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UK Cul.I. f: .:'' v. 13 VOL. 13 NO. 16 Coyote News In Brief Random drug testing begins Bureau of Indian Affairs employees in designated positions will be partici pating in a nationwide drug testing program. Page 2 Head Start registration In process Three and four-year-olds are eligible for participa tion in two tribal pro grams. Packets may be obtained at the Head Start offices. Page 2 Project Improves Shitike Creek Shitike Creek instream , habitat and slreamiide areas recently received attention during Confed erated TribesBPA project. Page 3 Consumers can get satisfaction Bringing consumer prob lems to the attention of the seller can be handled in various ways. Page 5 County Fair schedule printed The 1988 Jefferson County Fair schedule is available. Be sure to visit the fair exhibit areas and join in some of the activities. Page 6 Rodeo photos show action The Huckleberry Feast Rodeo held at HeHe pro vided an exciting and enjoyable time for partic ipants and spectators. Page 7 The Warm Springs Bureau of Indian Affairs Individ ual Indian Monies (MM) department will be closed Friday, August 12, 1988 through Monday, August 22, 1988. No check re quests will be taken dur ing that period, according to BIA superindentent Bernard Topash. Weather DATE HIGH LOW JULY 27 94 68 28 92 59 29 98 58 30 100 57 31 89 59 AUG. : 82 53 2 81 49 3 90 50 4 99 50 5 87 58 6 80 50 7 85 45 8 94 50 9 93 55 Spilyay Tymoo U News from the Warm Springs Indian Reservation j w v. .... . v.. 4,S ' 1 ' - .' ' ' , ' ; - . : ' strike .j&Wzfr : f - I H - . . . . . i t , ' . . .; '. '...-"-v .' ? ' - " .. - ' ' - .. . : : ... . . f : : -- 1 . J ' . f - ' ' ; ' :, ' . , - ,. f I " V " S -.: :v.,.. ..,...:... f .... ., . . . . . ....... . . .. ........ ..... . . lii ill InrnmffhilllMlll II- " . XZmS-1mmmmmM n.nn,r,.1,,rt. J" '''' ' " ' "" ' P " " " - Strikers moved picket lines off the Work halted at Doug McConnel! received a citation police nhenpolice asked picketers required to appear in district court. .. mm ''"'-'KfV'M ' -' i . f- , ,.- I 'M til : if : ' X j ' '.' '"""..,-. . ' "i " " t ; - - - .'!'. '''''! : P.O. BOX 870 WARM SPRINGS, OREGON 97761 reservation after Tribal Council excluded them from tribal lands. WSFPI; union members strike for "criminal trespass' from tribal to move their lines. He will be by Donna Behrend As regular travelers on U.S. Highway 26 rounded the corner just inside reservation boundaries Monday morning, many were sur prised to find that members of the Wetern Council of Industrial Workers local union 2941 had formed picket lines along the high way and were officially on strike. The decision to strike Warm Springs Forest Products Industries (WSFPI) came after a vote by union members Sunday. This is the first time that WSFPI has been struck in its 21 -year history. The strike caused the shutdown of WSFPI operations on Monday. Log trucks, parked along side the highway Monday morning, were unloaded by a non-WSFPI em ployee. Log hauling will not resume until the mill is operating again. Falling was discontinued Monday and woods activities, by at least one independent logger, will be discontinued Friday. Tommy Smith, of Smith-Greene Logging, said Wednesday, that his logging operations will be shut off Friday. Because of concerns about the safety of the strikers, tribal members and the traveling public along Highway 26. the Warm Springs Tribal Council exercised their authority to exclude the pickets from reservation lands. The Tribe, based upon their treaty, have the right to exclude non-members of the tribe from the reservation. At about 7 p.m. Monday, Warm Springs Police Department person nel asked the picketers at the mill entrances to move their lines across the Deschutes River, off the reser vation. According to police chief Raymond Calica. the picketers were given the option to leave. If they ess for wage, benefit restoration chose not to leave, non-Indian picketers were cited for criminal trespass. If, after being cited, the non Indian picketers again chose not to leave, they were "physcially" re moved and cited again for criminal trespass. Those Indian picketers who chose not to leave were arrested for "unlawful assembly" and taken to the Warm Springs jail where they were lodged until local union offi cials could arrange for their release. Bail we.s set at $100 per person lodged in the jail. As a result of this action, three Indian picketers, including one tri bal member, and 12 non-Indian picketers were either arrested or received citations. On Tuesday, tribal member picketers met with Tribal Council to discuss concerns related to "training, condition of equipment and mismanagement,"said Richard Tohet, a non-union member who is "respecting" the strike. They also asked that strikers, specifically tri bal members, be allowed to picket on the reservation. Tribal Council denied thier request. According to reports, union officials plan to take legal action against the Tribe for excluding the pickets from reserva tion lands. Union members are asking that their wages and benefits be res tored. When their contract was negotiated two years ago. employees took a $1.55 per hour cut and lost two paid holidays. Some employees also lost a week's paid vacation. According to Dave Coe. presi dent of the local union, the Bohe mia settlement was used as a "basis in industry settlcments...the union told mangemcnt that the Bohemia agreement was the minimum set l .S. I'oslagr Bulk itair Permit No. 2 W arm Spring, OK 97761 Correction Requested AUGUST 12, 1988 tlement." The Bohemia settlement called for a straight 17 percent wage increase over four years and was resisted by all major compan ies currently in negotiations. Another union official stated that "we were willing to take a settle ment like Bohemia we would have jumped at a chance like that." At the last meeting between union members and WSFPI management August 5, WSFPI representatives offered a one-year extension of the present contract, citing that the mill could ill-afford to increase costs given the current and pro jected future financial standing of the tribally-owned enterprise. "We can't afford to increase the costs of the operation." said WSFPI Gen eral Manager Bob Macy, Sr. WSFPI has gone from a year-to-date profit of $768,000 as of the end of March to an approximate $180,000 year-to-date loss as of the end of July. Macy also said that an "offer was made to open the books for an audit." At the conclusion of the meeting on Friday, WSFPI man agement had the impression that WCI W would not sanction a strike and that "discussions would con tinue." Macy added that "no one. to my knowledge, was formally notified" that employees would strike. "They made no offer," said Coe. "They told us they were broke. We don't believe what the company is telling us." Like many other mills in the Northwest, WSFPI operations have been severely impacted by the re duced volume of old growth timber from reservation lands. Studies are currently underway to identify mill Continued on page 2