10 - Sunday, March 3, 1985 - North Shore News inquiring reporter aie Ae by Barrett Fisher THE STRIKE vote recently taken by the in- side postal workers has again raised the question of whether postal service should be viewed as essential. Today’s question is: Should postal | employees have | | the right to strike? :Riccardea Menghini _ Switzerland _No. It's hard if we don’t gget any mail because we with their own problems. I'm: from Switzerland and ‘T need to keep in touch with my family. - ; “N. Christie ° -North Vancouver '*pecause they get good pay :and good benefits. 1 “¢don’t: think they have. a “reason to strike. There's ‘so. many. people that a that Robert. McLachlan ' :Nesth: Vancouver: +: :No,. “right: “to ‘people’s mail:. Their con-; - public. Esther Olynyk | North Vancouver ¢ mo No. 1} don’t:think they Should be able to strike ibecause they’re gov- ernment workers and they :should put out the mail like they always do. They .shouldn’t have the right to strike. ’ Stuart Cairns « West Vancouver Yes, but there should be legislation to make them go back to work if it.gets out of hand, because otherwise it would cripple the community. National action Women's leader speaks out THE PRESIDENT of the National Action Committee (NAC) for the Status of Women says the lot of: women in Canada will improve when women understand where their true interests lie and when women start to refuse to carry the burden of a ‘‘problematic economy”’ themselves. they're not,’’ said Hosck. “They’re in part-time work, they’re in underpaid sectors of the economy, they are often the first people to get - fired and they're the. least likely to get training and © promotion,"’ lies. Wages and promotion | ‘have not caught up with re- ality, added Hosek. And, she said, working women are ‘still responsible for laundry, cooking and housework:’: -_. “They're . basically ‘carry- : need it. They should deal . “"No;..1 -don't think” so, would love’ a job fike . because'they have no, “to “interfere.. with; ‘tract is between them and: ‘| ‘the union —-not-the |: 4 By JOANNE MacDONALD Chaviva Hosek, in Van- couver last weekend to at- tend a meeting of the Advi- sory Committee to the Na- tional Economic Con- ference, said increasing numbers of women and men are beginning to understand the need for a change in the public and personal percep- tion towards' women. ’ She spoke to the North Shore News while at the home of NAC regional rep- resentative and. North Van- couver resident Donna ~ Stewart. ‘It involves the redistribution of responsibil- ity for the raising of children, ‘it, involves the. redistribution of people get--.. ting paid for Work that they do, the redistribution of how many hours a weck that you work and how you get paid for it, and I think it also in- volves, in particular, the redistribution of opportuni- ty,”’ said Hosek. ‘‘Basically the world we have now is one in which’ there’s a - women's . Myo 929-2373 massive affirmative action program in place for white, middle class men. And that's got to stop." . Hosek said one particular issue — that of the economic status of women — has recently become the most pressing issue of the movement. . She said the issue encompasses a wide range of related con- - cerns including equal pay for work of equal value, access to jobs, pension reform for women, social services and programs for elderly women and women with children, as well as childcare. “All the economic issues have been entirely frustrating. That situation has been a problem for a long time. I could even argue that things have gotten worse. They’ve gotten worse not only because- the economy has gotten worse in various places, but also because what we have is women entering the labor force, so everybody says, ‘Hey, they're working. They assume that they're economically better off, but NS) ~ PREPARE YOURSELF FOR A CAREER ~ IN REAL ESTATE Hosek ‘said the reason’ ‘ing a double burden, they’re’ many women are now in the . doing two jobs, and some of work force is because they’ ‘them are being paid’ for one either have an increased. re- “of. those: jobs. 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