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Strike hits industries hard

27-day BC Rail dispute costing
shipyards, businesses millions

OFFICIALS FROM North
Vancouver-based Vancouver
Wharves Lid. plan to meet
with B.C. Labor Minister
Norm Jacobsen Monday
over the BC Rail strike
which is economically crip-
pling several North Shore
and B.C. industries.

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

The labor dispute, now in its
27th day, is costing BC Rail an
estimated $600,000 a day in lost

revenue. But the rail company is
not the only one losing money in
the strike. Vancouver Wharves
president Harry Wood, said his
company is losing “tens of thou-
sands of dollars’ a day,

“We have a tentative meeting

Mondas. dt
said

with the minister on

(the strike) cannot continue,

Wood. **As innocent third parties,

we're
degrees."

suffering

to) dramatic

He added the situation at Van-

couver

having a

Wharves has
“chronic to critical."

major impact

gone from
The strike is
on the

company's ability to export pulp

and sulphur.

“We're down to 20 per cent of
what we should be handling and

we're
crews, *

employing
‘said Wood.

i800 fewer

And Tony farrett, president of

North

Vancouver's

Vibreco, a

company which exports woodchips

to Japan from Interior
Premier
ins and
He said the strike ts

has asked
Zalm to step
labor dispute.

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sawmills,
Vander
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causing a ripple effect throughout
the province.

“This strike is having & signifi-
cant economic impact onus.”
said Jarrett. “‘Someone has to get
involved in this strike — there has
to be a way of settling it." he
said,

Eartier this week. industrial In-
quiry Commissioner Vinee Ready
submitted ¢ series of recommen-
dations to the Council of Trade
Unions (CTU) and the Crown
corporaion aimed at settling the
labor dispute.

The two sides had until 5 p.m.

and chief negotiator Brian Foley
said Friday that the company
would accept Ready’s recommen-

dations, even though it was not
happy with decisions the veteran
labor relations trouble-shooter

made on the issues of wages and
contracting out, it was unclear to
press-time Friday what the CTU,
which represents seven unions and
1,700 BC Rail workers, would do.

The unions were in the process
of holding separate votes on the
recommendations,

Unions representing about half
of the BC Rail cmplovees have al-

in the strike.

“A lot of our customers are
hurting but they say if it ends
now, they can recover. If it goes
into October, itll be disastrous.
That's the term they've (custom-
ers) used,’* said Foley.

Ready’s recommendations —in-
clude a 30-month collective
agreement between July 1, 1990
and December 31, 1992, with
wage increases of 7.5 per cent on
Oct. 1, 1990 and Oct. £, 199. tt
also includes a $600 signing
bonus,

The CTU had originally puta
wage demand of 23.5 per cent
over one year on the bargaining
table, although the union said: that

orucial date

was only a starting point for
negotiations.
Ready also omiade a series of

recommendations on the conten-

Friday to fet Ready know if they ready recommended that their tious issue of contracting out. an
were going to cither reject or ac. members reject: Ready’s recom- issue at the centre of the labor
cept his recommendations, mendations, dispute. Those inctude:
While BC Rail vice-president Foley said) briday was the See Ready Page &
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