NE IGHBORHOOD HOUSE

FROM PAGE. A5

‘‘They’ve closed off the
one portion of the House that
was producing revenue,’’
Hochu adds.

Larkin, Hochu and the
third woman were responsi-
ble for developing and im-
plementing a number of
programs.

Larkin, whose position is
partially funded from grants,
was responsible for program-
ming . for .130 senior citizens
in social service programs
and another 170 in recreation
and fun activities.

-Hochu and the third
woman co-ordinated fitness
and recreation classes and
two out of school day care
programs that were heavily
used by the community.

According to Souberin, the
three union members will be
replaced with a single,
management position. The
- job has not been offered to
any of the three, but they are
‘*welcome’’ to apply for the
position when it is posted, he
said.

Larkin charges that the
board of directors of the
house has been attempting to
keep its financial difficulties
quiet.

**They didn’t want it made
public because of the the
perceived impact (the infor-
mation) would have on the
public,’’ she says.

Larkin takes strong excep-
tion to earlier comments of
society president Georgina
Coustalin that the
Neighborhood House deficit
is largely related to the effects

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Monday 7:30 pm.

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Monday 7:30 pm.

‘of unionization of employees

and cuts in provincial govern-
ment funding.

She adds she is not dealing
with the situation as a union
person but as a ‘‘long-time

- employee of the house’’ con-

cerned with its future

She will, she says, fight to
ensure the members of the
Society that operates the
house knows what is going
on.

Information provided by
Larkin claims most of the un-
funded expenditures of the
board since 1980 have been
for management. |
~ According to Larkin the
causes of the heavy debt load
are the equivalent of six mon-
ths pay given as severatice
pay to former executive
director John Braithwaite,
approximately. $24,000 paid
to professional negotiators,
the $13,000 salary paid a
private secretary to the ex-
ecutive director, salary in-
creases for the day care
superviser and the executive
director and the cash settle-
ment that resulted from a
wrongful dismissal suit filed
against the board by a
management member.

Larkin also charges that
annual deficits in the opera-
tion of day care programs are
“*bailed out from funds sup-
posedly provided for recrea-
tion and social service pro-

grams’’ and ‘‘income from .

keep fit and lifest style pro-
gtams of the house’’.
Larkin also provided
copies of letters exchanged by
workers and the board of
directors in 1980 — before

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Tuesday 7:30 pm.

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the union was in place — in
which the employees of the
House attempted to improve
relationships with
management.

An unsatisfactory response
to those concerns. led to the
certification.of the union, ac-
cording to Hochu. .

Earlier, the union - said

Larkin adds that a wage in-
crese given in 1980 — which

had‘been approved two years
earlier by the board but had
been. withheld. 5

Sct | | GID GER JAR

membership,” Larkin says,

adding she has seen too much
happen ‘‘at the expense of
Open a days a week

the House because of fights
between: Management and the
union.”’

“Vm doing this as an in-
dividual with my own ideas,’’
she says. ‘‘I want the truth to
come out.”’

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