Dear Editor:

In your June 29th edition
you printed an open letter to
me from a Ms. Sue Cook. In
her letter she asked me to rep-
ty to four questions. | assume
that the questions were asked
in good faith and 1 welcome
the opportunity to respond in
kind.

Q: Is it true your union is
broke and without any strike
funds, and if so, how can this
strike continue indefinitely?

A: Our Union is only 2%
years old and therefore has
not been able to amass great
sums in a defence fund.
However, the funds we do
have, have been placed in a
Credit Unien to provide
collateral for our members
who now become eligible for
loans of $500 monthly until
the dispute is settled.

Your first question also
makes two incorrect assump-
tions. Namely, that if there
are no funds, workers will
not be able to withstand shut-
downs and secondly, that this
dispute is a strike. (1 will pro-
vide separate explanations on
those two issues on request).

Q: Why is your Union op-
posed to the removal of the
Spareboard which is costing
$2 million per year.

A: The Company’s de
mand for Part-time operators
and the removal of a mini-
mum number of spareboard
operators are meshed
together. The company says
they can save $2 million with
380 Part-time operators.
They plan to assign regular
weekday work to Part-time
operators. Some of that work
is now assigend to Spare-
board operators in the form
of ‘‘rush hour trippers’’. If
you concede that part-time
operators will be absent from
work the same percentage of
time as full-time operators
(studies confirm that fact),
you now have no one to cover
all of the work when absences
occur and runs will be con-
celled. M.T.O.C. has not
replaced any of the 160
operators it has lost through
attrition since February 1982.
Last year they paid regular
operators to work 260,000
hours of overtime and
cancelled tens of thousands
of hours of regular work
because of insufficient man-
power. The demand for Part-
time operators is not for
additional manpower to
cover present work but to
replace full-time operators
lost through attrition from
now on.

Mary ready for

Dear Editor:

I would hke to extend my
very grateful thanks to all
Progressive Conservatives
who participated in the
Nomination Meeting on June
27 at Carson Graham School
1 would particularly hke to
thank everyone who = sup-

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Q: Is it true the Union
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Expo?

A: The Union’s offer to
the Company was for a 3 year
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31, 1986, 1“ months prior to
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tract or a 2 year contract. The
Union would oppose a 4 year
deal unless it could get some
pretty far ranging guaran-
tees. On the other hand, a 2
year deal will see us back at
the bargaining table in 6
months. The problem with
that is this horrendous labour
relations problem we have.
Six months does not give us
enough time to work out
solutions; it only gives us
enough time to reload our
cannons. The government
has the power to prevent us
from using Expo 86 at the
table as a club and !’m sure
they would not be hesitant in
imposing themselves at that
time.

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Q: Are there any other
companies who give their
employees a choice of work,
location, days and hours bas-
ed on seniority?

A: Yes there are stveral.
However, once again | per-
ceive a false assumption
creeping into your logic box.
Signing for work is not a gift.
The Company only ‘‘gives”’
us those things we have bar-

gained for. One of these
things is signing work in
seniority.

But in the same vein let me
ask you a question.

Do you know of any com-
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schedule a worker to work a
7% hour day over a 12 hour
period and whose shift time
is, on average, 7 hours and 28
minutes (no coffee breaks, no
lunch break) (that’s a pro-
ductivity rating of 99%) and
to do that work under con-
stantly differing conditions
and a strict time constraint
while the management spends
Y% million dollars in adver-
tising telling the public that
your driver is a greedy little
worm? How much more are
we expected to give?

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