April 6, }9e0 LOOK TO US SELECTION AA Castlegar News April 6, 1988 Members locked out of union MONTREAL (CP) — Pic- of lockouts by management ket lines are nothing new to and don’t often instigate SAFEWAY , @ SERVICE Munro blasts privatization Vander Zalm's ROBERTA ZUREK Banquet & Presentation Tuesday, April 12 office when they arrived Marlane Hotel Banquet Room Castlegar. 6 p.m. Social Hour 7 p.m. Dinner the Canadian Paperworkers Union but now there's one marching outside the union's head office. About 16 secretaries and clerks, who have been trying for 2" years to renew their contract with the union, were locked out of the downtown after the Easter holiday long weekend. Union president James Buchanan admitted in an interview Tuesday the situ- TICKETS: $12.50 PER PERSON ation is unusual — labor Available at Pharmasave and Carl's Drugs unions are usually the target Our Action Ad Phone No. 365-2212 BE PART OF THE TEAM FIGHTING CANCER. 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We don't want CPU to be able to contract out some of the jobs that we are holding right now.” WORKERS WARNED She said the office work ers, whose weekly salaries range from $400 to $565, had voted earlier in favor of a strike and the employer “de. cided to take the first step.” The workers were given 48-hour notice last week that the employer planned a lock out. Don Dufort, another pic ket, said the workers are con. cerned about a points system of evaluating staff. They re- jected an offer of an extra $50 a week to two top secretaries and $20 a week to all the others while the contract was still under negotiation. He said the employees, who belong to an office workers’ union affiliated with the Quebec Federation of Labor, fear that jobs may be lost if the Paperworkers Union merges with the In. ternational Woodworkers Association or a chemical workers’ union. “We're not talking merger now and we don't intend to be for a while,” Buchanan said. He said if there is a merger, the workers have been assured their contract would be reopened. Man charged FERNE (CP) — A Spar wood man was charged Tuesday with criminal neg ligence causing death in a car crash last Christmas Eve that killed an Alberta man and his three-year-old son. Jazbin Singh Nijjer is to appear in provincial court on Thursday. He faces a total of 13 counts, including impaired driving causing death and dangerous driving. David Rosenburger, 25, and his son, Tyler, of Har- disty, Alta., were killed when their family station wagon was in collision with another car and a transport truck near this southeastern Bri tish Columbia community. Rosenburger's wife and 10- month-old son survived VANCOUVER (CP) — Premier Bill Vander Zalm's $20-million campaign to offer alternatives to abortion gives little help to p says the president of the BC. Medical Association. And operators of the two existing Vancouver-area homes for unwed mothers say there's little demand for the facilities on which Vander Zalm plans to spend $3 million. The ign — which was d in the recent provineial budget — includes money for improved day care, homes for unwed mothers and education programs for young mothers, the premier told a news conference Tuesday. But except for brochures on contraception, most of the focus is on what to do after becoming pregnant, said Dr. David Jones, president of the B.C. Medical Association. “There's not as much emphasis on pre. venting pregnancy in the first place.” And one of the Vancouver area's only two existing homes for unwed mothers is empty and the other is only half full. The eight-bed, privately run Moffatt House in Richmond has temporarily closed because one of its two “house parents” is in hospital. And there are only nine women staying at the Sally Ann Maywood Home for Girls in Vancouver. It can hold nearly 20. “We would question more homes if ours is not being filled,” said Salvation Army Capt. Lorna Oliver, who runs the Maywood home. Moffatt operator Ralph Krueger, whose home takes only pregnant mothers and those with babies up to six months old, said the $3 million should be spent on low-cost housing near day-care centres and schools where unwed mothers can get an education. Vander Zalm smilingly conceded after his news conference that “this program is frankly about alter. natives to abortion. “We don't make any bones about that and we don't apologize.” plan criticized Vander Zalm, a Roman. Catholic who personally opposes abortion, has tried unsucessfully to limit provincial funding on abortions to women whose lives are endangered by pregnancy. His policy, implemented after the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the federal abortion law in late January, was thrown out by the B.C. Supreme Court in March, But both Health Minister Peter Dueck and Social Services Minister Claude Richmond tried to play down the anti-abortion tone of the program. “It covers the whole gamut and I think it’s unfair to say we are going in one direction,” said Dueck. “It provides all the choices.” Richmond said 11,400 abortions were performed in B.C. last year and that was proof enough to warrant an effort to reduce unwanted pregnancies. The campaign is “really another attempt by the premier to push his own narrow views of women in society,” said Joan Smallwood, the NDP'’s women’s affairs critic. Smallwvod said if Vander Zalm were interested in strengthening the family he would be promoting changes that help women to cope with economic reality — such as pay equity, social housing and food for hungry children. “The kinds of programs that are needed have been developed by community services organizations and those organizations have been under attack by Social Credit governments over the past four years, cutting back their funding,” she said. Vander Zalm also said he expects up to 75 more counsellors - will be available to talk with pregnant women. But Stuart Alcock of the B.C. Association for Social Workers questioned where the counsellors will come from. “Are they with the public service or with a non-profit group, or church sector or lay counsellors?” he asked. PENTICTON (CP) — The British Columbia govern- ment's privatization plans mean the private