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12-Oroho Weekly Times, Wednesday, February 8, 1989 The Orono Hamlet plan The Orono Hamlet Plan went interest being shown by local Robinson view the plan with a on display last Wednesday in the residents. representative of the Town Orono Town Hall with a good Above Chris and Lynn planning department. Classified Ads (Continued from page 13) Year round resort requires the following: Breakfast cook, maintenance maintenance person, kitchen helper. Wages range between $5.25- S6.50 per hour to start Please call (705)457-2000. MARINE MECHANIC. Allsaw Bridge Marine requires a qualified qualified marine mechanic. Attractive wage and benefit package. Starting Starting early April, Free accommodation accommodation for bachelor or couple. Reply in confidence to Box 1000, Minden, Ont. K0M 2K0. or call (705)457-2282. Lung Association (Continued from page 11) Parents and children also learn how to identify an impending attack more quickly, "thus reducing its severity. During the program, children ■ and moms and dads meet such friends as "Clippy Doll" (a cardboard cardboard & paperclip doll used to teach floppy relaxation movements) and "Hot Botts" (a hot water bottle inside inside a soft cloth covering). Jumpy Ball and Step-Up-Step- Down Games are other important components in this unique service for Durham's yoiing asthmatics. For more information, call the Durham Region Lung Association at 436-1046. Mainstream Canada -- More teeth -- for postal crocodile By Ann M. Smith The results of a recent vote between Canada's two largest postal unions really couldn't be called surprising. Following Following orders from the Canada Labor Relations Board, Canada Post's two largest unions---the 23,000-niember Canadian Union of Postal Workers and the slightly smaller 21,000-member Letter Letter Carriers' Union of. Canada--held a recent showdown vote to determine which of the two union bosses would rule the new kingdom. Parrot, with a 2,000-member edge in voting, narrowly wqn with 51.1 per cent of voter support. Needless to say, many observers of the beleaguered Canadian postal system system weren't too thrilled with the outcome outcome of January's vote. Parrot's militancy and strike : prone tendencies, they point out, haven't always been ' greeted with enthusiasm by the much more moderate letter carriers now under Parrot's enormous umbrella. Dale Betting, executive director of provincial affairs for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, says the small business community in particular has reason to be nervous about Parrot's galvanized power base. It would have been nice, he says, if the less strike-prone LCUC had absorbed - Parrot's CTJPW. "The .strike weapon is larger and more ominous than ever, especially given CUPW's militant history," Bolting said. (The overwhelming majority of postal disruptions, rotating walk-outs and full-scale national strikes have been the result of unrest by CÜPW workers.) "When small business owners in this country 1 are through taking a look at Parrot's track record, they will have good reason to assume . the worst. After all, it is this sector of the economy economy that shoulders the fullest brunt of these strikes. " . , Control of the new "mega-union", however, makes Bolting even more pessimistic. ' » For starters, Parrot now has the ability ability to pull all 46,000 members (including (including CUPW, LCUC and the remaining members from other Canada Post unions) out on - strike which, in turn, will make it impossible to keep most of the country's mail moving despite the use of Outside workers (as has been the case in several recent strikes). This could give CUPW more power to increase, wages and benefits, which could keep pressure on Canada Post management to continue hiking postage postage ratps. So Parrot and his supporters will have to excuse those Canadians who .aren't quite willing to join in his celebrations. He will have to prove that unlimited use of his strike arsenal isn't on the new union's agenda. Let's face it, though, that doesn't seem very likely. And, ominously enough, Parrot will begin his new mandate by sitting down with management in an attempt to re-negotiate a fresh contract for his workers. But, say his detractors, if there was so much acrimony in the past with only 23,000 workers to worry about, how realistic is it to expect that the situation situation will improve with 46,000 workers now in the picture? Stay tuned, Parrot's centre stage antics will be on display soon enough. CFIB Feature Service Gan you get AIDS from sharing a needle while doing drugs? YES! Get the facts. Let's Talk. Call the Ontario Ministry of Health AIDS Hotline 1-800-668-AIDS THAT'S HOW MANY CANADIANS ARE FIGURE SKATERS \ Planning a ! Wedding? 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