Mail strike targets couriers and priority service
Striking postal workers plan to disrupt the government's national priority post commercial service today with picket lines that could affect courier companies and airport operations. After a possible settlement emerged the union agreed to mediator intervention while government continues priority mail via private couriers and supervisors. Union leader Jean Claude Parrot said the national executive board will act unless employers halt the dispute.
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Ottawa
Canadian
Union of Postal Workers
Jean-Claude Parrot
Priority Post
Andre Ouellet
Diamond Messenger Services Ltd
Winnipeg
Loomis Courier Services Ltd
Vancouver
Toronto
London
Ont
Ouellet
Treasury Board
Don Johnston
Public Service Staff Relations Board
U.S. Postal Service Warns 600000 Workers on Strike
The U S Postal Service warns all 600000 employees they will be fired if they strike when the contract expires at midnight Monday. Strikers lose future federal employment rights, and the law will be used against any slow downs or disruptions. Federal mediator Kenneth Moffett has joined talks amid little progress between USPS and the two largest unions.
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Washington
U.S. Postal Service
The
Postal Service
Kenneth Moffett
Four Drown in Edmonton Tunnel After Rain Floods
Four city workers died in a tunnel about 50 metres underground when a ruptured sewer line flooded the area as more than 50 mm of rain fell on Edmonton in just over three hours. A crew member 200 metres away suffered head injuries and was hospitalized. Rescue teams pulled the bodies from the sewer shaft with a crane. City supervisor Bill Ross blamed the backed up sewer system on the rain and called the incident avoidable.
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Edmonton
University Hospital
Bill Ross
Department of Water and Sanitation
Forest strike halts most of British Columbia industry
British Columbia faces a nearly complete forest industry shutdown as 60 000 woodworkers strike, with 5 500 Pulp Paper and Woodworkers of Canada members and 48 000 others joining 700 sawmills and 7 000 Paperworkers set to walk out. Officials warn daily losses reach about 8.5 million, with railway impacts and layoffs possible as wage offers and arbitration talks fail.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of
Canada
Pulp and Paper
International Woodworkers of America
B.C
Third Forest Union
Canadian Paperworkers Union
Derson
Forest Industrial Relations
B.C. Railway
Hugh Armstrong
Armstrong
Cultural groups eyeing day care use for First Street center
City committee delays decision on using the old Elizabeth Street School for arts and may repurpose the building for a daycare. The shift reflects ongoing debate over the building’s best community role.
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S.E
Elizabeth Street School
Washington stands by Alaska gas pipeline pledge in face of U S doubts
Canadian External Affairs Minister Mark MacGuigan says the United States remains committed to completing the Alaska natural gas pipeline and expects a legislative package to pave financing. Opposition critic Ian Waddell questions U S backing as press reports claim Reagan may resist risk-sharing.
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Ottawa
Mark MacGuigan
U.S
MacGuigan
Canada
Ian Waddell
New Democratic Party
Reagan
Edwards
Trudeau
Washington
Northwest Energy Co
Congress
Grain prices cut for new crop year in Canada
Wheat Board Minister Hazen Argue announced lower initial prices for the new crop year. Top grade spring wheat and durum drop to 4.75 per bushel, top feed barley to 2.70, with other grains adjusted downward. A six month review will occur if world prices rise.
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Wheat Board
Argue
City eyes steps to reduce transit deficit and boost ridership
Medicine Hat utilities committee weighs measures to cut the growing transit deficit by attracting more riders while avoiding higher costs. The draft policy proposes fare increases and a bus pass system along with targeted service improvements and revenue ideas.
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Medicine Hat
Utilities Committee
Jim Hirsch
Hirsch
Ald
Ken Sauer
Sauer
Council
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Frank Webber
Forest Industry
Chris Crombie
Northern Forest Companies
Northern Companies
David Gun
North Vancouver
Fort Nelson
Mena
Quebec
Jean Dutil
Canadian Congress For the Prevention of
Alexander Haig
Reagan Administration
Soviet Union
Raymond Donavan
Des O'Coffey
Graham Kelly Tae
Keith Spicer Cro
Alaska Pipeline
Commons
Wall Street Journal
James Edwards
Richard Allen
Waddell
Rick Pedersen
Ted Grimm
Sixth Avenue
George Davison
Davison
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