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Shop Stewards
GRIEVANCE
PROCEDURE .
STEPS

By J. Stewart Alsbury,
District President, WA ° «

When preparing to take up a
grievance the shop steward should
collect all the facts and check
them. Sift complaints into “rea-
sonable” and “unreasonable” by
asking yourself these questions.

1, Has the contract been vio-
lated?

2. Has the company acted un-
fairly?

When dealing
with an individ-
ual grievance, ad-
vise the worker
» eoncerned of the

various steps

which may be
J..S, Alsbury

taken under the
IWA agreement
to secure settle-
ment.

It_is provided
in the the IWA
agreement that
the individual employee with a
grievance should take up the mat-
ter with his foreman within four-
teen days of the occurrence.

Every effort should be made to
settle the grievance at this first
step. That makes plain common
sense. It is also good strategy,
because top management is usu-
ally unwilling to overrule a fore-
man.

If satisfactory results are not
secured by this means, the shop
steward should refer the matter
to the grievance committee and
prepare to take the matter up
with the foreman or the Person-
nel Officer, or both, according to
arrangements made with the
company.

At this stage it is wise to get
the grievance in writing, and also
to secure in writing the remarks
_of the foreman.

Tf the conférence between the
Personnel Officer and the. griev-
ance committee does not secure
satisfactory results, the grievance
is then taken to the Superintend-
end and/or the Personnel officer.
Statements in writing should be
exchanged between the parties
concerned.

If the problem is not then sat-
isfactorily settled, the matter
shall be referred to the Union and
the Management, as stipulated in

the agreement.
Arbitration proceedings may be

commenced within lays

proce-

BoG:

LUMBER WORKER

Death Takes
No Holiday

June took a heavy toll in
the B.C. lumber industry.

There were 8 more deaths,
and 547 accidents recorded

by Workmeri’s Compensa-
tion Board.

of deaths, January to.June, a

Injured totalled 3846 in the same
period. : ‘

During May and June 359
workers were injured in sawmills
and shingle mills, 18 in sash and
door plants, 7 in veneer plants
and 26 in pulp and paper mills.
There was one fatality.

In logging operations during

cidents and 7 deaths. .

SOUND ADVICE

An old Missouri farmer used to
go over his fields the day before

kill off all the rattlesnakes he
could find.

When asked if that wasn’t a
dangerous thing to do, he ans-
wered, “I reckon so, but if I don’t
Kdill off them critters today when
I'm lookin’, they’re apt to get me

tomorrow when I ain’t lookin’.”

If you don’t keep your eyes
open for work hazards and point
them out when you see theri—an
accident snake may get you later,
when you “ain’t lookin’.”

SAFETY PLANS

according to figures supplied | *

That brings the total number |j

May and June there were 581 ac-|:

he was to start ploughing, and |.

six-months’ period, to 29 dead. ' ie

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THINK SAFE .. . ACT SAFE .:-«

THE TOO FAMILIA

At Holberg Camp, B. C. Pulp and Paper Co. loggers rescue the unfortunate victi
of another accident on B.C. logging operations. This familiar scene on logging opera-
tions has become too frequent in the opinion of the IWA Camp,Safet y Committee at
Holberg’s, now actively engaged in promoting the observance of safety regulations.

Photo by J. R. W

LAID

Attendance of IWA representatives at all inquests fol-
lowing fatal accidents in the lumber industry was urged
upon the B.C. District Council quarterly meeting, July 9
by the District Safety Council. The recommendation was
unanimously approved upon consideration of a report re-
vealing an alarming frequency, of preventable accidental

Secretary Bill Gray of the |
Safety Council, in presenting the
report, indicated that Safety
Committee representatives had
succeeded in many instances in
impressing coroners’ juries with
evidence of neglect of safety pre- |
cautions. Recommendations deal-
ing with means to prevent any
recurrence of such accidents had
been secured and enforced to the
advantage of the workers on the
operation,

That all IWA Locals should ar-
range for representatives to at-
tend Accident Prevention classes
sponsored by the, B.C. Safety
Council and the Workmen’s Com-
pensation Board, was the subject
of another resolution endorsed by
the delegates at the quarterly
meeting.

Authority was conferred upon
the District Safety Council and
the officers of Local 1-71 to in-
vestigate complaints alleging in-

safety precautions in loading logs,

Luis Ancell of Haney was fa-
tally injurel when a log rolled
off a truck he was loading and
erushed him, The tragedy oc-
curred on the Ancell-Bedard op-
erations, one mile east of Albion.

Neil Shaw, Business Agent of
Local 1-367, IWA, attended the
inquest held on July 13. Beyond
the verdict of “accidental death”
the coroner’s jury made no rec-
ommendation, ‘The Safety Com-
mittee representatives of the IW
A Local prepared a report for
consideration of the Dist rict
Safety Council.

Bill Franklin, Safety Repre-
sentative for Mission Local 1-367
who also attended the inquest,
states that Gordon Stephens, the
truck driver, jumped at the same
time as Ansell, and escaped in-

¢| jury by a narrow margin.

deaths among lumber workers.

adequate radio communication to
and from points on the Queen
Charlotte Islands. Instances were
given where delays in the trans-
mission of urgent radio messages
calling for air ambulance service
endangered the lives of accident
victims.

The authority of Safety Com-
mittees in taking action to shut
down machines considered dan-
gerous in operation was brought
under discussion. It was finally
recommended that Safety Com-
mittees should be empowered to
act, and that they be so advised.

Plans were advanced for a
Joint Management-Labor Confer-
ence on accident prevention to be
held next autumn. .

Provisions for safety compart-
ments for gasoline on crummies
as recommended to the Work-
men’s Compensation Board by the
District Safety Council] was also
approved.

TWO LOADERS KILLED

‘wo deaths which resulted from accidents of a similar nature on
logging operations recently are a grim reminder of the need for

, it was claimed by spokesmen for

the IWA District Safety Council ‘this week.

Claude N. Clark, a 26-year-old
truck driver was instantly killed
at Three Forks, 20 miles east of
Kelowna, when pinned beneath
logs rolling from the pile while
loading the truck. He was em-
ployed by the Justin McCarthy
Logging Cp.

The District Safety Council of
the IWA points to both these ac-
cidents as showing imperative
reasons why safety committees
on logging operations should in-
sist upon the recognized accident
prevention precautions which
should be observed in loading
logs.

Inspectors of the Workmen’s
Compensation Board have also is-
sued frequent warnings with re-

gard to hazards needlessly it
curred in loading logs. Tage

| WORKMEN‘S COMPENSATION

ACTION DEMANDED

A brief on Workmen’s
Compensation will be sub-
mitted on behalf of the Dis-
trict Council, TWA, before
the Commission which, it is
expected, will review the
question at an early date.

Steps to this end were author-
ized at the quarterly meeting of
the B.C. District Council, IWA,

July 9, upon the recommenda-

ae of the District Safety Coun-
cil.

‘An undertaking to appoint such
a Commission was made to the
District Council representatives
who waited upon the Minister of
Labor during the last session of
the Legislature.

The program of the IWA in
this respect proposes higher
benefits and more general cover-
age. Importance is attached to
provisions for the retaining and
placement in other occupations of
men whose disabilities prevent re-
turn to their work in the lumber
industry.

8 Killed-547 Injured in June

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