Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free september study reportedly rejects Pilot controller wage parity by John Mcfatt Atma if traffic controllers cannot be com pared with pilots in any manner which would Call for equal a study commissioned by the Federal government a government source in Ottawa said the consultants report offers a com Parison rating system which rejects the controllers argument for parity while not formally drawing a the source said the report by Hay associates Canada a Toronto firm specializing in compensation is very but it says a Pilot has a More Complex Job than a control Ler based on a Point the data leaves Only one Conlu they dont deserve equal he the Federal Treasury Board and the Canadian if traffic control association catch agreed to the study after contract talks broke Down in february Over the parity the control lers have been without a collective agreement since the average wage for controllers is about a with Junior staff earning about and senior con Fri Mari pension plan for Small firms gains support by Mary Ann Fitzgerald the Manitoba government is hoping shortly to launch a centrally administered voluntary pension scheme for Small businesses which complain about the administrative head cries of setting up their own labor minister Ken Macmaster yesterday confirmed he has been discus sing such a plan believed to be the first of its kind in Canada business and labor leaders and has found a tremendous amount of sup Winnipeg chamber of Commerce president Jack Hignell agreed that the concept has been favourably while Rita president of the Manitoba Chambers of saw Merit in the particularly for very Small businesses like Momma and Poppa some changes urged Art executive Secretary of the Manitoba federation of also dubbed the scheme fairly Good plan As far As Basic principles Are con Coulter said he wants some changes in the proposal to ensure employer contributions Are retained for the employees Benefit from the very Early stages of such a under the scheme envisaged by the Manitoba pensions now the watchdog of pen Sion plans in the would act As a catalyst to set up the once companies signalled their in Tention to the administration and investment of the centrally teachers consider 11 raise the Winnipeg teachers association executive will vote tonight on whether to ratify a proposed contract which would give Winnipeg school divisions an pay better interest on Back pay and an improved leave absence the oneyear agreement would increase the average teachers salary to about a year from about a Sta sources said highlights of the contract proposals were contained in a confidential Bulle tin circulated to members of last years Sta Council have been canvassing teachers for their views on the proposals prior to tonight the Sta executive and its bargain ing committee both recommended acceptance of the sources said the oneyear contract would also provide interest on Back pay retroactive to rather than the current system which pays interest Only from the time that either Side applies for As the proposed leave fab sence system would allow teachers a year off with the guarantee of an equivalent Job on teachers would also be Able to de some of their salary in a special account prior to the absence to provide income during the year sources the school Board would still decide which teachers Are allowed to take a leave of besides providing a Benefit for teach the leave system would give the school Board a Way of avoiding teacher layoffs As enrolment sources the proposed contract also includes a clause saying that if the Board lays teachers it must do so on the basis of division wide seniority depending on a a teachers qualifications and pooled scheme would be awarded on a competitive basis to a private sector the plan would include Par time employees and provide pension portability Between smaller Aidan the provinces superintendent of said the com Mission would probably appoint trustees for the plan in its first until the participating companies elected their own he estimated Start up costs to the government at Between and Obrien estimates Only Between 50 and 60 per cent of Manitoba Strong workforce is now covered by private pension plans and too Many look upon a pension plan As a savings it is Only a savings plan in that it ensures income on he pension plans Are part of the compensation package they Are deferred Macmaster said governments have to Start encouraging people very Early to Start planning their retirement and the proposed voluntary Central scheme is Only part of this like other is currently reviewing its pension Legisla Tion and a Federal provincial Confer ence on the subject is planned for later this the aim of governments is to keep pension legislation As uniform As Possi but just Over a year ago Saskatchewan broke rank with other jurisdictions to tighten legislation regulating private citing inadequacies in Canadas retirement income system and the growing number of people Over 65 the Saskatchewan labor minister Gordon Snyder said the pet of an eve increasing Burden on taxpayers to support the elderly makes it necessary to ensure working people make More adequate provisions for their qualify for pensions one Saskatchewan change entitles an employee to a