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A NORTH VANCOUVER bia anver, w who is shop
steward for the Independent Canadian Transit
Union, charged this week that the Metro Operating

Company is harassing workers.

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Tom Nordlund says that
management of the North
Vancouver bus garage is at-
tempting to provoke workers
to walk off the job, ending
their ‘‘unstrike’’ against the
bus operating company.

Nordlund says the com-
pany has posted a number of
route sheets, attached to free-
standing pieces of plywood,
in the drivers’ bull-pen area,
leading to over-crowding of
already cramped quarters.

“*They’ve cut the space
available to drivers down to
less than 100 square fect,’’
said Nordlund. ‘‘In the mor-
nings we have as many as 20
drivers in there.

‘*Management 1s going out

of its way to harass the
drivers to start a walk-out.”’

Nordlund said he was told
by a Metro Transit superviser
in North Vancouver that the
sheets of plywood would stay
up in the bullpen despite the
driver’s refusal to sign the
route sheets.

That refusal is part of the

union’s ‘‘unstrike’’ aimed at
forcing management to come
to agreement on a new con-
tract. The drivers have been
without a contract since last
March.

“I asked who had ordered
the sheets put. up: and’ they
said the orders came from
‘up.above’,’’ Nordlund said.
He adds he was told the
sheets would remain up
indefinitely.

The posting of the-ssheets is
part of what Nordlund
charges is a campaign of ‘‘in
timidation and harassment
to try and get someone to do
something stupid and start a
walk-out.”’

‘*Management,”’ he says,
“‘doesn’t seem to want to
help the situation.”’

A spokesman for the com-
pany could not be reached
for comment prior to press
time.

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Rojas guilty,

jury decides

CARLTON ROJAS of North Vancouver has been
found guilty of second degree murder, ending a
two-week ordeal for a 22-year-old West Vancouver

By MARK HAMILTO

woman.

Ingrid Smith, chicf witness
for the prosecution, was ac-

cused of the murder by Rojas
in his testumony before the
court.

Rojas, 33, was sentenced
Thursday, after the News’
deadline, for the murder of

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