TALLYING UP THE LOG COUNT log dump, Local 1-80 member Sandra Yonge, an employee of Frontier Log Scaling, punches i in eG. For a feature article on Vancouver Island Local 1-80, see inside PAGE 10 Pensions top demands } for B.C. negotiations Contracts expire in June gates unanim voted to VANCOUVER, B.C. seek a one year cole) agreement with wage increases to sate NE hundred and ereniysE tive twel for inflation. delegates from sought to the pension plan are ie creases in benefit levels, a shorte: vesting period, improvements fa Break in-Service rules, ases for * inn és @ Steel spar chaser Neil Jay unk Greater Victoria = maintain and improve water « imjO) the eae x the Industry we are a cont to see mulate the plans unfunded Habiliey vey, reasonable set of demands,” com- ented IWA - CANADA president Jack i be taken Maas Ma: 1 1 tract negotiations with forest in these sets of negotiations.” indstay employers begin. The IWA “One things for su: ‘P) the IWA’s demands for 1991 racing wale contract tal Iks. + ree eel stal i “That, means Aah no northern peuots pions. The cont expiry date for the negotiators will be demand- ract coastal region is June 15, 1991, while ing eaberanetal yaprovements in the LW eres _Andustey Pension Plan. of the month. @ inENCIINS being that a. Joint and Survivor Option be a include: FIRST AID TICKET HOLDERS — in- ticket holders 4 TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE — im- after. they vest and that workers pes ee ioaeecaon during layoffs. ther major demand being sought will be improvements to lan- guage on contracting out. Since con- ¥% month strike in 1986, forest com- panies s hav e been doing end runs lan; "Fort the first time union Negotiators lb ds that will in Vancouver. Deleates hashed Ii he employer to look at contract language on health and safety. As a minimum, the IWA will request that certain. sections | of the Workers Com- ees language. Those sections would ensure that employers would guarantee that Safety programs and create nae trial Healthy and Safety Committees. m will also demand con- ers carry out accident reports and investigations. To prevent ae hee eon er will be asked to im followed discussion of a “program- olutions raised by conference dele- gal The negotiating set of demands was distilled from a list of over 500 wage and contract resolutions sul alas notice, i and job re SENIORITY PROTECTION shits Continued on page two MB plywood closure sparks angry rally Viton BC. — Over 500 IWA bers, community sup- Paperworkers Union and the Pulj Paper and Woodworkers of Cana af gathered outside the Legislative Assembly here on April 19th to out against a rash of job losses with Meee Bloedel Ltd. in the Alberni ‘Att the end of this month, 350 work-