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November 23, 1983 IS B.C. THE NEXT PHILIPPINES? (Page 3) is changing our lives On The Edge with government worker Joan Rykyta (Page 9) Anti-Nuke Propaganda? You Bet! Bob Bossin on The Day After (Page n) TM£#OSe Get Your KNOW*' Miracle Larry Kuehn- 5574 MacKenzie St. Vancouver, B.C. V6N 1H2 10/26/84 Truth Serum! (Boswe//, page 15) Second-Class Mail Bulk. 3rd Class Registration Pending Vancouver, B.C. No. 5136 TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 1983 over. The fight against the to handicapped recipients. legislation was no doubt still Restoration of educational on, but the threat of a general funding to 1983 levels remain• strike to oppose it had reced• ed totally murky. B.C. Teachers Federation president ed. 1 t Larry Kuehn claimed that the "I can say we have agreed $18 million "saved" from the on an avenue to resolve the teachers' protest would be ap• problems," said a cautious plied to next year's funding. Munro, who had agreed not to Bennett denied this would reveal details until Bennett had No deal happen, insisting the money met with his caucus. would only be used to pay For the rest of the week, the teachers making up days lost province puzzled over the during the protest. on school "avenue" of resolution. IliK Rumors, claims and angry When the provincial counterclaims, and more Solidarity Coalition steering rumors, clouded the picture. committee and the Lower Not until week's end, when Mainland Solidarity Coalition funding Munro offered the details of ; : assembly met at the beginning the deal and Bennett confirm• of the week, coalition By Stan Persky members made clear their The two men emerged onto ed them the next day in a television interview with dissatisfaction with both the a Kelowna front porch shortly results of the talks and the before 10:30 p.m. broadcaster Jack Webster, did some basis for assessment absence of consultation with After a four-hour meeting the coalition in the course of become available. Even then, lift in the living room of B.C.'s coming to a settlement. Opera• premier, and- just an hour or one of the central issues — the question of educational fun• tion Solidarity leaders Art so before thousands of civic Kube and Mike Kramer heard employees and ferry workers ding for 1984 — remained in dispute. Bill Bennett on the way to coffee with Webster. a barrage of criticism from the were due to join 85,000 strik• community-oriented coalition. ing public-sector workers who Here, apparently, is what that seniority rights would be sent human rights commis• Kramer conceded that labor had been on the picket line Bennett and Operation retained. sion. had erred on consultation. since Nov. 1, Bill Bennett and Solidarity agreed upon: • Before proposing changes Further consultation would "We made an error not con• B.C. Federation of Labor first to the labor code, the govern• • Bill 2, designed to remove be invited before passing sulting the coalition enough. vice president Jack Munro, ment will establish a con• collective bargaining rights, legislation eliminating the ren- We learned a lesson," he said. representing Operation sultative committee with labor was dead. At the same time, Operation Solidarity, announced an un• representation. talsman's office. Munro • Bill 3, which bypasses understood that a rent-review Solidarity authorized further written agreement Sunday, For labor, then, the move seniority rights and gives the funding for the coalition and Nov. 13 that would end the into the streets had substan• mechanism would be government the right to fire the Lower Mainland group most massive protest in the tially slowed the government established, but Bennett has public sector workers at ran• vowed to fight on to produce province's history. juggernaut. On social issues, yet to confirm it. dom, is law, but an exemption "mass political pressure" in For four months, an un• however, the results were far Recent cuts to social services clause will make it inoperative. support of more meetings with precedented Solidarity Coali• less clear. will not be rescinded, although A written collective agree• the government on social ques• tion of trade unions and com• human resources minister ment, concluded hours before A consultative committee tions. munity groups had fought an on human rights would be Grace McCarthy will review the Munro-Bennett pact, bet• The most favorable assess• extreme rightwing package of ween the B.C. Government established prior to the plans to wipe out a legislation introduced by Ben• government passing pending $50-a-month program that ment of the outcome came Employees Union and the pro• from Sun labor reporter Doug nett's Socred government last vincial government, ensured legislation wiping out the pre• supplements welfare payments July. Now, the worst of it was See page 12: WEEK A CONDEMNATION OF ACTIONS OF THE B.C. GOVERNMENT The International Labour Organization, an agency of the United Nations, has recently issued a report condemning