sector will make profits from “vital social services,” union leader Jack Munro said Tuesday night. Private companies aren't in the business of ensuring that highways are kept cleared of snow and ice during winter months or food products are safe to eat, said Munro, western regional president of the International Woodworkers of America. “The track record of the business community to be honest and accountable is bloody terrible,” he told about 400 people at a public meeting. “Yet the provincial government is prepared to sell critical services to the private sector — sell critical services to people who don't give a damn about the quality of level or those services.” Munro was speaking at the first in a series of 15 provincewide public meetings planned by the B.C. Federation of Labor to present its opposition to free trade with the United States and the Social Credit government's privatization plans. CHILD ABUSE Album finances hotline TORONTO (CP)'— A British Columbia counselling service hopes Canadian sales of the American gospel.album Dear Mr. Jesus will finance the cost of operating a 24-hour hotline for victims of child abuse. Abba Counselling Society, a Christian organization based in Surrey, B.C., has been operating the hotline since February, even though it’s still completing a cross-Country network of organizations which victims and abusers can obtain help. At a news conference Tuesday, Abba executive director Bob Trainor announced the Canadian release of Dear Mr. Jesus and said its profits will go the corporation to help “fight the epidemic of child abuse.” The record, which has become a phenomenal seller in the United States, is sung by Sharon Batts who was six when she recorded the song about a child who writes to Christ to ask him to help her and other abused children. SPREADS MESSAGE “What we're trying to say in this song is that Jesus is the answer,” Batts, now an articulate nine-year-old, told the news conference. “There's a horrible amount of abuse in the world, and only God can handle it.” Abba Counselling Society was incorporated as a non-profit organization in British Columbia in -1986. Its charter says money and other gifts the group receives will be used to promote the gospel of Christ through publications, seminars, classes and counselling. Trainor, a longtime family counsellor and Abba founder, said the Vancouver-based hotline has two toll-free lines — “we'll add more as we need them” — each costing about $38,000 a month to operate 24 hours a day. He has 40 volunteers manning the phones, but is still setting up a referral network. The hotline’s lack of an adeqate referral system has disturbed some child welfare agencies. John Meston, executive director of the Canadian Child Welfare Association — which collects and distributes infor- individuals and governments — says he only heard about the hotline about two weeks ago when Trainor called him for assistance in contacting provincial child-care organizations. “The issue is that it takes a long time to do a national hotline,” Meston said in a telephone interview from Ottawa. “I have an awful lot of gestions I'd like answered.” Meston said that because child welfare is a provincial responsibility, it would take a “tremendous amount of time” to determine which organizations help children. “I was really concernef that it could destroy kids, by putting it (the hotline) in place before it can be ready,” he said. The validity of the Abba hotline was also gestioned by the Canadian Children’s Foundation, which announced in March that it’s planning to launch a similar service early next year. 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FED TO EXPAND OPPOSITION TO FREE TRADE By ROD SUDLOW Canadian Press BURNABY — The British Columbia Federation of Labor is expanding its opposition to free trade with the United States and the Social Credit government's privatiza- tion initiatives, president Ken Georgetti said Tuesday. While not predicting success in halting privatization of provincial corporations and services, the labor leader told a news conference that free trade can be stopped. “It's stoppable,” he said. “It’s not a treaty.” “It's even stoppable after that within the notification period. It’s incumbent upon the government to take this to the people for a mandate before they enter into a free trade agreement and before they do that they must let the people know what the facts are and let them make their minds up. “Don't send out advertising campaigns saying that in the next 10 years, you're going to save $2.38 on your grocery bill.” The 350,000-member labor federation said it plans to present its version of the facts to 15 public meetings throughout the province that started Tuesday night in Penticton and continuing tonight in Kelowna. The campaign will cost about $50,000 and Georgetti said the response to it will determine whether additional initiatives such as television advertising will be attempted. JOBS LOST Literature to be distributed by the federation says free trade will result in a net loss of 380,000 Canadian jobs, including 60,000 jobs in B.C., many: of them in agriculture. Georgetti and federation secretary-treasurer Cliff And- stein could not say how many jobs will be lost under the privatization program of Premier Bill Vander Zalm, other than the losses will be significant. “It's like trying to hit a moving target,” Georgetti said. “Thef%¥ not specific. “One day the premier wants to sell something. The next day~he doesn’t. But significant job losses are looming in privatization. It’s not that they (the jobs) will be transferred. A lot of people will be losing work because of this government's dogma about free enterprise.” Georgetti said the labor federation is not opposed to the free trade agreement “as long as it is negotiated fairly” but the pact as it now stands will prevent government intervention in the economy through initiatives such as providing cheap power to help struggling industries. OTHERS BENEFIT However, United States industries will continue to benefit through the trickle-down effects of highly subsidized defence contracts, he said. 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