward a la-
bour agreement for the re-
start of the sawmill here.

He says the province is
partly responsible for the

impasse because it has al-—
lowed Skeena to export —
raw logs without any con-

dition that it run its mills.

Members continue to
draw strike pay here, since
the union opened its strike
fund in October.

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But most controversy has
originated from Kitimat
council's fear that a smel-
ter modernization would
would increase power

ploy fewer workers. In an
extreme scenario Alcan
would sell all the power
and shut down the smelter.
Love said the results
were all by wide margins.

“It wasn’t. close like 5I-
50,” Love said.

But she said the cham-
ber board has decided not
to release the exact num-
bers on each question or

the total number of peaple
who responded.

Love said the chamber
isn’t taking any immediate
action as a result of the
poll findings.

She said no one has yet
asked the business asso-
ciation for letters of sup-
port on issues like the
2010 Olympics, but added
they're now prepared if

that happens.

“We have them on
file,” Love said. “If we're
approached we'll write let-
ters according to what the

sales and ultimately em- members have chosen.”

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