Page 6, The Herald, Wednesday, June‘6/.1979.

ALCAN DISPUTE |
Progress

WORKERS HERE
OFFER SUPPORT

The Canadian Association of Smelter and Allied
Workers local 1 will support strikers at three Alcan

smelters in Quebec.

CASAW and the Federation des Syndicate du Sec-
teur Aluminium, which represents tha Quebec

workers, formed an

association May 1,

The new organization, called the Aluminum
Workers Association, will conduct projects of concern

to both unions.

. Together, the two unions control 100 per cent of
Alcan's primary aluminum production in Canada.

CASAW Business Agent Wiho Papenbrock said
today that going by information received from the
FSSA, the-union was forced to go on strike because the
company did not come up with a good offer.

He said CASAW will be in constant communication
with the Quebee Union and is offering moral and
financial assistance to the strikers,

* “Our contract runs until October 1980,"’ Papenbrock
said, “But, we will be considering ways to assist FSSA

members’’,

Papenbrock said he could not comment on any type
of assistance other than moral or financial support.
He said the union will keep a close eheck on

prodit

ties‘to up production.

Sal

capacity.

ction at the Kitimat works tosee if the company |
we will watch everything closely,” Papenbrock
re Kitimat plant is already operating at near

Denies restraint

OTTAWA (CP)'— Heward
Grafitéy sdys ‘he will not be
‘domiriated by a spirit of re-
straint as he takes over the
‘new social programs port-
folio created by Progressive
Conservative Prime
Minister Joe Clark, ;
“I don't intend to be
inactive just because we're
‘in a restraint period,’*
Grafitey told reporters as he
emerged from the govert-.
ment's first cabinet mega
Tuesday.
He did not rule oft
crease in spending on

the provincial spending
dollar for dollar.

Among the approximately
45 programs Grafftey will
oversee are day-care cen:
tres, rapecrisis centres,
distress hot-lines, family
planning counselling.
children's aid, home support
for the elderly, meals-on-
wheels for the disabled and
drug or alcohol addiction
prevention.

These programs will be
separated from the health
and welfare department

programs but emphasised Which will be overseen by

the hopes to arrange “more
efficient spending."
He said that in meetings
with provincial social ser-
ces ministers he plans as

con as possible; : her will: ;
fal “Saldoure "

Grafftey said he will
propose same changes to the
original plan. Conservatives,
for example, had opposed
one part that would enable
the federal government to
cut funds unilaterally from a
_ province — with three years’
notice — if the money was
not being spent on approved
social programs,

Under block financing, the
federal government would
give the provinces lump-sum
payments, with no strings
attached, for the social-
service programs that coat
about $1.5 billion last year,

Under the — existing
arrangements, the federal
government shares the cost
of social services equally
with tie provinces. The
federal government matches

David Crombie, former
mayor of Toronto, Graffley
may also get some em-
ployment-related programs,
such as job re-training, from
the, employment and im-

migration ® cominlssion, he

get off welfare rolls.”

The rationale for creating
the new portfolio, he sald,
was to take a load out of a
Massive department —
health and welfare — and
zero in closely so “we'll get
more done." . ;

Grafftey, 650, MP for

Brome Missisquoi in Quebec —

for 20 years, has been
Conservative caucus
chairman on welfare issues
since 1977. He holds one of
the two Quebec seats Con-
servatives won in the May 22
election and Clark virtually
had no cholce but to put him
in cabinet for geographic
reagons,

Grafitey said the new
department was virtually
“tailored” for him.

Riot squad called in

PAMPLONA, Spain
(Reuter) — Riot police
fought demonstratora in the
Basque cities of Pamplona
and San Sebastian on
Tuesday as a general strike
‘paralyzed the area to protest
the killing of a woman after
an anti-nuclear march.

In the provincial capital of
San Sebastian, two persons
were injured by rubber
bullets as police dispersed
stone-throwing demon-
stratora who barricaded
streets, hospital sources

Won't
take the
blame

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Public servants in British
Columbia are being made
the scapegoats for escalating
costs by politicians who find
it easy to blame economic
problems on unions the
government believes it can
break, Dora Shepherd of the
Registered Nursea
Association of B.C, said
Tuesday.

Difficult negotiations will
begin this fall for two
collective agreements in-
volving nurses, Shepherd
told 195 delegates to the
association’s labor relations
diviaion conventlon.

