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THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER

WORKERS REINSTATED

_IN 1-424 ARBITRATION CASES

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Local 1-424 has been suc-
cessful in winning arbitration
eases involving dismissal of a
logging truck driver at Lig-
num Ltd., and forklift driver
at Canim Lake Sawmills Ltd.

In both instances, the arbi-
tration boards in hearings
held at Williams Lake or-
dered the employee’s rein-
statement with lost time
wages.

In the first case logging
truck driver Micky Shiels
was fired by the Lignum
Company for refusing to
work on the green chain
while his truck was off the
road due to spring break-up.

The Union supplied evi-
dence to prove that the Com-
pany to solve the problem of
finding work for the truck
drivers while the road ban
was in effect, made a verbal
agreement with them not to
place them on base rate jobs
provided they waived their
right to bump other em-
ployees.

The Union pointed out that
the Company had not only
violated this agreement but
had attempted to force Shiels,
who suffered from a bad leg
injury, to do a job which
would have certainly aggra-
vated the injury further.

Company officials in rebut-
tal first denied any knowl-
edge of the agreement. When
the board refused to consider
this they then attempted to
suggest that Shiels had only
been asked to finish off a shift
on the green chain.

They also accused Shiels of
being incompetent by charg-
ing that his work was below
standard and that he was
hard on Company equipment.

The board refuted this ar-
gument by stating in its re-
port:

“We consider it unneces-
sary to review the evidence
relating to Shiels’ alleged in-
competence in detail or to
comment upon it further than
to observe that in respect of
a number of instances put
forward we found the evi-
dence somewhat inconclusive.
We noted, for example, Mr,
Marshall’s testinfony that he
would have been quite happy

to put Shiels back on the car-
rier —an attitude somewhat

difficult to reconcile with the

contention that Shiels was
wholly incompetent.”

The board also noted that
Shiels who has worked for
the Company since 1961, had
never been warned that his
work was inefficient.

The board concluded its re-
port by stating:

“Shiels should be reinstated
by the Company. It is so
awarded, reinstatement to be
effected within ten days of
the date of this award. Until
such time as work as a truck
driver becomes available,
Shiels may be assigned ‘to
other work but shall not be
assigned to work on the green
chain or other work paid at
the basic rate.

“He should also be com-
pensated for wages lost from
the date of dismissal to the
date of reinstatement, and it
is so awarded.”

The case involving the fork-
lift driver William Robarts
fired by the Canim Lake Saw-
mills, was not as clear cut as
Shiels’ case and required a
major effort on the part of
the Local 1-424 officers to win
the day.

The Company accused Ro-
barts of operating his fork-
lift ‘without due care and at-
tention” following a collision
he had with another forklift
last January 12.

It argued that Robarts was
solely to blame because the
other forklift was carrying a
load in reverse while his ma-
chine was empty and going
forward, giving him plenty of
time to see the danger of
collision.

The Company stated that
the other forklift had been
damaged from the impact and
the only thing that had pre-
vented Robarts killing the
other operator was that the
forks of his machine were
down.

The Company used this as
an excuse to fire Robarts.

The Union pointed out
other instances where Com-
pany employees had damaged
equipment and Charged that
Robarts was being discrimi-
nated against.

The Company countered this
argument by stating that Ro-
barts was a bad safety risk
and “accident-prone”’ ~ and
submitted evidence to show
that he had suffered three
injuries on the job in 1966.

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The Union demanded to
know how much time loss
was sustained in the three
accidents which forced the
Company to acknowledge that
none was involved.

The Company then went
after Robarts’ driving record
on the “950” log loader, which
he had driven prior to going
on the forklift, by claiming
that he had knocked holes in
a building by manoeuvering
the machine improperly.

The Union admitted this
fact but pointed out that the
accident occurred within the
first couple of days of Ro-
barts getting the job which
was new to him.

The board in its
stated:

“A single careless act will
not normally warrant dis-
charge unless the act consti-
tutes gross negligence.”

In this case the board found
no gross negligence and or-
dered Robarts’ reinstatement
and payment for lost time.

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SICK LIST

Sisters Betty Skog and Elizabeth
Rose of the LA of Local 1-357 1WA
visited the following patients in hos-
pital April 17 to May 8, distributing
candy, cigarettes and copies of the
Western Canadian Lumber Worker.

S. Cahil, Pacific Veneer; R. Steffan,
Can. White Pine; B, Biluk, Crown
Zellerbach; R. Robitaille, Bridgeview
Cedar; Glen White, Booth Logging;
Herbert Brown, Pacific Veneer; A.
H. Walters, Pacific Veneer; John Vail,
Pacific Veneer; Joseph Lemay, Van-
couver Plywood; John Drozda, Fla-
velle Cedar; P. Lavigne, Industrial
Mills; Victor Desjardins, Evans Pro-
ducts; L. Bouthot, (formerly) Crown
Zellerbach.

LOCAL 1-71 MEMBERS of the falling and bucking de-
partment at MacMillan Bloedel’s Port Hardy Division are

shown taking the test on the St. John Ambulance course
“Fundamentals of First Aid.” The group is demonstrat-

ing the proper way to immobilize a broken leg. The bath-
room scale in the background was used to demonstrate how

little weight is needed to give artificial respiration (20

pounds).

SOME OF THE MEMBERS of the falling and bucking

department who successfully completed the First Aid

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course and received their St. John Ambulance certificates,
are shown with course instructor John Ambrosio, third
from left kneeling. This department was the first in the
Division to take the course and the members are recom-
mending that everyone in the IWA should, if possible,

take the course.

AUTHOR TO REVISE TEXTBOOK PASSAGE

A controversial passage in
a Grade 11 business textbook
listing ways in which a plant
.manager can combat organ-
ization of a union at his plant
may be revised.

Protesting Peterborough
and Oshawa labor leaders
met last week here with A. R.
Hebert, author of Introduc-
tion to Management, a repre-
sentative of the publisher, Sir
Isaac Pitman Canada Ltd. and
local education officials.

The issue was initiated last
month by William Mulders,
president of Peterborough
Labor Council. He and other
unionists charged the passage
in the government-approved
book was anti-union.

But the book itself is not
anti-union, Mr. Mulders said
following the meeting with
Mr. Hebert. However, some
parts of it (Chapter Two)
could be better explained, he
added.

Author and publisher will
submit proposed revision to
the book to Peterborough of-
ficials within two weeks time.

Meanwhile, the labor group

will continue to withhold
plans to have the book ban-
ned in classrooms.

It reads in part: “Exteme
measures could be imple-
mented in the form of threats
or direct action to: Shut
down the plant; move the op-
eration to a different geo-

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