* Kitimat’s” - pot have a vehicle which ' mandate iste make VBV-154 7 ESGTSLATIVE LIBRA #61 | COMP. 77/78 PARLIAMENT BUILDZ a re j VICTORIA, B.C., : : “Gre yhound L Lines f prepares for r strike action” CALGARY (CP) — Greyhound bus depots’. In Western Canada have stopped selling tickets on long runs. in Prep. aration for a shutdown af services Wedneeday.:' About 1,400 Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada einployees, members of the Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 1374, will wali outat midnight tonight to back contract demands. - It will be the first strike by Greyhound workers in Canada since they-won bargaining rights in 1947. “We don't want Lo’see any of our passengers stranded so ‘wehave decided to stop selling tickets on Jong runs," Bruce ‘Tyson, Greyhound Canada vicepresident, said | Monday . night. _ “You can still mae it to. Edmonton today but aot ta To routo. wf . “ht, a * Greyhound - Canada, a subsidiary ot the U. s.- based . Greyhound : Bus Lines, is based in Calgary... “Tyson said all. Greyhound runs between Vancouver and Toronto will shut down when the strike begins but the.To- ronto-Windsor-Detroit, “Mich. Toronto-Buffalo, N LY., "Winnlpeg-Fargo, N.D., and Vaicouver-Seattle; Wash., ‘services will. continue. Drivers ‘on’ those: routes’ are not ’ covered by the contract under dispute. . we The union \ served strike notice last Thursday. and federal. mediator Don Crabbe of Vancouver has been unable. to ° bring the two sides back to the bargaining table. . Bill Patesch, the union's financlal secretary, said picket. : lines will go up at 6 am. local times Wednesday at bus depots across Western, Canada. ° . He said the strike officially begins at midnight tonight but. ; drivers’ outen the highways: at that time will completetheir “Wwe have no intention to inecavenience our pastengers, ae Palesch said, | .~ . While travellers i in major centres can switch to Via Rail trains: and planes, bani twndreds of small communities in © Western Canada, which depend almost - - entirely on Greyhound . passenger and freight services, will be the hardest hit. - ~ Both sides indicated Monday that they are prepared for an ‘extended strike. “In a nutshell the thion is asking tar too much money, ” Tyson said. “We're simply not ready to meet these ex- ceasive demands.’ moe. But union ‘president Bob Saarinen retorted: “We really - don't understand why.. The company made a $22-million profit last year on $150 millioit-in'gales,” . Saarinen said the union’ made 1o- effort to' reopen " negotiations Monday because: Crabbe told the union on Friday that the company wanted the union to drop several contract demands before it. would reopen talks. _ “And we told him we aré not. ready to drop them without an additional offer or an assurance of such an offer. ” Key items of disagreernent inte wages anda pcost fe _ living clause. Union members had praviowsly rejected a mpercent wage increase, over. three years, offered by the company. Under that offer, beginning with a 9.5-per-cent retroactive a to Jan. i, toprated drivers would make about $26,500 ‘this, year. The union ‘wante to retain a cost-of-living clause, in place for about 30 years, but Greyhound wants to abolish it. The union also wants a company commitment to. change its (pension rules to account for seniority. The existing pension is a flat 50 per. cent pf pay. As well, the union wants an improved penalon plan ‘hg. cause the present. one’ is woefully inadequate,” Saarinen gai : Saarinen said some of the improvement the union wants have long: been : enshrined in union ° contracts with Greyhound in the US. wi. VWT008Mi TTT T?TOO©OCOC. c©C¢nMITMMCMTTTATTHTTHT | [Herald StaffWriter © wheelchair access before “Although 1961 may be the streets are curbed, are ‘United Nations Year. of the intended to both aid the Disabled, Gerda handicapped and to eave the Nychyporuk, of the Kitimat Workshop. for ’ the Handicapped has not ‘found ‘this: year’s operations Afferent from any other. - In fact, Nychypdruk has | excountered more trouble this year than usual from _the District of Kitimat. Being located in a wing oi. - ‘Riverlodge _ recreation pect. which \. in 1979, the district took away about a third of the’ workshop's area for storage and doubled its rent.: Since that time, they have * had to put up with fire and electrical inspections, and fee] that only. the designation as the year of the disabled has stopped the ss district