Picture I. to r. are USW reps
Breon, Heaman, da Costa and
McRitchie. usw proto

Steelworkers group attends

the 2006 World Social Forum
A national delegation of

lis Gelegatony led oe

staff rep Judith Marshall and
Joe

social and economic reforms
in Venezuela.

Brothers da Costa and
Quintul met with representa-
tives of Chile's Central Unitaria
de Trabajadores (CUT) to dis-
cuss the USW’'s work with
CONSTRAMET (the Chilean
Metalworkers Confederation)
and with the CTF (Forest
Workers Confederation). The
CUT has been working to hire
academic experts to analyze
the impacts of the mining and
fishing industries on workers

d communities in Chile.

NORMAN GARCIA

FRASER VALLEY LOCAL NEGOTIATES FIRST CLAUSE IN LOCAL CONTRACT

We've got our first SHF deal!

A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY was made
this spring when the first IWA-Council
local union, Local 1-3567 negotiated
the Steelworkers Humanity Fund
(SHF) into a collective agreement.

etired IWA Council
officer Wade Fisher and

Wade Fisher

ging, a Chilliwack-based
stump-to-dumper which
logs in the Harrison Lake area and
other parts of the Fraser Valley.

It’s a smaller collective of workers,
about 25 in the bargaining unit, yet a
very significant group in terms of
precedence setting. The employer
now contributes one cent per mem-

and developmental projects involv-
ing trade unions in various countries

around the wo

Brother Fisher aid the local union
was in lead with the union’s policy of
eventually establishing the Humanity
Fund in all collective agreements.

ten the ball rolling in a former IWA
local union.”

Currently there are well over Goo
Steelworkers’ agreements in District 3,
District 5 and District 6, where the
SHF is in place. There are 16 major
projects on the go in foreign countries,
= which include working
with aia miners and

Earl Graham

Chilliwack. Brother
Graham says local union negotiators
will be taking forward the demand in
other future collective bargaining talks.

mo

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