CONSTITUTION
AMENDMENTS

IWA

Changes to the regional constitution were adopted by
the regional convention.

Amendments to the regional constitution adopted by
convention action shall not be finalized until 60 days from
the closing of the convention on October 1.

The proposed changes are now published in the Lumber
Worker and copies of changes have been sent to each local
union,

Any time within this specified 60-day period, the mem-
bership through their local unions may petition the regional
secretary-treasurer to initiate a referendum on any amend-
ment adopted by convention action.

If the regional secretary-treasurer receives a number
of petitions representative of one-third of the total regional
council membership, he shall proceed with the referendum
within 10 days following the 60-day period.

The following constitutional provisions were adopted by
the convention. :

WAGES AND EXPENSE ALLOWANCES
That Article VII, Section (1) (a) be amended to read:
“The salary of the Regional Director shall be $210
per week. The salary of the Regional Secretary-
Treasurer shall be $195 per week. Full time Vice-
presidents shall receive $185 per week.”

REGIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL

That Article XII of the Regional Constitution be amend-
ed to read as follows:

“(a) The constituted Officers of the Regional

Safety Council shall be: (i) Chairman. (ii)
First Vice-Chairman. (iii) Second Vice-
Chairman. (iv) Third Vice-Chairman. (v)
Secretary.

“(b) The delegates to Regional Delegated Safety
Conferences shall be elected by and from the
the Local Unions, with the exception that all
Regional Safety Council Officers and Local
Union Safety Directors shall be duly accredit-
ed delegates to the Conferences.

““(c) Representatives to the Conferences shall be
on the following basis: “In addition to the
elected Officers of the Safety Council and
Local Union Safety Directors, each Local
Union shall be entitled to one (1) delegate
for the first one thousand (1,000) members
or fraction thereof, and one (1) additional
delegate for each one thousand (1,000) mem-
bers thereafter or major fraction thereof.

*(d) In addition to the representation set out in
(c), each Local Union shall be entitled to
one (1) Local Union Officer with voice and
vote.

““(e) The function of the Regional Safety Council
shall be to make recommendations on matters
of safety to the Regional Executive Board or
Regional Conventions.

All actions of the Safety Council shall be sub-
ject to the approval of the Regional Execu-
tive Board or Regional Conventions.

EVALUATION

The “Industry Job Evalua-
tion Committee” has finalized
the study of two categories at
the MacMillan plywood oper-
ation in Port Alberni (Local
1-85).

One category remained
“static” and one category re-
ceived an increase of 10c per
hour over and above the pre-
viously negotiated interim
rate.
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EXCHANGE

NEGOTIATORS

The idea of negotiator ex-
changes — with a negotiator
from one region sitting in on
negotiations in another area
— was suggested by Inter-
national Organization Direc-
tor Ron Roley at the annual
convention of Region No. 1
IWA.

“We should field negotiating
teams to ensure that when we
negotiate with MacMillan
Bloedel Ltd. in Pine Hill, Ala-
bama, there can be represent-
atives from B.C. across the

label the negotiators “out-
siders” and try to have local
employers believe that they
and the company are just a
cozy little family, it is the
company itself that is the out-
sider, said Roley.

Roley said the IWA is at a
turning point. There are many
members who are members
only because there is a union
shop or union security clause
in the contract with the com-
pany they work for. These
workers must be educated to

bargaining table,” he said.

“This international union,
along with the regional coun-
cil involved, is going to have
to put forth every effort to
organize the workers in the
new areas which the corpora-
tions are moving into. When
this is done, the work begins,
the work of negotiating a
proper contract with a proper
wage scale, bringing the full
benefits of organization to
these people.”

Even though the companies
in these new areas would

the union.

organization

understand that union be-e-
fits do not just happen by ac-
cident, but are fought for by

The IWA at its next inter-
national convention will ask
for more money to exvand its
activities, he
said. A great deal of work
needs to be done in this direc-
tion and increasing attention
must be paid to this side of
the union’s work.

“The employers have not
yet learned that labor is not

a commodity. The em
figure it just as another ¢
They have no social ¢
science. The only way we
develop that social conse
on the part of the emp
is by our strength. ik
“We can get the job
We are ‘going to be ;
you for the money to get that
job done at the next conven-
tion. I hope you won't turn us
down because, if you do, you
will at the same time be turn-
ing yourselves down.” 4

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