News * Ferry employees shouldn't have right fo leave posis Question: Should B.C Ferries employees have the right to hold work stoppage programs at ferry terminals in B.C.? “B.C. Ferry Corporation is a monopoly and is nothing more than an extension to the Number One highway. I don’t appreciate being held at ransom for someone else’s problems, especially with- out apology.” — Mark Kelly, Victoria. “The ferries are a vital service. Workers should go through normal negotiations. If they don’t, B.C. Ferries should be regulated by WERKMAN photo government officials to an essen- tial service.” — M. Stringer, Victoria. “T really don’t think employees tealize the far-reaching effects of a strike. B.C. Ferries is a lifeline to the Mainland for a lot of business people.” — Beverly Arbitreau, Esquimalt. : The above are some of the responses submitted to The Review by travellers at Swartz Bay termi- nal on Monday, six days after the strike at ferry terminals throughout B.C. The work stoppage program Started about 9 a.m. Nov. 16 when cS HANDMADE COUNTRY MICE on display at a craft fair in the Moose Hall in Saanichton Saturday arew the attention of Ami Drummond, 11-and-a-half, from Cordova Bay. Craftsperson Marjorie Jordan said if fakes about five hours to make each of the mice trom “scratch, ‘ using empty pop boitles as the base. About 30 of them were.on display. ey workers at Long Harbour on Saltspring Island walked off the job. At Swartz Bay, seaman and cat- ering staff followed suit with the work stoppage when they shut operations down at about 3 p.m. By 12 noon on Nov. 17 the Industrial Relations Council had ordered employees back to work. Despite claims by travellers that ferry service still isn’t back on schedule, B.C Ferries communica- tion officer Angie Lessick, said Tuesday that everything is back to business as usual. ; TheReview Wednesday, November 25,1992 — A17 And according to Lessick, nego- tiations between the union and IRC are still underway. “We have various matters still before the IRC going through a collective bargaining process. But until negotiations are complete, we don’t want to comment or specu- late on the outcome,” she said. Comments from the B.C. Ferry and Marine Workers Union were unavailable at press time because of ongoing negotiations. The two-year collective agree- ment, which covers 3,885 B.C. Ferry Corporation employees expired on Oct. 31. On Nov. 6, Brian Foley, the chairman of the disputes resolu- tion division of the IRC was appointed as mediation officer in the matter of negotiations for a new collective agreement. Meetings between the. corpora- tion and the union began Monday. 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