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Friday, the 125-employees:
will; receive severance. pay:
hen the plant is closed and a:
ntinuation -of' medical:
nefits. while they: attempt to.

‘well, the employees. will
be: able: to apply for com-
parable jobs with a Schlage
~ Planti in Ontario without. hav-
dng to move there first.

The agreement. was. struck’
Friday during negotiations

“between the company. and the

Canadian Association of In-
dustrial and Mechanical
Allied Workers. (CAIMAW)

_ and with employees threaten-

ing to occupy. the plant until
their demands,Wwere met.

Cathy:”:Walker, a union
representative, said
employees had gathered in
the Schlage lunchroom at
3:30 p.m. to hear of ‘‘an in-
adequate’ ’ offer for
severance’ pay. ,

Workers rejected the initial
"offer ‘of the company and

, ‘were prepared to.occupy the

plant’’, according to Walker,

North Van City, District back official bid

NORTH VANCOUVER City and District council

are putting the finishing touches on a $400,000 bid
to host the 1986 B.C. Summer Games.

Both municipal councils
voted Monday to support a
bid for the Games, which
would® attract. more than
3,500 athletes — and the
possibility of international
utraction —— ‘to the North
Shore.

While West Vancouver
isn’t formally involved in the
application, at least one
member of the commitice

pushing for the Games says
he expects that municipality
will be.

“If the bid is successful,
North Vancouver City Ald.
Gary Payne said, ‘*1’m confi-
dent it will be a full North
Shore event."

The preliminary proposals
call for the two North Shore
municipalities to fund a Sum-
mer Games Society at a rate

of $1 for each municipal resi-
dent. A preliminary $400,000
budget has been set for the
Games, with 60 to 70 per cent
of that coming from the pro-
vincial government, Payne
said. -

The Games themselves
would be run by a society,
directing as many as 4,000
volunteers, which would
work closely with the provin-
cial government’s Games
branch.

North Vancouver want the
games here to help tic this

area into the world fair Expo
86.

As well as the dollar-per-
person funding, money could
be spent on a proposed junior
sports stadium to host track
and field events, a facility
Organizers sce as essential to
the success of the Games.

North Vancouver city
council was also warned that
if the bid is successful, it
would not be appropriate for
the municipality to cut its
park and field maintenance
funds in 1984, °85 or °86.

Reaching Every Door on the North Shore