Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 30, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free october 1981 Macmaster will or work Board up photo continued from Page 1 workers problems begin in the claims department because the employees Are too intimidated to make Carrol says he established a group of Board employees who would be improve the boards image and Cut away red although the idea was quashed by his he and several other Board employees carried on Clandestine operations for he said in the he said employees would deliver to firm beats crts Corner up a provincial court judge has ruled the Canadian radio television and Tele communications commission has no authority Over the satellite reception of programs by Cable to judge Gordon Seabright acquitted Shell Bird Cable television of Cor Ner Brook yesterday of violating the broadcast the crts charged Shell Bird in june with illegally receiving by satellite the signal of the Public broadcasting sys tem in the United states and distributing the signal to its Shel Birds defence was that its operation was not broadcasting and there fore it is not covered by the Broad cast Seabright said that the use of Satel Lites is not properly defined in the broadcast act and the crts therefore has no control Over earlier this ramp in Corner Brook seized the satellite receiving dish and other signal distribution equipment used by a spokesman for Shell Bird said after the ruling that the company will re sume distribution of the pcs prosecutor Paul Dicks indicated the crts Likely will Appeal the cheques to no ambulatory visit and deliver cheques to hospitalized workers who Are in offer chauffeur assistance to those who need and cannot afford a Cut the red tape for workers desperately in need by phoning information and acting on it picking up information instead of telling the worker to get it and being totally honest with the Carrol said he was forced to keep secret the thank you letters he received from workers he helped for fear of he said he had his Secretary intercept Telephone Calls for other supervisors and dealt with them submitted files he said he has confidentially summarized files and submitted them to the Manitoba federation of the labor federation assists workers not represented by i gave information openly to the labor federation or any Union that would help him a worker in receiving his said Jones flatly denied carrots allegations employees Are taught to look for ways to reject workers claims officers Are directed by the Board to adjudicate and accept claims As quickly As what we have in an operation like ours is we always have a few people whose claims cant be he there not going to be Access to files if Carrol had come Forward to the Board with his concerns i have no doubt in my mind it would have been looked Jones workers filing claims with the Board have Access to their with the exception of medical he Carrol told a senior member of the compensation boards staff he had been providing information to the Manitoba federation of said i dont know Why he chose to go to the federation of labor rather than the Jones answered allegations of Cal interference in the boards activities by saying i have to say the members of the legislature have been very careful not to interfere with the boards 450 Queens University students demonstrated on canopus against Federal govern sent spendiir3ictioii8 education spending cuts pc pos secondary students express anger to politicians across Ontario by the Canadian press an estimated pos secondary facing tuition fee increases and fewer services if their fears of Federal education spending reductions come took their to politicians across Ontario yesterday in Hopes of staving off the anticipated in about students we rent satisfied with Secretary of compensation Board hit t state Gerald regans assurances there will not be any substantial or drastic Cut at All in Federal spending on pos secondary education when finance minister Allan Maceachen brings Down his budget while they shouted Regan said their fears that Ottawa plans to Cut billion from pos secondary education Over the next two years Are totally inaccurate and conserva Tive but Regan offered no Assurance there will be no cuts at saying budget matters Are up to Maceachen said last fall he intends to save billion in 198283 and 198384 by slowing the rate of growth of the billion in annual Federal Aid for health pos secondary education and equalization payments to poorer Ontario Liberal education critic Bill Wrye said the provinces share of financing dropped to five per cent this year from per cent in and the Federal share Rose to 80 per cent from 66 per cent in the same tuition accounts for about 15 per cent of education student councils at Many schools closed libraries and held rallies and workshops to explain their Cerns to other continued from Page 1 the meeting arose from the suspension of assistant claims director Ken car he was disciplined for releasing claim file those at the meeting voiced unanimous support for they said trouble had been brewing for some but employees were afraid to they decided to Viand together after Carrol was the the employees alleged certain senior officials Ebman age by overrule claims decisions because of outside rather than on the merits to give lower assessment rates to prefer advantage of poorly educated or immigrant workers who have difficulty stating their employees also said the Board is severely it has Only eight claims officers compared to Over 200 in each Manitoba claims officer handles about 250 claims a about three times As Many As in biggest grievance is alleged intimidation by employees said they live in fear dismissal and of being humiliated in front of fellow claims they Are often questioned without Good employees said sometimes an la or my will Contact the Board about a management will then repro thar id the claims officer responsible for rejecting a legitimate claim or for Nan doing it too when an employer complains that the injured worker did not have a legitimate the tables Are management chastises the claims officer for approving an undeserving the employees the group said five senior staff Mem Bers Are the source of the employees said one member would Grant Money to people who raised a fuss just to appease rehabilitation Money Given to a Man a year after his claim was filed is called a fix Emu at the the employees had particular gripes about the assessment some employers