Labour

EDMONTON — Last week, the Alberta
Federation of Labour adopted an impor-
tant resolution in support of the Canadian
Association of Firefighters (CAFF), cur-
rently locked in a dispute with their interna-
tional union. The Canadians want to have
their own union and still be affiliated to the
International Association of Firefighters
(IAFF).

The resolution, which will go to the 1990
Canadian Labour Congress convention,
calls on the CLC to amend its constitution
to allow the congress to grant affiliation to
organized Canadian workers who want a
Canadian national union, where none pre-
viously existed, without infringement or
interference from international affiliates.

This question already surfaced at the
1988 CLC convention. Then, it was deter-
mined that the settlement that came out of
the Canadian Auto Workers and the Uni-
ted Food and Commercial Workers dispute

Firefighters autonomy backed

over the East coast fishermen would be first
tested by the firefighter issue. The case was
referred to a committee that was headed by
Ontario Federation of Labour President
Gord Wilson, and also included Dave Wer-
lin, then president of the Alberta Federation
of Labour.

Firefighters at the AFL convention said
privately that the IAFF has refused even to
debate the four recommendations that the
CLC committee came up with. Part of their
frustration has been that the former won’t
agree to have the Canadians at the same
meeting.

One of the recommendations was that
the IAFF should include the CAFF in all
the preparations for the Canadian confer-
ence. This was not done. The situation is
that over the last few years most of the
firefighters have withdrawn from the IAFF,
but have remained members of CAFF. This
includes all firefighters from Quebec and

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Part of the same recommendation from
the CLC committee was to allow all fire-
fighters to be part of the Canadian confer-
ence. The international union has made it
clear that only members who are affiliated
to both the CAFF and the IAFF are wel-
come.

At the same time, the IAFF is moving at
its up-coming conference to have the Cana-
dian section change its name, and to have
the CAFF named as a dual organization. It
is also insisting that members in both organ-
izations opt for membership in the new,
still-to be-named association.

The IAFF will hold this conference in
September with a minority of members in
Canada. It will then ask that the CAFF be
expelled from the international organiza-
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stitution be removed from the CLC.

The IAFF is currently in violation of one
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autonomy — incorporated into the consti-
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Canadian director of an international union
be elected by the Canadian membership.
The IAFF insists on continuing to appoint
that position.

At the AFL convention the firefighters
went all-out for the support of the delegates.
They were greeted with a barrage of posters,
balloons, buttons, and leaflets supporting
their struggle to stay in the house of labour.

It was Dave Werlin who summed up the
fight of the firefighters when he said: “Come
September if the firefighters have no home
in the Canadian trade union movement, the
AFL should give them direct affiliation to
the Fed.”

Peer Sa erase scene ere
In loving

memory of

TOM
MIicE WEN

who passed away
May 11, 1988,
sadly missed and
always remembered
by his wife,
Rose and sons,
Norm and Ron.

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