Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 5, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free july 1987 Prospect of Normal mail delivery relieves Consumers the Canadian press Canadian businesses and Consumers responded with Relief to news that mail Deli very is expected to return to Normal Tomor Row after a tentative settlement was reached yesterday in the 19day old postal the agreement Between the letter carriers Union of Canada and Canada Post was reached Early yesterday after six Days of intense negotiations under the guidance of Federal mediator Bill the agreement is expected to take a month to spokesmen for the Canadian chamber of the Canadian organization of Small business and the Consumers association of Canada said although rotating which began june we rent As devastating As a nationwide walkout could have no one Small businessmen and Consumers who have been the most i Conven will be especially pleased at news of the said Sally president of the Consumers association of in an interview from she added she was pleased at the Settle but disappointed in picket line Vio when these strikes get nobody really Hall the dispute was the most violent postal disruption in history As carriers in dozens of communities clashed with police and re placement workers hired by Canada Post to keep some mail Roger Vic president of the Cana Dian chamber of said the strike demonstrates the need for some other method of solving labor we have said the government should be looking at other whether its binding arbitration or something to avoid disruption of something As essential As the mail said Stanion from his Torrito Don managing director of the Canadian organization of Small criticized both the Union and management for inconveniencing the Public to gain lever age for a the strike did nobody any he said in an interview from nobody won on this its time they management and Union got to the serious business of improving Hie postal although the corporation went into the strike determined to get major Union conces reports of the settlement indicate the new contract will be basically the same As the that is surprising in these when other businesses in the private sector have required More flexibility in said Jim president of the business Council of British it would certainly seem to put some serious constraints of their ability to streamline it the Post Matkin also said Canada posts apparent Lack of Success in forcing concessions May mean a Shorter dispute with the traditionally More militant Canadian Union of postal whose win be in a Legal strike position by late August or Early 1 expect a different line from the employ ers than what might have taken place if they had Success with the letter Matkin Mulroney claims role in settling postal dispute continued from Page 1 the dispute was the most violent postal disruption in history As carriers in dozens of communities clashed with police and replacement workers hired by Canada Post to keep some mail Harold chief negotiator for Canada said the Deal with the carriers would not Stop Canada Post from implementing a controversial five year Post office business plan approved by the conservative Cabinet last he did not explain How the pro Gram can be put into effect with out the contract changes the Agency argued earlier it needed to pro in prime minister Mulroney claimed partial credit for the arguing that his government made the right decision in not appointing a mediator when first in the labor relations timing has a very important Mulroney Robert president of the said the new contract his members the same Protection against layoffs and the contracting out of Union work As they had in the old he also said it will allow carriers to return to the Post office at lunch time rather than remain out on their routes and deliver additional mail As Canada Post wanted them to speaking at a joint news Confer ence with Dunstan and Mcgarry said Canada Post also backed Down on a demand that new carriers provide their own cars so they could travel to routes More quickly and deliver More mail while Bonus the new contract will let individual carriers decide whether they drive their own cars or take buses or taxis the same practice now in Mcgarry the agreement contains a compensation package averaging three per cent annually Over a 31month contract line with Union de mands for a wage increase to offset the Rise in the Cost of carriers will get a but no increase in their Basic hourly rate for the first seven months of the contract dating Back to the Basic rate will be raised 1 to and it will move up to when the final year of the contract begins a costo living clause will take effect if inflation exceeds seven per cent Over the final 19 months of the Small improvements in some fringe including shoe and clothing Are included As the contract contains new rules for the delivery of junk mail worked out in a separate agreement before Kelly was brought into the talks at the request of both parties last it allows the Post office to deliver junk mail with casual labor if Union members turn Down the a provision that did not exist in the old minor changes the Union also agreed to some other work Rule changes that will give the Post office added flexibility in assigning but the changes Are Mcgarry when a Carrier goes Back to work he is going to be doing the same Job he was doing when he left and doing it the same he told the mood among Canada Post officials was generally sombre details of the settlement leaked out at the chateau Laurier hotel where bargaining sessions took Union leaders were Howe Bill Union grabbed the hand of a Canada Post negotiator As the news conference breaking into a chorus of Solidarity forever As he hoisted it into the it was the fourth straight postal dispute settled by an associate Deputy labor minister who Heads the Federal mediation and Concilia Tion the expected to take up to a month to is the first in a series of new contracts Canada Post is negotiating with its Dunstan said the Deal will not necessarily set the pattern for other the Canadian Union of postal workers is going through the last stages of Concilia Tion and is expected to be in a Legal strike position by late August or Early Slippery slope Tom takes a ride on the wild Side on this homemade about 250 children took advantage of the weather and water Aqua slide set up at the University of Manitoba bosons sports to join the fun on a slope at the University w m m Victoria fears emergency ads to turn Ignatio by Kathleen Engman four emergency Ward doctors at Victoria general Hospital Are threatening to depending on what Grace general Hospital pays recruited doctors to reopen its Emer gency the nightly closing at Grace Fol Lowed resignations from four Emer gency who cited their lower pay compared with counterparts at Misericordia general Hospital and Winnipeg two teaching hospitals health sciences Centre and Boniface general Victorias director of Glen said the three doctors who Are considering break ing their contracts could quit according to a clause in their con tracts which says they May do so with permission from for that Lowther if Long work week sparked doctor says continued from Page 1 throughout the City make it impossible to hire enough replacement doctors to fill in for emergency situations and