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-