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19 until 01 sob br UN 13 JAN 29 ST. LOUIS POST- DISPATCH 1991 TUESDAY TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1991 Railroad Unions Are Making Preparations For Strike By Philip Dine Of the Post-Dispatch Staff St. Louis Post-Dispatch The nation's railroad unions are bracing for a potential strike in just over two weeks, but several say that any action may be delayed because of concern over the Persian Gulf war. That's because a strike could shut down most of the nation's rail freight system, which carries much of the U.S. war equipment before it is sent to the gulf, the unions say.

However, internal union documents from the largest rail union indicate that serious preparations are under way for a strike, which could start as soon as Feb. 15. memo sent by the president of the Transportation Communication International Union to top union officials says in part, "The next step in the Edgar From page one most difficult task will then be to identify an equitable source of revenue to implement this plan." Edgar has said he will not support a general increase in state taxes but has left the door open for user fees, which he defines as taxes on specific products whose proceeds are earmarked for related expenses. That definition could cover fees charged chemical manufacturers, which in turn would be used to pay for hazardous waste dumps. The task force also recommended that Edgar: Appoint a drug czar to oversee drug and alcohol abuse programs.

The report says money to combat substance abuse is available but is being spent "haphazardly and without strict measures in place to test" whether it is well spent. Set up community-based health and social service delivery systems, perhaps linked to schools, to ensure that Illinoisans who need services get procedure is self help, that is, we must strike the railroad industry if we are to secure a new National Agreement." The memo, obtained Monday by the Post-Dispatch, was written by union international President Richard I. Kilroy. To keep the nation's transportation system running smoothly given the key role of the railroads in national commerce the federal Railway Labor Act of 1926 limits the unions' ability to strike. The act was amended in 1934 to include the airlines.

Lengthy and complex procedures are built into law to impede the unions' ability to strike or the companies' right to lock out workers. The 11 freight railroad unions, representing 235,000 workers, and the railroad management group, with 98 them without being bounced around among several departments. Redesign the state system for health care coverage and reimbursement to control costs, expand coverage and reduce government interference in the health care delivery system. Shift the focus of economic development to helping small and existing Illinois businesses and improving job training, which now have "duplication and useless programs." The governor should bring together business and labor to bring down the costs of workers compensation insurance, unemployment insurance and utility costs, as well as pushing for changes in the state's legal liability standards. Devise a four-year financing plan for education to give stability to schools from kindergarten through college.

As part of that plan, schools should be punished for poor performance and rewarded for excellence. The team recommended that Edgar use education and business experts to define specific performance standards and hold the "entire educational system" accountable for meeting those goals. DEATHS Recent deaths in the Metro East area: Alton Edwardsville Nina Fay Hubbard, 88, died Saturday, Verna E. Schekovske, 73, died Sunday, funeral Wednesday, Elias-Smith. funeral Thursday, Weber.

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railroad companies, have been negotiating for more than two years. A presidential Emergency Board, set up to try to avoid a breakdown in talks, issued a non-binding report on Jan. 15. The mandatory 30-day "cooling-off" period will expire on Feb. 15.

"It's taken us almost three years to get to where we could strike," Diane Curry, spokeswoman for the Transportation Communications International Union, said Monday. Kilroy's memo, sent Friday, says that a meeting Thursday between the union's six-member negotiating committee and the National Railway Labor Conference, the management group, led to a continued impasse. Kilroy wrote, "Preparations for a national rail strike are now under way and through subsequent correspondence you will receive instructions as Illinois Asks For Help In Murder Case By Charles Bosworth Jr. Of the Post-Dispatch Staff The Illinois State Police appealed Monday for the public's help in solving the murder of Regina Kay Walters, a Texas teen-ager whose remains were found last year in a barn near Greenville. "We have no fresh leads at all," said State Police Lt.

Wayne Watson. "We need someone to come forward." Investigators hope somebody saw the 15-year-old and could provide information, said Watson, assistant zone commander for the State Police detectives at Collinsville. Watson said that all calls would remain confidential and that anonymous calls would be accepted. He asked that anonymous callers who contacted police last year call again at (618) 346-3700. Walters' skeletal remains were found Sept.

29 in the loft of a barn near Greenville, about 50 miles east of St. Louis in Bond County, Watson said. No clothes were found; an autopsy showed she had been strangled. Watson said the girl either had been killed in the barn or nearby and her body left in the barn. Watson said the body apparently had been in the barn since early March.

The barn sits about 200 feet off Interstate 70 a mile west of the intersection with Illinois Route 127. The owner found the body during a routine check of the property. Walters was reported missing Feb. 3, 1990, by her parents in Pasadena, Texas, Watson said. The parents separated before the girl disappeared.

