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Residents stranded by strike

VANCOUVER (CP) — Residents of dozens of small
communities across British Columbia found themselves
stranded Tuesday as the province's Department of
Highways ferry and road workers joined other B.C.
Government Employees’ Union workers in a province-wide
strike.

And as the strike entered its second day today, it was
not known if any progress was made between union and
government negotiators in talks Tuesday conducted under a

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public sector strike by Nov. 18, when 220,000 workers could
be off the job. i

Government employees shut down liquor stores, land
registry offices, motor vehicle offices and Human Resources
Ministry offices. : :

f The province's 27 Department of Highways ferries
operating on secondary routes in the Vancouver area and
the B.C. Interior were tied up but the main ferries, operated
by the B.C. Ferry Corp., were still travelling between the

news blackout. Union had t
earlier in the day with a modified proposal on the key issue
of P in new layoff

The strike began soon after midnight Monday and by.
mid-morning, 8,000 government offices in the province were
behind picket lines, idling nearly 40,000 union ib

and Vi Island.

Mandy de Wit, 6, had to move out of her family’s dairy
farm on Barnston Island, in the middle of the Fraser River
near Fort Langley, so she can get to school every day.

Lidy de Wit usually drives her daughter to school in

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The strike, the second in two years, was the jirst in a
series of that th: to cul: in a general

on the mainland, but the ferry from
Barnston is essential. Mandy now will live with relatives
during the week. i

Skeleton crews man office

VANCOUVER (CP) — It’s still possible to register a
birth or death in British Columbia, but the official certificate
won't arrive for a while.

It’s still possible to get married.

It's not possible to get a chest X-ray, a test for venereal
disease or a bottle from the local liquor store.

People can buy, register, insure and get licence plates
for a car, but can’t replace an expired driver's licence.

One can get a bed in the hospital centre, an ambulance
inan and pi cial aid if the ity is hit by’
nuclear war, but not a map of Vancouver from a B.C. tourism

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Most provincial offices remain open for business but are
staffed by skeleton crews of management staff. In many

he strike also created problems for those hoping to
cae welfare cheques and a governmentisstod, ines
release said there are only 120 staff members available ;
cover work normally done by more than 6,000 Ministry o!
Human Resources workers in areas of income assistance,
child welfare and institutions for the mentally rerandel

The said only services of a
minimal nature” would be provided for the duration of the
strike. The ministry said income assistance cheques for the
month of November have already been issued.

‘Talks at the B.C. Labor Relations Board resumed
around noon Tuesday with veteran Laaaret Vinee Hens

i union
ari said success still depended on the government
coming to grips with the principles of seniority and the right
ees,
e owes Be acrid for the night at 9:50 p.m. PST,
Ready would say only that the parties had agreed to an
agenda for this morning's negotiations.

Meantime, lawyers for the union said they will appear
before Chief Justice Allan McEachern Thursday morning to
contest an injunction banning pickets outside any court in
the province. McEachern said restricting “the absolute free
and unrestricted access of all persons to the courts... isa
of court.”

instances, only one person is avail: to answer tel

and counter queries.

“Services are at an absolute minimum,” said David
/ of the P y's Ministry. “The
general concept is to keep a government office open, with
someone on,the phone.”

The union said it will abide by the injunction, but

Andstein said he believes it is illegal because the union is ‘

en, in a legal strike.

a recently-passed Public Sector Restraint Act, which
gives the government broad powers to dismiss its
remains central to the dispute. Sixteen hundred

_ Although the Dep; of Vital Statistics won't be
issuing official paperwork such as marriage licences, people
who want to get married may use the old custom of calling
banns from the pulpit.
its -- NO PROSLEMS .

“If you know one of the people you're marrying as a
member of your parish, there's no problem. The problems
will start when you don’t know the people and they haven't
got a marriage licence. I had a request about a week ago for
‘a quickie wedding on Nov. 18. But no licence, no wedding.”