receive rates of assess ment preferential to the Norm in the Indus said the rate of assessment is a percent age of Gross payroll assigned to a particular Industry to cover the costs of an injured the rate of assessment varies with Job but a compensation Board employee certain industries Are charged a lower even though there involved in the same kind of claims Are often rejected because the worker does not have a medical one compensation Board person said a Man can approach the claim desk and have one leg but still be turned away be cause he does not have a medical sometimes they cant receive their Che que because of a bureaucratic How do you Tell a Guy who crying for Money because his baby needs milk that his file Hast been processed because of a typing error asked one member of the employees said when a claim is a claimant must write his claim in his own even if he is missing his writing hand or if he has a poor command of they said if they help a they Are accused of putting words into his Mouth and the claim is returned with the Label another employee most of the files we get were for gods Knock off the Ive been told that a thousand rejection for letters Are one person and they dont clearly explain Appeal another person said it Doest matter As Many of the people who review cases Are the same ones who first heard and rejected one mans Back injury was severe enough to hit a 10 per cent meaning 10 per cent of his capacity was permanently taken away by physical if his impairment is 10 per cent or then his disability pension increases every year with the Cost of this years increase was per if its below 10 per then his pension never the Man with the Back injury was rated higher than 10 per but his rating was recorded at per cent so he be eligible for the Cost of living one of the management people wrote the instructions on a memo right in the mans the employee one of the few web supervisors Given a unanimous vote of Confidence by the employees was Ken Indian House report false continued from Page 1 there and people Are living in he said the Cross Lake shortfall came after Indian affairs turned Down a band request for to reopen a Mill to produce housing the band decided to use its housing Money for this without Veinos George chief of Cross Lake until said log Homes Are More expensive but will last 100 years compared to the 10 to 15year life of the paper houses funded by Indian he said its much cheaper in the Long run to spend perhaps for a log House than for a conventional House which must be replaced every 10 log houses Are safer in a he aside from saving the High Cost of shipping housing materials from the Mill would provide badly needed jobs for the Community of where unemployment is More than 95 per he i he said Indian affairs refused to finance the project because it had failed twice but he Felt it was better to try to resurrect the facility than rely on hand you can talk about poor housing All your life but if you dont do anything about it nothing will that what we tried to rectify we tried to do something for Veinot agreed that the log Mill was a Good idea but the department put up the Many things that make a lot of sense but we have no authority to do he added the Mill was shut Down by Ross successor As Walter because it was losing perhaps from Over staffing brought about by the Lack of the project is being reevaluated and May be Veinot said Indian affairs Cut Back Cross lakes housing allocation to Only five houses this year after it found out what happened to last years housing he said the band is now Short about to Complete this work but he Hast yet been told the the recent false report to Ottawa was partly due to the fact Veinos officials relied on a report from the band which said 23 houses were built at Cross Lake in this signed by was fudged so the band could get the last instalment of its housing Money from Indian affairs that Veinot its possible that from now on Indian affairs officials will themselves inspect All the houses built each year on the he chief Louis Stevenson of pegu is re serve said a Large part of the problem is Indian affairs Only provides per unit in the South and up to in the North and its impossible to put up a proper House for that i dont think there in touch with the actual costs of building houses on the he the subsidy is not Good agreed adding that a new housing plan aimed at providing More Money has been drafted and will be presented to Federal politicians next Manitoba election notice revision of voters list to ensure your name is included on the you should Check the list which is nested the off Sci for your elect of Dhosi i yes Are t should apply to the revisions officer for the electoral division in which you live to have your name added to the revising officers will sit for the purpose of considering All applications for revision to the liners it on october 1981 october 1981 Between 10 and 10 official revising offices for each electoral division in Winnipeg is As electoral division place of revision Assiniboia 3723 Portage Avenue Liz revising officer n Burrows 463 Caim smore Josie revising officer Charleswood Park West 6650 Roblin Shirley revising officer Concordia Regent Louise revising officer Riel Hastings elementary room 95 Mulberry Wendy revising officer River East 1415 Henderson Helen revising officer River Heights Andrews Heights United 255 Oak 747 Ellice Bernice revising officer Elmwood 185 Stac Lacona Art revising officer fort Garry fort Garry United 800 Point june revising officer fort Rouge 405 Broadway revising officer Inkster 95 Keewatin Rose revising officer Kildonan 1010 Sinclair Marilyn revising officer kirkf1eld Park Section 3050 Portage Alberta revising officer Logan 900 Arlington Eunice revising officer Nia Kwa 00 40 Lakewood Carol revising officer Osborne 386 Oti Wood River Lew Church Myrna revising officer Radisson 1031 Dugas Doug revising officer 710b Watt Margaret revising officer Boniface 182a Goulet Joe revising officer James 1315 Strathcona Beth revising officer Johns 1191 main Dorothy revising officer Norbert 2999 Pembina Highway Violet revising officer vital 5 Annes Mary revising officer seven Oaks room West Kildonan High 800 Salter Elizabeth revising officer Sturgeon Creek 2381 Ness Byron revising officer Transcona 112 Victoria Marguerite revising officer Tuxedo Tuxedo Park shopping 216 2025 Corydon Barb revising officer Wolseley 619 Portage Ritalynn revising officer Willis chief electoral officer ;