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April, 1966

THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

FIRST CONTRACT
AT SIMPSON TIMBER

A first contract has been
signed between the Simpson
Timber Company Limited
and Local 1-184 IWA at Hud-

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son Bay in the province of
Saskatchewan.

The new mill employs ap-
proximately 100 men and was
certified by the IWA after a
bitter struggle with a Com-
pany union. Under the terms
of the new agreement, the
employees will enjoy full un-
ion shop and standard fringe
benefits, including the 40-
hour week. Wages were
raised from $1.60 per hour to
$1.80 on the base rate retro-
active to March 1st. The crew
will receive an additional 5
cents per hour on August 31st
and 3 cents on March Ist,
1967. The contract expires
August 31, 1967.

The Negotiation “Commit-
tee was comprised of Glen
Thompson, President of Lo-
cal 1-184 IWA, Bill Russell,
plant Chairman, Don Park-
man and Joe Lasko, and was
headed by Del Pratt, Regional
Second Vice-President.

.COUNCIL

ELECTIONS

Elected officers of the Port
Alberni and District Labour
Council were installed in of-
fice by Tom Gooderham, the
Canadian Labour Congress
Representative, at the Coun-
cil’s Annual Meeting April
15.

The officers installed were
Dan Connell, President; Wal-
ter Behn, 1st Vice-President;
Lawrence Sailor, 2nd Vice-
President; Bob Hopkins, 3rd

Vice-President; Maurice Cor-
beil, Secretary - Treasurer;
Walter Allen, Recording Sec-
retary; Karl Maldaner, Ser-
geant-at-Arms; Harry Clark,
Trustee.

HONESTY

The boss, who was born in
Europe, still has a struggle
with the English language. Re-
cently, welcoming a new em-
ployee into his organization,
he said warmly, “We are very
happy to have you with us. As
you know, we're a little un-
derhanded around here.”

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CRAIGMONT STRIKE PAYS OFF

The United Steelworkers
Union has shattered the em-
ployers’ attempt to maintain
the B.C. Interior as a low-
wage area. The 400 steel-
workers at the Craigmont
copper mine in Merritt have
won a healthy contract pack-
age totalling $1.00 an hour
following settlement of the
614-month strike.

Terms of the two-year
agreement were drafted by
Mr. Justice Dryer of the B.C.
Supreme Court and accepted
by jean the Union and the
Company April 17.

The new wage increases
range from 65 cents an hour
for base rate employees to 98
cents an hour for certified
journeymen.

The underground miners at
Craigmont will now be the
highest paid miners in West-
ern Canada. Their wages

were increased from $2.15 to
$2.92 an hour effective April
18, and will rise to $3.05 an
hour April 18, 1967.

The steelworkers will also
receive retroactive pay
amounting to 20 percent of
their lost wages, Ten percent
of this will be paid on re-
turning to work and the other
10 percent will be paid a

“month later. This will cost the

Company approximately $180
for each full time employee
who returns to work.

All employees of the Com-
pany will be notified of the
agreement and will have 18
days to report back.

The agreement also raised
the number of statutory holi-
days to eight this year and
nine next year. Prior to the
strike employees were guar-
anteed only four holidays.
Other contract benefits in-

cluded provision in 1967 for
three weeks vacation after
five years service;.a surface

.travel time clause; and be-

reavement time off with pay.

The Union’s International
Representative Pen Baskin,
who headed up the strike,
stated that the settlement was
a major breakthrough in forc-
ing up wages in the Interior.
He said the lengthy strike
cost the Union well over a -
$1,000 a day and every penny
was worth it.

He also stated that the
Craigmont agreement could
prove to be advantageous to
IWA Interior woodworkers
in next year’s contract nego-
tiations. The IWA, he said,
could use the agreement to
discount employer arguments
that all Interior wages were
lower than the Coastal rates.

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