Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 23, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Section editor Maureen Luhenry 6977292 email my Ca local harassment ends in firings lewd slurs sent bakery staff Home in tears by Bruce Owen staff reporter two Lon term employees at a Canada Safeway bread Plant have been fired for alleged sexual harassment of female employees one is even accused of circulating a lewd photograph of his own but some female employees say it has taken years for the company to do anything about adding they were discouraged from Mak ing a some even wanted to go to we were one woman asking that her name not be but Safeway told us not to do it and we didst know any Safeway kept saying Deal with but they never and we didst know anything about our it depends How far you want to go with old House Deal has a pricey catch scuttlebutt psst Wanna buy a House the town of Emerson is sell ing a historic Price one whats the catch dear it gets a lot of attention because of its history and Emerson mayor Wayne Arseny says of the bargain the history dates Back to when Eaton erected it at the old Border crossing to Welcome travellers and pro Mote the Winnipeg in when the crossing was moved to its present Eaton sold the House and the new owners converted it to a private As for its with a Tyndall Stone real Wood beams and character As they say in the real estate now the i need someone to move it off the site by May says or it gets Cost of moving Treyve had estimates of for a Short move across town in but if you wanted to use it As a cottage at the what Day want for a Buck eau whoops strange goings on at the inquest into the deaths of 12 children who had heart surgery at the health sciences Centre in the nurses have fired their Michael Richards and Brian Diana head of the Manitoba association of registered confirmed the change of the Issue is really team she to borrow a we All took a hard look at it and we All agreed some changes had to be made and they i gather that to mean the nurses didst get the sense that they and their counsel were on the same Davidson Dick get Gordon Sinclair any deeper into the except to say there was no blame or she said the decision was finalized although Richards and Meronek were still in the courtroom thurs Day when judge Murray sin Clair conveniently adjourned the hearing until next citing the need to organize there was no men Tion of a change of counsel in court other than a no comment when free press reporter Alexandra Paul asked the departing Richards if he was being the break gives the nurses new counsel some time to which is a Happy coincidence by the the nurses new co counsel Are Colleen Suche and Bill who what a coincidence Are wife and aaa the tale end the nil Trade deadline passed this and Winnipeg boy Mike Keane plays in his old town As an Nehler tomorrow afternoon when the Colorado Avalanche meet the jets at the so whats the connection it just reminds me of How complicated life can get for professional athletes when there ordered to report to another last Mike leased a Cadillac in the next Day he was problem he take the leased luxury car to the and the dealer would it let him out of the so Keane has to keep making the lease even though Hes in Denver and the car is in a Montreal Brandon University backs incentives Canadian press Brandona financial car rot is being dangled in front of senior professors and other older members of the bran Don University faculty association to encourage the University Board of Gover nors has approved an Early retire ment incentive plan aimed at faculty Between 55 and 65 years the plan could Cost the University up to in each of the of Cut three sixty two members of the 200 member association Are eligible to said University president Dennis about 20 employees could apply in the first he but about three Quad ters of those positions would have to be although at lower successful applicants would receive a retirement allowance for up to three years or a Lump sum the compensation would be determined by a there is currently no mandatory retirement two female employees of the Lucerne bread who did not want their names said yesterday the both verbal and occurred Over a number of years before the Union or com Pany took it was horrendous what was going on there and Only now is someone doing something about one woman it was really an awful place to there were Days id come to work crying and go Home crying it was so men outnumber women on the bakery shop floor by about eight to accusations against one of the men include giving one woman two photos of his Anatomy As Well As stalking another female employee near her he is also accused of exposing another is accused of continually making lewd and suggestive comments to female As Well As touch ing the female employee said 10 of 12 women on the work floor have taken stress leave from work Over the last five years because of the the Plant employs about 100 people responsible for wrapping and shipping bread and a spokesman for the bread Plant said he did not want to a spokesman for Canada Safeway was United food and commercial workers Union spokesman Don Keith said yesterday both men one a shop Steward were terminated this month by Lucerne foods a Supply Arm of Canada Safe Way both have filed grievances fighting their Keith said the system of dealing with sexual harassment com plaints failed in this Case because of the influential position one of the accused men held with the he said it would have been investigated if brought to the attention of Union both women