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OFFICE staff at Vancouver Shipyards moved pickets from Vancouver Crydock to
Soaspan Thursday, forcing 30 Seaspan workers out as 175 ship workers returned.

Drydock open again

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“This is round two,” she said.

Vancouver Shipyards is a division of Seaspan,
the Hargest tug and barge company in Canada.

-_ Jackie Parsons, the chief job steward at
Seaspan, said 30 of her office workers had
refused to cross the line Thursday. Parsons said
the Seaspan workers are also members of the
U, but are in a different bargainin unit.

Seaspan spokesman Debbie Tardiff said the
OTEU strike is not affecting the company's tug
operations. .

Vancouver Shipyards’ Lewis said that no
negotiating sessions beoween the OTEU and the
employer are scheduled.

“If they were to call us and wanted to sit
down we'd certainly be willing to listen, but our
position is not going to change,” he said.

Lewis said the OTEU members have been
offered the same increase shipyard workers
accepted a few months ago. The company has
offered raises of 30 cents, 40 cents and 50 cents
an hour ona contract that is retroactive to Nov.

1, 1996 and pays the last increase on Nov. 1,
1998. The union wants increases of 60 cents, 45
cents and 55 cents.

OTEU workers at Vancouver Shipyards make
$2,276 to $3,938 a month.

The resumption of work at the drydock
allows Vancouver Shipyards to continue to aim
for a late December delivery date of all its units
for the first of three fast ferries it’s helping to
build for B.C. Ferries, said Marcus Davidson, the
manager of the fast ferry program for Vancouver
Shipyards.

The units must be delivered to a North
Vancouver facility, where units from various B.C.
shipyards come together to be assembled into
the sleek catamarans promised for the Horseshoe
Bay-Nanaimo route.

APEC visitors will tour the Catamaran
Ferries International assembly facility Sunday.
The provincial government has bankrolled the
$222 million fast-ferry project through B.C.
Ferries. Victoria’s goal is to revitalize what had
been a shrinking B.C. shipbuilding industry by
making catamarans for sale offshore.

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