actions the provincial government took against teachers last year. It said: • Cutting teachers' salaries by chopping 6 to 11 days from "not consistent with the principles of free collective the school year constituted an interference in the collec• bargaining." tive bargaining process. • Submission of negotiated agreements to the Compensa• tion Stabilization Commission for approval "is not only • The adoption of legislation without consultation with liable to discourage the use of voluntary collective teachers was "not consistent with the principles of bargaining; it is also incompatible with the principle of freedom of association." non-interference in the collective bargaining process by the public authorities." School board budget limits which made it impossible for • Prohibition against striking by public servants should be boards to comply with their collective agreements were confined to genuinely essential services. The ILO is now examining complaints about the even more arbitrary actions taken by the government against teachers this year. Tell the government to be fair to students and teachers. LET JUSTICE BE DONE A Message from the B.C Teachers' Federation TIMES, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23, 1983 employees in equal numbers, Tenants' groups are also meet with government but would be cabinet worried the government wil ig• representatives "in a positive Socreds plot employees without job securi• nore their concerns and plunge way" and plan to submit a list ty. The Essential Services ahead with its planned Bill 5, of suggestions aimed at pro• Disputes Act could be applied which removes rent controls tecting tenants' rights. to the private sector, with and abolishes the Rentals- "We want to meet and pre• trade zones wider powers to declare strikes man's office. sent our ideas. We'll give it a illegal. chance," he said. The Social Credit govern• "Bennett hasn't said why Both Chouhan and Lane ment's budget legislation is Employer protection for the current mediation process, said their groups wil continue aimed at creating free trade "economic development pro• the Rentalsman, should be fighting the proposed legisla• zones in this province, similar jects" which could include shut down. We know it's not tion and will not fall apart. to those found in Third World rapid transit, Expo 86 and to save money," said David "The coalition is not finished. countries, says a Simon Fraser Northeast coal, would pro• Lane, a B.C. Tenants' Coali• If we want to see any changes University economist. hibit strikes, even for health tion spokesperson. 'We have made, we have to intensify our The provincial government and safety reasons. Breaches no indication from Bennett strength," said Chouhan. has twice drafted legislation — of the labor code would or his ministers that they will "We have to let people know although never passed — that become criminal offences and move on the most critical we're still around and we're would have severely restricted violators subject to stiff fines. issues to us—namely the evic• still together." Greater protection would be tion without cause clause in union powers and created con• Lane said the tenants groups given to employers' .rights, the new bill, and the abolition ditions permitting free trade will "continue to fight with zones. says Leibowitz. of the Rentalsman and rent controls." demonstrations and stepped "The basic Socred plan is The proposed labor code up organization of tenants on not to build a light rapid tran• changes — though later denied But Lane said his group will a grassroots level." sit system or develop Nor• by McClelland — resulted in BEV DAVIES PHOTO theast coal," says Michael Operation Solidarity's in• Leibowitz. "What they are at• sistence for its input into new tempting to do is to put B.C. labor code changes now ex• into the bidding process for in• pected next year. ternational floating capital. They are bidding with a cheap Building trades workers are docile labor force and tax con• already suffering from govern• cessions. The best parallel to ment policy on publicly this budget would be found in financed construction pro• the Third World." jects, says Clive Lytle of the Building and Construction In free trade zones, com• Trades Council. Public boards ponents and raw materials are are forced to accept the lowest shipped in, assembled and ex• bid, regardless of the contrac• ported, free from customs in• tor's ability to fulfill his spections and tarriffs. obligations, he says. Workers are forbidden to organize in unions. Computer chip production and computer assembly industries use free trade zones in the Phillipines and other Third World coun• Rights group tries to bypass the higher costs of organized labor in the coun• When Greyhound Bus Lines "left the driving to" scabs, trade unionists were there to protest. More tries where their products are than 50 demonstrators set up a picket line at the Vancouver depot Nov.
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