11 LEGISLATIVE LIBRA ~t at A ence enn. seinen fos Serving the. 7 4h Preasape. | | “\ERRACE— ‘School "District 68 has appointed att acting secre treasurer | Wnt! euch Hime ‘as a par-” ]:: manent. replacement for - Ted Wells can be found. ‘Jim Green ‘will begin his . tole for the schoo] district in _ inld-August. Green has ~heen the secretary- treasurer for the school - - district of Vernon.’ He has recently retired from | that position. © ~~ ‘ Stheol District | Yepresentatives stress that. . ‘Green ‘is here on a tem- porary basis oly. While he — ° 1s not seeking a. full. time : position at this time in his « Jife, the Terrace school board’: will continue its | ‘search fora full time secretary-treasurer, The next meeting of the board is set for Tuesday, Sept 7. 7 _ Drought is not | expected ..,TERRACE— One of the moe first things that concern the average person when talk of a BCGEU strike comes up, isthe supply of beer, wine, and spirits; The disruption in the ante alcohol algo ‘co +" povebnmen * " fiqueie stores éingloy 3.00 full and part-time workers ncerns the and’ last year’s sales of.. $798.8 million yielded $290.4 Million in the government - coffers, ; - While individual liquor. Stores will not release any ‘sales figures, it was’ quite: apparant Thursday af- ternoon that the. Terrace - outlet was doing-a booming " business. =. * Hard liquor stocks were quite thin, but a bottle of your favourite was generally still available. Surprising to many there was still a rather: good supply of domestic beer, although imported ‘brands . -had been sold out even at their more. expensive prices, However, it "was > something of a shock to be - able to see.so much of the » floor when one first walked in. It took a while to realize that was because most of the three. tiera of wine . tacks were empty. Yes, “wine rather than rye or beer ; ‘seems to be Terrace’s . _. favorite drink judging from what we buy when we think we won’t be- ‘able fo get any” for awhile. Beer drinkers may have it. easier this strike pericd | than they think. _, Rod Verstrate of the Lakelse Hotel says that the . pub-lounge there has Inid in: : a 6-8 week aupply of liquor, and.can ‘hold out forever’: on beer. to. Verstrate, licensed . establishments do not ob- tain ‘their beer pe through the. ‘government “eontrolled stores, but rather |" though the iadependent. . Pacific Brewers. + Association... | - * Verstrate has been trying’ - ‘to convince the’ government - to allow offsite sales of _. chilled beer from taverns to ” be sold at the game price as, bae would pay for unchilled ~ beet™ from. ‘a.- -government — ” guilet! He hopes this strike © will help him prove to the- politicians. that this could be * g "Valuable move for a the them. . _ Ha must he expecting a lot ‘of tileaty throats to come off the picket line because he . just enlarged Hanky Panky — i ‘PARLIMENT BUILDIN "Victoria, H.C. \ Wav 124, | an = apg aE a pecs “BC HS . - Edward Westerhoff (left), 7, and WMI wilt Higgonson, 7, ~ enjoy sunflower Qn i a rainy day in New Remo. Mirecaen ; BCGEU workers asked to vote _ VICTORIA (CP) —.Provincial government: negotiator - Mike Davison. has called on the striking B.C. Government Employees Union to show its hand.’ «| Davison said Monday the union ig asking its 46,000 members to vote today and Wednesday ‘on, an unsettled contract-offer and he wants the union to mike public its’ -» position | Oy the nine. component -contracts:: cand master agreement. yet to be negotiated before mem} } vote, Only the wage proposals are set, he said in an’ ‘Interview. Premier Bill Bennett is meeting with his eabinet today to diseuss the latest developments in ‘the strike,’ whieh, ot. -ficially began last Friday, ° - Davison said evyen.if the government's offer of LS per cent over two years is accepted, which he doubts, the union might stilt strike on any of the oiher unresolved contracts dealing with separate job categories within the union. “Up to this. moment: they. (union négotiators) have - ‘refused to give me even their demanda on. those’ nine sub- _Sidiaries,’” said Davison, chairman: of the Government Employee Relations Bureau. . "So there is not only a strike on this issue, we ecould huive a _ strike on-nine others.” Davison said he fears: ‘the Present. government position” Skyline Road concerns Murphy RRACE— Régional District director Joe Murphy is : con erned that a proposed road into Iskut may not be after . ld, But! power. - 4 $9 million, 78 kin road is being proposed: in the Taku ® ptoported termination of the Skyline Road is a- feed nine} Murphy says the termination point “also just - happens to'be close to the B 4, Hydro power: ide develop-.. ment”, The regional district hag put a moritorium o on ‘approving “3 all: such developments for “B,C, ‘Hydro. until: various: Eeernent and public Theetings have. been’ held. } pals Ahat no notices of the road’ ‘building project tie béeti ‘iipated inthe Iskut area, Hé saw his yiotion pass: - that the regional district sénd a letter to the regional lands : . office that stich a notice be posted and that Lekut: residents ‘be given an “adequate ‘opparturity’” | to register their i input.. _Murphy’éaid, “I'm-not adking for a public. hearing, just.” ive residents an opportunity to send letters, eté, to lands'', Murphy also qutstioned how Hydro could jus " ding $22.7 million on “various. ‘studies in the’ Sitkine-iakut | area during ‘a period. of fifancial. restraint. 