UNIONIZED construction workers nickeled the United Buy and Séil _ furniture store construction site on Keith Avenue last week to pro- test the use of non-union labour. Picketers protest non-union Project :: ; TERRACE — Local building trades union members picketed a non-union construction site . near the Sande overpass . last week. Carpenters - union president _ John. Jensen - said union members are protesting the. use of . low-paid -. oit-of-town. - workers in construction of the United Buy and Sell furniture store on Keith Avenue. ~ . *Non-union i is one thing — that’ s perfectly ‘legal,’? Jensen said. “But they’re paying not much more: than half the local union rate”? °° He said Tri-City Contracting — the firm building the fur- - niture store — is paying its "carpenters around $14 an hour, ‘and is paying some af its labourers as little as $6 an hour. ‘. Union wage rates are around $22 an hour. “A good tradesman spends _ years acquiring his skills and : tools — and that’s worth more than $14 an hour,’’ said : picketing carpenter ‘Al Greer. "We're union: people in this” “town, That’s.. what built the ._ lifestyle Canada enjoys today. vei But this is'the type of employer who'll have our kids working in “the coal mines again — and we won't stand for it."": customers,” he said. Jensen said local labour organizers are pro-Terrace and don’t want to see construction dollars leaving the local - economy, ‘They {out-of-town workers) don’t contribute a damn thing to the community,’” he charged, ‘They come in, do the job, and all the money goes out.of the community.” . Jensen claimed some affiliate union members and local sup- _ Pliers have refused to work on or | supply the construction site in | solidarity with the protesting unionized workers. He said the union might also encourage a boycott of the fur- niture store in protest of the non-union construction. ‘If ‘they don’t want us to build ‘it, why should they want us for we should look somewhere else to buy furniture.’ RCMP were called to the site Thursday when picketers block- ed a company backhoe from _ _ entering the construction site. Const. Gene Olsen said the ‘confrontation: has so far been verbal, with police receiving no complaints of violence. He'said the company: is seeking a court : injunction to end the picketing. Company officials were unavailable for comment. Wea 7 Bigs Nem: Kristina Michelle a pen Tan August 11;-1990 at §:08 am. >... Parents: Ray & Susan Masse --3.” A sister for Stevan and Craig lbs. 8 oz, Sax: Female - an Baby's Nama: Kevin Willlam David McKay -_ Date é “ee August 16, 1990 at 6:00 pm Parents: Keven & Andrea McKay 7.04 Sex: Male vs Baby's Mame: Shawn Ronald Patrick be Tuma -of Birth: August 16, 1990 at.3:24 pm mn ti 9 Ibs, 1/2 oz. Parents: Ron & Candice Carey ; a fide brother for Adi: Sex: Male 3 SELECT ON< SALE FOR | BACK TO SCHOOL Aug. 29- Sept. 4 ‘Skgena Mall GINGERBREAD PLAYHOUSE 635-5236 @ a ae ae. ar ee Ce Cee “government tater “Maybe - Taxman | TERRACE — “Several Lakelse Lake residents: angry. about Revenue Canada’s: handling. ‘of - their northern benefits claitn are taking their complaint to. the Tax Court of Canada. Lake resident Sandy Sandhals _ ‘said he and several . other residents have sent their. claims ‘to the tax court after federal of- :ficials rejected their complaints. ‘They're being'told to Tepay as ‘much ‘as ° $2,000 ‘plus ‘interest ‘‘after Revenue Canada officials.“ decided they didn’t qualify for the northern benefit: ‘Taxation officials. initially “told residents. they. were eligible for the benefit prior to filing in ~'the spring of £989, But after allowing some of the claims, the “Lakelse” referred to in the guide: was an abandoned CN whistlestop between Terrace and ‘Kitimat — not the lakeshore community, Since then Revenue Canada has been ‘denianding lake residents repay the benefits — plus interest backdated to April ; 1989, said the- Sandy Sandhals “My main abjection now ‘is that they're charging us interest since April 30, 1989," he added. a Sployable Labour Day! Interest shouldn't be charged : until the aggrieved taxpayers have exhausted all their avenues ye of appeal, he said. Sandhals said he ‘filed’ ‘his *- claim - to. ‘the court ‘himself,’ : without hiring a lawyer. “How far we'll get remains to be seen,” he said. “J don't think we're going to get” anywhere. But I’m nat going to quit until Pye run the full gamut.’ - CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEMBERS... ~ BUSINESS AFTER HOURS | hosted by “the Newest Member of the Chamber Zz YOUR DECOR _ 8202. MUNROE STREET ‘rinse - _ come in n end meet Bob and the staff on their FIRST ANNIVERSARY “Thursday, September oa 5:90 p.m. to 7-00 p.m. PRIDE! -.. RO hme ae al Ak ig g pe eee ate WHEN IT COMES TO-A “NATURAL EXPERIENCE”, ‘TERRACE AND: AREA IS HARD TO BEAT! VISITORS COME FROM ALL OVER THE’ WORLD TO ENJOY THE BREATHTAKING: SCENERY. AND. THE CHANCE TO..SEE WILDLIFE IN-‘IT'S. NATURAL: SETTING, ROY, SCHERRER CAME TO TERRACE THREE YEARS AGO AS THE MANAGER/PHARMACIST AT NORTHERN DRUGS. 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