4 - Friday, February 7, 1986 - North Shore News

Union miffed by wage offer

UNIONIZED WORKERS at North Shore Neighbourhood
House say they are upset that management is refusing to

offer a higer wage increase.
The union argues since the
nou-profit organization is debt-
free and anticipates a budget
surplus next year, workers should
be offered a better contract deal.
The 25 members of the Service,
Office and Retail Workers Union
of Canada, who met. with
management Wednesday, claim for
three years they have not asked for
a wage increase in order to help the
house attain financial security.
“This is the worst recession in
B.C. and these people are now sit-
ting back with a surplus and hem-
ming and hawing about giving
their staff a wage increase,’’ said

union representative Joanne
Hochu,
John Lakes, president of

Neighbourhood House, stid the
board has offered a three per cent
wage increase and a one-year con-
tract.

“‘There’s no question our
employees will get a wage increase.

_ The issue is how much,” he said.

The workers involved in
daycare, programming, accoun-
ting, janitorial and clerical services
are asking for a 13 per cent wage
increase. They have been without a
contract since Dec. 31.

The two sides met last Tuesday
and reviewed the social and recre-
ational facility’s financial state-
ment, which shows the house paid
off a $60,000 debt over the past
two years.

“They paid off $32,000 last year
alone, so you can calculate roughly
they will have a surplus of at least
that amount to their credit next
year and probably more,’? Hochu
said.

“A non-profit society can’t

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show a profit so if they don’t want
to put it into wages we're concern-
ed they're going to put it all intoa
building fund."'

Lakes said he appreciates the
union’s concern, but the board’s
plan to spend money on upgrading
the facility will not affect their
wage offer.

“No money has been put aside

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(in the past) for building im-
provements and you can only do
that for so long,** he said, noting
building i improvements would help
increase revenue because more
user-fee programs could be of-
fered.

Lakes said the City of North
Vancouver, which owns the
building, has an architect currently
studying the facility.

A final building plan will be
submitted in April, at which time
the city and Neighbourhood House
are expected to enter cost-sharing
negotiations,

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