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: “Talks to end a six-week labor
- dispute between the Greater
‘Vancouver Regional District -

rand civic unions collapsed

again Monday after both
sides refused to budge.

_ The talks tentatively had
‘been scheduled to run far two
days, but broke off” after
officials met for less‘ than
three . hours.

The Canadian Union * of

Public Employees is seeking:
wage parity between inside

and outdide employees while |

the regional distriet, which
bargains for the Vancouver--

area municipalities, is of-.

fering a 15-per-cent wage
increase in & one-year
contract.

Monday's session was the
second since the strike began
Jan. 30, and employers
expect the dispute will
continue for at least a month.

Labor Minister Jack
Heinrich said Monday he has
not been asked to get in-
volved. :

Meanwhile, an upset Van-

_ couver -Mayor Mike Har-
court lashed out Monday at
the residents who dumped
garbage at city hall Sunday,.
filling both doorways, saying
they “insulted the people of -
Vancouver and showed total -

. counell.””* ”

Hareourt ‘said police took
photographs and noted
licence - plate sumbers of
vehicles involved In. Sun-

day's incident. The evidence,

was ‘being passed on to
Crown prosecutors Monday
afternoon. -

"]'n, satisfied the unions
were not involved and they

‘have condemned this ac-

tion,’’ said Harcourt.

‘Health: officials have in-
spected the rubbish butsay it
poses no health hazard yet.

Don Colt, union national
representative, said. the
10,006 striking: municipal
workers will not take
anything less than the
contracts recently accepted

in the nearby school districts .
of Maple Ridge and Langley. .

Nonteaching staff there
received a 40-per-cent wage’
increase aver two years in
addition to adjustmenis to
.trade. rates and clerical
clagses. ,

. “We'd be hard pressed to
get some of our workers to
accept even that, now that
they've ‘been out. for _six
weeks," he said. Par-
ticularly adamant are
- outside workers in Burnaby,

- Brian Foley, : ‘executive

© director of the Public’Em- ---

ployers of B.C., sald. the
strike will continue for as
long as CUPE and the
Vancouver Municipal and
Regional Employees Union,
also. on strike, insist that
Vancouverarea workers get

38 Mmuch.as employees in:

smaller municipalities
where -agreemenfs have
been reached.

Public employers who
work closely. with ‘regional
negotiator Graham Leslie
say. -“money is the reat
' hangup and they’re not even
Betting warm,”

_ “We're not optimistic that
‘there's an early settlement
in view,” be said. .

They: also said there 18
little chance the region will
reverse its opposition to the

“equal pay principle. Under

the old contract the starting
wage for inside workers was

-$5.67 an hour and % for

outside warkers.

"Can you imagine the
ramifications-on the private
sector?" . said one public
employer.

_ “Imagine what it “would
cost for the large ‘cor-
porations, the forest industry
and others if every union

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in otk disputes:

school, workers in Burnaby,
members of CUPE, decided ©
they will ‘not’ ‘picket the
Donald Paterson School for
(ie mentally handicapped,’
and in fact will return to
work there, Bob Guest, local
president, said Monday.

"We realize that special
care and maintenance are °
required there,"" he said.
-“We want to pul pressure on
the school board but not at
the expense of students who

have needs not those of other :

schools,

The picketing by the non- -

~ teaching workers began last _
week. .

‘In West Vancouver, 4,000
commuters again will have
to find alternate tran-
sportation to get into Van-

couver today after striking ©
municipal workers decided -
to ‘centinue picketing the.

“ transit garage. :
Ken Naylor, local
president, said the 240

_ workers went out’ on strike

two weeks ago. They are
seeking settlements similar
to the striking CUPE-.

workers elsewhere.

The striking hoa- teaching ;

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and a truck operated by Will
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“Eakelse and Kalum. caused
$1,000 darriage tog 1961 Ford.

- In Kitimat on Mareh 14 a
- eyear-old male was taken
into custody, following a
: break andentry and theft but
was subsequently released.
The investigation continues,

Between 6.p,m. Friday,
March 13 and midnight

A ‘motor. vehicle ‘dveident.

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