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By Martin Millerchip

Contributing Writer

NORTH Vancouver District’s 100% smoking
ban is once again teetering on the edge of the
ash can.

In a decision that outgoing Mayor Murray Dykeman said
last night he was “proud to be a part of,” council first approved
the 100% ban on smoking in all public places on June 24 this
year.

At the time, council hoped that North Vancouver City and
West Vancouver District would adopt similar bylaws.

When the other councils did not “bite the bullet” that
Dykeman and his council said they bit the debate about a
phased-in approach to a smoking ban re-opened across the
North Shore.

District council deferred adoption of its proposed ban until
after the election to give the other two councils the option of
a public-input period and/or a referendum un the issue.

On Monday night, Coun. Ernie Crist wondered why the
city was waiting at all when “they have already made up their
minds” against an immediate ban.

Nevertheless, he and the rest of council unanimously sup-
ported Coun. Don Bell’s motion that the matter be referred to
a mecting of the three North Shore mayors.

The North Shore Union Board of Health has previously
recommended to council that if complete smoking ban can-
not be achieved on the North Shore it is more important that
the three municipalities act in concert.

District council has been lobbied extensively by workers in
its pub and neighborhood pubs, who fear loss of business in
the event of a district-only ban.

“The bottom line is that if they cannot have a smoke with
their drink in their neighborhood, they will get in their cars and
drive somewhere clse,” Louise Flemming told council on
Monday. Flemming is general manager of the Queen’s Cross
Pub, which presented council with a petition of 865 signatures
opposed to the smoking bylaw,

Meanwhile, Surrey council approved a corporate report
Monday recommending a complete ban on smoking in public
places, including in pubs and night. clubs, be phased in by
1998.

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By lan Noble

News Reporter

AN overtime-pay dis-
pute pitting Vancouver
Shipyards against four
unions is costing a local
yard work, said a com-
pany official Monday.

The North Vancouver
shipbuilding and repair com-
pany wants a more flexible
schedule under = which
employees would work for
regular pay on weekends
rather than double time, said
Leo Hungle, human
resources director —_ for
Seaspan, which owns Van-
couver Shipyards and oper-
ates Vancouver Drydock.

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make the focal drydock more
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dock has not been able to
attract the necessary business
to it because of the work
schedule,” he said. “Basically
that drydock serves an inter-
national market. What we're
looking for is the flexibility
to service our customers.”

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into its bids for jobs that
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include 50 to 100 workers
toiling at $25.08 on a week-
day and double that rate on a
weekend, said Hungle.

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because it has had the more
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Esquimalt is very close to
that in North Vancouver, he
said. Flingle said he was
confident the situation could
be resolved.

The dispute has gone to
B.Cs Labor — Relations
Board.

Four unions are involved
in the dispute, including
Local 506 of the Marine and
Shipbuilders local of the
United Brotherhood — of
Carpenters and Joiners of
America.

Their president, Bob
Eaton, did not want to talk
to the News about the dis-
pute. However, he did say
Vancouver Shipyards week-
end pay vroposal was an
issue on the bargaining
table.

Darcy Biln, the business
agent for the electricians
union, said most of his
dozen members art the ship-
yard don’t want the rolling
seven-day-a-week schedule
proposed by management.
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“Most guys want to have
time with their families on
the weekend,” Biln said.

The dispute has also
meant less work for Marine
Workers and Boilermakers
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workers,

Workers in Local 1 and
Local 506 perform some of
the same tasks. When
Versatile Shipyards folded in
1991, the marine workers
agreed to a 50-50 split in
work between their union
and Local 506 at Vancouver
Drydock. That deal helped
keep the drydock operating.

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is for 506 to resolve.

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waiting,” said MacPherson,
adding that the situation is
extremely frustrating.

MacPherson said some of
his members are’ currently
working on ship repairs at
Vancouver Drydock. But he
said the first 10 months of
the year have been “very,
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