page 4, The Herald, Thursday, May 22, 1980- TERRACE/KITIMAT) © daily herald General Office - 635-4357 . Pubilshed by. . Cieculation - 05-6357 .Sterllag Publishers - PUBLISHER. _- Calvin McCarthy. - EDITOR - Greg Middleton - CIRCULATION TERRACE &KITIMAT. .. ne 6Q57 nL | Published every weekday at 3212 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C. A member of Varified Circutation. Authorized assecond class mail. Registration number 1201. Pastage pald In cash, return postage guarantecd. | NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT a The Herald retains full, complete and sole copyright in photograph content. published -In the . Herald. Reproduction Is not permitted withaut- the written | Permesen of the Publisher. . ; ae " a » . ml . “we were fair and they weren’t greedy.” 4, * , ‘This was the remark made by Mike Davidson, ‘the wovincial government's chief negotiator, in regard to the ;attern-setting agreement reached last year with the powerful B.C. Government Employees' Union. According to George Dobie, labor reporter for The‘ Van- couver Sun newspaper for the past 11 years, that kind of give- - and-take on both sides is a good example of more harmonious labor-management relations in B.C. “Sure, the nasty ones will still exist,” he says,.‘“‘but the: overall picture looks fairly reasonable and bright. I think it’s become a reasonable exchange of opinions because ¢m- — ployers recognize that employees have to get paid enough to meet the cost of living.” . He points out that key labor contracts in both the private and public sectors of the economy included wage increases of about 10 per cent, thus meeting the national inflation rate, - last reported at 9.6 per cent. oo ‘Dobie says he thinks labor and management are getting . closer and he points as evidence to a recent speech by C.J. “Chuck” Connaghan, vice-president of administrative services at UBC and: an influential figure in B.C. management circles. ds L In his speech, Connaghan called on the provincial govern- . menttoconvene a high level economic conference with labor and management to review the province's economic realities. Lo Connaghan called on employers to recognize that unions are here to stay. A long-time admirer of the German system of co-determination, or giving employees a voice in management, he urged the creation of profit-sharing plans. and other new approaches. a mo Connaghan also called on unions to re-evaluate the strike as a main. ingredient in the collective bargaining, or negotiating, process between employers and unionized sae sane ee + BC law i qqeceeaathha lu th ‘ahylice is hat to ee - But, ag fara, B,Cy'law is goncerned, the atyike,is here to 5°", stay) .as well clic nanagement counterpart, Tieton ae Paul Weller, the former chairman of the Labor Relations - Board (LB) which referees B.C. labor. law, stated in 1978, “Pree collective bargaining logically entails the right to strike. A strike is merely evidence that the parties have disagreed, or failed.” . Though seen by the LRB as a necessary alternative to bogged down negottations, strikes and lockouts can also he “costly, damaging and even violent. Through mediation, the LRB's labor relations officers do their best to prevent them and, failing this, ensure that the conflict remains within certain limits. This is the concept of the controlled strike. It happens like this: bargaining breaks down and one side or the other decides to precipitate the situation. The union may decide on a strike or the employer may lock his em- ployees out of the work-place — the lockout. If the union leaders decide on a strike, they must hold a secret ballot strike vote among union members wider LRB s supervision. [f a majority gives them the green light, then they must give the employer 72 hour's strike notice. At some point during the negotiations, the Labor minister may ap- point a mediator to assist the parties toward a compromise, ‘thereby avoiding strike action. Until the mediator makes his report, the strike must be delayed. ; As far ag the LRB is concerned, a strike is when any combination of workers stop work in order to compel their employer to agree to terms of work. This broad definition includes slow-downs, working-to-rule, and union overtime ns. The LAB has ruled that simple refusal tocross a picket line does not constitute a strike. Both strikes and lockouts are prohibited by law until . there’s been a serious try at collective bargaining. Michael Coady, a Vancouver lawyer working extensively in the labor relations area, says, “If the union makes no effort at bargaining at all, and instead simply calls the union mem- bers out on the bricks, then the LAB will likely hold that the strike is illegal.” ., 0 . Likewise, the law forbids strikes and lockouts once. a collective agreement Is signed. ‘ ‘ If the union does not go through these bargaining and voting procedures, then thestrike Is illegal. Though it tries to seek informal solutions of illegal