Nase Novine, January 25, 1978

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pravo i iillekovoi
tvomici
Huron Parki Ont. — Копабпо Je
okondan Strajk radnlka u Ffeck
Manufacturing Ltd. Zaposleni su
mahom iene. Nesporazuml I nesfa-ganj- a
s poslodavcem zapodetf su
koncem. proSle godine,. a dollvjell
najvedu kulmlnaclju 6. olujka (mar--
ta) kadaje obustavljen rad. Had bez
radnog ugovora, nepriznavanje sin-dlkal- ne
(Union) organizaclje, vrlo
niska pri mania a uz to, radnl uvfeti I
zaStlta na radu slab, bill su raztozl
obustave rada — Strajka. Cljell
dogadaj skrenuo Je na sebe patnju
kanadske avnostl I svakodnevno
se odeklvala vljest o povolnom
zavrSetku Strajka, JersS slmpatlje I
razumljevanja bita na strani StraJ-kufud- lh
iena. All, vlasnlci tvornice
se nisu dali, korlstedl svakf svo
adut "demokratske slobode" I mis-led!
samo na svoj dobltak (profit) I
bududnost. Nekl su Izradunall da Je
Strajk trajao todno 161 dan.. StraJ-kaSko- m
stralom prodeflllralo Je
viSe tlsuda radnlka uz prulenu
moralnu I flnancljsku pomod. Na
govornicl su se smjenjlvali uglednl
radndkl prvacf, kao: predsjednfk
Kanadskog radnldkog kongresa,
predsjednlk Udrulenja automobU
skih radnlka za Kanadu, minister
rada Idrugl. hlatt radnl kolektiv all
Our M' I
Canadian companies "are Inves-ting
millions of 'dollars In the U.S.
and creating 'thousands rof 'Amerf-can.Jo- bs
at a time when nearly one
million Canadians are looking for
work. ...
That's the conclusion of a,study
of Canadian inyeetmgpt in the U.Si
by the Conference Board, a Neyv
York-base- d independent research
group. -
Canadian companies -- are now
pouring Investment dollars into the
U.S. over double the rate of recent
years, the study says.
David Bauer, a Conference Board
economist who monitors the flow
of moneV'from Canada to the. US which
--The stepped-u- p
montns of this year,
major projects against In the
same period last year,
'But measuring the amount of'
investment by the
projects understates trend
the dollar amounts invol-ved
in each venture are
rapidly",' 'Warns Bauer.
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Behind the rush, Canadian- - to set up' shop-fn- '
U.S, the apparent,'
businessmen feel.about
economic' prospects .at.hone and
the optimism th'ey
feel about thVU;S. '"'
J. of
the.Canadian Assp- -
'"ciatlon,
Irtyeat
Miit' otijne Doraer.w, M9f)ey;' iS;3irier-- ,
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give
tvrdiprah. Nlsu se dall zbunltl ni s
koje strane. DoduSe, bllo Je --i onh
koli su se kolebali te s polovlco
puta odustajall, straSedi se otkaza
a nagovaranl sa strane gazdlne
' sluzbe. Vedlna je ostala uporna u
svojlm. zahtjevlma, . Jer su dvrsto
vferovall u ono Sto trale. A, nlje
bllo bogzna Sto; molda samo
mrvlca vISe. I uspjell su, usprkos
svlm tlm prltlsclma. Plade su Im
povedane za 20 posto I prlznato Im
Je njlhovo radnldko udrulenje
UA Local 27, Sto Je veda slgur-no-st
I garanclja, da 6e se radnl
uvetl I zaStlta pobolJSatl, a potpl-sa- nl
ugovor o radu poStlvatf.
Ml smo ve6 plsali o ovom doga-daj- u
I na stranlcama naSeg tjednl-k- a.
PISem o tome JoS Jednom,
poSto Je Istl doblo velikl publlcitet
u kanadskoj Stamp! narodlto ovdje
u Juinom. Ontarlu, a Ipak ostalo Je
nekollko sfvarl nedoredenlh. Poje-dln- cl
poatavlaju pitanje: tko Je s
tlm Strajkom doblo a tko Izgublo?
