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Railworkers ratify agreement

By narrow margin

VANCOUVER (UPC) -
British Columbia's 2,200
railworkers have voted by a
slim margin to accept a 30-
month contract with the
provincial railway they shut
down far five weeks in a
costly and bitter strike, a
union spokesman said
Monday.

Council of Railway Unions
chief spokesman Norm
Farley said the railworkers
voted 52.2 per cent to ratify
the agreement wrung out of
weeks of intense
negotiations by rookie Labor
Minister Jack Heinrich.

The contract, retroactive
to Aug. 1, 1979, includes
wage increases of 8 per cent
in the first year, 9 per cent

effective Aug. 1, 1980 and a
5 per cent increase as of
Aug. 1, 1981.

“It was a cliffhanger,” said
Farley, “Our members
weren't too pleased with the
fact that it gave us a per-
centage wage increase in-
stead of an across-the-board
one.

Railworkers, members of
seven unions represented by
the council, walked off the
job Dec. 18 to back contract
demands and stayed off for
five long weeks that cost the
province more than $34
million.

The strike caused costly
delays in an already-shaky
grain transportation system.

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several North Shore _in-
dustries.

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dispute was a company
demand that the number of
crew members manning
BCR trains be reduced to
three from four.

Henrich — who won
praise from all corners for
his handling of his first major
strike as labor minister —
cleared the way for set-
tlement with his proposal
that the manning issue be
put ‘aside until a factfinder

examines the problem and

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Sept. 30 of this year.

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