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h "2 2. a eR be 4 | { 735% Hospital staff 'join walk-out About 25 employees of Port Perry Hospital set up picket lines at 6:30 Monday morn- ing as part of a strike by CUPE members at 65 hospi- tals across Ontario. The 25 Port Perry Hospital employees, members of - CUPE Local 1926, include housekeeping staff, mainte- nance workers, ward clerks and RNA's. The strike call came from CUPE headquarters late Sunday evening after a final attempt at mediation between the union and the Ontario Hospital Association failed. Across the province, there are about 16,000 hospital employees involved and they now make an average of $6.64 per hour. The Union had originally asked for a $2 per hour increase, but this was reduced to $1.50 per + hour=-Union' members voted 75 per cent in favour of strike action on January 15, and OHA negotiators refused to SNS TER gL [SLAs SR PAUSE Pal. fod © dt Lt Laie 8 Ty LATA AEP XS BI A LF SA OH can i SEE GP SENATOR Ti Ye vivian dy resume bargaining under the threat of strike. The strike is an illegal one and individual members face fines of up to $1000 per day, and the union faces fines of up to $10,000 a day. The picket line in Port Perry was set up on Paxton Street at the entrance to the hospital, and as of Monday morning, picketers were making no effort to stop or impede traffic into the hospi- tal property. Hospital administrator Dave Brown said Monday morning that there were about 35 patients in the hospital beds, and doctors and nursing staff would be assesing the patients to determine which ones could be sent home until the dispute is over. Mr. Brown said the hospi- otal would be cancelling 8 ~elective surgery, and some of the workload would be handled by non-union staff. "We are trying to lighten Driver critical after car crash A Port Perry area man was rushed by air ambu- lance helicopter to Sunny- brook Medical Centre where he was listed Monday morning in critical condition in the hospital's intensive care unit. Brian Jones, 25, of R.R. 1, Port Perry sustained head injuries in a two car accident Sunday evening about 10:30 on Highway 7A just west of Blackstock. He was evacuated from Port Perry Hospital by heli- copter shortly after midnight Sunday. -- A spokesman for New- castle OPP said the victim was the driver of a car which crashed head-on into a van driven by Glenn Scott, of R.R. 1, Blackstock.. Scott and a passenger, Karen Barrett, 22, were treated for cuts and bruises at Port Perry Hospital and released. Police estimate damage to the van at $5000, and the car driven by Jones was des- cribed by police as a write- off. A police spokesman said Monday morning that the accident is still under investigation. Zoning by- Scugog council Monday afternoon gave third and final reading to a new comprehensive zoning by-law, but it will be several months before objections are resolved through appeals to the Ontario Municipal Board. _ The zoning by-law, a massive document that has been more than a year in the making at a cost of some $40,000, will now be circula- ted to all property owners in Scugog Township starting in about four weeks time. Once circulation begins, property owners will have a 21-day period to lodge an official objection to any portion of the new by-law, and Township planning consultant John McDermott told council that based on past experiences in other municipalities, Scugog can expect to receive in the neighbourhood of 100 formal objections. Mr. McDermott - told council that once the 21-day objection period is over, all objectors will be asked to meet with Township staff and planners in an effort to resolve the objections before they go in front of the Ontario Municipal Board for a final decision. He said he expects _objec- tions to the by-law will be heard by the OMB in October or November and the hear- ings at that time could take as long as two weeks. The Township is receiving a direct provincial subsidy for half the cost of the by-law (the cost of printing and circulation alone is estima- ted at $25,000; and there were fears expressed on Monday by Mayor Jerry Taylor and Township administrator Earl Cuddie that if the third reading of the by-law was held up, the Township could lose the balance of the subsidy owing, a sum of about $11,000. Both regional councillor Lawrence Malcolm and » aT st nig bal Aim ng Ath id 7" the workload in the hospital, and obviously we have to discharge some patients," he said. The hospital's kitchen staff, members of a different CUPE local reported for work on Monday morning, but Mr. Brown said he was not sure if that would continue. INL 3 LEI . A Ala adit AS wk Auden Vol. 115 No.9 fiat) 4 RIES VEIN 2 REET WB IFS ETE ETRE WI AS» ATL ENG CA ST , at 3 : Sur tuiond ods Saran Wednesday, January 28, 1981 28 Pages of Gh oh | ONTARIO AION TNIAY R= Members of CUPE Local 126 set up picket lines in front of Port Perry Community Hospital first thing Monday morning, joining several thousand other hospital workers in a province wide strike in defiance Ward one ~ councillor Neil Hunter expressed reserva- tions about giving the by-law third and final reading. Councillor Malcolm said there are four individual letters of objection from property owners that the council has not dealt with, and he was concerned that they might not re-file their objections during the official 21-day period. He agreed to go along with third reading after Ward two councillor Robert Espey introduced a resolution that any objections received to date would automatically be considered official objec- tions even if they are not re-filed during the 21 day period. Councillor Hunter sugges- ted that he himself might be filing an objection to a portion of the by-law and he wondered if voting for final reading might prejudice such an objection in front of an appeal board at a later date. Mr. Cuddie said this would not be the case and any individual objection by a councillor would not be prejudiced by voting third reading to the entire by-law. F of provincial legislation and an order from the Labour Relations Board. About 25 Port Perry Hospital workers were off the job Monday, and the hospital is discharging patients and cancelling elective surgery. aw gets final reading By-law enforcement officer Bob Kenny told council that he could see no problem giving the docu- ment final reading on Monday to get the official 21-day period for filing objections moving. After council gave formal third reading to the by-law, (Turn to Page 19) Building permits nose dive The value of building permits issued in Scugog Township during 1980 was just about half the amount in 1979, according to a final report tabled at a council meeting Monday afternoon. The total for 1980 was $3,884,538, as -opposed to $7,667,068 worth of permits issued the previous year. The final figures came as no real surprise as the monthly reports on building activity in the Township indicated all year that 1980 was going to be far below the previous 12 months. About the only bright spot in the 1980 report was a strong up-surge in activity in December where the total reached $138,000. By com- parison, the total for December, 1979 was just $13,000. The most comparisons for the two years, however, were the months of September. In 1979, the value of permits was $1.26 million that month and in 1980 sunk to a low of $243,000. Also in 1979, the value of permits was over the $1 million mark in four months - April, May June and September. In 1980, the highest single month was August when the figure startling reached $585,000. High interest rates and a marked slowdown in sub- division activity in the Township last year are the main reasons for the severe slowdown which has been experienced in several other municipalities in Durham during 1980. nN The slowdown hurts the local economy in several, ways. Suppliers and trades feel the pinch. The local tax base does not increase through residential and ° commercial construction, and the municipality loses revenues through a decrease in the lot levy payments.