Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 7, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday March 7, 1975 5 strike halts Grain continued eminent departments Canad an Grain commission Public works and the base. Canadian forces an Grain commission Public works and the Canadian forces base. In Halifax a spokesman for the Public service Alliance of Canada said thursday that strike activity in that area will be stepped up until today Frank ii. Nokes Public All land runway cleaners at Hall airs manager for the Winnipeg Post office said in an interview letter carriers at most Post offices and depots in the City area were facing Alliance pickets placed outside the pre Mises. Or. Nocks said that hardest hit were the Post offices and letter Carrier depots in the North end and East Kildonan areas. He said in these areas carriers were refusing to Cross picket lines but in the other areas of Winnipeg carriers were in Many instances pass ing through picket lines. In some areas he said Only a few of the carriers were Refus ing to go to work crossing the picket lines. said couriers who drive mail truck vans were causing some difficulties at the main Post on Graham Avenue and Smith Street. At the main Post office he said 45 out of the total 125 vans did not drive through picket lines. The remainder Are doing so and carrying on mail pick up and Deli very. As a result of the vans fail ing to pick up mail at the main Post office or. Nokes said the following Industrial areas not get mail Friday St. James Assiniboia Inkster fort Garry and St. Boniface. Indus trial concerns receive their mail direct by truck from the main Post office and not through delivery by letter carriers who pick up mail from Carrier depots. The Post office has announced that affected Industrial area businesses May pick up their own mail at the following postal distribution centres for St. James y760 Sargent ave nue for Inkster 995 Mcphil lips Street for fort Garry 1536 Pembina Highway and for St. Boniface at 208 pro Bencher Street. The Post office states the 116 letter carriers 34 have refused to Cross picket lines and All inside workers Are on the Job at the main Post office. Strikes tarnish image nurses vote to strike continued continued ments from country elevators commencing Friday because of the increasing backlog of unloaded cars at West coast ports. There arc no More cars left to Load. There Are 42 ships awaiting cargo in Vancouver. No Grain has moved from the port of Vancouver since february 19 and none is being moved into Export position. At the same time More than a dozen contracts affecting 1 o n g s h o r e in e n and other workers in the ports of Mon a International Airport would walk off the Job if a predicted Lour inches of Snow fell. Michael Lyons a Sac representative in Toronto said runway personnel at Toronto International Airport who walked out before Midnight wednesday night during a snowstorm returned to work at 4 . Thursday and opera Lions approached Normal after flights were cancelled or delayed. Those were some of the developments across the country As Federal Blue Collar workers continued to disrupt Grain ship ments and postal and air ser vice in selective strikes to enforce Contact demands. The strikes began last feb. 10 the Sac representing employees of the Federal government s Post office transport and defence depart ments wants average pay in creases of 37 per cent Over two years. The Federal Treasury Board has offered per cent Over two years. Gordon Harrold president of the Alberta wheat Pool said at a news conference in Cal Gary that the Federal govern ment should take immediate action including emergency legislation if necessary to end strikes which crippling the Grain Industry. Replying to criticism of the strike and its effects on Canada s reputation As a source of Grain Sac vice president William Doherty said thursday that Treasury Board chairman Jean Chretien has the Means of settlement in his hands. Ill a Telegram to the Grande Prairie chamber of com Merce which had urged fast negotiations to Settle the strike or. Doherty said the Union is seeking Only the pay which a Good employer outside of government offers his workers with similar responsibilities. We do not wish to be used As an example of How the government can hold the line and we suggest you direct Youv comments to the source of the he said. Grain shipments to Thunder Bay Vancouver have been halted since feb. 17 when weigh men and samplers went on strike. Another strike by j longshoremen at West coast ports started sunday. Bob Hamilton president of the Vancouver local of the let Ter carriers Union called for a 43-hour general strike by fed eral civil servants to protest the government s negotiating stance. Postmaster general b r y c e Mackasey said in Ottawa he believed a full scale mail strike could be avoided if the bargaining committee for the Canadian Union of postal workers came Forward with reasonable demands. Meanwhile de r o w o r t h spokesman for the Toronto Post office which handles