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Bob Mackin

News Reporter
bmackin@nsnews.com

WHY is North
Vancouver City
importing its new
fire chief?

The @usition is on the
mind of Barry Sotham, who
retired as assistant chief at the
end of 1999 aficr a 28-year
carver, He hoped his depar-
ture would allow a seniesr off
cr to climb the ladder and
replace Chief Tom Cumming,
who had abruptly retired: last
June alter a dispute with city
hail, Instead, city hall) hired
Reid Douglas away from the
Winnipeg tire department.

Douglas, a d8-vear old
with 26) vears experience, is
assistant. «deputy chief in
Winnipeg. He could not be
reached for communent
Thursday morning. According
toa Wiressipes Free Press story,
he sent his resume “to see how
markerable an assistant deputy
chief from Winnipex might
be."

Douglas was shortlisted

See Claice paue 8

Katharine Hamer

News Reporter
khamer@nsnews.com

HUNDREDS of workers have been laid
off from Vancouver Shipyard this week as
union members gear up for a contract rat-
ification vote.

The Marine and Shipbuilders Union (MISU) Local 504,

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CARSON Graham Grade 11 students Elnaz Boloogh (left to right), Tricia Pronk and Meipo Anayiotos add some style to the school’s box

Labour unrest scares off ship
repair contracts at locai yard

Office and Technical Employees Union Local 15, international
Association of Machinists Local 692, Pipetitters Union Local
170 and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local
213 have been engaged in negotiations with shipyard bosses
since their members” last contract expired Dee. 31, 1999.
MSU business agent Bob Eaton said collective bargaining

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negouations following the expiry of the contract were “diffi-
cult,” bat that the company and the unions had implemented
a 60-day truce, agreeing to a “no strike, no lockout” policy.

That truce caded Feb. 29. A ratification vote on the latest
contract offer is scheduled for tomerrew morning,

Eaton said workers felt Vancouver Shipyards was “playing
hardball.”

“They're winding down oper
anticipation of the vate,” he said. *

sand laying people off in
Pthere’s a labour dispute,

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