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_ cal workers, says Skeena. NDP

Aug. 26 information picket in -

~ hired for a pipeline: Project’ hear’.
here, 2"

~centcof their income locally,’

“money. being paid to Alberta -

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Gas company picketed —

TERRACE -— _~ Companies doing
business here should be hiring lo-

MLA Helmut Giesbrecht.
He made the comment at ‘an

front of the Pacific Northern Gas
offices on Hwy16.: 2)

Neatly .40: people gathered to
protest the: actions - of: Pacific

Northern ‘Gas and ° North | Amer-

ican: Construction, a company. it”

They say North American hired ;
too many: ‘Aibertan workers and is

paying. lower. wages than. what —

should be expected.
“Local, people spend 95 per

said Giesbrecht,
“Tm disturbed by the fact of

workers, (Alberta premicr) Ralph
Klein: should look after his own

economy. He’ should do more to

ensure. his. people there - have
jobs,”’-the MLA added.

Glesbrecht : acknowledged that
although PNG is a Provincially
regulated: ulility, it is a private
company can hire whomever it
wants.

“But still feel there should be.

- some..sort of preferential treat-

ment for people in B.C.,”" he said.

Protest organizer Fred. Glover
of the B.C. and.Yukon Territory
Building and Construction Trades

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Gas office’s was Skeena MLA Helmut Giesbrecht, left. With:him is.B.G. and Yukon Territory Build-
ing and Construction Trades Council area organizer Fred Glover who put together the picket line.
Those on the line said an Alberta company hired for a pipeline project here should be employing
more local people and paying better wages,

JOINING NEARLY 40 people at an. information picket line. Aug. 26 in front of the Pacifi ic Northern

Council said North American is
hiring workers from Alberta
when local qualified people are
out of work.

“Right on this line we have a
welder that’s qualified, Yet North
American is bringing in welders
from Alberta,’’ said Glover.

‘We have no problem if a com-
pany brings in its key people, but
local people deserve these jobs if

they are qualified,” he added,
Glover’s. been Irying, to
organize workers on the project
and estimates at least half are
from outside of the province.
He’s been told there is.a union

’ certification on the: project but

says it’s with thé Canadian Tron,
Steel “and Industrial Workers’
Union, a union the building trades
council calls a “‘rat’? organiza-

Fair wage policy widened

“TERRACE — The provincial

government has expanded provi-

sions of its Fair Wage Act cover-

ing workers on public construc-
tion projects. ©

Previous regulations stated that
construction companies pay stan-
dardized rates.on ‘projects worth
more than $1.5 million.
-.That dollar: amount has now
been dropped:to $250,000 and the
kinds of contracts expanded to in-
clude highway and bridge con-

“ struction.

Non-union contractors must pay

wages equal to 80 per cent of

union scale for various construc-
tion trade calegories.

The wage schedule remains
what it was when the province
brought in its Fair Wage Act in
March 1992,

“By lowering the threshold to
which the policy applies, more
construction projects will be cov-

ered, and we will beiter ensure:

the best qualified people are
building our highways, schools
and hospitals,’? said labour minis-
ter Moe Sihota. -

The fair. wage policy docs not

apply. to provincially-subsidized —

social or student housing projects

or to highway maintenance con-

tracts.
Under the policy, carpenters
receive $21.62. an hour, elec-

‘tiicians $23.74 an hour and

labourer/helpers $19.90 an hour.

‘Benefits are rated at $4 an hour. _

Critics of the policy: say it in-

_creases. project costs, adds to red
_ tape and benefits union ‘sup-

porters of the NDP.

Sihota said other issues such as
local hire and employment equity
will be addressed in coming
months.

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‘*PNG has an obligation to its
shareholders and customers to get
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~-Bpp added that North American
has hired local workers and sub
contractors wherever possible for
the $2. million job ta double a
section of PNG’s natural gas
pipeline up the Copper River.

**As of yesterday (Aug. 26) of
the 61 hourly paid employees on
that project, 33 are labourers
hired locally. There are six equip-
meni operators. That’s 39 of 61
people and that’s what I'd call a
high ratio,” Eppsaid.

He added that all 10 inspectors
hired by the company are from
B.C. and that the industrial first

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