Odgovorje tu all se
zaobllazl. Bio Je tu I paradoks
tvornlcu Je znalo
do 500 pollcaaca sa
pladom od 9 dolara nasat, plus
besplatno spayanje I hrana u hote- -
Ifma, a iene su se borlle za prima- -
.v milions
national and It will go where 'it can
grow most rapidly.
Kennedy says the investment
climate in the U.S. Is more. appea-ling
. to Canadian businessmen
because labor costs are generally
lower, unions are less militant and
production costs aren't so high.
Want deeds
"The recent changes in govern-ment
policy that signal better rela-tions'
between government and
business have yet to prove thom-sdlve- s.
want deeds,
not just words", Kennedy said.
Genstar Ltd., Canada's biggest
builder of single family homes,
completed a $50 million deal a few
our particular field Labdr costs are
lower and so are construction
costs"
One the biggest single Job-creati- ng investments recently ma-de
by a Canadian company was the
purchase of Toronto-base- d Co-Ste- el International Ltd. of Rariton
River Steel Co. New York.
.Co-Ste- el plans to rebuild and
modernize Rariton's old plant at a
cost of $94 million. The project will
produce around, 1,000 American
jobs once the plant comes on full
stream.
PiAva Clnrar1 Mftffflrnnn nraaL
dent of Co-Ste- el: "There's no doubt
that conditions are bet- -
ter, down there. This country has.
suffered from excessive govern- -
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RADNICE
nja neSto veda od 3 dolara na sat.
Sve Je to pomalo I razumljlvo ako
se zna da su vlasnlci James Fleck
pomodnlk mlnlstra za fndustrlju I
turlzam ovdje u Ontarlju, I George
Gardiner, velikl financier kojl Ima
svoja udeSda I u IndustrlJJ van
Kanade, te u neklm novlnsklm
kudama Slrom zemlje, a uz to se
nalazl ha vlsoklm poloiajlma po
raznlm organlzaclama I klubovlma.
Molda Je to I utjecalo da se
negovo Ime rede spomlnje kao
vlasnlka onJh druglh 49% u Fleko-v- oj
tvornlcl.
No, bez obzlra na sve to, kao I na
uspjeh&aposlonlh u FlekovoJ tvor- -
nlcJ, usudujem se napfsatl da Je
dltav radnldkl pokret doblo poen.
Northern Telecom Ltd., the high- -
technology communications equ-ipment
off-sho- ot of Bell Canada
Ltd., has been bullish on the U.S.
for several years. The company
acquired its first U.S. plant in 1.972
and now has 15 manufacturing
facilities In, nine states.
The company's U.S. off-shoo- ts
employ some 10,000 workers,-o- r
about half the company's Canadian
workforce.,
Richard Scrivener, the compa-ny's
outspoken chief executive,
told The Star: "We're down In the
U.S. because we wanted success-fully
to pepetrate that market. To
do that you have to be'there — not
in Canada". . .,
,
,"
, Cites malaise .
Scrivener blames 15 years of
economic mismanagement for the
malaise clouding the Canadian
-- business outlook. 2
"If things go on the way they
have been I can see our U.S. sales
rising to 10 .times the size of ours
sates in Canada". Currently, North-ern
Telecom's sales in Canada total
$965 million against only $197
million In the U.S.
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Burlington-base- d auto, parts ma-ker
Trldon Ltd. has recently embar-ked
on a $5 million expansion
project at its Nashville, Tenn.,
plant. The expanded operation will
employ 250 workers.
Dotiglae Sedgwick, president,
told The Star: "Apart from gene- -'
rally lower costs there are also real
Incentives which are offered by the
state government. For 'example, a
company can borrow at several
percentage points below the going
Canadian ate through what's cal-led
industrial development bonds.
"These are guaranteed by the
state goveVhrrijent8 and, the bond
holders 4ј6 lend us the money
for suchjrojejJts.rrban collect
Interest payments, tax-- f ree'v.
