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Article #3Re: W.C.B No Smoking
From: Duane Gillies
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 00:00
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I can't understand why you and your cohorts have not launched a class action suit against the WCB. In the US it stopped the EPA and OSHA(the US equivalent of WCB) in their tracks. Smoker <nosmokefreebc@home.com> wrote in message news:387711B3.10BA2DB5@home.com... > Whether one is a smoker or not, all have the right to voice an opinion. > My situation is that of opposing this law. I own a small restaurant in > the Fraser Valley and this law will be the finish of my business. We > have no paid employees just family members with a share of the > business. In six months although our weekends are very busy we are > trying to expand and capture the weekday business. Everyone told us it > would take a year at least to turn a profit and we were prepared for > that, until now We are in a horrible position, regular customers are > walking out the door, many of the ones that stay are arguinng and > debating with the non smokers regardinng this issue, and here is a > thought when people head out the door to go smoke do I just rely on the > > honour system or should I ask every customer to leave a deposit or keys > to ensure the bill gets paid let's see here loose money or potentially > insult a group of people whom already are insulted. Tough choice eh! > This is great for business! We founded this business with all our > savings. If we were a more established business we could wait out six > months and see how it goes but we are not and things are already tight. > How convienient that this occurs at a time when WCB is able to use the > excuse that January is always slow due to peoples lack of funds after > Christmas. Enough is enough. We have started a web page to rally those > > of us opposed to this new law. There seems to be no organized > opposition to this law, we are not being heard. Let's change that. We > > are compiling messages and email to send to our Premier Dan Miller to > say lets's find other options! Let's join together to protect all that > are negatively affected by this law at > www.members.home.net/nosmokefreebc I look forward to hearing from others > > like myself with ideas, information or just an opinion. > > Non Smoker >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 114012,afb10adbed4335eb X-Google-Attributes: gid114012,public From: "Duane Gillies" <dgillies@direct.ca> Subject: Re: W.C.B No Smoking Date: 2000/02/20 Message-ID: <V40s4.12221$mK.935850@brie.direct.ca> X-Deja-AN: 587738462 References: <387711B3.10BA2DB5@home.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-Complaints-To: abuse@direct.ca X-Trace: brie.direct.ca 951094709 216.66.131.29 (Sun, 20 Feb 2000 16:58:29 PST) Organization: Internet Direct - http://www.mydirect.com X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 16:58:29 PST Newsgroups: bc.news