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BC Solidarity Update REPORTS B. C. Solidari New Reality or New Brutality? SARA DIAMOND VANCOUVER - WITH THE RE­ labour. Picketting continueddespite an in­ On May 9th the government announc­ treat of Solidarity, the Socred's 1983 junction, until the leadership of the edthe new LabourCode. Its key points in­ and 1984 budgets are hitting home. Building Tradeswere found to be in con­ clude: banning of political protest (i.e. Labour, feminist and human rights ac­ tempt of court. Despite rank and file solidarity-type strike action); an end to tivists are fighting difficult battles on militancy, the Council decided to discon­ secondary picketing; automatic decertifica­ isolated ground. While 100,000 march­ tinue picketting,told its membersto vacate tion of unions with a 45% decertification ed for peace in Vancouver's streets on the site and promisedthat the battle would vote. The Code now gives the cabinet the April 28, the Solidarity mobilization continue in the context of EXPO'86. right to designate any job site an against the new budget in March drew EXPO '86: The real issue behind the "economicdevelopment project", remov­ a mere 3,000 supporters. Meanwhile, Kerkhoff showdown was who would ing the right to strikeand allowing cabinet Milton Friedman has lauded British build EXPO. Unfortunately non-union to override any union contract. It would Columbia as the ideal democracy - contractors and the governmenthad won be an "open site", allowing the untram­ one in which election promises become the first round. (Legislation banning con­ melled use of non-union labour. lies and the New Right's economic and structionindustry strikes has beenlooming The new Code allows Cabinet (rather social policies are bearing their bitter for a long time.) In the aftermath of Pen­ than The Labour Relations Board) to ex­ fruit. During the past week, debate nyfarthing, the Socreds, aided by EXPO amine union constitutions and to decide within the labour and popular move­ king Jim Pattison, threatened to cancel the whether strike votes, discipline of ments has centred on the viability of a fair unless the trades agreed to the liberal members, etc. are legitimate or ap­ Solidarity II. Here, I will provide an use of non-union construction labour on propriate. In essence, it gives Cabinet an update to the feature, "B.C. Solidarity" the site. While many B.C.ers secretly openhand in all union affairs. This legisla­ (FUSE, Spring 1984), outlining some of wondered whether the threatened cancella­ tion will make negotiations very difficult, the more recent events and develop­ tion would be aresult of poor government while breaking existing unions, particularly ments in the province. planning and massive overspending ( the those with jurisdiction over Bennett's EXPO budget is some three times its mega-projects.It's an employer's hard-core original projection),the governmentblam­ fantasy come true. TheLabour Front edthe construction unions, suggesting that PULP INDUSTRY: The pulp industry CONSTRUCTION: The long foreseen they were ''Bad B.C.ers", holding the pro­ locked out its workers for months. The battle to protect construction industry vince to ransom and denying many the two pulp unions, the Canadian Pulp-­ unions erupted in March. The Labour right to a job. In mid-April the government workers' Union and the Pulp and Paper Relations Board reversed a longstanding decidedto go on with the show that would Workers'Union of Canada, had decidedto precedent which insured that contracts place Vancouver "on the world stage". reject the poor 3-year contract that the In­ could not be turned over to non-union Bennett promised legislation to make ternational Woodworkers of America had construction firms if begun by union EXPO "an open site", with an advisory settledfor. Instead they wantedan increase labour. Building union pickets shut down council to police workers and make all job in the first year of a two-year contract, Pennyfarthing Construction at itsHarbour action on the site illegal, a virtual war security and health and safety provisions. Cove site. This company is run by Bill measures act. In negotiations the building The government imposed a back-to-work Kerkhoff, a self-proclaimed folk hero and trades argued for union rates for non­ order and continues to threaten an impos-­ militant anti-unionist "armed with strong union EXPO construction labour, a step edsettlement. Pulp workeshave faced not family ties and a deep religious convic­ back from earlier intentionsto organize the only the concerted efforts of the Em­ tion". (Vancouver Sun) Many of the trades site. ployers' Council of B.C., the Pulp and picketters had been unemployed for as In response to these developments the Paper Industrial Relations Bureau and the long as two years, movingfrom well-paid �nters' Union held an "Expose EXPO' government,but also the vocalhostility of jobs with decent working conditions to public meeting. Calls for a revitalized the IW A in the personna of Jack Munro Unemployment Insurance and then wel­ Solidarity II ("the general can't retreat (remember