include Inge Ployer contributions or when he has completed one year of service and when the sum of their age and years of service totals at least in such vesting occurs after 10 years of Snyder said Saskatchewan new Rule enables about five times As Many employees to qualify for pensions As under is former Rule of vesting at age 45 with 10 or More years of service or member ship in a because of concern expressed by Saskatchewan employees about the Locking in of their contribution to pen Sion plans by the scheme allows employees who leave before retirement and who Are entitled to a pension under the 45 Rule to take up to half of their contributions with interest As a Cash the other half of the employees plus the employers total Are used to provide deferred pension Obrien said he favors earlier Vest ing and earlier Lockin but say when he thought that should another Saskatchewan change pro Vides that employers must pay for at least one half of an employees pen Obrien said while Many employees think that already in the ear Lier age brackets that Doest tend to he said an employer will usually contribute More than 50 per cent if the worker stays in a plan until retirement starting next Saskatchewan legislation requires that pension plans must pay a reasonable rate of interest on accumulated employee contributions with the minimum rate set by regulation and based on the 10yearav rage return on Lon term Canada that would mean rates ranging up to about nine per trailers receiving about Fop airline pilots in Canada now earn More than a the which is not binding on either was commissioned after the Treasury Board tried unsuccessfully earlier this year to remove the control lers right to strike by designating them As essential civil the Federal Public service staff relations Board rejected this but catch has offered to give up its right to strike in Exchange for wage parity with earlier this catch regional director Carl Fisher said the Hays report had been completed and that the Union had a but he declined any comment on its controllers and Treasury Board officials Are to meet within the next two weeks to review the situation and both sides have said the consultants report will play a key role in contract airline officials Are now concerned that if the controllers do not gain wage parity with they will launch a new round of air an official of one who didst wish to be said none of the airlines in Canada will criticize catch members because they fear they will be singled out for an airline Pilot said the official policy of the Canadian air line pilots association seems to be to avoid a Public tangle with pilots association president Rollie Cook sent a Telegram last month to catch president Bill Robertson accusing controllers of scar Monger hardly worthy of a professional aviation spokesmen for both air Canada and up air would not respond yesterday to reports that the airlines plan to sue catch for loss of Revenue during the controllers disruption of Canadian air movement from to 12 in sympathy with fired they said any statements would come from the air transport association of which is the lobby group for 150 Canadian air George operations vice pres ident of said from Ottawa that at this time there Are no plans to sue controllers for millions of dollars lost by air carriers through but Capern said we Are watching traffic patterns and if problems occur to the same degree As last we will have to review our James free press High adventure looking like a playing piece on a huge chess this Workman works on steel girders being bolted into position on the greatest life building under construction on Osborne Street and bridegroom slept in crowbar hotel by Murray Mcneill Douglas Kent Johnson is one newly wed who wont have fond memories of his first year of while most bridegrooms spend their wedding night in the honeymoon suite of some posh spent his As a guest in the crowbar hotel at the Public safety a provincial court judge was told and if he thought things could Only get better after he soon found out after his Johnson was denied he Learned yesterday that hell be spending a Good portion of the next year in heading Ley provincial court judge Mike Baryluk sentenced Johnson to a oneyear jail term yesterday after Johnson pleaded guilty to one charge of enter and theft in a House and one of judge Baryluk was told Johnsons began april 28 when he and another Man were arrested about an hour after they had broken into a Winnipeg Home and stole Worth of he was later released on bail and began attending an alcohol treatment program at the salvation army rehabilitation Centre at 72 Martha court was although he still had the enter and theft charge hanging Over his he nonetheless decided to get the ceremony was held on july but two conditions of his bail were that he had to return to the rehabilitation Centre by 11 and that he want to touch according to his Manly Isra Johnson got a Little carried away with his and got he showed up at the Martha Street Centre 20 minutes the Centre worker refused to let him in because of his Drunken condition realizing hed probably get arrested for breaching the conditions of his Johnson angrily kicked in the plate Glass door to the Israel the worker called Johnson was arrested and taken to the Public