Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 25, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba 28 pages vol 122 no 144 publications mail registration 0286 free press get Post Sot 4 get Post outside oily in Ontario weekly Home delivery my Post in Winnipeg my Post outside City april 1994 Rural care cuts feared Filmon fridays worry hospitals by Alice Krueger and Treena Khan staff reporters some Manitoba hospitals say they cant impose unpaid Days off on their staff without hurting their and at least one says it i have no plan to implement Fil Mon said Ted Hospital administrator in he said the which has about 70 saved in 1993 by reducing House keeping and laundry thus building up a surplus that will cover a two per cent budget Cut of in a letter to the health depart made Public in the legislature Grandview Hospital Board chairman Ann Barnett said the application of Bill 22 at her facility is not practical and cannot be done without compromising standards and Quality of health minister Jim Mccrae said that while he would like to see Rural hospitals follow the Lead of the health sciences where workers Are required to take unpaid he said his government is open to we would not Force them to do anything that would pose a danger to Mccrae said Barnett said Grandview Hospital has already taken other measures to Cut costs and is Able to save the two per cent required without implementing Filmon for the Hospital last fall reduced its laundry and Linen departments in lieu of the revised staffing guide lines introduced in these areas Are essentially operating on minimum staffing she staff in these departments would have to be Barnett said in her letter to Tim executive director of Community health ser vices at Manitoba the Manitoba health association will present a position paper this week asking the government to let hospitals make the two per cent Bud get cuts executive director Ron Birt Swan River Valley Hospital can not afford to make any budget said executive director Don Thomp the Hospital is already operating at minimum staffing Levels of 300 he nearly All of them Are he the matter was raised in the House Friday by opposition Mem Bers Dave Chomiak and Kildonan and Avis Gray Crescent Wood who asked Why hospitals Are being directed to make the Cut from Sala Ries if it can be done in another Premier Gary Filmon said it was to ensure equity throughout the pub Lic an injured woman shouts for her missing child following bomb blast in blast raises fears of bloody election Johannesburg car bomb kills wounds 100 by Linda Jones Dallas morning news South least nine people were killed in a car bombing in downtown Johannesburg yesterday just two Days be fore South africans vote in their first no racial police said the in which 100 others were occurred Midway Between the Afri can National congresses National and regional no one has claimed the police was the worst to hit the and it was the second major incident of Vio Lence in the downtown on March More than so people died when shooting started As inkatha marchers tried to reach Canadian Aid a8 Anc South african leaders appealed for Calm As the incident renewed fears of electoral i dont want you to concentrate on the violent action of those peo ple who want to disrupt the pro Anc president Nelson Man Dela said in Durban during his final Campaign president de in a said there is no possibility that Radical minorities will be allowed to frustrate the will of the vast majority of the South african All they will achieve will be to add to the unnecessary suffering of innocent citizens who have already suffered among the bombing victims were two Anc officials who were on their Way to a meeting at lancet which houses the Anc regional off police said Susan Secre tary of the Johannesburg Subre Gion of the was and Joan member of the Ancs regional executive was both women were running As Anc provincial Legisla Tive police said explosives were planted in a Volkswagen Audi out Side the Berkley which is about a Block from lancet Shell which houses the Anc is a half lock North of the the explosion demolished devastated nearby businesses and left a Gap ing Hole in front of the mergers give super unions big Muscles by John Douglas National reporter goodbye Little labor hello super like a Mirror to the corporate Canadian labor is in the midst of a trend towards merger and there Are a number of super unions Canadian labor Congress president Bob White what people Are saying today is that Given the state of collective bargaining and the political if they can be part of a larger organization and still retain some they Are in favor of the super Union trend could mean inside Story unions seek strength in Unity 83 the disappearance this week of an 86yearpld Centrepiece of labor activity in Canadian brotherhood of railway transport and general the voice of those transportation workers could be transferred to an even More powerful Canadian Auto delegates representing about Manitoba cart members will vote today in Toronto on a merger that would boost the caws membership to it the third strongest Union voice in if the cart merger goes four Energy and paper workers United steel workers of America and United food and commercial represent More than 36 per cent of All organized private sector workers in the cart As it is known today will no longer but what were doing is moving from a whisper to a said Doug Manitoba regional Vic president of if this goes the Caw will represent railway workers in this single largest voice in the railways in the merger move by cart is just the latest in a National trend towards the consolidation of Canadas organized work smaller hoping to find greater strength in Are banding together to form super Caw president Buzz Hargrove believes there Are More mergers to come As smaller unions struggle to provide All the services members need and business is taking to the Wall on a lot of negotiations Are More companies Force us to arbitration on almost every Issue and you need More he in this Day and when it comes to bigger is families flee vat brutality kids to leave their Homes by Nancy Westaway free press correspondent women shelters in Manitoba Are witnessing a new Breed of brutality affecting their clients vat Vio Waltraud president of the Manitoba association of Wom ens said the level of Domestic violence blamed on video lot Tery terminals has increased so much that the association has asked the 10 shelters in the province to be Gin recording information about gambling its a real Grieger we Are sending requests to All the shelters to include on their in take forms whether or not gambling is a in the past we have asked whether alcohol was but now were also asking about Gam one Rural Manitoba woman in her mid30s said she was forced to leave her Community and seek Refuge in a women shelter after her common Law husbands growing obsession with volts threatened their phys emotional and financial Well be i was afraid my kids would get hit and scared for said the who did not want to be Iden i kept giving him chances but it got the woman said her husband be came hooked on volts As soon As they arrived in her Community Sev eral years i have anything in the House because hed sell All of our Money went into Margaret director of Aurora House in the has seen women in similar situations come to her there has definitely been an in crease Over the last she noting that the number of volts in the area has risen from about 10 to at least 100 Over the past everywhere you go there Are if we asked All the women who come to us for help if gambling was the numbers would hit the a counsellor at Winkles genesis House saying vat Gam bling often becomes the last Straw in a tense gambling addiction takes Over i u f i p s 7v f n r Gamble at local hotel Gamble at i game of Choice j 1 problems with and spouse school problems m depression thoughts of suicide v7 t credit borrowed from family u r p an friends t o i7j missed work duet gambling h4 uses acc dhow or drugs t illegal acts due to gambling 1m inside Story gambling family lives b3 All the other needs of the said who did not want her last name Over the last six to eight months weve seen a dramatic increase in the number of women stating that volts Are part of the but lotteries minister Jim Ernst said there has not been adequate re search done on the people dont become addicted to gambling Ernst it takes if there is stress in the family then it creates but at this Point no one can say yet if there is any direct the Manitoba government made an estimated million in profits from gambling in the 199394 fiscal quote of the Day Good neighbourliness comes from living next to each not on top of each israeli agriculture minister Yaacov tour says Israel will have to give up land for a permanent peace Deal with details on w Vair mainly 30 Chance of showers or High occasional ii out Snow or High 9m Imp Etc anti to non tee inside Ann in sporty to if if if it ;