THE WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER Coast MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT FOREST INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS agrees to recommend to its. Member Companies, and the NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE of the INTER- NATIONAL WOODWORKERS OF AMERICA, AFL- CIO & CLC, representing Local Unions 1-71, 1-80, 1-85, 1-118, 1-217, 1-288, 1-357, 1-363, 1-367, agrees to recom- mend to the membership of the Union, acceptance of the following terms for settlement of the 1972-1973 Master Agreement applicable to the Forest Products Industry in the Coastal Region of the Province of British Columbia. j. THAT the following be added to Article V, Section 2: Casual Employees: (.) the employer agrees to keep a separate seniority list of casual employees who have worked at least ten working days exclusively for recall purposes and, subject to clause (d), further agrees to recall casual employees in ac- cordance with their seniority as set forth in this list. 2. THAT Article VI — Technological Change be amended by the addition of the following section: New Section: Rate Adjustment An employee who is set back to a lower paid job because of mechanization, technological change or automation will receive the rate of his regular job at the time of the set-back for a period of 3 months and for a further period of 3 months he will be paid an adjusted rate which will be mid-way between the rate of his regular job at the time of the set-back and the rate of his new regular job. At the end of this 6 month period the rate of his new regular job will apply. However, such employee will have the option of terminating his employment and accepting severance pay as outlined in Section 5 below, providing he exercises this option within the above referred-to 6 month period. And further, that present Section 4: Severance Pay be amended to read:. Employees discharged or laid off because of mechanization, technological change or automation shall be entitled to severance pay of one week’s pay for each year of service with the Company. The. amount calculated under such entitlement shall not exceed a maximum of thirty (30) weeks’ pay. 3. THAT Article IX, Sec. 1(a) be amended by providing for an across-the-board increase of thirty-six and one-half cents (36.5c) per hour, effective the 15th day of June 1972 and by a further thirty-six and one- half cents (36.5c) per hour, effective the 15th day of June 1973. 4, THAT Article IX, Section 1 be further amended to © provide that each hourly rated category in logging operations, except fallers and buckers, shall be in- creased by an amount equal to 3% of the rate that the category was paid in the contract year June 15, 1971 to June 14, 1972. The said 3% increase shall not apply to the premium of twenty-one cents (21c) per hour paid to certified tradesmen. And further that cookhouse and bunkhouse employees in logging operations paid on a daily rate shall receive an increase equal to 3% of the rate at which they were paid in the contract year June 15, 1971 to June 14, 1972. _ 5. THAT Article IX, Section 1, be further amended to provide for an increase in the rates of Journeymen Tradesmen listed in Supplement No. 3 and apprentices in the categories listed in Supplement No. 3 who are working in manufacturing plants as follows: Effective June 15, 1972 10 cents per hour Effective June 15, 1973 10 cents per hour And further to provide for an increase in the rates of Journeymen Tradesmen listed in Supplement No. 3 and apprentices in the categories listed in Supplement No. 3 who are working in logging operations as follows: Effective June 15, 1973 10 cents per hour aster Ag reement 6. THAT Article IX, Section 1 be further amended to provide as follows: (a) for an increase in the rate of Number One Planer: man of 30 cents per hour; we (b) for an increase in the rate of Number Two Planer- man of 20 cents per hour; (ce) for an increase in the rate of Planer Set-up Man of 10 cents per hour. The above rates to be effective June 15, 1972. 7. THAT Article LX, Section 1 be further amended to provide as follows: (a) for an increase in the rates of Number One Grader, Grader / Tallyman and PLIB Inspector of 15 cents per hour; : : (b) for an increase in the rates of Number Two Grader and Tallyman of 10 cents per hour. : The above rates to be effective June 15, 1972. 