Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 2, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press july paged dog Poteet to destroy unnamed pit lawyer criticizes basis of letter carriers fired after review of strike activity rate by Stevens wild six Winnipeg letter carriers have been fired As part of a nationwide action by Canada Post in which 40 workers have been fired for recent strike the six fired in Winnipeg were among 17 arrested in picket line activity during the today walkout by letter carriers june 22 and that shows what kind of management we have said Mike chief shop Steward for local 7 of the letter carriers Union of were not even going to talk any labor relations Are the six carriers were informed by letter of their some were handed the letters by supervisors at the end of others received the letters at their Resi Dences by registered that pretty Shan non they dont even have the guts to Tell them to their one Guy was fired for throwing an dismissed Carrier Ken employed by Canada Post for eight said he was informed on a supervisor appeared at my Doorstep and handed me the the letter to dated june said the decision is taken As a result of your action on june whereby you caused damaged sic to a letters to the other workers contained similar All of the letters were signed by Wally manager of City ser vices for Canada Post who has been charged with said he could not comment on Canada posts allegation because of the pending court he said neither he nor any of the other fined employees received an Opportunity by Canada Post to re Spond to the its a bargaining tie its an intimidation tac ill probably be reinstated but theres still a hardship Between now and the other dismissed carriers Are John Mike William Wayne Woods and Bob it is purely an internal Canada Post spokesman Allan Skrumeda said of the asked if Canada Post was plan Ning to fire More workers arrested last Skrumeda said the corporation is continuing to review the actions of apostle said they have picked on people who Are Active in the Klymenko is a shop Steward and Woods is on the local apostle is a former shop future action was up to Union leaders in Skrumeda denied re placement workers were responsible for a bundle of mail found in a garbage can on Roslyn Road on v the two Hundred Block of Ros Lyn Road did not receive mail Deli very during the strike june 22 and june Skrumeda he said that area of Winnipeg had been scheduled to receive mail later in the week if the strike Skrumeda noted the retrieved mail included the june 29 edition of time which normally would have left the Winnipeg Plant on june noting that would have been two Days after the rotating strikes were four damaged letters found on Nassau Street on sunday continue to baffle the the letters had been opened and Stamps remaining on two of them had not been fired letter Carrier Ken apostle says the dismissals Are an intimidation West fair threatens to dismiss workers by Lisa priest As Many As 13 striking West fair foods workers face dismissal if they Are found guilty of charges stemming from a mass picket last a company executive anyone who has been charged and convicted is going to have a very hard time getting their Job said David West fairs Industrial relations manag if there found guilty of any have to be dealt with and that May mean losing their Bernard president of the Manitoba food and Commer Cial workers said the Union will put the Issue of firings on the bargaining arid there will be no agreement unless any workers who Are convicted Are guaranteed keep their West fair and the Union were to present terms of a consent order at Manitoba Queens Bench today to designate the number of pickets and the nature of picket line on Justice Sydney Schwartz said instead of issuing an injunction to limit the number of pickets As West fair had asked he wanted the two sides to reach an the Union representing striking West fair employees across the province agreed tuesday to cancel a mass picket scheduled for the Mcphillips Street and stardust Avenue Supe Valu store today As part of the the developments follow an Inci Dent last thursday in which 29 police cruisers were called to the Supe Valu store at Grant Avenue and Kenaston Boulevard during a demonstration by about 500 strik ing workers and members of about two dozen fourteen including Chris were ten people appeared in court on Friday and were remanded put of police custody for two four others have been Given notices to appear in court at a later agreeing on the terms of a con sent order Doest mean the Union and the company will go Back to the bargaining table to Settle the which is in its fifth pay raise ignores ads say by Kathleen Engman emergency doctors in Community hospitals say their Canada Day raise is not enough because it keeps their salaries below that of their counter parts at Winnipeg Hospi if theres a message to it is that there should be equal pay for equal Alecs head of emergency at Grace general hos said Chochinov said medical directors of Community hospitals were to