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‘WE WILL HAVE WAR’

Bills 19, 20 slammed

Dear Editor:

Not only labor and teachers but
also British Columbia
municipalities are concerned about
bills 19 and 20.

When ‘Smiling Bill’’ was
elected, he promised to turn over a
new leaf — consultation instead of
confrontation, he spouted. Give
municipalities more power — they
are closest to the people and they
need it, he said.

But with Bill 19, he is blowing
this promise to hell and with a
vengeance. Any kind of autonomy
municipalities have had in bargain-
ing with their employees is gone.
Under the proposed act,
municipalities will be puppets
helplessly dangling from the paws
of a Vander Zalm-appointed
commissioner and his agents who
will have unlimited power to in-
terfere in every aspect and at every
stage of negotiations and be
responsible only to Vander Zalm.

Bill 19’s explicit purpose is to
destroy the free collective bargain-
ing process — to destroy the trade
union movement, eliminate all
social benefits, drastically reduce
wages and eliminate all decent
working conditions. This bill
makes a mockery of collective
bargaining. With Bill 19, Vander
Zalm is, in fact, handing
municipalities a bag of snakes,
with heaps of trouble in the wind.

There is no way that the unions
can live with this piece of “turn
back the clock”’ legislation. If Bill
had attended a respectable school
of economics, he might have
learned that it was labor with its
rebellious spirit, by fighting for
higher standards, that ushered in
the industrial revolution and,
along with it, prosperity. Labor
forced the entrepreneurs to invent
machines and use their wits to

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Now Vander Zalm wants to turn
the clock back to suit his warped
and ignorant perception of what
this country is all about. Instead of
making labor a partner in a social
contract for everyone's benefit, he
has hurled down the gauntlet to
destroy not only hard-won gains
but labor’s dignity as well. As for

municipal autonomy, that will be
all but wiped out.

If that monstrous piece of legis-
lation is not withdrawn, it will
herald the end of labor peace, in-
cluding at the municipal level. In-
stead of people who tale pride in
their work, we will have a hostile,
resentful and antagonistic
workforce. Where we hive peace,
we will have war and we can thank
Bill Vander Zalm and his Fraser
Institute advisers for it.

What Vander Zalm is doing to
this province makes Attila the Hun
look like a Red Cross volunteer!
Ernie Crist, Alderman
District of North Vancouver

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