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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

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Siding with employer
fo save auto business

STAFF of Lions Gate Plymouth Chrysler are so
determined to take 11 per cent pay cuts rather
than risk losing jobs that they are prepared to
leave their union in order to do so.

The service shop staff are
members of the Canadian
Association of Industrial
Mechanical and Allied
Workers (CAIMAW), who
settled their own agreement
with the employer rather
than leaving it to
negotiations. -

Manager Mike Canic told
staff the business was in such
rough shape that unless
immediate savings were
made then the only Chrysler
outlet on the North Shore
would be threatened with
closure.

Offered the option of
paycuts or layoffs, — staff
agreed to take an 11 per cent
pay reduction.

They are hoping
negouations may be able to
spread the reductions to
other areas and sull bring
about the same savings but if
the only final answer is the
11 per cent pay cut they will
take it.

Tenants
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And if the union won't go
along with that, the staff will
leave the union, according
to shop. steward Al
Robinson.

Union officers, two shop
stewards and Lions Gate
management are due to mect
Thursday.

CAIMAW Vice-President
Peter Cameron says he will
be going there to negotiate
and has several suggestions
to put forward which might
help avoid pay cuts.

But manager Canic, says
the only purpose of the
meeting is to formally write
up a contract of what has
already been agreed - an II
per cent pay cut.

Meanwhile, CAIMAW
has lodged a complaint with
the labor relations board,
accusing Lions Gate of
contravening labor law by
bypassing the negotiating
process and by intimidating

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on trees outside their homes.

Tenants Lynnmour
Village 1, on Premier Strect
became concerned
they
sprayed chemicals

program

linked to physical and
mental hazards and birth
defects

Within 48 hours they got
the owners of the complen.
Crosby Management. so
jammed up in bureaucratic

Reaching Every Door on t

By CHRIS LLOYD

channels that the Company
agreed to abandon — the
spraying program
Information notices that
the spraying was to go ahead
Wednesday were placed in
tenants’ mailboxes Tuesday
around noon The notices
warned in capital Ictters that
children must be kept away

No chemicals for Lynnmour

OPPOSITION by residents of a 128-unit low
income apartment complex in North Vancouver
has killed a plan to spray chemical insecticides

from cquipment and ap
pheators that) would be
spraying Diazanon 12'4 BC
Several tenants had
already collected thetr mail
for the day so did not see the
noice prior to the day set for
the spraying and the at
tendant of a daycare in the
building said she did not
even receive a notice
Michach and | aurina
Calver, who have a ground
floor apartment there, were
concemed because — their
daughter only recently came
outoof Laons Gate Hospital
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STILL ON THE JOB and giad to be working, shop steward Al Robinson says he'd rather stay employed and
earn less than see layoffs. (lan Smith photo)

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