[> Terrace Woodlands scabbed
Local 1-2693 president Joe Hanlon
reports that the Terrace Bay Pulp
operation, in north-
western Ontario, is
being supplied by
scab woodlands
crews. The former
Neenah Paper oper-
ation was purchased
by the Buchanan Group earlier this
year to form Terrace Bay Pulp. The
company then sold off some wood-
lands assets to an entity know as
Eagle Logging, which is trying to run
the operation non-union. Those
replacement workers have crossed
the USW’s picket lines. The local
first struck Neenah in January of this
year to beat back concessions
demanded by the company. Later
Buchanan took over the mill. Today
some 230 members remain on strike
against concessions. The local union
has filed a charge, at the Ontario
Labour Relations Board, charging
that Kimberly-Clark (the mill’s for-
mer owners), Neenah Paper and the
Buchanan Group are working
together as a common employer. {>
Transfer of membership Local 1-
500 president Bruce Weber reports
some good news from Niagara-on-
the-Lake. Anagram ResCare has sold
four of its seven patient care homes
to Brain Injury Services of
Hamilton, which means 41 mem-
bers will work for the new employ-
er. The new employer will take care
of patients that are looked after with
public funding, while Anagram will
keep the 3 private sector funded
patient care facilities. The Hamilton-
based company already has some

= Pictured, in this 1998 photo, is a worker at the former TCT Logistics
warehouse in Etobicoke, Ontario. norman Garcia

An important victory for labour

IN LATE SEPTEMBER the former USW Local 1-700 (now part of Local
500) won a key Supreme Court of Victory. The ruling says courts can’t

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appoint interim receivers that are not successor
employers under labour legislation. In addition,
interim receivers appointed may not be immu-
nized from liability as a successor employer. The case should help unions
bring legal proceeding before labor relations boards across Canada. The
former IWA Canada Local 1-700 launched the case several years ago after
a warehousing company (TCT Logistics) became insolvent and it largest
creditor (GMAC Commercial Credit Corporation) applied to have KPMG
as a interim receiver, which then terminated workers. A subsequent com-
pany purchased most of TCT’s assets and hired back only some workers.
Local 1-700 business agent Ron Diotte, now a Local 1-500 business agent,
congratulates the members for winning a long battle.

bers at the General
Coach plant in
Henzel, southwest-
ern Ontario, have
ratified a three-year
collective agreement

108 clients serviced by 104 employ-
ees, in the Hamilton and Niagara
region. Brother Weber says the
change is welcome. “We continue to
have our problems with Anagram,”
he notes. [> General Coach
agreement Local 1-500’s Bruce
Weber reports that over 100 mem-

Bruce Weber
by more than go per cent. Wages
will go up by $1.50 an hour by the

10 T DECEMBER 2006 THE ALLIED WORKER