safety building where Hes been Ever attempting to explain his clients behaviour on the night of his Israel joked that As a result of getting i think the Shock was too great for the defence lawyer noted that Al though Johnson has now committed seven criminal offences in slightly More than a he is still a Young Man and theres still Hope for Reh Abili he can Start a new life with his newly acquired Israel judge Grants absolute discharge to striker who assaulted woman by Murray Mcneill a Winnipeg inside postal worker was granted an absolute discharge yester Day after pleading guilty to assaulting a female worker who was crossing picket lines to work during the recent nationwide postal in granting the discharge to George provincial court judge Sam Minuk noted the assault seemed to be a pushing match More than anything he said he was granting an absolute discharge so Davidson would not have a criminal which could jeopardize his Job with the Post court was told the incident occurred at about july 20 when the female worker tried to pass through pickets outside the downtown Post of fice at Smith Street and Graham ave Crown attorney Terry Mackean said the woman later told police that As she tried to pass Davidson stepped in front of began shouting and making faces at and started shouldering and pushing me around with his shoulder and she said she eventually made her Way past Davidson and the other pick the incident was reported to police and the following Day Davidson was charged with common in explaining the reasons for his Davidson told judge Minuk the woman pushed him she pushed me to the Side and i automatically pushed her he i didst hit her or when judge Minuk told him that want any Way to treat a David son replied she was bigger than i she almost pushed me through the drifter jailed for cashing in on phones by Murray Mcneill for a Downan Dout drifter made life miserable for the Manitoba Telephone system with his scheme for stealing from pay Telephone provincial court judge Mike Baryluk was told yesterday that Jean Guy has been Drifting across Canada for years and making his living from phone last his travels brought him to at hed sleep in the stairwell of a Garry Street parking by hed steal Money from its Telephone Laurandeau had worked out a method of trapping coins in the phone As they were fed in by a would be court was the caller would As sume there was something wrong with the Telephone and then Laurandeau would return to the free the coins so that they would drop into the Coin return and pocket the 15 Crown counsel Rick Saul court was told that Between june 19 and last Laurandeau worked his scheme on three or four pay telephones a Day and reaped a daily haul of to court was told that during that Peri its sent out repairmen on 91 separate occasions to find out what was wrong with their pay at a total labor Cost of More than they finally had to resort to staking out the Telephone Booths for three until they caught Laurandeau in the Laurandeau appeared in court and pleaded guilty to one charge of theft and one of mischief and was sentenced to four months in Saull told the court that Laurandeau had been convicted of the same Type of offence in Winnipeg in and in at least two other cities since judge Baryluk asked Laurandeau what Are you going to do when you get too old to travel youll have to Settle Down some Christophe says beards Issue shaved from latest contract i by Greg Bannister Union negotiators failed to win Safeway employees the right to Wear beards under a new two year super Market contract approved this Bernard president of the Manitoba food and commercial work ers local said this but Christophe said the Issue which has been through the provincial arbitration the Manitoba court of Queens court of Appeal and the supreme court of Canada not dead he said the Union negotiating team withdrew the Beard proposal from con tract talks with Safeway and Dominion stores when it became Clear that agreement could not be we have withdrawn the contract but we Haven abandoned the Christophe i can assure you of the Safeway no beards policy is now before the Manitoba human rights commission in the form of a complaint filed by the but commission chairman Sig Enns said yesterday the Agency has not yet decided if it has jurisdiction to hear the we Are agonizing now Over How it the beards Issue fits into the human rights he the problem is that it Doest fit neatly into any one of the protected areas such As sex or Enns said the commission will meet 18 and May decide then whether it will hear the Union earlier this the supreme court decided in Safeway favor on the Beard Issue when it ruled the Manitoba court of Appeal had overstepped its Powers by reversing the decision of a provincial arbitration Board which up held Safeway the controversy first arose when two Safeway Donald Chapman and Dennis grew beards while working Day shift at Chain Chapman was reprimanded by Safeway management and later filed a grievance with his Union Over the Dis Safeway has consistently argued that the Public would rather shop at a store without bearded despite conflicting a Sec Ond arbitration Board to Deal with the matter ruled in Safeway saying it was reasonable for the company to insist on a no beards 1 Christophe Battle not Over ;