IZ FLECKOVE TVORNICE SLAVE
Tu prvenstveno mlsllm na mjesto I
polotaj zaposlene iene. DruStvo Je
moralo I mora datl odredenlje
mjesto radne Iene I to, kako na
poslu tako I u druStvu uopde. Dosta
Je mISIJenJa: zapdslenoj ienl Je
dovoljno da zaradl neSto (second
Income), ako ved bode da radl, Jer
mulevljeva plada treba da dlnl
glavnl oslonac oblteljl. A s druge
strane — Javna Je tajna da JoS u
mnoglm tvornlcama Imamo podje-IJen- a
radna mjesta na: lenska I
muSka. Danas su prosjedna godlS- -
nja prlmanja zaposlene iene u
Kanadl $8,100 III kako Je prlje
nekollko .mjesecl Joe Morris —
blvSi predsjednlk Kanadskog rad- -
nldkog kongresa rekao: "on evera- -
1 US
Other projects
Other major job-creati- ng Cana-dian
Investments in the U.S.
include:
The $14 million takeover by Indal
Ltd. of Toronto of Tennessee Bull-din- g
Products.- - The acquisition,
brings Indal's total investments in
the U.S. to- - $60 mllllon.v Indal
employs 2,800 people In the U.S.,
nearjy half indal's total workforce.
Keep Rite Products Ltd. of
Brantford, makers of alf conditio-ning
equipment,' has built a $5
million plant in Lisbon, Ohio,
which, will initially, employ 30
people. F. Stewart Brown,. Keep
Rite's president, says that there are
many attractions to Investing in the
U.S., Including lower real estate
prices and state-subsidiz- ed trai-ning
program's foripotentfaVehiplo-yees- .
Hudson's Bay Mining and Smel-ting
recently stepped up its Invest-ment
In Inspiration Consolidated
Cdpper at a cost of, $65 million.
Inspiration now ernpjoys 1,668
people.
.
Montreal-base- d Dominion Brid-ge
Co. recently bought Amtel Inc.,
a Providence, R.I., outfit for $78
million.
The result is that out of $1 billion
in expected group sales this year,'
some twothirds will be fromm U.S.
operations. Dominion Bridge, in
fact, Is now so heavily involved in
the U.S. that 9 out of its 10 top
executives operate from an office
In Hanover, N.H,
Molson Cos. Ltd. has just com-pleted
a $55 million deal to acquire
Dlversey Corp. of Chicago which
boasts sales of $950 million and
employs ,3,600.
Velan Engineering Ltd. of Mon-treal;
world exporters of a wide
range of industrial valves, opened a
$5 million plant In Burlington, Vt.
Number of jobs to be created Is
170. Says Ivan Velan, vice-pres- lr
dent:, "Think of any economic
POBJEDU
ge earn only 59 per cent of what
men earn".
Danas Je sve viSe iena koje su
zaposlene III trale posao. U 1977 g.
— 45,9% kanadskih iena bllo Je
zaposleno III u zadnje dvlje decenl-J-e
porast zaposlenosti Je 22%.
. Sve to govorl, da demo Strajk u
FlekovoJ tvornlcl pamtltl po tome
Sto Je bio organlzlran od takoredi
samo ienskog radnog kolektlva,
Sto Je glasno Istakao I traiio priz-nan- je iene koja radl rame uz rame
sa muSkarcem, podvukao diskrl- -
mlnantnu ulogu radne iene u
pogledu novdanlh prlmanja, a da se
o njlhovfm radnlm uvjetlma I zaStltl
na radu malo ill nikako ne brine,
Goran Tumlir
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1 - 00".: ' was
factor you want to and it's better in
the U.S. — productivity, labor
rates, union attitudes, size of the
market, political stability. That's
why we decided to open up our
neW plant in Burlington rather than
in Toronto or Montreal.
HORNER WORRIED
- . v Jack Horner, minister of indus-try,
.trade and commerce, admits
that he's, concerned about the flood
of money and jobs to the U.S.
"But ,we can't agree with the
businessmen 'that they get a bejtter
return on their buck than "they
could here. We've worked It out,
and these companies are by and
large no better off investing in the
U.S. than In Canada".
(The Toronto Star)
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