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IKEA wants to resume bargaining by Martin van den Hemel Staff Reporter
Matthew Hoekstra photo Not all play elements in the new Terra Nova Rural Park playground are open yet, but there’s enough to satisfy curious kids in search of fun.
Million-dollar playground opens in Terra Nova Custom-made play structures created by treetop adventure design firm by Matthew Hoekstra Staff Reporter Behind the foliage of Terra Nova Rural Park, fences that have held back children from a one-of-a-kind playground are starting to come down. On Tuesday, children were sliding down from a tallas-trees treehouse, others sailed through the air on a 35-metre-long double zipline while others explored the custom-made “log jam”—a climbable timber structure that “mimics the
West Coast experience of walking on beached logs,” according to park planners. Not all play elements in this seven-figure playground are open yet—nor has the city staged an official grand opening—but there’s enough to satisfy curious kids in search of fun during a teachers’ labour dispute that’s extended summer for many. Originally slated for completion last year, the playground is void of cookiecutter equipment. See Page 6
Matthew Hoekstra photo Zac Prokop, 3, and brother Joe Prokop, 6, arrive at the bottom of a slide from a new eight-metretall treehouse.
IKEA has invited the union for striking workers to return to the bargaining table after a pair of decisions by the B.C. Labour Relations Board offered mixed results for the two sides in a dispute that’s lasted more than a year. The B.C. Labour Relations Board dismissed an appeal to overturn its July 24 ruling that IKEA had bargained directly with employees by making an offer to workers that had not been previously made to the union. But it wasn’t all good news for Teamsters Local 213, when the board rejected the union’s bid to have 35 IKEA Richmond employees expelled from union membership for returning to work during a strike, according to a press release from IKEA. But Anita Dawson said the company’s characterization of the decision by the board is misleading. “For the record, the Teamsters’ position always has been and continues to be that we do not want those people fired and have suggested alternatives to IKEA regarding their employment,” Dawson said late Friday. IKEA Canada spokesperson Madeleine Löwenborg-Frick said: “The board found that IKEA did not bargain in bad faith and the union’s request to remove the employees would have been against the Canada Labour Code. See Page 7
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