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VALUE OF
GRIEVANCE
PROCEDURE

By J. Stewart Alsbury,

District President, [WA
SHOP steward can handle
grievances. more successfully
if he makes clear to his fellow-
workers the advantages of the
grievance procedure guaranteed
to them by the IWA agreement.

It provides him _
with a golden op-
portunity to ex-
plain to the indi-
vidual workers
one of the major
benefits of active!
trade union or-~
ganization. a

Without a union i
and an establish-*~ . B
ed grievance pro- J. S. Alsbury
cedure a worker can seldom take
the chance of appealing his case
over the head of his foreman or
immediate’ superior. The manage-
ment may say that he can, but
he realizes the risk he takes if
he does so.

Most of the time he would have
to out-bid his fellow-workers for
management favors. The union
grievance procedure prevents dis-
crimination and abuses.

Without a union, grievances
are too often brushed aside or
disposed of according to the
whims or moods of the company
officials, if they even have the pa-
tience to grant a hearing.

_ The union provides an organ-
ized method and channel for car-
rymg grievances to top manage-
ment. The foreman, realizing
that the workers have the right
to go to the top with full protec-
tion are thereby influenced to act
impartially and cautiously. They
are less likely to show favoritism,

Under the IWA master agree-
ment, the union has the power to
enforce the contract regarding
grievances, for the final step is
arbitration, with a compulsory
“Under the IVF .

nder the IWA grievance pro-
cedure, the whole strength of the
union is placed behind the griev-
ance.

Shop stewards and grievance
committees soon gain in experi-
eace, and thus are able to act as
advocates for the workers with
, Prteed and cea Ce Each

ce satisfactorily settled
establishes a precedent which
makes the next one of a similar

NEE ener of adjustment.
@rievance is too small o:
oe to be ignored or evaded.
Mui rotection and service is
the wa

More of this

word of the IWA.
ea again.
(This is ‘the third ina seri
of articles by the District Pres

dent, with timely hints
s xg ints for IWA

YOUBOU MEN
WIN SAFETY
BONUSES

Youbou again shows the value
of safety on the job, this time in
terms of hard cash.

distributed to five departments of
B.C. Forest Products Ltd. saw-
mill for completing accident-free
periods of varying lengths of
time from 10 weeks to 25 weeks;
according to the number of men
on each team.

Each of the following five
teams received a $50 award, the
division of which was decided by
the team members, and each
safety team captain received a
$15 award as follows:

0. Winquist, team captain car-
penters’ department, 25 accident-
free weeks, $50.

J. Harness, team captain, saw-
mill team, 10 accident-free weeks

50.

: C. Carmichael, team captain,
inspection department, 25 acci-
dent-free weeks, $50.

Sid Mills, machine sshop cap-
tain, 15 accident-free weeks, $50.

Tom Ridley, team captain,
ponymill day shift, 15 accident-
free weeks, $50.

Completion of these five acci-
dent-free periods adds $50 to the
October jackpot draw.

SAFETY MUST

|. |BE PLANNED

By Bill Gray

Safety procedure and safety
precautions are just as essential
to good work as equipment or
tools.

Safety needs training, because
men who have been trained to
safety methods use them automa-
tically.

It is unwise to lay down rules
which seem to have little relation
to the job, but a live and self-
explanatory safety program is a
“must”.

There are two ways of learning
about safety on the job. One is
by accident, and the other by
training to an organized plan.

Both types of learning are ef-
fective, but there is a difference
in cost to the worker and to the
job.

Take an example: A man was
hired as a member of a drilling
crew. On the fourth day of his
employment he had an accident
which cost him his right hand.

Certainly the man learned a
lesson, but he could only learn
one such lesson, for he was fin-
ished for that, and most other
types of work. Also by the time
the company had paid doctor bills,
insurance rclaims and other ex-
penses, the cost to the company
was $4,000, or training cost at
the rate of $1,000 per day per
man.

An organized -training plan
would not, perhaps, have taught
a better lesson, but the cost to
both company and man would
have been saved. The one in
cash, the other in suffering, in
loss of independence, and the ca-
pacity to make a living.