They believed their daughter had left the area with a young man. She had not been in any trouble and had no criminal record, Watson said. "We believe they probably were traveling through this area," he said. "But it is possible she was in this area for some time and may have met to your role in conducting a successful strike. "Of course, we are sensitive to the war in the Persian Gulf and that will certainly be taken into consideration at the appropriate time." The National Railway Labor Conference was unavailable for comment Monday.

The group has said that it seeks to make U.S. railroad carriers competitive by eliminating "archaic work rule impediments," limiting the rise in health-care costs and adjusting wages. A strike would "cripple the middle section of the country if it happens," a union official said. Rail carries about 38 percent of the nation's freight, according to the AFLCIO Transportation Trades Department. Almost all carriers are affected by the contracts talks now under way, Regina Kay Walters Murder victim Regina Sue Walters' skeletal remains were found Sept.

29 in the loft of a barn near Greenville, about 50 miles east of St. Louis. some of the local residents. We believe there is a chance that someone in this area did see her. We don't want people who may have seen her with someone from this area to assume it wasn't her because she was thought to be traveling with this other man." That man still is being sought.

He is wanted on warrants unrelated to the Walters case, Watson said. After the body was found, the State Police sent out a bulletin nationally that was seen by police in Texas. They sent Walters' dental records to Illinois State Police, who matched them to the victim. State Police are working with the Bond County Sheriff's Department, which may be called at (618) 664- 2151, and the FBI, which may be called in Springfield at 217-522-9675. PA PARALEGAL All Courses Taught by Local Practicing Atty's Nine Month Evening Program Financial Aid Available If Eligible Classes held evenings at Fontbonne College Approved to operate by the Missouri Coordinating Board For Higher Education For Brochure Call 726-6050 NATIONAL ACADEMY FOR PARALEGAL STUDIES, INC.

11903 Manchester Road, St. Louis, Mo. 63131 Waste Recycling Efforts Called Disappointing the department said. Illinois ranks second as a rail center among states, with Missouri in the top 10, rail officials said. Chicago is the nation's busiest rail city, with Kansas City among the top five cities, while St.

Louis ranks high, with more than 3,500 union rail employees. Calls Monday to each of the five major railroad unions indicated that the unions differ on how to proceed, with some opposed to a strike and others saying that such action may prove necessary. Calling the situation "very serious," Curry said the Transportation Communications Union is working on "nuts and bolts" issues, such as setting up picket duty. No decision on what to do will be made until the presidents of the rail unions meet Feb. 6 in Florida, SPRINGFIELD, III.

(AP) An Illinois law requiring Chicago and the state's largest counties to show how they will meet waste recycling goals over the next five years is producing minimal results, environmental officials say. Only three of the counties have met the deadline. They are Madison and St. Clair counties, and Lake County in the Chicago metropolitan area. The 3-year-old law mandates that the city and counties adopt 20-year solid-waste management plans by March 1.

Those plans should show how the counties will recycle at least 15 percent of their garbage by the third year of the plan and 25 percent by the fifth year. Kevin Greene, research director of Citizens for a Better Environment, said the guidelines were "being treated more as a ceiling than as a minimum goal." Ron Swager of the state Department of Energy and Natural Resources agreed. He has reviewed the preliminary plans already submitted. "I think generally the plans are trying to meet the mandated recycling percentages, said Swager, manager of the engineering section in the Office of Solid Waste and Renewable Resources. "I'm a little disappointed a session Curry said she hoped would result in a unified stance.

She said the report of the Emergency Board was unpalatable to the union, but that management said it would negotiate only on the basis of the report. The rail companies want a wage freeze and a reduction in health benefits, she said. The Transportation Communications Union, based outside Washington, has 160,000 members. Its president, Kilroy, also heads the Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO and is on the AFL-CIO Executive Council. The United Transportation Union, based in Cleveland, has 100,000 members.

Spokeswoman Judy Brazeal said the union would not strike on Feb. 15, because of the Persian Gulf war. that that's all they're really trying to do and not being as aggressive as they can be." Swager noted that many of the counties could come close to meeting the 15 percent recycling requirement simply by collecting yard waste and using it as compost. Some already may be doing that: State law has banned yard waste from landfills since last summer. The plans are to spell out how many new landfills and incinerators the counties will set up, how they will decide where to put the facilities and to what extent they will pursue recycling.

Michael Nechvatal, manager of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency's solid-waste management section, said he believed that local governments had been aggressive in pursuing recycling goals. "There's difficulty in preparing a plan that is somewhat of a consensus," he said. "It's politically and socially difficult to identify where you're going to take your solid waste for the next 20 years." That is one reason Chicago and six of Illinois' 17 largest counties Cook, Kane, LaSalle, McHenry, McLean and Peoria are expected to miss the March deadline, he said. Terms may change without Slight Increase for long notice. lock-ins This is the best price.

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