Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 2, 1988, Winnipeg, Manitoba I j Winnipeg free March 1988 l picketing Hsc maintenance workers want wage Job Security in new contract Hsc puts service cuts on hold in maintenance workers strike by Glen Mackenzie the health sciences Centre is taking a Waitan see attitude with its maintenance workers strike before sending patients Home or refusing to treat new a Hospital spokesman said Jim assistant to the centres said the 94 members of International Union of operating engineers started picketing after the last group went off shift at 7 Rodger said the institution will continue to function with about 20 supervisors and its other including about 30 1uoe workers in three other Union components who Are covered by collective he said no decision has been taken on when procedures such As elective surgery might be Rodger said the supervisors have worked during work slowdowns in recent Days and had worked during previous weather Union spokesman George Smith said Many supervisors were hired recently and dont have the experience to run the hospitals mechanical pickets at the institution were sparse Smith said workers Are picketing in two adding it is difficult to establish a major presence at the hocs 14hectare Smith said the Union did everything it including rotating to reach a collective agreement without a full scale he said the 30 powerhouse dialysis and biochemistry technicians and occupational health work ers who belong to the operating engineers Union but Arent under the same collective agreement As the maintenance workers have no Choice but to Cross picket lines to he also said his pickets wont Stop ambulance Drivers or other Union workers from crossing the health minister Wilson Parasiuk said yesterday he will not intervene in the Parasiuk told the legislature 200 to 400 of the Hospital Beds in Winnipeg Are vacant at All times because of scheduling and Are available if he dismissed As fear mongering charges by opposition Deputy health critic Bonnie Mitchelson River East that patients Are being held for Ransom in the Mitchelson said later she was shocked by Parasiuk apparent Lack of he should have already met with Hsc to set up a contingency plan and he should be working to resolve the Smith said the maintenance workers make about an hour and key issues in the strike include the need for standby supervisors in emergencies and Job Security for those faced with changing Job de scrip deaths classified death Winnipeg area forecast mainly Clear highs 10 to Low tonight tomorrow mainly Clear High Southern Manitoba Friday mostly High Low mostly Cloudy High Low Normal High is Normal Low is Northern Manitoba mainly Clear High lows 25 to Friday Cloudy with a 60percent Chance of High Low Cloudy saturday with a 50percent Chance of High Low 21 Normal High is Normal Low is Northwestern Ontario Clear tomorrow High Low mostly is Uuie Friday High Low 21 mostly Cloudy saturday with a 50percent Chance of flumes High Low Normal 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Federal agriculture minister John Wise admitted yesterday the freight subsidy under which Western Cana Dian canola Oil and meal is shipped to the United states will disappear under the free Trade i think you will have to take that As Wise told the annual meet ing of the Canadian federation of agriculture in Many canola crushers have expressed concern that the removal of the rail subsidy provided under the Western Grain transportation act will end the lucrative Market for their products in the Northwestern United at least one estimate places the loss As High As million Over the first 10 years of the but Wise argued the Accord would Benefit the canola canola is already one of the big Success stories of the the gradual removal of the Tariff on canola Oil Means bigger things could lie Protection claimed Wise said the free Trade Deal would protect markets for Canadian farm goods in the United states and stimulate the growth of the agriculture sector in this he listed a number of farm prod from beef to veg he said would Benefit from the with two thirds of Canadas Agri culture excluding grains and going to the United Wise said it was important to protect that Market from growing protectionist sentiments South of the Canadian agriculture exports to the United states were valued at billion in he Don president of the Cana Dian federation of re fused to pass judgment on the free Trade saying a yes Orno answer was in my View it Doest explain the it Doest answer but he said Canadian Farmers should View the multilateral talks taking place under the Genera agreement on tariffs and Trade with constructive the Cha supports the Neotia he that were directed at lessening Trade distortions and developing easier Access for Canadian farm goods into foreign when we Start Trade negotiations we Are attempting to Deal with prob lems in the trading but the big uncertainty is what Impact it will have on existing Knoerr that the Canada has said that All its poli cies Are on the table at the Geneva round of Gatt Knoerr said that Canadas stabilization programs and marketing boards were under he said it was important for the Cha to make input into the negotiating process quickly because of the possibility of an interim Gatt agreement at the end of we Are already doing Knoerr the Cha is a National lobby organization consisting of member organizations across including Manitoba Keystone agricultural tardy ramp response to standoff blamed on cuts tardy ramp service to Reston endangered a cardiac patients life last a Volunteer ambulance Driver said Gary a 12year said he and three other attendants waited about hours for police assistance sunday while an irate intoxicated Man barred them from entering the Home to help his a Watt said the released Only months ago from Hospital after a heart was he could have taken a heart attack right there All Over he adding the father is in Good the request for relayed through the Reston was denied because ramp in Virden said they respond to a Domestic he whose Threeman ramp Force was reduced to one last has All policing requests routed through which sends out help after hours or when the Reston officer is Watt tory la Jim Downey told the House yesterday the policing cuts have hit Reston twice As hard be cause Virden is two Short of its four officer Downey Arthur called on the government to restore police ser vices to the Cliff commanding officer for the Brandon refused comment on sundays incident be cause he did not yet have a full prisoner eludes sheriffs men in escape from Morden court a prisoner ran from a Morden courtroom to Freedom pursued by the two sheriffs offi cers from whom he As Harry Christopher was being led from he pushed one of the officers and chief sheriff Ron Sim of Portage la Prairie they were on the second floor and he jumped Down a flight of Sim the reason for having two officers is hopefully to have Ade quate it was just an unfortunate Sim said Portage la Prairie sheriffs officers Are allowed to escort As Many As six prisoners to court at a but yesterday Only Klassen had to be taken to who grew up in the town of about ran out of the courthouse and disappeared before the officers could catch police said he is not considered he had been brought from Hea Dingley correctional Institute to set a Date for a preliminary hear ing on a enter and theft he was charged with the mor Den offence while on probation after serving part of a 15month sentence for a Winnipeg Morden police the sentence was to end in Sim said Klassen was not Wear ing Handcuffs when he escaped because they had been removed while he was in its Standard procedure not to have restraints on when a prisoner is appearing in Sim Sci Tau Ali warehouse save save save save save save two locations Only Polo Park Portage place All sales final 4 11ah4 i i is ;