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Vol. XXXII, No. 8

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ARCHITECT’S DRAWING of the beautiful new headquarters of Local 1-85 IWA, which will be constructed soon in Port Alberni. See story below.

Unions Win Vacation Local 1-85 “Break-through’

A major break-through has been made on supplementary vacations by the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sul- phite and Paper Mill Workers and the United Paper Mak- ers, in negotiations with eight paper mills for a one-year contract.

The proposed contract in- cludes a 15-cent-an-hour in- crease, The Unions estimate the fringe benefits are worth another five cents an hour. While the new contract carries the recommendations of the Union’s wage confer- ence delegates, it must be ap- proved by the members in a referendum ballot.

The supplementary vaca- tion plan gives extra paid hol- idays above the present three weeks holiday every five years to employees with 10 or more years’ continuous service with a company. After ten years, the extra va- cation is one week, which can be taken any time over a five- year period.

After 15 years, the extra vacation is two weeks. It in-

creases to a maximum of five weeks after 40 years’ service.

Among the two Unions, which have a combined mem- bership total of six thousand, a large percentage will bene- fit from the plan. In Powell River, about 500 members of a 1,700-man work force will get an average annual paid vacation of at least four weeks and three days.

The new contract, if ac- cepted, will boost the base rate to $2.44 an hour and the rate for journeymen mechan- ics to $3.44 an hour. The con- tract also includes an indus- try-wide pension plan and a number of job rate adjust- ments.

The contract covers em- ployees of B.C. Forest Pro- ducts at Crofton; Canadian Forest Products at Port Mel- lon; Crown Zellerbach (Can- ada) at Ocean Falls and Elk Falls; MacMillan, Bloedel and Powell River at Alberni, Harmac and Powell River; and Rayonier Canada at Port Alice.

Local 1-363 Settles “Fire Can’ Dispute

Fallers at MacMillan, Bloe- del & Powell River's logging operation at Kelsey Bay have won their battle with the Company over carrying water eans during the fire season, report officers IWA, following

The officers of the Local prevented the dispute from getting out of hand by having the Company agree to post- pone its order until the prob- lem could be resolved in ne- gotiation.

Regional 2nd _ Vice-Presi- dent Jack Holst, Local Presi- dent Max Salter and Financial Secretary Karl Lidberg met for two days in Vancouver with representatives of FIR at

which an agreement was

reached. that piece work em-

“as in the falling and ucking ent at Kelsey Bay would not be required

to carry “fire cans.”

To Construct New Building

Officers of Local 1-85 IWA, have announced that plans for their modern headquarters are completed and construc- tion will commence shortly. The building is expected to cost approximately $100,000 and will be located at Mont- rose and 4th Ave., Port Al- berni, in the heart of a park area.

Local officers have ordered the architect to design the building so that the fullest use of wood could be made in its construction. The main floor will have five large offices for the officers, one large general office for the stenographers, a work room, wash rooms and a Board Room.

The downstairs will have a meeting hall, forty by sixty feet, capable of seating three hundred people. There will also be a kitchen and lounge plus wash rooms off the hall.

The building lot is 125 ft. by 125 ft., and is situated in a natural park area of trees and grass. The Local officers antic- ipate the building will be com- pleted and ready for occu- pancy by the end of the year.

Grant MacNeil New Director

Of Education

Grant MacNeil, Regional Public Relations Director and editor of the Western Canadi- an Lumber Worker, has been appointed the Union’s Edu- cation Director by Regional President Jack Moore.

The appointment was made necessary by the resignation of Joe Miyazawa, the former research and educational di- rector, who left to take up a similar position with the B.C. School Trustees’ Association.

2nd Issue April, 1965

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NEGOTIATING

COMMITTEE

PROPOSES AMENDMENTS TO MILLWRIGHTS’ PLAN

Encouraging progress was made by the IWA Coast Ne- gotiating Committee, April 4, toward the re-negotiation and implementation of the Mill- wrights’ Apprenticeship Training Program. Proposed amendments to the original plan, approved by the Com- mittee, will be dealt with at the next meeting of the Re- gional Executive Board.

Procedures for industry rate revision were also ex- amined by the Committee in the light of present needs. A special sub-committee, acting in consultation with the Local Unions is now engaged in pre- paring a mutually satisfactory procedure for revision of wage rates.

IWA Regional President: Jack Moore expresed the view that the committee’s agree- ment on recommendations for the Regional Executive Board will lead to an early settle- ment of issues that have been keenly debated in IWA circles during the past year. “This agreement offers a bright ray of hope for the many mill- wrights in the industry who have been anxiously awaiting action on this matter,” he said.

Members of the Negotiating Committee who undertook the development of a formula, likely to prove satisfactory to the majority of millwrights in the lumber industry, are:

Jack Moore, Regional Pres- ident; Jack Holst, Regional 2nd Vice-President; Fred Fieber, Local 1-71; Weldon

Jubenville, Local 1-80; Mau- rice Corbeil, Local 1-85; Mur- ray Drew, Local 1-118; Syd Thompson, Local 1-217; Wy- man Trineer; Local 1-357; Max Salter, Local 1-363; Glen Haddrell, Local 1-367; and Rod Beaton, Local 1-288.

Guide lines for the Com- mittee’s deliberations were those laid down by the last Regional Convention, which instructed:

.. . that the training pro- gram be re-negotiated and contain provisions for proper tests ‘by the Department of Labour and containing neces- sary protection for present millwrights.”

And further, “... that any agreed training program ne- gotiated shall contain the maximum possible protection for those presently employed in the industry.”

Major concern of the com- mittee was the revision of Point 19 of the original plan, which stated:

“Following return from the School he (the apprentice) shall work for one year as Improver, at the end of which period he shall be permitted to take the prescribed tests for a qualification as mill- wright. Upon becoming certi- fied, if there is no opening for a Millwright, he shall re- main in the status of improver until a Millwright vacancy arises to which he is eligible for assignment. In such case

See “MILLWRIGHTS”—Page 3

Moore Warns Frolek Strike To Continue

“The IWA strike at Frolek Sawmills Ltd., North Kam- loops, will continue as the un- ion makes a determined ef- fort to protect the legal rights of the strikers,’”’ declared IWA Regional President Jack Moore, this week. “Further conferences will be scheduled at an early date with the company’s solicitors to re- move the final snag in the way of settlement — the full reinstatement of all the strik- ers.”

Recent conferences arrang- ed by Hon. P. A. Gaglardi and Mayor J. Chilton, North Kamloops, resulted in the company’s acceptance of the standard Southern Interior agreement but with the de- mand that five strikers be not reinstated.

“This constitutes a vicious discrimination against five of our members on the picket line which our Union cannot possibly accept,“ stated

Moore. “Apart from the ob- jectionable discrimination stipulated by Mr. Frolek, the demand involves our Union in a defiance of the law which has characterized the com- panys’ actions from the’ out- set. It is implicit in the La- bour Relations Act, and up- held by the courts, that un- ion members engaged in a legal strike, such as this one, remain employees of the com- pany. Discrimination against any of them for union activ- ity is decidedly an unfair la- bour practice within the meaning of the Act which cannot be tolerated.”

The Union has undertaken the distribution of a leaflet to all householders in the Kam- loops area, which describes the actions of the company as “business piracy” against workers’ rights and explains why the IWA will not consent to any infraction of the law such as those committed by the company.