2 - Sunday. December 24, 1989 - North Shore Neves

Shipyard workers vote on contract

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HERE comes Santa Claus!
News photographer Cindy
Goodman caught the Jolly Fit
himself on a trial run of his an-
sual Christmas Eve journey.
Children across the North
Shore — and around the world
— wilt be anxiously waiting {
Santa’s visit tonight. The North ,

Shore News wishes all much joy
for the holiday season.

UNICNIZED WORKERS at Versatile Pacific Shipyards
Inc.'s Victoria yard were scheduled Thursday to recast
ballots on a company contract offer initially recommended

for acceptance by union
recommended for rejection.

Victoria workers originatly
voted Tuesday on the tentative
agreement, which had been com-
pleted over the weekend with the
help of mediator Vince Ready and
had been recommended for accep-
tance bv negotiators for the 23

negotiators,

but subsequently

unions employed at Versatile.

But on Wednesday, angry union
leaders in Vancouver recommend-
ed rejection of the agreement,
maintaining that its tinal wording
was different from what bad been
agreed to over the weekend.

Versatile workers employed at
the company’s North Vancouver
yard cast ballots Wednesday on the
agreement, but neither their vote
nor the re-vote of their Victoria
counterparts had been counted to
press time.

Union representatives said
Thursday the contentious work
flexibility demand from Versatile
had been settled in the offer, but
the wording of other clauses in the
agreement had not.

The outstanding issues are simi-

lar to those that cesulted in Ver-
satile’s unions refusing to. sign
their previous two-year contract
with the company.

That contract was ratified in Oc-
tober 1988 by a 60 per cent union
membership majority. It expired
Aug. 3) but had never been signed
by Versatile’s unions because of a
disagreement over the contract’s
final wording.

Unions have been on strike at
Versatile’s North Vancouver yard
since Dec. 5.

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