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Section 1:

(a) The regular hours of work in
all the Forest Products operations
shall be eight (8) hours per day
and forty (40) hours per week
with rate and one-half for any

per day and forty (40) hours per

week. Production employees shall

be paid rate and one-half for Sat-

lay and/or Sunday regardless

f the number of hours worked
during the week.

(b) Any Employee who is now a
member in good standing, or who
becomes or is re-instated as a
member of the Union shall as a
condition of continued employment
maintain such membership in good
standing throughout the term of
this Agreement, subject to stich
procedure as may be mutually sat-
isfactory to the Union and the
Company.

The Company recognizes the prin-
ciple of seniority, competency con-
sidered. In the application of seni-
ority, it shall be determined first
by department second by plant
seniority. Promotions shall be en-
tirely a matter for the Company’s
decision; likewise selection of su-
pervisory officials; but in making
the selections, other things being
equal, length of continuous service
shall be given due consideration.
Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in this Agree-
ment, it shall be mutually agreed
that all Employees are hired on
probation, the probationary period
to continue for thirty (30) days,
during which time they are to be
considered temporary workers
only; and during this same period
no seniority rights shall be recog-
nized.

- hours worked over eight (8) hours”

Hours of Work

Section 7: New Section as follows:
“No employee covered by this
Agreement shall be subject to any
penalties who refuses to work
overtime, whether the refusal be
singular or in concert.”

(3) That the HOURS OF
WORK clause in the Contract
be amended to permit Employ-
ees, at the Company’s option
and where Employees agree, to
work up to six days a week or
extra time per day on a five-day
week at time and a half for all
time worked over eight hours a
day and forty hours a week.

Union Security

(b) The Company agrees that all
employees now employed shall
within seven (7) days of signing
of this Agreement, become mem-
bers of the Union and remain
members for the duration of this
Agreement as a condition of em-
ployment.

(c) All new employees shall, as a
condition of employment, join the
Union and remain in good standing
for the duration of this Agree-
ment.

Rejected by the employers
without. any counter - pro-
Bosal.

Seniority

In the appli-
cation of Seniority it shall be de-
termined firstly by departments;
secondly by plant.

“After ‘an employee has completed
a thirty (30) day probationary
period, he shall be to all intent and
purposes deemed competent.
“Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in this Agree-
ment it shall be mutually agreed
that all employees are hired on
probation, the probationary period
to continue for thirty (30) days
during which time they are to be
considered temporary workers
only. Upon completion of thirty
(30) days they shall be regarded
as regular employees and shall
then be entitled to seniority, dat-
ing from the day on which they
entered the Company employ. Dur-
ing the new employee’s probation-
ary period he shall be entitled to
all rights of Collective Bargaining
under the Agreement.”

Section 5:

The words “thirty (30)” have
been deleted wherever the same
occur, and the words “sixty (60)”
have been substituted therefor.

Section 8:

A new section has been added as
follows:

“(a) The Company is not obliged
to consider seniority in the
case of any temporary trans-
fers, promotions or demo-
tions.”

Notwithstanding anything
contained in this Article, an
Employee occupying a job on
a temporary basis shall,
when his occupancy of the
temporary job ends, be given
the job and the seniority he
would have held had he not
been temporarily promoted.”

“(b)

(In Part)

The employers’ demand for
continued overtime work consid-
ered in the light of the experi-
ence of recent months, when
overtime was urged as a vital
necessity for production require-
ments, was considered by the
Negotiating Committee as being
entirely inconsistent with the
claim of the employers that mar-
ket conditions have worsened.

.The employers indicated little
interest in the matter of Union
Security which might lead to more
harmonious labor-management re-
lations. The general-attitude was
that the existing provisions for
maintenance of membership were
inserted in the contract only be-
cause pressure was exercised in
1950.

(in Part)

The IWA Negotiating Com-
mittee rejected the employers’
proposals regarding seniority
because, if accepted, they
would destroy established rules
of seniority and provide loop-
holes for the employer to wipe
out any seniority standing earn-
ed by an employee of long-
standing service if he so desired.

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Bonds

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An-
nouncement by Kooperativa For-
bundet, the Swedish Co-operative
Wholesale, that it would float a
series of 20-year 3% bonds with
premiums geared to the cost of
living in Sweden, has sparked a
drive for the U.S. government to

K. F. proposed to sell the
bonds here as well as in Sweden.
They would be cashed at par
after 1955 and at premiums up

i | An editorial said investors in
: | government bonds have been los-

jing money because the value of
the bonds has not kept pace with

| to 50% upon maturity in 1975.

) Top Pofits
(CPA)—New profit peaks have
|been announced by two of Ca-
d) jnada’s major private hydro- |
S |power producers Quebec’s St. |
= | Lawrence Corporation, which is |
in the pulp and paper business, |
but which supplies much of its
own hydro power, had a net profit |
after taxes of $9.2 million in 1951 |
compared with $8.3 million in|
1950. Proportionately bigger was |
the increase in the profits of the
British Columbia Power Corpora- |
tion, which rose from $8.9 mil-

lion'to $4.6 million.

ANS

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