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AAD A PO EPI Ea IGA owner sets record straight Says picketers urged staff to take day off, block delivery Port Perry IGA Store own- er Jim Grieve says striking members of the Teamsters did more than just hand out infor- mation leaflets when they threw a picket line around his store for several hours May 21. Mr. Grieve says that some of his employees were asked by the picketers "to take the day off work," and some members of the public entering the store were asked to do their shopping elsewhere. And he charges that one of the picketers blocked a non- union delivery truck for 15 min- utes, and in at least one in- stance strong language was used by a picketer. Mr. Grieve also suggested that the picket line at his store that day may have been illegal, since Port Perry IGA is an inde- pendent franchise, not owned by Oshawa Foods. About 700 members of the Teamsters (drivers and ware- house workers) have been on strike against Oshawa Foods for the last four weeks. The Union says job security and improved pensions are the main issues in the dispute. Oshawa Foods has offered a lump sum of $5675 to each em- ployee in the first year of a new contract and a 95 cent per hour increase in the second year. The company also says the offer includes a guarantee that in the event of lay-offs, full time employees will be the last ones laid off; employees bumped can use seniority to bump through the entire bargaining unit; and employees who are laid off will get at least two weeks notice, a severance package and benefits coverage for four months. As for the charge by the un- ion that the company used $28 million in "surplus" pension | funds to off-set company costs, the company said there has nev- er been money removed from the pension fund. Oshawa Foods says the of- fer rejected by the Teamsters Local 419 would have given em- ployees the most attractive pen- sion plan in the industry as well as higher wages. There were about 15 pick- ets outside tiie Port Perry store on May 21. They stayed until just before 2 p.m. Party would cut MP's salaries From Page 1 subsidies until governments do the same in the States and Eu- rope. However, he called subsi- dies "just a postponement of fac- ing the truth." Leier, a successful business man who has done a lot of com- munity work in Saskatoon on hospital and library boards, was especially critical of MPs, who "never seem to feel the con- Annual fireworks display at lakefront Scugog Chamber of Com- merce was given the nod on Monday to make use of the area in front of the library, and Birdseye Park for the annual Canada Day fire- works display. The Chamber of Com- merce is in the process of planning the much antici- pated July 1event. sequences of their actions." He cited the example of MPs getting a recent pay raise of $300 per month, while pen- sioners received a hike of about $3 per month. And he noted that MPs do not have to pay GST on supplies and equipment for their offices. He said the Reform Party would immediately cut MPs sal- aries by ten per cent, and trim the federal travel (now about $550 million yearly) by a simi- lar ten per cent. "That's $55 million. Maybe we could give that money to the truckers to help keep them working," he stated. = The audience that turned over to hear Leier speak was for the most part middle-aged, but there were a fair number of younger people in their 20's and early 30's. And there were a number of Scugog Township residents in the audience, including some with known affiliations with other federal parties. Organizers handed out many pamphlets outlining Re- form Party positions on every- thing from multiculturalism (end the funding) to immigra- tion (economic in nature and a tough crackdown on bogus or il- legal immigrants) And the literature says the OSHAWA SATELLITE as low as Party is opposed to nation-wide bilingualism, but supports French in Quebec and English elsewhere as the language of QR work and society. Official bilingualism would be limited to key institutions such as Parliament, the Su- preme Court and certain feder- al services where numbers war- rant. The meeting opened with the 300 or so people standing to sing O Canada. And sing they did, loudly in fact. The Reform Party expects to field a candidate in the riding of Durham in the next federal election. This riding, which takes in all of Scugog Township, is pres- ently held by Conservative back-bencher Ross Stevenson. PORT PERRY STAR -- Tuesday, May 28, 1991 -- 3 : +1 - oy Hn a +e; pa A bs >) " "Ru : y g: : Ry : Ie 2 2. 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