Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 20, 1993, Winnipeg, Manitoba 72 pages vol 121 no 348 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press get Post 150 Post outside cily weekly Home delivery 25 Why s3 05 20 Post in Winnipeg 30 wily s3 09 21 Post outside City november 1993 trucking firm to taking 790 jobs by Bonnie Bridge staff reporter a 40yearold National truck ing company based in Winni Peg is going out of putting 790 people out of work in 48 locations across Western motorways announced yesterday it will cease operations on an estimated 80 employees in Winnipeg will lose their the loss is a blow to Winnipeg goal of maintaining and its traditional role As a major transportation some observers to lose a major player like this is really tragic and a step said Pat a former member of the Winnipeg 2000 task employees will be receiving wages owed to plus any sever Ance pay due under the provisions of the Canada labor company spokesman Ken Ibbetson said in a statement which cited reduced vol depressed trucking rates and higher operating costs As the Rea sons for i spent Over 20 years there the Best years of my said one Winnipeg employee who asked that his name not be in in my and the unemployment insurance people have told me my chances of getting another Job Are employees lamented the passing of the glory Days of blaming a 1983 takeover by win Nipe based Federal industries for most of the company de an official with the teamsters which represents motorways said Many of the Winnipeg employees Wholl lose their jobs Are in their 40s and now there out on the he its a very ugly theres no employment in this walking the line for 800 Days of does 9t get easier9 Jeff free pre Lariviere and Stan Campbell left to right Are among the teamsters still walking the teamsters strike relentless by Jon Jenkins free press correspondent six men gathered in a parking lot across the Street from the Job wrapping up lunch hour on a cold Grey they we rent going Back to but Back to the picket it had been 813 Days since their struggle but the remaining members of teamsters local 978 Are still doggedly walking the fighting for a Bob estimated 40 of about 75 members continue the although most of the younger men have taken other Par time leaving the older men to walk the it Doest get any al Lariviere they would have set up their picket line at building the Concrete supplier they struck Back on but Ellison the contractor working on the Federal virology is using building products so up went the line at the Arlington Street just buy Union that All we George Taylor what rankles most is the thought that there unlikely to Benefit from their in 67 years Taylor if this thing gets id just be stepping aside for a Junior Lariviere All the Guys find it he we went out for Job not for Money the Guys we were trying to protect Are the ones cutting our throats by going Back to about 25 building products employees have gone Back to said company Richard quite we deliver More with 35 trucks operating on a piecework basis than we did with Rosenblat violence and tension for the first few months of the strike resulted in More than 300 and while things have calmed Rosenblat said he discovered his cottages driveway covered in nails just last and there seems Little Chance for a for personally one Day at a said things Haven moved Forward at but theres always a pos Sibili nurses list horror tie them to healthcare cuts a nurses Havethe sask another woman reported thai legislature reporter her m she is caring there Are two new with their one patient Hemorrhagic Ginejt to Ouiros gum Monk Immy of nine another missed unattended babies and surgery in hallways Are examples of deteriorating health care that is jeopardizing nurses a Manitoba nurses Union report issued yesterday claims Hospital cutbacks Are putting patients at risk and warns a catastrophe is inevitable unless the province changes its health Reform the study is based on 450 recorded incidents signed by More than it maintains nursing care is not being done for it notes that in Many cases intravenous bags Are allowed to run Call lights Are not answered lab work is not dressings Are not changed As often As needed and there is insufficient monitoring of critically ill patients such As cardiac in another incident which occurred last nurses noted a doctor was forced to perform a surgical procedure in the hallway because of a shortage of Beds at Boniface general hospitals emergency nurses Are urging the province to reconsider inside Story lpns willing to take pay Cut to save jobs a15 both the time Frame and the cos cutting objectives for health they say Are while the study does not blame any deaths on heavy workloads and stretched menu president Vera Chernecki said there is no doubt that patients lives Are in Hospital officials insist that standards have not been there is absolutely no question that the care Given at Grace is As Good As it has Ever Betty Grace hospitals Vic president of health sciences Centre spokesman Jim Rodger we have not noticed any change in the volume or the Type of he health minister Jim Mccrae said he would investigate the he rejected the menus claims that health Reform is the cause for any decline in patient How can you say the incidents Are part of cutbacks when there Haven been any he none of the changes in the hospitals can be Laid at the feet of health employees said the company pro posed wage rollbacks in the last few but the reductions were voted Down by Union last the company closed its Brandon terminal and put 12 employees out of in octo motorways chopped More than 100 jobs in after the some workers were offered jobs at lower salaries in other Federal owned trucking Federal industries bought the company for million in then merged it with a Large Eastern Canadian firm to create the fourth largest trucking company in Cana the new firm employed people across North three years a recession at tired Federal industries announced its intention to sell off its bulk truck ing guards in schools favored Survey finds Winni Eggers Back use of Security spy cameras by Randy Turner staff reporter Winni Eggers believe surveillance cameras and Security guards should be enrolled to patrol the hallways of City a recently completed Survey and some administrators and parents concerned about escalating violence in schools agree with a bulked up Security i think that is something were going to see More and More in our Henry superintendent of the fort Garry school Divi referring to electronic eyes in the that the society were living Izatt it gives the Law abiding students and teachers a sense of Izatt Shivers at the vision of hallway we thank not at that Point the conducted by Winnipeg area revealed that 58 per cent of Winni Eggers were in favor of using Security guards in schools during the As 65 per cent of the respondents agreed electronic Security systems should operate during school Emily a member of parents concerned about education echoed the surveys con i dont want to see i really but what else can we do said who is also president of the Parent Council for Sisler High school and a substitute we have to keep the kids and the teach ers if there not there Gordon wheece Winnipeg free press inside Story wallets open for schools a15 not the called Public attitudes toward Public schools in involved interviews with 500 Winni Peg Winnipeg area study director David a sociology professor at the University of said Public demand for increased Secu Rity in schools is not people these Days Are seeing a lot More violence in society in Forde there a bit perplexed about what to do about quote of to Day 4 child of four would have known that what was done was seriously prosecutor Richard Henriques sums up the crowns Case against two 11yearold boys accused of killing British toddler James Detally on Page As Todey mainly 40 Chance of morning Afton Wonny variable rlunltlfm749 m saw inside Ann in sports if if if better than Bank foreign Exchange 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