| ‘TO,THE TERRACE STANDARD hha Ri ee ee ee ce Tce ee Cre ey Dear Sir: We are pleased that Tri-City. and the Independent Contrac- © tors and Businesses Association. (a.k.a, the Right‘to Work for less bunch) published an adver- tisement in your newspaper. It allows us to- respond to this drivel, to pretend credibility by involv- ing the ICBA is not surprising. : He is vice-president of that -- organization and a long time advocate of the right of: employers to exploit working. people. The ICBA uses the old princi- ple of ‘‘say it enough times and people may believe that it is true” in their propaganda. The: ICBA mouths its pat lines about, open shop and merit principles. What they really mean is pay- ing the lowest possible wages and benefits that the ‘“‘market’’ will bear, while pocketing the highest profits. They are about ensuring that the employer has the power to dictate all condi- Culprits strike Dear Sir: Several times every year during the summer, my mom travels from Prince Rupert to Terrace and places flowers on her parents’ graves at the old cemetary in Terrace, along with the graves of her tions of work with no counter- yailing worker's voice like, God forbid, a union, First, let’s sort out fact from fantasy. - For all of the normal talk about the gospel of ‘“‘free’’ | enterprise and competition, it is ‘very interesting that the United — The fact ‘that’: Van Dongen, - : owner of Tri-City, has chosen. .Buy and Sell project was.never . Subjected to the rigours of the ‘marketplace. Tt * was publicly tendered. ‘Their doctrine on the engage- ment of sub-trades is a blatant contradiction. First they state that they try to ‘use a blend of local and out of town subs, then they say. that they hire on the basis of the lowest qualified bid. Wouldn’t it have been more ac- curate just to say that they engage the sub with the lowest bid, regardless of the communi- ty impact? Tri-City and the ICBA are well aware that the local citizens who formed an information . picket on the project were pro- testing Tri-City's decision _ to _direct-hire all of its workers from out of town. -If_ this discouraged workers, both local residents and others, from working, so be it. Rather than never. 0 builds isthe ke correct. the situation: and agree io fair. wages, Tri-City chose to. apply for an IRC Cease and Desist Order and replaced those - who refused-to cross the picket. There is the final insult. The ICBA. would: have you believe’ ‘that. there. are:: equivalent benefits:to ‘having: local or out; - of: town workers’ construct ” ‘ae project. ; This may. be.necessary °°" at times, if specialized skills are required. This is ‘Not the case with simple tilt-up construction. They use the analogy: of tourist dollars and their’ impact, on.a town, - - First, ‘this is ‘economic nonsensé.,, Is it better to have so- meone who ‘spends ‘most of- his - resources in a community earn- ing a paycheque than a tourist, in the ICBA’s own words.- ' When was the last time a tourist. bought a fridge, a couch, a car. or a house? It might be useful if the ICBA explained how those: who lived in their fifth wheel on. the site contributed to Terrace’s hospitality industry?: Secondly, this 1s socially. ir- . Tesponsible, A community is far more .than economics, Con- ‘ tributions are made by citizens in ways too numerous to list. To ‘maintain a. ‘community requi to earn.a living, something. thiat - §0--in . fact,’ to ‘support local that its citizens have the ability is undermined’ by the. likes of contracts like Tri-City, The... local economy is based on” workers ‘Making decent wages, businesses,” ee aad “Nours, John “yénsen . BC, Northwest. ‘District Council United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. DOITUP. RIGHT, mC Hume fe i’ : ‘Sausage ak «69° 1009 pkg. Grimms MASSE \ Rings _ 82, 99 / 300g pkg. Cop pperside IV 891 Clark Terrace — 635-6624 THE + LUNG ASSOCIATION © > For Sletter or Far Worse by Lynn Johnston «1447 Universal Prers Syndicate All rights teecrved gratdparents and uncle who are also buried there. During the late part of this summer, | went with her wawhen she planted eight . beautiful. chrysanthemums » NOVEMBER «. “Pp 'ALACE NOVEMBER on. these graves. We returned — last month to clean up the SONDAY — a TUESORY. WEDHESORY THURSDAY FRIDAY oon | graves, and the plant had Passat 3 Theate been dug up with the culprit Order of Association | Terrace Soccer leaving only empty holes. 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