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MACK workers see bleak job prospects "At this moment I have no immeâ€" diate plans. I may be able to secure a job in this market," he said. contemplate future job prospects, because the plant closure "has taken us by surprise. I planned on retiring here. It‘s scary. From all the comâ€" ments I‘ve heard (about the job marâ€" ket), it‘s going to be hard.." He said with the Clinton adminisâ€" tration in the U.S., more emphasis is going to be placed on "madeâ€"inâ€" America" products. Meanwhile, the Canadian government "hasn‘t planned any corrective action to curâ€" tail" what‘s happening in the U.S., he said. "We‘re all angry" about the plant closure, said one woman employed at MACK for 19 years as clerk, who asked not to be identified. Tony Salciccioli, an accountant at MACK for 14 years, said the deciâ€" sion to close the plant was "partly economic and partly political." Salciccioli was slightly optimistic about future job prospects. Joe Micic, MACK sales coâ€"ordiâ€" nator in Canada for 15 years, didn‘t mince words when asked about who should be blamed for the future plant closure. Micic, who has two children under five years old, said he‘s conâ€" cerned about what the future may hold. "It‘s free trade," he said. "There‘s no incentive to maintain jobs in Canada. We should be marketing our capability to the world. The govâ€" ernment is creating no new jobs. There‘s got to be incentive for these companies to stay here," Micic said. HoOW TO ENSURE YOUR ESTATE GOES TO YOUR FAMLILY ... not Revenue Canadal Mr. Dennis Siemko, Investment Advisor, RBC Dominion Securities Mr. Brian J. Hanna, Hanna, Henderson Barristers Solicitors Mr. Bryan F. Kogut, Tax Specialist, BDO Dunwood(i;, Ward, Mallett Mr. Bruce Caplan, Sun Life of Cana Ms Marilyn Fedak, Manager Personal Banking, Royal Bank Date: Tuesday, May 4, 1993 Time:; 7:00 p.m. Place: Howard Johnson, 590 Argus Road, Oakville PLAN NOW TO ATTEND THIS IMPORTANT ESTATE PLANNING SEMINAR (Continued from page 1) COME AND LEARN FROM OAKVILLE‘S PROFESSIONAL ESTATE PLANNING TEAM Note: Admission to this highâ€"interest meeting is FREE, but as seatir;fi is limited, preâ€"registration is requested. To book your place, please call. LIsA DITOSTO AT 338â€"2747 "We‘re not the first (to lose our jobs to free trade) and we won‘t be the last unless the government gets "My future is shaky. We look like statistics out here. But eventually, everyone is going to be a statistic. It doesn‘t hit home until you‘re affectâ€" ed. By then it‘s too late," Micic said. MACK workers demonstrate for the television cameras. MEMBER OF ROYAL BANK GROUP RBC DOMINION SECURITIES | SPACE AGE SHELVING }g/cigl PURCHASE _ e ‘ffi UMIYEDOUANTVTIESAVAILAB‘ t Z0 2 System its priorities straight," said Linda Morphet, a senior clerk who has been employed with the company for 20 years. Morphet said employees are feelâ€" ing both frustrated and saddened by the future plant closure. "This is a way of life and now we (Photo by Peter McCusker) feel inadequate," she said. Bob Chernecki, special assistant to CAW president Buzz Hargrove, said MACK in Oakville "is another in the long list of freeâ€"trade vicâ€" tims." He said under free trade, tariffs for U.S. auto and truck manufacturâ€" ers shipping their product to Canada will be eliminated by 1998. "The only reason (the manufacâ€" turers) would remain in Canada is if there were penalties on the trucks," Chernecki said. Maude Barlow, chairperson of the Council of Canadians, an antiâ€"free trade organization based in Ottawa, echoed Chernecki commenits. "Free trade is killing the auto pact. (MACK in Oakville) is a profâ€" itable plant. Why are they closing it?" she said. "This is a classic example where we were competitive (with the U.S.) and it didn‘t work. These job losses UM-EN'S@SHOPS U DOWNTOWN OAKVILLE : 183 LAKESHORE ROAD EAST 845â€"8911 M-EN'S@SHOPS AT EASE IN EVERY SENSE Travel blazer in linen/cotton blend, 3â€"button unreconstructed khaki; Jonathon Polo 100% cotton shortâ€"sleeve in a panelled herringbone; Hillside linen/cotton pant. Tommy Hilfiger at his best, at Garvey‘s. Hilfiger at Garvey‘s Summer Serenity affect everybody," Barlow said. She said proof that the free trade agreement isn‘t working is that Canada has lost 24% of its manufacâ€" turers since 1989, while the U.S. has only lost 6%. "We‘ve lost four times the amount as the U.S. These jobs aren‘t going and the coming back after the recession. They‘re gone forever. And this is just the first. There will be more," Barlow warned. Clarke said in order to stop future job losses and plant closures, the federal government must "abrogate (the freeâ€"trade agreement) and negoâ€" tiate an alternative solution" with the U.S. Tony Clarke, chairperson of the Action Canada Network, comprised of national labor and social organizaâ€" tions opposed to free trade, said under the agreement, "Canada isn‘t benefitting at all. We‘re under a loseâ€" lose situation."