from réducing their = space even further. —. ; The workshop operates fay through a ministry of UM , human resources grant and raises money itself through its handicraft,. basketry,- sewing, and quilt sales, a8 well as through its burgeoning - contract silk- screen printing business. The main source of its income is through sales of old clothing in the thrift shop which occuples the front half of the Riverlodge lacility and served over 1,000 customers last year. Although the workshop san handle up to 10 disabled sersons under its present staffing and .. funding . sTrangements, it is utilized by .only four- mentally retarded adults at present. Partof the problem lies in access to the site. Although the wa docs have a wheelchair ramp, it doet a at the incurred °.when . work has bean completed. The main task which lies - ‘ such. provisions’ are added after that “of public. education. Although the District of Kitimat appears to have taken it lightly, it is hoped = TE URACE-RELIVAT “Year of Disabled is of little help os By MICHAEL HOWLETT "including provisions now for -tstrjet, the citra expense . before them, however. is "that the desiguation’e “of this year as the “Year’ of the. Disabled’’ will weigh a little more heavily - upon the public consciousness. Doctors as for support - VANCOUVER (cP) _ The B.C.. Medical a per. cent and 1 think the same “fumbers would “jue nee web baby 135 per cent - fer. the kl Association will. ask its support. opting .out of years. Members to fill out formal medicare,” he said. - . . papers declaring their in- Talks are schéduled for ‘tention to -opt out of today. in Victoria but medicare as a-club-to. Mandeville -said’ vaslier bolster its demands for ‘an. ‘Monday he holds out little improved 1981 fee increase; hope that the meeting with from the provincial. ‘ev Health Minister Jim Nielsen ernment. - 7 _ Will lead to a settlement. At a brief news con- “The province's 3,700. fee _forservice, doctors bave- | ference following 3 strategy session Monday night, been vasking for a 41.6-per- association president Dr. cent increase in fees. - Alex Mandeville . said the - BCMA hopes to have papers offer was. ‘16.3. per césit, from more than 60 per cent of BC. doctors by the - association’ s° general actually less than its first members about bajance- 10.7 per cent. baling we gt, the monet of: Hip sald id ih vera The. government's | last : _ which Mandeville says is. offer of 15-2 per cent for 1981. . meeting in Penticton May because that involved a two- | 4. , year agreement ‘with the - - “When we asked the second-year {increase att at Gerda Nychypeoruk ‘(lett) Instructs Maria Furtado in silk-screen printing techniques Kitimat Workshop for the Handicapped. The workshop Is one of “only printing of this type. Welders. -at' Alcan's Kitimat Works stopped work Friday after a dispute with management over health conditions in. the workplace. The workers in the by the Canadian Association - of Smelter and Allied Workers’ (CASAW),” sald union spokesman Wiho Papenbrock.. According ‘to . Papenbrock, ‘the action wap -a. spofitancous - two outfits In Kitimat which do contract Customers Include Kitimat Photo and Alcan, for whom Maria , is Printing this gym shirt. can transport wheelchalra from their homes ‘or. the -hoxpital to the shop, The ans tee ta Kitit m at the hospital only transpotts — three patients atatimeaand — hasstrictiimits placedupon —-5Y. BECKY RAGLON- lisuse. Asa reault, potential . _ Herald Staff Wrker users of the facility are at Kitimat General Hospital is large enough t).serve a present ble to reach it. _ community twice its size. The district has set up an advisory committee which is in the process of evaluating all of the facilities and resources found in Kitimat, Part of its ‘expected to reach 35,000 recommendations which Utilized throughout its would : ‘help tad avoid - . expersive duplications of services and achieve a better utilization of existing qeir offices, the. first floor facilities. The Kitimat Advisory Development Centre, and Council for the Disabled and = yact of the third floor is wed ‘the, Regional Advisory. i, peuse extended care Zouncil for the Disabled will patients. 