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AS - Sunday, March 20, 1983 - North Shore News

A STUDY SESSION called to protest the layoffs
of 15 workers effective Friday reduced North
Vancouver City hall to about 10 per cent of its
regular workforce as Canadian Union of Public
Employees members stayed off the job.

CUPE local 389 Secretary
Treasurer Diane Jolly told
the News the study session at
the Avalon Hotel “was
precipitated by the callous
actions of City council.”

A CUPE delegation is
scheduled to appear before
City council tomorraw
(Monday) evening con-
cerning the layoffs of 15
members and the demotion
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Mayor Jack Loucks says
council will listen to the
presentaion openly and give
full consideration § to
whatever ts put forward.

He stresses council was
reluctant to introduce the
layoffs and did so only after
suggesting a work-sharing

program, which failed to

receive a response from

CUPE. Se,
The measures became

necessary, he says, when a
meeting with the engineernng
department made it obvious
“that we had more men than
we had work.”

A decision to tntroduce
work-shanng would have
required consent by CUPE,
he says. Temporary layoffs
were put forward as an
alternative solution and went
into effect Friday = as
scheduled. by which time

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council had received no
alternative proposal from
CUPE.

Loucks questioned whether
Wednesday's study session,
which reduced City hall toa
skeleton staff of exempt
personnel, was a legal work
stoppage.

He says'the layoffs of the
15S might be in effect until

Study session protests
NV City hall layoffs

June and hopes they would
not become permanent.

One alternative put before
council ws to lay off as many
as 30 employees, Loucks
says.

“But ‘that was pretty
drastic and there was no way
we wanted to look at that.”

Meanwhile CUPE
secretary-treasurer Jolly is
not consoled. She = says
council] has not given the
union any details of what the
budget will be to back up its
claim that there is not
sufficrent work for the
employees, and will give no
guarantee that the layoffs
will in fact be temporary.

Opened door to trouble

AN ELDERLY man parking

his car in the 1700 block
Marine Drive in West
Vancouver Tuesday
afternoon found himself in
trouble as soon as he opened
the door.

A passing cyclist tried to
swerve to avoid the door but
slammed right into it.

Cyclist Fred Lansink. of

North Vancouver suffered
scrapes to his knees and a
sore chest and his bike was
damaged to the tune of $400.
But it was far from a write-
off — not when a bike is
valued at $2,500.

Car driver John Ramsey,
of Vancouver, has been
charged with opening a door
while unsafe to do so.

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