A8 - Wednesday, March 21, 1984 - North Shore News get this straight by Doug Collins Get rich by pressing elevator buttons WHAT'S NEW AT BCIT? YOUR CAREER CAMPUS This is BCIT’s 20th Anniversary year. We'd like you to come and celebrate with us at numerous events that will take place throughout the year. OPEN HOUSE March 23, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. March 24, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. widgets in Park Royal. He charges $20 for them. But the fellow across the mall from him offers to sell the same thing for $15. ‘‘Unfair,’ TL viee OF IT this way. There’s a guy selling | bunch of braying bullies to block the entrance to a his competitor’s store, with the result that the public can’t buy there. If that were to happen, the police would restore order in no time. But exactly the same thing has been going on at that construction site over on False Creek and nothing has _been done. For nearly three weeks now the law has been defied and the unions have been yelling and that theirs was the only product that could be bought. They have also threatened that, if they don’t get their way, there'll be no Expo 86. A marvellous example of union fascism. BIZARRE RULES The building trades unions have long thought of themselves as God’s darlings, and have been spoiled rotten. Extortionary demands were the order of the day and the closed shop — in which they do the hiring — gives them almost total power. But that’s not the half of it, as a GLASSES FRAMES not apply) = Take advantage of our one low price and get top quality single vision glasses with regular clear tenses, and your choice of frames valued up to $54.95 (impact resistant glass and CR-39 plastic lenses and all other extras additional). Another tremendous value at The Optical Dept of London Orugs! (Other discounts do talk with the Construction Labor Relations Association people reveals. The working day is suppos- ed to be seven and a half hours, but surveys have shown that the employer is lucky to get five hours. The working day is reduced by elongated coffee and meal breaks, plus ‘‘wash-up’’ time before leaving the job. ‘““We pay an average of $22.77 an hour: basic, in- cluding benefits,’’ CLRA man Chuck McVeigh told me. **Non-union contractors pay $15. We pay double time for overtime, they pay time and a half. They give eight statutory holidays, we pro- vide 14. They pay no travel time, we pay up to $30.”’ Some of the rules are bizarre. If an out-of-town contractor wants a couple of extra plumbers and they’re not available locally, he can only get them through the NOW AT THE OPTICAL DEPT. OF LONDONDRUGS 7G TS oo UNTIL MARCH 24 SINGLE VISION COMPLETE WITH 1984 FASHION Come for service. Come for selection. Come for value. THE OPTICAL DEPT. OF LONDON DRUGS INSIDE LONDON DRUGS 2032 Lonsdale Ave. 987-2264 Bring in your pfescription or we can duplicate your present glasses EYE EXAMINATIONS ARRANGED union hall in Vancouver and must put them up in a hotel, which, by contract, must be “‘first class."" And that’s where they system becomes —.... March 25, 10 a.m.-4p.m. | Our students are celebrating BCIT’s 20th Anniversary year with a spectacular Open House to be held at BCIT, 3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, March 23, 24, 25. ever ~ though they are local residents and are living at home, the rest.of the plumb- ing crew must be paid a hotel rate too. The electricians are not quite so lucky, however. They get only $25 a day for living at home when out-of- towners are present. PRICED OUT Many of the examples of economic stupidity are of the kind associated with the im- possible British unions. The elevator in a high-rise may have been installed, for in- stance, rendering the outside hoist-crane unnecessary. But the operating engineers claim the right to operate the eleVator, dnd a man sits there all day pushing buttons, just as if automatic elevators hadn’t been invented. ‘‘That can cost $300 a day,’’ said McVeigh. What it all adds up to is that the construction unions have priced themselves out of the market, or at least out of this modern-day market. But they act as if nothing had CONTINUED ON PAGE A9 aN, Bring the family — Admission and Parking are Free. There'll be dozens of exhibits, plenty of refreshments (plus a Coke/Pepsi challenge booth), a big EXPO 86 display —- and so much more. Find out from our students what it takes to prepare for careers in the challenging world of today’s technology through hands-on computer displays, robotics demonstrations, ‘state of the art’ radio and TV broad- casting. See Operations Management in action in their simulated Heliport using real helicopters and their transportation display using rigs and semis — and so much more. - Experience life in a Mining camp. Visit our Logger’s Sports on Fri- day and Saturday where teams from all over the Pacific Northwest and Alberta will compete. Stargaze in our Planetarium — and so much more. & Learn how to detect radiation and how to protect yourself from it. See scans produced in our Nuclear medicine lab. Find out all about ECG simulators, Operating Room Equipment and Electrosurgical units. Tour our new Prosttietics lab, see how artificial limbs are made — and so much more. Find out how to construct a satellite, layout a bungalow using a computer, the latest ways to measure air pollutants — and so much more. Get a hand-made, custom house sign from the Lumber and Plywood display. Walk through our ideal garden layout. Bring your garden questions, and soil samples for testing, find out about pro- pagating and safety in the garden at the Landscape Horticulture display —- and so much more. Visit our greenhouses where you'll find displays featuring drip ir- rigation, propagation from pliant cell material, pesticide safety and spraying for greenhouses, a vineyard — and so much more. There'll be an International Food Fair and a practical demonstra- tion of how to run a restaurant plus our regular food outlets — and so much more Come and see what BCIT can do for you — the Career Campus, where goals become realities. HI-TRAC and CO-OP. BCIT's Hi-Trac education tn Electrical/Electronics is already under way. 240 students are currently on Hi- Trac who will progress to Robotics and Micro-electronics later this year. More students will begin Hi-Trac in May BCIT's co-op (internship) students will begin their first work terms in September. The new Hi-Trac tacihties tor Robotics, Micro-electronics and GADICAM will open this spring PROSTHETICS & ORTHOTICS New facilittes. to house the only program of its kind Wes! of Toronto, will be opened on Apal 3 by the Honourable James Nuetsen. Minister of Health) BCIT trains terchnologists to design and tt all kinds of artificial limbs, and welcomes inquines trom potential volunteers to take part in the program CONTINUING EDUCATION CAREER COURSES FOR PART-TIME STUDENTS begin the week of April 2 in Burnaby and April 24 at the Downtown Education Centre, 549 Howe Street, Vancouver. BCI sear oaiide shddactadoeeiaiaiadeniietaicei ubifadiniz ata ara tae teaanertaapmammentaannrdaame ae amonbbeniaentmaenangiamamavenbaed emai Heine ete pedir SEI ORE os