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Page 16, Whltby Fiee Press, Wedinesday, November 15,1995l Atlanitic shut down By Mike Kowalskl Production at Atlantic Packaging has been shut down due, to a strike by the paper recycling mill's union employee. .Workers walked off the job last Thursday after negotiations for a first contract broke down the previous Friday. No further talks have been held No Product Failure Claims ln Over 1 Million Applications Unlike ois, tars & waxes, Rust Check creeps into seams and crevices where catastrophic rust begins and dispels moisture. Ask about our Exclusive Guaranteed ( PROVNEFCl Forever Warranty on newand IEFOR COVER q uai e-dj e--h c Les. 0-nsi Applied in any season, while you watch. j OI SRA ASOAVILBLE SOM$5.95 WHITBY 200 Dundas St. W. (1 Block West of Brook) Cati for an appointment 36-8759 Open Saturda ys 8-5pm since members of Local 333 of the Communications, Energy & Paperworkers <CEP) union rejected management'% last offer by a 93 per cent margin. About 150 workers at the Thickson Road South factory are invoived in the strike. CEP *members at Atlantic'splant 'inl Scarborough are covered by a separate agreement. While company officiais did not return calis, CEP business agent Ken Cale said the main issues in the dispute are seniority rights and job security. Cale said the union wants ta, prevent Atlantic from contracting out work now done by- CEP members. It also wants employees with more seniarity tta have the right ta "bump" thase with less experience ini the event of a iayaff, even if they are doing dissimilar work in different sections af the plant. For example, Atlantic ha. bath a tissue and a newsprint miii at the Whitby factory, Cale said. 'Mhe company dlaims they are separate industries, but they're employing ail these people under one roof," he said. The unioni is 'alsa seeking refinements ta the eistirig wage structure and benefits package, Cale said. by "We have employees making $8 per hour and people doing the same job maàking $18 per hour," hoe said. "We're lookcing for a wage scale in line with the industry standard." Aithougli CEP was certifled as the worker's bargaining agent ini June, Cale said three montha were wasted before the company agreed ta "seriaus" discussions. "They wanted ta, put another name in the agreement. They said trik e Iit was a -matter of style, but it Iwould not lie a legal, entity," lie Meid. «After three months they changed their minda and agreed ta Atlantic Packaging and Producta Ltd.ff Cale did not recell the company's preferred name, nor could lie offer an explanation for it. Cole added that the union i. willing te meet with management 11-yeairmo1d s ets ýfire A fire early Monday evening at a Jubilee Court residence caused about $25,000 damage. Wbitby firefigliters responded ta the reoidence, ini the Thickson and Dundas area, around 6:30 p.m. and managed ta extinguish the blaze fairly quickly, according ta Captain Drew Armstrong. The fire had three different points of origin, Armstrong saye, and was deliberateiy set. Police were cailed in and interviewed a 11-year-old boy, who admitted setting the blaze. No one was hurt in the incident and itfs not yet known how the fire, the second at the house in the last several months, was set. Boy assaulted A 15-year-old boy was struck on the head with a beer baffe while walking home along Dundas Street east of Garden Saturday. Police say the victim, of Dovedale Drive, was approached by two Maies around 10:50 p.m. and one of them asked if lie had any money. The two suspects then fled east on Dundas and the victim, who' wasn't seriously hurt, was able to Prvae arena popoa reopene l08 B ROCK ST. N. 666-8050 'We Buy, SeIl & Trade ,.. ~ We Pay Top Dollar'UE Over 4,00 -Ds to choose from~. *Movies lu Cassettes * S EGA *Super Nintendo Entertainment System Business Hours: Mon. to Wed. 10 - 6 Thurs. &Fri. 10 -7.- Sat. 10 -5 AVAILABLE AT:> 1/t~~-" 1003 Dundas St. E., Whtby 668m5342w FROM PAGE 1 Whitby Arena Fundraising Association* (WAFA) founder Cheryl' Thompson and Whitby Minor Hockey Association president Peter Lang asked council not ta give u on the flrm's proposai despite the tremendous setback it recently suffered. ,Acdarding ta, the staff report, an unnamed flrm had been prepared ta construct four ice surfaces that would be available by September 1996 and with the capability of adding two more. The fees for the private fadility would have been $5 per hour more than the $25-per-hour increase ta wbich ice user groupe had agreed in arder ta finance construction of two additional pads at Iroquois Park. lu Mardi the five major user groupe -- minor hockey, men'. hockey, precision skating, figure skating and ringettë - as well as a few minor users had identifled a need for 195 extra heurs of ice time. But when asked in Octaber ta, conflrm their earlier figures, the groups' requests dropped ta, 123 hours, effectively