Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, January 23, 1992 TAG: 9201230109
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: B5 EDITION: METRO
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IN BUSINESS
Glenn Anglin, president of the 1,000-member Local 675, United Paperworkers Union at Westvaco Corp., said Wednesday he's going back to work in the Covington paperboard mill to keep his benefits.His decision follows a ruling last week by U.S. District Court Judge James Turk of Roanoke that Westvaco had been paying Anglin's pension and health benefits, a package worth about $10,000, illegally. The Paperworkers are appealing the decision in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Anglin will work four days a week in his old job of stores operator and devote one day a week to union business. This will hinder the union, he said, but Gerald Clarke, the local's first vice president, also will spend one day a week on union business.
Anglin said he hopes the four days will qualify him for benefits. He was a stores operator until he was elected president more than six years ago.
Worker-comp group expects study of laws
Two officers of a Martinsville citizens group advocating revised worker compensation laws said they expect legislation to be introduced in the General Assembly that would generate an in-depth study of present statutes.
Anita Lawrence, president, and Shirley Johnston, vice president of the Concerned Citizens to Improve Workers Compensation Laws said they were encouraged by the response of legislators they lobbied in Richmond last week.
Lawrence said she expects resolutions to be introduced in both the House and Senate for an in-depth study of the state's Workers Compensation Act. She hopes a study will be conducted by a cross-section of insurance carriers, employees, labor unions and legislators.
The staff of Attorney General Mary Sue Terry earlier ruled out such a study by that office citing the cost during a time of state austerity. Terry's staff, however, encouraged the organization to seek an independent study.
Other bills in the workers compensation field would provide improved medical care, death benefits, and broader coverage for cumulative trauma disorders, Lawrence said. - Staff report Reforms proposed in securities market