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September 18, 1991

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PSAC, federal government
return to bargaining table

PLANS TO escalate federal civil service job action along
the North Shore waterfront were averted late Tuesday
when the government and its employees agreed to return to

the bargaining table.

Said Dave Walker, Public Ser-
vice Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
strike area coordinator for North
and West Vancouver, Squamish
and Sechelt, ‘There is a break in
the talks and we're just in a
meeting now discussing it. It ap-
pears that we're heading back to
the bargaining table."’

PSAC members plan to picket
to Il am. today. The union, in-
cluding its North Shore member-
ship, also plans to hold a *vic-
tory’? rally in) Vancouver today
and return to work by 1 p.m.

As late as Tuesday morning
PSAC had been set to escalate job
action by picketing the Vancouver
Port Corp.-awned and -operated
Lynnterm terminal in North Van-
couver.

PSAC had planned to picket the
Lynnterm and Vanterm shipping
terminals. Federal ship inspectors
designated as essential service
workers regularly visit the termi-
nals.

Walker said PSAC had discuss-
ed the strike escalation with other
waterfront labor organizations,
including longshoremen, and inad
secured their support.

Lynnterm handles forest pro-
ducts and general cargo. The
shipping terminal employs as
many as 150 longshoremen.

The union had also planned to
take down the picket line at the
Canada Employment Centre at
Sth Street ani Lonsdale Avenue
and move its protest to the local
offices of Tory MPs.

PSAC had extended limited job
action to the shipping terminal on
Friday.

Said Lynnterm sales manager
John Ellis, ‘‘They (PSAC
picketers) were down here on Fri-
day for an hour when a person
was in to check a ship and they

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

wanted to stop that. We don't
have any federal employees on the
dock, The ship inspector drives in,
checks a ship and leaves."

PSAC also expanded strike ac-
tion with a@ picket dine at the
Kapilano 100 building Friday. The
West Vancouver tower houses the
Canadian Coast Guard Vessel
Traffic Services regional marine
traffic control centre. Federal
staff atc the centre are deemed
essential service workers,

The pickets went up for several
hours during shift changes in the
morning and afternoon.

Said Walker, “IBEW (Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers) respected our line and
designated employees respected
our line and they had their
management come down and
escort them through the line as
they could prove their designa-
tion.”

But said John MacLeod, officer
in charge of the Cunadian Coast
Guard) Vessel) Traffic Services
Centre, ‘tit just slowed down the
shift turnover. The operation con-
tinues as normal.””

A picket line at the Lynnterm
shipping terminal would have in-
creased the number of industries
idled along the local waterfront by
the federal strike. The strike
blocked the movement of grain
through the North Shore’s Pioneer
Grain Terminal and Saskatchewan
Wheat Pool.

As of Tuesday, 28 vessels were
waiting in the Port of Vancouver
to load approximately 850,000

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