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et base pay rate for ALL

Dear Editor:

Your reader, Sue Cook
asked an important question
in the April 25th edition of
the News. She wanted to
better understand the
concept of equal pay for
work of equal value. She
asked how one can compare
the value of work in her
example of the relative
worth of attendants to an
accident victim. Who was
the most valuable in caring
for this injured person?
Would it be the nurses, the
ambulance’ drivers, the
dietitians, etc.?

Those of us studying the
issue of equal pay have also

been discussing the very
same questions. The
members of EPIC (Equal

Pay Information Committee)
feel that equal pay addresses

Safety
in gas
masks?

some very important
questions in our society.
Firstly, it has made people
conscious of the value of all
honest work, be it manual,
clencal, professional, or
whatever.

In my union, we have
outside workers who per-
form the invaluable tasks of
garbage pick-up. snow
removal, repairing roads and
sewers, and parks main-
tenance. We also have inside
workers who work in
schools, librames, and in
municipal halls dealing with
the intricacies of running a
municipality — from typing
lo processing, to planning.
The community cannot exist
at an acceptable standard
without any of these workers
and jobs, yet there is a great
disparity in the starting rates

Dear Editor:

Re.: Letter to Editor from
Wendy Salo, May 12. (“Stop
harassing Hooker”)

Ms. Salo seem to be
looking for someone to
blame for all the press at-
tention to her employer,
Canadian Oxy. Well, don't
blame the neighbours! We
didn't write the Beak
Report. Unfortunately we

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and outside
workers. (We call the
starting rate the BASE
ENTRY RATE.)

The base entry rate of a
beginning outside worker in
North Vancouver is ap
proximately $11 per hour.
This is considered to be the
lowest possible wage needed
to maintain a household.

At the present ume, the
base entry rate for an inside
worker beginning a job is
below $8 per hour.

A straightforward way of
dealing with such inequities
is to establish a base rate for
all workers, in recognition of
the value of the job and the
need for all people to make a
living wage. An equitable
base rate would eliminate
wage discrimination and
would begin to provide

for inside

just READ it. Perhaps she
could blame the Fire
Department for being
concerned that Hooker
doesn't hke to report in-
cidents at their plant. Maybe
she could blame _ the
Community Hazards Task
Force Report, which called
for the relocation of the
plant or blame the workers
at adjacent industnes for

getting overcome by gases

CONGRATU' ATONS
NICE

workers with a decent living
wage allowing them, both
men and women, the dignity
of being self-supporting and
independent. It would
eliminate job ghettos and the
labeling of some work as
inferior or of lower status.
And it would put nourishing
food on the table and pay the
rents in many a_ female-
headed household.

1981 was a big year in
establishing the concept of
equal pay or equalizing the
base rates. Municipal
workers are continuing to
discuss the merits of bringing
up the wages of all workers
to the entry level for an
outside worker. The concept
is just and timely.

Aphrodite Harnis
Margret Kerry

from Hooker and having to
be treated at the hospital.
She should look to her fellow
employees who exposed
poor safety practices at the
plant in 1980.

Ms. Salo states she feels
safer at the plant. Is it
because that’s where all the
gas masks are?

Sharon McKay
North Vancouver

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