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PAGE 6, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 21. 1979, WHITBY FREE PRESS 600 LASCO steel workers are on s tiefrbttrbnft Six hundred empioyees of 'five weeks after 15 years. between April and requested four per cent. were made in the other cent in favour of rejectifg Lake Ontario Stëee Co. rejec- The company has offered September. The union bas stated that areas. The company has the company's first of fer ted management%5 la test five weeks' vacation after 15 The company has offered a LASCO's offer of a 60-cent-an offered 30 cents-an-hour in when the f ofimer three-year ---. É-f ilta'. ---- -. pa-n hniir. 'iode inerease nver a tê ir f pq nii c rntq n contract exnired Feb. 28. contract offer by a 77 per cent vote Thursday, after setting Up picket lines the prevîous night. The merubers of the United Steelworkers of America walked off their jobs just after midnight last Wednesday, after a day-long meeting wîth a government mediator failed to produce a settlement. The union is demanding four weeks' vacation after 10 years of. employnient and years, to be implemented in the third year of the con- tract, anf four weeks after 12 years, as allowed for-in the old agreement. Other ouitstanding issues are shift premiums, week- end premiums ' and holiday allowances, union officiais said. Il*The company bas offered a vacation bonus of 40 per cent if employees leave between October and March and 30 per cent if vacation is taken of an employee's gross earn- ings; while the union has three-year contract would be acceptable if iinprovements the second and third years. The. workers voted 98 per Con crete workers seule their strike Forty-one employees of Lake Ontario Concrete In- dustries,'ratified a two-year contract last week. The offer was identical to the one they turned down a week before against the advice of their union. On feb. 27, the employees staged, a four-day wildcat strike to protest the lack of progress in negotiations. Although details were not available, t.he members of the International -Molders and Allied Workers Union are said to receive a 36 cent-an-hour increase and will retain a controversial cost of living allowance. The wage increase is said to be 25 cents in the first year of the contract and 15 cents in the second year. The old two-year contract expired last Dec. 1. Traffie study A traffic study, intended to relieve the congestion on Whitby's main streets should be presented to council in the near future. The traffic study was com- missioned two years ago by the town and is being under- taken by Totten, Sims, Hu- bicki Associates. Amr ;0 SOM lin Ir Ir Ir Ir IMM-MMM-MM m M'MM nýlm.mmmml