Interior IWA Members Ask og With Coast Employees kok ee Kenney Proves Conditions be Warrant Benefits Urged | “a % pe IWA delegates from the Interior Local Unions, as- embled at the Wages & Contract Conference in Kelowna, | gs, Vol. XXIII, No. 10 <3 9 2nd ISSUE, MAY 1956 - VANCOUVER, B.C. “3 5c PER COPY| May 5-6, made wage parity with Coast lumber workers a | ne, sen PENSION AL: RESEARCH jumbs er conditions. to ieee four dele; megouations for the master contracts. open on or about Jun On hand to assist in the prep- aration of bargaining strategy His, together with all Dis OF TU N l I ¥ ficers, and E. W. Ken national Rescaneui Dine on contract proposals ( i Gee a aE report from the Research Diree- tor on economic trends and con- ditions nthe Interior lumber D E A L industry. Demands The pecan aE demands is as] United action betw follows: four Vancouver trade aaa 1. Wage increases across the | now affiliated with the merg- board of igs an hour. This | eq Vancouver, Lower Main- se a ce tl ior on a parity wi in the Interi land Trades & Labor Coun- the Coast base rai cil recently unionized the 2. Six additional, ‘paid st employees in a Vancouver tory holidays. The existing sawmill, where hitherto the contracts provide for three |employer had opposed all only such: attempts. 3. A medical benefit plan. rasementis ta ac Bee ements have no 4, acres shift differential, | signed by Silvertree Sawmill raising the present differ- | Ltd. which places all the pro- DIRECTOR, E ential from 4%4c an hour to 6c | duction workers in the TA un- gates altenaing teat Wares & Contract Conference, May 5-6, in | 2% hour. ler union shop conditions, and Kal lowna. ney} Jack Welder, eelaguet W. J. W. H. Chance, ‘ownsend, Cranbrook; Ed. Ken- | 5 Revision of vacation clauses | the truck drivers in the Team- Sidnick, Salmon Arm. to bring them into con- | sters ar a in other large fe ments to the Annual Vacations ane pees are this achieve. Councils Complete Merger Ae ieaiteret era, [te sete pe sight ars. During this in each shift. or; Praines wal weretfaced: Sieh i ore than 75, so members,| 7. Union shop conditions in a oemeun of the employer to _ ticipated in er heat step in “the Hirst merger in Canada| hav etbeen consolidate Place of the present main- | unioniz & Local Labor Conga rita the newly-elected ence Th ie Labor SEunen pal ite tenance of membership clause. It was Frequently intimated t the Vancouver, Low fainland Trades and abet continued as an organ 8. Category rates revision. the Union that the canallnice Go fyunnuil (CIO) ree formally installed recently arid a Con.|™ereed Council. The : i rch For the Southern Interior | desired 5 join the IWA, but stitution with By-laws vatifie jepartment, formerly conducted| operations, the Union’s de- | feared that they would be penal- the TLC Council, is being con-| mai ane in addition to the above | ized. Many of them were recent # ia arrivals to this country. Their Se Gann Labor Co pany 2. Seid in pefseee fo sary servi Local Unions | “9. Revision of the seniority | employer, Silvertree Sawmills