il ser ST a _ Ys 8 AE AE NTT we . The compressed work week: a backward step As trade unionists throughout the country intensify the campaign for 4 shortened work week, par- ticularly in this year of heavy bargaining, the concept of a “compressed work week” has begun to appear with increasing frequency in the response of the employers. All of them extol the virtues of a three-day weekend and the value to the worker of “increased leisure time.’ Some of them even cite the comments of their own employees . who supposedly enjoy extra time with their families. But none of them mention that the benefits accrue only to the employer and ultimately give nothing to the worker — except longer working hours each day. The Canadian Labor Congress convention approached the question last week and came out unequivocally against the notion of the compressed work week. ‘In a resolution submitted by the Saskatchewan Federation of Labor and subsequently endorsed by the Legislative Committee and the convention delegates stated: “‘that this convention expresses its firm opposition to the so-called com- pressed work week, which erodes the principle of the eight-hour day, creates serious problems in in- dustrial safety and social areas, tends to perpetuate static weekly hours of work and constitutes an obstacle to a genuine move to reduced hours of employment.” The resolution also called on the federal government to move im- mediately to “legislate a 32-hour work week with no decrease in Women’s rights parley take-home pay”? and urged all provincial federations of labor to mount campaigns in _ their respective provinces to achieve the same objective. The resolution left no room for doubt as to its opposition to the compressed work week but many operations, particularly in the service industries, are already working the ten-hour, four-day week. And, primarily, the push behind the adoption of the com- pressed work week has come from the employer, to meet his own needs, and not out of any philan- thropy towards his employees. According to the American Management Association, based on a study of several hundred plants where.it has been in operation, the compressed work week resulted in a 60% increase in productivity — with no increase in capital investment on the part of. the employer and no increase in payroll. But the worker benefitted With ee not one penny alth Oming ae election on the doorstep and a civic meee . : radacine ns: 8 ie oe th all, the Pacific Tribune should be used widely i At th ime, the i : 1 e same time, the increase in A ot * oe Vancouver and British Columbia. In my opinion no emp asizes awareness the number of hours per day eee | Pr per will place the issues as honestly and completely as the resulted in greater frequency of 4. * Bein ) depeng. © * Paper of and for working people, what it can do pends : Will be on what we can do for it during the financial drive. It Usy year. Keep the PT coming, give it the funds that It HARRY RANKIN DRIVE QUOTAS IANCOUVER SOUTH FRASER By SUSAN RADOSEVIC “Awareness iS ammunition, ammunitiOn is action” was the theme of the B.C. Federation of Labor’s 4th conference on women’s rights, held May 11-12. NDP MLA Rosemary Brown was the feature speaker at the event. She told delegates from affiliated unions and observers from the CLC convention that the provincial secretary had doubled the amount of money allotted to womens resolutions the conference called for a roll back on prices, interest rates and rents, and for prosecution of profiteering. Another resolution gave support to Karen Sanford’s demand that nuclear warheads be removed from Comox. The conference lived up to its title in as much as it was ‘‘aware”’ put delegates will be looking to the B.C. Federation of Labor con- vention for action on the questions raised. industrial accidents, disruption of family. life, fatigue and other problems. In essence, the ten-hour, four- day week represents ‘no real ad- vance and, as the CLC pointed out, - stands in the way of a genuine reduction in working hours. The trade union movement has ad- vanced the demand for.a 32-hour work week with no reduction in take home pay. It’s a demand that deserves a vigorous campaign to achieve. 3 Bill Be ‘Quotas Achieved Quotas Achieved roups and that the department of M Broada, . 850 aes \ 300 ©6353 Eitenton had struck a committee if Centennial 700 641- peter * 1300. 1031 to examine school text books for 3 ; { qenk Roge 500 220 a eacee 350 300 | sexual discrimination. FOR ALL YOUR TRAVEL NEEDS ; ietey sie 526 George Johnston, pric he A oy. Makel 00 594 ation anda member of the i a : 325-250 OKAN AGAN pence executive of the NDP, Contact: i Ri McGuire eon 200 Kamloops 225 oe seemed to sum up the feelings of ay; Ot Grey 700 844 Notch Hill 110 14 the participants when he spoke of ; y Sih Se 94 Penticton 160 6 | 4. NDP executive’s unhappiness G L @) B E T 0 U R S | vent Res: = 175 Waracn 400 836 with the government s inaction on : ‘ 1 Victon < §85t 2000 se women’s rights. : | uar nt came under : : ay 000-1216 VAN. ISLAND 271 ges ee from the B.C. 2679 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 6, B.C. Campbell River 350 are | Teachers Fed eration. Linda Shuto, ' Sore a 590 of the B.C. Teachers Federation, : Nanaimo” a 165 | said that the department of 253-1221 254-2313 ae ak ae 467 education’s performance in Re : eliminating sexual Gscrnne : : = ; ” t the : : was ‘inept _ She stated tha f women was not men, =« PROV. 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