Funeral directors arranged to have burial permits
‘issued through their association about two months ago. '

“Although no death certificates will be issued —
meaning that the bereaved family won't be able to get into
othe loved one's safety deposit box and so on — people will
still be buried,” said Ron Young, president of the B.C.
iFuneral Service Association.

It’s still possible ‘to buy a new car and get it properly
.Tegistered and insured the same day because the strike
hasn't yet affected the Insurance Corp. of B.C or private
autoplan agents.

And if workers at the Crown insurance corporation
walk out as scheduled Nov. 10, private lan agents will

workers were scheduled to be chopped Monday, but their
future remains uncertain.

Premier Bill Bennett flew to Vancouver Tuesday, but

his deputy minister Norman Spector allayed speculation
that the premier was going to become directly invoived ia
the negotiations as he did a year earlier.

About 1,600 union members deemed essential — child
abuse teams and some prison and mental hospital workers —
remained on the job. They were joined at some institutions
by senior civil servants, pulled from Victoria offices to roll
up their sleeves and help with laundry and cooking.

Locals resigned
to picketing

By CasNews Staff
Somber resignation. That was the mood on the B.C.

be the beneficiaries.

A person whose driver's licence expires during the
strike is technically liable for a $85 fine for driving without a
valid licence, but that could depend on the police officer.

A partial list of services available, by ministry:

— Human Resources: A total of 120 excluded staff
members are doing the work normally handled by 5,000
employees. Priority areas are income assistance, child
welfare and institutions. The ministry's 160 district offices
“are closed and regular social work services are unavailable.
Income assi: cheques for have been mailed.
Excluded staff in the ministry's 18 regional offices are
responding to emergency calls relating to child protection.

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ploy Union picket lines around
Castlegar Tuesday.

The pickets had none.of the buoyancy strikers usually
have on the first day of a walkout. Instead, they seemed
resigned to battle the provincial government in a strike they
aren't sure they can win. x

And union leaders have prepared them for the worst.
They've told them to expect to be out “six weeks anyway, if
not more,” said forestry ‘sarker Tracy Jensen.

Do they support the strike? “oh yeah,” says Rick Biller,
another forestry employee. “There's not much else you can
do. They'll take everything away from us.”

But Jensen isn't sure the government will capitulate.

“Bennett won't back off,” she said. “He won't lay off by
seniority.”

Other union members aren't so sure.

“Sure it’s (the strike) going to work,” said one liquor
store employee who asked to remain unidentified. “It has to
«+ As long as we've got the public behind us and the union
sticks together, we have no problem”

Another liquor store employee added, “There's nothing
else we can do.”

They received the support of the passing public during
the time a CasNews reporter was on the scene. One truck
went by with a driver and passenger and the driver honked
while the passenger gave a “thumbs up” sign to the strikers,

Another resident walked up the door and asked if the
liquor store was closed. When told it was, the man said he
supported the union, though he jokingly wished they'd let
him buy a bottle.

Union

Debbie Ofte says the union is
counselling members to “dig in” for a long strike.
“We only have one alternative,” Offerman said. That's

either to “roll over" and accept the government legislation, ,

or fight back. The union won't roll over, she said.

Small businesses
likely to suffer

VANCOUVER (CP) — The revenues or supplies or even
smaller the business, the regulatory approval are wor-
more likely it is to feel ried.

aftershocks from the B.C. For example, a company

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Coalition meets minister

VICTORIA (CP) — The Social Credit government is
denying British Columbians the right to higher education
with its prog ting legis) to the
cuts said Tuesday.

of the Soli Coalition, an
umbrella group opposed to the government's budget-
related legislation, met with Education Minister Jack
Heinrich to push for ed services “

with the needs of the students and communities" in the
province. “ x

Rather than crossing picket lines set up by the
striking B.C. Government Employees’ Union to protest
ie seelalative package, the meeting was held at a nearby

otel.

