Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 12, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor John 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press january controllers ethics defended recent articles in the free press have cast Asper Sions on aviation safety and the professional ethics of air traffic controllers at the Winnipeg area control Centre air traffic inquiry free when read these stories could easily disturb anxious air travellers and beleaguered Only when read carefully does it become Clear these stories Are highly speculative in Richard Lesiuk was hired As an air traffic controller after successfully completing his theoretical training on air traffic he be Gan ont Ejob training at the Winni Peg Lesiuk successfully completed the first of four training phas but was unable to meet the required Standard at the end of the second his training was extended conditionally to help him improve in the substandard when his performance again failed to achieve the required his training was in keeping with Normal a review Board was convened and interviews were conducted with Lesi his the instructors the manager of acc training and a training supervisor from the regional the re View Board found Lesiuk performance had been assessed correctly and that the recommendation to cease training was Lesiuk presented the Board with a document alleging a number of unsafe practices conducted during his the composed of no acc investigated the allegations and determined them to be in keeping with Normal Lesiuk employment with transport Canada came to an in a third party review of two other unsuccessful students was conducted by a team of three chaired by a training expert from transport Canadas Ottawa this review team interviewed 21 staff and former pm including this inde pendent review confirmed that the training provided at the Winnipeg acc is in accordance with unit and National we have asked for particulars of the allegations made in Lesiuk statement of to such particulars have not been transport Canada will defend its instructors and managers vigorously in any litigation of this the at training program in Winnipeg has been heavily scrutinized and found to be in full compliance with National the train ing program and the staff involved in from instructors to supervisors and have the full support of this off Murphy director aviation Central Region transport Canada above the Law there is an excellent Book Avail Able now above the by journalist Paul it is based on rec ords and information submitted by Rod who is a retired Assis Tant commissioner of the this Book exposes the illegal and immoral activities of politicians and Public figures from the former conservative i Admire this work As it is danger Ous to oppose the ruling privileged class that runs the they do not tolerate i was under military trial and imprisonment for challenging the conservative elite in Chile and i think Palango and Stamler Are Brave men who dare to inform canadians about our Public the conservative class never forget and never forgive this kind of i paid for that in there is obstruction by the judiciary and government when we try to investigate commercial and political Francisco Valenzuela Guevara former chief of police in Santiago Winnipeg augmented correction please permit me to augment the comments of Caroline Bener rows spotted and free the first Temple was built by so circa 1022 which lasted 430 years until its destruction by after the Babylo Nian a second Temple was this time by calling heroes Temple the second would be due to the suggestion that Herod merely restored and enlarged the Temple of Derubba according to the jewish his Joseph Ben Jose to the editor the free press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All letters May be edited for style and Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg letters can be sent to our fax number letters May be submitted through the internet at . Letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone in his chapter Herod pulled Down the entire Edi fice and repaid the Only on a larger this would make heroes Temple the instead of the Winnipeg forgotten legacy How Short our memories have we forgotten the Norrie leg Acy of big debt and High taxes recent announcements that Bill Norrie May Challenge Susan Thomp son for the mayors Job in the next civic election will give Little Comfort to those victimized by High extraordinarily High costs and an increasingly High tax Burden that essentially Are carryovers from the Norrie mayor Thompson did not create the High debt and High tax nor has she exacerbated it to this her desire to establish a Zero tax while is and was her inability to bring it off would be Little reason to return to the administration that created the we need to reflect on the causes of our fiscal problems and hold to account those who helped create the the controversy Over the jets losses guarantee is but another example of a costly decision that was made by the Norrie adm Nistra the giving of a virtual Blank Cheque to a private company with a condition that financial information about that company cannot be Dis closed to those who provide the sub Sidy the taxpayers is hardly a reflection of Good judgment or sound the Issue is not simply that of changing but rather of developing Council More than the mayor was involved in the jets arrangement and the High debt and taxes did not occur through the decisions of one while options May be the Norrie option would not be High on the Frank Price Winnipeg greedy players nil hockey players Are Here they Are making five to 10 times More than the average work on top of they want a new they be complain they make More in a year than some people make in a in there Are people who dont have two pennies to rub Ogeth when these so called hockey players Are swimming in now they want dont they have any morals All they care for is those greedy players Are so they live in have the latest and yet they want Lucia Silva general Wolfe school hear that Money go Ching Ching can you hear that its the sound of our Money going to these pro i think they make too much take for an some of the players get paid just to look Good out on the court scoring even the peo ple on the Bench Bench warmers get paid just to be there along with their any Ordinary per son can do the same take Michael for in about a year or two he retired from basketball due to his fathers he tried out for the White sox but was so he joined up for the minor leagues and still Hes making new basketball Allim trying to say is that the team owners should Cut Down a Little on their Rolly Farinas general Wolfe school f collective vision works capitalist outlooks on society conflict by Robert Chernomas and Errol Black special to the free press there is a great debate be tween two conflicting visions of capitalism on one Side Are advocates of an individualistic while on the other Are supporters of a communitarian i the communitarian Are represented by countries such As aus Germany and the scandinavian by individuals like Lester Thurow the Dean of the school of management at Mit and by groups such As the Cana Dian Catholic the individualistic approach is advanced by such institutions As the International monetary fund and Cham Bers of by Many in the economics profession currently dominated by conservative economists and by countries such As the United states and in the terminology of individualistic and communitarian is somewhat in accurate and itself represents an the individualistic approach actually denigrates the individual by reducing the individuals Power by removing the ability to contribute meaningfully to the