about 50 per cent of Canada s mail said first class mail backlogs would be eliminated later strike action at the two hospitals is now set for March 17. When talks broke off the nursing negotiators sent word to management at the health sciences Centre negotiating site that the Union no longer considers itself bound by an earlier agreement providing for a total news blackout. However no announcements regarding the outcome of strike votes had been planned until the last and biggest of the three votes involving nurses at the health sciences Centre is Complete later Fri Day. A breakdown in communication r e s u 11 e d in the counting and announcing of the vote for St. Boniface Hospital s 700 nurses at the la Verendrye club first and of the vote re sult of 500 nurses working at Misericordia Hospital who voted at the Holiday inn. The provincial staff nurses Council collective bargaining of the Manitoba association of registered nurses had scheduled a news conference for Friday evening to announce Complete strike vote results and reveal strategy plans. Joyce Gleason chief negotiator for the Council which negotiates for nurses in All Winnipeg 23 Rural and four Northern hospitals declined comment on the thursday developments late in the Day and said the Council would declare itself after the health sciences Centre vote which was to end at the Maryland motor hotel at 4 . Friday. Likewise no comments could be obtained from management spokesman major Harold Thornhill administrator o f won t be up until late april or Early May. A. The hospitals health sciences Centre has Beds St. Boniface Hospital has Al most 800 Beds and Misericordia Hospital operates about 420 May decide to apply for an in Junction to get their nurses Back on the Job pending arbitration. Hospital management of f i c i a 1 s have frequently expressed the View that at least substantial portions of nursing work forces in the hospitals should be designated an Essen tial service by the Schreyer administration but govern ment response to feelers in this direction in recent months has been less than favourable. Essential service designation according to one source is not Likely for nurses in a province governed by the new democratic party which urges the right to strike for every one including police and fire meanwhile staff nurses the provincial Council was sex award made continued Page statement released Fri Day. Petted to find out Friday just How much labor support of nurses picket lines it could count on As strike action is launched. If other branches of organized labor such As the Ca Nadian Union of Public employees at the health sciences Centre and the institutional employees Union in St. Boni face Hospital refuse to Cross picket lines the struck Hospi tals would be unable even to maintain emergency service and would shut Down. Treal Quebec City and trois rivieras remain unsettled. Ship owners and firms Hope the issues can be settled before the navigation season opens in april but it will be touch and go. However Vancouver has been the hardest hit port by the pub Lic service Alliance of Canada strike. This strike of the Blue Collar workers in the Public ser vice involves weigh men and Grain samplers at a number of locations. During the first six months of the current crop year Van Couver Grain Export facilities were shut Clown by strikes for 35 per cent of the working Lime said Don Mazankowski now As the country was entering the second half of the crop year elevators Are shut Down again he said. The reputation of Vancouver As a port for the shipment of grains is de l e r i o r a t i n g with foreign buyers " he asked if the government has received a. Wire from the Canadian federation of Agri culture calling for a Back to work order of be imposed on the government workers involved j in the Grain tie up. He said some Steps must be taken to Start Grain moving again. Acting prime minister Mit Chell Sharp said there were Sev eral such messages received by the government from Western interests. He said the Cabinet was examining All possible ways to Deal with the impasse. It was not in the Public inter est to reveal the government s plans at the present time said or. Sharp. S. J. Korchinski pc Mackenzie said the Farmers were suffering severe losses be cause of the strike. Or. Lang said there is More elevator space for the delivery today while parcel Post Deli veries would be caught up within two weeks. In Vancouver mail truck Drivers walked off the Job thursday afternoon and no race Hospital. M a j Thornhill said late mail was being taken from the main mail terminal by truck. Workers sorted mail inside the buildings while truck Drivers picketed vehicle entrances. Sac spokesmen said picket ing would continue in Van Couver for at least 48 hours. Calgary maintenance workers set up picket lines and mail delivery was brought Al most to a standstill when letter carriers refused to Cross the lines. Mail delivery in Edmon ton was slowed by machine operators and mail Sorters who remained off the Job. Municipalities where