Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 29, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free june 11 final offer selection restricted after trials by Murray Mcneill a number of Canadian and organizations that have experimented with final offer selection have either dropped it or severely limited its use in settling labor to the University of Manitoba and West fair goods Are the Only two employers to have experimented with the procedure in contract talks with their both scrapped the saying it did not the University of Alberta limits final offer selection to resolving financial issues in negotiations with its faculty the province of Ontario restricts its use to contract disputes Between teachers and school in the seven states the labor department lists As using the procedure applies Only to Public Sec Tor workers who dont have the right to under Manitoba proposed legis final offer selection would be available to All labor minister al Mackling has said that As far As he is Manitoba would be the first North american jurisdiction to offer the procedure to both private and pub Lic sector employees who have the strike the legislation allows employees or the employer to opt to have an called a choose Between the company and the unions final contract that Choice would be imposed As a Settle binding on both sides without employees can veto a request by the employer but employ ers do not have a similar business groups and some of the provinces largest unions Are strongly opposed to the while the Manitoba federation of labor and a number of other unions support the Bill has been Given second Reading in the and is expected to go before a legislative committee this week for debate on opponents of the Bill claim that it will undermine the collective bar gaining process and relationships Between employees and employers and encourage shift away from free collective bargaining to time consuming and costly and that it allows employers to interfere in Union business groups also have complained that it is unfair to employers because employees can veto a re quest for final offer selection and employers and it allows strikes but virtually bans Mackling and other proponents of the Bill argue it will provide a viable option to costly strikes and will make both unions and management adopt a responsible approach to and help even the balance Between labor and management in contract West fair spokesman David Rye Bol said the company agreed about six years ago to include a provision for final offer selection in its con commercial workers hoping it would prevent it flopped the one time the Union tried to use Ryzebol he said that in 1985 the Union asked Mackling to appoint a Selec and the minister appointed someone whom the company Felt was clearly West fair successfully challenged the appoint ment in the the Union dropped its and the two sides eventually settled their dispute on their As a result of that the company has dropped the proce he he said the process might work if it could be assured that unbiased selectors Are but West fair does not believe that will Terry Vic president of administration for the u of said the University dropped final offer selection last year after using it twice to resolve financial issues with its faculty we found it had a negative effect j to t 1uu11u in 1ic4vi to tract with the Manitoba food the bargaining process didst think it helped both sides in reaching an agreement on their Falconer said there didst seem to be any inducement for the faculty association to Settle a dispute when it knew it could fall Back on final offer selection if faculty association president Neil tri diver said his organization Felt the procedure was but Only in resolving financial he said the association would never agree to allowing an outside party decide such sensitive issues As promotions or University of Alberta spokesman Brian Mcdonald said the University has used the procedure on six or seven occasions since and will continue to use it 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leaking cooler bag free a value Blacks is photography Kildonan Winnipeg vital prints in minutes locations in Over 2oo locations across North american Canada British new Nova Scotia in United states Iowa Minnesota North t t t t Mackling viable option in final offer selection is used Only if both teachers and school boards requested director of Field services for the Ontario education relations said the procedure has been used just 13 times since it came into effect in noting there Are Between 180 to 200 sets of negotiations each year Between teacher groups and school boards in the aim said he Doest believe it has proven to be a viable alternative to weve had More strikes than weve had occasions where weve gone to final offer so its not really an alternative to strikes or a substitute for he said teachers and school Board officials Are reluctant to use final offer selection because its a minor lose Ontario teachers federation spokesman David Aylsworth said that because of that final offer selection is beneficial Only in cases where there Are a Small num Ber of items to the party whose offer is rejected can end up feeling very bitter and which can Only damage future relationships be tween the two he Jim general counsel for the state of Iowa Public employ ment relations said final offer selection Only applies to Public sector workers in the United states because any attempt by government to impose it on the private sector would be declared Gilliam said in All county and local government work ers Are not allowed to so final offer selection is used in All cases where governments and workers Are unable to reach a settlement on their own or with the Aid of a mediator or a fact unlike Manitoba proposed legis the Iowa Law allows for final offer selectors to adopt the recommendations of the fact Gilliam said in most cases the selectors have done so because the fact finders recommendations Are usually a Compromise Between the final offers from the two other states have procedures that allow the selector to Deal with final offers on items item rather than As a total he verdict leaves son satisfied Brian Haywood said last night he thinks Justice has been served in his fathers brutal a jury found Francis Darren mor and Robert Matthew guilty saturday of first degree murder in the september 1985 slaying of George Edgar both teenagers had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the murder of who they had killed and disfigured with a Garden flashlight and three both received the mandatory sen tence of life imprisonment with no Chance for parole for 25 i feel with the trial and with the that Justice has been Brian Haywood in Happy with the result now that the trial is Over and now i want to try and pick up the pieces of my he said from who testified during the Early stages of the three week said relatives kept him informed of developments in the sensational and sometimes bizarre i knew it was going to be quite a trial when it came up i kind of anticipated he he refused to comment on the unsuccessful defence argument that the two teenagers were insane when they killed his defence lawyers pointed to the slaying and subsequent events As the delusional acts of two mentally ill they presented evidence from seven psychiatrists and psychologists who testified the teenagers were both paranoid psychotics with delusions of heavy Metal combined with a belief in the occult and mind could have thrown the pair Over the emotional one psychiatrist As Haywood refused com ment on whether he feels the death penalty should be i ;