A punctuation error that appeared in Friday’s print edition of The Reminder needs to be clarified.
Rene Beauchamp, president of IAM Local 1848, gave The Reminder a verbal statement that was included in the article entitled “Language issues leave two sides apart.”
The Reminder published the verbal statement as follows: “We met with Hudbay [Monday] night as requested by Mr. [Rob] Winton, [vice-president, Manitoba Business Unit for Hudbay]. We removed the extra money off the table. The company refused to discuss our language issues on the grievance procedure and contracting out. There are no further meetings scheduled. We’re currently at an impasse.”
The first two sentences should have been punctuated as follows: “We met with Hudbay [Monday] night. As requested by Mr. [Rob] Winton, [vice-president, Manitoba Business Unit for Hudbay], we removed the extra money off the table.”
The meeting was requested by the union side, not Hudbay, and the union says it removed its proposal for extra money at Winton’s request.
The Reminder learned of this error Saturday afternoon and sought to promptly set the record straight. Although nothing was intentional, we apologize for the mistake.
