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Show BUSINESS 8A Wednesday, Feb. 12, 1992 Standard-Examiner Labor rates Utah congressmen low By THOMAS THORSCH KRADER Standard-Examumner staff Utah’s congressmen and senators tend not ~ How. they voted Some key issues of unions are listed votes in 1991 considered pro-union by the AFL-CIO: The percentage of Utah to back unions on labor-related issues, ac- Here were someof the key issues targeted U.S.-flag vessels to ship a portion of the goods bought with the aid. by unions in the 1991 Congress: gw Davis-Bacon apprenticeships. Bill & Most-favored-nation trading status for that was defeated in the Senate would have China. President Bush’s call for uncondiBased on 1991 voting prevented the Labor Department from tional most-favored-nation trading status records on 12 majorisfunding new helper regulations. The new for China, despite its human rights record, sues, the AFL-CIO reregulations would have replaced up to 40 was denied by the House. The Senate set ported the five Utah percent of the workforce with lower-paid stringent worker and humanrights condimembers of the 102nd unskilled workers. The act increases costs of tions, and passed the bill. Congress sided with i federally funded projects by mandating workersless than a third gExtended unemployment benefits. higher wages be paid to skilled labor. of the time. Granted an additional 20 weeks of benefits. g@ Fast Track authority. Allows the presiAnd on six labor-inThe bill passed but was vetoed. The House dent to negotiate the U.S.-Mexico free trade approved a compromise bill that extended tensive issues in the agreement or Genera! Agreement on Tariffs benefits 13 weeks. Senate and eight in the and Trade. Resolution backed by the House, Utah politicians Hansen « Workpiace fairness. Bill banned the AFL-CIO would have denied that authority, backed workers a quaruse of permanent replacements during a but it was defeated. ter of the time, the report noted. a Cargo preference. Requirements now strike. The bill passed and was supported Without Reps. Wayne Owens and Bill Orin place mandate recipients of U.S. aid use by the AFL-CIO. ton, both Democrats, the voting percentage in favor of labor dropped considerably to 17 ] percent and just 5 percent on the key issues. [ “Every session, we identify issues impot- atrocious voting record on labor issues,” mittees. He also joined 92 other senators in support of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 tant to working people and families — issues Mayne said. like health care and child care — people-type Republican Sen. Jake Garn supported la- which, the AFL-CIO believes recovered lost issues,” said Ed Mayne, director of the bor 25 percent of the time, but only once ground in sexual, racial and religious diswhen faced with six key worker issues before crimination after several 1989 Supreme AFL-CIO in Utah. “It is something to keep Utah workers ap- the Senate, the AFL-CIO reported. In that Court decisions. “The senator doesn’t pay much attention prised of the voting records of elected offi- one instance, Garn opposed President Bush’s cials from the state when they are out of call for unconditional most-favored-nation to claims of special interest groups and prefers to let voters decide whether he is doing a sight,” he said. trading status to Chiria. The study also puts politicians on notice On lesser issues, he backed labor by voting good job,” said Mary Jane Collipriest, assisthat people are watching, Maynesaid. against campaigh finance reform which car- tant press secretary for Garn. Utah’s other Republican senator, Orrin “Unfortunately, Utah’s senators have an ried a provision to bai political action comcording to statistics from the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Indusirial Organizations. . Rep. Wayne Owens (D) — 75 percent Rep.Bill Orton (D) — 33 percent Sen. Jake Garn (R) — 25 percent Sen. Orrin Hatch (R) — 25 percent Rep. Jim Hansen (R) — 0 percent Source: AFL-CIO Hatch, also voted with labor 25 percent of the time, but did not side with the AFL-CIO on any. ofits six key points. Hatch did, however, support labor by voting against tabling an amendmentthat would have reduced the Social Security payroll tax and a return to a pay-as-you-go system, and, like Garn, against campaign finance reform and for the Civil Rights Act. “Hewaspleased that organized labor and he were able to work toward the same goals on those three issues,” said Hatch’s Uiah press secretary Christie McAllister. Mayne said Utah’s congressmen fared better than the senators, although Rep. Jim Hansen, R-Ist District, voted against labor on all 12 of the issues before the House, according to the AFL-CIO. “The AFL-CIO ratings are no surprise. Congressman Hansen sees the rated issues from a far different viewpoint than the liberal AFL-CIO,” said Hansen spokesman Peter See LABOR on 9A Depositors deceived, panei says Ogden Park Hotel. $25. 