Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Union Council suspends Winnipeg free press wednesday june 3, 1981 3 by Manfred Jager the Manitoba Council of health care unions has suspended the Manitoba paramedical association from Active membership because of the rates the striking Union is charging St. Boniface general Hospital for essential service. Dick Martin chairman of the eight Union Council said in a statement yesterday the suspension was decided on after the Council found itself at logger Heads with the paramedical workers who follow a policy of charging triple time for essential services work in strike bound hospitals. The Council includes locals of the Canadian Union of Public employees the institutional employees Union the Manitoba organization of nurses unions the Manitoba government employees association the United food and commercial workers the International Union of operating engineers local Park adoption backed the concept of a City owned Park maintained by area residents was approved in principle yesterday by Winnipeg s finance committee. The Assiniboine Park fort Garry group which suggested the adopt a Park concept to the City however lost out on its request to have the City Purchase .65 acres of land on Michigan Avenue. The committee turned Down that re quest saying the proposed Park is too Small too expensive and the area has an abundance of existing and anticipated Park space. The finance committee did approve however a recommendation that the City attempt to lease the property which is privately owned and estimated to be Worth some the committee approved a general recommendation from City staff that future adopt a Park proposals be favourably considered Only in situations where the subject property is currently City owned and preferably in a Deve loped state. Six existing Sites it also adopted the recommendation that proposals be approved Only if the citizens group adopts or assumes responsibility for maintain ence and Protection of the Park up to departmental standards. With reference to the Michigan ave nue site City staff noted that the neighbourhood already has some six existing Sites totalling 32.38 acres of open space. Staff also termed the proposed Price difficult to City staff have just recently completed a study of Parks and recreation open space in the City and out of that study recommended a minimum size of two acres for a neighbourhood Park. A site of less than two acres tends to become singular in purpose and not conducive to planning multiplicity of program and activities which More appropriately reflect the diversity of use of any residential u of m professor Heads Law society Winnipeg lawyer f. Keith Turner has been elected president of the Law society of Manitoba representing More than practising lawyers. Turner a full time professor at the University of Manitoba Law school was elected at the annual meeting of the Law society s governing body in Brandon last week. Turner who was called to the bar in 1951, replaces former president j. A. Duncan. Lawyer Knox Foster was elected vice president. The service employees International Union As Well As the Mpa. Bob Strong executive director of the paramedical association said he was informed of the suspension yester Day and regretted the Council s step. However Strong said the action is unlikely to policy on Tri ple time rates for essential work assignments. St. Boniface general Hospital has called on the strikers for essential work extensively since they walked out of 10 provincial hospitals in support of higher wages May 21 and 25, Strong said. Calls from other hospitals affected by the strike have been on a sporadic to frequent basis. Martin who is also president of the Manitoba federation of labor with which the Mpa is not affiliated said the health care Union Council s policy is to Supply essential services during a strike based on the expressed needs of a strike bound health facility with re numeration at straight time rates. In cases of additional emergencies an arbitration Board would make in Stant decisions on More essential ser vice Supply Martin said. All such essential service workers would Only be available however As Long As the health institution involved does not employ strike Breakers or permit volunteers to take Over duties of strikers. As Well Only which continue bargaining toward a strike settlement retain their eligibility for essential service labor Supply Dur ing a strike. Strong said the health care Union Council s essential service policies were agreed to by his group As Well but never did spell out the rate of remuneration for essential services performed during a strike. Moreover he said that none of the hospitals now the target of strike action have Ever expressed an understanding that essential work would be at straight time pay Only but have acquiesced with the Mpa s triple time pay Rule. Since said rates of pay were not covered in the essential work policy of the Manitoba Council of health care unions Strong said he saw no need to change pay policy in response to the Council s move to suspend the parame group the Manitoba federation of labor is stepping up support for striking Csc technicians. Mil president Dick Martin said yesterday his group