TALLYING UP THE LOG COUNT

log dump, Local 1-80 member Sandra Yonge, an employee of Frontier Log Scaling, punches i in

eG. For a feature article on Vancouver

Island Local 1-80, see inside PAGE 10

Pensions top demands }

for B.C. negotiations Contracts expire in June

gates unanim voted to VANCOUVER, B.C. seek a one year cole) agreement with wage increases to sate

NE hundred and ereniysE tive twel

for inflation. delegates from

sought to the pension plan are ie creases in benefit levels, a shorte:

vesting period, improvements fa Break in-Service rules, ases for

* inn és @ Steel spar chaser Neil Jay unk Greater Victoria = maintain and improve water «

imjO) the eae

x the Industry we are a cont to see mulate

the plans unfunded Habiliey

vey, reasonable set of demands,” com- ented IWA - CANADA president Jack i be taken Maas Ma: 1 1 tract negotiations with forest in these sets of negotiations.” indstay employers begin. The IWA “One things for su: ‘P)

the IWA’s demands for 1991 racing wale contract tal Iks.

+ ree eel

stal i “That, means Aah no northern peuots pions. The cont expiry date for the negotiators will be demand-

ract coastal region is June 15, 1991, while ing eaberanetal yaprovements in the

LW eres _Andustey Pension Plan.

of the month.

@ inENCIINS being

that a. Joint and Survivor Option be

a

include: FIRST AID TICKET HOLDERS — in- ticket holders 4

TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE — im-

after. they vest and that workers pes ee ioaeecaon during layoffs.

ther major demand being sought will be improvements to lan- guage on contracting out. Since con-

¥% month strike in 1986, forest com- panies s hav e been doing end runs

lan; "Fort the first time union Negotiators lb ds that will

in Vancouver. Deleates hashed Ii

he employer to look at contract language on health and safety. As a minimum, the IWA will request that certain. sections | of the Workers Com-

ees language. Those sections would ensure that employers would guarantee that

Safety programs and create nae trial Healthy and Safety Committees. m will also demand con-

ers carry out accident reports and investigations.

To prevent ae hee eon er will be asked to im

followed discussion of a “program-

olutions raised by conference dele- gal

The negotiating set of demands was distilled from a list of over 500 wage and contract resolutions sul

alas notice, i and job re

SENIORITY PROTECTION shits

Continued on page two

MB plywood closure sparks angry rally

Viton BC. — Over 500 IWA bers, community sup-

Paperworkers Union and the Pulj

Paper and Woodworkers of Cana af

gathered outside the Legislative

Assembly here on April 19th to

out against a rash of job losses with

Meee Bloedel Ltd. in the Alberni ‘Att the end of this month, 350 work-