Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 26, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba I Union taking aim at sex harassment by Greg Bannister Winnipeg free press Brandon the Manitoba govern ment employees association is draw ing up plans to dispose of Bosses found guilty of sexual but the provinces largest Union has yet to come up with a Way to Deal with offenders from within its own sexual harassment in the work place will be an important Issue in the next round of contract talks with the prov Ince and the civil service Union is looking at ways to solve a potentially delicate Issue for its said Pat Pomadowski in an interview at the Meas annual clinic fund gets the unions area 5 director and chairman of its equal opportunities said Union members Are often guilty of sexually harassing fellow members and this can cause problems if the matter goes to a a lot of our members Are supervisors and you cant file a grievance against a Union you can Only file against the a report made Public in 1979 by the Ontario human rights commission showed that Between 15 and 20 per cent of its sexual harassment complaints involved coworkers As opposed to Man to get around unions have either taken internal action themselves against the offender or have filed grievances against the employer for not disciplining the but the Union could then find itself in the awkward position of having to defend the offender if management takes disciplinary Pomadowski said sexual harassment will become an important contract Issue because of a precedent setting clause won last Spring by the 800 Mega members who work for the Manitoba Public insurance Corpora the clause was discussed at the unions convention on the see sexual Page 4 girls form their own hockey Cloudy today 5 Cloudy tonight 4 october 1981 final 250 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets a photos 11 Cey grounded 5odger Ron Cey at Kat during eighth inning in yesterdays with his teammates in new York for the sixth with their 21 win Faith world series was hit in the head by a Ball thrown by the dodgers have come Back from a 20 deficit to take a 32 Lead Yankee Pitcher Rich Cey suffered a mild concussion and will be in the 000 March against nuclear Armi europeans rally to demonstrate opposition to missile deployment plans by the associated press romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu was quoted today As calling for withdrawal of soviet nuclear missiles from Eastern Europe in return for a halt in the planned deployment of medium Range rockets in Western eur the Maverick East bloc leaders a peal came after weekend antinuclear rallies that brought out More than people in six West european cities in a show of growing opposition to deployment of nuclear missiles to match a soviet missile Ceausescu made in an interview with the West German news paper Frankfurter marked the first time a soviet bloc Leader has spoken out publicly for a withdrawal of Moscow ss20 missiles As Parton an arms reduction the paper quoted Ceausescu As say ing he favored a halt in development of new nuclear missiles As Well As the stationing of nuclear weapons on euro Pean Ceausescu would apply not Only to Western plans for stationing cruise and Pershing ii missiles in Europe but also to the withdrawal of soviet the newspaper report the romanian Leader called for decisive measures from the Side of governments As Well As the Public to end the arms Ceausescu proposal paralleled Calls by West German and other West Ern european governments for scrap Ping the Western missile deployment plan in return for soviet promises to dismantle ss20 missiles already de More than marched yester Day in led by government ministers and political police said it was the biggest protest in Bel Gium since the second world fifty thousand some wearing Gas masks and Skeleton cos paraded through their City and rallied in East in norwegians walked in a Torch Light Parade sponsored by a group called no to nuclear More than demonstrated on saturday in and 150000 rallied in where defence Secre tary Caspar Weinberger was concluding a tour and talks with North Atlantic treaty organization defence ministers on the deployment of Pershing ii missiles in i think they should be taken Weinberger said of the it is completely under but its the wrong Way to get the result we All want no in nato asked the United states to install medium Range mis Siles in West Bel Gium and the Netherlands to counter the threat of hundreds of soviet ss20 multiple warhead missiles aimed at european since Strong antinuclear and pacifist movements have emerged in several european and the Netherlands have postponed final approval of the nato disarmament talks Are scheduled to begin in Geneva Weinberger and other West european defence ministers contend the soviets will not pull Back any of their missiles unless missiles Are deployed in Western in France and the March ers demanded the soviets dismantle their missiles and the United states keep theirs