January 12, 1986 B.C. Fed leader faces tough year British Columbia Federation of Labor, Art Kube's biggest challenges may still lie ahead. Grestioned and several stressful on-the-job training. In the summer of 1983, Kube was catapulted from an Congress against the Social Credit government's restraint program, as head of Solidarity Coalition, the broad amalgam of ehureh, union and ity groups. which a resolution to raise his $56,000 salary was heatedly criticized before it was approved. In addition, a delegate was applauded for dressing him down for not paying enough attention to delegates’ speeches. ‘To many in the 220,000-member central labor body, be is the second choice. “You never know,” he says, folding his beefy hands on the fake-wood desk in his small office overlooking the east side of Vancouver. “The trade union movement in British Columbia is fairly volatile, I got everything I asked for at this convention — the right ‘to sit down with the NDP for consultation on « legislative agenda.” RETURN TO FOLD The convention also authorized him to speak out more forcefully on economic policy, and it accepted a plan to bring the International Woodworkers of America, the province's largest private-sector union with 35,000 members, back into the fold after a year on the sidelines. , Mo federation president has had more A year after a November 1983 government workers strike that was settled by an ambiguous accord with Solidarity that also dealt with social concerns, Kube was near tears as the federation convention tore itself apart. The woodworkers, headed by Jack Munro, who had taken the final agreement to Premier William Bennett's home while Kube was sick in bed, withdrew from the federation in a dispute with public-sector unions. And Kube finished a humbling second in the first-ballot vote for president, before keeping the job on the second ballot. When his two-year term expires in November, Kube can expect another challenge, possibly from Frank Kennedy, who led on the first ballot in 1984, or from Cliff Andstein, the former government employees union negotiator who now is the federation's secretary-treasurer. PACTS EXPIRE However, Kube must also worry about the expiration of several major collective agreements in 1986 and the next provincial election and transition to NDP government which THE EXPERTS Auto Body Painting and Collison Work! e FREE — Complete* *We will paint your whole car with ony LC.B.C. — exceeding $2,000. Same color — body work extra. 1700 Columbia Ave., Castlegar fing 365-2155 Sor Trail — 364-0218 so" WIN ne pak © peor Faas Gakem he hopes will follow. Contracts for the B.C. Government Employees Union, NEW CAREER NO HOBBY oat all major health-care unions, municipal workers, construc- tion unions and forestry workers expire this year. Kube said 1986 “threatens to be one of turmoil and confrontation if B.C. employers seek concessions.” 8. Kube warns that even with the NDP in power, British 4 times, and he fears that ‘of what the NDP can do. Democrat in Sudbury, Ont., unionists consider the ill-conceived idea with the NDP on a legislative program. WROTE ARTICLE It isn't a new theme for Kube. In 1977, in a newspaper article headed “Labor and the NDP: A lover's quarrel,” he ART KUBE . .. leadership still questioned Former Robinson head takes over restaurant WINNIPEG (CP) — Clare Leckie, once the only woman in Canada to head a publicly owned company, has become a restaurateur to ensure she won't have to eat alone. But with a staff of 35 and a six-day-a-week job running the sumptuously-decorated old dining room at the Marl- borough Inn, Leckie says her new career is no hobby. “This is no plaything,” she said in a recent interview. “I can't afford for it not to Leckie, who until recently headed the Robinson, Little and Co. Department store chain, is a permanent tenant of the Marlborough where she leases the ch Before her chain of depart- ment stores went into bank ruptcy last January, running it had occupied most of her time since her husband's death in 1962. Under her could has a tiny minstrel's gallery, where guitar players or small string orchestras can seren- pening “It's a beautiful room. I wrote what might stand as a description of himself: “True trade unionists and the mainstream of the NDP hold in common a passionate belief in the innate worth of man, an awareness of responsibility, in an almost biblical sense, of ‘being their brother's keeper, and have an unalterable faith in the extraordinary capabilities of ordinary people.” Kube has, as one of his critics puts it, a heart as big asa football. The 50-year-old former displaced person from Poland and Austria, after 25 years of toiling in thankless union staff positions, also has seemingly limitless patience and capacity to absorb criticism. Whether these attributes will enable him to lead British Columbia into stable and prosperous labor relations, 1986 will probably tell. 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