Kelowna ?) who has publically fare. The B.C. and Yukon Building Trades when the movement is advancing") have denounced their efforts to better the IWA Council was able to mobilze four hundred been heard from the trades, Vancouver contract. on active picket duty with 2-3,CXX) more, aldermen and NOP representatives. In TRANSIT: Transit workers in Vancouver including feminists, public sector workers, other quarters plans are forming for have also fared poorly in reaching a con­ etc., present for mass pickets. They "AXPO '86" - a counter event to provide tract. After months of stalled negotiations demanded that the site be built by union city and visitors with a critical perspective. they began an "unstrike", a ground- 4 FUSE U MME R /984 breaking strategy geared to educating the because it claims to protect human ever until the new labour code was in­ public that it is government cutbacks that rights when it in fact legalized dis-. troduced, the B.C. Federation of erode public transportation, not the crimination". Ignorning all submis­ Labour Executive was publically divid­ drivers'attitudes to their work. Bus drivers sions during the "consultation ed on this question. While Art Kube, have worn civilian clothes to work and process", the new Bill 11 eliminated the the Federation's leader, supported the collected only 25¢ and a promisory note Human Rights Commission, excludes initiative, other key players are strong­ from riders. As of May 9 actions will in­ many groups from protection and ly opposed. Jack Munro has stated that clude a full day strike. gives sweeping powers to the new ap­ the people of B.C. want to work, not pointed council to dismiss complaints protest. They would not support a SocialServices it considers "vexatious, frivilous or in general strike. Other unionists would As of April,· twenty-one family and bad faith". There is no appeal pro­ support a union-based coalition (Oper­ childcare facilities, formerly run by the cedure. ation Solidarity model) but without Ministry of Human Resources, became private services. Services include Van­ couver Transition House, now run by the YWCA and Gravely House, an emergency shelter for one to seven year olds, now owned by Ro-Di Manage­ ment, residential treatment centres and group homes. These are contracted out on a yearly basis. The Vancouver Status of Women, one of the bulwarks of the Vancouver women's movement has had its funding completely ter­ minated. WA VAW / Rape Crisis Centre received a five percent budget cut while demand on their facilities is on the rise. Other services, such as the Elizabeth Fry Society, Native Courtworkers and the People's Law School have been placed on an interim two month budget until the government decides their future. WELFARE: The new budget cut JEANNIE KAMINS' PAINTING OF THE B.C. CABINET. From top left, welfare by $25-$80 per month. People clockwise: 'King' Billy Bennett, Grace McCarthy (Human Resources), Jim Nielsen (Health), awaiting Unemployment Insurance are Jack 'Scab' Munro, Energy Minister Rogers, Jim Hewitt (Consumer/Corporate Affairs), no longer eligible f r welfare in B.C. Jack Heinrich (Education), Pat McGeer ('protector' of universities), Brian Smith (Attorney General), Bob McClelland, Jim Chabot (provincial secretary), Hugh Curtis (Finance) Those applying for social assistance must now "exhaust all available in­ the participation of community groups come or assets". This is interpreted to through the Solidarity Coalition. include all lines of credit, including Education Community and women's groups are credit cards. This has led to specula­ David Thompson University Cen­ somewhat skeptical about reuniting tions as to when B.C. will open tre, the only university outside of the with labour after the betrayals of '83. debtor's prisons. Lower Mainland and Victoria is now With the introduction of the new closed by government dictate. 65% of Labour Code, the B.C. Federation has TenantsRights its students were women from the begun to re-unite Operation Solidarity The government replaced its much­ West Kootenay area. Colleges and (the union component). Mike Kramer, protested Bill 5 with an equally dis­ universities elsewhere are engaged in Federation vice-president, and Kube, asterous new Bill 19. It will now cost the painful and often political process have threatened the government with a tenants thirty dollars to lay a com­ of cutting programmes and depart­ united and Jl}ilitant fightback by plaint against a landlord. Landlords ments to meet slender budgets. labour, one far beyond the scope of the can evict for "reasonable Cause" - a fall 1983. The extent to which these term which is at no point defined in the threats (promises?) will become reality legislation. Rents are decontrolled. Resistance is, as of this date, unclear. Although the Solidarity movement Women Against the Budget organiz­ Human Rights has been in crisis since the November ed a series of discussions through its The week of May 1 saw a vigil at the strike ended, the vehement assault on Budget University that drew many ac­ steps fo the B.C.
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