As you can see from the two charts on the opposite
page your Union’s raiding programme against the
IWA has been a dismal failure. It is impossible for the
IWA to know how much this programme has cost
your Union but it must be in the hundreds of thou-
sands of dollars.

Now your National officers are going to spend more
of your dues dollars raiding more IWA operations to
the detriment of both organizations.

In basic terms, the PPWC raiding programmes have
been nothing more than a financially costly nuisance
to the IWA. It has not prevented the IWA from organiz-

CHARTS SHOW THE VALUE
OF ORGANIZING
VERSUS RAIDING

ing thousands of unorganized woodworkers in West-
ern Canada.

The tragedy, however, is that the money the IWA
spent to protect its jurisdiction prevented the Union
from organizing thousands of more workers.

One question that continually crops up is, why
when there are so many unorganized workers do your
National officers continue these raiding pro-
grammes? After all, one of the basic principles and
goals of the labour movement is to organize the
unorganized.

PULP’S (PPWC) HISTORY AS BARGAINERS

The PPWC spend a great amount of energy and rhetoric on their prowess as bar-
gainers and an equal amount of time on the IWA’s inability to negotiate.

It is not our intention to confirm or deny their assessments of themselves or us, we
have simply put down on paper, for your individual perusal, a chronological break-
down, by comparison, of the history of Forest Negotiations since 1970.

PPWC (Harmac)

JUNE 30th, 1970-JUNE 30th, 1973

e Three Year Agreement
7% or 30¢ — 72% or 30¢ & 712% — Base $4.081/2

© Tradesmen’s Revision
10¢ & 10¢ & 5¢

© Vacation Improvements
© Fringe Benefit Improvements
© Base rate was 8¢ higher than IWA

Contract Expired: June 30th, 1973
Contract Signed: Feb. 23rd, 1971

JUNE 30th, 1973-JUNE 30th, 1975

© Two Year Agreement
36'2¢ & 38¢/hr. — Base $4.83 (1974)

© Floaters
© Shift Differential
© Fringe Benefit Improvements
SEE “PPWC”, PAGE FOUR

IWA

JUNE 15th, 1970-JUNE 14th, 1972

© Two Year Agreement
30¢ & 30¢/hr. — Base $3.72

© Tradesmen’s Revision
15¢ & 15¢

© Vacation Improvements
e Fringe Benefit Improvements

Contract Expired: June 14th, 1972
Contract Signed: Sept. 4th, 1970

JUNE 15th, 1972-JUNE 14th, 1974

© Two Year Agreement
36'2¢ & 36'2¢/hr. — Base $4.45 (1973)

© Tradesmen’s & Apprentices’ Revision
10¢ & 10¢/hr.

© Category Revisions (8) from 10¢-30¢
© Shift Differential

SEE “IWA’, PAGE FOUR

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