airports were closed included Windsor ont Thunder Bay out. Lon Don. and Goose Bay fld. Thursday that the management negotiating group had decided not to Issue any statements until All strike vote results Are n. There would be a statement on the nursing crisis late Fri Day the official said. Despite the management silence observers Felt that Large scale patient discharges from the three institutions concerned Are imminent. Officials of St. Boniface and Misericordia Hospital nursing associations Are reported plan Ling informational picket line s in front of the Manitoba legis nature and around the building of the Manitoba health services commission on Empress Street for monday. And while Little can be found out about plans for strike action one source said late thursday there Are no plans for study sessions booking off sick or work to Rule measures on the part of the nurses. The source said this kind of strategy was under consideration at one time but it is no longer being considered. This will be a full fledged strike of everybody and it will come very very soon. The sleeping giant really has Woken the nurses who have been without a collective bargaining agreement since feb. 28, had originally asked for pay raises of 50 to go per cent in a one year contract. It would have meant that the basic1 pay of a registered nurse now at s645 at the Start of employment and at after one year s experience would jump to in the lower of the two classes. This demand was later scaled Back to a proposal in which the nurses would have accepted three staged raises during the year bringing their Basic pay to a month at the end of the contract. Parking ban okayed continued strike talks resumed management offers Are re ported to have been in the continued about general labor and trades workers gets have been conducting selective strikes across the country for More than two weeks. Treasury Board and the pub Lic service Alliance of Canada which represent the workers have not held discus Sions since feb. 21. Selective strikers began feb. 17. Neighbourhood of at the end of wednesday s bargaining ses Sion with conciliation officers m. C. Eyolfson and m. T. B e g g s scurrying Back and Forth Between the parties. When nursing negotiators left the health sciences Centre that evening management officials stayed behind and continued considering their Posi Tion. The two parties assembled in their respective rooms again at 1 . Thursday and met until 3 . When talks finally broke off. The offer advanced by management at that time was for a Moi registered nurses with a re quest that certain classifications among them nursing instructors and assistant head nurses be negotiated on an individual Hospital basis. The proposal was rejected and talks broke off. It is unclear at what stage this leaves negotiations in other City and Rural hospitals. Wage talks had been conducted collectively for Concordia Vic Toria Grace and Brandon Gen eral hospitals for three sets of Rural hospitals and for four Northern hospitals. But As the health sciences Centre St. Bon commendation from the City works and operations depart ment. A works and operations com Mittee report said the bylaw will go a Long Way in improving the Standard of Winter and summer Road conditions in the new regulations pro Hibit parking for More than one hour Between 3 . And 6 . Until now this regulation has Only applied during no vember december january february and March. The new bylaw is in line with parking regulations in other areas of Winnipeg. Also adopted was the Regula Tion that All City traffic bylaws contain the portion of the inner City bylaw that prohibits parking Between 9 . And 7 . Where Street cleaning signs were erected by 4 . The Fine for violating this Law will also be s10. Currently the Fine for Violat ing overnight parking is and the Fine for violating parking restrictions in Street cleaning areas ranges Between and 55. M any inner City councillors disagreed strongly with the new bylaw. Councillor j u n e Westbury who gave up her affiliation with the Independent citizens election committee soon after the vote said the people in her fort Rouge Ward had a right to Park on the Street. Some buildings of 35 suites Only have six parking she said. Don t ask you people in the former suburbs to conform to our ways. Let us decide in a matter that does t concern you. She said representatives from the former outer area municipalities were voting to ban parking out of paternalism and big and added rape is what we re Conn. Morris Kaufman or. Mercury s client was awarded in Legal costs and More than in disbursements out of pocket expenses involved in the trial which began feb. 28, 1972. On nov. 28, 1974, judge Ferg awarded Commonwealth a million court settlement in a Mechanic s Lien action. Judge Furg was highly critical Oil the development corporation and the government. There is no doubt and this court is. Satisfied that the court appointed receiver and the Mac while Labouring under Many difficulties because of All the circumstances surrounding