PICKETS RAISED AFTER LOCK-OUT pulled cable contract SHAW CABLES The 13 International Brotherhood of Electrica! Workers {IBEW) employed at Shaw's North Vancouver head office und union members throughout the Lower Mainland hoisted lock-out signs alter Lower Mainland cable com- panies imposed a new contract on its workers, Union members in North Van- couver walked off the job Jan. 10 in support of PBEW local 1003 workers in the Kootenays, who were involved in a labor dispute with Shaw Cable at the time. While chief cable company negotiator Frank Eberdt says the changes are necessary to keep down costs and improve service, Shaw's) North) Vancouver shop steward Del: Dauneey says the employers’ action amounts to union busting. Major changes in the imposed contract include a wave reduction of $6 per hour tor new unionized employees, a cut in overtime pay from double time to time and a half and a three-vear wage freeze. The contract also calls for the elimination of unpaid overtime, the elimination of a union training program and the provincial ap- prentice program and the replace- ment of the union foreman’s posi- tion with @ non-union employee. ft would also see the creation of five new technical classifications and a three-year freeze on health and welfare benefits. “We won't talk unless they withdraw the proposal,"’ Dauncey said. “We cannot talk under those conditions. It is like the union say- ing we are coming to work Mon- day and we are going to be paid $10 more per hour.” But Eberdt countered: ‘It will be Jong dispute if the union isn’t prepared to agree to most of the employers requests.”° While Eberdt admits the com- panies want to reduce the wages of new employees, the companies are umionized North Shore emplovees were walking a picket line Monday for the second time this year. the sable Sompanies are uisedsed in Power “Miamntand-wide lock- out. Shaw unionized installers are presently paid $20.78 per hour or S$43.0000 per vear excluding benefits. IBEW journesmen, meanwhile, earn $23.37 per hour oF $46,000 per year. By ROSS MELA New Meprarier also guaranteeing seniority and ex. Bung wares for present union employer. In total 230 employees and four NEWS photo Terry Peters LARRY STEED of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) reflects the views of his fellow employees when he says he will stay off the job at Shaw Cable's North Vancouver head office until the company withdraws a contract that reduces wages to new employees by $6 per hour. Almost 250 IBEW workers across the Lower Mainland walked off the job Monday after cable companies imposed the new con- tract without negotiations. NEWS photo Terry Petars HER ROYAL Highness the Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, visited British Columbia fast week and paid a special visit to Canada Place, where she is seen here greeting well-wishers. Before leaving Tuesday for her visit to the U.S.A, Princess Margaret praised Vancouver's growth since she last visited the city 28 years ag0. 3 - Wednesday, July 16, 1986 - North Shore News Miolester’s case appealed THE CROWN has appeated the jail sentence handed confessed child molester Michael Charles Bennett. The 51-year-old West Vancouver man was sentenced March 13 to two years less a day after pleading guilty to 12 counts of molesting six young boys. Bennett was originally charged April 30, 1985 with four counts of sexual assault and subsequently arrested June 14 and charged with an additional 21 sexual assault related charges in connection with incidents that occurred between Jan. 1981 and April 1985 when Bennett was a volunteer working with boys. In its appeal, the Crown maintains that Bennett showed no remorse for his actions, But Bennett’s lawyer argued that a longer sentence would prove fatal for his client, a former prison social director. A B.C. Court of Appeals decision on the Crown's uppeal will be made Thursday. Firm to trial for creek spill STE DAVIS still has not entered a plea to four charges laid against him and his paving company following a chemical spill into MacKay Creek. The Vancouver man appeared in North Vancouver provincial court Monday. Davis and Tufcoat Sealcoating Ltd. are jointly charged under the Federal Fisheries Act with depositing a deleterious substance into water frequented by fish and depositing a deleterious substance in- toa storm drain. The Ministey of Environment was alerted to the spill by a North Vancouver resident who reported seeing dead fish in the creek and an oily black substance in creek waters. Davis is now scheduled to reappear Aug. I to fix a date for trial on the charges. Police warn of fraud A FRAUD scheme aimed at apartment dwetlers has surfaced in West Vancouver. On July 40a man posing as an apartment manager telephoned tenants in an apartment in the 2100 block of Argyle Avenue and another in the 1800 block of Belevue Avenue, according to a West Vancouver Police report. The man claimed his nephew was hurl in a motorcycle accident and that he needed $40 to take a taxi to see the boy. The caller convinced one resident in the Bellevue Avenue apart- ment to loan him the money, according to the police report, but three subsequent attempts at the Argyle Avenue apartment were unsuccessful. Anyone receiving simitur calls should contact the West Van- couver Police Department at 922-4144. Search team finds stolen boat THE NORTH Shore chapter of the B.C, Lifeboat Society (BCLS) spent an ¢sening searching for a man allegedly thrown overboard recently. The local crew was alerted July 10 at approximately & p.m. by a concerned citizes who reported seeing three men fighting on board a bout just off Spanish Banks. The caller said one of the men had either fallen or been thrown overboard. A boat from the BCLS and the Canadian Coast Guard searched in sain for close to two hours, At nightfall, Buffalo aircraft were called in and continued the search dropping flares in the search area, The search concluded at 10:45 p.m. with the recovery of an abandoned 22-foot pleasure craft, The BCLS towed the boal to the Coast Guard's Kitsilano base. Police luter determined the boat to have been stolen from Kits Marina in Vancouver. An investigation is continuing.