625-5712. UTAH/LOCAL Airiine will add 240 jobs in SLC SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A ance officials deliberately misled depositors and the state should SALT LAKE CITY — Continental Airlines will hire more than 240 additional full- make good on the money not yet recovered. The 46-page Utah Thrifts panel report was obtained late Tuesday by The Salt Lake Tribune, which reported it in a copyright story. Five state-chartered thrifts were closed in 1986 and seized by regulators. Depositors lost $105 miilion. They have received $84 million so far as the result of a 1988 Settlement approved by the Legislature. State Director of Financial Institutions George Sutton said today he thinks the panel report jumps to unfortunate and “surprising” conclusions’ based on incompleteinformation. “The panel really misunderstands atid part-time empioyeésat Its regional reservations center, the cofipahy arinounced. That @xpansion to a workforce of 740 should incréaseIts contribution to the local economy to more than $10 million this year, said Jim Thistle, director. NATIONAL Sears to cut 600 jobs CHICAGO — Seats, Roebuck and Co, said todayIt will eliminate 600 jobs by mid-April in a robhgatization of its regionalretailing managementstaff aimed at saving $50 million by next year Sears also said It expects to cut somejobsin its Chicago headquarters later this year after Completing a study “to what Lrgaged said Sutton. “The state did not participate in the panel hearings at all, so they (panel tembers) never heard the state’s side of the story. “If they had, they hopefully would have realized they would be accusing somebody of a coverup for not yelling fire in a crowded theater,” he said. “It wasn’t a case “All parties who appeared before the panel and disctissed the issues agreed that the ILGC fund, from the day it was created and on oar day it existed, never had enowfi money to provide any meaningful de depot insurance,” the report said. hat we have just described is See THRIFTS on SA detertnine the best organizational stricture in the OBECLARA PiRandad baainer Wally Naider(left) and his son Kenley Naider bulld handmade 400-pound ¢drift boats they say can be usedih many different ways. Wayak like owning four boats By MARY LOU PHIPPEN Standard-Examiner LAYTON — A boatis a boat is a boat. Well that’s not necessarily 80. Wally Nalder calls his “Wayak” the “only 100 pound drift boat in the world.” And it’s really four boats in one, he said, It can be paddled like a canoe or a kayak. It can act as a drift boat for fishing. It’s also a motor boat, rated for a 5 horsepower motor. Andlast ofall, it’s a hunting boat, with camouflage colors and a lowprofile. Nalder said his nephew, Wayne Bloxham, itivented the boat but he decided to take a chatice. He incorporated Kenderblox bf Ott. 5, 1990, and then acquired the le- SHOP TALK Inside Utah Business @ COMPANY:KenderbloxInc. @ WHERE:747 E. Highway 193, Layton/771-8831 BFYPE:Live fiberglass a i SALES: 50 boats/$1,500 each/April-December 1991 @ HOURS:8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. M-F, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays, or by i intment ARKETS:Intermountain area after seeing what it was all about, SAN ANTONIO — FDIC the potential problems facihg add the company wasin full oditttion. Early this year, the at was displayed at a Sacra- tietito, Calif, boat show. The company shipped eight sae to a show that runs through titiday in Denver, and wants to put thetti in a Salt Lake City had to be a better way.” OPENED: October 1990 @ EMPLOYEES:3 “I had just retired and really had trouble getting it manufactured and marketed. That’s where didn’t want to get involved.” But Nalder caimie in. that’s a combination of ‘Wayne, for his nephew, and kayak. Bloxham got the idea for the boat while trying to fish the Big Horn River in Montana in 4f unstable canoe, Nalder said. “After that experience Wayne felt there show in Match. Bloxham was détermined to fashion a boat that would be light, portable and stable in the the boats shown if Sacramento, Two dealers expressed an interest in marketing the Wayak,” Nalder said. A Salt Lake dealer has ordeted five boats to test the market, he said. See BOAT on SA Bankruptcy court bursting with ‘megacase’ filings NEW YORK(AP) — In the midst of a national recession that has slowed commerce and idled millions of Americans, one Manhattan establishment is busier than ever — U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Macy, Pan Am, BCCI, Orion Pictures and thousands ofother less-prominent com- parties fallen on hard times have ended up at the grand old Beaux Arts building at the foot of Broadway. Sitice the court's turf includes Manhattan — the nation’s business center — it has always gotten many of the headline-making Buit the record number of bankruptcy filitigs overt the past three years has brought with it an nied flood of work for thePr ineand support staff. aa if the past a “megacase” Lewis. Although the court handles one third of the nation’s assets in banktuptty, oh the surface everything looks calm. The court occupies two floors of the former U.S, Customs Hotise, & gray granite building squatting among the sleek glass skyscrapers of the financial digttict. Out front is the city’s first ptiblic wling Green, along With a bronze statue of a charging bull. Inside, the hallwa are relatively quict, noise from cotisttuction crews at work. court is renovating space on two other oors for expansion, and the Smithsonian fi ee vill s00h be opening its Amer'nari fh museuth on the lower levels. except for occasion Only about 17 percent of the 10,535 ngs last year were businesses, meee 18 ttionths or so, the last three yeeef wy seen 12 filings by companies Lewis says. The test are persorial batikrupt- yeti with assets of $1 billion or more. “These are the ones that break your * back,” says Chief Bankruptcy Clerk C.