CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE TERRACE STANDARD

Dear Sir:

I feel the need to comment regarding a letter in the Octo- ber 12 issue of The Terrace Standard, “Teachers and Telus workers deserve community support”.

My question is why?

, The entire union concept is archaic and outdated. It may , have served its purpose at the turn of the last century, but in this day and age they seem more like bullies. Maybe sheep

is a better térm. «

I hear that other unions are going to blindly support these unions. To -heck with what the actual i issues are, just blind support. |

Another letter had the quote “So over my dead body will I cross this line.” Wow. The question was posed, “Do you want to lose the ability of free thought?” Where does that

‘come from? _ Anyone getting into the teaching profession knows ahead of time that it is a career like no other. And-I do have some personal knowledge of the issues as I have a parent who was ateacher. |

And now our children are being held ransom, illegally I might add. The Telus workers seem to be lawbreakers as | well. What second side of the story is there to 0 breaking the law?

Can teachers really tell: me they have it so tough? Ev-. erything can be. made better, but come on. If people are so unhappy with their jobs or employers they are always free to.

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Dear Sir:

I have just finished reading your story about the’ generos-

" ity of Mrs, Vesta Douglas and thought it was wonderful to hear all that she has done over the years.

I lived in Terrace many years ago, and I have this one

memory that involves Mrs. Douglas and Hallowe’en. When

‘ I was about 7 years old, my family tc took me to Mrs. Douglas’

house trick or treating. She answered the:door dressed up in a witch costume and invited all the kids into the house. The house was all deco-

of the homes I had been to had nothing other than a few

‘Dear Sir:

I wish to express my condolences to the Smaha fam- ily on the unfortunate passing of Jack Smaha.

Jack was a student of mine when I taught at the Skeena Junior Senior High School between 1955 and

> rated for the night and I thought it was pretty cool as most °

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There’s no gain for teachers when they break the law |

leave and pursue other options.

I work in a non-union, real world job and am very happy with the career I have made for myself with no union inter- vention. Nobody I have spoken to on this issue has any sup- port for either set of workers.

. [have to question the math’skills of these workers who are out for a period of time over these issues. And make no mistake about it, whether it be a strike or a lockout, in the end it is because no agreement could be reached, on both sides.

No boo-hoo for locked-out workers. They chose not to agree and go back to work. If you bicker over a couple per cent pay increase, and are out of work for months over it,. well just do the math and you end up behind. .

I would think all Canadians, being such a hockey-crazy

nation, would have learned more from the NHL labour dis- pute. Who won? Of course, the owners (read: the employ- - ers) because their pockets will always be deeper.

As for Telus making good profits, that is irrelevant to the workers wanting more money. | guarantee they won’t sign

a deal that says they take a pay cut in the years where their:

. employer takes a loss, will they?

- Yes, at the end of the day we all-want improvements to» our jobs and our lives, but breaking the law, and preventing our children from obtaining an education is not the way to handle things. , — ;

Chris Stone, Terrace, B. c.

Thanks for a wonderful memory

pumpkins outside. _ Things were going along great when all of a sudden she ‘whipped out this broom, gave a loud witch cackle and start- ed-chasing us kids around her house, gently swatting at.us with the broom until we ran back outside! I have told that story to my two children and every. Hal- loween when we are decorating our house, they always ask, “Remember when that witch was chasing you around her .

house? That would be so awesome!” So I say thank-you, —

“Tammy Pilon, Alliston, Ontario

Mrs. Douglas for that wonderful memory!

Condolences to the Smaha family

1958.

Thad the good fortune to meet both his son and |

grandson i in Fort St John this past spring. —_ Mike Chambers, Fort St. John, B.C.

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