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"INTERIOR"

creased to 15c for second

and third shifts.

(3) HEALTH & WELFARE
® Weekly indemnity raised

to $75/ week for 39 weeks.
© Health & Welfare and

eae to be paid for fully

employer.

(a ee tONs AND

© 3 weeks’ ection after 1
year of serv

e 4 weeks’ vacation after 4
years of serv

© 5 weeks’ onion after 10
years of service.

© Thereafter, 1 week’s holi-
day for each additional 5
years’ service, with all va-
cation pay based on 214%
of annual earnings for each
week of vacation.

e Easter Monday to be a
statutory holiday.

© Where a statutory holiday
falls on a rest-day Saturday,
Monday shall be the holi-
day.

© Improvement of conditions
for qualifying for statutory
holidays.
(5) HOURS OF WORK

© Double rate of pay for all
overtime.

© All employees to work 8-
hour day, 40-hour week
(delete Sub-section (d),
Section 1, Article VII).

© All Saturday and Sunday
work to be paid at double
rate.

© Two 15-minute rest periods

‘per regular shift for all
employees.

© All employees to be en-
titled to a minimum of a
one-half hour lunch break.

© That over-lapping shifts be
eliminated.

(6) TRADESMEN

© That wages and conditions
for tradesmen be equal to
those in effect at the Coast.

e That a tradesman with a
certification shall receive
the certified rate.

© That the industry negotiate
a training program for Fil-
ers and Fitters.

e That Steam Engineers be
classified as Journeymen
Tradesmen.

(7) LOGGING

e Improvements in Travel
Time provisions.

e Improvements tologging
rates.

(8) PLYWOOD
© That the Plywood Evalua-

tion Plan be amended to.

provide for increments of
“3% of base rate, and man-
ual changes to properly re-
flect the relative worth of
categories.

AWMILL
° That there be a Sawmill
Evaluation Plan, similar to
‘the Plywood Evaluation

Plan.

(10) CONTRACTORS

e A clause to regulate the
use of contractors and own-
er-operators throughout the
industry.

(11). GENERAL

© The 30-day probationary
period to be eliminated.

~® Improvements to Techno-

logical Change clause.

© Supplement No. 5 — Fire-
fighting Agreement — to be
re-negotiated.

© A new clause providing that
it shall not be a violation
of the agreement, or cause
for dismissal, to refuse to
cross a picket line.

IWA OFFICERS and delegates attending the Interior’ Wages and Contract Conference

Februa 14-15, in Ke

lowna. Represented in this

group are International officers, ¥

Regional officers, Regional Executive Board menibers and officers and delegates from
the three Interior Local Unions.

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IWA MEMBERS employed by Celgar at Castlegar formulated their contract demands
March 1st at a meeting attended by over 200 employees. Group on platform in picture

top left are, from left, Lorne Fietz; Elmer Atwood, Local 1-405 Financial Secretary; y
John Paluck, Plant Chairman; Wayne Nowlin, Local 1-405 President; Wyman Trineer,

Regional 2nd Vice-President; Tony Vanderheide, Regional Sawmill Evaluator.
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CCF CAR INSURANCE BEST PLAN

Saskatchewan Liberals
have finally admitted that the
province's publicly - owned
auto insurance plan initiated
by the former CCF govern-
ment is the best of all pos-
sible plans.

While in opposition the
Liberals condemned the plan
unconditionally. After they
became the government in
1964 they tried to sell it to
private companies, but no
company could agree to op-
erate it as economically as
it had been operated by the

Dave Boldt, the Liberal
minister now in charge, was
recently obliged to defend

e government insurance
plan against allegations made
by representatives of private
insurance companies.

Mr. Boldt said the plan
currently has almost $6,000,-
000 in reserves which are
available to be used if nec-
essary and, he added, “There
is no way whatsoever that
the government subsidizes
the plan.”

He noted that in British
Columbia this year the rates
for each operator of a car are

- government.

going up $22. “This is not
just $22 for each car, but for
each operator of each car. If
we did that here, I don’t think
the government would sur-
vive.”

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