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Anna Marie D'Angel

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NORTH Vancouver
Mounties have

taken patrol work
off-road.

fast month, local ctrattic
cops and a ry officers
started using: offroad motor:
cycles to enforce egal
motocross biking on traits and
private property in’ North

iver District,

ogo oul as offen as
posible or when the phone
rings which ever comes first,”
said Sat. Bob Beandoin, head
of the traffic section.

He said “several” people
have been sropped since: the
motocross Officers started fast
month.

Beaudoin said motocross
complaints come in daily dur-
ing sunny weather at the
RCMP detachment or to
municipal council members”
phones.

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Jan-Christian Sorenser

Contributing Writer

BC Ferries Corporation and the B.C. Ferry
and Marine Workers Union (BCFMWU)
reached a tentative agreement late Friday to
Sideline a strike by the union.

BCEMWU's 4,400-strong membership had voted in. 12
strike action fast week and seta deadline of Monday at midmy
if'a new deal was not reached.

Ferry workers have been without a contract since October
1998 and have since reyected three separate offers from the ferry

corporation, the latin February of this year. Under the terms of

the expired contract, workers carn benveen $17.38 and $36.09

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Tentative contract deai awaits
executive and union approval

hour.

On the BCFMWE telephone hotline this weekend, union rep-
resentative Rob Bennie hailed the new agreement.

“The agreement is a fair and innovative package which your
bargaining committee wholeheartedly endorses ... This will bring
anew era of stability to ferry workers and the corporation while
protecting our ving power,” said Bennie.

Details of the tentative deal were not released, but Bennie stat-

ed on the horling chat the package involved two wage inereases of

The bargaining committee will now take the tentative agree-

Wa

A teenage gir! was injured Tuesday afternoon at Park Royal Shopping Centre when the car she was a passenger in was struck head-
on by a Stolen Jeeo Cherokee trying to escape from West Vancouver Police. A suspect was caught after he abandoned the vehicle and

swam across the Capilano River. See story page 3.

ment te its executive and membership before holding a ratifi
tion vote on a date yet to be
Last week the ferry corporation had asked the Labour
Relations Board to class all of its provineial runs as an atial ser-
zat job action on the part of the union, A ruling

fiday by the board designated as essential 50% of the corpo-

BC Ss 40 vessels that operate throughout the
provine ng to the Sunshine Coast, Nanaimo
and Bow “72
runs a day during the

On Tuesday, the
(COTA) called on the provincial government to end the threat of
future ferry strikes by replacing the right to strike with alternative
dispute resolution — employing methods of mediation and arbi-
tration as an alternative to job action.

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