atrikes, such aa wildcats when employees simply walk off the job, the LAB does have — the power to lasue ‘cease and desist” orders as well as other kinds of remedy, These orders have a similar effect to. a court order and disobedience could have serious reaults. In cases of serious violence or property during a strike, legal or not, the normal provisions of the Criminal Code take effect. There are many people on the management side who wish the LRB would take a tougher stance on illegal. strikes. The LRB’s former chairman, Paul Weiler, explained in 1978 why he preferred ending illegal strikes with persuasion rather than punches: . “Tllegal strikes are alded by the fact they're collective action and an action people feel quite righteous about. It's one thing for somebody to sign a piece of paper making a strike illegal. It’s another thing to get them back to work.” “You certainly don't want to put a trade union leader behind bars when that's golng to make a martyr out of him and get a lot more people out on the barricades," he sald. The counterpart to controlled strike Is the controlled lockout. It is seem by the law as the closing of the place of employment or the suspension of work done by an employer to compel his employees lo terms of employment. : As with the strike, 72 hours notice must be given before the lockout and it must be postponed if the LAB appoints a mediator. Just as there are illegal strikes, those lockouts that don’t correspond to the LRB’s conditions are declared illegal. - The onus is on the employer to prove that the closing of a plant during bargaining is not a lockout. . ’ For example, during a bargaining snag in 1974, a B.C. distillery suddenly shut down its plant In New Westminster, denying that it waa a lockout. The LRB discovered that most of the union bargaining Lega was, in fact, employed at the New Weat plant, It or- any advertisement produced and-or any’ editorial or a "The cartoonists viewpoint HAT BATS VE AN... - Those. of, - whioee i science: is drawn.moatly: from ter mass would increase. Event ee ! aD od “ ” Dear Sir. maximum speed mentioned human drew-closer to. sur human would be both infinitely short and, in- finitely ‘heavy: :As infinity is a state which ig odly unlikely to.be attained. Forever’ ig always. jus 8 ir es tapect concept which is the every day tool of s this type ot if such ideas seem fat course on Eastern religions. That's right — reli “fake quantum physics, for example, This Js :the th aoa ay 2 S 4 3 B & E Ss :] measurements of things. Particles, rather. than being esult: “of ' these __ ae abject of the exercise is to find the ultimate stuff : “oat af which things are made: sofary noiuck, But; lot's ‘af fun. Believe it or-not, certal’ typesiof sub-atomic ‘particles ‘are ‘known’ ag quatkes,“Ouierd are.named ‘dharii’ Then'there are photons, baryUlis “Tt has been suggested — through several ex- ‘periments — that the real world, the world of homes does not behave in the way ouy itl NG : ve Py A at red iblyrit Be Bs a M 964, Bere sid ay } Using complex equipmint at his laboratory in Switzerland, Bell played aroun pair, ther the other would also” contain: thease characteristics. They were identical twins. . The behavior of one was always m. the ouner, , real world — what happens in one area-can dnd does affect behavior in another area! That is proven by-the “basketball experiment”. with twinned particles: But matters get worse, BL _ [fone of the twins of a particle pair changes its state in response ¢o a. change by the other while they are in flight then, scientista say, : they must:.somehow - ‘communicate’ at a speed faster than light. and that ta | impossible, according.-to Einstein. ‘Yet it seems:(0 ppen, nn a _ For the last year, Alain Aspect, a physicist at the Institute of Optics at the University of Paris hag been experimenting with. twinned partcles.. He fiteq: the particles from a generator ahd then, while they are [a Bight, chariges the flight characteristics. of oné.par- cle. | . . tye . . 7 . bea * ' iy _THE EDITOR The raleczaie mark i “beginning at fis procie, ol fheend. ee night to watch what our - ‘new conatitution mi tbe brothers in Quebec thought ~ understood by all Cahadiane. of us. Twas delighted «— — dialogue among Canadians; _ But let’s remember a few. it must not-be left edlely. things: two elections ago i) =the conventional political Quebec = the =~ Parti «arena. Let us.commi eae Quebecquois received 28 per with each other not just one cent of the vote, inthe last on one, but through | the election they won, in this media, and give this problejri referendum the “French? our consideration” : and cast to beni a oeveea rowisdom. = 7 cs he cent a process that We must at. froin: could lead to. separation mee clttpens a. from Canada, : For the next short time at. Like most Canadians f sat glued to the idiot box dst ’ feast, Quebec has agreed to. work with us to develop a consitution that best meets . the needs pf all Canadians.