Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 27, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free april 1983 push from rear sparked rail probe told Dave free pres continued from Page 1 he has to Bembenek decision to admit his role has improved his position with up rail should he reapply for a railway Job in the said John the railways Legal of the six other employees who were cottagers question appraisals continued from Page 1 Cabin at West Hawk assessed at he will now pay More each year until his total fees Are people on pensions and fixed in comes will have to think twice about whether they can afford to keep their he he said his association plans to Chal Lenge the system on the political but he could not say if Legal action would also be Dorothy who also owns a cottage at West said she and her husband can afford to pay the in but she said she is puzzled at the method used to appraise her we were appraised at our who has an identical was appraised at i looked into it and found out that the Guy who did the appraising didst even visit the Biglow said he does not understand How the land around his isolated which has no was appraised at theres no roads into the so i assume the appraiser just looked at a resources minister Al Mackling said in an interview he was not familiar with the formula used in appraising the but said he would look into we had to look at whats fair to the Mackling should the taxpayers be subsidizing cottage owners and the services they receive at a rate that is among the lowest in the country he working on the Chain just prior to the up rail demoted one and issued disciplinary demerits to three who broke a company Rule against moving locomotives with out said he became impatient after his Anthony bar left to go to the the locomotive dispatch area was Busy at the time and the Chain needed to be moved Forward slightly to Clear an outgoing Chain that was already behind he who had been transferred from another Job a month has testified that he was unprepared to help Hostle move locomotives and that Bembenek initially refused to work with he didst want me As his Hostler he said i didst have any Bartecki basical just for his own safety he didst want to take me on because i had no Bembenek said the pushing he Felt from which caused him to shift into reverse for extra could have been due to the brakes being released on a trailing a Etc investigators report said the sudden release of brakes on a trailing unit by a somewhat flustered employee caused the Chain to move Forward faster than Bembenek said he applied his brakes to counteract the pushing but the Chain continued moving Forward toward a collision with the Chain parked in front on a crossover it was then that he threw the Chain into reverse and applied the Bembenek up rail executive Ken Samson Testi fied earlier yesterday that congestion of locomotive chains in the area occurred because a new maintenance shop was under construction he denied the congestion created unsafe but said it delayed the process of reassembling locomotives to Power outgoing we had it under he it was just that we were losing a lot of time As far As delaying we were being narrowed in and not meeting our order the inquiry parents Jam Winnipeg school Board meeting to protest against trustees plans to drop Junior High at Earl Grey continued from Page 1 the Board decided recently to establish an English hebrew bilingual pro Gram and there have been indications it will become the sole program at sir William Osier the Board should explain Why it delay Earl Grey decision might give an entire school Over to this but it cannot assign an entire school for a French Milieu without such an the boards actions appear to be some what Warman Debbie an Osier parents said the Board should make Osier the Al immersion school for South the school has about 200 French immersion students and less than 30 in the English program and Riley said the school could soon have 450 Immer Sion she also said the boards whole rear airlines slash some fares by 45 continued from Page 1 chuckled Ward air spokesman Brian the trans order portion of the Sale must also be approved by the civil aeronautics the Board almost scuttled the airlines recent weekend Sweden threatens to destroy intruding soviet submarines seat Sale to air Canada spokesman Joyce Krentz said the discounted flights can be booked but As a Pecau air Canada said it will take reservations at the discount Price for Points Florida int included but wont sell tickets until it gets the Green Light from summer prices generally have been easing especially on longer transcontinental discounts for May have been extended into june in Many a animation proposal would fall like a House of cards if the province Doest spend fixing up Robert Smith because it is based on that school opening trustees also heard complaints from parents who want French immersion students starting immersion at the Junior High level to stay at River Heights Junior the boards plan Calls for students who started immersion in kindergarten to continue it at River while those who begin in Grade 7 would go to Mitchell Junior High and Churchill Junior senior parents argued the demand for immersion is in the River Heights Junior High catchment area and that French immersion already is established from the news services Stockholm Sweden protested yesterday against Gross violations of swedish territorial integ Rity of which the soviet Navy has been guilty and threatened to sink any submarine that entered its