meet today to discuss the he said Equality is not achieved with the new which was announced and became effective i think we see the same types of he people dont choose to get sick in one area of the if it they Are taken to the nearest patients Are Only sent from Community emergency departments to Boniface general Hospital or health sciences Centre when they require a specialists he under the new salary Community Hospital emergency doctors had their salaries increased on every level of the and the scale itself extended by one starting salaries were increased to from such doctors reached their salary ceiling of after five that five year level is now the new at six is Chochinov stressed the new salaries Are less than those at the two teaching he said Community hospitals starting hourly rate for emergency doctors is compared to More than per hour at he noted the work week at Community emergency departments is 25 per cent longer than that in teach ing we work 40 hours a week when we Are full he adding his department is Short staffed Fol lowing the recent resignation of four doctors who quit citing Low pay Frank an associate executive director of Manitoba health services said the new increase applies to All emergency Ward doctors in Winnipeg Community the municipal Hospi Deer Lodge Centre and bran Don general Decock said the government arrived at the new rates by comparing the emergency doctors to govern ment Decock said the raise Means Community emergency doctors will see a 10percent increase at the Bottom of the scale and a 17percent increase when the previous five year level is compare to the new the raises for about 40 doctors Are estimated to Cost the government at least for this he Laurie an emergency doctor at Victoria general Hospi said the increase does not com pare with a 40percent raise Hospital to Cut 38 Beds in Money saving plan Desjardins raise is All recently Given to Misericordia Gen eral Hospital emergency doctors by their let alone the Money paid at the two teaching health minister Larry Desjardins has said the raise is All the govern ment will give the the new raise comes after lower salaries helped spark the four Resig nations from graces and at least one at As Well As threats from other Community George Misericord Dias former head of emergency and one of those who said doctors there were Chochinov noted Money is the main adding doctors Are also its the fact that they cant get anyone to cover when they Are Boniface general Hospital plans to Cut 38 Beds and eliminate 66 staff positions in a cos cutting proposal to save about Boniface president Tony Quaglia said the which it submitted to government 10 weeks would save at least by Clos ing the Eye disease unit and Cut Ting Beds for people with muscle and Bone the proposal still requires govern ment Quaglia said he was pleased the which Cost Boniface 000 to would allow the hos Pital to tighten its Belt without Lay he said about 60 of the 66 staff positions slated for elimination will be nursing the rest affect areas like housekeeping and Laun he would be avoided because employees would be re and those lost to attrition about 10 per cent per year not be Quaglia said the plan will affect 17 doctors who care for patients in wards that will be closed or Cut adding they Are doctors with admitting privileges at Boniface who will have to obtain such Privi Leges elsewhere or treat their patients on an outpatient under the the 11bed Eye disease unit will be eliminated and the 50bed orthopaedic unit will be Cut to 35 As 12 ear Larynx Beds will be closed and six surgical Beds will be reassigned for those a Fibre Hospital had a deficit last said Hospital officials decided they could close the Eye unit because new technology allows such medical care to be done on an outpatient an additional is expected to be saved by reductions in cafeteria Flower distribution and health minister Larry Desjardins said yesterday the Boniface re announced would Cut services but people must learn not to run to the Hospital for every ache and the province has said it will Stop funding Urban hospitals operating deficits on april hospitals were asked to submit cos cutting plans by last april about Boni face support staff ratified an agree ment tuesday a Union spokes Man said last Roger Secretary Treasur or for the Manitoba food and com Mercial said the employees voted 88 per cent in favor of accepting the new contract which gives them a 40centanhour across the Board As Dheilly said the new oneyear pact includes improve ments to vacations and a major reclassification of pharmacy techno giving them a salary increase of Over the life of the agreement in addition to the 40cent the average hourly rate of pay in the agreement is he Matz awaits pen arson counts net conviction by Andrew Duffy Winnipeg landlord Waldemar Matz is in custody awaiting his sentencing tomorrow in court of Queens Bench on six arson and Frau related Matz was found guilty on six of 14 counts tuesday morning by a seven fireman jury after seven hours of which began monday Justice