WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE |
Career planning werkshops offered

“I'VE BEEN a nurse for 20 years
but my back can’t take the lifting
any more. I need to change careers
but I don’t know where to start.’

“I’ve been at home with three
kids for 15 years but now I need to
go to work. The only job I’ve ever
had was as a receptionist for two

years. What should | do’!"’

These are examples of the anx-
ious phone calls Womenskills
receives every day. Many women
need to make important career
decisions, but there are few facili-
ties in place to help them do so.

To help fill this need on the
North Shore, Womenskills will

present its series of career planning
workshops entitled What Am I
Going To Do For The Rest of My
Life?

The series is designed for women
who are thinking of making a ma-
jor career change or who are re-
entering the job market after many
years.

Facilitators Donna Stewart, a
former high school and college
teacher, Bev Bradshaw, a former
teacher and Canada Employment
counsellor, and Carol Anderson, a
college instructor and
tradeswoman, will offer the
workshops on Oct. 19, 26 and
Nov. 3 in Community Room 203,

Capilano Mall, 935 Marine Dr.,
North Vancouver. The cost of the
three-day series is $75, and there is
a subsidy available to low-income
women.

For more information or to reg-
ister call the North Shore Women’s
Centre at 984-6009 or Womenskills
at 430-0450.

~ IntheWhite Spot labour dispute,

eres a builder and acloser.

CAIMAW ~a union known as a plant closer —

CAIMAW. described by the Vancouver Sun as

“maintaining a stubborn grip on contract terms out of

step with the rest of the industry” in another recent

dispute, represented workers at the following companies:

| Schlage Canada — closed.

@ Western Canada Steel — closed.

@ Canadian Kenworth Ltd.— closed.

# Gibraltar—on strike.

@ Placer Developments Ltd., Endako Mine—
decertified.

The records show who's who,

White Spot —a tradition of growth for 60 years

Established 1928.

Hi Now 30 restaurants throughout B.C.

@ More than 3,100 employees.

1% Holiday Magazine award winner.

& Host restaurant at B.C. Pavilion EXPO ‘86.

@ Sponsor of Variety Club Telethon, United Way,
Vancouver Aquarium, H.R. MacMillan Planetarium,
Science World, anti drinking-driving campaign,
Vancouver Sea Festival, B.C. Restaurant Association,
White Spot Junior Pipe Band.

SCAIMAW has been the union at a number
“of plants:in B.C. that have shut their doors,
‘so it has‘a reputation as a plant closer... 9

Vancouver Sun, August 25, 1988.

We don’t want White Spot to be pushed by
CAIMAW into closing more restaurants. But we
may be forced into that. Here's the situation:

April 28
Hi CAIMAW and White Spot begin contract
negotiations for employees at 19 locations.
@ White Spot agrees to more than 50 changes,
including salary increases.
& CAIMAW insists on fundamental business
changes that would damage White Spot's ability

to compete and would eliminate 20 percent of
employee pasitions.
August 27
& White Spot rejects these radical demands.
CAIMAW pulls its members off the job, shutting
down 19 restaurants.

White Spot can’t say yes to demands that would
affect the longterm security of the company and its
employees, but we are willing to talk. The alternative,

if CAIMAW won't bargain reasonably, is to consider
closing more restaurants.

What's the answer?

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