Al0 - Sunday, November 14, 1982 - North Shore News

inquiring
reporter
by
Ellsworth
Dickson

Job security is a very important issue to
many people. But maybe business just is not

good enough for employers to make
promises of job security.

Today's question is:

‘Is asking for job security
unrealistic?’

Mike Butorac
Vancouver

We should be able to
ask our employer for job
security. Employers must
be honest with staff these
days and let them know
how the company is doing
and the future prospects.
_Generally speaking, I
don’t think it is unrealistic
to ask for job security.

* Drene Ius
North Vancouver

No, wé are, going to
' meed teachers, welders,
~and so on, even in bad
times. To ask for job
security is not unrealistic
at all.

Mark Murphy
North Vancouver

For many businesses,
there is no such thing as
“job security. It all
depends on how much
you sell or service, or
’ whatever. Jobs just aren't
secure anymore.

Ken Perkins
North Vancouver

Most people don't have
job security, but of
course, everyone wants
it. To ask for job security
in these hard economic
times is unrealistic

Steven Cohan
North Vancouver

As far as I’m con.
cemed, job secunty is not
even an issue anymore
Lots of long-time cm
ployees are losing their
jobs and there is nothing
they can do about it

YOUNG
despairing at the prospect of
, getting into a career at a
time .of record unem-
ployment may be en-
couraged to know there are

PEOPLE

still
building.

Former Burrard Yarrows
Corporation board chairman
Bill Hudson commented at
the time of his recent
retirement he was concerned
that in spite of a vigorous
apprenticeship program the
shipyard industry is failing to
attract enough young
people.

“There are great op-
portunities for young people
to make a career in this
business,” he said, “careers
that will lead into good
management positions.”

The recession has failed to

dampen the enthusiasm of-

Hudson about the future of
the industry. -

“I think the future - with
certain ups and downs - is
pretty sound,” he com-
mented in the Burrard
Yarrows Review, the
company’s newsletter.

Hudson, who joined
Burrard Y arrows in 1953 and
became president in 19772,
predicts the trade will
remain steady.

“Canada is going to retain
a definite requirement for
shipbuilding and ship
repairing, although we don’t

_ expect to rival countries like

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‘Japan and Korea on a world

scale,” he said.

“I would like to think that
our stability lies in the ship
repair business, plus some
domestic shipbuilding.”

Hudson added: “Our
company is rather unusual in
shipyard circles as one of the
few that has been successful
in the dual role of ship-
building and ship repairing
at the same time.

HUDSON...hopeful

“However, I can’t see that
changing. It’s a_ great
challenge to do both and

that’s the ideal combination -

as we see it now.”

Hudson’s enthusiasm is
tempered with concérn over
a lack of Canadian govetn-
ment policy of shipbuilding.

“Our industry has
maintained for years that it
needs a long-term policy that
can make the industry a little
more stable, a little more
competitive,” he said.

“At the world level,
shipbuilding is a very
political business and,

generally speaking, other

countries have done niore
than Canada has - at least
their. policies have been
consistent.”

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As chairperson of Committee for Fair

Assessments, Betty Griffin helps homeowners
with assessment appeals.

Actions
speak louder
than words

Betty Griffin has consistently fought for:

* Fatr assessments and revisions

of the Assessment
Act

® Closure of the Premier Street landfill and modem
recycling and incineration of garbage.

¢ Strict enforcement of regulations governing tran

sportation of dangerous chemicals to protect North
ncouver from potential disaster.

¢ Clean up and restoration of Seymour, Lynn and other
creeks.

Betty GRIFFIN

for alderman

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