is asking affiliated unions to Appeal for More Volun Teers to help out on National association of broadcast employees and technicians picket lines in front of Csc facilities in Winnipeg. As Well Finan Cial contributions for the striking Union boost Aid to Csc strikers will be sought from Mil affiliates Martin said. Our federation has been support ing Nabet and we will step up assistance even further until the Union obtains a the Mil president said. Contracting out of work one of the main Points of Contention Between the Csc and its technicians is a very contentious Issue in Many negotiations and for the Csc to insist on it and thus jeopardizing the Job Security of All employees is irresponsible. I am calling on All unions to help Nabet in their just struggle and assist in bringing about a fair and just settlement of this the Mil president said. Have been on strike since late last month. Dial association. Martin said he was sure the Council s executive Board will review the sus pension if the Manitoba paramedical association agrees to adopt the coun cil s policy on essential meanwhile or. Alberto Larocha chief of cardiac surgery at Winnipeg children s Hospital said yesterday he has had to cancel All open heart sur Gery on children at the Hospital because of the uncertainty of technical help. Larocha said children s Hospital performs two or three open heart operations on children week and five or six have so far been postponed because of the Mpa strike. All postponed surgery was elective however Larocha emphasized. Nevertheless this has resulted in unnecessary suffering for patients and great inconvenience to parents who had scheduled time off from their work to be with their children after the opera Jim free press Handy transit paraplegic Fred Prouten demonstrates a Handi Trike yesterday at the University of Manitoba designed by engineering students Jonathon Lexier Ron Rob and Craig Forsyth. The three Hope to get funds to put the hand pedalled vehicle on the Market at an estimated Cost of to each. _ nun Memcie on me Market at an estimated Cost of to each students Tell of shooting in school classroom former classmates of Vaughan i made calling it pollen Tel re former classmates of Vaughan Michael pollen yesterday told a jury in his first degree murder trial the accused walked to his desk in a St. James school classroom in october 1978, shot an other student and calmly walked out Michael Barratt testified pollen now 19, pulled a sawed off Shotgun from the Green Canvas duffle bag he had carried into a commercial arts class at Stur Geon Creek regional secondary school and pointed it at Kenneth Maitland Maitland turned to me and said look at this Barratt told the six Man six woman jury. Vaughan said Don t laugh Ken and pulled the trigger and Ken fell to the Barratt said he screamed and ran from the room. Maitland was struck in the head and officially pronounced dead an hour later. A pathologist testified the youth had died from a gunshot wound. Under questioning by defence coun Sel g. Greg Brodsky Barratt agreed Maitland had been teasing and Tor menting the accused by criticizing him and the Rock group kiss of whom pollen was a fan. The previous Day Maitland had insulted a class project the accused had finance committee rejects offer to stage 1982 Beauty pageant made calling it pollen told him one of these Days Ken i am going to kill Barratt said. Witnesses said on oct. 19, 1978, the Day of the shooting pollen arrived late for class. He went to his desk in the Back of the classroom and a few minutes later there was a loud bang. Walked Down corridor after the shooting pollen walked from the room with the Shotgun Over his shoulder Down a crowded corridor and out of the school which has an enrolment of students. One student said pollen looked like a another said he had a Smirk on his face. Wayne Ball one of 43 students in the main floor classroom said he heard pollen say on his Way out "1 guess i la see you Guys he just appeared to not care about anything he just had a Blank look on his said former student Chris Gopher Golden. Teacher Gordon grist quoted pollen As saying i did it on pollen who was raised from juvenile court for his trial has pleaded not guilty to a charge of first degree Mur Der in the shooting. On monday an other jury found him fit to stand trial. The witnesses were testifying during the first full Day of testimony in Mani Toba court of Queen s Bench. Court was told pollen had few friends and kept largely to himself. Constable Robert Thompson who took photographs in the school and at pollen s Harvest Lane said the accused lived in a basement crawl space slightly larger than one metre in which his bed and other furniture had been Cut Down to scale. The world of kiss surrounded him on All the Brodsky said Sug Gesting later the name of the band stood for knights in the service of satan. Pollen wore kiss clothing and collected kiss magazines and Pic Tures. Barratt said most of what pollen talked about involved kiss and his whole life seemed to revolve around the band. In a letter to Barratt and another student after the shooting which bar Ratt read in court pollen said i remember very Little of that week so i can t give you an exact answer to Why i did he