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THE GROCERY STORE strike
has turned Safeway manager Andy
Millar into a drug dealer.

While his employees picket out-
side, Millar and non-union
pharmacisls are continuing to oper-
ate Canada Safeway’s pharmacy,

But since customers can’t get into
the store, Millar is taking prescrip-
tions on the road, delivering them
to people all over town.

“We're doing about 30 per cent
of our normal business — which
isn’t bad for being closed,” Millar
Says. .

Although the lockout has made it
harder for shoppers to find
groceries, it’s actually meant more
convenient service for people who
need their prescriptions.

Customers or doctors phone or
fax in their orders, and Millar
delivers.

‘People really like il,’’ he said,

The rest of the time, Millar has
been getting caught up on paper-
work. =. 7 a

But there’s only so much paper-
work and equipment maintenance
for him to do.

“I feel like the Maytag repairman

Safeway
manager Andy
Millar goes on
the road every
day with a bas-
ket of prescrip-
tions that he
delivers to
customers of
the store’s
pharmacy,
That’s how
Millar and his
non-union
pharmacists
are keeping
the pharmacy
open through
the strike,
even though
customers
can’t get
inside the
Store,

ger runs

Grocery store lockout takes
toll on employees, families

of grocery stores,’’ he jokes.

His counterpart at Overwaitea —
Dale Lufkin — doesn’t have a
pharmacy to keep him busy.

But like Millar, he’s been doing
paperwork and maintenance, and
makes sure the store is ready to re-
open quickly should the labour dis-
pute end,

**You can only do so much
maintenance,” he notes, “It gets
boring.”’

Lufkin visits bis picketing em-
ployees often, samples their dough-
nuts, and lends moral support,

“IVs hard on the staff and their
familics,’’ he said. ‘‘It’s a lot of
stress and uncertainty,’’

Every day they’re out here, It
takes its toll.”’

Coreissue >

Local newspaper articles about a
proposal by Westfair Foods to
build a Real Canadian Warehouse
Club outlet here have pasted up at

the entrance to Overwaitea.

Manager Dale Lufkin posted the
items to remind the picketers about
the core issue of the labour dispule
from the perspective of the
employers.

Safeway and Overwaitea are
looking for contract concessions
and buyout provisions to reduce
their costs.

They say they need to do that be-
cause the UFCWU has in recent
years signed contracts with West-
fair stores that allow the company
to pay dramatically lower wages
than Overwaitea and Safeway,

Lufkin says the Real Canadian
Warchouse Club outlet could take
away business from Overwaitea
and ultimately endanger his em-
ployces’ jobs.

“It’s potentially a threat to the
staff as well,’ he said. ‘They (the
new store and the lockout) go hand
in hand.”

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drugs

outlet would probably hurt Over-
Waitea warehouse pack and case lot
sales, Lufkin said,

But he said expediting service
could be more important than price
for some large buyers — such as
camps,

Ul ruling

Nine non-union Overwaitea
workers caught in the middle of the
current grocery store labour dispute
will be allowed to apply for unem-
ployment insurance.

The deli and meat counter
workers there — who are noi mem-
bers of the United Food and Com-
mercial Workers Union —- can’t
work because the store is closed.

There were fears last week the
employees wouldn’t be allowed to
receive UI, because they weren’t
actually laid off.

“They're not involved in the
union, they're not financing it, they
won't gain any direct inlerest,’’
noted Alice ; Bannister, -of Human -
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“They're not involved, so therefore
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ment”’

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 26, 1996 - A3

News in Brief

Student jobs pick up

AFTER A BAD weck or two, the number of job post-
ings listed at the student employment centre have
started to pick up, says employment officer Glenys
George.

“It's golten a lot better,’ she says.

Right now about a hundred students are registered for
casual employment, and those jobs are coming in
steadily.

However, there are fewer full time summer jobs
available. And there are still about 20-30 university
students looking for summer jobs, says George.

One reason why full time summer jobs seem scarce is
that many students are unwilling to-work for minimum
wage, she says. ‘But il’s better than nothing.”

The real onslought at the student employment centre
won't start until bigh school. students finish school,
which happens this week.

Working is optional
A PLAN by the education ministry to make 30 hours of
work experience mandatory by graduation has been in-
stead made optional.

The grad class of 1997 was to have been the first re-
quired ta have 30 hours of work experience to gradu-
ate, But Caledonia career prep teacher Gerry Sharples
said the idea was too impractical.

“There was a concern that employers would be
flooded by too many kids in a small area, such as
Hazelton or Stewart,’’ said Sharples.

And in larger centres like Vancouver, the logistics of
looking after so many kids becomes frightening.

“It’s just about impossible. You not only have to
place them, you also have to assess them.”

City puts up view land

THRE CITY wants at least $300,000 for a 5.4 acre
chunk of bench land on Twedle Ave, that it’s selling
off.

It’s expected the land will become a cul-de-sac, with
the land divided up into several lots. Buyers have until
July 19 to respond.

GST offences net fines

TWO STEWART MEN have been fined $1,000 each
for failing to file Goods and Services Tax (GST)
returns.

Patrick and Douglas Jefferson, both directors of
Jepado Holdings Ltd., were convicted on charges of
failing to answer a demand for GST retums under the
Excise Tax Act. Judge Ed de Walle banded down the
sentence in Terrace provincial court June 17,

They’re staying home
ONE REASON given for B.C.’s steady economic
growth has been the arrival here of people from other
provinces, particularly Ontario and Alberta.

But beginning last year the number of Albertans
moving here started to drop. And now more people are
moving to B.C, from both Quebec and the Atlantic pro-
vinces combined then from Alberta. bes ;

' Richard Allen, the chief economist for Credit Union
Central of British Columbia, feels Alberta migration
slow down is due to an improving economy there.

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