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PG Bell workers strike Over 50 workers at the P Bell steel factory in Georgetown walk ed off the job Sunday night after contract negotiations broke down last week Plant workers at the P G Bell Division of Steel Fabricating Co on Sinclair and Armstrong Avenues are represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Toe voted Friday to walK out Sun day at midnight Workers say the company refus ed to offer them any more than a five per cent annual increase on their twoyear package The cur rent starting rate for an employee is 2l an hour They said this is their final of fer but its their first offer said Jackman a burner and checker at the steel plant But business representative Short said it is the overall economic package which the membership rejected A vote held Friday at the Cedar vale Community Centre resulted m 80 per cent of the workers voting in favor of a strike The company presented a final offer at 30 p Thursday in a hotel in Toronto and then left They didnt even wait for a response from us said Mr Short G Bell vice president of opera ttons Paul Gri said that although management didnt meet face-to- face with the union there was a mediator at the contract talks Weve given them an offer and the only response they ve given us is that theyre walking out on strike said Mr Sinking workers are concerned not only with their pay package but with increasing benefits including introducing a pension plan Mr Short says the union was offered funded pensions but these would not help workers about to Continued on Page 3 Town salary committee named OPEN 7 DAYS A Five local people have been named to a committee set up to consider salaries of Halton Hills politicians Joe Lister Georgetown In dependent managing editor Hart ly Coles Bob and Fred Harrison of Georgetown and Ross Knechtel of Acton also a former Halton Hills councillor will sit the salary review com mittee Mayor Miller said town ad minlstrator clerk Dan Costea has been asked to set up procedures for the new committee The mayor sent a letter to members finalizing the commit tee early this Councillors asked for a public committee to review salaries last year when a staff report in dicated councillors were under paid compared to municipalities of a similar size The fivemember committee will review councillors salaries and make recommendations back to council on potential Currently the mayor is paid a year plus an extra a year from Halton Region town and Regional coun cillors are paid 000 a year and Regional councillors pick up an extra a year from Halton ACTON Its Worth the Drive to Acton Mam St ACTON Ontario L7J 1W3 l Toronto LEASING FREE DISTRIBUTION WEDNESDAY APRIL 19th PAGES Hazardous waste depot closed Child safety week Its National Child Safety Week and Regional Police Safety Officer Susan is out in the schools driving the safety message home Here Grade student Derek Nolan Is helped along by Const and Public School safety patrol captain Lindsay Brown Grade 5 at school last week police are always preaching the safety message to kids but with the spring weather bicycle safety takes a front seat Herald photo by Brian MacLeod By DONNA KELL Herald Staff A Region run hazardous waste depot in Milton has been shut down by the Ontario Ministry of the En vironment The Ministry sent a notice to Halton Region April 11 saying the Steeles Avenue Milton Household Hazardous Waste depot which serves mainly North Halton was being operated contrary to the statute agreed upon by the Region and the Ministry of the En vironment Wastes such as paints turpen tines and bleach bottles were separated and disposed of in special containers by a Regional employee on the site But the ministry said Monday that the Region was violating their of approval I have a duty and obligation in my role as environmental officer to point that out immediately said Parsons Planning Co ordinator for the Halton Peel divi sion of the Mr Parsons said a notice sent to the Region last week was not an order to close the plant but merely outlined the problems to be cor rected The ministry said the hazardous waste disposal plant is not proper ly placing safety equipment dyk ing around storage areas for hazardous waste not providing approved equipment for the storage and handling of waste and is not storing the waste properly on the site Milton Regional Coun Bill Johnson said he is mad as hell at the ministrys notice Halton is not required to close the depot but could face fines and future action against them if they dont comply said Mr Parsons These people the MOE who should be assisting us are doing everything to embarrass us said Coun Johnson We thought we were leading in the disposal field but along came the big bad ministry to shut us down Johnson said the Region should have been given several weeks to correct any problems associated with the hazardous waste depot order to prevent its closure Now that theyve shut this thing down well have paints and solvents and God knows what else all along the sideroads Coun Johnson referred to the dumping of hazardous wastes near Mountsberg several years ago by several men who he says were not convicted Continued on Page 3 Man injured in collision A Georgetown man 18 is in serious condition in Sunnybrook Hospital following a singlecar collision in Glen Williams Thurs day night Regional Police say Blake was driving a Mazda eastbound on Sideroad near 10th Line when the car went out of control struck a tree and rolled over before com ing to rest in a field The Halton Hills Fire Depart ment was called in to extract the man from the car Police say the car failed to stop for a stop sign at the intersection of Sideroad 22 and Tenth Line An investigation into the collision continues