Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 21, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba A12 Winnipeg free March 1996 Leaf rapids Hospital staff off Job support workers refuse to take wage Rollback by Manfred Jager staff reporter Hospital support staff at the Leaf rapids health Centre Are off the Job and their colleagues at Winnipeg Vista Park Lodge nursing Home will follow if there is no new con tract for them by the end of this the members of United food and commercial workers Union local say they Are resisting management attempts to Roll Back their fifteen of the workers Are employed in House keep patient care support and clean ing functions at Leaf another also support have set the strike deadline at Vista Park 144 Nova Vista in Union spokesman Don Keith said yesterday the Leaf rapids work ers were locked out Early but management negotiator Peter Wightman of Manitoba health organizations denied this and said the employees rejected the centres last took a strike vote and then served strike they have been on the picket line since 7 Wightman three year Deal he said the last management offer was for a three year contract running from july 1 last year until june it would provide no pay Cut during the first a two per cent Rollback for the 12 months starting this july and agreement to negotiate wages for the third depending on the level of government funding from july 1997 to june we Are still in but no meetings Are scheduled right Wightman we were told there would be a new propos Al from the but it Hast been forwarded to us Keith said the health 900 Kilometres North of uni laterally Cut workers pay and informed them their Union salaries would remain Cut until Union president Bernard Christophe said the Leaf rapids workers earn Between and an hour but live in an area where costs Are higher than in Southern our people cant afford any reduction in they voted 100 per cent against accepting the hospitals following rejection of the hospitals our members were locked Wightman repeatedly denied both Christophes lockout and ultimatum he emphasized the proposed pay cuts Are Neces sary because of cuts in provincial funding for health facilities All Over Norma nurse manager at the Leaf rapids health Cen said Only one of the six acute care Beds in the facility was to Ere ale line worlds most desirable luxury Ana Homo i Jaguar engineers first Stire died their then their i i to i i us 1 9 9f n w ii k k ii a s k v a in i i i1 a Orcsi Pitinii Lutr inn i sophisticated and technically advanced i Neil ii Ilas ill is lavish la an nut Only engineering lint extra if Ornain and headroom As simply it is the of for All the Init Iii details on the Loni ii Heel Hase Jaguar visit a Nair local Jaguar Euler or Call Jaguar Jaguar on Sargent 1765 Sargent Winnipeg 7860895 friends family fares per person one Way to 14 Day Advance Purchase wish you were there right now let yourself go with West jets friends family now you can still get our Low 7 Day Advance booking person one Way to no even if you 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March 31 last centres layoffs anger father by Stevens wild staff reporter a distraught father says temporary layoffs at the Manitoba adolescent treat ment Centre will jeopardize his daughters the ranging from one to eight began this week at the Centre for about 50 of its 100 the who asked that his name not be said the layoffs mean that his who suf fers from will not receive her weekly therapy ses Sions either this week or next because her therapist has been Laid Shes coming said the this will put her the girl is being treated As an outpatient at the the father is also an employee of the Centre who has been Laid off for four i can spend four Days fixing my House but what is my daughter going to do he the which began tues will be staggered Over the next two budget cuts Robert executive direct Tor of the said the move is prompted by budget cuts and will save about in he said workers from All of the occupations in the facility were subject to Leveille denied the layoffs would have a significant Impact on patient there will not be any substantial Impact because our people Are so he he said the Parent in question had not approached him about the Impact on his Reuben an official with the Manitoba government employees Union local that represents the centres said the Impact of the Short term layoffs is difficult to assess because most will occur next week when the school Spring break will lighten the Funk said the Union is filing a grievance Over the layoffs on the grounds that they were not carried out strictly according to la Tim Sale and Crescent Wood said that better management of the facility would have eliminated the need for the executive director is play ing catchup at the end of the fiscal Sale shoppers drug Mart correction re March 19th 23rd circular the 1 litre Sun Rype Okanagan Apple juice should read 1 litre Sun Rype Apple Okanagan we apologize Lor any inconvenience this error May cause our heart bedding 895 Century 622 Dakota 7865400 i i i i i Queen King 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