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ALONG with their TransLink coileagues across
the Lower Mainland, North Vancouver bus drivers
and engineers may switch their union affiliation.

TransLink staff are currently members of the Independent
Canadian Transit U — but are being wooed by the
much larger Canadian Auto Workers’ Gnion (CAW).

CAW launched an unsuccessful raid on ECTU workers in
January, losing out to KCTU by only 20 votes. They are allowed
to try again under the Labour Relations Code, which provides 4
nvo-month window for employees to swap unions. In order to
hecome the teansit workers’ official union, the CAW) needs
signed cards from 50% plus one of [CPU's membership in locals
2 (maintenance worl sa Bus staff), and 11 (bus drivers).

“OF course it concerns us,” said Don MacLeod, president of

ICOPU local 11. “What concerns aus is that less than nine nionths
later, we're coming back to same issue. It never went away.

MacLeod said the CAW was “heilbent to try and get (ICTU
workers) for obvious financial reasons.

“We have a proud tradition and history (in the CTU,” he
said ~- adding that if the ICTU membership crossed over to
CAW, “the 3,150-strong bargaining unit will ke completely lost
in the tundra of the quarter million workers represented by
caw.”

Across the Lower Mainland, the ICPU has a total member-
ship of 2,475 bus drivers and 600 maintenance suff.

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quest up in smoke

BUMMER, dude.

Thar may have been the
reaction of an 18-year-old
North Shore man who will viction from a previous pot
appear in court Dec. 22 on a possession citation.
marijuana possession charge. West) Vancouver Police

The man, whose name — Sgt. Jim Almas said the man
wasn't released by West reeked of marijuana, so the
Vancouver Police, muse be — officer informed him) he was

was doing research for an
essay ander the criminal diver-
sion program to avoid a ¢con-

wishing he left his marijuana
at home Sept. 10.

On suggestion of a proba-
tion officer, he visited the
police station in Ambleside
around 1:30 p.m. that day to
seck information from a
police officer on the harmful

going to be searched. The
man handed over a joint, wo
grams of marijuana and para-
phernalia.

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{impaired ] abitity to think.
“He won't be winning any
awards for intelligence.”
— Bob Mackin

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The ss the [CTU cannoe compete with its $57 mil-
fien strike © fund (t ru has none), legal, research, and pension
services. The CAW has a Lower Mainland membership base of
216,000. “When BC Transit became Tr. dink/GVTA, there
was a belief among drivers that the change was likely to signal a
tougher approach by employers,” said CAW local P11 represen-
tative John Bowman.

The CAW is suggesting to TransLink operators that its cur-
rent union will not be able to stand up to the pressure of an
emplover which it claims wants to “eontract out work, decen-
tralize depots, and replace full time with part-time operators.”

‘To press time, no North Vancouver transit staff were available
for conmment.

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