Al2- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 21, 1999

Hiring beef
shuts down
Nass work

WORK ON a large Nass Valley highway project was
halted late last week over a dispute between a flagging
contractor and a provincial government hiring agency.

The project to widen 4km of road near Greenville is
being managed by the highways ministry but equipment
and labour is hired through Highways Constructors Ltd.
(HCL),

HCL is owned by the B.C. Transportation Financing
Authority (BCTFA), a provincial crown corporation which
borrows money for highway projects.

HCL becomes the hiring agent when projects are worth
more than $30 million, which is the case with the seven-
year plan ta improve the Nisga’a Highway. Jt has a master
agreement with several construction unions to supply
labour and pay rales that are close to the standard wage
scales for highway construction.

For day labour projects such as this 4km stretch, it estab-
lishes a hiring list of equipment and people. HCL first
looks for people with union affitiations. It also places an
emphasis on hiring people within 100km of the job site.
Those hired can be on the job for several days, several
weeks or longer depending upon the nalure of the work.

Although HCL was to do the hiring, Dakota Traffic Con-
trol, 4 local flagging company, was first called to the job
site several weeks ago by the highways ministry.

And when a HCL field representative showed up at the
location last week to check things out, Dakota’s Al Craft
cnded up taking his people off the job.

Craft said he wouldn’t sign a contract with HCL thal in
turn required his flaggers to join a union. Under the HCL
sysiem, non-union workers can be hired but they must join
a union after 30 days of being on the job.

HCL field representative David Holmes then told Craft
he'd rent bis equipment and hire his flaggers to train flag-
gers from the Nass, but Craft rejected that also.

“There's four guys who should be working thal aren't,”
said Craft of his crew after he lef the job.

Craft said the wage his flaggers would receive to train
other flaggers would be Jess than whal he’d pay if they had
been on the job.

Craft’s worried that if he signs a collective agreement
with HCL, he’d lose his crew to union members because
the latier would have more seniority.

“I’ve been a Local 115 [International Union of Operat-
ing Engineers] member for 26 years and I know they’d be
Fow man on the list,’’ said Craft of his employees.

HCL’s David Holmes said it was a mistake for the high-
ways ministry to have contacted Craft in the first place.

And he said Dakota would still be on the job had Craft
chosen to sign a contract with HCL,

“He told us he didn’t want to work under that system,
but that’s his prerogative,” said Holmes.

At week’s end, the highways ministry decided it would
become its own flagging contractor in order to have work
started again.

Ministry official Greg Ross said it would supply the
equipment and have HCL supply the flaggers.

Nass Valley,’’ said Ross: ~ °

This particular project is one of three this year coming
under the larger Nass Highway improvement plan but is
the only one to be run under the day labour concept.

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