workplace and More often by de Nying work while at the same time increasing the responsibility on the individual to improve or even maintain his or her place in the communitarian approach keeps the responsibility on the collective shoulders of the country for the basics of education and the social Well being of its people while developing poli cies and strategies which enable individuals to Advance themselves More same irony the same and the same is True for these two approaches at the level of business and and in their relation to on the premise that the marketplace should be the individualistic approach allows the marketplace to be dominated by the largest sometimes the largest foreign this creates dependency and a loss of control Over a nations economic the communitarian approach considers that productive property is created by the collective efforts of All agents in the countries taking this approach promote and regu late business to Benefit the coun try individual businesses As Well As the Public communitarian firms tend to be part of business groups that pro vide them with Access to More capital in order to generate a critical mass of in vestment demand for their products even when cheaper products can be found elsewhere in the while Domestic industries become internationally Protection from hostile take overs and a greater mass of exper Tise and they tend to pay out lower dividends to individuals in order to in Vest More in research and develop ment for product innovation As Well As for new process technologies in order to gain larger Market share in the Long such firms tend also to higher wages and treat workers As Lon term invest ment assets rather than rented incomes of managers Are Are closer to the incomes of the average worker and Are the first to be reduced if the firm is in often firms Are the beneficiaries of government economic and Legal Winnipeg free press file photo two visions of capitalism put different emphasis on the role of labor in the support in Exchange for strict conditionality where these firms Are expected to serve the National interests in clearly defined ways with respect to train and collective Effort to assure business activities detrimental to society Are More Likely to be Reg demand for the firms Access to resources and i regulating capital arranging and discouraging mergers Are All tools the state May use to condition capitalist property rights when they Are seen to be at Odds with the Public when they promote economic improve ment and social advancement these same tools Are used to re Ward communitarian countries Gener ally View labor productivity As an institutional problem not an individual or an attitude the individualistic firm Mecha sizes and simplifies the labor pro Cess in order to shed labor and re Duce education and train ing in those societies Are geared to this the communitarian in seeks workers with critical thinking and flexible skills so that they May work on Many yet unknown in in order to adapt to new new and eve changing formal education provides the essential Structure it is not the end Howe but rather the beginning of a lifelong learning and training pro Cess provided by the state and the purpose unemployment is a reason for retraining and relocation by the state or the workers participation in design and decision Mak ing Are other characteristics expected of labor in these profit sharing promotes commit ment and at the heart of this approach is the idea that jobs Are peo ple need not just As a Means of generating incomes in order to consume and produce but because jobs give purpose to peo Ples lives through their participation in the collective project of creating a better world for themselves and their gives them status and anchors them in workers assume an Active role within shaping and making decisions with respect to the organization of pro the labor product enhancement and unions often play a Central role in this process both in their traditional role As the guardian of worker rights and material inter As a school for learning demo cratic principles and and As an agent for collective Deci Sions in the Plant and total Quality management in these countries actually Means some shared decision change initiated from and much smaller salary and wage differentials Between the highest and Low est paid unions play the sometimes major role of part ners in the determination of state policies with respect to fiscal poli Labo Market and social welfare thereby serving As a guardian of Community communitarian capitalist countries and their business classes evolved their vision in part out of the need to compete with the dominant United states after the second world in each Case there is a locus of often the state in combination with the Forward thinking members of the business typically the state in these countries the allo cation of Capi Tal for and encourages consortium for invest joint standardization and to promote technological innovation and in this Way they promote Lon term plan Ning instead of Short run profit As suggested earlier the tax sys licensing and government demand Are All Means to condition the business climate for social Lon term credit and run by the state assure that capital will be available for critical invest ment these countries generally provide a social safety net that ensures that members of society have Access to income and to resources so that they May live with dignity and feel a commit ment to each the future historically Canada has had a mixed inspired both by the United states and the pre Thatcher United in re cent especially since we have been moving More to the individualistic this is reflected in the Rise of conservative monetary and fiscal the de regulation of transportation and the trend towards privatize interestingly it is these conservative policies High interest rates and tax cuts for the wealthy and not social program expenditures that explain most of the debt accruing since the current plans of finance minister Paul Martin and human resources minister Lloyd Axworthy Are a continuation on the Road to this individualistic Thurow argues that education is the most potent weapon in the new economic warfare Axworthy would eliminate the Federal governments role in pos secondary Thurow asks How we can become team players Martins vision is to reduce the deficit in ways that will choke training and de this places the Burden on individual canadians whereas in other countries it is a team the results of these individualistic policies Are lower growth higher rates of in creasing disparities in in Access to resources and generally Retreat from social life and in the United Robert Reich the current Secretary of labor has described How members of the top 20 per cent or so of the income bracket have retreated into Pri vate private health private recreation Pri vate communication and transportation networks and taken their tax Revenue with them whenever pos sible into their gilded Leav ing the rest of society with a decay ing social infrastructure and fall ing the longer term results of a Worth Martin Type policies Are a decline in civil increasing Reliance on mechanisms of repression police and jails were the fast est growing part of the budget during the Reagan Bush Era to control increasingly marginalized sectors of the degradation of popular the intensification of conflict Between socioeconomic men and women and ethnic to forsake our collective responsibilities is to threaten our collective fun Robert Chernomas is in the department of economics at the University of Errol Black is in the department of economics at Brandon doonesbury by Garry Trudeau so what wwuwn6 father Whah my ;