said what he recalled most after walking into the classroom was that he and Maitland were laughing at him. The next thing he said he remembered was walking out the door. Barratt told the court they in fact were laughing but not at the accused. The trial continues. Judge rules aut Opac must pay despite address Rule breach Winnipeg will not be the site of the 1982 miss universe pageant. That decision was made yesterday by the City s finance committee which unanimously turned Down an offer from the pageant s Public relations Man late last month free use of personnel and facilities of television channels private and govern ment owned in the Host country free air fare for 215 visitors to and from their countries to Winnipeg three buses and at least 35 air conditioned cars for transportation in the City 40 Rij als Lur Anspon anon in the City 40 Dean Morgan said in a letter to the suitable female chaperones speaking at my plug stood to gain some least three languages for a million Worth of publicity from the two hour show which he projected would be seen by some 70 million american viewers and some 600 million viewers around the Globe. The Cost to the City however would have been substantial. Included in the from Morgan was a healthy list of guarantees such As . Up front Complete use of the Conven for two weeks 215 deluxe hotel rooms and meals for two weeks 15-minute film to be made by miss universe inc. Complete exemption from All taxes and duties. Coun. Joseph Zuken voiced Strong opposition to the proposal which had been recommended against earlier by the City s and hoc committee on Grants. Zuken called the pageant a degrading of coun. Don Genie jokingly asked Zuken you mean you Don t want to see the Girlie Zuken pageant degrading by Steve Pona a Man who was denied aut Opac coverage for a motor vehicle Accident because he had not notified the Manitoba Public insurance corporation of a change of address has won an judgment in court of Queen s Bench. Or. Justice a. C. Hamilton ruled the insurance corporation does not have authority under the Manitoba Public insurance act to withhold benefits be cause of a breach of regulations requiring a change of address notice. The judge ruled the Man Alain Joseph Damour was entitled to full coverage for the december 1979, Accident. Court was told his vehicle valued at was extensively damaged. Basis of refusal aut Opac refused to pay for the dam age because it said Damour an itinerant Bush worker from Vassar Man. Had moved but never registered his change of address As required by judge Hamilton noted that because aut Opac denied All liability it had not had Damour s vehicle repaired nor did it present evidence on the Cost of re pairs or the Salvage value. To resolve the matter i award the plaintiff the value of the vehicle and the corporation the vehicle in its pres ent he said judge Hamilton said he issued de tailed reasons for his judgment because he was told there Are a number of similar cases in litigation. Lawyer Laurel Wight of the Pas who represented aut Opac said yester Day it is too Early to say whether an Appeal would be filed. Court was told Damour had been moving from one place to another seeking employment but maintained a mailing address in Vassar. Robber s Deposit gives Bank heist a trashy ending a Bank robber made it out the door with the Money yesterday but then found the situation just too hot to handle. Last seen he was running from the scene without the Money his gun his jacket or his shirt. Police said a Man walked into the Bank of Montreal at 1385 Grant ave nue at about p.m., pointed a sawed off .410-calibre Shotgun at a female Teller and said it was enough to get him the Money from the Teller s till. Then he fled out the door with the Bank manager in Pursuit. Spotting the manager the gunman stopped at a nearby trash can and deposited the Money the gun his Jean jacket and his shirt. Police Are looking for a dark haired Man dressed in jeans. Aut Opac had interpreted the regulations under the Manitoba Public insurance act to require him to change his address on his vehicle registration when his residence changed even though the judge said. However he noted Section of regulations dealing with changes of address does not require an owner to report a change of address because of a change of Damour had not changed his address it remained in Vassar he said. Therefore he had no change of address to report. That being the Case there was no breach of the policy and aut Opac is bound to cover the no authority the judge said even if he is wrong in his interpretation Section 32 of the Public insurance act does not provide authority to cause forfeiture of insurance benefits because of any breach of the regulation. Counsel could not refer the judge to any other Section of the act that would entitle aut Opac to refuse benefits. An aut Opac lawyer had argued a breach of regulation releases the corporation from any responsibility. If the act intended that any breach of any provision of the act or of any regulation would or could result in forfeiture such a provision would surely appear in Section the judge said. To be effective it must therefore be precise and any ambiguity must be resolved in favor of the individual who May be ;