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22- PORT PERRY STAR - Tuesday, November 17, 1998 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" Strike won't disrupt emergency services: CUPE rep From page 1 "If we are to go, it would probably be around the week of the (November) 23rd. If we decide to take action we want to give the hospital time to look after its staffing needs," she said, adding that five to seven days should be enough time for hospital administration to come up with a plan to replace striking members. CUPE members have been working without a contract since 1995. Negotiations between the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) and two unions -- CUPE and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) -- have come to a halt after both sides refuse to budge on the issue of contracting out work at hospitals. The OHA wants to be able to hire workers from agencies to cut costs, says Ms Loyst. 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If a strike does occur, 80 employees at the Port Perry site will be off the job and on a 24-hour picket line until a resolution is reached, Ms Loyst said. CUPE workers at the local facility take care of the majority of non-patient- care tasks including health records, admitting, RPNs, laboratory work, x-rays, office and kitchen staff, housekeeping, communica- tions, maintenance and finance. With the members going into their third year with- out a contract, Ms Loyst says now 1s the time for action. "We're still hoping to negotiate before we go out. No one wants to strike and if we do, we hope it's not for too long. It's not some- thing we want to do, it's something we've been forced to do," she said. "Whatever happens, we Get Started on winter with these SUPER ale, DEALS! Slglelplal ple PANY RoWVFACWRO D7 (e]a R= leYa d=Ya Rp gloYe (= [S 2.9% Financing O.A.C., 36 month term, 48 & 60 month terms available @ 4.9% on selected models. O.A.C. 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Approximately 80 per cent of the employees at Port Perry cast a ballot in the strike vote; the result was not unanimous. Also voting to strike were CUPE workers employed at Oshawa and Bowmanville sites of Lakeridge Health. Whitby members are cur- rently in the process of tak- ing a vote. Employees at Lakeridge Health Uxbridge are represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), and are not threatening to strike. Other hospitals facing possible strike action include those in Port Hope, Cobourg, and most of Northern Ontario. While upset over the looming job action protest, Ms Loyst says she and her colleagues harbour no hard feelings toward the local hospital. "We've had friendly meetings with them and we have a friendly rela- tionship with them; this is not personal," she said. "It will, however, not be business as usual. I imag- ine they will have to cancel elective surgeries and watch their admissions." "Brian Lemon, Chief Executive Officer of the Lakeridge Health Corporation, said that while he is hoping for an agreement between the two sides, he is also making plans to replace striking workers. "Obviously we'd be very concerned if there was a strike, we're hoping that's not the case," he said last week. "We're taking the neces- sary steps to prepare for a potential strike, an illegal strike." From page 1 and just over four kilome- tres as the officers pursued the suspect westbound on Highway 7A to the Manchester intersection. That's where the Ford col- lided with the car being driven by Mr. Gibbons, who was accompanied by his 35-year-old wife Lorna. They were southbound on Highway 12, coming home from Casino Rama. The two vehicles collid- ed when the truck ran a stoplight, smashing into the driver's side of the Cadillac. The vehicles ended twisted together up in the southwest ditch. Witnesses said the truck was travelling at a high rate of speed when it entered the intersection. The Oshawa couple was rushed to hospital in Port Perry, where Mr. Gibbons died of his injuries. His wife was treated for minor injuries and released. The driver of the truck wasn't injured. The province's Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the civilian organization that probes any incident resulting in any serious injury or death involving Ontario's police officers, -was called around 2 a.m, said Grimley. MTO officials closed a stretch of Highway 12 from the Manchester intersec- tion north of Regional Rd. 8 until the early afternoon Sunday while an investi- gation, involving the SIU, Durham officers, and Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), was held. Several SIU investigators recon- structed the accident scene by placing the vehicles back at the point of impact. They continued their Fatal crash being probed by SIU investigation yesterday as well. The ordeal began around 1:30 a.m. when the accused's wife -- they have been formally separated since August 1997 -- was coming from the local casi- no with her parents and friends and stopped at a set of lights in Port Perry, say police. She noticed the accused in his truck at the Reid's Independent Grocers park- ing lot and immediately took her passengers home, police say. She then trav- elled further west on Highway 7A in her par- ents' car and pulled into a local gas station where she was confronted by the accused. The woman then left and was followed by the accused until she lost him and made the call from the police station. David Franklin Doerfler, 35, was taken into police custody and was charged with one count of criminal harass- ment as a result of the inci- dent at the gas station and the stalking, say police. He was also found with a vial of hash oil when searched at the 26 Division station and charged with one count of a controlled substance, police say. Mr. Doerfler also faces one count of breach of pro- bation as a result of being in the town of Port Perry and approaching his wife. The probation terms stem from recent incidents in Lindsay, say police. The Claremont resident appeared in an Oshawa court yesterday morning and was kept in custody and remanded until Thursday (Nov. 19) morn- ing. TT TIIITIITTI--,--