Before trying to solve a prob-
lem it is wise to try to define the
problem. Here the job analysis
is helpful. It lists the various
elements in the job, so that these
elements may be studied separ-
ately, rather than the job seen as
a whole.

A plan of safety training
should be designed to meet the
requirements of the job, and not
be merely some one’s “whim” or
“idea”.

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Since May 1, awards have been ©

< ACTIVITY AT ENGLEWOOD

IWA Camp and Safety Committee, Camp A, Englewood—Left, front
row, R. Pruiss, J. A. Mowatt, L: Goodman,
, left, M. J. Anderson, N. Swift, Wm. King, B.

Blansche. Back
Higginbottom and H. Beam«

ON-THE-SPOT PLASMA
MIGHT HAVE SAVED LOGGER

Another death that might have been prevented is re-
ported by J. Holst, IWA, Local 1-363, Courtenay.

Donald Humphreys, aged 19, logger, died ‘of injuries
received when hit by a falling stump.

The accident occurred near Owen Bay. Death was due
to shock and loss of blood, following an accident which
severed an artery in the leg and crushed the thigh.

What Are Your
Eyes Worth?

Have you ever watched a man
with a “white. cane” trying to
cross the street at a busy inter-
section?

Maybe you have helped one,
and thanked God you had your
eyesight.

But have you ever stopped to
think what your eyesight means
to you in earning your living?

Well, it means just six times
as much as your other four
senses combined. Here are the
facts: Eyesight 87 per cent,
sound 7 per cent, smell 34% per
cent and taste 1 per cent.

Whether your recreation is
reading, watching a ball game,
going to the movies, or working
in your garden, you need your
eyes.

So, if your work involves an
eye hazard—even for a few mo-
ments a day, think twice before
you say: “Oh, it’s not worth while
to bother with goggles.”

It IS worth while to save your
sight, for your work, for your

play, for the sake of your wife!

and children, and for the sake of
life itself.

Take care of your eyes.

“Tf every worker could see for
himself the results of industrial
accidents . . . by taking the time
to walk through a large general
hospital . . . it would serve as an
object lesson he would not soon
forget.

“Life is sweet indeed, but one
careless move on the part of a
worker, and he may find himself
maimed for life in the fraction of
a second, reduced to a helpless

.form, dependent upon others for

the rest of his life... .

Ed Taylor in the
“United Worker”.

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B.C. Airlines was contacted
and assurance was received that
a plane would leave immediately.
The craft did not arrive, however,
until almost three hours later,

Opinion expressed at the in-
quest was that the life of this
logger could have been saved if
plasma could have been given’ be-
fore he was transported to hospi-
tal in Campbell River.

TUT-TUT!

The Department of Health, un-
der the Hon. Mr. Martin, usually
stamps a slogan on the envelopes
in which Family Allowance
cheques are mailed. During “Rec-
reation Week” the Family Allow-
ance envelopes bore the words,
“Recreation Pays Big Dividends”.

RETAIL LUMBER

BOY'S EYE VIEW
OF ANATOMY

Your head is kind of round
and hard, and your brains are
$x it and your hair on it. Your
face is the front of your head
where you eat and make faces.
Your neck is what keeps your
head out of your collar. It's
hard to keep clean.

Your shoulders are sort of
shelves where you book: your
suspenders on them. Your stum-
ick is something that if you do
not eat often enough it hurts,
and spinage don’t help it none.

Your spine is a long bone in
your back that keeps you fron:
folding up. Your back is always
behind you no matter how quick
you turn around.

Your arms vow got to have
to pitch with, and so you can
reach the butter. Your fingers
stick out of your hand so you
can throw a curve and add up
'rithmetic.

Your legs is what if you have
not got two of you cannot get
to first base, neether can your
sister. Your feet are what you
run on. Your toes are what al-
ways get stubbed.

‘And that's all there is of you
except what's inside, and I never
saw it, And to keep it in good
shape you have to be safe all
the time.

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