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Who said Halloween is just
or kids? Not Gwen and Wayne
Cargar that’s for sure. As
ord spreads of the McCar-
bar’s spooky yard, a growing
umber of kids of all ages visit
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innaird Park.

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Selkirk College’s Jason Stevens (right) gets help from fellow students Thursday, putting final touches on a pumpkin entered in
the school’s pumpkin carving contest. The student association president didn’t win but he had fun anyway.

Labor law ‘fair and balanced’

Scott David Harrison
EDITOR

Ed Conroy says his government’s new Labor Relations
Code makes sense.

The Rossland-Trail MLA believes the long-awaited legisla-
tion will end the era of confrontation between management
and labor by promoting co-operation in a competitive market
place.

“I think it’s fair and balanced,” he said Thursday, “and
when I say that, I’m talking about a guy.that think a few of the
details could have been stronger.”

A former collective bargainer, Conroy said he is pleased to
see the issue of ‘scab’ labor has finally been addressed by the
provincial government. According to the new code, replace-
ment workers would be prohibited during a strike situation.
Similar laws are in place in Quebec and Ontario.

“Anti-scab laws should be there,” Conroy said. “It’s some-
thing that has been needed for a long time.”

Bill 84 has caused a stir all across the province. While
unions say it doesn’t go far enough, businesses say it goes too
far.

A news release issued by the Coalition of B.C. Businesses
Tuesday accused the government of undermining “one of the
fundamental principles for working British Columbians — the
right to vote on union certification.”

According to the Labor Relations Code, workers will no
longer have the right to a secret ballot vote on union certifi-
cation where 55 per cent or more of the employees have agreed
to sign union cards. A union decertification vote, meanwhile,
will remain secretive.

The coalition, which represents some 25,000 small- and
medium-sized businesses, also expressed concerns over a pro-
vision in Bill 84 which allows secondary boycotts of materi-
als which enables workers to refuse to handle goods from com-
panies involved in labor disputes.

B.C.’s opposition parties have also come out against Bill 84,
saying it give trade-union movements an unfair advantage
over management. Socred leader Jack Weisgerber described
the new labor law as “the biggest pay-off in B.C. history.”

“The government is promoting unionism,” Weisgerber said.
“The government should be playing a neutral role but it’s not.”

Liberal Labor Critic Gary Farrell-Collins has also slammed
the new labor code, saying the removal of secret balloting is
undemocratic.

Conroy took those charges in stride, saying Liberals and So-
creds are posturing.

“All they are doing is being the political opportunists they
are,” he said. “This entire process was about compromise. It
was about getting workers and businesses together to bring
about co-operation. I wonder if the Liberals could have come
up with anything better.”

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