2e making presentations to. he district’ committee. Five years ago the unit In an attempt to make up Their proposals, such a8 was on empty shell, walled h aoe Tear , floor, In 1976 It was rebuilt: . Bulli at a time when the 7 ’ population of Kitimat was - 35-bed: unit are from - _ that now there is even a - for this, the fourth floor is co-ordination and rented ut: t doctors for . is rented out to the Child . hospital off from. the reat of the third “like where atorey. structure Skeenaview, and turned aver to extended care. aves. When asked if Kitimat Half of the patients in the --" residents bad any input into _the plans for a new long ‘term care. facility in Terrace, Green sald he received one phone call Terrace: and surrounding © arené.. Kitimat itself is stilt a young community and is just beginning to need facilities for Its own elderly and disabled. Jack Green, a hospital administrator, said TOW faellly- Green sald it purprised "people in the health care field to learn just how much it means to a petton to be able to remain in their home With the government pushing - to’ cut back institutional care, ‘Green says future trends will be towards , home sinall waiting list for space in intermediate care. Green said that the government's policy is to mix all levels of care in hospital facilities but added that “actually they're rather hard to mix." Green described an ideal - intermediate unit as a one ‘residents can get outside by - ” - them to live with a family. asking how much - use. Kitimat would haye for ae care, built for. future perhaps even including an “adopted home" for. senior citizens which will allow As the years go by, Green predicts that Kitimat will need more intermediate care for its citizens who are more and more choosing to stay in town rather than | -plant would employ about move away. Extended care patients need imedical supervision, ‘and intermediate care patients, while receiving some medical attention are able’ to look after- While Skeenaview is being phaied out, and a new ’ §% bed senior citizens home is planned for Terrace, Yhere: are nd. plans for ineliding extended caré facilities In the new unit. ‘health conditions at Alcan. : facilities jolnily owned by welding shop of Building 226 expression of workers stopped work at 10 am. disaffection with the Friday due to . their company’ s clean- “up dissatisfaction ‘with = effi cleanliness routines — observed in the shup. At 12 - officials are continuing .to am., Alcan allowed the _ mest this week to discuss a workers tostop welding and. list of nine demands which to clean up the shop.’ The dispute arose an a result of the findings.of the Wednesday. recently. completed orate Workers’ Compensation FF Board (WCB). study into . ‘executives’ by CASAW That study found - that welders in the shops where pots are repaired are subjected to welding fumes which exceed permissible * levels. The study . recommended that steps be taken to improve the quality of air in the building. — The welders action was “legal and fully-supported ; Alcan plans ‘its move “The Atuminum Company . Legion News . Classifieds | Union and management _ workplace. . + was presented to Alcan originate Loggers Boneplel “We hope” “that the minister will | have | something reasonable to offer,” Mandeville said. “If . hedoesn't; we will be asking all the doctors available in. -, British Columbia to attend . the .annual © meeting im Penticton, “We wouid - ‘a ganize special cover. for that day but we think it-is important. tfiat as many ‘are there as possible, ft is important for the future of medicare in BC. and the future’ of ‘medical, practice in the province." ‘The: government din- troduced a bill earlier this ‘month ” te outlaw extra- ~. The union wants a stop ‘put to overtime for potline workers; enforcement of existing WCB regulations, reat-perlods after open-pot operations, reduction of potroom hours from 43 to 40 © ‘hours per week, and a definite schedule set for ” repairs and improvements _to bd made to thd The list of’ demands, like the walk-out Friday,. publication of the findings of > the WCB bealth study. _ INSIDE - o§ Page 3 Pages 486, * Pages. 687 Comics ‘and Ann Landers Page 8 ‘Spring cleanup ‘Page 9 Art Gallery. - Co Page. 12 of Canada, Ltd, North American operating sub-— sidiary of Alcan Aluminio — Limited, and the Govern- ment of Manitoba have signed a letter of intent ” signalling the start of a feasibility. study into aluminum sineltef con- struction In Manitoba. 4070 Highway 16, Terrace The 200,000 Comte et L 635-4687 CANUCK | Westend Chevron Service TRUCK RENTAL LTO. Fo eee <5 Stan & Long Torn Rental & Loosing 700 people and use hydro ' 2 Alcan and Maniteba Hydro. 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