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Proposals made by the employers for the revision of
the Coast master contract offer no basis for an early
settlement, declared District President Joe Morris, spokes-
man for the IWA District Negotiating Committee, as he
reported to the Union this week on the preliminary stage
of bargaining with Forest Industrial Relations Ltd.

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IWA SPOKESMEN at the bargaining table are here seen in conference prior to one of their daily sessions with Forest Industrial Relations Ltd.
(From left) George Smythe, Local 1-80; Fred Fieber, Local 1-71, Secretary; District President Joe Morris, Chairman; J. MacKenzie, Local 1-118;
and Stuart M. Hodgson, Local 1-217. Two members of the Committee, Joc Maden, Local 1-357 (left), and Walter Allen, Local 1-85 (right) were
unayoidably absent when the photograph, was taken.

FIR SUBMITS PROPOSED REVISED CLAUSES

Bargaining talks now in

progress between the IWA

District Negotiaiting Committee and Forest Industrial

Relations have required an
documents, i.e., the Union’s

the employers’ proposed revision of the existing cont:

General reaction to the em-
ployers’ proposals in IWA circles
was that they indicated no effort

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Employment .

exchange of views on two
statement of demands, and
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© reach a settlement. Mainly the
employers concentrated on a
weakening revision of clauses

as

dealing with features toward
which they have shown opposi-
tion.

The full text of the employers’
revision proposals are here set
forth,

ARTICLE I.
BARGAINING AGENCY

SECTION 1:

“Guards” and “Watchmen” to
be added to the exceptions. The
Section would then read as fol-
lows:

“The Compayn. recognizes the |

Union as the sole collective |
bargaining agency of the Em-

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except Confidential Employees,
Office Employees, Guards,
Watchmen, and those Employ-
ees with the authority to hire
or discharge.”
SECTION 2:

Delete reference to discussion
of wages and working conditions
and scope of collective bargain-

ing. The amended Section would
then read as follows:

“The Company and the Union |

will meet at such time and
place as may be mutually
agreed upon for the purpose of
discussing any matters within
the confines of this Agree-
ment.”

ARTICLE IV.
COMMITTEE
SECTION 2:

Delete this Section which now

reads as follows:
“The Committee shall consist
of not less than three (3) Em-

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ed the fact that the employers’
proposals were evidently not in-
tended to improve in any respect
the workers’ wages and working
conditions. He stated: “Mainly,
the employers’ suggest those
changes that would make for
their convenience in administra-
tion, and that would weaken the
contract in ways that would give
them the upper hand in many
labor-management problems.”

In a report made on behalf of
the Negotiating Committee, Presi-
dent Morris warned that at this
stage no spectacular results
should be expected by the Union’s
members. Issues were being clari-
fied, he explained, but no phase
had been so finalized that any
conerete result could be reported.

He pledged himself to keep the
Union’s members fully informed.
Everyone may keep in touch with
developments through this pub-
lication, the regular bulletins,
and the Green. Gold radio pro-
gram. The District officers point-
ed out that they have ensured a
more adequate and wide-spread
information service on negoti:
tions than any other union sim
larly placed.

The President’s report to the
Union was, in part, as follows:

“Last Monday morning we
faced the employers’ representa-
tives across the bargaining table
in the opening session of our
bargaining talks. Our prelimin-
ary discussions then set in motion
the machinery which will decide
the conditions of employment for
more than 30,000 workers in the

“READ THE B.C
LUMBERWORKER
AND LWA.
BULLETING /

Coast lumber industry.

Our Union has placed the re-
sponsibility for these negotiations
in the hands of a seven-man
committee, and all available
members of the committee are
present during these crucial dis-
cussions with Forest Industrial

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