THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

1-71 OFFICERS WIN
PAY FOR INSTRUCTORS

The four-month-old dispute
between Local 1-71 and the
Crown Zellerbach Company
over the principle of paying
additional money to employ-
ees who instruct trainees dur-
ing job training programmes,
has now been settled.

Local President Ernie Freer
and ist Vice-President Ben
Thompson secured a letter of
understanding from the Com-
pany which provides that any
employee acting as an in-
structor must be paid an ad-
ditional ten cents an hour.

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ERNIE FREER

Freer and Thompson had
negotiated a similar clause
last December in a Memor-
andum of Agreement for a
job training programme to
cover all the Company’s log-
ging operations in the Local’s
jurisdiction.

Three weeks after the
Agreement was signed, the
Company notified the Local
that it was revoking the doc-
ument. In an attempt to jus-
tify its action, the Company
_ accused the Local of negotiat-

ing in bad faith. It stated that
the Union was trying to use
the clause as a lever to force
other forest industry compan-
ies to accept the principle of
paying additional money to
instructors.

Company officials admitted
privately, however, that pres-
sure from the other compan-
ies who feared the clause
would establish a precedent,

had been the real reason for
reneging on the Agreement.

The: Local officers, justifi-
ably angered by the cancella-
tion, immediately retaliated
by informing their Crown
Zellerbach members not to
participate in any of the
Company’s training program-
mes until the negotiated
terms of the Agreement were
lived up to.

The officers also blasted
the Company for jeopardiz-
ing the future of industry job
training at a time when it

BEN THOMPSON

was so necessary for both Un-
ion and Management to try
and devise ways and means
of solving some of the prob-
lems posed by automation and
technological change.

Crown Zellerbach officials,
realizing they were in a vul-
nerable position with the Un-
ion, finally contacted the Lo-
cal officers March 10 to dis-
cuss settlement of the dispute.
Freer reported that during
the discussions, Tony Poje,
the Company’s representative,
made every effort to be co-
operative in order to resolve
the problem and his attitude
played a large part in the dis-
pute being settled on an amic-
able basis.

Copies of the amended plan
and of the letter of under-
standing have been forward-
ed by the Local Union to all
its Camp Committees in the
Crown Zellerbach operations.

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