Sees 31 SD Pe ee 88 pages Office, Ecitorial 985-2131 LRB rejects strikers’ application to remove replacement workers THE B.C. Labor Kelations Board (LRB) has rejected an application by the union representing striking North Shore Taxi Ltd. employees te have B.C.'s new labor code used to ban the use of replacement workers currently doing its members’ jobs. - Teamsters Union Local 213 has been on strike against the North Vancouver-based cab company since Nov. 9, 1992. The striking workers employed as dispatchers, staff and mechanics. North Shore Taxi not on strike. The company maintains that it is using company shareholders to do the job of the. striking employees. But the union claims that some of the people doing its members’ jobs are not shareholders and therefore should be considered replacement workers. Ht also maintains that the shareholders sheuld also be classified as replacement workers. Section 68 of the Labor Rela- tlons Code, which came into ef- fect on Jan. 18, bans the use of replacement workers during strikes. North Shore Taxi argued in front of the LRB that, because the labor code became law after the strike began, it does not apply to the company’s labor dispute. are office drivers are By Surj Rattan News Reporter On Jan. 2$, LRB vice-chairman Brent Mullin) agreed with the company. Mullin stated in his ruling that “because the legislation does not either expressly or by necessary implication make Section 68 of the code retrospective in its ap- plication, Section 68 doves not ap- ply to replacement workers who were hired by the employer prior to the proclamation of the code. Mullin also rejected the union’s argument that Section 68 of the labor code applies to all Jabor disjutes prior to the labor bill's becoming law. “Had the legislature wished to apply Section 68 to onzoing strikes and use of services, it could casily have done so. It did not, so it is not my place to read such an intent into the legisla- tion,”’ he stated. But Mullin added that anyone hired by North Shore Taxi after See Negotiations page 5 Hijacking suspects surrender to police Discover wonders of Saltspring Island: 15 Ciassitieds 986-6222 Distribution 986-1337 @ TWO SUSPECTS linked by North Vancouver RCMP in- vestigators to the hijacking of a transport truck loaded with approximately $500,060 worth. of cigarettes sur- rendered to the police on Wednesday. launched a for five The police had search Monday, Feb. 1, suspects involved in the gunpoint. hijacking and theft. ' The driver of the CP Express and Transport truck was kidnap- ped by two male suspects on Monday morning in Vancouver. The hijackers locked the driver of the truck in the trunk of a car and drove the truck ‘to the Squamish Band Mission Reserve in North’ Vancouver, where they attempted to transfer the ciga- rettes into a building once used as an arcade and as 2 cigarette store. Last year the Sputlum West Coast Smokes store, owned by Mohawks from the Six Nations reserve near Brantford, Ontario, was shut down on the North Van- couver site. North Vancouver RCMP Staff Sgt. Ron Babcock said Thursday that a man and a woman from the By Michael Becker News Reporter Squamish Band reserve sur- rendered to the police and face charges of possession of stolen property. Said Babcock, ‘‘They were identified, and we knew who they were anyways. So we just put the word out, and I assume they got legal advice, and they just sur- rendered. “These are minor characters in the thing,’ he said. The two wers released on an undertaking to appear to face the charges. Added Babcock, ‘We have quite a few leads and aspects to follow through, but we’re kind of optimistic that this thing will all come together.” NEWS photo Paul McGrath Weapons seized WEST VANCOUVER Police Const. Jamie Gibson displays some tools of the street-tough trade. The items were selzed recently from a group of youths invalved in an Incident on Marine Drive in West Vancouver. Sea story on page 3.