Page A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 14, 1993

BARRETT:

Sell out slammed —

TERRACE — Canadians have.
been sold down the river for the
past 10 years.

So says’ Joc | Barrett, . newly
selected Skeena New Democrat
candidate for the next federal
election. .

And now they have lo be
wondering whether the rivers

themselves are about to be sold to

the U.S., he addss-- =

Accusing the Conservative and
Liberal parties of exhibiting a
““weak-kneed, spineless’. ap-
proach on Free Trade issues, Bar-
rett said the time had come for
Canada lo take a strong stand.

Maintaining the country had to
take control of its own destiny,
Barrett queried’ whether power
generated from the Kemano com-
pletion project was for B.C. or
destined for the United States.

“Are they going to.sell off our
Tiver resources?”

Returning to his nomination
campaign theme, Barrett attacked
' “the dismemberment of the coun-
try”? under Mulroney’s Conserva-

Mil

live governments,

Pointing to the abandoning of
west coast lighthouses, post of-
fice closures, cuts in CBC (Cana-
dian Broadcasting Corporation)
operations and reductlons in
transfer payments to the pro-

" vinces, he added, ‘those directly

impact here in

Skeena.””

on people

themselves “‘what’s behind some

of ‘the vague promises from

parties like Reform.”
Barrett hits the campaign trail

' this week, heading first to the

northern areas of the riding,

It will be the beginning of a six
week swing through the outlying
artas, he explained.

Beyond that, he would be al-

tending all major local events and -

spend the rest of the time ‘on the

“What's behind some of doorstep talking to voters”’.

the vague promises from
parties like Reform?’

Saying Ottawa’s priority should
be to put people back to work, he
pointed to the NDP’s proposed
plan for a joint federal-provincial-
municipal program to spend $1.5
billion on improving such ser-
vices as roads. and sewers.

‘*]'m standing on NDP policy,”
he added,

Predicting the Skeena campaign
would be an interesting one, Bar-
rett said voters will have to ask

sis silent on

health deal vote

TERRACE — Hospitals across
the province voted last week to
accept a tentative framework
agreement (TFA) that was initlal-
ly turned down last April,

However, the Terrace Health
Care. society board isn’t saying
which way it voted on the deal,

Chief executive officer Michael
Leisinger said the silence was be-
cause of the high profile of the is-
sue and the controversy surround:
ing ft

“I'm willing to live with the
results of the - province-wide
vote,’’ said Leisinger, adding the
board felt the same way.

The deal, which proposes a
shorter work week and possible
job reductions/restructuring, was
approved July 9, the deadline for
health care employers: to vote. on
the deal. ‘

About 153. employers ralified

the TRA, with an approval rate of - ce
« W8vpsngonteneud jumiia vos mowchammereds ;Oulovbetween — the A” “e

week, and comparable jobs for
employees, was clarified.

Leisinger added the wording for
money issues had been made
somewhat clearer, but still needed
to be more precisely defined.

The TFA was endorsed June 18
by the board of directors of the
Health Labour Relations Assacia-
tion of B.C. (HILRA), the um-
brella organization for B.C, hos-
pitals. The board recommended
member health care employers to
ratify the agreement.

Following the initial rejection
of the deal in April, hospital

- workers called on local trustees to

reverse the decision. There were
also some strong words,

*SHLRA!'s failure to ratify this
agreement will bring chaos to
health care in B.C.,’’ nurses
union spokeswoman Diane Jack-
son wamed at the time.

The agreement was Inillally

+ “Phe! Heals! miiim polite include.) provincipl government: and-three

‘ gutting the work week from 37.5 |

 hours:to 36 hours in lisu-of wage -

increases this year, with the ex-
ception of a one per cent wage
_ equity hike for some employees, —
There would be wage increases

in the other two years of the ac.

cord.
Job security was another aspect

of the deal. Ten per cent of health -

care jobs (4800 positions) across
the province are expected to be
lost over the next three years, as
staff is transferred from the acute
care sector to community-based
' services,
And the agreement calls. for
organized job reduction, as well
as for a ‘labour adjusiment
strategy to help workers relocate.
Leisinger noted this second ver-
sion of the deal Is virtually identi-
cal to the previously rejected one.
The main difference is that the
wording. about. certain . issues,
such as region definitions, the im-
plementation of the 36-hour work

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“ health «care. unions - the B.C.

‘Nurses Union, the Hospital Em-
ployees’ Union and the Health
Sciences Association.

’The first version of the TFA
was approved by lhe unions.
However, in April, it was rejected
by employers, despite the
HLRA’s recommendation of the
deal.

Although 55 per cent of B.C,
hospitals approved the agreement,

_ it required a two-thirds majority

to be ratified.

The Terrace Regional Health
Care Society was one of those
that rejected it,

At the time, Leisinger said not
enough was known about the
financial impact of the accord. He
also said. clauses dealing with

possible extra money for hospi-

tals were too vague.
This time, hospitals voted on

‘the TFA first, rather than the

unions. It will now be sent to the
unions fora ratification vote.

Retiring MP Jim Fulton will be
joining Barrelt on the road trips
and said he'll be reminding
people why the northwest has
voled New Democrat in all but
one federal election since 1945,

As for accusations Barrett
would not understand local is-
sues, Fulton said Skeena voters
would be “happily surprised at
how well-informed he is,”’

“Joe is the only one running on
behalf of the working man,’’ he

Joe Barrett

said, dismissing the Conserva-
tives, Liberals and Reform parties
as “mouthpieces for big busi-

_fess’’.

Nor did he see any of the other
candidates as serious opposition
in the upcoming election.

The Manning machine has mun
off the toad in the north,’’ he
snid, which left Conservalive
Danny Sheridan as the main com-
petition.

TERRACE -- Think safety,
not speed.

That was the message that
police across B,C. conveyed
during the Unsafe Speed
Campaign June 28-July 5,

The province-wide campaign
was the sccond yearly install-
ment of three planned crack-
downs on speeding drivers.

Tt was the fifth consecutive _
year the program was un-
derlaken,

During the local campaign,
there were 216 traffic charges,
142 written warnings, 140
speeding charges, eight ¢x-
cessive speed charges (40
km/h over the speed limit) and
one dangerous driving charge.

However, although there
were nine motor vehicle acci-
dents during the periods, speed
was a factor in none of them.

Constable Goodwin of the
Terrace detachment was
pleased wilh this outcome.

Unsafe speed campaign
judged to be

a success"

“That makes il a. success
right there,” he said. “*I think

the public’s becoming more
aware of it (speeding),’’

Most recently available fig.
ures show the Terrace arca saw
123 crashes that resulted in in-
jury or death in 1991, a third of
those involved speeding. —

According to an ICBC news
release, “‘the risk of being
kilied or injured in an auto ac-
cident doubles with every
1Okm/h increase In speed over
80 knt/h.”?
‘were

Last year, there
431,000 speeding convictions
throughout B.C,

Speeding is most common
with males 16 to 30 years old.
More than 76 per cent of
drivers in speed-related acci-
dents are male.

In April 1992, speeding fines
increased to $100 and cx-

cessive speeding charges rose -

to $150,

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