Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 26, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free october 1981 polish troops ordered to help solve conflicts Jim free pbe88 Warsaw a Veteran polish ordered by the government to help solve local were mov ing into villages today to try to ease food shortages spurring Wildcat strikes by More than demanding an end to Union affairs minister Stanislaw Ciosek accused Solidarity of he the Independent labor federation is putting the pistol of strikes not Only to the governments but to the Temple of the entire the Council of ministers demands an end to strikes in order to save society from their disastrous Ciosek said yesterday in a televised in addition to the spreading Wildcat he apparently was referring to a on hour warning strike called for wednesday by Solidarity to protest food shortages and alleged police a announcing implementation of the troop deployment ordered by the government last administration minister Tadeusz Hupalowski extraordinary situations require extraordinary the situation is getting worse and the government is doing everything it can to make survival Hupalowski we Are facing Winter and people Are Wojciech the communist party Premier and de Fence Friday ordered the troops to help move food to ease problems of fuel distribution and solve local sources close to the government said teams of three or four enlisted men and officers were being sent to but not to the larger towns and this indicated their Mission was economic and not a portent of martial local Solidarity chapters met during the weekend to assess the govern ments move and plan for the warning strike wednesday by the unions million troops Many Union officials said they would Welcome the presence of the military if the troops help improve the food Situa Tion and provide More food and fuel shortages have Trig gered a spreading wave of strikes by an estimated to thousands More have been on strike government and Union reports indicate there Are walkouts in Progress or planned in two thirds of the 49 polish television said the govern ment sent a High level team to the Southern City of Tarn Brzeg to assess the effects of a walkout by workers protesting food Wildcat food protests by thousands of workers Are also under Way in the cities of Zelona Sand Mierz and the loneliness of defeat Union tackles sex harassment oilmen descend on Manitoba site Waskada up a Small team of Calgary oilmen have descended on this southwestern Manitoba Community to tap the resources in one of the prov inces newest Omega plans to develop 100 Wells in the about 100 Kilometres Southwest of in the next two by Waskada May rival now Manitoba richest Oil pro during there Are some production programs which the Omega Crew has to Deal with company spokesman Dennis Hall says the Oil in about half the Wells in the area is trapped under a Sandstone Cap that has to be cracked open before the Wells can helping to find a solution is also of Hall explained in an interview that during the fracturing Sand from two tankers is combined with Oil and water to form a gooey mixture that is pumped into the Well at a pressure of More than 281 kilograms per Square the ground shakes As the fluid is pumped into the the pressure creates a crack in the about 950 metres below the causing Jim free press the Sand to be forced out into a horizontal fissure about pm Hall said the crack allows the Oil to flow freely tend can boost production from one to 100 barrels a the which costs about and requires Days of takes Only 17 Hall said the area has Good when the 100 Wells could produce at least barrels a Ottawa reach Energy Accord Ottawa up Ottawa and Saskatchewan have reached an Energy agreement after negotiating since sep prime minister Trudeau and pre Mier Allan Blakeney were to sign the agreement the prime ministers office Energy minister Marc Lalonde was to hold a news conference on the continued from Page 1 currently at the insurance Corpora if a Union member wishes to protest sexual harassment by another Union a grievance can theoretically be filed against manage ment for not observing and preventing the to Madowsky Pomadowski that the Union in practice tries to avoid filing grievances of that she said the Union usually talks the members involved and tries to straighten things out before filing a if a grievance is she that puts the Union in a very difficult Posi we Are obligated to fight for All of our in the event of such a the offender could ask the Mega to con test the terms of disciplinary action taken by the if it is a lenient Type of i cannot say what the Union would every situation does have its own set of clauses dealing with general prob lems of sexual harassment will be proposed in All the unions 25 which expire next Pomadowski it will not be a Trade off propos Al like some that you bring to the bargaining she More than half the members of the Mega Are said sexual harassment can be directed towards she but it is More commonly directed at a re cent Survey reported by the National Union of provincial government pm a federally chartered umbrella found that four out of five women experience sexual harassment at least once during their working