YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1969 May 31, 1987) News 985-21 rs 2 el? Classified 986-6222 wn Ee oy Distribution 986-1337 # VOLUNTARILY subscribe to the North Shore News for one sear and be etigible to win thousands of dollars worth of prizes. [In return tar your $245 subscription you will receive two free classified ads valued at S18 plus a chance to win an Alaskan cruise. See details on pages $2, 20, 26, 36 and 50. 64 pupes 25¢ NEWS photo Stuart Davia BRICK DAVIES (right) and Jim Buck (left) do finishing work on the 6,550-seat temporary stadium being built at West Vancouver's Hollyburn Country Club for the 1987 Federation # Cup. The July 26 to Aug. 2 international women’s tennis competition will feature the best 180 women tennis players from 45 different countries. Ticket sales to the eight-day event W have been overwhelming thus far. An army of volunteers is needed to hel p run the tournament. See story, page IT. West Van restaurant workers withdraw from BCGEU EMPLOYEES of North Vancouver's Salmon House on the Hill have voted 70 per cent in favor of withdrawing from the B.C. Government Employees Union (BCGEU). Though the decertification vote tock place April [1, 1986, the 42 ballots were not counted until early this month to allow for the in- vestigation of unfair labor practice applications filed with the Labour Relations Board of B.C. by the union on behalf of Salmon House employees. . Of the ballots cast in the vote, 28 were for decertification, 12 were against and two were discarded as spoiled ballots. Salmon House on Hill the By TIMOTHY, REN? Sews Reporter einplovees originally voted to join the union Feb, 22, 1985 after che restaurant was acquired by a sub- sidiary of a major Japanese enter- tainment equipment and video game company. They became the first employees working in a pri- vately owned Lower Mainland res- taurant to be certified in a B.C. government union. The unfair tabor practice ap- plications were filed with the LRB after two Salmon House kitchen staff were fired by the restaurant's new management following the original union certification. BCGEU spokesman Joy Mac- Phail said Friday the union was unhappy with the results of the Salmon House on the Hill vote. “We are always disappointed,’ she said, “when an employer ap- plies the kind of pressure on employees that leads to decertifica- tion from the union." The Salmon House on the Hill was acquired from International Land Corp. Ltd. on Dec. 24, 1984 sp SU SGA ERASE BS BUTE EER SG GE BSR 3 a ES PET NTT CLEATS HL 3 Se ne NS by Nintendo Entertainment Cen- tres Lid. Nintendo, which was incor- porated in B.C. in June 1983, and also operates Chuck E Cheese's restaurant, is a subsidiary of Nintendo Co. Ltd. of Japan. Nintendo Entertainment — vice- president Peter Kaltenrieder said Friday the restaurant's employees had originally voted for union cer- tification because they were afraid the new Salmon House owners would make wholesale changes to the staff and the restaurant's operation. He said communication pro- blems with some of the restau- SSR rant’s kitchen staff, which was 85 per cent Chinese-speaking, made it difficult to assuage employee fears. Kaltenrieder denied that there had been any pressure applied by the company on employees to opt out of the union. He said the two kitchen employees had been fired because, in the opinion of the new Salmon House management, they did not have adequate kitchen skills. He added that the restaurant's business was keeping pace with last year’s Expo bonanza, ‘and that’s a credit to the management and the employees. We have no need for a union here,”’