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Management and union clash over grader shipping
BY NEIL CORBETT
Locked out Champion Road Machinery
employees attempted to block manage,
ment from loading and shipping graders
in the company's yard Tuesday morning.
One employee was knocked to the
ground by a grader tire, and taken to the
hospital in an ambulance as the situation
grew volatile.
Truckers and non-union Champion
employees were at a Laidlaw yard near
Champion's main plant by 7 a.m. Tues-
day morning loading graders, amid
shouts of "scab" from the picket lines.
Numbers grew on the picket lines as
employees began arriving at the plant.
Union spokesmen told truck drivers they
were breaking a picket line, but mostly
failed to convince them to turn back.
About *lit graders had been loaded
and driven away from the Laidlaw lot by
noon. But a swarm of workers defied at-
tempts by Goderich town police and hired
Burns Security Guards to keep them
from interfering. Workers blocked the
gates to the "boneyard" where nine
graders were stored, and prevented them
from being loaded on trucks.
GROUPS CLASH - Locked out Champion Road Machinery employees attempted to block
management from loading and shipping graders in the company's yard Tuesday. Cor-
bett photo.
The lead grader nosed through the gate
behind several police officers who cleared
a pathway. But the machine was brought
to a halt by the workers and an
employee who was knocked down by a
tire. The worker complained of lower
back pains and was taken to the hospital
on a fracture board.
The grader, now with a deflated tire,
backed into the yard and the gates were
closed at about 10:30 a.m.
Talks were scheduled to resume today
between management at Champion Road
Machinery and its locked out employees.
Union officials said yesterday that talks
between the union bargaining team and
Champion were scheduled to start
Wednesday and continue through Friday.
A mediator ,:s been appointed and will
be involved in this round of negotiations.
Champion management spokesman
Mike Stilly would not confirm this week
that talks had resumed. The company,
which has maintained a "no comment"
position throughout the dispute, has said
awning about union actions.
But a December 1 letter to all
employees from Champion President Art
Church urges workers to accept what he
describes as the final offer.
Champion .workers, members of the In-
ternational Association of Machinists and
Aerospace Workers, were locked out
November 21 when they voted to reject
what management said was its final
offer.
The company's proposed three-year
agreement .called for a two year wage
freeze with a three per cent increase in
the third year. Cost of Living allowance
would be eliminated, shift premiums
lowered, 25 per cent of benefits paid for
by workers, holidays reduced, and wor-
ding changes made which union
negotiators felt would restrict members'
ability to exercise seniority rights.
Tuesday afternoon, local union presi-
dent Don Goddard was not sure if
negotiations scheduled today would con-
tinue following Tuesday's altercation.
"We're locked out and they're still ship-
ping the product," he said.
The union does not know where the
shipped graders, which were not fully
manufactured, were to be taken for
completion.
Vanastr • PRIDE pia
A public meeting was held last Tuesday
night at the Tuckersmith Township offices
for the unveiling of the Vanastra communi-
ty improvement plan. The plan, which will
be implemented over the next three years
under the auspices of the P.R.I.D.E. pro-
gram, outlines the proposed cash flow and
improvement work slated for the village.
Henry Centon appeared before Council
and one member of the public on behalf of
R.J..Burnside.,and Associates of Stratford,
the consulting engineers and planners who
prepayed the report for the township. The
plan was commissioned after the Ministry
of Municipal Affairs informed Tuckersmith
that $200,000 had been allocated for the
township under the P.R.I.D.E. program.
Under the terms of the grant, this amount
must be matched by Tuckersmith over a
three-year period for a total of $400,000 to
be used in "improving municipal services
and/or social and recreation facilities
within the designated 'Community Im-
provement Project Area"'.
The Township of Tuckersmith designated
Vanastra as the official improvement area,
and R.J. Burnside and Associates were
contracted to prepare the report. The com-
pany, analyzed the demographics of the
village, taking into consideration the
strengths and deficiencies of the area
unveiled
facilities and services and the needs of
priorities of residents, municipal officials
and council.
Three main areas of consideration were
pinpointed by the report.
-Street lights will be replaced in the
Vanastra Industrial Area at a cost of
$30,000.
-The deck tiles will be replaced and the
pool itself repainted at the Vanastra
Recreation Centre, at a cost of $254000.