It was one of several to be held with cabinet
ministers at the request of Premier Bill Bennett who
hopes with will lead to
changes in the various bills, many of which already have
been approved by the legislature.

These include the Education Interim Finance Act
which gives the minister near-total financial'control over
the school districts in the p Two others eli

prepared to budge on the key issues of more funding for
education.

The federation recently voted 60 per cent to strike as
part of the coalition’s fight against the government,
Kuehn said another meeting would be held Monday, the
day before the teachers are scheduled to walk off the job,
if Heinrich felt it would be of any use.

WALK-OUT ILLEGAL

The minister said such a walk-out would be illegal, a
claim that was disputed by Kuehn.

Heinrich said, h , that the gi likely
would not take any action against the teachers, and that
any disciplinary action would be up to the

Building Trades and George Campo of the United Native
Nations.
LOSE POSITIONS

Noting that schools and colleges in B.C. were hit with
massive funding cuts in 1982 and 1983, the brief said the
most significant short-term result of these reductions has
been the loss of teaching positions.

These cuts have led to the reduction or elimination of
many educational services of many educational services,
the brief said.

In addition, it said, demands placed on the public
school system by government policies have tended to add

school boards.
In a brief to Heinrich, the coalition said the bills and
the $8.4 billion budget d to the last

to an difficult ig and learning
environment.
The coalition said there are waiting lists for

July “will radically reduce the levels of services offered to
in this provi iit H

classes, and reductions in available student aid
have impeded access to higher education for many

an
decisions once made with the participation of commu-
nities directly involved.” ‘
The coalition said access to all levels of publi
“is

the provision for locally-elected trustees on the boards of.

if a full and proper i

“In this regard, it is particularly apalling that your

Bt not prep pass on ii in levels

of funding provided by the federal government for
jt di d ”" it added.

recovery is to take place.”
The d

regional colleges and other post y

The coalition asked Heinrich for the repeal of all
three, but the minister said this request as only a
bargaining ploy.

Larry Kuehn, president of the B.C. Teachers’
Federation, said Heinrich appeared to be responsive to
some of the non-monetary issues discussed, but was not

also included hai

Mf
The coalition predicted that the cuts will have a

Renate Shearer; Jack Finnbogason of the College and
i Educati A and Helene
of the B.C. Home and School Federation.
Others were Mel House of the Canadian Union ‘of
Public Employees, Stephen Leary of the Canadian
Federation of Students, Cy Stairs of the B.C. and Yukon

long-t effect on the economic welfare of teachers and~-
other education employees.

SOU. y ‘
November 2, 1983 Castlegar News AS

No more
money for
education

VICTORIA (CP) — There's
no more money in the provin-
cial pot for education, Ed-
ucation Minister, Jack Hein-
rich told Solidarity Coalition
representatives Tuesday.

The representatives, led
by B.C. Teachers Federation
president Lary Kuehn, said
they wanted the government
to repeal the education bills
now passed as part of the re-
straint package, maintain
current, and restore lost,
services in the public educa-
tion system and guarantee
due process for all public
sector employees.

But Heinrich said the legis-
lation would not be repealed,
and that falling revenues
make it impossible to guar-
antee any more money for
education,

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Government curtails immigration |

OTTAWA (CP) — Citing a
“Canadians-first” policy
made necessary by high
unemployment, the govern-
ment announced Tuesday it
is slashing by 10 per cent the
number of immigrants allow-
ed into the country in 1984.