according to the three part Pic clause is a first which other groups of the Mega will want to the first part of the clause allows an insurance corporation employee to by pass preliminary Steps in the grievance procedure and complain directly to the corporations general the second part defines sexual harassment As persistent sexual solicitation or advances made by a person of authority who or ought to it is or a reprisal by someone in authority after a sexual Advance has been the third and perhaps most important part of the sexual harassment clause Calls upon the employer and the Mega to treat grievances involving sexual harassment in strict conf she said the Mega and unions in general face a Challenge in educating members about sexual harassment in the Many of our members dont realize they do not have to take the abuse it is not always demand ing sexual it could be some thing As Subtle As putting your hand on someones shoulder or leering at some said 4 Ottawa considers new Deal on maternity leave payment Ottawa up momentum on paid maternity leave for women work ers has quietly built to a Point where the Federal government is considering assigning a special group to reexamine government employment minister Lloyd a worthy says he has held preliminary discussions with Judy minister responsible for the status of and with Treasury Board president Don who is responsible for the Federal payroll and collective bar the main policy question for the government is whether it should continue providing maternity benefits through the unemployment insurance program or make maternity benefits a separate social program As some Busi Ness organizations Are the government must also decide whether to improve existing maternity whether to expand maternity leave rights under the Canada labor code and How to respond to specific maternity leave demands from its own the momentum began building last summer during the 42day strike by the Canadian Union of postal workers who wound up with 17 weeks of almost full paid maternity leave with a combination of benefits from the unemployment insurance pro Gram and the Post office since other Federal employee unions have demanded a similar Deal and there has been some spillover into the private spokesmen for unions now negotiating contracts then say it is too Early to forecast full paid maternity asked Treasury Board spokesmen say fully paid maternity is being demanded by most Public service bargaining units this the two major groups Are clerks represented by the Public service Alliance of Canada and about represented by the Canadian Union of professional and technical the translators went on strike for paid leave last year but did not get outside the Public the communications workers of Canada wants 20 weeks of paid maternity leave from Bell Canada in joint negotiations for Telephone operators and cafeteria workers and about on third of them Are the Canadian Union of Public employees has rep resenting Winnipeg municipal employ seeking 20 weeks of full pay during a six month maternity leave in negotiations scheduled to begin next while the postal Union settlement was regarded As a the first major breakthrough was in Quebec in 1979 when about provincial pub Lic employees got 20 weeks of paid maternity on top of the 20 weeks of paid the United nurses Union has unpaid leave provisions for a total of two years off with a Job guarantee at the honorary colonel of 17 service takes Salute during March past at a Parade in his Honor Holland is retiring taking Salute after 17 years Active service with the Reserve he has close to 50 years of service with regular and Reserve purse found in area of murders up police have conducted an intense search near about 150 Kilometres East of after a Young girls purse was unearthed in dense police refused to comment on whether the purse has been identified As belong ing to any of 11 missing youngsters of whom were found still missing is Sandra of ramp in in the Eraser and Hope were unavailable for comment last but ramp Larry who headed an intense search into the disappearances this said he was unaware of the latest Montgomery said Sun Day he discovered the purse about three weeks ago while logging on the Skaw Alook Indian Reserve about 20 Kilometres West of five of the murdered youngsters were found in the summer by police in the Fraser the Bottom was rotted out of the purse and no contents could be but a log Kidder came by and cleared away some of the thick revealing a Flower like cosmetics and school sup Chapman Clifford Robert of Coquitlam was charged with 10 counts of first de Gree murder in late August and Early Small business information fair in information is Power on its Way to for a single october 29th at the International inn in win spokesmen and displays for dozens of government agencies and business associations dedicated in whole or in part to the Aid of business will gather under one its a fair where the wares on display could become profit in your free admission thursday october 89th the International Winnipeg to for More information Call 9449991 cosponsored by the Winnipeg chamber of Commerce and the Federal business development Bank Small week october 8bth 1981 i ;