June 12, 1992 100 pages

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FOUR PEOPLE were sent to Liens Gate Hospital on June 9 following a motor vehicle accident at the
intersection of Mount Seymour Parkway and Riverside Drive. According to a Nerth Vancouver RCMP
spokesman, a vehicle driven by Zaid Towaij collided with a car driven by Patricia Haliburton, who had
been attempting a left turn onto Riverside at about 12:30 p.m. Passengers Stephen Tomlin and Andrea
Markham sustained serious injuries in the accident. Witnesses are asked to contact Const. Dale Wagner

at 985-1371.

Workers balk at signing severance agreement
with Versatile; call for Schreck’s resignation

A LAID-off North Vancouver shipyard worker is urging
all other former shipyard employees to refuse to sign an
agreement from Versatile Pacific Shipyards Inc. (¥PSI)
that will give displaced workers only one day's severance
pay for each year they have worked.

Joe Brown, spokesman for the
Versatile Displaced Workers’
Committee, has also called oi
North Vancouver-Lonsdale NDP
MIA | David Schreck to. resign

By Surj Rattan

News Reporter

over the issue, saying Schreck has

done nothing to help the VPSI
workers who have lost their jabs.

Versatile has effectively closed
its North Vaneouser sard, main-
taming ooly aoskeleton crew. ft
was lorced to lay off virtually its
entire North Vancouver workforce
fast year when it ran into major
financial difficulties.

Phe company is wow asking the
laid-off workers to sign the sever-

pay agreement which effec-
the company from
further financial
to displaced

ance
tively releas
providing any
compensation
workers.

Brown claimed that no one had
signed the release, but a union of-
ficial said most of the shipyard's
displaced workers have signed it.

“de ostinks. The whole deal
sinks. No one is signing it,’ said
Brown. “Our committee took a
vole on it (agreement) and turned
it down,”

Brown said) that while the
agreement cally for the payment
of one day's severance pay for

each year worked, working days
are taken away from an employee
if days were missed for illness or
injury.

“The union said ‘sign it, or you
get nothing.” One of the esecu-
tives of the union took this form
to Allied (North Vancouver ship-
yard) and said: ‘You have to sign
it or you get nothing.’

“He (the union executive) said
the other unions are signing it.
That's a lie,” said Brown.

But’ Marine Workers
Boilermakers’ — Industrial

aad
Union

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