There.wese also clashes in
Pamplona, another
provincial capital, and slx
persons were arrested after
police used: riot sticks to
disperse youths who blocked
streets

Police used a snowplow in
an attempt to clear the
barricades of cars and
building materials,

The general strike was
called throughout Basque
country to protest an in-
cldent last Sunday in whicha
24-year-old woman waa shot
by a paramilitary civil guard
in the town of Tudela.

The strike affected public
transport, banks, stores and
industry, bringing Pamplona
and San Sebastian to a
Standatill. Other towns,
especially in the northern
province of Guipuzcoa, were
badly hit by the strike.

The strike was cailed by
all left-wing parties and
trade unions including the
mainstream opposition
Socialist Workers Party.

An official version said

Gladis del Estal Terreno was 9 80Y

shot accidentally by a
paramilitary ciyil guard as
she tussled with a group of
anti-nuclear demonstrators.
But demonstration
organizers said the rd-
aman hit the woman with his
rifle butt and after she in-
aulted him he loaded the rifle
and shot her through the
ad,

seen

MONTREAL (CP) —
Negotiators have come ‘'a
long way" toward settling
the dispute which has shut
three Quebec smelters
owned by Alcan Aluminium
Ltd., union president Jean
Halle said Tuesday.

Halle, president of the

independent Federation des
Syndicats du Secteur
Aluminium, said work
scheduling is the main issue
holding up a_ settlement,
since the latest wage pro-
posals by union and manage-
ment are practically iden-
tical,
“The atrike began with a
walkout last Friday which
‘was supposed to be ILmited to
4% hours. It turned into an
indefinite work stoppage by
7,067 hourly wage earners
and office workers, closing
two smelters in _— the
Saguenay region, about 200
kilometres north of Quebec
City, and one in Beauharnois
near Montreal.

The three smelters ac-
count for 60 per cent of
Alean’s ingot production in
Canada.

Another smelter = in
Shawinigan, wqque,, where
587 employees are involved
in a union accreditation

dispute, is not affected by the ©

strike, ‘Also unaffected is an
Alcan facility in Kitimat,

BC,

Halle said his union has
agreed the contract should
run three years, rather than
the two years originally
demanded, and has propos
wage increases close to those
in the company’s latest offer.
The concessions are an al-
tempt to get Alcan to move
on the issue of work
schedules, he said. ;

’ The union is seeking: a
“fourtwo” schedule system
that would guarantee two
days off after an employee

-works four consecutive shifts

totalling 37 1-3 ‘houra. Under
the current system, em-
ployees may be required. to
work six ar seven shifts
before getting a weekend,
the union says.

The union wants a catch-
up hike of $1.25 an hour on
signature of the contract and
another 22 cents after six
months, Halle said it wants
another 70 cents an hour in

@ second year and 75 cents |.
in the final‘ year. * 2:

‘hour:
Alean has offered a catch-

up of $1 when the contract is -

signed, plus 25 cents after
nine months, an average
increase of70.5 cents an hour
in the second year and 75
cents in the third year.

Also under discussion {s a
cost of living allowance.

Despite Halle’s optimism,
there have been no
negotlations since Sunday.
The Quebec labor depart-
ment has named Francois
Guerin as coneillator in the
dispute.

INCO
workers
filing
back ©

SUDBURY, Ont, (CP) —
Workers at Inco Metals Co.
filed back to work Tuesday
feeling miserable and em-
bittered.

On Sunday, a majority of
the workers voted to accept
the latest company offer and
end their 3%-month strike.
But when the time came to
start work again there were
secom thoughts.

Clarence DeCourcey, 28,
said he felt miserable as he
went through the plant gates.
He criticized the wage in-

creases negotiated for the -

second and third years of the
three-year contract and said

the strike should have

continued,

The bitterness was also
evident at the formal con-
tract signing.

Angry officials of Local
6500, United Steelworkers of
America, held up the
eeremony until the company
agreed to back down on its

refusal to pay prescription -

drug costa incurred since
Sunday,

The company normally
pays for drugs and once the

‘contract was accepted many

workers rushed to purchase
needed Items, The company
init! refused to pay for
purchased by
workers who had not been
called back.

About 60 per cent of the
workers have been called
back and all are expected to
return within two weeks.

Morry Brown, company
public affaira director, said
Inco agreed to pay drug
costs for all workers ef-
fective Sunday,

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