by MAY 30, 1999 Bright Lights Celebrations Classifieds Crossword Fashion Sports Talking Personals Travel Nonh Strore Free Press Lid Putisher Peter Spec (139 Lonsdale Avenue Nort: Vancouver 8 C v7 oid Leaky conios ii3 Rain-proof walls getting thicker to handie problem Canadian Pudtcanoes Mad Sales Proouct Agreement 43 0087238 52 Pages SUSAN Falls spoke out at a January meeting. What’s all the racquet? HOLLYBUPN Country Club’s Nicholas Khoe returns his opponent's serve during Hollyburn Junior Ciassic 1999 Saturday in West Vancouver. Khoe wen a first-round match, but lost to fourth-seeded Jeremy Salvo 6-1, 6-2. Biue Bus driver's letter to the editor reportedly an act of ‘insubordination’ Kevin Gillies News Reporter A West Vancouver bus driver claims she has lost her job because she wrote a letter to the North Shore News’ editor. Susan Falls, who had been employed with the Blue Bus transit system for three years, was fired when she arrived at work last week. Leather & Lace 1: West Coast designers show fall collections Special 60-page News supplement in today’s paper dur North Shore FREE WV couple sued by their ‘slave’ Bob Mackin News Reporter robert@nsnews.com A British Properties’ couple is being sued by a former domes- tic worker who alleges she was yin BoC. Supreme © Yanto Susilo and Soviany who is unemployed and liv ing damages for breach of contract and com- pensation for unpaid wage The stacement of claim said Tampiana was hired in Indonesia by the defendants in carly 1993 to clean, cook and do laundry for two years ata West Vancouver house. No specific salary was promised, but Tampiana claims she was lured by “hig money.” She was to be paid at regular inte working 40 hours a week. Overtime pay, holi- days and accommodation were promised, she said. Before she left for Canada, the defendants paid Tampiana 1 million rupiahs ($665 Cdn), which was given to her parents. She worked without pay for her first year in Canada and was told if she returned to Indonesia before two years clapsed, her wages would be applied against costs incurred by the defendants to bring her to Canada. NEWS photo Paul MoGrath See Worker page § According to former colleagues, the letter to the editor was deemed “insubordi- nation” and grounds for dismissal even though her letter raised no issue directly with the West Vancouver transit system. Several former Lower Mainland bus drivers ral- lied to her side after her letter was published in the April 14 News. The letter responded to an April 2 letter to the News from former West Vancouver mayor Derrick Humphreys, who argued against merging the two North Shore bus systems. In her letter, Falls rebutted Humphreys, saying passengez safety and fare evasion were more important issues than joining the ovo systems. Falls has been an outspo- ken critic of bus fare fraud and was part of a Jan. 9 News article in which she addressed municipal politicians at a public meeting. Ernest Norman, a former B.C. Transit bus driver now living out of province, said of the public meeting that Falls “blew the whisde on fare fraud. The next day B.C. See Union page 2