8 - Pelet Weeber sald; “‘E expect these dollars arebeing paid» aut towWorkers. There’ 8 S00 Workers up there”, The routine motion to receive and. file the report from DG: McFarland of Hydro's system. engineering division, WBS contested, but. carvied with 1 nd further | action: ‘being, taken. < ~ ' ok will be misrepresented by union general secretary John Fryer, . - “A litile hyperbole is understandable," he said, “and up until now, basicaily he’s told the truth, but now he's up there telling so-many mistruths I can hardly believe it.’ The union has amended its original-demand of 15 per cent inone year, asking now for seven per cent immediately and six per cent in six months, The vote was called: after Premier Bill Bennett claimed his office had been swamped -with calls from members saying they would be happy with ’ the government offer. — . Fryer said the union is recommending rejection in the first-major challenge to federally-initiated public sector wage restraint,-saying: the government's other demands will gut the existing collective agreement. Hither way, the union leader said, the members will be" returing to work on Thursday after the outcome of the vote is made public. If the offer is accepted then the strike is over, he said. If it is Tejected, the government will have to _ come up with more money and there is no need to further inconvenience the public-daring’ negotiations, Davison said the government is seeking more produc- tivity through changes, in hours. of work, and scheduling clauses, ; "He said that even if the membership agreed to every ‘proposal on the bargaining table, usion members still have . one of the best. if not the hentsreements in Canada — excluding wages. ° - With ‘the exception; of essential services such as firefighting, mental health hospitals and air ambulances, almost every government operation ‘has been closed. In . Vancouver, ‘the five-day-old.strike has shut down the traffic . “Rip off charged VICTORIA (CP) — ~The B.C.. ' Government: ‘Employees Union is “ripping off. the public’ by staffing’ essential * services on overtime, says a union member who was told to ” gohome Monday after reporting for workat the Vancouver _ Island Regional. Correctioiial Centre... . ' Carole. ‘Gilmore, a, security. “correctional: officer at the . - prison, was scheduled to being work at 2 p.m. She went over a i.5-metre fenceto reach an entrance not manned by" union pickets, but was sent heme when told there, was already a- fal complement of staff; - ‘ The ‘imion has agreed ta provide essential services during. “Ite province-wide strike, but has been setting up pickets for - “a few hours each day at the prison to prevent shift changes. tify-spen- Spokesman Maureen-Headley sald this was the best plan the union could devise to inconventénce the government , while Maintaining service. - | « Gilmore was sent home Monday because the. full morning : “thift was already committed for the extra hours. ‘Headiey sald allowing. Gilmoré-to work would have’ violated. the essential services agreement between the. Labor Relations Board, the. Government — Employee Relations Bureau ‘and the union. service compulsory.. a “no pick up” list. - volunteer or. a director. short written biography. Even such mundane suggestions can : quickly. become. an. item for controversy. Here, the addition of tha Pequirembat fora. written biography WAB the point of, con- tention. - '. Kitimat Mayor George Thom. thought the procedure too cumbersome since the board meets only once a moath. Jim Culp - agreed. He wants two new people on the Thornhill. Advisory Commission - im- mediately and this procedure could delay things up to two months. y~ . Administrator John Pousette sald that | ‘sometimes a biography could be only a line’ “or two, oc in extreme circumstances even be verbal but it was “necessary to for the. The present rate is 75 cents. The proposal is raise that to $1 per week which would give the District of Terrace an additional $45,000 per year in revenue. Terrace does have a bylaw on its books ‘that makes garbage. collection com: pulsory, but it'does not enforce it, In fact, drivers on garbage trucks carry with them Attached to the memorandum was an opinion from the legal firm’of. Harman, Wilson and Company of Victoria advising - that the Municipal Act does provide for compulsory garbage pick up. The opinion goes on to.say that while individuals ap-— ‘peal to council to be excluded from the service, that exclusion may only. be for a “E... Umited