this sordid cf1 affair failed miserably to co operate with the Lien claimants in providing documents and other requested information and material con ducting examinations for Dis covery and in any Way to real y co operate with the g5 Odd litigant Lien claimants. The Lien claimants and particularly Commonwealth and Hume and rumble co. Now Turco construction Ltd in this instance were very shabbily treated by those Adverse in interest the Mac and the award of costs reflects the court s thinking in this regard and based on the argument presented supported by documentary judge Ferg wrote because of the additional work thus imposed Oil whoever is thusly appointed and the extra actual expanses incurred the costs awarded usually reflect this additional work and expense and the court recognizes the judge said the work became necessary be cause of the unnecessary and unexplained attitude of the court s receiver and the Mac in the Lien the Chi pulp and paper project became embroiled with the courts in Early 1971 when the provincial government placed the project in receivership. The project received about million in provincial government Aid which was started b y the former progressive conservative government and carried on by the current new democratic party government. Judge Ferg wrote in this Case much of the uncalled for protraction delays and Many frustrations of the Lien claim Dols resulted mainly from Dis p u t e s Between the owners there were originally four owner companies and the Mac and in fact the govern ment of Manitoba on other matters and which resulted in a court receiver being appointed the actual Mechanic s Lien Trail the longest civil litigation in Manitoba history lasted for 266 court Days. About 20 lawyers represent ing various concerns appeared during the trial. Commonwealth had originally petitioned for a million award for work it said it Hac done at the Chi site. The award in november by judge Furg of million included interest on the Commonwealth claim. The actual Legal costs to Commonwealth amounted to however Hume and rumble received in a counterclaim against common wealth As a subcontractor at the Chi site. 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All the instruments carried aboard the rocket were destroyed. They included equip ment for measuring the Den sity of Ozone water vapor and nitrogen dioxide. Electric portable typewriter Sale new and reconditioned Royal-Apollo-10 special deluxe demonstrator Smith -corona2200wilhwith Cartridge special Royal medallion special Smith Corona 220 special reconditioned guaranteed 50 110. Special Smith Corona Olivetti praxis Ssiss. 50 249 National typewriter office equipment co. Ltd. Phone 786-6611 639 Portage at Sherbrook open All Day saturday Rouge in said of Grain available at the pc main Impact of the present time than there was at the same time a year ago. He said the government is aware of the Gravity of the situation. While the is in Progress he did not want to outline what the government might sips Lake. Jack Murta urged the government to con Sider introducing emergency legislation if the strike was not settled by monday. Strike has been Felt in Western Grain movements which have been stalled largely because of walkouts by West coast Grain weigher and other workers. A few airports also have closed periodically when Snow on runways has made aircraft Landing unsafe. The labor and trades group includes a variety of Blue Collar jobs ranging from runway cleaners to Grain weigher. Face Misericordia situation cecum teak furniture warehouse reached its crucial stage the other groups had been biding their time to watch the out come. No other strike votes Are scheduled at this Point but could take place within Days depending on whether talks have reached the conciliation stage. If other such votes arc passed and strike action ensues then Only one major Hospital will be left operating Grace Hospi Tal in Winnipeg. Nurses there were not certified until a few weeks ago and can t strike under Mani Toba labor Law until 90 Days after certification. The 90 Day s the Only financial saving would be in the Winter during learning operations. He said in the summer the Only prob Lem might be somewhat dirty City streets if people Are Al Lowed to Park overnight. I dirt blame the administration for being neat but if you Don t like dirty streets Don t drive on them Well thank you for it a move by coun. Kaufman to Send the parking bylaw Back to works and operations com Mittee and to Amend the Law so communities could choose for themselves was Defeated. The bylaw was supported by coun. Robert is ecu Midland who said his area is one of the most congested in Winnipeg. One night when there was Street cleaning. 1.000 cars Vio lated the he said. The bylaw will solve Many prob lems people in the inner City he said these problems included taxis that could t Stop to pick up fares people who could t Park temporarily to unload groceries and cars not Able to discharge invalids. 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