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IWA Council officers

THIS PAST SPRING three wall Laue INT

Council officers exercised

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on

the BC coast. / 3

@ THERE'S GOOD REASON TO LOBBY

‘0 lobby - because
it works! /5

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From coast to coast, The
ied Worker
ince you
snippets of

's from
- Council-affili-
ated local unions. / 6-13

The be three retired officers are David Tones,
former Assistant to the Director for District 3
and former national secretary-treasurer of the
IWA; Wade Fisher, former IWA third vice
president and Mike Pisak; a former IWA

vice president. Former IWA first vice
president Wilf McIntyre plans to retire by the
end of June.

Brother puss is also a former WA Ene
vice presiden ip
3567 and ee president of the now- ee
Local 1-367 (Haney).

Fisher, both a former president and financial
secretary of Williams Lake, BC Local 1-425, pilot-
ed organizing efforts for IWA in western Canada
in the lat

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take retirements

union since the early 1980s. NORMAN GARCIA

Pisak is a former long-time president of
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McIntyre is a former local union president
and long time officer who originates from
Thunder Bay, Ontario Local 1-2693.

“We thank these brothers for their decades
of hard work cual leat ication to our union,”
says WA Ci Rivard

SW g
crank up organizing
new certifica-

rt i
tions are brought into the
union. /14-15

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I IWA COUNCIL OH&S CONFERENCE
In June the IWA Council

hosted a national health

and safety conference in
Richmond, BC. /20-21

1 CAMPAIGN TO STOP THE KILLING
USW District 3 has sie

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competing industries, the
union is calling for a bal-
anced approach to skills
shortages. /35

Softwood lumber
sellout is political
deal making

Harper more interested in cozying up
to Bush than protecting Canadian jobs

YOUR UNION does not see any-
thing worthwhile for our collec-
tive membership in the Harper-
Bush softwood lumber “frame-
” agreement. In fact, we see
the opposite.

To score political points with
George Bush, arguably the most unpopular
president in American history, the Harper
regime listened to big industry only. There
was no worker or community input into the
framework. In fact, the deal treats forest

ates on private lands, has free access.
Meanwhile other provinces, which operate
largely on crown tenure, have their tariff free

access capped. It’s a framework deal that
is not well thought out at all. In fact, it
aves into the Americans and accepts
ies than what international trade bodies
ave ruled we are entitled to
e as for a meeting wi
eed Trade Ministee David
Emerson in February of this year and he
ee even have the decency to respond.
players will be able
g to immediately
ramp up ship-
ments to beat
their competi-
tors for the limit-

BY KEN NEUMANN

panies with other Steelworkers’ members
will be left in the cold under the cap.

The Steelworkers say that this frame-
work agreement must be stopped. Short-
term profit taking by some corporations
at the long-term expense of workers and

ities i fai d thi It’s
time for government to pay attention to
workers and communities, not just big
industry.

2 T JUNE 2006 THE ALLIED WORKER