\celia cy cases that generally dott t eveh come fore a judge. Usually the individual has no assets lef, 4 ay A trustee notifies his or her creditors afid Today there are 107 clerks and Lewis says discharges the person’s debts. more will be hited, The really big faillires go to the Megacase The business bankruptcies are more complicated. Room, sort‘Gf 4 of infamy for corporate Aides fe three years ago as the Last year, 1,283 companies filed for m and has grown to Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection — more n famous names. than three times the 1987 number. In January, 212 companies filed Chapter 11 — a stern, fos by intense competition nomy, struggled for one-month courthouse record. and a slumping Five permanent and two visiting judges fitarly two years in ptcy court before January. hear the cases, most of which never attract ut the the room say they try any public attention. On a recent Monday, the owners of fi hot to get u whet & company they've Italian restaurant were asking rt werttpwith ped i permission to pay suppliers. A lan emi sou become pogogegen oe asked a judge to modify an order $0 h could collect rent from a delinquent| store. lifeblood here is paper. Reaftié fietits come in daily, most Of ta do be @ ree souredin eompuieean mu a8,Oy ares Atut ti th uble. ¢ people in the Leslie Martin, Oli have to deal fttiitoe& ie be emotion- Perhaps more than any other onbet ~ . Ati 4 hu it Wap hie “If it. herself ey of on it!” het ofrequests: “ rhe it carpet 2 = the government's deposit insurance fund are growing even as the business outlookis improving for banks. In a speech Tuesday, Taylor said whenthe final accountingIs doneshortly, the government fund insuring bank deposits likely will be in the red at the end of 1991 for the first time in its 58-year history. Home saies up WASHINGTON — More “We had excelléht interest in water. His first model was built of wood and took six years to finetune. The first molds were cortipleted in 1989. But it took six months before he wasable to get approval fromm Furtd in crisis, Chairman William Taylor warns the fire marshall to set up a fiber§las8 shop, so he missed the spring boat market that year, Nalder said. By the summerlast gal rights to “Wayak,” @ fname highly competitive retail environment.” FDIC leader warns HANS i Johnnetta B. Coie, president of Spelman College in Atianta, Ga., has joined the board of directors of Ogden-based Management & Training Corp. Coie is a director of President Bush’s Points of Light Foundation. She has a master’s degree in anthropology. Ron Watkins was promoted to assistant auto claim superintendent at State Farm’s Ogden Service Center. A graduate of Brigham Young University, he began his career with the companyin 1984. Feb. 18. Workshop, opening and operating a small business, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., panel has concluded thrift-insur- fully underfunded. Cole BULLETIN BOARD Standard-Examiner staff and wire reports of the state perpetrating a fraud on anybody — it was the state handling this thing in a way to cause the feast harm to the smallest number of people.” Despite the finding, the parties involved say the thrift depositors will not pursue claims against the state, because the out-of-court settlement reached in 1988 is considered final. The panel was created by the Legislature at the same time lawtakers negotiated the settlement. The purpose of the panel was to screen claims against remaining defendants in the case. The panel report contends officials involved with the Industrial Loan Guarantee Corp. represented that deposits were guaranteed even when the guatantee fund was woe- Watkins 4i renters became buyers 4s mortgage rates plummeted in the October-December quarter, helping to drive up existing home prices throughout much of the nation, a real estate trade group says. Sales increased in all four regions from the fourth quarter of 1990 to the fourth quarter of 1991. That; In turn, helped boost prices of existing,ii In all séver of the metropolitan reas by Nitiona 6 Association of ealtors, CONSUMER TIP disorders rising CHICAGO — Reports of repetitive-motion disorders have risen sixtold in recent years and now account for more than half of all occupational ilinesses in the United States, a report in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association noted, The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics found that there were 24 cases of cumulative trauma disorder for every 10,000 U.S. in 1990, up from four C&SEEs Her 10,000 in 1982, — Blandard-Examinerstaf! and wire services |
