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PAGE 4, WITY PME PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMER 29,1989 Durhamcrest employees apply for conciliation, Employees at halfway house Durha2mcrest, a for provincial offenders in Oshawa, have applied for conciliation because Fi. Jtewellerse :d Ge st For a gift to be remembered.. FOR MOTHER OR GRANDMOTHER THE IDEAL GIFT IS A CUSTOM MADE FAMILY RING. It's a Iasting gift they'll always cherishi. Ail birthstones available in 10k or 14k gold. ofePicesdstrthe at... yeswehve R. Paul Dynes - Graduate Gemologist 101 Mary St. W. (Pearson Lanes), Whitby of lagging contract talka. Dur %amcrest, at 15 -Division St., accomniodates 23 adult offenders. It is operated by a community board but receives its funding from the Ministry of Correctional Services. The staff supervise offenders who would otherwise be inates at the Whitby Jail. They were recently organized by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union and began negotiations for a first contract 10 Tanning Sessions $55.00 GET 1 FREE Sensational Najils1 # Fibreglass Nails é Na il TiPs # Nail Wraps Facials -Wain Pedicures - Lash & Brow Tints - arpiercing m Àm- Robert Hall Carolvn Hall WALK 10 fTHE GO! Brick beauty on mature lot. Sep. dining room, fireplace, fin. rec room, det. garage, 3 sep. entrances. Spotless. $187,500.00.1 FABULOUS FALLING BROOK Det. 3 bed, 3 bath home features main floor farnily roomn with fireplace and walkout, master ensuite. Good buy at $219 900.00. COLSTON AVE. BROOKLIN Spacious bungalow, 3+1 bed, corner jacuzzi, corner fireplace, ideal location. $255,000.00. IT' S CI-ARMING Princess St., Brooklin - Lovely 1 1/2 storey ai bick home. $219,900.00. For more information on these or other area properties cal: ROBERT OR CAROLYN HALL Office 655-8444 Tor. LUne 427-1263 . 24 hour pager RF444> canaan land realty inc. 55 adwin St. P.O. box 491, -Brooklln il 1 in June. Employees picketed the haif- wayhouse, on Monday to back demnanda for a first collective areen.Tiahave broken down over wages, health and safety, job security and p~y tequity. Counsellors at Durhamcrest earn $10.11 an hour, cômpared to the Ontario government rate Of $13.58 an hour. A cook at Durhamcrest earns $8.64 an hour, compared with the Ontario government rate of $11.75 an hour. Supervisors at Durhanxcrest earn $8.79 an hour, compared with the equivalent correctional officer 1 who, earns $14.55 an hour. Prograni co-ordinators earn $11.60 an hour, compared with the equivalent correctional offi- cer 2 rate of $16.75 an hour. «Most of the nine-member bar- gainig unit at Durhamncrest are women. The substandard wages beffg paid te them are an affront to the intent of Ontario Pay Equity Legsiation,» said Pat RooneyO0SEU staffrepresenta- tive and bargaining spokesper- son. Durhamcrest has offered a 5 per cent increase in a one year contract. Correctional officersata the Whitby Jail have rejected a 6.5 per cent increase on theii Icnysaid the employri not responding te, theunos concerns over job security nor lis it dealing with legtimate health and safety issues. Staff are often reuiedto work alone. in the halfWay house, a practice which has been condemned at inqqests inte, deaths of Ottawa halfWay house worker Celia Ruygrok and Midland youth worker lrista Sepp.