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Regional news and views The president of the Civil fusal to grant provincial Service Association of On Crown employees full colâ€" tario last week warned that lective bargaining rights the Davis government‘s ree will result in frustration, Open defiance of law if rights not granted finding dump 183 LOUISA ST., KITCHENER (AT WEBER ST., N) .. 745â€"8346 ON ALL WALLPAPER SELECTIONS MADE OUR ONLY PRODUCT Is WALLPAPER, wE CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF wALLPAPER BOOKS OVER 300 BOOKS TO CHOOSE FRO HAVE WE GOT A TRUCK FOR YOU! Datsun Sportruck. MONDAY THRU SATURDAY 9 A.M. â€" 6 P.M. 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The changes are nothing more than political window dressâ€" ing by the Davis Governâ€" ment,"* Mr. Darrow said. most restrictive and oppresâ€" The amendments to the Act received third reading in the Legislature Thursâ€" day night just before the session ended. Mr. Darrow said the Act still compels Crown emâ€" ployees to settle disputes by arbitration. The union had asked the government to make 24 specific changes to the act, including the choice between voluntary arbitration or the right to strike. ‘‘This act still denies Crown employees the right to political activity and prevents them from negoâ€" tiating over their pension funds.‘"‘ The largest of these funds, covering civil servants, is worth about $680â€"million. ‘‘This sort of oppressive legislation will only lead to labour disputes," said Mr. Darrow. ‘"When is this government going to real!â€" ize that nobody can simply legislate labour disputes away? They can only be lessened by the practice of good employeeâ€"employer relations. does not provide for such a relationship, but rather it creates an atmosphere of tension ‘and _ frustration Collective Bargaining Act defiance of such a law," Mr. Darrow said. "If there is labour strife within the Ontario Public Serviceâ€"and I would bet that there very well may be with about 52,000 governâ€" ment employees‘ collective agreements expiring by the end of the yearâ€"the Davis â€" government will have no one to blame but itself." Mr. Darrow said that Eric Winkler, Chairman of the Management Board of Cabinet, ‘‘has set the stage for a confrontation‘‘ by his speech to the Ottawa Kiwanis Club on January 24th in which he rejected â€"in advanceâ€"the possibiâ€" lity of wage increases for other Ontario civil serâ€" vants similar to the 21.5% won by Operational Cateâ€" gory workers after a strike threat last December. ‘*We met with Mr. Winkâ€" ler and his colleagues in an attempt to convince them that government employâ€" ees deserve the same rights as other citizens. Our arguments fell on deaf ears and closed minds,‘"‘ added Mr. Darrow. $35,000 mental health grant . A request that up to $35,000 be granted to the local branch of the Canadian Mental Health Associaâ€" tion â€" was _ recommended last week by the regional health and social services committee. If approved by council, $15,000 would be used to finance existing programs run by the association, inâ€" cluding its distress teleâ€" phone line. The remaining $20,000 would go toward a $100,000 centre to coâ€"ordinate all aspects of rehabilitation for â€" former psychiatric patients, including the soâ€" cial, housing and job problems usually _ exâ€" perienced after a person has been discharged from hospital. ‘‘The Crown Employees The establishment of the centre hinges on the province‘s agreement to provide the other $80,000. FOR YOUR FIRST LEISURE OR PERMANENT HOME, wE INVITE YOU TO SEND FOR YOUR FOLDER TO REVIEW OUR POPULAR MODELS. COST $1.00. (MORTGAGE FUNODS AVAILABLE) EARL McLEAN â€" Box 34, Waterloo, Ont. THE ELDORADO VW March 12, 1975 â€" P ag EDITORIAL COMMENT YOUR DRLAMS fOR LEISURE LIVING, COME TRUE You really cannot blame North Dumfries councillors who are fighting a proposed regionâ€" al landfill site in the township two miles northâ€" east of Roseville. * Council unanimously opposed in principle the establishment of a landfill site anywhere in the township. Who, in their right minds, would welcome with open arms any suggesâ€" tion that a dump be located in their backyard? But unfortunately we have to get rid of our garbage somewhere. _ ________ â€" By Jack Milis The garbage situation is indeed not new. A proposal to dump Metropolitan Toronto‘s garâ€" bage in Hope Township remains up in the air. An application by CP Rail to pick up Toronto‘s waste and ship it 50 miles to Hope Township is still in the planning stages. No one wants to touch it with a 10â€"foot pole. Recently members of The House of Comâ€" mons learned that crews of ships plying the Great Lakes will flush an estimated seven million tons of human sewage into the waterâ€" way during the next five years. Not a very pretty picture to say the leastâ€"but it is happening. * . Meanwhile, back at our own Region. The North Dumfries site was favored over a number of others studied for the Region‘s enâ€" gineering and waste management department by a London firm. The Region wants to preserve farmland, yet its plans call for digging up about 300 acres of farmland to create a garbage disposal site. Briefs from the region We pity the plight of North Dumfries counâ€" cillors. And we pity the plight of North Dumâ€" fries residents And we also have to pity the plight of those members of Regional counâ€" cil who have to make decisions such as creating new garbage disposal sites. The health and social services committee refusâ€" ed Wednesday to pay more than $6.50 a day for reâ€" gionally â€" subsidized chilâ€" dren â€" attending private dayâ€"care centres. Good editorials offer suggestions. This is obviously not a good editorial because we have no suggestions. As a matter of fact this whole missile should be thrown in the garbage. But I don‘t know where to put it. The $6.50 rate has been in effect for more than a year, and 10 of the 15 cenâ€" tres from which the Reâ€" gion â€" purchases â€" services Dayâ€"care pay to stay at $6.50 No easy task March 12, 1975 â€" Page 27 have asked for increases up to $8 a day. Regional staff recommended that $8 be the new maximum, but only at centres meeting acceptable standards of staffing, meals and other facilities. Sheila McKinnon, dayâ€" care supervisor, said later she doesn‘t know what will happen to more* than 200 children _ attending _ the centres if the operators inâ€" sist on the higher rate. Ask help for refunds There may be a profit in helping the local tax collectors _ beat _ senior government taxes. A _ Toronto _ company, Professional Sales Tax Consultants Ltd.,. . which helps municipalities claim salesâ€"tax _ refunds, _ has been asked to go to work for Waterloo Region. The tax company claims the Region should be enâ€" titled to $15,000 in refunds over the last two years, Mac Gregg. regional treasurer, said Wednesâ€" day. The tax team offered to do a study of regional fiâ€" nances provided that it would get a third of reâ€" bates it obtains.