The Ubyssey
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note: Man, 45 women lose j • • Vol. LXIV, No. 56 Vancouver, B.C. Tuesday, March 9,1982 228-2301 In April 45 women physical plant workers will face unemployment because of budget cutbacks but officials claim the layoffs are based on job classification and the layoffs have nothing to do with gender. The "operational decision" terminates April 1, 46 custodial ^io*? *■*■**■—— •«3ar f 'T* -'•"■• '• «* It?!- *^8 "■£ S^*' * W^f-'V.lC ''•^^-aw^ " workers classified as service worker ones but avoids layoffs in a second, male dominated classification. "We've not laid off women per se; we've laid off service worker ones," said H.E. Trewin, custodial section superintendent, Monday. "I don't look on them as men and women, I look on them as ones and twos," he said. (According to Trewin, service worker ones have "lighter" duties while worker twos take on the "heavier" jobs such as floor waxing, wet mopping, furniture moving and machinery use.) Employee relations director Bob Grant said the job classification, and not the individuals, are being cut. "I don't think sex came into it," he said. "We don't classify by sex, we classify by job description. What we're doing is cutting back on the lowest classification," he added. According to Trewin, "these are two different trades; they are not the same." He later added that combining the two classifications has been discussed, but "there are certain tasks that women can't do physically- "We had to decide how we were going to meet the (cutbacks)," said See page 2: POSITIONS Rallies for 4"* W&iv^.-.*- *■...- *■: % w*I education on Friday —eric uggertson photo SHORT-TERM wheelchair rider discovers deceptiveness of "ramp" which seeing students experience movement from class to class from a different has three inch bump at bottom, causing inconvenience to wild wheelers at perspective. Wheelchair ace racer Rick Hansen (left) offers suggestions on UBC. Organizers of Monday's wheelchair tour of campus get kick out of popping wheelies and avoiding poth…
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