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NORTH Vancouver’s Pacific Marine Training Instifute
(PMTD is running into rough union negotiation waters.

The 32 members of the in-
stitute’s Marine Training Faculty
Association (MTFA) voted 90 per
cent in favor of striking Feb. 13.

MTFA president Colin Richard-
son said Tuesdgy that negotiations
had bogged down in the face of an
inflexible position taken by the in-
stitute’s negotiators.

Money, he emphasized, was not
a major issue in negotiations:

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“What we are up against here is
concessionary bargaining and the
threatened floss of some basic
rights won in past agreements."
Among those concessions
threatened in the negotiations, ac-
cording to Richardson, are clauses

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affecting seniority and eligibility
for statutory holidays.

ABOLISH OVERTIME

Richardson also said that PMTI
negotiators are tcjing to increase
the hours of instructors teaching
technical courses from 21 to 24 per
week, and abolish instructors’ first
three hours of overtime.

Of particular concern to the
MTFA, Richardson said, is the
employer's insistence on

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withholding instructar increment
payments, which he says have not
been paid since April, 1985.

“Basically what we want,"
Richardson said, ‘tis to be able to
come to work with pride.”’

WITHOUT CONTRACT

Instructors at the institute carn
between $35,000 and $46,000 an-
nually. Total annual PMT!
operating budget is close to $1.8
million,

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The MTFA has been without a
contract since March, 1985. Union
and management have been
negotiating since May.

Instructor contracts normally
run on a 12-month basis. The last
contract, however, ran for two

years.
PMTI principal Derek Hughes
said Tuesday contract negotiations
with the MTFA were still in prog-
ress, ‘‘and 1 don't wish to negoti-
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THE RE-ROUTING of a dangerous commodity by rail
through North Vancouver is a proposal the Railway
Transport Committee (RTC) will be considering.

A week of hearings will be held
by the RTC, a sub-committee of
the Canadian Transport Commis-
sion, on alternatives to shipping
dangerous goods — such as liquid
petroleum gas, anhydrous am-
monia and sulphur dioxide —
through the downtown Vancouver
core.

A December order of the RTC
stated that no more hazardous
commodities would be moved
through Canadian Pacific’s (CP)
downtown Vancouver dock as of
April 15.

AMMONIA TRANSPORT

The RTC will consider North
Vancouver’s Canadian National
(CN) terminal as an alternative for
shipping 100 carloads of
anhydrous ammonia.

In its recommendation, the RTC
states it will give ‘‘fulf considera-
tion of CN’s proposal that the
Seaspan slip in North Vancouver
be used to handle that part of the
CP dangerous commodity traffic
consisting cf anhydrous am-
monia.”’

But North Vancouver District
Mayor Marilyn Baker, who will be
attending the hearings with North
Vancouver City Mayor Jack

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News Editor

Loucks, said that neither she nor
Loucks had been contacted by CN,
CP, the RTC or the producers of
the dangerous goods us to re-
routing the goods through North
Vancouver.

ADAMANTLY OPPOSED

“North Vancouver is presenily
handling sevea and a half times the
carload capacity annually than
Vancouver,’’ Baker said, adding
that she is “tadamantly opposed to
adding any more commodities into
North Vancouver, with its already
congested yard situation.”’

Approximately 1,702 carloads of
dangerous goods are presently
transported through Vancouver,
and 12,605 carloads are
transported through North Van-
couver, Baker said.

The mayor stressed the need to
focus on a longterm plan, where
the safety af movement is the key.

She said a consensus must be
reached by Lower Mainland
mayors and the provincial and
federal governments on a route.