Al9 - Wednesday, April 4, 1984 - North Shore News

AROUND THE PROVINCE

TODAY IN VANCOUVER

MEMBERS OF B.C.’s two
pulp unions are meeting in
Vancouver today as tension
grows in the pulp and paper
industry.

Executive members of the
Canadian Paperworkers
Union (CPU) and Pulp and
Paper Workers of Canada
(PPWC) are expected to
begin meeting as the pro-
vincial government com-
pletes its legislation ordering
the companies and unions to
go back to work.

It had been expected the

Houses
cost
less:
study

A PROVINCIAL Gov-
ernment study says the cost
of owning a home in B.C. is
at its lowest level in seven
years.

The study says a family
need only spend 24 per cent
of its income on an
‘‘average’’ home, purchased
with a 25 per cent down
payment and a five year
mortgage.

That’s almost half of the
percentage of family income
needed to pay for a
mrotgage during the height
of the housing crunch in
1981 when high property

prices and soaring interest
rates all but killed the
market.

According to the
government, the 24 per cent
level is the lowest since 1978.

ATTORNEY GENERAL
Bonan Smith has warned the

Vancouver Pobce that he'll
move against them uniess
they start) defivering court
documents

Smith's statement was

made Tuesday and was the
latcst shot ano the was) be
tween the Attorney General
and lower mainland councils
over whether police should
be handling the documents

The responsibility for
delivering subpeonas and
summonses was stripped

trom the provincial sheriffs
service and given to
municipal pole forces on
April |

Munictpahues throughout
the Lower Matntand,
claaming the move will cost
them tens of thousands of
dollars a year, have ordered

avian members of police
forces not to handle the
documents

In places were municipal

police forces arc in caistence

such as Vancouver the
police are handhng only top
proonmty documents

mills would be opened - strike.

Monday, after Premier Bill The two unions have
Bennett announced the _ taken different stances ,on
back-to-work legislation the strike, with the CPU
Thursday night. expecting union workers

But while the mill owners
lifted the lock-out that has
kept the industry shut-down,
the pulp unions went on

throughout the province to
stay off the job and the
PPWC considering the issue
of going back to work a

matter for local decision.

In one instance pulp
workers repesented by the
CPU who had returned to
work at a mill in Mackenzie
were ordered to leave the site
by the union’s head office.

The meeting today will
examine the options the

unions have in the face of
the back-to-work legislation.
As well as ordering the

pulp mills to resume
operations, the provincial
government has ordered

contract talks to begin again
with Clark Gilmor, executive
director of the B.C. Media-

Pulp unions meet over strike

tion Services, as mediator.

If a settlement isn’t
reached, the provincial
government will then force a
settlement on the industry.

Union leaders have hit
that provision, claiming it
strips them of their right to
negotiate a settlement.

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