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Vol. 49, No. 18

PACIFIC

— page 12

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Ction site in downtown Vancouver Tuesday.

aes bargaining council of the B.C.
epan a Building Trades Council
Rtio, Onday picketing selected con-
lang, 7 Sites around the Lower Main-
Cp Victoria following the refusal of
tion Ction Labor Relations Associa-
mang oder any movement from its
‘i for major cuts in Building
Also Collective agreements.
Were this week, CLRA contractors
Unio ig nPleting a lockout vote and
*Sociat, expect that the employers’
In " ©n could move next week to
Of its 2 Ndustry-wide lockout as part
Plan to terminate collective agree-

‘ments and impose unilaterally new
wages and conditions.

Building Trades set up picket lines at
some of the most high-profile sites
including the Bank of B.C. office tower
in downtown Vancouver and the Anna-
cis Island Bridge to get the maximum
effect from strike action short of an
industry-wide shutdown. After those
projects are completed there is little con-
struction work on the order books and
the trades have been concerned that if
negotiations drift, the major projects will
be completed without new agreements
being signed.

ck picket outside the Bank of B.C. tower

Meanwhile, CLRA is continuing to
advance demands for contract conces-
sions, including immediate wage cuts
averaging $4 an hour, increases in the
work week, changes to holidays and
travel time provisions, the introduction
of piece work and elimination of the hir-
ing hall through employer-request hir-
ing.

Negotiators only returned to “big
table” talks — involving all the trades

— last week after three weeks of fruitless
trade talks but it was clear shortly after

see TRADES page 12

— page 3 —

Meet calls
CLC staff
to account
on policy
— page 7 —