Waters without in an unusually Strong action for a Neutral the swedish government sent a stiff diplomatic note to temporarily recalled its ambassador Carl de and indicated that official visits Between the two countries would be Cut Back prime minister Olof palme said soviet military activity off Sweden coast should be roundly condemned by palme acted after a five member appointed to investigate a submarine incident in the Stockholm archipelago in reported that six soviet ships were probably including a manned midget submarine of a previously unreported Type with the ability to crawl on the seabed by Means of Tan like nordic defence experts Are anxiously considering the implications of the the swedish report was ordered by the government amid Public anger at the navys failure to catch the submarines near its top secret Muscoe naval base despite a three week it said six submarines worked in the Waters outside Stockholm As part of a wider soviet operation along the swedish the report listed More than 40 intrusions of an increasingly provocative Char Acter in 1982 of the six one conventional submarine and two different types of midget sub were actually inside an almost enclosed stretch of coastal water South of Stockholm where the Muscoe base is the other three were in the Stockholm a tangle of tiny islands stretching 60 nautical Miles from the coast out into the Baltic some evidence suggested one of the a Small was inside Stockholm Harbor at the end of the report three Navy Cruis ers were docked there for an official visit at the the defence experts said the midgets could be used for various including Rescue work and Landing though their main function seemed to be reconnaissance in shallow court ruling described As big decision for labor Hook Sal save concept one upright Quad Aflex agitator fingertip 2speed switch carpet adjustment wide trailing our each save celebrity 2 motors multimagnum1 bag kinetic action Power nozzle switch pedal 2position handle our each your Choice 15 off our prices on Hoover bags by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa the supreme court of Canada made an important decision for labor yesterday by establishing the Powers of arbitration boards to overturn some management says Winni Peg lawyer David the court upheld the Powers of a provincial arbitrator who decided that brinks guard Richard Heywood should not have been fired for losing a bag of Money on a trip to Winnipeg from a Bank in Heywood and two others had stopped off during the trip at we Woods Home and the Money was according to chief Justice Bora Gaskins summation of the an investigation did not disclose any Deal cation by any of the he yet Heywood was fired while the other two guards were Given it was the arbitrators View that the Griever was discharged As much for his refusal to submit to a polygraph test As for the judge Laskin he did not think that otherwise there was any reason to treat the Griever differently from the two suspended coworkers with whom he was associated in the the arbitrator therefore ordered Heywood rein stated with full seniority but without compensation because he had made up his loss brinks got a quash order from Manitoba court of Queens which was upheld by Manitoba court of but the supreme court decided there were grounds for a further Appeal on the part judge Laskin cited the Canada labor which says an arbitrator has the Power to substitute his own penalty if the collective agreement governing pm does contain a specific penalty forage infraction which has caused the the employee to be discharged or the collective agreement at the time Between brinks and local 979 of the teamsters said an employee could be dismissed if he failed to observe All rules and regulations promulgated by the employer which Are not in conflict with the collective lawyers for brinks argued that the firms right to impose a lesser penalty is unassailable under the general clause and that if it decides to impose the extreme Sanction of the arbitrator has no Power to soften the whatever the judge Laskin described that proposition As Over drawn and he suggested allowing the company based on the clause in the collective agreement to fire someone for any violation would be a patently unreasonable construction and would cry for re he argued that since the specific penalty was not in the collective a Rule Book put out by the company did not he cited a separate Saskatchewan court action in which an arbitrator is in the collective agreement Between workers and the Dairy producers cooperative of the arbitrator is limited if firing occurs As a result of abuse of equip absence without Good reason and permission where practicable and possible to since the collective agreement governing brinks workers did not contain such a Laskin ruled in favor of in the Shrom the courts have ruled that an arbitrator could not replace a penalty issued by management under conditions outlined in the brinks collective yesterdays judgment has changed Shrom its an for port Power with removable 3way filter tools store on extra Long Power our each each spirit 2motor Power nozzle Quad Aflex rpm dual stage Motorman our each o o a 95 each convertible 4on shifter 3position handle finc Jortis Power Cor wrap our each each 119 95 save upright convertible vacuum fingertip Power our each each 169 save celebrity in Powe Matic triple action agitator our each each 169 95 save concept one with Power upright our each each save spirit portable 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