NORTH VANCOUVER high schoo! students’ efforts on behalf of the Counterattack program were recognized recently. Pearl Roberts of ICBC SPECIAL PROGRAM WORKS o-operative a Os. honored the committee for North Vancouver's Youth Counterattack pro- gram with the presentation of a plaque. proach battles jobless blues WANT TO increase the chances of finding new work? Just try not to be the only one laid off from your company. MARK HAMILTON That’s because of a unique and increasingly-busy Employment and Immigra- uon Department program that gets results. It’s called the Manpower Consultative Services and it provides some of the tramework — and finances — for helping the victims of mass lay-offs find re employment In one case on the North Shore where more than 70 people wound up as former employees of Meteor Meats, it has helped all but six of them find new work within a period of and a half months The people behind the pro gram are hoping for simular tesults for those scheduled for yoblessness as the result of the closing of Schlage Locks in North Vancouver The two reason the program works, says Manpower’s Habib Bajwa. ois) that the federal government ageney provides financial aid and support services while letung the market place and those tn Wass tually direct the placement program Extended until Oct. 30/83 1 Qean 8 edhuet controts 2 Qean burners 3 Check combustion tor efficiency 4 Lafoncate Deanng ‘ 9 Test tor combustion rahe ‘ © Test eatety stv a-of 1 Lived | gas furnace Fall Tune-Up $3 500 Includes 12 pt check-up r 6 8 0 ' 2 caunow 240-7789 INTERNATIONAL GAS LTD. mmo ed | erro, Cie **They (the companies and the umions and employee groups) know their people and their industry better than we do,’”’ says Bajwa. ‘‘When the union and company resources are put together, it is much more effective.”’ The set-up at Schlage, says Bajwa, illustrates how the program works Two separate Manpower Adjustment Committees have been established, a five- member commission for the $0 non-union workers Each committee contains equal company and employee representation with a neutral chairman Working under the com mittee are three people paid by the committee offer specific help and counselling services to the employees looking for work Basically, the committee and its employees will ad mimister: questionnaires that will identify the skills and desires of the to be laid off workers, and then allempt to match them yob Markets of tCratorong lo with the oOpportuntitics As well as having access bo the information avatlable Manpower yob to on oppor tunities — and through the market place contacts of the Labor Market Servies branch of Manpower — the commit- tees also draw on informa- uon from the company and the union involved. In the case of Schlage, Ba- jwa says, the company has come up with a list of 50 businesses — supphers, com- petitors or related industries — which could offer employment In all, Manpower has budgeted $10,000 for its con tribution to the cost of the committees A one-year con tract has been signed between the Employment and im migration Commission, the BC Ministry of Labor and the company and the union. That contract can be ex- tended but Bajwa does not anticipate Manpower will spend all of the money it has budgeted for the program. (Costs for the committee's activities are shared equally between Manpower and the company involved.) The program operates with three basic principles, Bajwa says. The first is to encourage the co-operation of com panies and employers The second 1s for the public sector to Offer a service but not in tertere in the total program The third ts to use the publiv sector resources to back up the privale program C.G.A. President Receives Fellowship Mr A Wilham Smyth H Comm FOC GA NP President of the Certihed General Accountants Assocs ation of British C otumtbsa was awarded the | ellow ship of the Certified Gener al Accountants Association of Canada at the Convocation ( eremomes, held October Ist 198 3 at the Westin Bayshore The Fetlowship «s award ed on the bases of outstand ing contribution by a mem ber toward the advancement of the profession in general and the professional well being of the Certihed Gener al Accountants m particular as well as CONtINUOUS and dedi ated involvement in commuanrnty proyects and services Mr Smythos partner of Perrault Smyth and (om pany of North Vane ouver known nationally as b vane ic Pyper Perrault Barclay and Ditlon dn addition to GA activites: Mr Siryth ts atsa a Orector of the North Van cOuver (harber of ( om merce and the Baitish ( olum tua Arbitrators toastitute bounded in 195] the (er tihed General Accountants Assouation of British Colum tua nthe provinces largest association of professional accountants with 6500 members and students ( ertified General Accoun tants are employed ina wide variety of positions in puble practice industry education and government Certified General (£4 Accountants “y Association of British Columbia A15 - Sunday, October 16, 1983 - North Shore News Amnesty Week is official POLITICAL BELIEFS have condemned thousands of people in the world to life in prison and the free world must rally to support these victims of tyrannical regimes. North Vancouver District Mayor Marilyn Baker has proclaimed Prisoner Con- science Week from October 17 to 23 to bring closer to home the truths of ideo- logical repression. Prisoner Conscience Week is an effort to raise the public’s awareness of the fates suffered by people who oppose their political ruling parties throughout the world. North Shore’s chapter of Amnesty International spear- headed the local initiative and will also be gathering signatures on a petition. Our photos are for sale - N NEWS photo Terry Peters ' | | | \e NE WS photo by Erie E ggertson You Car purcNnase any 6 «10 professional quality print of this photograph of of any others you Nave seen wn the North Shore News OO @ cach *7 $702, i fp To order your prints. call the News on Monday Wednesday of Thursday. bet ween 9am &5pm and ask tor Shawna 986-6222 985-2131 Two to four coptes of the sane print Five of More Copies of the same print eundiry news north shore news