said they contemplated but feared they find replacements for jobs that pay almost an Joe Bryks Winnipeg free press a Home care is organizing a massive Campaign to Stop the province from privatizing Home privatizing health care to save million plus by Alice Krueger legislature reporter the province expects to save million from privatizing Home care and a lot More Over five years but insists costs Are not the motivation behind the in a televised Public forum this Premier Gary Filmon said the government expects to save million by turning Home care Over to private hands the first indication of the financial implications for provincial senior health department officials had previously refused to Dis cuss saying Only that the move was not about Money but about improving sue assistant Deputy health explained the discrepancy by saying that the Sav Ings Are merely i hang your hat too much on the million because its a projected saving based on a whole lot of uncertainties right at the Hicks she said a saving is a conservative estimate of what the government Hopes to save Over the next two to five most of that will be through lower salaries and management efficiencies by the private Compa Nies that ultimately provide the depending on How Well we it could be More its a difficult number to track because its based on what could be if we continued on the route that were doing right calling for tenders the government is expected to Call for tenders on two of the four City quadrants within the next two Manitoba association of registered nurses president Marilyn Robinson said she has yet to see Evi Dence privatization will save Money or improve the Quality of mounting Public pressure on Thi Tilmon government to reconsider its they dont have a mandate to do said Jenny spokes woman for a group calling itself the citizens for saving Home working in conjunction with a neighbourhood association that is trying to Stop conversion of Misericordia Gerbasi is preparing a bailout in four languages to Winnipeg Home owners to enlist Public support against privatization of Home it urges Manitoban to write or Call the Premier and health minis Ter Jim Mccrae to voice undermine system calling it the first step to americanization of health Gerbasi said turning Home care Over to private firms will seriously undermine the medicare sys tem which has enabled equal Access to care for regardless of their ability to introducing the profit motive to health care will result in reduced Quality of said herself a Home care nurse with the victorian order of it brings us a step closer to the use pay the government denies privatization will mean user Mccrae has said that services will not nor will clients be required to pay for services for which they do not now the Consumers association of Canada has also joined in the Cho taking the unusual step of issuing a joint press release with the Manitoba association of registered nurses to voice its con they include Lack of coordination and continuity of loss of consistency of knowl Edge by the provider about a clients declining recruitment of car ing professions because of Low salaries paid by private agencies at a time when an aging Popula Tion needs More 4 critics fear Naftal threatens Home care by Alice Krueger legislature reporter Manitoba Home care system could be open to Competition under Naftal from health service giants because of plans to critics unless health care is listed As an exemption under the North american free Trade agree ment and the agreement on internal the could Challenge Canadas Universal medicare system As an unfair Trade opposition Leader Gary doer for without listing the health sector As an exempt the current plan to privatize Home care services could mean we can never bring these services under nonprofit administration in the doer said the province has until March 31 to list certain no insured healthcare services that should be exempt from the Naftal pro a National controversy has been sparked by divergent interpretations of a key Naftal clause that says member coun tries can protect social services provided for a Public some worry the can interpret Public financing of a privately run service As an unfair British Columbia and Quebec have written to prime minister Chretien to have All health and social services and doer called on Premier Gary Filmon to do the Filmon said officials in Indus Trade and tourism have been trying to arrive at a consensus with the other provinces on the but so far there is no i know they have very Strong Legal advice that we would be in a much stronger position if we had a consistent position other Wise in our negotiations with the they could use it to their advantage if every province had a different View on what the wording should be on the pro he Filmon said if no consistent position is reached among the Manitoba will put in writing its own reservations on Protection of Canadian health and social Filmon said part of the difficulty is that for wants to put a specific list for while Quebec wants More general without we will put our request for Protection in writing before the end of next week if we Arent Able to forge a consensus among All Federal officials have said such fears Are some Trade experts Are not so among them University of Manitoba constitutional Law professor Bryan has warned Protection for medicare is far from particularly in Light of the provinces privatization and relisting of health he has also suggested the provinces protect their health and social programs from Naftal by listing them in an Annex to the ;