2nd Issue, April

BIG:

LUMBER WORKER

From Page 1

“Evidence”

Douglas Fir Plywood
(Thousand aad 34” thickness)
Production Shipments
1958 1,183,763 1,217,062
1957 1,091,058 1,066,102
1956 1,080,946, 1,043,609
B.C. Pulp Chip Production
4 Units Average Price
1958 N.A. N.A.
1957 1,417,293, $13.59
1956 1,210,334 14.70
1955, 1,085,784 14.13
1954 884, 12.72

Source: D.B.S.

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Forestry Section
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are paid for a statutory holiday
on that basis. The operators want
to cut their pay on statutory
holidays to a straight eight hours.

Board Rates

3. An increase in the board and
lodging rates of 609, to $4.00 per
day from the present $2.50 per day.
This would cause the loggers and
sawmill workers affected a cut in
their monthly take-home pay of
$45.00 each month.

Travel Time

4. Reduction in the basis for
payment of travel time. The
present agreement calls for travel
time to be paid at an employee's
regular rate. The employers want
to change this to pay everybody
who qualifies for travel time at the
base rate of common labour. Here
again, the negotiators say, is a
wage cut for a large segment of
woodworkers.

Saturday Work

5. No overtime to be paid to
production employees who are
called to work on Saturday unless
they are engaged in production
work. The present agreement
states that a production employee
who is called in on Saturday to
do any type of work regardless of
the number of hours he worked
during the week, shall receive
overtime rates. If the employer
has his way, overtime rates will
not apply to prduction employees
called in for maintenance work.

The Negotiating Committee
points out, that a time when
markets are booming, while prices
of Iumber and wood products are
soaring, and while productivity is
at a peak, these employers?
changes proposed for the master
agreement can only be described
as “chiselling”.

The other part of the employ-
ers’ program does not involve
direct cuts in take-home pay,
but they are designed to weaken
the contract, and ultimately,
destroy conditions for which the
Union has fought over the years.

Seniority
For instance, the seniority pro-
posals illustrates the point raised

tract”

[by the Negotating Committee.
{During former negotiations, the
employers were able to insert a
clause “to suspend’ plant seniority

for a maximum of five days in
case of emergency” in the master
agreement.

This year they want to delete
the word “plant”, in that clause
so that they may be able to
suspend all seniority for two days
in an emergency.

This is bad enough, but they
jalso want a further clause allowing
them to suspend seniority for two
days for any reason whatsoever.

This means exactly what it says.
They could send a man home for
two days under this clause, the
committee points out, and wouldn't
even have to give the worker
involved nor the plant committee
any reason for this action.

If they are allowed to get this
demand, then all our dearly-won
gains to make seniority secure and
our right to take up grievances
against suspensions and. seniority
violations would be destroyed,
says the Committee.

Assessments

2. The employers propose to
delete all reference to assessments
on the check-off. They say “why
should a company deduct such
things as strike fund assessments
if that money will be used against
Following their line of
‘thinking, the next step would be
to eliminate the check-off of dues
jaltogether, -
| The Union must maintain, says
|the Committee, that any deduction
jof money authorized by the
lemployee, or authorized by the
majority of the membership of the
Union, must be checked off as now
provided in the agreement as a
Imnatter of right. It is not the
business of the Company to
enquire into the reasons for such
order,

Certifications

. As the Negotiating Commit-
tee points out, the employers want
acoarate certifications and separate
contracts for different sections of
are

large plants, where there
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