-Road reconstruction, including replace-
ment of storm and sanitary sewers and
watermains, will be done on Toronto Road
froth Quebec Road to Halifax Road, and
along Quebec Road from Toronto Blvd. to
within 30 m south of Halifax Road, at costs
of $100,000 and $235,000 respectively.
In addition, $10,000 has been allocated for
administrative costs involved in the
project.
The implementation period for these pro-
jects will run from 1990 to 1993, and a
detailed cash-flow and project table was
presented within the report. The report
also states that "the Township recognizes
that provincial contributions may be
limited to not more than one third
($66,666.66) of the $200,000 contribution by
31 March, 1991, the second third by 31
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County teachers to get 5.3% hike
Huron County's 283 secondary school
teacher's will receive a 5.3 per cent
salary increase this year. The raise is
part of a two-year collective agreement
ratified by the Huron County Board of
Education Monday at it's final meeting of
1989.
The teachers, represented by District 45
of the Ontario Secondary School
Teachers' Federation, will be covered by
the new agreement for the 1989-90 and
1990.91 school years.
The contract calls for a 5.3 per cent in-
crease in grid salaries retroactive to
September 1, 1989, followed by another in-
crease equal to the change in the Cana-
dian cost of living plus one per cent ef-
fective September 1, 1990.
The increase sets minimum and max-
imum teachers' salaries in Huron Coun-
ty at $25,808 and $55,830.
The new agreement also calls for
changes in staffing which will add an ad-
ditional three to five teachers as of
September 1, 1990. Part of the additional
staff will be for coordinating the such
new programs as alternative education,
adult education and cooperative educa-
tion, which have been introduced in the
last few years.
For benefits, a new dental plan will be
provided by the board as of April 1, 1990.
The board and the teachers have for
four successive years concluded negotia-
tions before Christmas in the year in
which they started. This is the first two-
year agreement to be completed before
Christmas in at least 15 years.
Van Den Broeck new board chairman
BY NEIL CORBETT
Joan Van Den Breech is the new
chairman of the Huron County board of
Education following the board's in-
augural meeting December 4.
Van Den Breech, a Saltford resident,
represents Colborne and Goderich
Townships on the board, and has been
a trustee since 1981. She has served on
all of the board's committees, has been
vice chair for the past two years, and
will now serve a one year term as
chairman.
Van Den Broeck said she will share
her view of the board's appropriate
direction for the future at the first
meeting of 1990 in her inaugural speech.
In the meantime she and the director of
education, Bob Allan, .will be meeting
with officials with the Ministry of
Education to ;analyze the provincial
government's evAtallons.
Van Den Broah rephtces John .Jewitt,
trustee for Hallett and Blyth, who has
served as chpirrnan.for two,y'.ars.
In his speech of ,appreciation Allan
noted Jewitt came into his second term
with difficult 01 10041 issues ;which he
handled capably, such as 300 elemen-
tary who *Attended a' hoard m f to
declare ,heir opinion Of `cont act
neggotiations, and ��pir'incl l trans ars
,,witch were un ,r f th thepublic
station s All "ereate:d n -
precedented pressures on the chair."
VICE -CHAIR
Bea Dawson and Tony McQuail ran
for the position of vice -chair, and
Dawson was selected by her fellow
trustees to Serve.
McQuail lives in Lucknow and
represents the Townships of Ashfield
and East and West Wawanosh on the
board. He is serving his third term and
is a senior trustee, and has served on
all the board's main committees and
several ad hoc committees.
Dawson has been a trustee for four
years. She lives in Hensall and
represents Hay and Usborne Townships
and the Village of Zurich. She was per-
sonnel committee chairman before be-
ing elected vice -chair. COMMITTEE
CHAIRMEN
Audrey McClennan, trustee for
Stanley Township and the Village of
Bayfield, was voted by colleagiles to
serve as chairman of the edueation
committee over Norman Pickell,
representing Goderibh, who was also
nominated for the position.
Goderich Trpstee,Ifiick Rompf was ac-
claimed management committee chair-
man, and Den McDonald of 'the
'township of Grey and the Village of
Brussels, a ;senior ,trustee elected bt
1969, was ma personnel conuulttee
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