James Wilson will impose sentence tomorrow morning on charges of attempted and two counts each of arson and conspiracy to commit the convictions relate to an fire at 774 Mcmillan Avenue and a fire at 808 Strathcona Street on april and Mats subsequent attempts to collect More than insurance on the Mats Sid applied to have his client released on bail until tomorrows but the Crown opposed the Appeal planned Wilson denied the request and was led out the Back door of the courtroom into Green said there is no doubt Mats conviction will be there Are a number of grounds for he adding the most important is the fact the jury mixed up evidence on different counts to come to its Green said the defence will be asking Wilson to impose As lenient a sentence on Matz As was Given to his John John Anthony Hunt and Joseph Bruce Murray provided information and testimony in Large led to Mats convict Green the Crown says the Trio conspired with Matz to commit arson and fraud det Weem 1979 and Matz was charged with 14 arson and Frau related offences involving fires at four buildings dating Back to the Crown said Matz arranged for the fires to be set so he could profit from More than in insurance Crown attorney George Dangerfield said Matz also presented falsified documents to insurance companies in an attempt to in crease the Worth of the at least one of the buildings had been condemned by the cites health the defence argued Matz was set up by Hunt and Murray to save their own Hersh who also represented Matz during the said Murray was Given Complete immunity in Exchange for information against and that the two others were Given consideration by the courts in being sentenced for conspiracy to commit documents seized Wolch said despite a previous rec Ord for Hunt was handed a 15month term and gained parole after five months while Pauls was Given six and served Only court heard Roger Gillis seized documents from Mats Mon Trose Street Home during a raid in after receiving information from the mans business Assoc warned the jury that those taken by could not convict Matz of any Only through the evidence of the police and other witnesses could doubt be cast on the meaning of the Docu he it was the second time Matz stood trial for fraud and arson related his first trial in 1985 ended abruptly after 45 Days when Madam Justice Ruth Krindle declared a citing prejudicial news paper during that his Esther was cleared of arson and Frau related web attacked Over handling of disability pensions by Radha Krishnan Thampi the workers compensation Board has awarded Lon term Dis ability pensions to undeserving two web executives the boards policies and proce dures to Settle disability pension claims Are full of loopholes and Craig Cormack and Rick said in a confidential report to web there is no system in place to Check against fraudulent pension and Benefit they the Cormac Dewer after a 12month study of webs Lon term claims and disabilities de also said some disability pensions were much greater than they should inflated partial disability pension awards have resulted from discrepancies in medical opinions by out Side physicians and the findings of web the report the internal study also found web physicians Lack an up Odate work ing knowledge of both the rehabilitation and claims this can result in costly Misun the report John president of the member injured workers Assoc a agreed with the Huta noted Kenneth head of webs medical is a what does a baby doctor know about Industrial injuries Huta said he has posed that same question to web chairman Sonny Arrojado arid the nip government for several Huta said Arrojado told him she has no intention of replacing Wylie or other Board most of whom Huta claimed were not experts on Industrial the report said the Board should tighten up its procedures on disability pension claim settlements and put in place an investigative mechanism to Check against fraudulent opposition Leader Gary Filmon said the Cormac Dewer report con firms his party worst fears about the provinces compensation sys which currently faces an Esti mated Filmon asked Harry minister in charge of to re lease the full report so that Manito bans would know the state of the boards Harapiak said the Board is looking into the Cormac Dewer report and taking corrective he re fused to release the report saying it was an internal the report also said d web doctors Are reluctant to declare workers on compensation fit to return to d even when a worker is declared fit to he or she continues to collect benefits for several weeks because of the boards delay in terminating the n in several disability pen Sions Are being awarded on the basis of preexisting health problems which have nothing to do a work d in several web claims adjudicators kept workers on compel on the basis of their family doctors recommendations although there was other evidence those workers were fit to return to d there were several instances in which workers on compensation re fused to cooperate in Job searches so that they could continue to collect ;