Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 27, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free january patients readied for Transfer As talks drag on by Brenda Suderman talks to end Canadas longest nurses strike dragged through their third Day yesterday As one Hospital began preparing to Send six cancer patients out of province for the six patients at Victoria general Hospi Tal will be moved tomorrow unless the strike is settled executive director Bernard Blais said last i think if there was a settlement i think we could get All those he adding the hospitals 50 other cancer patients would receive priority for staff at seven Oaks general Hospital Are assessing the urgency of about two dozen patients needing immediate and decisions about transfers will be made Early next assistant executive director Randy lock Hospital nurses nearly members of the Manitoba nurses Union hit the picket lines on new years Day in a bid to raise their now ranked eighth among nurses in under a contract that expired a general duty nurse earns an hourly mini mum of and a maximum of health minister Don Orchard approved doctors demands to Transfer urgent cases out of promising the Manitoba health services commission will pick up All the including transport the menu denounced the provinces move As a bargaining saying Orchard was trying to Sway Public opinion in his provincial conciliator Jim Murdock met separately yesterday with the negotiating teams for the and Manitoba health organizations which bargains for the 89 struck health the held meetings until 1 yesterday and resumed again at Union spokesman Bill Crawford he had no comment on the saying Only the conciliation process till be the same until it Breaks off or theres a he mho spokesman Ron Birt was hopeful for a but said Progress was its like going he the ongoing talks buoyed the spirits of Hospital administrators and striking nurses were All anxious for this to be Marie a nurse at Victoria general i wish they get off their duffs and get were hopeful that the talks Are still going Jack executive Vic president of Boniface general its better than if there broken Union president Vera Chernecki has said the menu is ready to modify its last wage proposal of a 24percent increase Over two years in order to get a the governments last overwhelmingly rejected by the striking nurses a week was per cent Over three years for registered nurses in pay equity and per cent for nurses in facilities that would gain pay the offer included an signing Bonus for the unions licensed practical about 50 striking operating engineers picketed outside the Tuxedo Home of Premier Gary Filmon yesterday morning to show their displeasure at the govern ments offer to their about 150 members of the International Union of operating engineers walked off the Job at eight health care facilities in Winni Dauphin and Winnipegosis on the who earn an average of an rejected the governments wage proposal of two per cent Over two they want a raise in the first year and a cos of living increase in the Ken free press marchers for peace marshal at legislative building before Parade marchers demand immediate Gulf ceasefire by George Nikides singing peace songs and carry ing children in their about people marched downtown yesterday to Call for an immediate ceasefire in the persian Karen joined the noon hour demonstration with a Gas mask in i think there Are images that stick in your she the mask is a scary wars a scary who works in the biology department at the University of wore the mask As she boarded a City bus the night be people really freaked the bus Driver said i thought it was the one Marcher said he joined the protest because he failed to take part in demonstrations against the Vietnam War More than 20 years i was too drugged out during the Vietnam Bob in going to take it straight Roberts said not should have been allowed to oust iraqi president Saddam Hussein from the wars an economic principles Are just a organized by Winnipeg peace groups and held in conjunction with the International Day for a the March flowed from the legislative building to the fort Garry where speakers called for an immediate cease placards read no blood for business children and labelled the seven percent get the guns and soldiers the crowd was asked to donate the Cost of a full tank of gasoline to peace two musicians Sang peace songs in a Ive been going to these things since Grade said a 21yearold Singer who called herself Cheshire i really think theres something wrong in the world if we dont do something to Stop there int going to be anything for my or for my the War is about i feel the Gas companies have a lot to do with she As she guitarist Bent Benny Sang give us Back our future Stop the Jim a minister at Crestview United joked in a speech to the crowd that his text had been cleared by the Canadian Security intelligence he said people need to be fed by an imagination that can conceive of a Way that excludes were doing Little by this other than deepening Arab anger towards the West and jeopardizing the future of demonstrators said they were delighted with the especially in the frigid Cec president of vet Erans against nuclear arms and an event said that if enough people make their voices governments will be forced to i see people Here who Are bound that this wont happen said a 67year old who served for years in the second world we have to make War we should not be fighting a said Greg sanctions would have been the lesser of two multicultural Council