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Riddell
hampered
by action
Citizens News, May 25, 1978
Huron -Middlesex Liberal
MPP Jack Riddell told a
legislative committee
Thursday he has been
"hampered" in his job by
legal action taken against
him by the United Auto
Workers.
The legislature's
procedural affairs com-
mittee is holding a hearing
to determine whether
Riddell's privileges as an
MPP have been breached by
the union's action,
The hearing began April
27, was adjourned until
Thursday and will resume
June 1.
Riddell told the hearing he
considered it his
"obligation" to try to help
resolve the strike at the
Fleck manufacturing plant
in his riding.
The strike at the plant in
Huron Park began March 6
and is still under way.
The legal action, involving
comments he made about
the Fleck situation, "has in-
terfered greatly with my
work as a member," Riddell
said.
Riddell made his com-
plaint about breach of
privilege to the legislature
early last month. He said his
privileges had been violated
when UAW lawyers served
him with a notice of intent to
sue under the Libel and
Slander Act.
He also complained about
the union application to the
Ontario Labor Relations
Board for leave to prosecute
Riddell under the Labor
Relations Act. The hearing
before the board is still in
progress.
UAW lawyer Lennox
MacLean of Toronto told the
hearing last month the union
was bringing action against
Riddell as a private citizen,
Riddell has charged that
Section 38 of the Legislative
Assembly Act has been
violated. That section says
an MPP is not liable to
arrest, detention or molesta-
tion for any cause or matter
of a civil nature during a
session of the legislature, or
20 days before or after.
Riddell told the com-
mittee Thursday he con-
sidered himself a MPP 24
hours a day and his Fleck
comments were made in
that capacity.
"If I was not a member
from the riding, I don't think •
I would have been the least
bit concerned about a strike
at Fleck," he said.
He said his legislative and
constituency duties have
suffered because . of time
spent on the legal actions,
and that wouldn't help in the
next election.
Asked if he had taken a
position on the strike,
Riddell said: "I don't think I
was taking a position. I was
trying to get as much infor-
mation as I possibly could."
He said he hadn't met
management personnel at
Fleck before visiting the
plant to talk to strikers,
workers still on the job and
management.
Riddell said his remarks
were based on what he had
been told by some workers
at Fleck. He said he had a
number of "signed
statements confirming what
they said."
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