From our Foreign Staff anoras keon wotana01an newspapers, the Vancouver MADIES. Was Haunched published by the six unions involved.
This was at the beginning of last month, and since then the new paper has been appearin three times a week, and a print run 10.000 Despite attempts by Vancouver Board of Trade and Ine Employers Council British Columbia to boycott the paper, it has received lots of Unions produce alternative paper in in the highest earnings bracket which means the reaundanc than that.
*The class position should be If the let's have time. These newsstands. argument have yet to be aired to any said want would sufficient number of jobs for all - then it would put a libraries; stop to une rigat over wno does and SURE demarcation lines should be *There is a natural desire on the part of the NGA leadership mmuduve to do a deal and compromise. papers are a lot more expensive •We need some kind of government intervention tha will'allow left and community papers to be competitive on the The Labour Party's proposals for a national printing corporation are help Such a national facility the way to municipal presses. If books are available on the rates through local publishing facilities?
It doesn't look at thi moment as if we're taking any Times papers. Perhaps the battle lines will show themselves at a later From Jean Sargeant, Researcher the Sunday Times' Travel Editor Management first made their lockout threat in April and then at the end of October supplied my union, NATSOPA, with 22 delaned documents to negou ate. It was only thee days before the 30 November shutdown that we were informed of our proposca wagestructure Many of the proposals are incredible. The document on our duties says it applies to: 'secretaries, research assistants, and copy typists — hereinafte secretaries.
ICICITC That's characteristic of the tone of the document.
It gives management unpre cedented rights over our time wen we take mea Dea. would be at their discretion Tney want short •HOLICC SHHI changes, so that they could tell us on a Fridav that we have ic comeinon Saturday.
just about anyone in CATC NATSOPA Clerical could be asked to do anything, including making the tea, COT They'velisted over 30 job tasks and then said they reserve th right to add to the list In other words supposed to be all-purpose dogsbodies The leadership of my chape nas nanace me issue well encouraging full discussion at every stage, and there has been a closing of ranks in NATSOPA •OCIWECI the clerical and machine sections.
But there needs to be unity between the unions. We should be facing management with a common strategy, and take this opportunity to open up the whole question of press ownership and control lsa discussion that's needed throughout the labour moveSocialist Challenge 7 December 1978 page 3