PRESENT _ CONTRACT IW. A. DEMANDS F.LR. PROPOSALS The minimum rate for Common Labour (men) shall be $1.2914 per hour, except those categories listed in the Wage Supplement attached hereto. Fallers and Buckers who are paid on a piece work basis, will receive an increase of one dollar ($1.00) per day to be paid on a daily basis, added-to any existing daily rate, retroactive to the Ist day of Jan- uary, 1951. 7 Shingle Sawyers will receivé an in- crease in piece work rates of four (4) cents per square, and Shingle Packers three (3) cents per square, or alternatively, at the Employees’ option, a wage increase of one dol- lar ($1.00) per day in lieu of piece work increases added to any exist- ing daily rate. The increases to be retroactive to the 1st day of Jan- uary, 1951. ARTICLE XXI—BOARD AND LODGING The rate for board and lodging in logging. camp boarding - houses shall not exceed $2.25 per day: ef- fective the 15th of September, 1949. Where a lesser rate is in effect, that rate will prevail. (a) All Employees who work on New Year’s Day, Dominion Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, - Christmas Day and Boxing Day will be paid rate and one-half for all hours so worked. (b) In the event one of the above Statutory Holidays falls on Sun- day, the following Monday will be observed as the Statutory Holiday. No provision in existing con- tract. No provision in existing mas- ter contract. Wages (a) The Parties hereby agree that the present C.0.L. bonus of 14¢ per hour shall be incorporated into the rates paid to all employees covered by this Agreement. It is agreed further that the above- mentioned incorporated rates shall be increased by 35c per hour. (b) The minimum rate for Com- ‘mon Labour shall be $1.78. New Section as follows: It is agreed that the daily rate of pay for all piece workers in all operations covered by this Agree- ment shall be as follows: (a) Fallers and Buckers—$23.00 per day. (b) Shingle Sawyers—$21.00 per day. (ec) Shinele Packers — $17.00 per MANUFACTURING UNITS: (1) A twelve and one-half cents per hour across the board reduc- tion in basic rates for all Employ- ees. SHINGLE MILLS: (1) A ten per cent reduction in basic wages for all Employees in straight shingle mills. (2) A ten per cent reduction in piece work rates for Sawyers and Packers in combination mills; rates for balance of Employees to be reduced by twelve and one-half cents per hour. (8) All day rates paid to Sawyers and Packers and other piece work- ers be incorporated in the piece work rate. LOGGING: That the daily rate paid to Fallers and Buckers and other piece workers be incorporated in the piece work rate. Board and Lodging Board and Lodging rates to remain unchanged. (4) That Article XXI BOARD AND LODGING be changed to _ read as follows: “The rate for Board and Lodg- ing in logging camp boarding houses shall be three dollars and twenty-five cents per day effective from the date of this Contract.” Statutory Holidays (a) All employees covered by this Agreement, shall receive eight (8) hours pay at their regular rate of pay for all Statutory Holidays, either named or declared. (b) All employees who work on any Statutory Holiday, either named or declared, shall receive double rate of pay in addition to _ clause (a) above. No consideration given the Union’s. demand by the em- ployers. No counter - pro- posal. Health and Welfare Plan It is agreed by the Employer that he will participate in an in- dustry-wide Health and Welfare Plan under the trusteeship of the B.C. District, Council No. 1 of the International Woodworkers of America. It is further agreed that in order to support this fund. the Employer will within five (5) days of the end of each month pay into the fund nine (9) cents per hour on behalf of his Employees for all hours worked in his operation. Rejected by employers with- out investigation. Travel Time TRAVEL TIME—New Section as follows: It is agreed that in all operations covered by this Agreement the time spent in trdvel to and from the job shall be computed in the work day. For the purpose of this Section, the work day shall he eight (8) hours from camp to camp or some other designated point agreed to as a result of nego- tiations between the Local Union and the employer. Proposal of IWA rejected by the employers. No counter- Proposal made, athe crea ae wage demand. the employers’ proposal of a wage” cut, and applied for a conciliation officer at the end of the prescribed ten-day period. Comment of the Negotiating Committee was that there was no proof for the employers’ claim that they were facing industrial bank- ruptcy. It was shown that their profits had reached unprecedented levels. The Committee rejected the pro- — posed wage-cut as a preposterous suggestion that the workers should subsidize the industry for one year, when market prospects had justified extensive investment in expansion by the operators. The proposed $1.00 per day- increase in the rate for board and lodging is equivalent to a wage cut for the loggers, equiva- lent in most instances to $7.00 a week. : (In Part) The Negotiating Committee expressed regret that the em- employers’ representatives gave no thought to the validity of the Union’s argument on this point. Hourly-rated employees are en- — titled to the same consideration as monthly-rated employees who are usually paid for all statu- tory holidays. % (in Part) The benefits of a health and welfare scheme have been — proven extensively throughout industry generally and in many lumbering operations. It has become necessary be- cause of the conditions of em- ployment, and would prove to the mutual advantage of em- ployers and workers through in- creased productivity. a (In Part) Regret was expressed by IWA Negotiating Committee tl little consideration was given the need for payment of time to loggers. Due to cont - In many logging operations crews are frequently re travel distances from the Points to the job which ad hours to the day’s : the operation.