August 29, 1993 Office, Editorial 985-2131

44 pages

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A BOY. an umbrella and a beach combine to

HAPPY CAMPERS

Why rough it on the road
when you can travel in

luxury”

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Gate Bridge looking straight dawn.

BC Rau planning to lay off 500 workers

THE DISPUTE between BC Rail and its unionized
employees heated up Thursday shortly after the legistated
cooling-down period began and it was known that up-
proximately 500 unionized workers were expected to be laid
off by Monday,

“Hes a tepical BO Rail trick,’
said Clyde Mathalf, Council af
Trade Uniens (CTU) yiee-chair-
man,

Mulhall was speaking about the
approximately 100) hevoff notices
that were given fo unionized
employees one day after retaraing
to work fist week folowing the:
five-week BC Riail strike.

The 1,600 BC Rail

By Anna Marie D'Angelo

News Reporier

euiployvees were iegimMated back fo
eotk dust Monday. And a 90-day
cooling-ofl operigd was iiposed
by the provincial covernment,
“The date of die aet is to have

unienived the employees get back to wark,

have cooler heads prevail and vet
an agreement," said Mulhall “By
ming aff our emplovees the day
after certainiy: doesm'b get cooler
heads to prevail"

Mulhall said the CTU wrote to
the Crown-owned railway | ex-
presaing concerns that the layers
violated othe BOO Ferries and
Railway Act

Moathall said if the railway did
netoreply by goon on Friday, the
CTU would ask the Labor Rela
dens Board for an tasmediate
fearing on the issue,

BC Rall spokesman Jeanine

See Mediator page 5

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your budget.

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Hews photo Tery Pelers

make up an interesting composition as seen from the north end of the Lions

NEWS phote Paul McGrath

A BC Rail worker checks to see if railcars are coupled on a
northbound freight train that left the company’s main North Van-
couver rail yard on Tuesday afternoon.