A8 - Sunday, October 2, 1983 - North Shore News

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Tougher LRB needed

Dear Editor:

Last month we witnessed a
manifestation of the growing
trend of today’s Union move-
ment’s attitude of selfish job
action in total disregard to
the public’s inconvenience. |
am referring to the entire
North Vancouver transit
system being shut down as a
result of Metro Transit
Operating Company, the

Whither
waterfront?

OPEN LETTER TO WEST
VAN COUNCIL

I don’t understand why
you are considering a
developer’s plan for the
waterfront in the 1700 block
Argyle when the public has
been lead to believe for at
least the last ten years that

waterfront will all be
gradually acquired by the
municipality over many

years.

Would you please tell me
your present policy on this
matter; if you have changed,
or if you are likely to change
in the future.

1 believe the residents must
have an opportunity to
decide the kind of land use
for our waterfront, that it
cannot be just a mayoral or
council decision.

Mrs. J. Barker
West Vancouver

 EEEEEENORTH SHORE SEES

SCHOOL or COMMERCE

employer, deciding to
transfer one bus driver from
North Vancouver to. its
Oakridge base of operations.

This disruption came
about after the employer had
agreed to proceed to im-
mediate arbitration in its
hope to have the dispute
resolved as quickly as
practicable.

At least the LRB did not
accept the Union’s conten-
tion that their walkout was
legal because the transfer im-
posed on the employee and
his family a necessity to com-
mute. Tsk, tsk. It would ap-
pear that to commute to Van-
couver, all the way from the
North Shore, was just too
much for this par..cular bus
driver.

Thank goodness the
Labour Relations Board con-
cluded that the walk-out was
illegal and ordered the transit
workers back to work. Un-
fortunately, it took from Fri-
day morning until Sunday
night to obtain that ruling.
If, in fact, the Labour Rela-
tions Board is meant to bring
about conciliation and/or
stability in our
labour/management rela-
ions, why did it not grant an
immediate order Friday mor-
ning directing the men back
to work? Then hold a hearing
at the earliest possible con-
venient time - so that the
public would not be further
inconvenienced. Better yet,
why didn’t the Board just
summarily order the Union
back to work and compel
them to utilize the grievance
procedure in their collective

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agreement.

As long as the Labour
Relations Board does not
deal forcibly with irresponsi-
ble illegal work stoppages,
they will continue to occur.
The tactics adopted by the
Union in this case were ill
thought out an
disdain of the
transit users.

It was any
number of people to be in-
convenienced™ by the dis-
rupted transit service while a
dispute of the interpretation
of a collective agreement was
before the LRB. Hopefully,
should such a blatantly illegal
work stoppage occur in the
future, the LRB will gather
up its courage and summarily
compel the Union to have a
matter of contract interpreta-
tion resolved in the form that
it was Originally intended, i.e.
arbitranion.

Finally, on a positive note,
1 congratulate the SeaBus
division employees .who,
although members of the

same union, would have
nothing to do with = their
brothers’ illegal actions.

They clearly understood their
responsibilities to the public
and, as a result, the vital link
across the harbor was
maintained.

John M. Parks, M.L.A.
Maillardville-Coquitlam

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Bennett commending him for
his exceptional patience and
congratulating him for the
timely exercise of the rules of
closure.

The executive noted that
the financial state of the pro-
vince needed immediate at-
tention and that further delay
in taking remedial action was

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aggravating the problems.
They said the opposition had
been given ample opportuni-
ty to express their views, and
saw no usefulness in con-
tinued repetitions.

Mrs. Mae Ross,

President,

Monarchist Association.
Vancouver

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1983

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