REGINA (Staff) – Three fired Saskatchewan Wheat Pool employees in Swift Current have been handed their jobs back by an arbitration board.
The board, appointed by the provincial government, found two of them had been “overzealous” in shutting elevator facilities just before a strike which began Sept. 7, said Grain Services Union general secretary Hugh Wagner. It also said they had tampered with equipment.
The board said they had not sabotaged the equipment and must be reinstated in their jobs.
However, the board ruled the pool could suspend the workers. Two of the employees received two-month suspensions while a third, who was held generally responsible for the others’ conduct, received a one-month suspension.
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Manitoba cabinet announced
WINNIPEG (Staff) – Manitoba premier Gary Filmon made only minor changes to his cabinet last week in preparation for his third term in office.
Linda McIntosh was handed the education and training portfolio, formerly held by Clayton Manness, who retired from the legislature.
McIntosh is a former president of the Manitoba Association for School Trustees, and has the job of dealing with changes to school board boundaries and reforms to public and post-secondary schools that were introduced by Manness.
Harry Enns will remain as agriculture minister. He is the longest-sitting MLA in the legislature, having first been elected in 1966. Len Derkach will keep the rural development post.
Filmon moved Lac du Bonnet MLA Darren Praznik from labor to energy and mines. Newcomer Vic Toews will handle labor. Portage la Prairie MLA Brian Pallister will take over government services, also left vacant by a retired cabinet minister.
Food workers agree on contract
SASKATOON (Staff) – A new agreement has been reached between workers at the CanAmera Foods plant in Russell, Man., and the company.
The wages of the 38 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers have been increased by two percent retroactive to April 1. There will also be an additional 10 cents an hour added to wages to reflect increased work load in the plant, retroactive to April 1.
Beginning next April the union members will receive a two-cent an hour wage increase.
The employees also received other benefits. The new agreement expires in 1997.