Only between 90,000 and
95,000 will be admitted next
year, compared to the 1983
range of 105,000 to 110,000 —
the second consecutive year

that immigration has been
sharply curtailed. The 1983
immigration was 25 per cent
lower than the 184,000-to-
144,000 level set for 1982,
The actual number of im-
migrants in 1982 was 121,147.
Immigration Minister
John. Roberts, announcing
revised immigration totals
for the next three years, said
the reduced level in 1984 is
essential “to protect jobs for

Survey shows

By Canadian Press
Industry spokesmen say
Canadian consumers are the
beneficiaries of over-produc-
tion as pork led the list of
best buys in the monthly
survey of food prices by The
Canadian Press, 4.0...
Jim Rawlings, a spokes-

Overall, total food prices
were down from September
in eight cities, with shoppers
paying less for wieners and
coffee. ‘

The survey of the monthly
food basket is conducted in
the,,same supermarket, in
each of the 12 cities on the

man for the Ontario Pork :

Producers, said in an inter-
view Tuesday the price pork
producers are receiving for
their product is running as
much as 12 to 15 per cent
lower than a year ago.

Rawlings said the reason
for the bumper production
was last year's “tremendous-
ly mild winter” in Canada and
the U.S., which meant a
higher hog conception rate
with more piglets surviving
for market.

“That makes a lot of pork
available in North America.”

However, consumers who
were told recently that chic-
ken prices would be a bargain
in the next few months will

vealed.

Romeo LeBlanc, general
manager of the Canadian
Chicken Marketing Agency,
said early in October that
pressure from pork will push
chicken prices downward.

But in five of the 12 cities
surveyed, chicken rose in
price. In Montreal for ex-
ample, shoppers paid $1.85 a
pound for a Grade A three-to-
four pound bird.

Women
need
-hi tech

EDMONTON (CP) —
Women will be left behind by
their husbands, children and
the job market if they do not
learn the intricacies of com-
puters, an Ottawa computer
expert says.

Sabine Rohlfs, part of a
panel discussion held during
a meeting of federal and pro-
vineial advisory councils on +
the status of women, said it is
a myth the computer world is
a complicated one.

Dr. Margaret Armout,
vice-chairman of the Univer-
sity of Alberta's women in
scholarships, engineering
and science committee, urged
people to give their daugh-
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opportunities.

Roberts was expected to
make the report in the Com-
mons, but announced it to
reporters because Pariia-
ment was suspended as a re-
sult of a dispute over western
Canadian freight rate™ leg-
islation.

In a background study ac-

companying the annual im-
migration report, the gov-
ernment cautions that “a dif-
ficult period,” is.ahead for a
few years because unem-
ployment is likely to “decline
only slowly” until 1986. «
in addition, the increase'in
the number of women in the
work force, plus the aging of
the postwar “baby boom”
generation and their acquisi-
tion of more technical skills,

pork best buy

last Monday of each month.

The survey includes one
pound each of round steak
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centre-cut pork chops, Grade
A chicken, medium ground
beef, frozen cod fillets, mar-
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will affect future immigration
significantly.

“These .. . developments
will have a direct impact on
Canada’s immigration pro-
gram, particularly on those
categories of immigrants who
are selected for their labor
market skills,” the study
says, ‘adding: “In brief, Can-
ada’s economic recovery will
not mean an equally rapid
expansion in labor force re-
quirements.”

The 1985 and 1986 immi-
gration levels — which are
target ranges, not quotas —
are set at 100,000 to 110,000
and 105,000 to 120,000 res-
pectively. The category most
affected is “selected work-
ers” who are entering Can-
ada with no specific job in
mind. An exemption from the
restriction 6n this group is
permitted for those with “ar-
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for them with Canadian em-
ployers.

For 1984, the report says, a
target range of 6,000 to 8,000"
is set for selected workers,
and the actual number per-
mitted to enter Canada may
he lower than that. In 1983,
for example, only about 7,000
such workers are being al-
lowed into Canada, a sharp
reduction from the 18,148 in
the same category who gain-
ed landed immigrant status
in 1982.

Though overall immigra-
tion will be lower, Roberts
says Ottawa will maintain its
commitments to accept and
assist refugees and to reunite
eligible family members at
the same levels as in 1983.

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