Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 30, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba P n r be b f j i j g y n f i w w 11 4 Winnipeg free october 1981 it w chief signed false housing report to Grant Money for this without Veinos hot ctn continued from Page 1 which time a second report signed by the inspectors will be sent to he As of not counting Cross we have verified 300 of the 400 units that were supposed to be built by the bands in the houses Are there and people Are living in he said the Cross Lake shortfall came about 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 Veinos knowl George chief of Cross Lake until said log Homes Are More expensive but will last 100 years compared to the 10to 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 ten log houses Are safer in a he aside from saving the High Cost of shipping housing materials from win the Mill would provide badly needed jobs for the Community of where unemployment is More than 95 per he 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 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 could put up the theres 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 web employees claim some personnel unfair Clandestine basement meeting airs concerns 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 up photo continued from Page 1 gathering in a darkened basement under the cloak of about 30 workers compensation Board employees met wednesday night to charge management with making unfair claim decisions and with creating a fearful office the employees painted a picture of the we working As an adversary of the injured rather than As an the meeting arose from the suspension of assistant claims director Ken car he was disciplined for releasing claim file information to unauthorized the people at the Clandestine meet ing voiced unanimous support for car they said trouble had been brew ing for some time at the but the employees were afraid to say anything for fear of losing their they decided to band together after whom they respected As a was basement meeting during the 2 hour basement meet ing the employees alleged certain management figures Are d managing by d overruling claims decisions because of outside rather than on the merits of each d giving lower assessment rates to prefer red d taking advantage of poorly educated or immigrant workers who have difficulty stating their the employees also said the Manitoba workers compensation Board is severely it has Only eight claims officers compared to Over 200 at the Ontario web each Manitoba claims officer handles about 250 claims a about triple the number an Ontario officer the biggest grievance is alleged intimidation by the employees said they live in con Stant fear of dismissal and of being humiliated in front of their fellow their claims they Are often questioned without Good the employees said sometimes an la or my will Contact the web about a constituent who is dissatisfied with the treatment of his management will then reprimand the claims officer responsible for rejecting a legitimate claim or for handling it too whichever the tables Are turned when an employer complains that the injured worker did not have a legitimate the tables Are management chastises the claims offi cer for approving an undeserving the employees there going to come Down on you hard and they dont said one employ youve got to watch youve got to save your ass and youve got to serve the injured the group said five senior staff members 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 Carrol gets vote of Confidence daycare doors shut for safety the health sciences Centre daycare Centre has been closed after an Engineer ing report said it was daycare services will continue on Mon Day at a number of interim facilities being set up around the Hospital Hsc president Peter swerhon said the engineering report said the 60 year old Montcalm where the Day Nursery has operated for the past five should not be used for occupancy because of severe structural swe Horne said officials Hope to find a permanent location in about two Nursery served about 140 Chil Dren of Hsc the daycare Centre is facing an accumulated deficit of More than but swerhon said he is confident the Provin Cial government will help resolve the some employers receive rates of assess ment preferential to the Norm in the Indus said the rate of assessment is a percentage of Gross payroll assigned to a particular Indus try to cover the costs of an injured the rate of assessment varies with the amount of risk involved in the but a web employee certain industries Are charged a lower even though there involved in the same kind of that person cited the example of a major supermarket which operates a Butch or shop with an assessment rate of 25 cents per of while a meatpacking Plant is charged per of pay claims Are often rejected because the worker does not have a medical one web person said a Man can approach the claim desk and have one leg but still be turned away because 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 taken the injured worker is expected to write his claim in his own even if he is missing his writing hand or if he has a poor of the English they said if they help a claimant to write his they Are accused of putting words into his Mouth and the claim is returned with the Label one Case was in which an immigrant was refused a valid claim be cause it looked like the Appeal was going to succeed letters Are vague 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 even mat Ter because Many of the people who review the Case were the same ones who heard it in the first place and rejected the worker Doest really get a second or take the Man whose Back injury was severe enough to hit the 10 per cent a web employee ten per cent is a magic it Means 10 per cent of a workers total capacity has been 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 rating was recorded 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 Aims his plan who got run continued from Page 1 afraid to make and consequently the injured worker suffers As a in his Carrol named Board employees he claims Are responsible for prob lems and those who can Back up his he said he developed a system with several employees whereby if a worker was Given the bureaucratic runaround the employees would sneak the file to Carrol says he established a group of Ward 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 Joe said the workers would deliver 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 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 thank you letters Carrol said he was forced to keep thank you letters he received from work ers he helped to for fear of repro he said he had his Secretary intercept Telephone Calls for other supervisors and have them referred to him he said he has confidentially summarized files and submitted them to the Manitoba federation of the Mil assists workers not represented by i gave information openly to the Mil 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 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 Politi 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 Gerald Regan was confronted by angry 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 hous ing plan aimed at freeing up More Money has been drafted and will be presented to Federal politicians next fear cuts to schools 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 angry messages to politicians across Ontario yesterday in Hopes of staving off the anticipated in about students we rent satisfied with Secretary of 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 Saye 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 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 of about 15 per cent of education student councils at Many schools closed libraries and held rallies and workshops to explain their con Cerns to other Manitoba election notice revision of voters list if you Haye not received a record of enumeration you May not be on the voters list 1981 up comm election which is to be held on november to ensure your name is included on the you should Check the list which is nested m your area or Contact the returning officer for your electoral division if Yos Are not on the voters list you should apply to the revising 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 voters list on october october Between 10 and 10 official the revising offices for each electoral division in Winnipeg is As electoral division place of revision Assiniboia 3723 Portage Avenue Liz revising officer Burrows 463 Cairns More Josie revising officer Charleswood Park West 6650 Roblin Shirley revising officer Concordia 1600 Regent Louise revising officer Ellice 747 Ellice Bernice revising officer Elmwood 185 Sta Acona Art revising officer fort Garry fort Garry United 800 Point Riel Hastings elementary room 95 Mulberry River Eeast revising officer 1415 Henderson Helen revising officer River Heights Andrews River Heights United 255 Oak 405 Broadway revising officer Inkster 95 Keewatin Rose revising officer Kildonan 1010 Sinclair Marilyn revising officer Kirkfield Park Section 3050 Portage Alberta revising officer Logan 960 Arlington Eunice revising officer Nia Kwa 90 40 Lakewood Carol revising officer Osborne 366 Oakwood Riverview 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 1194 main Dorothy revising officer Norbert 2999 Pembina Highway Violet revising officer vital 5 Annes room West Kildonan High 800 Salter revising officer 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 ;