killing both the private proposai and expansion of Iroquois Park. The- Town had ta promise the Company rentais of 180 hours per week aver a 15-year period at a cost of $M0,000 annualiy with the money ta be recovered from the user groupe. Similariy, the twin expansion at Iroquois required a minimum of 162 heurs per week ta ensure that the fees covered ail new operating and capital coes and avoided an increased subsidy from local ratepayers. But Thompson and Lang claimed the staff report did not adequately reflect Whitbys ice needl3. They insisted the company's demand for a weekly guarantee of 180 heurs could be met, if net from among Whitby user., then from groupa outeide the community. "What's net addressed are girls' hockey, women'!s hockey, women's ringette, junior B and tier-two junior A (hockey)," said Thompson. "Wliy these associations haven't been formed i. because the number of facilities i. net in keeping with aur population boom," she said. But if local groupe cannot provide sufficient hours, Town officiais can easily M11 the gap with users from elsewhere in Durham Region, Thompson suggested. She recently contacted Oshawa's parka and recreation department and was tald that city' user groupe are- now' forced ta seek 71 hours of ice time outsiàde Oshawa. "If you look at the hours Oshawa uses outside the community and Ajax and Bowmanville go outside the region, ail these user groups wouid came ta Whitby," said Thompson. "It gives you a glimpse of the potential out there and what we've not looked at yet." Thompson said 'the ringette association lias examined its figures again and can add another seven haurs ta, its revised total of eight hours in 1996. (In Mardi, ringette officiais had requested 40 extra hours per week.) In addition, the ringette association is prepared ta "take on girls hockey" for another 17 hours, Tliompson said. "The demand i. there, we just have ta take another look," she said. Echoing Thompson's comments, Lang said minor hockey officiais couid go beyond their 85-hour request, but they did not want ta risk "pricing ourselves out of the market." Lang said a $25- or $30-per-hour rentai fée increase would amount ta a 30-per cent hike ini its fees. "On a family basis, that's quite formidable," lie said. Councillor Marcel Brunelle took exception ta Lang's comment at last week's-operations committee meeting that many parents did not bother ta, register their childrený for hockey due ta, the long lineups the past few summers. Brunelle noted that Town staff proposed a lottery scheme as a way of avoiding people having ta "camp out" at Iroquois Park, but it had been rejected by hockey officiais. "VIn the past we looked at different options," said Lang. "We will not have another two-day lineup, but there are criticisms of the iottery. "bs it fair ta everybody if it's just the luck of the draw?" Brunelle replied that it was flot fair ta, people who cannot spend two day. in lime. "What you shouid do i. take that inta account," he said. Councllor Judi Liongfleld, meanwhie, expressed. frustration overLanuWs statements that miner hockey'. figures were not a true accounting of its needs, and that other groupe for, backing Away from their earlier numabers. "People eut there feel the Town and the associations let them down," she said. "I'm also a littie disappointed when, at the litahehur, wlien tiers is the possibiiity of losing an opportunity with the private sector, your orgamization says there may be the possibility of more demand." Lang said lie stands behind the 85-heur figure, but ta promise more heurs would be irresponsible without consulting with the association. "In the same respect, don't we have ta, be responsible ta the taxpayers?" Longfield asked. Lang agreed, but noted that if the other groups had kept their original estimates, "we wouldn't be here teday." Parka and recreation director Larry Morrow said lie was "reasonably confident" that the 180-heur figure could be reached. However, Town staff would have te go beyond the needà of the five primary user groupa, Morrowt noted. "I don't think -anyone on this council looked at backing away from providing ice surfaces," saidt councillor Dennis Fox. "But we're net just responsible te the ice user. in this community We're responsible t auai taxpayer.," lie said. Following council'a decision, Lang said lie was "more or les." pleased with the outcome. "I'm glad ta see council ha. confidence and we can go forward," lie said. "We were dislieartened by the news of a couple of weeks ago-n i's goocl ta see the politicians have net dropped the bail." Lang said hie group's figure wiil remain at 85 heurs or go biglier. "WVe may have ta go out-side our traditional user. ta find people far that ice because there are only a certain number of heurs they are willing ta use it,r he said. "You can't expect youngsters ta play hockey at miàdnight or whatever."j RUST. DUNDAS ST. #2 z ;rý on c 1