laments High Bare Bones Grant by Brenda Suderman sky High rent for an office too big for its needs and inadequate government funding have forced the Mani Toba intercultural Council to trim spending and consider the councils chairman said we have Cut Back on nearly every aspect of the budget without cutting the Joe Glasgow said after the councils semiannual he said some of the staff employed by the Agency will be eliminated or reduced soon to stay within the budget for 199091 approved by the Council late last the provincial government announced the Council would receive a operating Grant for the current fiscal nearly less than re the Council will make up the rest of its budget from retained Glasgow now All were getting is Bare Bones operating Glasgow adding culture minister Bonnie Mitchelson told the Council it wont get any More Money next Lon term office lease Mitchelson want available for comment last Glasgow said the Council received from the province in but other government Money in creased the budget by More than further complicating the councils budgetary woes is a Lon term office lease signed before the real estate Market Glasgow our rent is a major part of our problem because we feel we could get equivalent space for on tenth the the Council pays annually for office space in a downtown the signed four years Doest expire until the end of executive Secretary Sam Koshy said the councils staff has already been reduced by on Quarter Over the last and further cuts will hinder the Council advises the government on multicultural the chairman of the committee which drafted the report resigned yesterday because of Dis Ken free press Glasgow says Council is studying agreements Over statements made by Energy minister Harold i work effectively Given the position of the president of the Irish association of Patrick Mcconnell the associations representative on the said president Hugh Cummins disagreed with his criticisms of last then acting Minster of culture and said he opposed All multicultural fund croatians protest occupation about 300 members of Winnipeg croatian Community gathered on the Steps of the Manitoba legislature yesterday to protest yugoslavian military intervention in the rogue organizer Fabian Arambasich said croatians dont support occupation of any whether in or in the Middle civil War threat we just want we dont want anyone to occupy yugoslavian Federal troops moved into one of the country six last week to overthrow the republics democratically elected he yugoslav generals have nothing to offer except dictatorship and he they Are undermining the world Community at the time of extreme the croatian Republic had free elections and convened the first pop ular parliament in its history last Arambasich he said croatians also support the position of Canada and the United nations in the persian Gulf War because the Allied troops Are trying to free Kuwait from Iraq the followed by prayers at the Nicholas Savelich croatian Catholic was one of Many held across Canada and around the world Aram Basich classified death Bernard Hus band of Alma Philip husband of Anna of Roy of Thunder David Margaret of Carsten William of widower of Inga Pedro Mary of port husband of Doris Joseph of Lac do husband of Mary advertisement hot tips yield Little cold Cash by Patrick Mckinley a program that offers civil ser vants up to for cos saving suggestions has hacked Only a Sliver of fat from the provincial govern ment the which pays civil servants 10 per cent of the savings resulting from their has granted three awards totalling just since it was introduced in the government services department 10 months savings total a few thousand Dol Lars just a fraction of the Mil lion the department spends each but government services minister Albert Driedger said he still Hopes the program will take it started off a Little bit i but its starting to gain More momentum he and he said the whole govern a standstill in reve nue and looking for ways to hold Down costs May be Able to Benefit from such a i expect i will probably be recommending that we broaden this to All he an assessment of the oneyear Pilot project is to be done after it expires in a decision then will be made on whether to continue the department spokesman Sally Walker said the three suggestions that were adopted were picked from an initial group of 16 proposals sub since the department has received another 47 proposals which have yet to be she the Cash starting at and going All the Way to Are taken out of the savings resulting from an employees she it is modelled on similar programs operating in the private sector and in governments in the United states and Walker said one staff member was awarded for recommending changes to a Security alarm system in a government building that Are expected to save about a one employee received for recommending a cheaper Way of processing payments for land Pur chased by the but Walker said savings have yet to be another employee got a Token award for a suggestion that improved the Way a study was being conducted but did not result in Sav she John talks John president of is an expert about the automotive drive he has been in the transmission service and repair business for Over ten years and now has four Winnipeg John has encountered All types of drive train problem situations in every kind of and offers the Benefit of his experience to the driving John Braconnier How can you be sure of an honest Price quotation know 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