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Vol. 44, No. 44

‘Defence’ seminar draws outrage

| Representatives of the pro-
| Vince’s peace movement voiced
| Shock this week over plans by the
| Pentagon and the B.C. ministry
| Of industry and small business
| development to conduct a
“defence industry opportunities
‘| | Seminar’’ in Vancouver and call-
_ | €d on the federal and provincial

seminar be scrapped.

Frank Kennedy.
} SOvernments to cancel the The top-level conference,
} Seminar immediately. which is intended to show B.C.

“‘We resent the use of our city
| for this kind of meeting,’’ said
| Carmela Allevato, co-chair of the
| End the Arms Race coalition. She
| Said the executive of the EAR had
| Written to the prime minister, the
} Premier, leaders of the federal

and provincial opposition parties vince
| 4S well as the mayor and city

“

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needs not on technology for
death,” said EAR chairman

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B.C.’s longshoremen, facing the
threat of a federally imposed ‘‘six
and five’’ solution, hammered out
an agreement Monday that sources
say produced an average 22 percent
wage hike in the first two years and
averted a threat to union members’
jobs.

Retention of the container de-
stuffing clause, by which only the
members of the International
Longshoremen’s and
Warehousemen’s Union may
unload containers with cargo for
more than one customer, was a key
victory in the year-long negotia-

tions.

The province’s 3,500 dock
workers, locked out by the B.C.
Maritime Employers Association
for 17 days, will vote on the ten-
tative settlement next week. They
have worked without a contract
since Dec. 31.

The details have not been of-
ficially disclosed, but according to
sources longshoremen will vote on
a package that includes an average
increase of $1.30 an hour retroac-
tive to Jan. 1, $1.60 in the second
year and an automatic wage
reopener in the third year.

ILWU negotiators apparently
gave ground on shift differential

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ever

B.C. Fed
parley

opening

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~~ Dock workers
, Settle under —
_"6and 5’ gun -

payments. The across-the-board
wage increases will reduce the dou-
ble time rate for the graveyard
shift, and time-and-a-half wages
for afternoons.

The warehouse owners also
gained on the contentious issue of
casual labor. The new agreement
will allow employers to train more
casuals for skilled work.

The ILWU was under pressure
from the federal government,
which promised to bring the full
weight of its wage control legisla-
tion to bear for the first time on
private sector workers. They beat
the government’s deadline of mid-
night, Nov. 8, by two hours.

The threat to impose the six-and-
five solution on private sector
unions, a threat that has diminish-
ed but not disappeared with the
dock settlement, drew fire from
trade unionists and a Vancouver
MP.

NDP MP for Vancouver East
Margaret Mitchell, in a Nov. 4
statement called the liberal govern-
ment’s back-to-work legislation “‘a
black day for labor.

“‘We must work together to en-
sure the rights of workers are not
eroded any further,’’ said Mitchell.

| COPE aldermanic candidates Carmela Allevato
| (above) and Libby Davies turned up at NPA head-
| Quarters in a bid to debate Warnett Kennedy and
athan Divinsky on women’s issues Tuesday but
found when they arrived that the two NPA can-
didates, while agreeing to such a debate, didn't
| think the time or the place appropriate. An effort
| to set a meeting date similarly met a nego
| T€sponse. And there it sits — with COPE stil
Ee Waiting for the NPA to set a time.

candidates line
up for Nov. 20

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Ontario, Sask.
vote solidly

for peace
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