8. THAT the Company will pay the cost of retraining for First Aid Certificates including lost time wages to designated duty first aid men. 9. THAT Cooks with Tradesmen Qualification Certificates will receive 21 cents per hour from the date they obtained the certificates. i 10. THAT Article IX, Section 6: Graders and Tally- men be amended to provide: (a) Grading tickets shall be permanent and valid certificates. (b) All Graders holding grading tickets shall attend upgrading classes as required. (c) Graders who are required to attend upgrading classes (rule changes) shall receive their regular straight time job rate for time spent in attending said classes. - 11. THAT Article 1X, Section 2, Falling and Bucking, be amended by eliminating piece work rates and in- stituting the following Industry hourly / daily rates as follows: (a) The daily rate will be $77.60 per day for the regular hours of work. (b) The hourly rate will be $9.70 per hour for all hourly compensation provisions. _ (ce) To the rates described in (a) and (b) above, will be added the general wage increase for all employees (Article IX, Section 1) in the Master Agreement. (d) The following formula shall apply exclusively to employees who are fallers on the date of this agree- ment. When a faller ceases to be employed in the operation in which he was employed on the date of this agreement the following formula shall no longer be applicable to him. Where a faller’s average day rate during the contract year June 15, 1971 to June 14, 1972 exceeds the negotiated day rate, the following principle will apply: : In each succeeding contract year a faller shall receive a day rate equal to 90% of his average day rate in the preceding contract year. The principle of this formula will continue in effect until the faller’s day rate becomes equivalent to the estab- lished Industry day rate. (e) The Company will arrange for the supply and maintenance of all necessary tools for Falling and Bucking. , (f) It is agreed that fallers and buckers will be ex- pected to fall and buck timber for 6% hours each regular working day. (g) The Industry agrees to delete all hourly falling and bucking rates found under the falling and bucking section of the Wage Supplement attached to the Master Agreement. ‘ . _(h) Member companies of Forest Industrial Relations agree that they will not issue or continue any falling Regional 2nd Vice-President Jack Munro and Local 1-363 President Max Salter urge acceptance of the new Coast Agreement to Local 1-363 members in the Campbell River area. and bucking contracts after June 15, 1972 where the falling and bucking contractor employs a piece work falling and bucking system. (i) It is agreed that in any reduction in woods sealers that results from this agreement, the following principles shall apply: (a) Woods sealers who are displaced as a result of this agreement shall be re-employed in the operation without suffering a wage reduction. (b) Management shall employ displaced woods sealers in alternative jobs, taking into considera- tion seniority and physical capabilities. Placement of people with physical handicaps will be discussed at a Local-operational level. (c) Where there is no suitable employment for a particular woods scaler, the woods scaler shall be granted severance pay at the rate of one week’s pay for each year of service up to a maximum of 30 weeks’ pay. To be entitled to severance pay under this provision the woods scaler must apply for it within 60 calendar days of being displaced from his woods scaler job. 12. THAT Article IX, Sections 3 and 4 be amended to include Barn Shake Operator, Barn Shake Packer and Cuberman at the following rates: Barn Shake Operator $4.47 per hour Barn Shake Packer $3.9342 per hour Cuberman $3.9342 per hour The across-the-board increases agreed upon in item 3 will be incorporated in the above rates on the effec- tive dates set out therein. 13. THAT Article IX, Section 9, be amended by revising the Shift Differential of 10 cents per hour to 15 cents per hour effective June 15, 1972. 14. THAT Article IX — Wages be amended by adding - a new Section 10: Jobs and Equipment to include the following provisions on new or significantly revised jobs and/or equipment. (a) Advance notice of change to Local Union. (b) (i) New jobs shall be posted in accordance with Article XVIII, Section 4(a). (ii) Significantly revised jobs shall be posted if requested by the plant or camp committee. (c) Anemployee shall receive the rate of his previously held job until such time as a new rate is negotiated. (d) (i) The applicant shall have the right to revert to his original job within 30 working days providing his old job still exists. (ii) Management shall have the right to postpone the reversion to permit the training of a replace- ment. (e) When a permanent rate is agreed upon the em- ployee shall receive the difference between that rate and his interim rate from the date he started the new or revised job. (f) Rate negotiations to be guided by the following principles: (i) Job analysis to be based on all factors including skill, knowledge, responsibility and job conditions.