Stern the doctors Are then forced to work longer hours to cover for the ones who Arent she an Accident just has to happen once and somebody Stern that not she said 70hour work weeks Are common in the emergency the four doctors had Given their notices in june that they would not renew their oneyear that was Only Days before health minister Larry Desjardins announced july 1 that the starting salaries for All Community Hospital emergency Ward doctors would be increased to from doctors and Community Hospital officials have Long complained about the higher salaries and hourly rates Given to emergency Ward doctors at the cites two teaching health sciences Centre and Boniface general Hospital have starting hourly rates of an hour compared to for the Community Stern said the nine emergency Ward doctors jointly wrote a letter to Hospital officials in october warning that a crisis was brewing because of the Low Grace had a casual list of doctors willing to work Par time in the emergency Ward two years she but As the salary discrepancy grew wider fewer doctors were willing to doctors who want to work part time can find better paying options than emergency Ward she people just Arent interested in working Par time in an emergency she three other emergency Ward Doc tors have also Stern but the Hospital had replacements ready to Start july identification cards seven Oaks sources say continued from Page 1 in identification cards for the 10yearold and 16yearold Are sources Normal they is to always keep them on file after juveniles Are placed in Foster the identification cards list the names and Ages of the their parents where they came How Long they have been at the Centre and where they were sources Dave executive director of child and family ser vices of Central confirm or deny the sexual assault but said the Agency would the matter is being investigate Allim going to Schellenberg i will not divulge any confidential inform role probed disclosure of the Agency investigations Stem from Telephone Calls to the free press thursday night by two seven Oaks one of the callers said the 16year old was known by staff to exhibit bizarre sexual if sexual assault we have some serious Ross but in not going to make a statement he said an investigation into the social workers role in reporting the matter to police began Duncan director of seven refused to this is the second sexual assault at seven Oaks reported this in an 11yearold boy await ing placement in a Foster Home was allegedly sexually assaulted by a 15yearold the 15yearold boy pleaded with seven Oaks Centre for youth officials in december 1986 to remove him from the Centre after learning he had tested positive for the aids he allowed the three doctors to break their he would also have to Lowther said he and the others Are unhappy about the unequal pay Levels for emergency department doctors working in different City hos he said the doctors Likely would stay if Grace pays the salary rates recently established by the province in a new pay scale for Community Hospital emergency but Lowther said the doctors Likely would want to break their con tracts if Grace recruits doctors by paying More than the Misericordia general Hospital is rumoured to have instituted a 40per cent pay increase for so be emergency a move that has fuelled discontent among Community Hospi Tal doctors already unhappy because their counterparts in the teaching hospitals were making More than Alecs emergency director at said it is unlikely he would offer emergency Ward applicants As much As Misericordia has we dont have the he offers of help i would hate for the Victoria people to go through what weve gone he said the four doctors who quit have since called him saying that in a serious emergency such As a plane they could be counted Chochinov said should such an Accident the closing of the emergency Ward would have Little Impact on the hospitals the More than 100 doctors who have admitting privileges Are called to Deal with such he he said that during the nightly closing of the from 6 to 8 a nurse will be on hand to assess people who come in off the the minor problems will be sent to other Chochinov said a House physician who looks after emergencies on the wards in the Hospital would look after serious phantom body linked to theft continued from Page 1 by management appoint ment of military commanders to run state and local governments and declaration of martial Law during a the Herald officials said the genesis for the phantom government May be traced to an october 1980 decision by then Cia director William who was also reagans Campaign Man to create an october Surprise group to Monitor Carters negotiations with Iran for the release of the 52 congressional aides now link an other Campaign theft of Carters briefing materials before an to the same group of advisers that included Campaign foreign policy adviser Richard the newspaper there appears to have been no formal directive for the advisers and the arrangement Al Lowed Reagan administration officials to claim no involvement in controversial or illegal the sources the president knew of or approved at least some of the groups Active but the extent of his involve ment and of his aides is the Herald a White House official denied any of reagans aides operated secret one step surgery labelled breakthrough continued from Page 1 give it rigidity for sexual inter Waters said he and Murray have performed two such operations in the Only place in Canada where the onstage method has been the two he Are extremely pleased with the re it makes an enormous psycho logical Waters while it would be possible for the shooting victim to impregnate a woman with the reconstructed Waters said reproduction would be impossible in the teen agers Case because he lacked Tes silicone he were constructed for but Are solely the procedure would take months and the cosmetic re sults we rent As As he said the old procedure was less effective because surgeons didst use microsurgical meaning nerve endings we rent As a the patient was left with an Organ that was functional for relieving the bladder but almost totally la terms of sexual it had a Success rate of about 50 per Waters the old he also left a Large unsightly scar on the patients a far More erogenous zone than the Waters said very few of the operations have been performed in the United states because Cost of the procedure starts at about and can run As High As in the operation is covered by the presented in May at the annual conference of Canad an society of plastic surgeons in has been heralded As a breakthrough in the Dale chief of plastic surgery at Foothills Hospital in who attended the Confer described the Winnipeg Doc tors procedure As the most advanced hed i was very Birdsell they Are to be congratulate to my this Hast been attempted anywhere else in North also a professor of sur Gery at the University of said he has performed several phyllo plastics with varying de Grees of while his patients were Able to urinate with Tew he said the reconstructed penises did not perform Well Birdsell said the operations per formed in Winnipeg appear far More sophisticated than the initial ones performed in Waters said while demand for the operation is he and Murray Are considering taking on a third patient and have started preliminary i i ;