Picketing at the site

of the new ICBC
headquarters at
Lonsdale Quay will

seriously hamper plans
by the corporation to
move into. that
building, according to a
provincial Labor
Relations Board report.

But the LRB ruled Friday
that members ofthe striking
Office’ and Technical
Employees . Union (OTEU)
can continue picketing the
site in support of their
demands for a new contract
with the corporation.

The OTEU began
picketing the site Tuesday
and 85 construction workers
involved in the project,
scheduled for completion in
the fall of 1982, have been
off work since that time.

Six construction com-
panies contracted to work
on the $28 million project
applied to the LRB last week
to have the pickets removed.

The insurance corporation
is currently headquartered in
three buildings in Vancouver
and plans to move to North
Vancouver at the end of
1982. .

Company spokesman Pen
Hall said lease extensions
have been negotiated at two

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But the company does not
yet have an extension at the
Royal Centre, where the
lease is due to expire at the
end of 1982.

Hall said the corporation
has been involved in
negotiations since February
and is confident an
agreement can be reached...

But the LRB decision
notes that “if the newhead

office is not complete . by |
December 31, 1982, ICBC —

will be in the difficult
position of
premises for eleven floors of
its head office, including its
computer operation.”

“The effect of the delay
today may not only delay the
move to the new office
tower, it may make that
move impossible.”

This was the main reason
that the LRB has allowed the
picketing to continue.

The OTEU workers have

been on strike since March, |

and in the LRB decision,
vice-chairman Gabricl

Somjen notes that “the strike |

and picketing activity of the
OTEU has to date had little

direct economic impact on —

ICBC.” ‘
“ICBC’s revenue is ac-
tually higher now than

before the strike,” the board |
decision said.

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