at neither Pershing nor read Large banners carried through the Rainy streets of the marchers went to a Large tent in East Paris for a rally addressed by peace activists and in Secretary general Kurt Wald Heims crowd jeers housing minister up housing min ister Paul Cosgrove satisfy angry homeowners who jammed into a High school auditorium yester Day to ask about High interest rates and How their houses could be audience members gave a standing ovation when one Man demanded the ministers resignation if he do something about interest taking part in a panel discussion on High interest said the answer to the High rates will be signalled in next months Federal Bud but would not specify what help if any for homeowners would be in the Cosgrove was loudly jeered when he suggested to one asking what he could Tell his children when they could no longer afford to live in a to seek help from his family and Munici failing Cosgrove the Man should talk to his my or to Cosgrove himself for one woman presented Cosgrove with a Black Carnation to remind him of the canadians who had already lost their houses because of High interest Broadbent applauded de Leader of the Federal new democratic party and another panel received a standing ovation when he outlined his party fou part plan to lower interest including a six month moratorium on interest rate a ceiling on Bank charges and government involve ment in the housing Broadbent was critical of the governments slowness in dealing with interest saying the liberals should not wait until the budget to Deal with the Michael progressive conservative member of parliament for the Toronto Riding of Etobicoke Centre and finance critic for the blamed the economic policies of the Liberal party Over the last 15 years for the present High interest Wilson said the conservatives would give incentives to builders to make More housing he was Heck led when he predicted that if the progressive conservative government of Joe Clar Khant been Defeated in interest rates would be about 17 per panel member David a University of Western Ontario economics blamed 10 years of inflation for putting Canada in this appalling he said a drastic decrease in interest rates would Only mean higher rates in the Chretien warns or that Compromise is a must Ottawa up the Federal government will press ahead unilaterally with its Constitution proposals if the provinces Are not willing to Compro a Tough talking Justice minister Jean Chretien warned again Satur we Are trying to get a Chretien told a cheering crowd of Young Ontario but if there is no movement on the other were going to prime minister Trudeau insists his 2 meeting in Ottawa with the 10 premiers is the last Chance to reach a Compromise before he asks Britain to Send the Constitution to Canada with an entrenched charter of human and Lan Guage the eight provinces who oppose his package but Ontario and new Brunswick reject that the eight want the Constitution a treated without the the two sides Are also badly split on a future amending Chretien said saturday that Ottawa is prepared to make some changes to the charter of rights but vowed the government will never Back away from citing a Long familiar list of past violations of human rights in the Justice minister warned the ugly head of discrimination could easily so we have to make sure that the rights of canadians will never be subject to the capricious will of the majority and when you enshrine the rights in the Constitution you make it impossible for us in the parliament of see Chretien Page 4 la upset Glen Effo Deputy mayor Charlotte Oleson scored an upset Victory Over Henry la for 16 in a contest for the Gladstone pc constituency 11 Man says drug squad Tore his suite apart a 20yearold Man says four City police narcotics officers burst into his Kimberley Avenue Home saturday and conducted a full scale drug then left after tearing his apartment apart and not charging him with Mark Case said he has no police record and added that he has never sold Case says the men found a Small amount of perhaps enough for a couple of in the jacket pocket of one of his when contacted a Winni Peg vice division spokesman refused to he said Noone could discuss the matter until vice inspector Clarke Peckover was informed of the proceed Ings meanwhile an unemployed was left with a Home turned completely upside Down by the four armed men he had the frightening right to enter his mess the place then leave without charging an hour after the conducted by the men Aid of a search Case stood in the shambles of his look How they ripped the sofa apart look at All these papers thrown see Man Page 4 pretty babies society new sex object is half half lollipops pretty babies and some experts find it says one weve entered the new dark Ages of playoff berth Blue bombers Clinch playoff spot with win Over jets win 94 Dale Hawer Chuk scores three in jets 94 win Over via protest protesters trying to Stop cuts in via 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